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People who think Brexit is about sovereignty have been absolutely duped. The elite driving Brexit couldn't give a damn about Britain. All they care about is their profits and power. Their goal is to cripple the power of nations to tax & regulate the global rich.
Rees-Mogg poses as a patriotic toff. But he isn't anything of the sort. His SCM investment fund invests outside the UK and has bases in the tax havens of Singapore and the Cayman Islands. He is a global capitalist for whom national taxes and regulations are obstacles.
Rees-Mogg and other powerful members of the Trump-Brexit elite are following the path laid down by his father who envisioned an elite of super-rich 'Sovereign Individuals' who would first break free of, and then take control of nation states.
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Nick Reeves - Defend Democracy #FBPE
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After a referendum in 1933 Goebbels said the "will of the people is the will of the government and vice versa" and that Parliament would not be allowed to block the execution of the nation's will.

This was the fascist dogma that prevailed for 2 years after the 2016 referendum.
For around 2 years after the referendum, on the topic of Brexit, the UK was not a functioning democracy. A climate of populist intimidation silenced and terrorised politicians into plaintive expressions of their respect for the "Will of the People".
This climate of intimidation, this near total silencing of views dissenting from Brexit orthodoxy prevented the Remain message from reaching most of the public for around two years, grotesquely perverting the course of Brexit politics.
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Nick Reeves - Defend Democracy #FBPD #FBPE
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1/ The Remain movement has been dominated by well-educated professionals who I fear have often failed to appreciate that a great many people do not see the world in terms of evidence-based reasoning, or in terms of rational economic self-interest.
2/ Take one very natural human tendency - tribalism. In a tribal mentality control of who enters the tribe is highly important, loyalty and self-sacrifice are seen as more important than individual self-interest. Too much questioning can be seen as disruptive boat-rocking.
3/ Brexit propaganda appeals to a tribal war mentality. It's about liberating the tribe from external control, controlling entry into the tribe, making sacrifices to defeat the enemy, and combating traitors and trouble-makers within the tribe.
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Nick Reeves - Defend Democracy #FBPD #FBPE
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1/ The Tories want a Brexit tax haven. The more they wreck our trading relations, the more this country will have to slash regulations and taxes on business and the rich to attract investment. They want a brutal Brexit to force Britain to become a deregulated tax haven.
2/ The negotiations with the EU will become increasingly fraught. The right-wing press will demand that we beat the EU by becoming, in the words of Daniel Hannan, "a buccaneering, offshore, low-tax nation". Slashing taxes on business and the rich will be made patriotic.
3/ If you think I'm exaggerating, just note that for years top Tories have been calling for the dismantling of the NHS, the slashing of environmental and safety standards, and workers' rights, and for Asian style low taxes (for the rich).
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Collab blues
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A #brexit story with #flags, in english, with the amazing translation of @240185

1950
🇫🇷 "We got our ass kicked badly this time. Never do this again, eh?"
🇩🇪 "Ach, Ich agree"
🇫🇷 ceases Occupation of Saarland
🇫🇷 🇩🇪 cast ECSC
🇫🇷 🇩🇪 invite 🇧🇪 🇮🇹 🇱🇺 🇳🇱
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🇬🇧 "Don't care, won't work anyway"
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🇬🇧 "What can I do to piss them off?"

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🇬🇧 casts EFTA
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🇬🇧 "May I play with y'all?"
🇫🇷 "Piss off"
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The Washington Whig
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A super-digestible mega-thread of reasons for #Brexit , as requested by @georgedillon - good luck with your ESL class sir!
LEGAL
The 1975 vote was for the common market, not for anything else.
The sovereignty of Parliament derives from the sovereignty of the British people. It belongs to the people and cannot be given away even in part.
MORAL
British people *ought not* to have their sovereignty eroded.
(Nor should people of any other country but we're only discussing Britain here.)
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Brexit Irony No.521:
Brexit would make Metropolitan Elitism worse-

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