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British economic migrants sheltering from the folly of Brexit in the EU. We used to be called Brexpats but now Brefugees is more appropriate....
Mar 10, 2019 10 tweets 5 min read
@MollyMcKew The parallels between what is happening in the UK and USA are staggering. If you want to know what happens next in the USA, form fake news to serious corrosion of your democracy, just look at what's happened in the UK with Brexit. 1/n

[short thread] @MollyMcKew 2/n
Brexit started with Fake News. Lots of it over a long period. Essentially it was UK media who salted the earth and poisoned the dialogue with obvious lies, but there have been major questions over the accuracy of UK media outlets for years... theguardian.com/politics/2016/…
Feb 9, 2019 25 tweets 5 min read
Let's talk about campaigning methodologies and strategies

It's boring and we'd rather just follow the lead of others, but it's important we understand these things because it helps explain the difference between Leave and Remain campaigning that have led us to this point...
1/25 In campaigning the main idea is to achieve our Objectives for the least Input, thus doing/spending the least possible to achieve the most possible for our cause. This is known as force multiplication

The best way to think of this is:

Input > Activity > Outcome > Objective
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Nov 10, 2018 24 tweets 6 min read
If only this was true!

We predicted the citizens' rights debacle and that the UK would end up on bare bones WTO terms before the referendum, so after roleplaying the various scenarios, here's a thread to put on the record what we expect to happen next....
theguardian.com/politics/2018/… The Parliamentary calculus states that the only way any Brexit deal will pass is if Labour support the motion. Most #Brexperts don't believe they would, be we think they will and we also think it's a Tory trap. Allow us to explain the logic...