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Denzil_DC

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6. David Lammy gives the sort of speech a Labour leader could if he/she had any guts:

Reply to Soph0571 (Original post)

Thu Jan 10, 2019, 09:53 PM

Jan 2019

Link to tweet

Channel 4 News ✔
@Channel4News

“Blame us. Blame Westminster. Do not blame Brussels for our own country's mistakes and do not be angry at us for telling you the truth. Be angry at the chancers who sold you a lie.”@DavidLammy says that voters were misled during the 2016 EU referendum.#78DaysToBrexit

He hits so many valid points in just two minutes. Bravo.

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Labour's refusal to oppose Brexit is becoming a historic error [View all] Soph0571 Jan 2019 OP

"The attitude of Corbyn loyalists is that Remainers have nowhere else to go besides Labour." Denzil_DC Jan 2019 #1

They also played the same game over Iraq T_i_B Jan 2019 #2

Yeah. They'd more or less lost me by then anyway. Denzil_DC Jan 2019 #3

I was in my early 20's at the time of Iraq T_i_B Jan 2019 #4

Worth posting the results of the poll that came out shortly after, and back this up muriel_volestrangler Jan 2019 #5

David Lammy gives the sort of speech a Labour leader could if he/she had any guts: Denzil_DC Jan 2019 #6