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โ†’ Why BIG decisions need BIG support โ€“ share 2-minute video

๐—ข๐—ก๐—Ÿ๐—ฌ ๐—” ๐— ๐—œ๐—ก๐—ข๐—ฅ๐—œ๐—ง๐—ฌ ๐—ฉ๐—ข๐—ง๐—˜๐—— ๐—™๐—ข๐—ฅ ๐—•๐—ฅ๐—˜๐—ซ๐—œ๐—ง

Big decisions need big support. Thatโ€™s surely something weโ€™ve learnt following the fiasco of #Brexit that most of the electorate never supported.
Letโ€™s look at it this way.

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

โ–ช 37 staff voted yes,
โ–ช 35 staff voted no,
โ–ช 28 didnโ€™t vote (many staff werenโ€™t sure)
๐—ช๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—น๐—ฑ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐˜€๐—ฎ๐—ณ๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ณ๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ฟ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ฒ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜† ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜€๐˜‚๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ท๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜ ๐Ÿฏ๐Ÿณ ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฎ๐—ณ๐—ณ ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฌ? ๐— ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜† ๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ต๐˜ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ.
Especially as key information wasnโ€™t made available to your staff โ€“ such as where would the company be moving to?
Well, these are the same percentages as for the #EUreferendum, and the same information deficit.

In the referendum, only 37% of registered voters supported #Brexit and key information wasnโ€™t made available โ€“ such as what did โ€˜Leaveโ€™ entail, what would be the destination?
It meant that most of the electorate, 63%, didnโ€™t give their support for #Brexit โ€“ they either voted for Remain or didnโ€™t vote.
๐—ช๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—น๐—ฑ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐˜€๐—ฎ๐—ณ๐—ฒ ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—ณ๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ฟ ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ฑ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น๐˜† ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ด๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ป๐˜๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜€๐˜‚๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ท๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜ ๐Ÿฏ๐Ÿณ ๐˜ƒ๐—ผ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€ ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฌ๐Ÿฌ? ๐— ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜† ๐—ด๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ป๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€ ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ด๐—ต๐˜ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ.
โ–ช Even in a political party, such as the @Conservatives or UKIP, just 37% of their members voting to change their constitution would not be sufficient.
โ–ช Even in your local golf club, just 37% of their members would not be sufficient to change their constitution.
โ–ช Even in a #tradeunion, by Act of Parliament, just 37% of their members voting for a #strike would not be sufficient for the strike to go ahead.
โ–ช Even in #Scotlandโ€™s 1979 #referendum on devolution, by Act of Parliament, just 37% of the electorate voting for the change would not be sufficient.
The bottom line? #Brexit did not have sufficient support to have gone ahead.
.@UKLabour leader, @Keir_Starmer - wrongly, in my view - has emphatically stated that he won't go "banging on" about #Brexit.

He won't, but I will.
๐—œ๐—ณ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—น ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜€๐—ฎ๐—บ๐—ฒ ๐˜„๐—ฎ๐˜†, ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐—น๐˜€๐—ผ ๐—ธ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฝ "๐—ฏ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ด๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ผ๐—ป" ๐—ฎ๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜ #๐—•๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜…๐—ถ๐˜, ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜ ๐˜ƒ๐—ผ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜€ ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ปโ€™๐˜ ๐˜€๐˜‚๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜, ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐˜€๐˜๐—ถ๐—น๐—น ๐—ฑ๐—ผ๐—ป'๐˜ ๐˜€๐˜‚๐—ฝ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜. ๐—œ๐˜โ€™๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ต๐˜† ๐˜„๐—ฒ ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฎ ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜„ ๐˜ƒ๐—ผ๐˜๐—ฒ.

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Feb 12
๐—ช๐—›๐—ฌ ๐—ช๐—˜ ๐—ก๐—˜๐—˜๐—— ๐—” ๐—ก๐—˜๐—ช ๐—ฉ๐—ข๐—ง๐—˜ ๐—ข๐—ก #๐—•๐—ฅ๐—˜๐—ซ๐—œ๐—ง

There was so much wrong with the #EUreferendum, that had it been a legally binding vote, instead of just โ€˜advisoryโ€™, the courts could and would have annulled the result as compromised and unsafe.
The problems with the #Brexit โ€˜winโ€™ 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:
โ–ช ๐—ง๐—›๐—ฅ๐—˜๐—˜ of the five territories required to vote in the #EUreferendum โ€“ Scotland, Northern Ireland and Gibraltar โ€“ voted for Remain.

Yet, #Brexit still went ahead.
Read 18 tweets
Feb 11
Out of touch... That's #Brexit and #Brexiters for you (in response to the video of John Major)
Link to the John Major video on LinkedIn

linkedin.com/posts/jondanziโ€ฆ
Link to the John Major video on YouTube

Read 5 tweets
Feb 11
๐—•๐—ฅ๐—˜๐—ซ๐—œ๐—ง: ๐—” ๐——๐—จ๐—ง๐—ฌ ๐—ง๐—ข ๐—ฆ๐—ฃ๐—˜๐—”๐—ž ๐—จ๐—ฃ โ€“ ๐Ÿญ-๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜‚๐˜๐—ฒ ๐˜ƒ๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ผ

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 is wrong to support any version of #Brexit.

Their Cummings-style slogan promising to โ€˜Make Brexit Workโ€™ is shockingly disingenuous and unfitting for Labour, a party that should instead be championing the truth.
Read 7 tweets
Feb 10
โ‘  The country was misinformed โ€“ retweet!

๐—ก๐—ข๐—•๐—ข๐——๐—ฌ ๐—š๐—”๐—ฉ๐—˜ ๐—œ๐—ก๐—™๐—ข๐—ฅ๐— ๐—˜๐—— ๐—–๐—ข๐—ก๐—ฆ๐—˜๐—ก๐—ง ๐—™๐—ข๐—ฅ #๐—•๐—ฅ๐—˜๐—ซ๐—œ๐—ง

Thatโ€™s because, in the 2016 #EUreferendum, the electorate was not sufficiently informed. On the contrary, we were grossly misinformed.
โ‘ก Legally, informed consent means that consent has been given with full knowledge of:

โ–ช the risks involved,
โ–ช the probable consequences,
โ–ช and the alternatives.
โ‘ข During the referendum, we were not fully aware of all the risks of #Brexit.
Read 7 tweets
Feb 8
โ†’ Proof that voting for Leave was a vote for the unknownโ€ฆ

Hereโ€™s a question for you, I wrote in my report of February 2016: โ€˜๐—ช๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—น๐—ฑ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ ๐—ต๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ ๐˜„๐—ถ๐˜๐—ต๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜ ๐—ธ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜„๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜„๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜…๐˜ ๐—ต๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ธ๐˜€ ๐—น๐—ถ๐—ธ๐—ฒ?โ€™

No, me neither.
But thatโ€™s what those campaigning for Britain to leave the #EU were expecting voters to do โ€“ vote to end our membership of the EU without knowing what weโ€™d have instead.

The problem LEAVERS had is that they simply didnโ€™t know, and for sure they couldnโ€™t agree.
As a result, two rival, irreconcilable โ€˜Leaveโ€™ campaigns were launched in the run-up to the referendum:

#UKIPโ€™s leader, Nigel Farage, supported one (Leave.EU) and @UKIPโ€™s then only MP, Douglas Carswell, supported the other (#VoteLeave).
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Aug 9, 2021
โ‘  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.
โ‘ก Including Britain, 55 countries across the world are members of the #Commonwealth, and all citizens from those countries resident with โ€˜leave-to-remainโ€™ in the UK were granted a vote the #EUreferendum.

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