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Alex Andreou @sturdyAlex
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Here are some samples of what Brexiters were saying before the referendum and what they’re saying now. There are hundreds of examples. Please RT, to counteract the nonsense that “everyone knew what they were voting for”. #BrexitShambles #Brexit
This is the crux of it. We must not allow a small segment of a narrow majority to hijack a result by inferring answers to questions that were never asked. That is what would be completely antidemocratic.
Paging @A_Liberty_Rebel, @Superted9000, @mevbrown, @mlilleker.
Much of it comes down to what I pointed out before.
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It’s an incredibly complex, totally unprecedented, constitutional law matter. Quick, let’s get the views of three stall holders in a market somewhere. FFS BBC, grow up.
I have nothing against stall holders, you understand. What I resent is the toxic @BBCNews attitude of treating them as the the only “authentic” voice of Britain. It’s absolute bollocks and insulting to EVERYONE involved.
I know hundreds of really switched on, well informed, working class folk, some of whom supported Leave and some Remain for valid intelligent reasons. Get some in the studio and interrogate their views, same as you would with anyone else. Stop reducing them to a voxpop stereotype.
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Strip away noise. This is what happened: Commons gave gov’t 18 of 24 months to get deal; then 3 months to present it. Gov’t overreached and stole another month, leaving only 2. Commons refused to reward this bad faith by giving the gov’t a TWENTY-THIRD month for its blackmail.
Bercow didn’t do this and didn’t say this. Parliament did. The Speaker merely facilitated a democratic vote for the House to express its sovereign will. The bad faith is all on the gov’t side. #BercowWasRight
The real disgrace is that we have a PM and an executive (one that failed to even secure a majority at the last election, no less), so autocratic and with such profound contempt for the legislature, it has reduced the Commons to such creative solutions in order to be heard.
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The toxic effect of an immigration salary threshold is that it equates “value” to a society to “making money”; it lures us into accepting that anyone making less than £30k is a drain, even though that includes the vast majority of us. It’s a national statement of self-disrespect.
By saying “oh, this doesn’t apply to you; it applies to THEM”, it stratifies an entire society, including the people endorsing such a philosophy, in a way that entrenches the notion a sportsman or a hedge fund manager are of more value to society than a teacher or a nurse.
And is doubly bitter for coming from someone whose migrant bus driver father would be considered valueless and undesirable under the criteria conceived by his own son. Although, I’m sure, even @sajidjavid finds ways to intellectualise why it somehow doesn’t mean that.
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