Thread by @atatimelikethis

This is a plea to clever people.

Help. #Brexit. It's all been so long and I can't really remember what it did for us. And I can't find anything that tells me that.

So I jotted some notes below

I thought at least Leavers got something?

I must be stupid. I can't even find that.

Let me see if I have this right. It's super confusing, I need your help

We still plan to leave the EU

Based on a 2016 vote for something

That I think looks nothing like what has been described for December.

eg. unfettered trade seems off the table.

A Million to 1 chance

I'd like to be sure of that. But this historically significant change still, amazingly

Has no documentation on what it will actually be

Yet we're 100% certain we must do it, whatever it is.

One of the things it used to be was about trade, with new partners outside the EU

But we're giving up our Gold Standard trade deals for it

And all our partners turned us down for quick trade deals

They turned out to be the hardest trade deals in history

In fact all of them have told us we'll get worse deal outside the EU

So that's kinda awkward

One said we might get no deal because we broke promises. Not the no deal some like

Another said we're so weak they'd wait for a better deal when we were desperate.

And the WTO that we claimed was the answer

Is being shut down by Trump who we also said was the answer

But he doesn't control Congress who sign trade deals

So the best we could get is a crappy side deal with him

Even a proper US trade deal can't replace Euope

We know that because the Government won't release the comparisons they've run.

If they were good they'd tell everyone

So trade can't be the answer

So maybe its about free movement

Except patel's weird immigration plan does almost nothing to change Europe movement.

And doesn't help the rest of the world including until recently charging NHS workers who caught #coronavirus for the privilege.

And even if that made sense (it doesn't), #Johnson is now asking people from Europe to come back to help the Economy.

And inviting 3 million Hong Kong citizens a path to UK citizenship

So unless I missed something, the only people who now are going to suffer freedom of movement

restrictions Is UK citizens going abroad.

I'm sure Brexit wasn't about everyone can come here but we can't go anywhere.

So it can't be freedom of movement.

So maybe it's sovereignty

But we're in the middle of disenfranchising sovereignty, removing representation in Parliament

We've undermined the sovereignty of our member countries, failing even to communicate on #coronavirus.

And worse we've introduced unelected bureaucracy to interfere in democracy

And created ludicrous lies to make sure they're unaccountable.

So it can't be about sovereignty

The only big thing left is Independence.

But we can't even get air bubble deals without the EU.

For almost all our trade we must accept their standards

Not because they are punishing us

But because Canada, Japan, the US and everyone else accepts their standards of import

Every country in the world insists on controlling the quality of goods imported, it's not unusual.

And because so much of our trade is with the EU, no one wants to adopt different standards just for the UK.

That would just cost more money and no one has any examples.

Of any laws our independence could bring that would be of any advantage.

Which is a bit fruit loop after all this time, you'd expect a big back log on a leaflet we could get excited about.

With independence we will " " meh.

Plus if we're just adopting EU standards

And there are no improvements we can make ourselves, not because the EU insists, but because we don't have any that make sense.

Then it looks suspiciously like we handed control of our laws to the EU, while giving up the chance to influence them.

And that surely wasn't Brexit?

I have just one more.

Was it all about Fish?

For a while it seemed like it.

But then we learned fishing was a miniscule part of our economy that can't be worth all this.

Some said that our noble hard working fisher men and women needed help anyway.

And we could see that.

Except then it turned out there weren't really any of those left.

Just huge fishing fleet corporations making millions

But we wanted control of our waters so we pushed on anyway

Then someone noticed almost all the fish we caught were then sold to the EU. They like fish more.

Awkwardly because fish go off quickly. It's very hard to sell them anywhere else.

You could pack them in ice and fly them to say Australia, but that really killed profits even before #Covid19

Now it's impossible. Especially because without the EU we can't get those agreements

But then someone else noticed...

That since joining the EU we've increased our haul.

We now catch the second largest amount of fish, with a fleet designed for long range.

In a way we became the fishing fleet of the EU, except now we're leaving the EU.

And taking control

of our waters, will mean we actually can't fish as much as we could in the EU.

A very long time ago Brexit was about benefits. I accept all that went in 2017

But then I thought Brexit was at least about leaving.

But when I read back over this all.

I can't even see we Leave

It looks like we swap a good deal for nothing and gain no trade, do nothing about freedom of movement, give up Sovereignty and become more dependent without a vote.

I find myself asking what this weird trickery is. I'm sure the average voter doesn't know.

But I'm beginning to worry even the Government doesn't realise. Because this #AntiBrexit they're chasing also takes no account of anything since 2016.

In particular it doesn't think about trade wars with China and the Global Recession post Covid where we'll be the only

country in history

To turn tarrif free trade INTO barriers before a recession

If that wasn't already a head scratcher, the largest non trade tarrif will be air bridges/bubbles

And we're already being excluded from those.

Due to mishandling #coronavirus

And no EU leverage.

So I know this has taken a while to read through

But you see why im confused

As to why we'd move on with an antibrexit that isn't brexit at all.

Even in the way leavers provided it

So Mr Prime minister, you promised me opportunities in October.

But recently your promises...

Well let's just say, I'd prefer cash

And #cummings not to count it.

Above all else. Before you make a massive shift for us

I'd just like a small pamphlet. A5 size. The truth. No Spin

How this is good for all 66 million of us and our kids to come

I got you started PM⏬