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27 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Smirk...
I'm not explaining it to him. These people claim to have their own experts so why do they need anyone else...?
1. Realise you're heading into a worse place
2. Double down on your beliefs
3. Realise you're heading into a worse place
4. Double down on your beliefs
5. Realise you're heading into a worse place
6. Double down on your beliefs

Rinse/repeat.....

The process of chasing 'Ever Purer Sovereignty' in a nutshell.

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Roland Smith Profile picture
29 Dec
Hmm, I find nothing interesting, surprising or original in this, never mind anything revelatory.

It's all very standard late-1990s "the internet will be a force for liberation/libertarianism", described in a thousand articles and books, including by non-Tory tech people.
Look, Rightist Brexiters have a belief: it's a belief in smaller, limited government (which they believe often gets it wrong) and a correspondingly larger private sphere (which they believe often gets it right).

And that's basically it.
Brexiters therefore want less government regulation (which becomes "regulation=bad") and more private activity/exchange i.e. "free markets".

And they are thus going to view the layer of government that is the EU - a "regulatory superpower" - with hostility.
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23 Dec
In June 2016, no one knew about No Deal AKA the WTO Option. Almost no one was calling for it. I had published something in 2015 about what would happen in a No Deal situation. It was not until June 2016 that people picked up on it and the FT phoned me. No one understood. THREAD
In June 2016, a lot of people didn’t expect Cameron to resign.
In the immediate aftermath of the vote, judging by their ‘soft’ responses, Vote Leave leader Boris Johnson and Vote Leave architect Daniel Hannan didn’t expect & didn't understand/foresee the radicalisation of their own side.
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19 Oct
This a great piece by Ferdinand Mount, warmly reviewing a book about Enoch Powell and also providing additional context relating to Brexit and Brexiters.

lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v41/…
On how the people were being allegedly deceived by those "high-ups"....and how familiar this will sound to modern ears.
On the effect of "that speech".....
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18 Oct
A few Brexiters used to say that we needed domestic political reform at the end of all this, to avoid ever being taken into the EU again without the fullest consent.

We now need to broaden that into wholesale political reform to also avoid us getting into this current mess again
Right now, I suspect it is futile arguing for particular 'options' outside EU membership until we fully confront the unchecked nature of our politics and the ever-reducing quality of our politicians.
We need something of a quiet revolution on this front. I don't see us moving forward much until this is sorted (or moving forward in the usual tribal-infused way).
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17 Oct
"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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13 Aug
So I commuted into London from Bucks today, on business.

Impressions...

Amersham station car park was very quiet - at 8.30am.
The platform had one other person on it. And there were 6 of us in the train carriage all the way to London Marylebone. All masked. /1
Marylebone station was dead. TFL staff standing to one side looking bored/sad.

A sudden thought: HS2 and more capacity - really?

Entered the tube alone, watched by one staff member. Now I'm starting to feel sad. The times I've been on this network since a child, always busy.
Onto the tube network. Carriages are sparse. Jubilee carriage had more people - roughly every other seat free.

Virtually all wearing a mask; most the light blue disposable surgical masks. What happened to London chic, eh? And where are the mask sceptics? They barely exist.
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