1/ There’s a very middle class obsession about not being able to go and work and study in the EU because of Brexit

The obsession should be on the poorest in the country who are going to be decimated by a no deal

The EU is deeply flawed, both on a democratic...

2/ ... basis (see what happened to Greece), economic basis (look at how they’re managing Covid debt), social basis (look at how they treat refugees), an immigration basis (allowing people a free rein here just because they’re European & not to other countries is problematic)

3/ My main concern isn’t whether I can swan away to France for a year without paperwork or the prestige of a deeply flawed union - it’s about what leaving the EU will do to the poorest

A no deal Brexit will be a catastrophe for people on low incomes

4/ It’s also about basic access to things like medicine that are concerning me

One of the reasons people find Remainer extremists so alienating is because many of them are obsessed with superficial things - not concrete things like democracy or protecting the vulnerable

5/ I voted Remain, but I’m largely ambivalent either way - and the way the EU as a bloc are planning to handle the economic fallout of Covid disturbs me

My main concern is avoiding a no deal and economic carnage - I have no deep emotional attachment to a deeply flawed Union

6/ I think the reality is that leaving the EU is something that is objectively incredibly difficult to do once you’ve been in it for as long as we have - and when leaving has been managed terribly

Undoing decades of integration in a few years under pressure wasn’t a good plan

7/ And then of course the Ireland/Northern Ireland situation - that’s deeply concerning

The whole thing, on both sides, has been treated like an out of control car hurtling down a motorway with various people claiming to know how to handle it but actually have no clue