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I'll be totally honest.
I shared this article many times since 2018 to show that, based on the highest medical consensus, those who supported No-deal Brexit were trying to kill 1000s of Brits.

But even I thought the "deadly pandemics" bit was a bit much.

independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-n…
Do you remember the last big story before Coronavirus took over?
The NHS was saying the government's immigration plans had done nothing to reassure EU medical staff (statistically improve UK doctor-patient ratio).
Brexit has been harming our NHS since 2016
health.org.uk/news-and-comme…
I'm not saying this to say I told you so, or just to rub your nose in it.
I'm saying this for the same reason people discuss gun control right after a mass shooting.
NOW is the best time to learn that lesson. BEFORE we re-enter negotiations thinking no-deal is an option.
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The government has the tightest grip on our civil liberties it's ever had. We have to trust that what they're doing is necessary and they won't take advantage of a crisis to erode our human rights long term.
That's why with Dominic Raab as acting PM, we ALL must be very vigilant.
I'll let him defend his comments first, then move on to his voting record.
He says he believes strongly in civil liberties, but that economic and social rights shouldn't be legally enforceable.
The whole point of human rights is to protect people from abusive/cruel governments.
That's why Human Rights are best at the international level, so basic rights don't go on the chopping block every 5 yrs.
The Human Rights Act & EU Charter of Fundamental Rights are examples of international human rights standards.
Raab voted against both.

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I dislike most public apologies because they imply the person has changed overnight, which isn't true. But in all honesty, I tweeted it because there will never be a time when I don't focus on the facts that affect EVERYONE's lives, BUT I completely failed to be at all sensitive.
The news doing what News is MEANT to do:
Highlight the political consequences of Johnson's absence, including the problems with Dominic Raab as replacement.
So while I am sorry for insensitivity, I'm also sorry to those who expect me to highlight these things (for deleting it).
My internal compass on this sort of thing (e.g. the notion of too soon) is crap. So I often rely on others to guide me. I understand that the speed, brevity and tone of my tweet were the problem.
This tweet convey literally everything I meant by my tweet:
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The Labour Party has to change massively if it's ever going to win.

So those of us who criticised what Labour had become or even those who voted for parties that were closer to where Labour SHOULD be, were arguably the MOST faithful to Labour's values.
Attacking people for that?
Put simply: If Labour supported the death penalty, ending NHS and fox hunting in an election, would it make sense for the next leadership to sideline those who criticised them for it?

Is it right to support a movement no matter what it does? Or is that morally terrifying?
Shakespeare once said "A rose (🌹), by any other name would still smell as sweet". In this case, you can keep calling it a rose if you want, but if it smelled like an europhobic, antisemitic, cultish daisy, it wasn't a rose anymore.
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