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Roland Smith Profile picture
@rolandmcs
Oct 17, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
"There was Theresa May’s accidental premiership.... There was her refusal to go for a quick and easy EFTA deal, at least in the short term."

Refusal? I don't recall Brexiters pushing for such a single market option early in May's leadership.
"Had it not been for the belief that Brexit might be overturned, perhaps Brussels would have listened to those who, in the aftermath of the referendum, wanted to draw Britain into a market-only tier, part of a “ring of friends” around the EU."

Umm...

I'm sorry to say that Dan has been living in his own version of the truth since 2016, which has often been out of step with the rest of Vote Leave. They never gave a shit about EFTA yet he still projects his truth onto them as though they agree with him. They didn't and don't.
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Roland Smith Profile picture
Apr 3, 2023
Further insights and conversation on the history behind Brexit... 🧵

Thanks @cslowe451. t.co/IujTkhm7Aj
This point certainly resonates – that imperial thinking drove *pro-EU* politicians, not eurosceptic ones as is often claimed by modern Remainers – and is something that Grob-Fitzgibbon also touched on.
Brexit did not just happen because Britain has some noisy eurosceptics; it happened because the entire British body politic viewed 'Europe' through the lens of Britain's past.

Colonial/imperial history and 'free trade' in particular.
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Apr 2, 2023
Great thread from @EmporersNewC tackling the Brexiter argument at the nucleus of Brexitism: that the European project is heading towards becoming a superstate "and we want no part of it".

Some threaded comments in return....
Steve's thread shows there was undoubtedly a thread running through the European project's history that showed a 'superstate' ('a country called Europe') was not sought.
My first point in response is that the EU's back-history is characterised by its uncertainty about a precise destination.

It's therefore almost inherent in a review of EU history that "one can see what one wants to see" - a point/issue I've noted before.

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Jan 2, 2023
Suggested (controversial) new year's resolution for Remainers:

Give up on trying to Rejoin the EU.
Make a Norway-esque 'single market relationship' your new stretch goal. Do not waiver in pushing for it. Labour will grow into the idea and will join you. And who knows... more than a few wobbly Leavers may join you too. Healing may begin.
One side seeking total victory over the other – again – is not a recipe for healing. Recall that this issue has dogged this country since c.1945 (and arguably longer). It didn't magically appear in 2016 – see pinned tweet thread.
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Dec 31, 2022
Once again demonstrating a correlation between those who believe in Hard Brexit and those who believe in any number of nutty conspiracies.
It's not a cast iron link but it indicates an intellectual predisposition for needing hidden (and often simple if fantastical) explanations to explain a complex world. This explained it well.
Something as complex as the EU and something like how modern trade works had no chance against such a mindset. The EU & its agents were always out to get us; there was always going to be a great deception involved; and trade was always going to be about tariffs alone.
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Oct 26, 2022
I may have missed this thread first time round but it is spot on.

A return to empire is not what drives Brexiters. It is more about being the embattled plucky underdog; and that belief & determination will carry us to success, no matter what.
In this narrative, it is *Remainers* who want to amplify Britain through forms of empire (including 'Europe'), as per below....

Brexiters merely want to stand pluckily alone with their grit & belief while nerdy Remainer experts nit-pick.

And so here we are....
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Sep 19, 2022
I love how The Left Behind ™ applaud at being left behind.
Have the press found the last two yet and raked over their entire life history?
Wait a sec, the last two have changed.
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