Thread by @WomaninHavana

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