Brexit Thread 2

[Moggy]

twitter.com/femi_sorry/status/1120360797467705344

Madeley

Pretty much 3 years on and these thick banana splits still don’t understand anything.

[Blue Eyes]

twitter.com/femi_sorry/status/1120360797467705344

Madeley

Pretty much 3 years on and these thick banana splits still don’t understand anything.

I'm not even sure that they don't understand. This was Madeley being intentionally obtuse, demonstrated by him talking over Femi when he was trying to explain that the CU is not the EU.

[Dual]

The real life Alan Partridge.

[OrangeRKN]

I'm not even sure that they don't understand. This was Madeley being intentionally obtuse, demonstrated by him talking over Femi when he was trying to explain that the CU is not the EU.

Everything becomes more fun when you read EU as "Expanded Universe" and pretend everyone is arguing over Star Wars canon

[Photek]

It's mental that 'some people say' is now equivalent to actual facts.

Using anecdotal evidence for anything is reductive and insanely stupid.

[Cuttooth]

twitter.com/IanDunt/status/1120647127498199040

[KK]

BATTLE OF THE JOHNSONS

Change UK is launching its campaign for the European Parliamentary elections, with 70 candidates including journalist Rachel Johnson - sister of Tory MP and leading Brexiteer Boris Johnson.

The party - formerly known as The Independent Group - is made up of 11 MPs who quit Labour and the Tories.

They are preparing for the European election as the latest Brexit delay means the UK may have to take part.

Change UK are a pro-Remain party who back another referendum on Brexit.

Ms Johnson, who was most recently a member of the Liberal Democrats, said: "I'm sure that Boris understands why this is not a vote against Boris.

"This is a vote for change. We need to move the dial. People need to have a say."

Interim leader Heidi Allen told the event in Bristol: "These elections are a chance to send the clearest possible message - we demand a People's Vote and the right to campaign to remain in the European Union. We are not afraid to say it as clearly as that.

"This is no rebel alliance. This is the home of the Remain alliance."

A number of parties have begun launching their campaigns for the European Parliamentary elections after Theresa May agreed a Brexit delay until 31 October with the EU.

Mrs May said the UK could still exit before this date if her withdrawal agreement is approved by Parliament.

But, if not, the country is likely to have to hold European Parliament elections on 23 May.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48021730

[Garth]

twitter.com/joncstone/status/1120643412032724994

twitter.com/LibDemPress/status/1120632850418753536

[KK]

Farage has unveiled his Brexit party candidates...

Lance Forman (Owner of H.Forman and Son)
Christina Jordan (former NHS nurse)
Matthew Patten (Charity leader)
Claire Fox (Former Revolutionary Communist Party member)
James Glancy (Environmentalist and Retired Captain in the Royal Marines)
?

That Claire Fox is always on Sky and BBC News doing the paper reviews.

[Herdanos]

Farage has unveiled his Brexit party candidates...

Lance Forman (Owner of H.Forman and Son)
Christina Jordan (former NHS nurse)
Matthew Patten (Charity leader)
Claire Fox (Former Revolutionary Communist Party member)
James Glancy (Environmentalist and Retired Captain in the Royal Marines)
?

That Claire Fox is always on Sky and BBC News doing the paper reviews.

Yeah, and she's another - how to phrase this delicately? - morally questionable human being:

twitter.com/OzKaterji/status/1120678896494686209

[Tineash]

Brendan O'Neill of Spiked Online is also a former Revolutionary Communist Party member turned rabid reactionary. What is it with ex-radicals flipping hard? They're in love with the fight, not the reasons why.

Reminds me of Maajid Nawaz, went from Hizb-ut-tahrir member to Sam Harris chum.

[Moggy]

twitter.com/otto_english/status/1120939501734572032

And they still make more sense than the CUKs.

[Dual]

At least you know what you're getting.

[Jenuall]

And now Ann Widdecombe is on board with the Brexit party as well.

She was always a better dancer than she was a politician.

And she was a strawberry floating terrible dancer.

[Garth]

twitter.com/ThatTimWalker/status/1121545965259886593

[Lagamorph]

Got my MEP Poll Card in the post today, 23rd May.

I'm on holiday in Italy then, so going to apply for a postal vote.

[Garth]

Change UK interim leader Heidi Allen says no deal should be ballot in second referendum
Leaving EU without an agreement should be an option put to voters because it would deliver 'clean Brexit', former Tory MP says

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... ssion=true

[Moggy]

Change UK interim leader Heidi Allen says no deal should be ballot in second referendum
Leaving EU without an agreement should be an option put to voters because it would deliver 'clean Brexit', former Tory MP says

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... ssion=true

twitter.com/heidiallen75/status/1122042145010081793

[Garth]

“There’s a debate to be had around whether you have a three-stage voting process that includes a clean no-deal Brexit because for some people, they believe that is Brexit. There’s maybe some debate to be had around that.”

Pushed on whether she wanted no deal to be on the ballot paper, she added: “I have some sympathy for it. The Electoral Commission would have a view about how it might split the vote or whether it might artificially give advantage in one direction or the other. That’s the argument people say, ‘well, you’ll be splitting the vote if it’s the leaving deal or the no deal’. If that is the conclusion, then clearly, we can’t have that.

"But I feel like we should be offering no deal because to some people that is clean Brexit. But one thing I am without doubt 100 per cent clear on is that ‘Remain as we are’ has to be on the ballot paper because that’s what we’re comparing. We’re in it, versus whatever the brave new world might look like.”

[That]

Centrism.