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🗓️ 11 December 2018
⏱️ 70 minutes
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0:00.0 | And now, a statement from Liberal Democrat MP, Stephen Lloyd. |
0:04.3 | Ladies and gentlemen of the Liberal Democrats, and Paddy Ashdown, who could still have any of us in a fight. |
0:09.5 | As you well know, we as a party are strongly opposed to Brexit, and such is our conviction that |
0:14.4 | despite being Democrats, we have overlooked the referendum result, and despite being liberals, we have |
0:18.5 | overlooked A.C. Grayling's haircut. It is with this in mind |
0:21.7 | that I've come to the conclusion that the best way forward for Al and my principled stand against Brexit |
0:26.1 | is to vote for it. Theresa May's deal may not be perfect, but I remind you that we must stick to the |
0:31.2 | age-old principles of the Liberal Democrats, a principal pursuit of a third way in British politics, |
0:36.4 | avoiding the extremes of the left and the right, |
0:38.7 | enthusing about windmills and charges on plastic bags, before eventually, and with a heavy heart, |
0:43.6 | tutting under our breath most wryly, going along with what the Tories want because in reality, |
0:47.7 | Mummy knows best. But I assure you that this setback will not weaken my resolve. |
0:52.7 | Do not think for a second that I will oppose |
0:54.6 | Brexit any less after voting for it. On the contrary, I am a Liberal Democrat and I will oppose it |
0:59.2 | even more. People will say, Stephen, despite your assurances that you opposed it, you voted for it. |
1:04.9 | And I will say, I don't remember voting for it, but I assure you that if I did vote for Brexit, |
1:09.3 | then that must have been the best way to prevent it, because nobody opposed Brexit more than I did, certainly not Jeremy Corbyn, |
1:14.8 | whom I once overheard say that Tuscany was overrated, which is untrue in exactly what someone |
1:18.7 | who had never been to Tuscany would say. Soon, the fight against Brexit will be won by this strategy, |
1:24.4 | or at the very least we will reach an agreement with the newly formed YouTube Nazi Party of Great Britain, led by Paul Joseph Watson and one of the right |
1:30.9 | honourable gentlemen from Blazing Squad, to conduct a people's Brexit, which will be more |
1:34.9 | or less the same as regular Brexit, but will contain an important policy for ensuring supplies |
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