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Not all brexit was totally anti immigration
As I recall the question posed in the referendum was 'Should the UK leave the European Union?' Not, 'Should the UK halt immigration?"
However, the two seem to have been conflated.
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Also the main selling point is keeping the NHS.
Which is not the case.
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Exactly and several surveys have shown most people want to preserve EU immigrant rights.
It suits May's agenda, and it suits Murdoch and all, but does it suit the people that according to the Joseph Rowntree foundation voted for Brexit? [poverty mostly though also socially conservative attitudes, but I have some doubts on Mays promises to really address this, the Tories has 8 years sofar...]
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This passes for democracy?
We vote out based on constuencies BEFORE we inspect the whitepaper of what the plan is?
Labour don't support certain things the Tories want, well May really, but there's no way they can guarantee the amendments they want go through, but saying yes now means they risk not getting anything their constituents support either.
Not all brexit was totally anti immigration. And this also leaves NI potentially in a clusterfuck and Scotland as well.
I think it's a poor show to push everything through cos "majority" before there's a plan.