Former British diplomat Alexandra Hall Hall, former #Brexit advisor in DC who resigned saying she could no longer peddle lies for 🇬🇧 government:
"It wasn't the vote to leave 🇪🇺, it was the wilful shameful naked lying about the consequences of that choice" open.spotify.com/episode/2WLaee…
"It wasn't the vote to leave 🇪🇺, it was the wilful shameful naked lying about the consequences of that choice" open.spotify.com/episode/2WLaee…
"It was how the government has delivered Brexit that really dropped the scales from my eyes," and made her rethink the huge problems UK is facing, she says.
"It's caused me to question, how was this allowed to happen, and is still happening as a sort of national gaslighting?"
"It's caused me to question, how was this allowed to happen, and is still happening as a sort of national gaslighting?"
"I think British people always had this idea - we're fundamentally decent, we stand in line, we're good fellows and we obey certain unwritten norms of our constitution," she says.
"What's been revealed in the last 5 years is that's only true if people are willing to abide by it"
"What's been revealed in the last 5 years is that's only true if people are willing to abide by it"
"In order to deliver Brexit, all these soft guardrails of our democracy were trampled upon, and the language of demagogues began to be used: the will of the people, enemies of the people,"
"Proroguing parliament, attacking judges, all these norms were violated."
"Proroguing parliament, attacking judges, all these norms were violated."
"That's what's caused me down a path I hadn't expected. Of thinking actually our system is more vulnerable than we thought, and perhaps we do need a written constitution."
"The system we thought worked only worked when people were willing to abide by these conventions."
"The system we thought worked only worked when people were willing to abide by these conventions."
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