A Scottish MP has delivered a soul-stirring,The Irresistible Daughter in Law anti-Brexit speech in Parliament, inspired by the famous "choose life" monologue from Trainspotting.
SEE ALSO: App Store prices in the UK to rise 25% due to Brexit pound slumpWhile MPs debated and voted on triggering Article 50 -- which will start the process to get Britain out of the European Union -- Hannah Bardell said she saw Trainspotting 2recently and it inspired her.
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"I pay tribute to Irvine Welsh, Danny Boyle and Ewan McGregor," Bardell said, mentioning respectively the Trainspotting author, director and main actor.
Here's the full speech:
“Choose Brexit. Choose making up numbers from thin air about the NHS and plastering them on the side of buses. Choose racist and xenophobic sentiments seeping out from some corners of the Leave campaign.
"Choose hate crime rising by over 40% and LGBT hate crime by 150% in England and Wales following the Brexit vote. Choose taking the people of our nations to the polls on one of the most important issues of a generation with nothing written down and no plan."
“Choose ignoring the interests of the people of Scotland and my constituents in Livingston despite the fact they voted overwhelmingly to Remain in the EU. Choose leaving the single market, risking 80,000 Scottish jobs within a decade and costing the people of Scotland an average of £2,000 a year in wages.”
“Choose lowering Scotland’s GDP by more than £10 billion and Scotland’s exports by more than £5 billion. Choose vital EU worker status being under threat with widespread uncertainty to family, businesses, and the economy.
“Choose risking our international standing in the academic research and innovation communities as we lose access to funding, expertise, and people in the EU. Choose walking away from the European medicine association without any detail or thought of the impact.
“Choose the great Brexit power grab, taking back control of straight bananas. Choose returning to the Thatcher era of poverty and austerity. Choose the UK turning its back on Europe. These, Mr Speaker, are not the choices that the Scottish people made.”
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