Thread by @mdbuckley

Reasons to be cheerful:

✅TalkRadio is explaining why the end of free movement is going to make travel, work, retirement, health care etc more difficult across Europe.
✅Brexit won’t make anyone’s life better. People will notice.
✅Johnson is 7 months into his premiership and /1

has done nothing to make anyone’s life better (unless I missed something).
✅Right wing populism has won a bunch of elections but hasn’t yet improved anyone’s life. Political projects that fail to do so tend to have limited shelf lives.
✅Labour is in recovery. /2

✅The general view in Brussels is ‘friends - come back soon, the door’s open’.
✅Johnson’s Government seems to have no idea how to even begin to look like it wants to govern effectively, the immigration reforms being a case in point. They won’t work and they can’t last. /3

Something less draconian would have indicated they were serious about governing and making Brexit work. What we’ve got can’t last.
✅They’re messing up the negotiations and *still* believe the EU will fold. They won’t.
✅The public are unlikely to wear No Deal, however it’s /4

branded. No one voted for food or medicine shortages, or 30 mile tailbacks out of Dover.
✅We have agency. We can use it.
✅Johnson only gets weaker from here on in.

/ends