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Denzil_DC

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7. I suspect there'd be more likelihood of an immediate impact
Thu Oct 19, 2017, 11:27 AM
Oct 2017

(bearing in mind how short the deadlines to Brexit are) from a single-issue organization that drew together the various voices - business, social issue, ordinary voters/"grassroots" - than an attempt at founding another political party, with the attendant risks of inconvenient vote-splitting.

There's no shortage of prominent figures willing to pop up with some regularity and proclaim about what's going on - from Heseltine to Blair and even grislier - and evidence of some cross-party work in the Commons and Lords, but no co-ordinated messaging. That free-form style can be a strength in certain circumstances (e.g. the semi-plausible deniability it gave some in the Leave camp to distance themselves from claims of others on their side), but I'm not sure that applies now.

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