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May has bumped David Davis off the #andrewmarr show today but guess what DD has let rip in the FT - and you can read it any second now
"British democracy is now at stake": DD's angry intervention is the web splash for @FT right now ft.com
and here's the actual David Davis opinion piece in @ft this morning
ft.com/content/ee9c34…
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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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#RIP Minnesota
Poor State turned into a mini Germany open borders style entire cities there have turned completely one religion..
Number one refugee resettlement State.
americanexperiment.org/2017/03/refuge…
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Wait, are these the new rules now for entertainers or just Kanye West?
Wait until he finds out who is on Meet the Press today
Pete Davidson telling Kanye to “Shut up and dribble.” So we can expect media lectures any second now.
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Davis:
June: "Nearly 60 sector analyses already done.” List published.
Nov: "Not the case that 58 impact assessments exist"
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