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If a film is ever made about Britain divorcing its nearest neighbours it must be called Nightmare on Brexit Street.

The horror of leaving the EU after 44 years of living together with our most important trading partners and allies is becoming clearer by the day.

Higher prices in shops and more expensive holidays in Spain are just the start, with the bill to be picked up by an electorate duped by a Brexit grotesquerie guilty of heinous deceptions and lies.

So let’s hold to account the guilty menagerie of Con artists and UIP Purple Tory fraudsters who sold our country down the river.

Brexit Secretary David Davis is having to beg Brussels to be flexible, to go easy on Britain, which is humiliating for a Tory hardliner who, before the referendum, pretended that waving goodbye would be simple.

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Reality is biting and the common theme in seven reports issued over the past fortnight by his Whitehall department is that the Tory government’s chief negotiator wants Brexit NOT to mean Brexit.

Nothing must change when everything changes because the penny has started to drop that our jobs, prosperity and security are intertwined with our Continental and Irish partners.

Immigration scares are another lie to rival that one about the £350million a week extra for the NHS. Theresa May’s obsession with foreign students was built on the lie that they never left after they finished their studies.

Brick by brick, the Brexit Secretary is dismantling the Brexit case. Benefit tourism? Fiction. And less than 2p in every £1 spent on tax credits goes to workers arriving from Europe to graft.

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Tory Brexit bores routinely miss the contradiction when they boast that employment is at a record high and unemployment at a record low, while accusing Poles of coming over here and stealing all our jobs.

I have spent my life fighting exploitation of workers, arguing for better pay and treatment, defending the NHS and welfare state, supporting good education for all and denouncing poor housing and scum landlords.

None of those things are advanced by scare-mongering, by demonising migrants or by confecting a false case for leaving the European Union.

The blame for wage cuts rests with grubby bosses and with an income-sapping austerity ideology and Tory ministers who shackle trade unions.

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Tory Brexit fanatic Liam Fox yearns to “take back control”, by which he means take away guaranteed paid holidays, employment rights, safety laws and everything else he calls “red tape” and we regard as a lifeline.

The Labour leadership is belatedly recognising the value of remaining in Europe’s single market and customs union after adopting more positions than the Kama Sutra.

In Nightmare on Brexit Street, the Freddy Krueger would be a Nigel Farage filling his Union Jack boots as he whimpers for a knighthood.

We’re in this mess because David Cameron was one of the worst Prime Minister’s in history, losing Europe on a party political tactical gamble.

But this horror film doesn’t need to be made. I increasingly believe we can and must stop Brexit – change our minds when the facts change.

Then we could all watch a Brexit version of The Great Escape, which would be real family viewing.