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Thread: Parliament back this week & EU Withdrawal Bill will return for Committee Stage shortly. Good time to assess where we are with Brexit
2: Govnt refusing to publish impact assessments looking at over 50 sectors of the economy. Hiding something? theguardian.com/politics/2017/…
3: Florence speech said we would go for a transition deal. However, any transition is totally in the hands of EU27 news.sky.com/story/france-a…
4. We were promised "front of the queue" for US trade deal straight after Brexit, but they are imposing 80% tariffs bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…
5: US immediately rejects the Govnt's post-Brexit agriculture deal with the EU to divide agricultural import quotas independent.co.uk/news/world/eur…
6. 2/3 of Chancellor's £26bn Brexit "war chest" to soften imapct of Brexit wiped out by downgraded OBR projections ft.com/content/768843…
7. 6 months post Article 50 Senior Members of the Cabinet are busy deciding whether they want to keep the PM in No10 or become PM themselves
8. Brexit Secretary continues to make threats about leaving with no deal, despite having nothing in place for this reuters.com/article/us-bri…
9. Banks have already started making arrangements and signing leases on offices to leave the UK because of Brexit standard.co.uk/business/busin…
10. Senior City figures now have to go on Sunday TV to warn the Govnt that their reckless approach will cost us jobs
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David Lammy
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Rod Liddle having a column in one of Britain's foremost weekly newspapers is a national disgrace, as well as the walking, living, breathing personification and definition of white middle class privilege. thetimes.co.uk/article/half-o…
His utterances are consistently devoid of substance, characterised by ad hominem attacks, racism and superiority. It is time that @thetimes reconsidered their employment of this man.
In recent months he has:

Urged British Islamists to “blow themselves up – somewhere a decent distance away from where the rest of us live. Tower Hamlets, for example.”

Argued that “My own view is that there is not nearly enough Islamophobia within the Tory party”.
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David Lammy
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There is no left-wing justification for Brexit. This is a project about neoliberal deregulation. It is Thatcherism on steroids.

My full #MeaningfulVote speech to the Commons here: facebook.com/DavidLammyTott…
This country’s greatest moments came when we showed courage, not when we appeased.

Friends and colleagues tell me to appease Brexit voters. I say we must not patronise them with cowardice. Let’s tell them the truth. "You were sold a lie." #MeaningfulVote #BrexitVote
This is the fundamental dishonesty at the heart of the Brexit debate. Most MPs now recognise it in private, but do not say it in public:

Brexit is a con. A trick. A swindle. A fraud.

A deception that will hurt most those people it promised to help.
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This is unconscionable. Just like the Windrush scandal yet more evidence of how differently this government is prepared to treat Black or Brown British Citizens. A white woman who had been kidnapped, sold into slavery and raped would never have been asked to pay for her freedom
And when the Government say no Ministers knew about making Women forced into marriage abroad fund payment home.
Let’s be clear this isn’t a new news story. Government used to charge under 18s too but then decided to only charge over 18s a year ago.
amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/m…
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No Brexit at all please. #FSFA #FBPE
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1/- A short thread - Petition Fatigue
Remainers. We must overcome our petition fatigue or face losing the war in the final days. To reach this point we have raised and signed so many petitions to move the #Brexit media spotlight towards us that new ones might appear futile.
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Supporting Tory/UKIP Brexit is unacceptable class collaboration.
Full stop.

I like this. This is fighting talk

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#StopBrexit !!
TSSA General Secretary, Manuel Cortes:

"Our focus is our people, their rights and those of their families, which includes retaining their ability to move across EU borders freely”.

TSSA was and is in favour of remaining in the EU.

tssa.org.uk/en/Your-union/…

#FBPE
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I have changed my mind on #Brexit and now accept it is the best thing that is happening to my country in my life time for the following reasons. Thread
I have come to realise that the EU will be hit worse by UK leaving single market as 8% of eurozone exports go to the UK but 44% of UK exports go to the EU clearly tge eu will be worse hit by a trade war
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It's often said by brexiters that "it's not all about economics"
However, the *actual* Leave campaign was almost wholly about economic arguments

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3) & the fact is voters believed we would be no worse off. People prioritized immigration certainly, but against a backdrop of there being no consequences from Brexit - few are prepared to actually pay for ending FoM
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1. Too much is being read in Merkel's #EUCO #Brexit comments. For balance let's see how the German/EU press is reporting today. (Thread)
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