For those keeping track, as of this week the rule was:
The EU are negotiating in bad faith because they aren't giving us the trade deal the WA guarantees.
Today:
The WA definitely doesn't guarantee a trade deal.
I don't mind making these notifications, but as Brexit goes on I think we might need a government institution to keep track of what was said, done, and written down as it changes from day to day.
Oh, and in case you missed it, before this week: Everybody knew we were explicitly voting to leave the Single Market take back control of all our laws and the ECJ.
From this week:
Remainers radicalised the leavers into leaving the Single Market, the ECJ and repatriating our laws
Oh, gosh. If only it was as simple as Schrodinger's cat. Once Schrodinger's box is open, and if the cat is dead, the cat remains dead. In the Brexit example, we can close the box up, and still not know if the cat will be alive or dead on opening it again.
We definitely need a Ministry of Moving Facts, preferably with a dedicated History revisionism department.
It's all very well saying that Eurosceptics revised history perfectly well inside the EEC and even before we joined the Common Market, but times have changed.
It was a whole 3 years before Anti-Marketeers were claiming that all the things they had said had come true, even though none of them had come true.
With today's rolling media, the adoption of populism, and a partisan press than ensures politicians don't face accountability, 3 years is just not going to be fast enough.
We really need a modern institution that alerts people when history changes.
How is the modern British person going to know when an indisputable fact known for hundreds of years has now become a politicised opinion? Citizens need to know this.
People keep telling me I should help with Brexit, well there you go. The Ministry of Moving facts.
Get on it, Prime Minister.
I'd also like to point out that it is a fact that we could always have had a ministry of moving facts inside the EU. Or at least we could today, that fact may change tomorrow.
See what I mean? We really really need this ministry!
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So in my whole time writing threads, I have never come across a more important one for Remainers as we leave the European Union, or one that exposes the politics of this country.
It's called: The story of Peter, Owen, and Anand.
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It is July 2016. At the completion of the referendum and after a vote to leave the EU, the think tanks go to work. Anand co-writes a document proposing leaving the Single Market, the ECJ, and having full control of our laws.
Later that year, Owen would sit down and write an article in support for the Labour position of keeping as much access to the Single Market as possible. (October 2016)
If it hadn't been for those "Hard Remainers", there wouldn't have been a meaningful vote. That means there wouldn't have been indicative votes. Theresa May's vote would have been her deal or No Deal.
But I've said we're not going to be blamed, so tonight I'm doing that Peter Mandelson article, and to be honest, having looked into this, I have more respect for him than I started with.
In fact, what Owen is doing is the opposite of what Peter was doing. Peter's article was about trying to move on.
1. Well if someone hadn’t removed the context and allowed people like Clair Fox to interpret it in the context of her beliefs, then maybe things would have gone better today. (Thread)
2. Because when I read the article you posted, from the context it was presented, I believed that it was a big admission that the push to stay in the EU led to the hardest of Brexit.
3. Then when I read through it, it was about strategic mistakes which I didn’t think are overly controversial.