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Chequers latest:

Am told that Andrea Leadsom and Esther McVey grumbled about the Brexit offering....but Boris was very quiet and Gove enthusiastic while Fox and Grayling (who’s doing Today tomorrow) were on good behaviour: some Tory Eurosceptics annoyed that no one resigned....
Indeed apparently Boris gave a mini speech at dinner supporting the deal, some colleagues found it “moving” apparently, that bit may or may not be sarcastic
this is like being promised Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid and getting Love Actually instead
okay so apparently there were a few concerns raised by Mordaunt, Fox, Javid and Boris but one participant described this as “half-hearted” #Chequers
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the Grayling ferry story has taken another curious twist with Eurotunnel writing to the transport secretary expressing “serious concern” about the £103m offer to three ferry companies to provide new routes if there’s a no-deal Brexit
the letter was leaked to me yesterday, it says:

“I must bring to your attention the distortionary and anti-competitive effects of such an action, which would be a unilateral breach not only of the Concession Agreement with Eurotunnel but...(also)..competition and state aid law”
Eurotunnel wants a similar contract for itself. Otherwise it says it will consider all options, including legal action, against the transport department....
ft.com/content/21f4a1…
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Seaborne Freight won’t have its new Ramsgate-Ostend service ready before April, several weeks after Brexit day, officials admitted during a private cross-departmental meeting of Whitehall officials on Monday - story here on @FT
ft.com/content/743b11…
the company isn’t exactly denying this:
Meanwhile it seems the company might have issued “inaccurate investor briefings” last year.

A document entitled “Seaborne Freight (UK) Limited — Investor Briefing April 2018”, claimed the company had “detailed port agreements with both Ramsgate and Ostend negotiated and agreed”.
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it’s common knowledge that even small increases in checks at Dover (thanks to no-deal Brexit) could prompt queues on adjacent roads, potentially causing gridlock in Kent....but just how bad could it be?

Here’s a report last year from @imperialcollege

google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.…
today we got our hands on the findings from another secret study carried out by UCL on behalf of the Department For Transport : the findings are much more explosive....
and here it is:

The key point is that extra checks of up to 40 seconds per truck don’t result in extra queues. But above that there would be an exponential spike on delays:

With checks of 70 seconds per truck there would be....queues of SIX DAYS

ft.com/content/d05498…
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After 2.5 years of wanting to stop #brexit I have in theast half hour converted to the leftwing case for #Brexit as the best way to achieve a socialist future and set out my reasons in this thread #leavernow #lexiternow
It is clear to me that the EU is a corporate playground and neoliberal cabal one only needs 2 compare US and EU standards of animal welfare & food safety 2 see how true this is chlorinated chicken is the food of the Lexitariat #leavernow #lexiternow #Brexit #JC4PM2019
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1) It’s 7.30 pm in Brussels and the political declaration on the future EU - U.K. relationship - scheduled to be pretty much finished today is not yet complete. Negotiations are ongoing
2) The PM is coming to Brussels tomorrow to discuss the text. She’s expected to push for some sense of her Chequers plan for #Brexit to be recognisable in the document
3) But now she’s not the only party doing the pushing. Spain is making demands over Gibraltar and France is fighting for fishing rights in U.K. waters after Brexit
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1) Thread - Absolutely agree with @bbcnickrobinson here. It is the right of journalists to ask tough questions of people in power

It is however also arguably a duty.

As we enter the end game of this #Brexit shambles, here's some "tough questions" that should have been asked
@bbcnickrobinson 2) to Andrea Leadsom, famous Brexiter:
"Ms. Leadsom, you said #Brexit would have no impact on the economy. How did your 30 years of financial experience let you down so badly?

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@bbcnickrobinson 3) Question for Lord Digby Jones, ex CBI and regular BBC pundit
"Lord Digby Jones, you said not a single job lost from #Brexit, that was utter nonsense, wasn't it?"

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Arriving at Chequers, @POTUS initially ignored shouted questions about whether he regretted his comments on #Brexit to @TheSun about whether or not he would voice his concerns to @theresa_may.
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The same Brexiters who were saying “would it be terrible if we became like Norway?” before the vote, now look at anything but completely-cut-all-ties-and-jump-off-the-cliff Proposals and opine “well, that’s not REEEEALLY Brexit, is it.” The mandate was to leave the EU. That’s it.
That’s the essence of it. Many were conned out of their vote with soft, easy, instant, painless, cake-and-eat-it #Brexit and now they’re being conned again into ownership of the hardest, most painful, chaotic disaster capitalism outcome, by being told “its what YOU voted for”.
And by the end of it, we’ll all be poorer, the UK irreparably damaged, but Rees-Mogg’s hedgefund will be quids in, Boris will be PM, Gove Chancellor and Fox getting commission on every deal. Because these people would burn us all to the ground, if they can rule over the ashes.
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🇬🇧BREXIT🇬🇧

THREAD: Cambridge Analytica appears to have used a Canadian company, AggregateIQ #AIQ, to cheat UK election laws to steal the #Brexit vote‼️ 1/

theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/m…
Vote Leave was the *official* #Brexit campaign, run by Boris Johnson and Michael Gove.🤔

Right before the election, Vote Leave donated a total of £675,315 in 4 donations over 8 days to BeLeave, a political org set up by two 21-something yo’s who worked for Vote Leave.🤨 2/
Quick digression on UK campaign finance law before adding to the story.🤓

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