Thread by @nicktolhurst

So I tried to avoid commenting on this but well it’s gone viral so my 2 pence worth.

People need to both calm down about it...and use it.

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https://twitter.com/TheNewEuropean/status/1392425633033113601

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In a way Burnham is 100% correct.
Brexit is reality.
& many remainers still seem stuck in 2019 when a single switch could have flipped it.
Those days are gone.
It’s over.

So the real debate is if you don’t like Brexit and want to overturn it - how do you do it?

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You can fight the 2024 election on overturning Brexit or you can try another way.

Now every poll I’ve seen shows no appetite for a 2nd referendum now and EVEN if there were it’s unclear that EU accession could happen anytime soon.

The EU would have to be clear we meant it.

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So how about try something else?

Accept the new reality.
But try to mold it.
Change the govt for one that wants to back industry & small exporters who need Europe. A party whose voters are younger & so want freedom of movement?

And in 2026 EU-UK review is due...

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We need “a better deal for Britain”.
If Burnham insists “a better Brexit”.

Because each improvement leads only one way.

But you need to be in the room making decisions.

And right now if you don’t accept reality..you won’t be in that room.

Simple as that.

And in 2026...

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In 2026 we have the chance to go for Erasmus, single market, customs Union even possibly freedom of movement.

But you won’t get there if you give Boris Johnson the culture war he wants.

So join Labour, PC & LibDems etc & fight & vote inside parties for a better Brexit...

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Because a better Brexit IS a soft Brexit and a soft Brexit is the take off point for rejoin.

There is no switch.
It’s a long slog.
So smile at the word “embrace” and get the Tories out.
Because whoever ends up as next Labour PM ain’t going to be a hard Brexiter....

/ends