Dr Phillip Lee
@DrPhillipLee
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Former MP & Justice Minister. GP. Husband. Father to two beautiful daughters. For evidence-based policymaking. Support UK joining EU #PowerofSport #ActOnClimate
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We’re living in uncertain political times & are in danger of passing on a poor legacy. The UK is divided by political fraudsters more focused on themselves than on solving our country's problems. Here's a film I made about the value of connections
#GE2019
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After a great deal of thought, I have reached the conclusion that it is no longer possible to serve my constituents’ and country’s best interests as a Conservative Member of Parliament. My letter to the Prime Minister:
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No you haven’t vaccinated 1 in 10 of the UK population. To vaccinate someone against
#COVID19
requires two injections. You know this. Why not tell the truth for a change? Facts matter
The UK has now vaccinated 10% of the adult population – an incredible achievement.
Thank you to everyone helping to roll out the vaccine across the country.
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If, in the future, I am to look my children in the eye and honestly say that I did my best for them I cannot, in all good conscience, support how our country’s current exit from the EU looks set to be delivered.
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A few of us saw this coming. We threw our political careers in front of the Boris bus to stop his corrupt elevation to PM & his damaging Brexit. Ultimately, it was futile. But I’m glad I tried. If we’d succeeded we’d have saved lives from
#COVID19
and livelihoods from this Brexit
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Don’t hold your breath waiting for Tory MPs to remove Johnson. All the decent ones left in 2019 when he became PM. The sad truth is that anyone who stood with him in 2019 was complicit in inflicting his well-known laziness, incompetence and moral corruption on the British people
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This now deleted tweet speaks volumes about today’s Tory party. So ignorant. Where’s the respect for impartial expert advice? I suspect most in Beaconsfield now regret losing Dominic Grieve as their MP. Brexit has not just damaged our economy, it’s elevated fools to public office
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We could have been ready for
#COVID19
. That’s what makes me so angry about this Government’s mishandling of this pandemic....1/
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Every Tory MP who enabled Johnson to become Prime Minister is complicit in this mess. I couldn’t do it. He is, & always has been, a bad person. He’s never hidden it. They‘ve vandalised the country with their egos, lies and manipulation. The sooner we vote them all out, the better
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I am incredibly sad to have had to announce my resignation as a minister in Her Majesty’s Government so that I can better speak up for my constituents and country over how Brexit is currently being delivered. Statement to follow shortly on my website.
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Any defence of Brexit now relies on a sunk cost fallacy. Not holding my breath for it to happen soon, but the majority of British people already know it: Britain should rejoin the EU, and fast. In future, the top table of global affairs will have three attendees: US, EU and China
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Don’t see why anyone under 40 would vote
@Conservatives
again. This Govt is blighting people’s futures. It’s delivering hard Brexit when young people mostly voted to remain in 2016. Now this year’s
#examshambles
and dire
#COVID19
response are further examples of Tory incompetence
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>150,000 dead. Often lonely deaths separated from loved ones. Think about that when you moan about face masks or refuse to have effective vaccines. And also remember that if we had Japan’s
#COVID19
death rate there would be <10,000 UK deaths. Think about that when you next vote
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It’s now clear Brexit was secured by lies made by proven liars manipulating people to believe it was in the national interest. How long until enough people accept they were done over by a posh, unpatriotic clique? How long until an opposition party has the courage to reverse it?
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In 1997 I supported Dominic Grieve at each stage of the
@BeaconsfieldCCA
selection process. He won the final round on the first ballot. Dominic is an outstanding parliamentarian, a good friend and, above all, a decent person.
@Conservatives
cannot afford to lose people like him
BREAKING: Dominic Grieve loses confidence vote at Beaconsfield Conservative Association by 182 to 131 votes; paves way for deselection
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For the avoidance of doubt: this is how not to run a country
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Please stop. Tired of your fake patriotism. England beat Spain on penalties in Euro 96. I know because I was there. Who will you be supporting in the semi-final if it is England v Russia?
Never seen us win on penalties, perhaps it is coming home.
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The public voted for Brexit; it’s narrow but clear. We need to put this back to the public. I do not feel we have the informed consent of the public to push
#Brexit
through. I don’t believe the public were fully cognisant of the intricacies of Brexit when they voted.
#SuspendA50
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This Govt is appallingly, consistently inept. By not taking obvious decisions in Jan/Feb it has already unnecessarily killed tens of thousands & is destroying our economy...now we’ve got this idiotic
#StayAlert
message. It is hard to stress enough: IT DIDN’T HAVE TO BE LIKE THIS
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As a doctor and an MP, I believe we need informed consent from the British public on Brexit – that's why I'm backing a Final Say | The Independent
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Can’t wait for Liz Truss to wear her version of this jumper
#ToryLeadershipContest
#RejoinEU
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This fool is a Knight of the Realm & Privy Counsellor…. A public display of ignorance on this scale isn’t funny. It shows just how screwed up British democracy is in 2022 and how much our politics and wider society must change for Britain to be governed well again
Whoever sent me this anonymously, I agree with you!
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My only regret is that this didn’t make enough difference. I’m ever-more convinced that we’re on a bad path. The hard realities of life after a Brexit won through lies will come back to bite. It‘s tough, but reforming our democracy is our best hope now for a better future for all
🗓
#OnThisDay
in 2019, Boris Johnson lost his working majority after Phillip Lee left the Conservatives to join the Lib Dems.
(🎥
@Channel4News
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This is a bad
#Brexit
deal done by bad people in a bad way. It doesn’t have the public’s explicit informed consent. It bears little relation to Vote Leave’s promises in 2016. I couldn’t vote for it
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For people like Gove and Hancock Brexit is a game. For the people of Northern Ireland and the million who marched for a
#PeoplesVote
yesterday it is not
Eeek. Michael Gove tells
@SophyRidgeSky
that he has “put money” on the UK leaving the EU by Oct 31 in a bet with health secretary
@MattHancock
Apparently thereby revealing Matt Hancock is betting the UK will not leave by Oct 31, which is a potentially uncomfortable look... 😱
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Lies, lies and more lies. We had freeports when in the EU, our successful vaccine programme could have been delivered within the EU & Brexit didn’t stop the ESL. We all have an interest in valuing truth. It’s thankless, but we need to challenge these lies
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At this point a responsible Prime Minister/ Government would revoke or suspend Article 50. It shouldn’t need any (more) ministerial resignations for the PM to know that the right thing to do is to put her deal back to the British public in a
#PeoplesVote
with an option to Remain
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Punchy stuff in
@thetimes
from my good friend
@GutoAberconwy
. “What was the point of austerity if we now blow it on sparing Brexiteers’ blushes?”
#finalsay
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As a GP, I‘m happy to see more money for our health & social care. We need to spend more as our population ages. But we must be honest about how we are going to pay. There is no evidence yet that there will be a “Brexit dividend” - so it’s tax rises, more borrowing or both
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These “doctors in training” are the ones providing the majority of medical treatment of patients in our hospitals. This minister’s appointment was always going to be a mistake. I’ve worked with her so know her “training” to become a good minister is a project with no end in sight
'Doctors in training as I prefer to call them walked out of our negotiations'
Health Secretary Victoria Atkins spoke to
#BBCBreakfast
about the 72 hour junior doctors strike in England
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Shocking and ignorant comments by Mr Rees-Mogg. He should apologise in the House for impugning the professional reputation of an experienced medical consultant
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The Tory party’s collapse was guaranteed when it chose to own Brexit and appoint Johnson as PM. Both decisions were always going to end in electoral failure. Corbyn’s Labour delayed the inevitable. Covid19 accelerated it. Now is the brutal reckoning. This is an existential moment
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Credit to
@DominicRaab
for publicly saying he’d rather remain in the EU than accept the government’s
#Brexit
‘deal’. If it’s unacceptable to him how do we know that it’s acceptable to the 17.4m people who voted Leave in 2016? We need to ask the British public to know
#PeoplesVote
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I voted Tory for 30 years until my dad died alone from Covid. I’ll never forgive them
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Tragic. Absolutely tragic. When someone this gormless is on the winning side you know the country has made a big mistake
#BrexitReality
Matt Frei: 'What I want to hear from you is about Brexit. What are the tangible benefits?'
Edwina Currie: 'Freedom. Two fingers to Brussels. It's absolutely fabulous.'
@mattfrei
|
@Edwina_Currie
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Tory Wokingham MP John Redwood and I both think Johnson’s Brexit sell-out is bad for the UK. Difference is that he voted for what he calls ‘this unhappy deal’, and I didn’t. This lying, manipulative
@Conservatives
machine will shaft our country for Party political gain. I won’t
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The next phase of Brexit has to be all about the evidence. We can’t just dismiss this and move on. If there is evidence to the contrary, we need to see and consider that too. . 1/3
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Our country needs statesmanship not weak brinkmanship. When will
@theresa_may
learn to stop caving in to the extreme Brexiteers. Hers is a bad deal. Threats, deadlines and cliff edges don’t make it better. I won’t vote for it unless people have the
#RightToVote
in a
#FinalSay
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Do the 33.5 million people who voted in the 2016 Referendum have the right to change their minds? I think they do
#PeoplesVote
#InformedConsent
#FinalSay
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Given the awful and rising division in our country, I’ll vote against anything that doesn’t give people a
#FinalSay
on a deliverable
#Brexit
. Time for the PM to act like a stateswoman, rise above & guide our country to a resolution, not carry on touting her dire deal
#RightToVote
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On 12 June I resigned from Govt as I couldn’t support where they were taking Brexit. I feared then it would end up in the worst of both worlds & lead to a Parliamentary impasse. My advice was to
#suspendA50
& get people’s
#InformedConsent
in a new referendum. I stand by all that
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2 days to go. Only I can unseat Redwood and the Tories in Wokingham constituency. But I need Labour and Green voters to
#VoteTacticallyNotTribally
.
If you're voting tactically in
#GE2019
, please share this tweet. Together we can
#StopBoris
and build a
#BrighterFuture
.
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Brexiteers told us repeatedly that warnings about the impact of Brexit on car manufacturing in the UK were false. If confirmed, news Honda is to close its Swindon plant show "Project Fear” was Project Reality. Every job lost is on the heads of those who misled people so badly
Exclusive: Honda is planning to announce the permanent closure of its plant in Swindon in 2022 with the loss of 3500 jobs, and a threat to many more jobs in the company's supply chain. I'm told an announcement might come tomorrow.
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1 day to go. I can unseat Redwood in Wokingham if Labour and Green supporters lend me their votes and
#VoteTactically
.
It's so close.
If you're voting tactically in
#GE2019
, please retweet.
Together we can
#StopBoris
and build a
#BrighterFuture
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Genuinely shocked by this decision. All the polling & canvass data I’ve seen points towards this being the most open GE in decades. For
@ITV
to restrict debate to just two parties polling a combined total support of <60% of the electorate is wrong. They should reconsider
#GE2019
ITV will show the first head-to-head debate between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn on 19th November. Details of further multi-party debate and comprehensive general election coverage in due course
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Listening to Cummings’
#COVID19
evidence it’s difficult not to conclude that Britain can no longer competently govern itself. On that Cummings is right. And yet we still ploughed on with Brexit, the most significant shift in British foreign & trade policy in generations. Madness
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A home truth: if the Government doesn’t act on the growing demand for a
#PeoplesVote
on
#Brexit
, it will be blamed for what follows.
@Conservatives
need to realise that, if we don’t give our people a
#FinalSay
, we stand to lose both our country and the trust we need to govern it
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Just got to this. People offended by insensitive & racist language are not snowflakes. People who describe them so are not Conservatives in my book. Debating difficult issues around integration & cultural dislocation is not helped by glib, effete politicians with no understanding
WATCH: Jacob Rees-Mogg stands by Boris Johnson's right to compare Muslim women to 'letter boxes'. Tells me "people shouldn't be snowflakes."
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One of my daughters is on the
#PeoplesVoteMarch
- it‘s a huge deal for her future. And I’ll hopefully be with you in Parliament Square later.... Giving British people the
#FinalSay
on
#Brexit
is the only way we’ll heal our divisions
@peoplesvote_uk
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"I believe that the evidence now shows that the
#Brexit
policy our Government is currently pursuing on the basis of the 2016 referendum is detrimental to the people we are elected to serve".
#BrightBlue
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In my professional experience our NHS is wonderfully international! I’ve worked with fantastic Filipino, Irish, Spanish, Czech, Canadian, Indian & German nurses & doctors. This dog-whistle politics is unworthy of a British public servant and demeans our country and us all
#GE2019
It’s the National Health Service not the International Health Service.
Everyone should make a fair contribution towards our NHS - so after Brexit we’ll extend the NHS surcharge to all non-UK residents.
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If true, interesting that asking Parliament the same question on Brexit repeatedly is ok but suggesting we ask the British people a question on the same issue when the terms have changed is “treachery” & “betraying the will of the people”. Baffling double standards
#RightToVote
NEW: Theresa May's allies are gaming how she could win a third meaningful vote after conceding that whatever Geoffrey Cox gets on the backstop may not be enough to secure a majority second time round
Ministers are now talking about "MV2" and "MV3"
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Following
@JoJohnsonUK
’s resignation I call upon my fellow MPs to show the same courage. We must allow our constituents to have a
#FinalSay
on Brexit. We must speak up now. On
@LBC
shortly to say just that
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The PM has been dealt some tough cards and I support her mission to make the best of them. It’s time for evidence, not dogma, to show the way. We must act for our country’s best interests, not ideology & populism, or history will judge us harshly. Our country deserves no less 3/3
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This is a tough read for anyone who wants serious government in Britain. We are currently being governed by dangerous incompetents. The PM has been found out. He and his ministers are failing at almost every turn. We must and can do so much better
#COVID19
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Read this from
@nytimes
and get angry. We are being governed by reprobates. Because of the British Government’s incompetence and cronyism, British people have and will pay with their lives and their money
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Own it, Steve. You took back control
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I’ve never wanted your vote
We need to send a clear message to Remain MPs:
If you betray Brexit, we will never vote for you again!
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But if these figures turn out to be anywhere near right, there would be a serious question over whether a government could legitimately lead a country along a path that the evidence and rational consideration indicate would be damaging. This shows the PM's challenge...2/3
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For me, resigning is a last resort - not something that I want to do but something I feel I must do because, for me, such a serious principle is being breached that I would find it hard to live with myself afterwards if I let it pass.
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You defeat a pandemic by acting fast and decisively. Not by being dragged kicking and screaming to make decisions. From the start, our incompetent Government has been too slow to make obvious decisions. Wasting time loses lives and money.
#COVID19
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“Why are they doing this? Why don’t they just put their hands up and say ‘we made a mistake’”. An Operations Director for a just-in-time construction business tells it like it is to
@mrjamesob
#Brexit
. Worth a listen
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When MPs vote on the House of Lords’ amendments to the EU Withdrawal Bill I will support the amendment which will empower Parliament to reject a bad deal and direct the Government to re-enter discussions. For me, this is about the important principle of Parliamentary sovereignty
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Passionate, powerful thread from an expert. As a former hospice doctor I couldn’t agree more
Dear Mr Farage, as an NHS doctor who cares for terminally ill inpatients, let me tell you what’s disgraceful. 1/n
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Then, when the Government is able to set out an achievable, clearly defined path – one that has been properly considered, whose implications have been foreseen, and that is rooted in reality not dogma – it should go to the people, once again, to seek their confirmation.
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There is no ‘honourable’ compromise to be had on
#Brexit
. That’s why it’s right to give our people the
#FinalSay
and wrong to try to get MPs to suspend their principles to vote for something that harms our country
#RightToVote
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Matthew Parris is spot on here. So-called Tory remainers have a choice at the
#GE2019
: either vote Conservative and get a Hard/No Deal Brexit or vote
@libdems
to help secure our membership of the EU and thereby provide a
#BrighterFuture
for our country
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Oh to have the self-confidence to go on national TV and advocate a Brexit policy which you clearly don’t understand! Such behaviour baffles me. I must have gone to the wrong school. It’s high time we started to listen to real experts not to well-educated chancers
#RightToVote
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This is pure revisionism, untrue and a dangerous, divisive reinvention of recent history that will stop our country from recovering. I was intimately involved in these events and will try to explain....
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This photo has aged fast. The self-styled ‘bad boys of Brexit’ meeting their political hero. America is showing what happens when liars & fraudsters abuse a liberal democracy. At least the USA gets to move on after Jan 20th. Nationalism & populism are still alive & well in the UK
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The Withdrawal Agreement does not include a fully negotiated and legally agreed UK/EU free trade deal. Stop spouting nonsense. Facts should matter. The WA was a bad deal for the UK which is why I didn’t vote for it. You shouldn’t have done either!
#BrexitReality
The EU refuses to implement the two main points of the Withdrawal Agreement, a free trade agreement and U.K. sovereignty. Why doesn’t the U.K. media call them out for this and interview them about this refusal to honour their promises?
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The reason Cummings, the PM and Cabinet should go is that their
#COVID19
strategy has killed tens of thousands of people unnecessarily. The UK has suffered at the hands of their incompetence, arrogance and cavalier disregard for human life (H/T
@MaxCRoser
)
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The ERG think it’s ok to have another vote on
@Conservatives
leader but not the
#Brexit
deal. What nonsense! This small clique mustn’t hold our country & Party hostage. Our PM
@theresa_may
needs to win now, stop A50 process & take her deal to the people
#FinalSay
#InformedConsent
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Thank you. Your support is very much appreciated. Typical of
@LeaveEUOfficial
- happy to spread lies, hatred and intimidation but, like all bullies, they don’t like being challenged. The British public deserve a
#FinalSay
on
#Brexit
In
#Bracknell
supporting
@DrPhillipLeeMP
before his No Confidence motion later on today. Absolute no show from Leave. EU!
@Conservative4pv
#C4PV
@bracknellnews
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Either way, we must make our systems fit-for-purpose, elect good people, not just those who political parties can rely on to shut up, not put up. Lives have been lost unnecessarily because we’ve failed to put calm, wise and authoritative people in charge. Let’s change 14/
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Last week a Swiss Court overturned a referendum result because the Swiss people were “informed erroneously and in an incomplete way”. We need a
#FinalSay
for the British people to secure their
#InformedConsent
before proceeding with Brexit
#RightToVote
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How long will it take for the anger directed at those who warned of the impact of a hard Brexit to be directed instead at those who conned people into voting for it in the first place?
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And we just threw it away without even thinking
#GeorgiaIsEurope
I don’t think I’ve ever watched this video without tearing up.
🥹✊🇬🇪🇪🇺
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Absolute pleasure to address a packed
@conservative4pv
fringe this afternoon - standing room only. I’m embarrassed that the Party banned this event from the handbook. It’s patriotic and democratic to seek the
#informedconsent
of the people on
#Brexit
#cpc18
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Here’s Wokingham’s MP
@johnredwood
trying to advise the US President-Elect
@JoeBiden
on Brexit. Cringeworthy stuff. Please can I apologise again to Wokingham constituents, the country and the wider world for losing my election battle with him last December
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Now that Theresa May has more of an idea about what a realistic
#Brexit
entails, it’s time to be straight with people. It‘s not what was promised or hoped for. The only democratic course of action now is to
#suspendA50
& give people a
#FinalSay
#SalzburgSummit
#dreamsmeetreality
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With more turmoil looming over
#Brexit
this week, it's heartening to see support growing to
#SuspendA50
and hold a
#2ndEUref
- most recently from
@JustineGreening
. What’s best for our country must be at the front of our minds
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The catastrophic breach of trust here is our runaway Government using every trick to force a bad deal on the UK that doesn’t in any way measure up to promises made in 2016. Parliament taking control is just defending our people’s interests
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Why is anyone having a problem condemning these comments? I do. Anyone decent would
LISTEN:
@BorisJohnson
has suggested parts of Libya could be the next Dubai “if they clear the dead bodies away” at a
#CPC17
fringe event.
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Theresa May is wrong. There is an alternative:
#suspendA50
& give people a
#FinalSay
between a viable Brexit & new Remain. She should stop bullying
@Conservatives
colleagues into accepting a deal that is the worst of both worlds & give Parliament the meaningful vote she promised
'As I say, I believe we'll get a good deal'
Watch 'Inside No 10: Deal or No Deal?' on
@BBCOne
at 8:30pm.
#InsideNo10
#BBCPanorama
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Fact: EU-Japan FTA came into force last week which means
#Nissan
X-Trails now enter EU market directly from Japan with a 0% tariff versus risk of 10% tariff under WTO/No Deal Brexit. People of Sunderland & elsewhere need to give their
#InformedConsent
to this Brexit
#RightToVote
#Nissan
. The facts.
They are moving production to Japan away from Europe altogether. Since 2016, there has been a total management restructure and it’s boss now imprisoned. They are ignoring Nissan/Renault factories in Barcelona and Paris all at half capacity. 1/2
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I will remember. Thank you for your support Kate
@DrPhillipLee
I am lending you my vote as a labour supporter. Please remember that when you in parliament
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Just came across this from
@adwooldridge
- the origins of Brexit accurately summed up in one paragraph. If Britain leaves the EU on 31st October with No Deal, the Brexiteer hunters will become the hunted. Nobody reaps a backlash like a failed populist party
#FinalSay
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Ann Widdecombe - often offensive and usually wrong. And now an international embarrassment to modern Britain. No grasp of history or the value of diplomacy. Apparently, some ‘Conservatives’ want to embrace this rabid nonsense. If our Party wants a future it should not
#FinalSay
"Nous allons, wir gehen, we're off"
Brexit Party MEP Ann Widdecombe compares
#Brexit
to slaves rising up against their owners, telling the European Parliament there is a long history of "oppressed people turning on their oppressors"
[tap to expand]
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Gove and Hancock are the senior Government ministers responsible for pandemic preparedness. We now know that both knew full well how weak Britain’s
#COVID19
position was in Jan. The fact they did so little is a gross dereliction of duty. They should resign
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Whatever the Brexit outcome at Westminster we need to check with the public before going ahead, for the sake of Leave voters as well as Remain. Otherwise it is political fraud. People have a right to a
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I will be voting for that same amendment in the
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and urge all my colleagues to do likewise. MPs can’t stand up for the people they are elected to represent unless Parliament has a voice.
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Nonsense. No one is saying it’s easy. But people have a right to a final say now we know what is actually deliverable. It’s not wise to accept the folly of having a referendum and then blindly implement the result, it’s spineless. Time to show some leadership
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A fine analysis of the folly of trying to solve the problems of the 1st referendum by holding a 2nd: ”half of the British electorate is likely to come away feeling as if a second referendum cheated them out of a voice, rather than granting them one”
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Serious questions need to be asked of the ministers and civil servants responsible for acting on the findings of that 2016 exercise. Who was in charge of getting us ready for a pandemic (something we knew was a top risk), and what went wrong? 8/
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