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Here's your Brexit pain, get your daily dose of Brexit pain here politics.co.uk/blogs/2018/10/…
This dose includes laugh-out-loud moments of realising that - fuck no! - transition is not going to end in 2020, or 2021, but go on for fucking years and be really properly horrible.
Every possible option is a bad one, all of them will probably end up going on forever, none will please anyone, and the EU is as culpable on some of these issues as the UK.
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Remainers and Brexiters should make a pact now to neither exploit the far-right demonstrators outside Westminster, or encourage them politics.co.uk/blogs/2019/01/…
Tim Montgomerie and Brexit secretary Steve Barclay both disgraced themselves over this. They should retract what they said.
But all of us should take a hard look at what's happening down there and put limits on how we speak. No more talk of traitors. No more threats of violence on the street.
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This seems quite dangerous and like it's on the edge of turning violent. It's the same guys in each video.
I understand police have a very delicate job to do there. But they seem to have very little effective presence despite there being rather a lot of them around.
Nothing has happened yet, but it feels on the verge of it - and like normal people will start staying away, which is intolerable given it's parliament.
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I think this is the most challenging question for Remainers on the 'traitor' norm. Obvs it does not stop you looking into the links, or saying that certain policies are useful to Russia, and actively pursued and encouraged by Russia.
But I do think it should discourage us from calling anyone who is ie pro-Brexit a Putin stooge, or instinctively ruling out their views as the result of Russian propaganda.
But I get that this is a sticky wicket and I can imagine myself, in a moment of anger, landing on the wrong side of it.
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Brexit seems to be the solution to all our economic woes (short thread)

E.g., Hannan thinks that Brexit will be great because house prices will crash by 1/3. That will be great for first-time buyers, right?
Problem is last time house prices crashed (2008) home ownership in younger people did not increase. It decreased by quite a bit as can be seen in this graph. 2/
That's because housing prices are connected to lots of other things in the economy, such as job prospects, lending criteria. It's not that people in 2008 were like "Hey look, all those houses around us have become cheaper. Now we can finally buy!" 3/
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The Chequers plan is dying. May faces rebellion on both sides. She can survive, but not proceed. So what happens next? Some thoughts after chats with both sides.

(Shorter: it's still all about the Irish backstop)

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As talks get under way in Brussels today, the EU can:

a) attack - eviscerate Chequers for cherry picking

b) parry - play for time, probe UK real red lines

c) focus on what is deliverable to conclude Withdrawal Agreement in Autumn /2

More here: telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/…
It is the last of these where smart money lies. Chequers is dying anyway and is a 'future relationship issue'.

The focus is delivering a divorce treaty by 29.03.19 and for this most of work is done.

Except the backstop.... /3
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1) thread on the "missing anti-brexit surge"
It's fair to say that there is only a small (though significant) movement towards "remain" & against #Brexit, leading some to say that a #PeoplesVote might lead to the same result
But let's look at where we are

prospectmagazine.co.uk//blogs/peter-k…
2) the press is still largely pro #Brexit. The BBC has, in the name of balance, been at best hopeless in holding brexiters to account for previous statements and more importantly, both major parties are still pretending their Brexit will be OK
There's no major voice against it
3) and yet, despite the lack of any major voice exposing the reality of #Brexit, the message is still getting through about what a screw up Brexit really is.

There's consistent polls showing a majority who think Brexit is going badly, and a lack of faith in government handling
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Sir Ivan Rogers has crashed the Policy Scotland website with his 11,052 word #Brexit speech.

The link is below, but in the interim, here are some excerpts and some commentary - since, as you'd expect, it gives a shrewd account of where #Brexit is now/1

policyscotland.gla.ac.uk/blog-sir-ivan-…
First point is this speech is a plague on both houses - remainers and brexiteers - and a call for analysis based on what is possible, not on wishful thinking.

That will always lead to charges of 'defeatism', but while Rogers may be an Eeyore, he knows too much to be ignored /2
First substantive point. There has been a rise in 'no deal' rhetoric again - see @FraserNelson column for a synthesis of these renewed threats here

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/…

...But Rogers isn't buying.../3
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