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Schools and the NHS to be opened up to 'competition' (ie privatised) if Labour and the Tories succeed in dragging us out of the EU.
theguardian.com/politics/2018/…
Whatever United Kingdom Labour wants after any Brexit - obviously a different country to that the Tory right wants - it is *logically impossible* to deny that leaving the EU removes (and is intended to remove) legal safeguards against the Tory right remaking the UK in its image.
It is staggeringly naive - at best - for ideologues on the Left to assume that only they are rubbing their hands in glee at the prospect of recasting our country in their ideological image.
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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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Unite Members:

57% backed #PeoplesVote
24% leave voters backed #PeoplesVote

West Midlands car workers:
“Only now have voters started to see through the initial referendum campaigns and truly understand the implications & costs of leaving the EU."

theguardian.com/politics/2018/…
Unite union:

"open to the possibility of a vote on any deal the Tories come back with"

"members fears that the Tories' in-fighting and destructive red lines will bring ruin to their jobs and communities"

Unite Statement:
unitebrexitcheck.org/unite-policy-c…

#PeoplesVote
Great speech by Julie Ward MEP on why she marched with #WomenForEurope for a #PeoplesVote

Women and the young will be the most affected by #Brexit



#PeoplesVote
#StopBrexit
#FBPE
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It’s late so I will keep this short & sweet tonight.

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#FBPE is on the same side as:
TUC
Unite, GMB & Community Unions
CBI, IoD, FSB, BCC & EEF
Labour NW & West Midland MPs
Majority of Labour MP's
Majority of UK population
UK public
Majority of Labour members
LibDem
Green Party
NUS
On: #CustomsUnion #SingleMarket & #PeoplesVote
The transport union, TSSA:
"The left should unite now and come together to stop this Tory act of war against our class...

Supporting Tory/UKIP Brexit is unacceptable class collaboration.
Full stop.

I like this. This is fighting talk

Ref:
tssa.org.uk/en/whats-new/n…

#StopBrexit !!
TSSA General Secretary, Manuel Cortes:

"Our focus is our people, their rights and those of their families, which includes retaining their ability to move across EU borders freely”.

TSSA was and is in favour of remaining in the EU.

tssa.org.uk/en/Your-union/…

#FBPE
#StopBrexit
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 . @neil_parish MP for Tiverton & Honiton

When you voted to trigger A50 you knew that the
Govt ref. leaflet sent to every household did not mention the
Good Friday Agreement & how leaving the EU will impact it.

Why did you vote to trigger A50?
Ken Clarke MP didn't.

#FBPE
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 @neil_parish MP for Tiverton & Honiton

When you voted to trigger A50
you knew that regulatory alignment would be required for
Northern Ireland, as highlighted by the phase 1 report from 2017,
requiring both the SM & CU.
Does it not make sense to stay in the CU & SM?

#FBPE
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 @neil_parish MP for Tiverton & Honiton

When you voted to trigger A50
you knew that it would have customs implications for everything from cars to fresh food.

If there is no deal how long will supermarkets have fresh produce on their shelves?

independent.co.uk/news/business/…

#FBPE
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The noises coming out of #Labour on racism towards Jews (let us call it that) are increasingly hollow.
Let's not even talk about the 1000s of oddballs in & around Labour, who rant on about "Zionists", etc like UKIPers talk about "immigrants", but we know where both are pointing.

One is profiled here in detailed (& mostly ignored by Labour "radicals")

antinazisunited.wordpress.com/2017/07/13/he-…
I asked this question ages ago, with no satisfactory answer:

Labour members, do you like antisemitism or Holocaust denial? Can you spot it?
antinazisunited.wordpress.com/2017/07/04/lab…
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