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'Lisbon Treaty 2020'

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MaizieD Tue 05-Mar-19 14:12:56

I am posting this because a post about this 'treaty' is going viral on social media (and, indeed, has already been posted here on Gnet fairly recently). It's titled 'Lisbon Treaty 2020' and consists of a list of things which are supposedly going to happen to in the EU after 2020.

It is completely fake and utterly untrue. There is no such thing as a Lisbon Treaty 2020 and there is nothing at all in the real Lisbon Treaty (2009) which justifies it.

There is a refutation of it here in the form of a twitter thread by Steve Peers, Professor of EU Law at Essex University:

threadreaderapp.com/thread/1087258784001654784.html

And an article by Polly Toynbee from today's Guardian:

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/04/anti-eu-brexit-fake-news

Of course, there are Leavers who will believe that all the viral post says is absolutely true but I'm not writing this thread for people who don't recognise the truth when it rises up and hits them in the face It's for Remainers who may see the viral post on their social media and want an authoritative refutation

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varian Wed 13-Mar-19 18:46:30

Jacob Rees Mogg, John Redwood and the other advocates of "no-deal" are indeed looking forward to lining their pockets as they are advocates of "disaster capitalism". Mogg's father wrote a book about it.

What you do is move all your money out of the UK, then deliberately cause a political disaster in the UK so the socaial fabric and the economy collapse, then swoop in like vultures to buy up all the assets of the many firms which go bust for a song and get even richer.

Stack away all your profits in a tax haven and Hey Presto- you are no longer a tax-dodging multimillionaire - you are a tax-dodging billionaire!!!

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