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Feb 13

→ Why BIG decisions need BIG support – share 2-minute video

𝗢𝗡𝗟𝗬 𝗔 𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗢𝗥𝗜𝗧𝗬 𝗩𝗢𝗧𝗘𝗗 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗫𝗜𝗧

Big decisions need big support. That’s surely something we’ve learnt following the fiasco of #Brexit that most of the electorate never supported.

Let’s look at it this way.

Say you’re the boss of a company with 100 employees. You let the staff vote on whether the firm should move to a new location.

▪ 37 staff voted yes,
▪ 35 staff voted no,
▪ 28 didn’t vote (many staff weren’t sure)

𝗪𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝘁 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲 𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝟯𝟳 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗳𝗳 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝟭𝟬𝟬? 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗯𝗼𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿.

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Jon Danzig #FBPE

@Jon_Danzig

Feb 12

𝗪𝗛𝗬 𝗪𝗘 𝗡𝗘𝗘𝗗 𝗔 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗩𝗢𝗧𝗘 𝗢𝗡 #𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗫𝗜𝗧

There was so much wrong with the #EUreferendum, that had it been a legally binding vote, instead of just ‘advisory’, the courts could and would have annulled the result as compromised and unsafe.

The problems with the #Brexit ‘win’ are so numerous, so serious, and so undemocratic, that the country should have a new democratic opportunity to reconsider our departure from the #EU.

In the following tweets are just SOME of the reasons why:

▪ 𝗧𝗛𝗥𝗘𝗘 of the five territories required to vote in the #EUreferendum – Scotland, Northern Ireland and Gibraltar – voted for Remain.

Yet, #Brexit still went ahead.

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Jon Danzig #FBPE

@Jon_Danzig

Feb 11

𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗫𝗜𝗧: 𝗔 𝗗𝗨𝗧𝗬 𝗧𝗢 𝗦𝗣𝗘𝗔𝗞 𝗨𝗣 – 𝟭-𝗺𝗶𝗻𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝘃𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼

Going ahead with #Brexit, with the support of a mere 37% of the electorate and with half the nations of the UK voting against it, was sheer, reckless, madness.

There are NO benefits to #Brexit; none whatsoever. Only severe downsides, that are hurting Britain now and will increasingly hurt us in the years ahead.

@UKLabour

.@UKLabour is wrong to support any version of #Brexit.

Their Cummings-style slogan promising to ‘Make Brexit Work’ is shockingly disingenuous and unfitting for Labour, a party that should instead be championing the truth.

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Jon Danzig #FBPE

@Jon_Danzig

Feb 10

① The country was misinformed – retweet!

𝗡𝗢𝗕𝗢𝗗𝗬 𝗚𝗔𝗩𝗘 𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗠𝗘𝗗 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗦𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗙𝗢𝗥 #𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗫𝗜𝗧

That’s because, in the 2016 #EUreferendum, the electorate was not sufficiently informed. On the contrary, we were grossly misinformed.

② Legally, informed consent means that consent has been given with full knowledge of:

▪ the risks involved,
▪ the probable consequences,
▪ and the alternatives.

③ During the referendum, we were not fully aware of all the risks of #Brexit.

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Jon Danzig #FBPE

@Jon_Danzig

Feb 8

→ Proof that voting for Leave was a vote for the unknown…

Here’s a question for you, I wrote in my report of February 2016: ‘𝗪𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗺𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗵𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲?’

No, me neither.

But that’s what those campaigning for Britain to leave the #EU were expecting voters to do – vote to end our membership of the EU without knowing what we’d have instead.

The problem LEAVERS had is that they simply didn’t know, and for sure they couldn’t agree.

@UKIP

As a result, two rival, irreconcilable ‘Leave’ campaigns were launched in the run-up to the referendum:

#UKIP’s leader, Nigel Farage, supported one (Leave.EU) and @UKIP’s then only MP, Douglas Carswell, supported the other (#VoteLeave).

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Jon Danzig #FBPE

@Jon_Danzig

Aug 9, 2021

① The #EUreferendum was undemocratic. Many people directly affected were denied a vote.

Citizens living in the UK from over 70 nations could vote in the EU referendum, but most citizens living here from the rest of the #EU could not.

② Including Britain, 55 countries across the world are members of the #Commonwealth, and all citizens from those countries resident with ‘leave-to-remain’ in the UK were granted a vote the #EUreferendum.

They included citizens living here from Australia, Canada, Ghana, India..

③ Just two #EU countries are members of the #Commonwealth, #Malta and #Cyprus, and citizens from those countries resident in the UK were able to vote in the #EUreferendum.

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