X : You're in favour of a Norway option?
Me : Yes, EEA docked to EFTA is a reasonable compromise.
X : What do you think of a party that splits from Labour / Conservative and stands on that position?
Me : Not much. I'm still supporting Corbyn. The issues are bigger than brexit.
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... you can't avoid the underlying issues. Revoke article 50, leave under WTO or go an EEA / docked to EFTA route without tackling them? If you think you can, then after 2+ years you still don't understand what Brexit was about.
X : Immigration.
Me : That's truly clueless.
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X : How about Labour putting forward a no confidence vote in Government?
Me : Why? Odds are against it. Ditto the agreement.
X : Won't that move the conversation forward?
Me : Not at all. Only reason for it now would be to push a 2nd referendum agenda in Labour.
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X : But that's what Labour should do.
Me : Only if Labour wants to lose ground to the Conservatives. I think Corbyn is doing fine and playing the smart game which is what we need him to do.
X : Blair said ...
Me : ... hold on whilst I find the button to block you.
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Are these real questions people ask you? Or you are making them up as a rhetorical scaffolding?
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The core of all the X debates are derived from real conversations with many people. They are not one person but many, often over days or weeks or months which I then thread into a discussion with a mythical X that represents no-one and everyone.
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Hence, I do get a few ... "that was me" or "am I X?" ... to which the answer is always no.
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