3. Despite 2 baby steps in the right direction recently, #MichaelGove's record suggests he's not a committed environmentalist. There's no such thing as a Green #Brexit. #JacobReesMogg plans to throw Green regs on the #Tory bonfire of regulations (cf #Grenfell) #StopBrexit#FBPE
4. With all of Leave's promises having evaporated & Theresa May warning the country to brace for a very difficult #Brexit, nobody should be under any illusion that #Brexit is a good idea. Sadly delusions don't die that easily. #StopBrexit#FBPE
5. Another topical one, with @BorisJohnson's nonchalant incompetence resulting in a British woman receiving a harsher sentence in Iran & @LiamFox admitting @johnredwood has been telling us porky pies when he said EU trade deals simply *novate* to us. They don't. #StopBrexit#FBPE
7.Brexit is a fraud on the British people. We were promised sunlit uplands & £350m/wk for our #NHS. Nobody mentioned the opportunity cost of #Brexit. OBR forecasts £15.2bn/yr, almost 2x our EU dues. Govt will sell #NHS to pay for it. Let's #StopBrexit & fix Britain instead. #FBPE
8. It's increasingly clear that we voted blindfolded last year, unaware of the risks to the union of our home nations and in particular peace in NI + Gibraltar. (Shamefully, some tabloids & MPs like Hoey still play down those risks.) #StopBrexit#exitfrombrexit#FinalSay#FBPE
10. Americans meddled in the EU-Ref too, testing out techniques they would later use to get Trump elected, but Russia gains the most from UK carrying out its foreign policy for it. How much did the three #BrexitBandits know? We need to know. #StopBrexit#BrexitInquiry#FBPE
11. UK Govt is rushing headlong towards the cliff-edge of the most extreme form of #Brexit that only a minority of Leave voters wanted. #Brexiters shamefully use MSM to lull the public into thinking *no deal* is OK. Meanwhile, they move their money offshore... #StopBrexit#FBPE
12. Never before have I been so bothered by the smug complacency of politicians as I have by the shower of Cons in the Cabinet. Their boastful, jingoistic public schoolboy attitude makes me cringe. #NotInMyName You lot don't even know how to spell *integrity*. #StopBrexit#FBPE
13. Brexiters are treating us like frogs. They think they can tell us a pack of lies, then gradually row back on them, but they'll get away with it because we'll stay in the #Brexit pot, nice and docile, and let them boil us alive. #StopBrexit#exitfrombrexit#FinalSay#FBPE
17. It's not just the Tories though, is it? We need to talk about Jeremy... 2/3 of Lab voters are #Remainers but @jeremycorbyn is a #Brexit collaborator rather than a challenger. Rise up, JC! Save us from #Tory#Brexit. Declare for #Remain & romp into N°10. #StopBrexit#FBPE
18. A reminder that abolishing FoM cuts both ways: #Brexit also strips Brits of the right to freely study, work, retire, live & love in EU27 countries, severely limiting opportunities for education, work & cultural exchange. #StopBrexit#exitfrombrexit#FinalSay#FBPE
20. Finally, to round off this #KillBrexitWithKindness thread in honour of #WorldKindnessDay, here's something a little more lighthearted. I heard today that not only will #Brexit give us shiny white unicorns that live on sunlit uplands, but also sea-unicorns! #StopBrexit#FBPE
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@TomTugendhat@Andrew_Adonis Let's look at the facts: 1. The Ref MPs voted for was advisory 2. Cameron then made it binding in the minds of voters who don't understand the niceties of our constitution, which was shabby & underhand of him, because he created a political imperative to take the Ref advice
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@TomTugendhat@Andrew_Adonis 3. Parliament never formally made the decision to leave, but gave Mrs May the power to trigger #Article50 through the shameful A50 Bill (launched before its rubbish White Paper was released), which converted Parliament into an irrelevant rubber stamp in the #Brexit process.
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@TomTugendhat@Andrew_Adonis 4. Under pressure from the Economic Ruin Group (ERG), Mrs May triggered A50 prematurely, without impact assessments and, crucially, without agreement in her party as to what form #Brexit should take, let alone a plan.
It's excruciatingly embarrassing that our press has pumped out so much bilge about the EU that .@EUlondonrep had to have a page on its website dedicated to "A-Z of Euromyths".
As it's Friday, I've picked out my top-ten stupid stories by the British press on the EU #Thread
In at N°10 in the Brit EU-#FakeNews Hit Parade: The S*n claimed the EU wanted to ban BAGPIPES. I'm sure Her Majesty the Queen would have had something to say about that, of whom more anon...
At N°9 in the Brit EU-#FakeNews Hit Parade: The Daily Telegraph, which is now almost as bad as red-tops for fake news when it comes to the EU, claimed the EU wanted to ban that most famous of British icons, the doubled-decker bus.
The stock statement in response to #Brexit petitions needs to be called out. "There must be no attempts to remain inside the EU, no attempts to rejoin it through the back door, & no 2nd Ref" is fundamentally UNCONSTITUTIONAL as it binds Parliament and the People too.
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Parliamentary sovereignty means one Parlt cannot bind another. This invalidates the "cannot reverse #Brexit" subtext of the above statement, as we've had a general election since #Article50 was triggered, so technically this is a different Parlt not bound by the previous one. /2.
The idea the People cannot speak again is ludicrous. It'd take a MAJORITY to #ExitFromBrexit. How is that undemocratic?Given the false prospectus on which #Brexit was sold, the chicanery & cheating of #VoteLeave & Brexit impact, it's the DUTY of Govt to give us #FinalSay Ref. /3.
They were. Upbeat messages funnelled thru VoteLeave, nasty stuff thru LeaveEU. All parties open abt involvement of Cambridge Analytica, credited for the #Brexit *win*.
I have a degree in psychology. The method used here is what's known as conditioning (works on similar principles to grooming girls or radicalising boys to become jihadis). It's despicable. There should be no tolerance for these dark ops in a serious, modern democracy. #StopBrexit
If #Brexit were any good for this country, there'd be no need to lie & cheat to obtain it. I have never known such an underhand, duplicitous Govt as this one. I still cannot get over Davis & Baker lying about the #BrexitImpactReports. Why pursue a policy that makes us poorer?
Nope. That's not it. Let's start with fishing. Lucky today is the anniversary of the UN Convention of the Law of the Sea, so there are lots of facts swimming around.
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The UN Convention is what divides the sea into territories (not the EU!) - you can read about it here: un.org/depts/los/conv…
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We contribute 13% of territorial waters to EU, we have 35% of EU landed catch. That 13% is mostly Scottish waters.
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