May's #EngCon Tory Government is using 1984 as a handbook

Before Brexit: "not realistic to think we could just replace European trade with these new markets"

After Brexit: "ambitious future trade arrangements" with China

#BrexitBrother #Doublespeak
#StopBrexit #WATON #FinalSay
BB: "Given that British exports... to countries outside the EU are rising, one can hardly argue that the EU prevents this from happening."

AB: "we will be free to strike our own trade deals" after leaving the EU"

#BrexitBrother #EngCon
#Doublespeak
#WATON #StopBrexit
It's pretty easy to find more examples of #EngCon's #Brexitbrother doublespeak from Theresa May - just have a read of this: https://www.conservativehome.com/parliament/2016/04/theresa-mays-speech-on-brexit-full-text.html
Theresa May’s speech on Brexit: full text

"So regardless of the EU referendum, my view is this. If we want to reform human rights laws in this country, it isn’t the EU we should leave but the ECHR and the jurisdiction of its Court."

https://www.conservativehome.com/parliament/2016/04/theresa-mays-speech-on-brexit-full-text.html
Since I'm equally vexed by Jeremy Corbyn's doublespeak on Brexit here's his strong #RemainReform speech full of principles that he's equally happy to abandon apparently:

Welcome to #BrexitBrother!
Unity is Weakness
Poverty is Freedom

#StopBrexit #WATON https://labourlist.org/2016/04/europe-needs-to-change-but-i-am-voting-to-stay-corbyns-full-speech-on-the-eu/
Europe needs to change... but I am voting to stay: Corbyn's full speech on the EU - LabourList

The people of this country face a historic choice on 23rd June whether to remain part of the…

https://labourlist.org/2016/04/europe-needs-to-change-but-i-am-voting-to-stay-corbyns-full-speech-on-the-eu/
If you think I'm being overdramatic to make a point about how our Government is failing in its dury to protect us (even from ourselves) then you could be right.
But Liam Fox did use the term "doubleplus" in interview this week, so...
#BrexitBrother #EngCon
#WATON #StopBrexit
More #BrexitBrother doublespeak from #EngCon:
BB: "staying in the Customs Union would be advantageous for Britain because... it would allow “true free trade in both directions across the Channel"
AB: “we are categorically leaving. It is not our policy to stay in a customs union."
Another example of #EngCon doublespeak.
What was Conservative party policy 2 years ago is now to be punished.
#BrexitBrother https://mobile.twitter.com/JolyonMaugham/status/960789930590003200
Huge alarms bells about the use of "War Cabinet" to describe the people deciding our approach to Brexit, but the exclusion of Northern Ireland, Scotland & Wales from full representation is unforgivable.

This is #EngCon in full flow. #BrexitBrother

https://www.politico.eu/article/theresa-mays-brexit-war-cabinet/
Theresa May's handlers are vetting questions taken in advance & not allowing a public audience for the answers.

Scary how the Tories are trying to restrict the narrative about just how bad Brexit will be for Britain.

#EngCon #BrexitShame #WATON #FinalSay https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politics/submit-one-question-theresa-advance-14474745.amp
What happened when I met Theresa May | Martin Shipton

Our chief reporter was given the chance to quiz the Prime Minister - briefly - when she was in Wales

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politics/submit-one-question-theresa-advance-14474745.amp
And now the @Conservatives are trying to rename the Good Friday Agreement to appease their DUP backers.
#EngCon #doublespeak https://mobile.twitter.com/faisalislam/status/983646325253312512
Got an email at 1AM about the petition to declare the EURef void due to interference
Apparently, despite the active @CommonsCMS inquiry into #FakeNews still taking relevant evidence,( https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/digital-culture-media-and-sport-committee/inquiries/parliament-2017/fake-news-17-19/)
the Cabinet Office want us to look into their eyes & feel very sleepy...
And then there's this piece of work: https://mobile.twitter.com/ottocrat/status/986964875808268292

I'm quite frankly amazed how Michael Gove can even talk, considering how utterly full of sh!t he is
Toxic Weasel Michael Gove is still at it, with this incredible #EngCon doublespeak.
Big Brother would be proud. https://mobile.twitter.com/Channel4News/status/998572682252816384
This whole thread from Steve is just a litany of #EngCon doublespeak https://twitter.com/GuitarMoog/status/1002883464323125248
What fresh hell is this?
The erosion of accountability & the protection of privilege creeps ever onwards

#EngCon #StopTheTories https://mobile.twitter.com/alanmearns1/status/1008264467283677184
Sometimes when I need a hollow laugh I go back & look at the lies & misdirection the Leave pumped out before the EURef.
Here's Boris Johnson telling everyone Brexit would leave arrangements on the Irish border "absolutely unchanged"
#EngCon
#TheyAreLying https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-35692452
Brexit would not affect border: Johnson

Boris Johnson says he does not believe the Irish border would be affected if the UK left the European Union.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-35692452
We can't have a second referendum because more, better informed democracy "would be a gross betrayal of democracy"

#Doublespeak #EngCon
#TheyAreLyingToUs

#FinalSay
High end EngCon manipulation.
Theresa May is telling Corbyn / Labour to ignore the evidence that Brexit is a bad decision, ignore the will of the majority of members + unions, stifle public dissent and force through the will of the Tories.
https://mobile.twitter.com/theresa_may/status/1042767167928918016/video/1
As noted above and here in this tweet, they really didn't speak about the @BorderIrish during the referendum and yet here it is, an unavoidable inescapable conundrum that our Government cannot solve.
Only mention in May's speech is of how much trade we do https://mobile.twitter.com/georgeeaton/status/1051537225425539072
1984 was supposed to be a warning, not a handbook
#EngCon #WiseUp
*Sigh* more EngCon Brexit doublespeak https://mobile.twitter.com/davidallengreen/status/1052818678687784960
This is quite something.
What is a budget except "economic interventions"? 🤔
#EngCon #Doublespeak https://mobile.twitter.com/SkyNewsBreak/status/1056870641691975687
Oh come on! https://mobile.twitter.com/faisalislam/status/1056935253334470657
Boris Johnson, King Con #Doublespeak
"It's vassal state stuff. For the first time in 1000 yrs, this parliament will not have a say over the laws that govern this country. It is utterly unacceptable and it has a kicker - we will not have protected our precious Union" #ThisIsBrexit
Glad it's not just me noticing all this EngCon doublespeak

The People have Spoken.
The People must not be allowed to Speak.
#ThisIsBrexit https://mobile.twitter.com/chrisgreybrexit/status/1065347522250620928
From the (draft) Political Declaration on the Future Relationship between EU and UK:
We will leave the Common Fisheries Policy.
We will enter the Common Fisheries Agreement.

#Brexit #CFP https://mobile.twitter.com/AngusRobertson/status/1065557152083951618
This is getting ridiculously surreal
#EngCon #ThisIsBrexit https://mobile.twitter.com/bbcnickrobinson/status/1066244161408503808
And now we've got Theresa May using public funds to try to sell us her deal, whereas Brexiters are using almost the same URL & keywords to rubbish her deal.
But neither of them are Best For Britain.
#BrexitIsBonkers https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-politics-46399688
UK government in Google bidding war with Brexit deal opponents

Opponents of Theresa May's Brexit deal are trying to outbid the government for the top search spot.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-politics-46399688
In one of the most offensive pieces of EngCon doublespeak propaganda yet, here are some Tory MPs celebrating the foodbanks that THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT POLICIES make necessary. #GTTO #ToriesDontCare
In one of the most offensive pieces of EngCon doublespeak propaganda yet, here are some Tory MPs celebrating the foodbanks that THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT POLICIES make necessary. #GTTO #ToriesDontCare
In one of the most offensive pieces of EngCon doublespeak propaganda yet, here are some Tory MPs celebrating the foodbanks that THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT POLICIES make necessary. #GTTO #ToriesDontCare
In one of the most offensive pieces of EngCon doublespeak propaganda yet, here are some Tory MPs celebrating the foodbanks that THEIR OWN GOVERNMENT POLICIES make necessary. #GTTO #ToriesDontCare
Tory Foodbank initiative is a scripted effort to get us braced for Brexit impact then?
Makes total sense.
#DuckAndCover
#ProtectAndSurvive

https://mobile.twitter.com/stephenpaton134/status/1069232976909746176

Or we could just stop Brexit, end austerity, get everyone to pay their taxes & look after each other?
#CheckBrexit
So it was May's Deal or no Deal or No Brexit.
Today it's some imaginary potential deal yet to be arranged.
Despite the EU saying that there are no changes to be made

Corbyn says the Deal is unacceptable & the EU won't renegotiate
Yet he can renegotiate a better deal
#Doublespeak
I keep hearing the ERGonauts using the phrase "Managed No-Deal"
Wonder if there are any other Brexit oxymorons (broxymorons?)
More EngCon doublespeak from Prime Minister Theresa May #PMQs #Brexitshambles https://twitter.com/C4Ciaran/status/1072824663494008833
SchrĂśdinger's Democracy strikes again.
#EngCon #Doublespeak
"One vote good
Two votes bad"

#FinalSay #EUref2
What I find fascinating is Daniel Hannon boldly (baldly?) claiming a second referendum would turn the UK into an oligarchy, when "a small group of people having control of a country or organisation" is the exact opposite of a PeoplesVote 🤔
#doublespeak https://mobile.twitter.com/localnotail/status/1075712829074874369
After the EU confirmed repeatedly that negotiations are closed, I'm putting the whole of today into this thread about Tory Doublespeak. SMH 🤦‍♀️ https://mobile.twitter.com/jessicaelgot/status/1090227403299930112
We must leave the EU so that we can control our own destiny!!

No, not you Scotland. Or Northern Ireland. Just Westminster.
And absolutely no-one is allowed to have second thoughts about Brexit!
#EURef2 #indyref2 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47406529
UK 'will reject Sturgeon's Indyref2 calls'

Cabinet sources dismiss the prospect of another independence referendum, as Nicola Sturgeon prepares to set out her plans.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47406529
So, I read Mrs May's Grimsby speech. Here are some notes.

Mrs May is lying to us.
She May lie.
This government cannot be trusted.
#ToriesDontCare
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pm-speech-in-grimsby-8-march-2019
#CheckBrexit #FinalSay
So, I read Mrs May's Grimsby speech. Here are some notes.Mrs May is lying to us.She May lie. This government cannot be trusted. #ToriesDontCare https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pm-speech-in-grimsby-8-march-2019 #CheckBrexit #FinalSay
So, I read Mrs May's Grimsby speech. Here are some notes.Mrs May is lying to us.She May lie. This government cannot be trusted. #ToriesDontCare https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pm-speech-in-grimsby-8-march-2019 #CheckBrexit #FinalSay
Government says:
No Deal is the worst possible outcome.
MPs can have a free vote

Hours pass

Government applies 3-line whips in favour of No Deal https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/03/fear-and-loathing-in-the-lobbies-how-the-government-whipped-against-itself-and-lost/
Fear and loathing in the lobbies: how the government whipped against itself - and lost | The...

With just a few minutes to go before the division on the government's motion on no deal, Tory MPs' phones started buzzing. It was a message from the whips, telling them that the free vote they'd been...

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2019/03/fear-and-loathing-in-the-lobbies-how-the-government-whipped-against-itself-and-lost/
I've almost given up on this thread since so much of what comes out of Downing Street is such terrible gaslighting Tory doublespeak

but this reaction to the huge main party seat losses due to #RemainBacklash in #LocalElections2019 is
something else
#GaslitNation
No Words
#EngCon #GasLitNation https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1151531406960541698
Theresa May's words:
'It has led to what is, in effect, a form of absolutism. One which believes that if you simply assert your view loud enough & long enough you will get your way in the end.
Or that mobilising your own faction is more important than bringing others with you."
Theresa May's words: 'It has led to what is, in effect, a form of absolutism. One which believes that if you simply assert your view loud enough & long enough you will get your way in the end. Or that mobilising your own faction is more important than bringing others with you."
Theresa May's words: 'It has led to what is, in effect, a form of absolutism. One which believes that if you simply assert your view loud enough & long enough you will get your way in the end. Or that mobilising your own faction is more important than bringing others with you."
2017: Priti Patel resigns before she was sacked because of multiple undisclosed meetings with Israeli officials which were a clear breach of the ministerial code, diplomatic protocol & national security
2019: Priti Patel is appointed Home Secretary #EngCon https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41923007
Priti Patel quits over Israel meetings row

Priti Patel resigns as UK international development secretary after the row about meeting Israeli politicians.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41923007
And now barely a day into the role of Home Secretary, Priti Patel has been breaking the rules of conduct *again*
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/26/priti-patel-accused-of-breaching-ministerial-code-for-second-time

But it's probably OK to lie & break rules in The Liar Johnson's cabinet
Priti Patel accused of breaching ministerial code for second time

Home secretary took up £1,000 an hour advisory role before getting watchdog’s approval

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/26/priti-patel-accused-of-breaching-ministerial-code-for-second-time
ÂŁ10Million on a leaflet lying to us about NoDeal being anything other than economic suicide achieved though mass deception.

#EngCon https://mobile.twitter.com/Otto_English/status/1155417751286099968
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time" - Maya Angelou

Our Tory Government says protecting their party is more important than what is best for the UK

They know we will go short of food & medicines #FaceTheFacts
They're preparing to suppress us #EngCon
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time" - Maya AngelouOur Tory Government says protecting their party is more important than what is best for the UKThey know we will go short of food & medicines #FaceTheFactsThey're preparing to suppress us #EngCon
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time" - Maya AngelouOur Tory Government says protecting their party is more important than what is best for the UKThey know we will go short of food & medicines #FaceTheFactsThey're preparing to suppress us #EngCon
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time" - Maya AngelouOur Tory Government says protecting their party is more important than what is best for the UKThey know we will go short of food & medicines #FaceTheFactsThey're preparing to suppress us #EngCon
"When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time" - Maya AngelouOur Tory Government says protecting their party is more important than what is best for the UKThey know we will go short of food & medicines #FaceTheFactsThey're preparing to suppress us #EngCon
This week our EngCon UKGov promised to silence dissent,
new police (though less than they've already cut),
more powers to create criminals
& more prisons for their construction industry backers to build
& their security backers to service 🤔

ICYMI ⬇️ https://mobile.twitter.com/localnotail/status/1156993872037371904
Today in #EngCon news

UKGov's own Operation Yellowhammer plans are scaremongering 🤔 https://mobile.twitter.com/davidschneider/status/1163019786886025216
Government propaganda leaflets are now good.(ÂŁ100M #GetReadyForBrexit)

Campaign funds not sourced in the UK are now good. ( #World4Brexit)

We are now at war with EUrasia

2 Mins Hate will continue over breakfast courtesy of the Daily Heil

Windrush scandal never happened
#EngCon
Magic Money Trees grow on every corner & are being harvested for the benefit of all*
#EngCon #BrexitBrother

*to replace the public service deficit Tory austerity cuts & return us to pre-Tory levels, but presented as bonus spending
I stopped keeping up with this as Liar Johnson's VoteLeave government are EngCon writ large, openly lying to us every single day

But here's Priti Patel, the child of immigrant refugees, celebrating the removal of Free Movement of People with a Nasty smirk https://mobile.twitter.com/sturdyAlex/status/1180091737328496640
Classic #EngCon doublespeak from Sajid Javid here:
"Do businesses want the benefits and security of continued access to the Single Market, or the instability and uncertainty of a lost decade?"
https://sajidjavid.com/news/sajid-javid-only-thing-leaving-eu-guarantees-lost-decade-british-business

#CheckBrexit
They aren't even pretending any more. 🤦‍♀️
Just flat out fibbing. #EngCon #StopTheCoup
#FaceTheFacts https://mobile.twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1186981694110343168
#EngCon https://twitter.com/davidschneider/status/1187491168864669696
Further tales of a #GasliNation under the care of EngCon's Brexit Brother.
They are fabricating a sham narrative with the help of UK MSM.
#ReleaseTheRussiaReport https://mobile.twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1208750452390674433
#BrexitConcerns about the harm of Leaving the EU from the Conservative Government now insisting that it will be a tremendous success #Doublespeak
#EngCon
https://mobile.twitter.com/AllianceRemain/status/1210151507162738700
Probably should not be surprised that Brexit Johnson's Brexit Government have banned the use of the word Brexit.
#Doublespeak #EngCon https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/brexit-exit-b-word-banned-from-no-10-vhbtpb3rr
Brexit-exit: B-word banned from No 10

The “B-word” has become so taboo for the Tories that Boris Johnson is removing “Brexit” from the name of the taskforce that will negotiate the UK’s future relationship with the European Union.In a

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/brexit-exit-b-word-banned-from-no-10-vhbtpb3rr
Looks like the Newspeak wing of EngCon is gearing up to spew forth propaganda to feed to our social media
"The idea is to put up films online and elsewhere that show the human triumphs of Brexit" https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/tim-walker-mandrake-brexit-dream-factory-open-for-business-1-6457671
MANDRAKE: PM creates new film factory to help with Brexit propaganda efforts

Boris Johnson sets up film unit to record the triumphs of Brexit and why a paperback version is still not planned of David Cameron’s memoirs.

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/tim-walker-mandrake-brexit-dream-factory-open-for-business-1-6457671
(I should probably have gone with IngCon when I started this not EngCon, but there we go)
More Doublespeak from Brexit Johnson's EngCon 50p coin

#BrexitCoin #Brexit50p #IngCon https://mobile.twitter.com/davidschneider/status/1221378546016366593
EngCon in full flow, attempting to obscure the truth with mushroom management
(keep us in the dark and feed us on bullshit)
#BrexitBrother https://twitter.com/ottocrat/status/1222567207944818690
No 10 briefing on Europe for a select few "specialist senior journalists" of Johnson's choice

Invited: The Sun
Uninvited: The Times

So Brexit it hurts

#EngCon #IngCon #BrexitBrother
No 10 briefing on Europe for a select few "specialist senior journalists" of Johnson's choiceInvited: The SunUninvited: The Times So Brexit it hurts #EngCon #IngCon #BrexitBrother
No 10 briefing on Europe for a select few "specialist senior journalists" of Johnson's choiceInvited: The SunUninvited: The Times So Brexit it hurts #EngCon #IngCon #BrexitBrother
More language control from Brexit Johnson's EngCon, attempting to obscure the truth about what is being done
#Newspeak

https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/04/no-more-deal-or-no-deal-no-10s-brexit-diktat-to-foreign-office?

#IngCon
"And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history & became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past" https://mobile.twitter.com/sturdyAlex/status/1228296328414990336
Been a bit too on the nose lately #EngCon
Been a bit too on the nose lately #EngCon
Been a bit too on the nose lately #EngCon
This is a good thread about all of this Orwellian Mayhem

#EngCon #1984 https://mobile.twitter.com/redhistorian/status/1274715532571312128
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