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Schona Jolly QC @WomaninHavana
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There’s an embarrassment of ‘riches’, catching up on this week’s Brexit news.

A mirror in a thread. /1
Parliament appeared to grasp the very serious consequences of having triggered Art50, clueless on the path ahead. /2
But Plmnt went ahead & voted down, by 12 votes, amendments to safeguard hardwon rights on employment, equality, envir’t & consumer rights. /3
So again, party prevails over principle, & again, Plmnt is willing to hand over its power to a govt not even good at paper promises /4
Hold up the mirror next at @Telegraph & @DailyMailUK whose collaborator/mutineer headlines reflect the poison Brexit has brought Britain. /5
Turns out D Davis isn’t capable of holding up a mirror. His breathtaking hypocrisy in telling other countries not to put politics over prosperity wins gold /6
A German reporter held a mirror straight back at Davis, asking why we were leaving if we didn’t want to change our EU approach /7
Tusk pointed out Davis’s “bonhomie” only goes so far.

You can’t laugh off £60bn, with English humour, it seems. /8
Speaking of British humour, the Wikipedia entry perhaps needs some post-Brexit updating. /9
Meanwhile, the Irish aren’t interested in paper promises as Varadkar says what everyone else is thinking... /10
So May not only has a magic money tree, she also has a Magic Faraway Tree where “wishful thinking” puts us “almost there” on Irish border /11
On May’s Magic Faraway Tree, Britain still thinks the integrity of the single market can be fudged by playing off EU27. This is embarrassing. /12
But embarrassing is nothing to the complete & utter nonsense from @Number10gov on the exit date amendment.

Dangerous nonsense. /13
May likes to say she is quite clear.

I am quite clear.

Exit date amendment pushes Britain over a cliff without options. Which are already few & far between. /14
The Dutch Parliament are now telling its govt & industry to start planning for a chaotic Brexit.

Ours involves a lorry park on the M20. /15
As the politics of Brexit implodes every week, so the economic news explodes.

And still Brexiteers shout over facts with imaginary thinking. /16
Honda’s ‘cries of concern’ (@FT) are batted away by Brexiteers setting exit deadlines that make absolutely no sense.

Govt sings that tune too /18
A tune most loved by freshly disgraced Priti Patel who now urges govt to ignore people who don’t have confidence in Brexit /19
Who can possibly have confidence in Brexit now?

What even is Brexit?

An idea nobody thought through, not even those who proposed it /20
And now, it seems, those in hot pursuit of Brexit are also taking their patriotic money outside our shores. Or advising it. /21
Trapped somewhere between Enid Blyton & Alice in Wonderland.

Knocking ourselves senseless, disorientated & shouting about crabs & feathers. /22
Barely a week in Brexit Britain.

Look in a real mirror & you’ll see the most pointless, destructive collective act of self-harm.

Tell the truth. Say Stop Now.

/ends
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