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Jo Maugham QC @JolyonMaugham
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No. Those who promised voters there would be a wonderful future and the easiest trade deal in history will be responsible. Their promises will be exposed as lies.
Every committed liar in human history when confronted with proof of their lie has tried to blame others. Brexiteers who promised voters it would be fine are no different.
Weird that Brexiters are looking for others to blame for the coming car crash. Their hands are still on the wheel; why won't they change direction?
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The point of a "flexible" constitution is that it is responsive to underlying political reality and fits around core principles like Parliamentary supremacy. Its strength is that it cannot be 'gamed' by a constitutional player.

This is what we are, collectively, missing.
This is critical stuff. What Chris Heaton Harris is here saying is that an Executive of a (minority) Government can thwart the will of a Parliament that is said to be supreme. If our constitution means anything it must mean that Chris is wrong.
However the problem is that our approach to the relationship between an Executive that (we assume) will deliver no deal rather than risk no Brexit and a Parliament that (we learned yesterday) will not contemplate no deal is tangled in the weeds of Parliamentary convention.
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Labour is terrified of bringing a vote of no confidence that it knows it will lose because it lacks a plan for what happens next. It's neither in Government nor Opposition.
There is no key Brexit legislation currently before Parliament and we could well leave the EU with no deal before any comes before it.

Labour is chicken, clueless and enabling.
I hate this Government. I hate it for the contempt it has shown for our democratic superstructure: for governance, for the rule of law, and for constitutional norms. But you have to give it this: at least it has a plan. Labour has nothing and is nowhere.
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Absent Laffer curve effects, lifting our top rate to 70% for those paid £2m+ would raise about £6.5bn. But a HMT report found lifting the top rate to 50% raised little because of those effects. But what's oft missed is Govts can reshape the Laffer curve.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Here's that HMT 2012 paper google.com/url?sa=t&sourc…
And here's a piece I wrote on Laffer some time ago. waitingfortax.com/2015/09/07/laf…
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It's going to be a massive day in parliament. Your amuse-bouche, in which govt might be found in contempt of parliament, is kicking off now parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/83…
Starmer: "It's no longer for the govt to judge. It is for parliament, which is a higher authority."
Near silence in Chamber while Starmer is speaking.
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Brussels Brexit latest -- EU27 ministers met Michel Barnier and decided (no surprises) that negs on withdrawal agreement are finished.
"The question now is whether there is approval of this deal in the UK and the european parliament," said Austria's Gernot Blümel
Everyone bending over backwards not to say anything that might inflame UK domestic politics.
Barnier even used Brexiteer slogan 'take back control'
Full quote here
I am reminded of earlier EU comments: 'the UK wants to take back control, the EU wants to keep control'.

Judging by today's press conference, EU feels it has done so.
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Back in 2016, we as a country made a choice based on the information we had; and we made a reasonable choice.

We chose to be better off because leaving the EU would mean lower food prices.
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We chose to unleash our economic strength because the EU was holding us back.
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We chose to protect the polar bears
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As Remainer i now acknowledge that I was totally wrong about #brexit and how embrace the cause
Now that Turkey is just decades away from joining the EU I am so relieved. all that Turkish EU membership required was a simultaneous act of mass political suicide by multiple East European governments and a few western ones too which is clearly very likely
Liam fox is so besieged by countries desperate to offer us trade deals that he is having to hide to stop beating off offers with a shitty stick
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As a #leavernow I would like to make it clear I knew exactly what I wished I'd voted for.
As a #leavernow I didn't believe a word of any of vote leaves promises and they had no impact whatsoever on any leave voter
As a #leavernow I knew #Brexit meant leaving the single market and didn't listen to Dan hannan keen Patterson or feudalism foxes website all of which were clear they favoured staying in the single market
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Two years after the EU referendum what do we know?
1. The promises of the ‘easiest trade deal in history’, ‘we will hold all the cards’, ‘the exact same benefits’ and ‘no deal is better than a bad deal’ have all foundered on the rock of reality
2. The Cabinet is still arguing over what kind of customs arrangements it wants with the EU
3. There is no workable proposal yet to avoid a hard border in Northern Ireland
4. British businesses exporting to the EU don't know what to plan for which is why many support the UK remaining in a customs union
5. We still have no idea what our future relationship will be on security, foreign policy, data, approval of medicines and consumer safety
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