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Here’s a great Brexit story. A friend at work has been dating a teacher from New Zealand. She’s just been kicked out of the UK
She earns below the Government’s required salary level to get a new work visa. BECAUSE SHE’S A TEACHER on a Government salary
So now she’s back in NZ even though the school are willing to sponsor her visa and even though she wants to be in the UK.
The demand for overseas workers from outside the EU caused by Brexit means there aren’t enough visas available
So she’s not in the UK, contributing to the economy. My friend now has to manage a love affair at great distance. And most importantly of all...
30 primary school kids now don’t half a teacher for the second half of this term. They are being taught by a Teaching Assistant instead
(The school had advertised the role for 3 months first time round. This lady was the sole applicant.)
Take a bow, Brexit. What a totally pointless activity
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THREAD on why Brexit is a battle between Reptiles and Mammals.

So another pointless month goes by on Brexit and still the two sides seem fundamentally not to even understand each other
I’ve made countless attempts to engage Brexiteers with facts. What comes back – almost every single time – is something that feels almost like a different language. Highly emotional, but with little regard for facts. We are talking past each other. Why?
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THREAD on how Brexit is like a restaurant with a magical menu offering free food 1/12
The cynical genius of the Leave campaign was to make a wide variety of promises, like a restaurant with a magical menu that shows everyone all their favourite dishes and a big sign saying ‘free food’ 2/12
Other expectant diners are pouring through the doors too, drawn in by other dishes from the magical menu and the promise of free food 3/12
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*Thread on why Remain can’t understand Leave*
Ok after another frustrating day in Brexitland the penny has finally dropped for me /1
I’ve spent months engaging with the tedious detail required to make Brexit work and wondering why Leave just waves this all away /2
Because it seems like if you want Brexit to happen, you need to engage with the policy detail. And it’s alarming how little Brexiteers want to do that (generally) /3
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001/ [article content in this tweet series 001-180 reproduced with permission from Martin Howe QC of Lawyers for Britain @lawyers4britain]
#quote "Leaving the EU on WTO terms: pulling down the barriers to world trade
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Reading and tweeting HMG's White Paper.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
Starting with the conclusions (always the best bit)
1 Principled and practical are TM's new adjectves for #Brexit, which sounds conciliatory and is the sort of thing the EU do want to hear.
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Hi Cabinet – so next week you finally get let into #brexit decision-making. So here is your essential pre-read from @instituteforgov.
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1) "Parliament follows" - a #Brexit story
Been engaged in a long thread with @0Calamity and others with the common Corbynite theme:
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For a "popular movement" there seems to be a lack of awareness of how they work.
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Putting to one side the "party before country" bias which is obvious to any non Labour supporter, isn't this what Labour is about?
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UK is heading for #Brexit In Name Only. And maybe the slow, spasmodic death of British nationalism. Thread.
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Conservative Party backed EU for 50 years. Most grandees, funders and MPs still believe UK would do very badly if it left SM. Financial Times & Treasury agree 3/
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Aside from Davis failing to provide the #Brexit bills as ordered, the other take away from this piece is Patel claiming government should tell EU to sod off, both demonstrating they still don't get UK's weakness in negotiations 1/n
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