. @GiselaStuart is in the news because she joined @BorisJohnson and @michaelgove to encourage people to vote Tory. As chair of Vote Leave she has of course been happy to stand alongside them for a long time. Let me tell you about one thing they've already done together. [Thread]
Those three, together with @patel4witham, made a promise to EU citizens in 2016. They signed it with their names. The promise was that nothing would change for us. The reality for EU citizens now is the exact opposite of the promise made.
Stuart (and the others), as is now well documented, made many false promises during the campaign. For EU citizens they repeatedly cited the Vienna Convention to assure us all would be ok. As experts pointed out at the time: it does not apply. Yet Stuart and others kept using it.
Stuart certainly repeated many times that our rights deserve protection. All sounds good, right?
But that was never what she then actually chose to do. When @GiselaStuart was appointed to chair @britishfuture inquiry tasked with looking at how the Government could make sure that the rights of EU citizens are protected, many of us had hope that that would indeed be possible.
An inquire made up of Leave and Remain and incl experts - that sounded good. The inquiry's final report and recommendation certainly made for hopeful reading. 4/
But then Stuart, at the first opportunity she had and shortly after the report came out, chose to vote *against* securing the rights of EU citizens? Twice. That is who she is: she promises people that things will be fine, and then she acts in a way that enables the opposite.
So when Stuart tells you that something better is coming if Boris Johnson wins, don't believe her. Her role in Vote Leave has been airbrushed out of commentary, but we know that she has already directly enabled significant negative impact for millions. Don't let her add you.
PS: Sorry about the random 4/ and wrong ? In there ... copied some of this from@an old thread of mine and forgot to delete these.