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Re: Martin Maloney at 21.50 GMT

Taking you up on a few of your opinions.

It next to meaningless to say “we spent 45 years striving to reform from within”. Because the EU wasn’t a stagnant concept throughout the time but in fact underwent huge change and continues to develop with many countries each with their own agenda and the process will continue to change without any influence from us now but you can be darn sure we will continue to be affected by the EU one way or another.

And where on earth can your mandate by found of an “unbridgeable gulf between what you proclaim to be a “British Notion” and (your telling Brexiteer use of) a Brussellian vision. Because how can anything be any such notion exist let alone be British when it wasn’t shared by a whopping 48% of the electorate two years ago and arguably isn’t shared by a majority now (the fact of which we are being stifled from ever knowing by whoever is left of the Brexiteer populace - funny thing that because I thought they were champions of democracy. Or at least they were since June 2016 until their dream started splintering with three randomly selected Brexiteers no longer able to come to a consensus on what they actually want).

I confess to not knowing who AJP Taylor I’d but his quote you refer to - “the people judge rightly on great issues” really needs an update by addendum to include “provided they are properly informed and not lied to with silly bus slogans and Turkish immigration lies” (ok the last bit with specific examples is a bit mischievous of me).

Finally, I don’t hear much by way of apology for Gina Miller from the rough edges of the Brexiteer populace - you know, the ones who subjected her to democratic death threats and the like - for involving Parliament in this part of the process. Kind of ironic isn’t it that without her judicial review, May would have enjoyed complete freedom to sign off on her deal without all the embarrassing nonsense we are about to endure from those wonderful selfless democrats Rees-Mogg, Davis and their ilk.

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