We need to talk about the fact that Boris Johnson is calling #NoDealBrexit "a good outcome".
OK, here are the bits that I referred to but didn't prove in the video.
1⃣ Here's Stephen Phipson, CEO of @MakeUK_ explaining that bringing employees back after furlough ends will depends on having frictionless trade at the borders.
2⃣ Here is where you can find the data which proves that since the 2016 referendum the EU medic numbers, as percentage of our NHS staff, has declined relative to where it was heading. commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-brief…
3⃣ Here's Dominic Raab in 2016 saying that even the idea of a no-deal Brexit is "scaremongering" "project fear".
4⃣ Here's Michael Gove saying that the Brexit campaign he led with Boris Johnson was ALWAYS about getting a deal. #NoDealBrexit
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Can you imagine if, during the years of Brexit renegotiations (2020-24), journalists had grilled the Tories on their manifesto promise to get Brexit done.... as much as they're now grilling Labour on whether they're "taxing working people"?
It shows they CAN do their jobs.
They just chose not to with the Tories.
Look at this.
It's very good journalism by @WilfredFrost, exposing that the Labour manifesto used the technicality of not directly taxing working people, but it still hits them.
"Get Brexit Done" was literally the title of the Tory manifesto and was NEVER challenged like this.
Boris Johnson started renegotiations SIX MONTHS after winning an election on a promise to end the Brexit negotiations.
So there's nothing subjective about the fact that the Tory government was elected on a lie.
Yet NOT ONE news station categorically communicated that fact.