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"The EU is protectionist against external competition"
"It'll be easy to compete in the EU after Brexit"
#OverheardInBrexit
"The EU is a bunch of corporate elites"
"The EU is a communist super-state supported by lefty remainers"
#OverheardInBrexit
"We MUST control our borders with the EU"
"Nobody is talking about having checks on the Irish border"
#OverheardInBrexit
"We've been trying to change the EU for 40 years"
"I've never voted for a single piece of EU legislation" (OK these two are just Farage)
#OverheardInBrexit
"MPs lie. The People are in charge now. We know best"
"We trust the government to decide the deal. They know best."
#OverheardInBrexit
"A sovereign Britain must never been bound by rules agreed with other countries"
"Let's make trade agreements with other countries!"
#OverheardInBrexit
"End Free Movement! We must make it harder to come here from EU countries and work"
"Don't worry! It will be just as easy to go to other EU countries and work."
#OverheardInBrexit
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One reason why the Brexit debate is now so aggressive is because MPs like Andrea Leadsom keep saying that letting the people vote on a deal which POLITICIANS are responsible for, and which even Brexit voters hate, somehow means Remainers are calling Brexit voters stupid. #Peston
Let's say:
1⃣I hate our current relationship with the rest of the EU
2⃣I vote to end that relationship
3⃣The government negotiates a new relationship
4⃣I think it's worse than the old one
5⃣I vote to stick with the old one.
Does that make me 'stupid' or just not psychic?
#Peston
These politicians, like Andrea Leadsom, know Brexit hasn't worked out as they promised and instead of admitting that, they want the people to get angry with each other rather than blame the politicians who brought us here.
#Peston
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OK Just started watching #BrexitTheUncivilWar. You guys better not ruin the end result for me!
I can already feel people complaining 'How dare they portray Nigel Farage as a rich boy playing games with the lives of the working class he claims to represent'
#BrexitTheUncivilWar
Is Benedict Cumberbatch putting on a Welsh accent?
#BrexitTheUncivilWar.
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Your doctors, nurses, midwives and GPs are all telling you Brexit is bad for your health.
Which do you love more? Brexit or the NHS?
#NHSLongTermPlan
If you love the NHS more, how do we best protect it?
We can protect it as an EU member. Brexit makes it vulnerable to people like Trump.
#NHSLongTermPlan
But they're saying more money is coming to the NHS. Do the numbers add up?
#NHSLongTermPlan
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It is difficult to explain in tweets but there is a clear path to fascism linked to the path of capitalism. And what we are seeing on the streets is evidence of that. It is to do with the scale of business, the increased amount of power in corporate hands vs Nation State. 1/
Put it this way if small companies complain about regulations that stop them exploiting customers the regs won't change, but if a huge multinational with revenue of a small country complains they can change regs, change policy, change gov 2/
And in the last 30 yrs we have seen an unprecedented increase in scale of business and size of company. We can relate this to the Big Bang in the financial markets, allowing the use of complex trading instruments to support extraordinary M&A activity creating corporate giants 3/
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1) #Brexit - reality check, only Remain makes sense for our long term sanity

It's time to state some home truths, this is a mess, and it's only going to get messier. Leaver or Remainer, it's time to step back and recognise there's only one way out - Remain
2) firstly, the reality is there is little love for #Brexit left in the country. Maybe 35% of the country max still actively crave it, the rest are either resigned to it or hate it.

"Just get on with it" is a brief step from "just make it go away"
3) even #BBCqt, that great fortress of Leave support, is changing. Hartley-Brewer's cry of "we've had a people's vote!" would normally guarantee a whoop & a cheer, not any more, it got barely a ripple

Faith in Brexit is draining away

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1. Watching the #Brexit debate unfold on my timeline is increasingly surreal. Tory drones are mounting an anti-chequers campaign despite all the signals from Barnier that the EU is not even willing to entertain it. And it gets even weirder...
2. The chief objection to Chequers is it would tie us to EU standards which would prevent us from diverging, which in their view restricts an independent trade policy. They are not even on this planet. For a start, divergence is a sure fire way of kill our trade with the EU.
3. Divergence and relaxed standards means that any goods travelling from the UK to the EU face a higher rate of inspection. That alone is enough to kill a supply chain. But it doesn't even make any sense in respect of trade with the rest of the world.
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The same Brexiters who were saying “would it be terrible if we became like Norway?” before the vote, now look at anything but completely-cut-all-ties-and-jump-off-the-cliff Proposals and opine “well, that’s not REEEEALLY Brexit, is it.” The mandate was to leave the EU. That’s it.
That’s the essence of it. Many were conned out of their vote with soft, easy, instant, painless, cake-and-eat-it #Brexit and now they’re being conned again into ownership of the hardest, most painful, chaotic disaster capitalism outcome, by being told “its what YOU voted for”.
And by the end of it, we’ll all be poorer, the UK irreparably damaged, but Rees-Mogg’s hedgefund will be quids in, Boris will be PM, Gove Chancellor and Fox getting commission on every deal. Because these people would burn us all to the ground, if they can rule over the ashes.
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UK is heading for #Brexit In Name Only. And maybe the slow, spasmodic death of British nationalism. Thread.
I’ve never believed UK & EU would agree terms on a new - indefinite - relationship. There’s a chasm between EU’s position & UK rhetoric 2/
Conservative Party backed EU for 50 years. Most grandees, funders and MPs still believe UK would do very badly if it left SM. Financial Times & Treasury agree 3/
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1. It’s extraordinary how UK has ceded any advantage it could possibly have had in its negotiation with the EU from Day 1. First, by triggering Art 50 prematurely, before it had made ANY preparation or even decided its strategy or aims. Then, calling a GE wasting yet more time.
2. The timing of its triggering Art 50 was the thing that kept the UK, de facto, in charge of the process. It lit the fuse before even working out which way the exit was. And it has been on the back foot ever since and never recovered.
3. Incompetent, dithering, indecisive, squabbling, and poorly prepared, the UK has engaged in empty rhetoric, designed exclusively for a home audience, without ever making any concrete, realistic, or in any way detailed proposals, it has given the EU the initiative at every turn.
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