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Jeremy Hunt on Brexit sounds like he's been forced to go to the studio at gunpoint.
"If it doesn't have a time limit then there must be a way we can exit from it." Bitter laughter.
"The 27 EU nations have remained united and we should do the same around Theresa May". Sweet God above.
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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 #thread
1/ If you don’t follow Brexit every day, here’s some advice. Let go of any illusions that this drama is about trade protocols, residency rights or the status of the Irish border. Brexit is the story of a proud former imperial power undergoing a mid-life crisis
2/ The rest of the world is left listening to Britain’s therapy session as they drone on about their ex-spouse, unable to see, admit or address their own flaws.
3/ The promise of Brexit was that it would make Britain feel big again. “Britain is special,” the Brexiteers assured British voters, who cast their ballots accordingly. But Brexit has proven that for the first time in modern history, Britain is small.
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Looks like head on collision with EU. Brussels says U.K. agreed to an “all weather backstop” so it cannot have a time limit and must be written in to the withdrawal agreement ie NOW - during transition which is AFTER Brexit day. See my blog: bbc.com/news/world-eur…
So far EU has been willing to soften language but not legal requirements of backstop. So now what? #Brexit
To the EU May’s hardening on backstop looks again like her putting her party and her survival as PM ahead of negotiating an agreement with Brussels and avoiding a no deal #Brexit
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Brexit is the backstop; the backstop is #Brexit.

After 3 days in Belfast, talking to all sides, here's what I've learned - on the business and the politics of this deal. And its viability.

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First the business/technical aspects of how a backstop would work.

I talked to business lobby groups, Stephen Kelly from @ManufacturingNI fresh back from talks with Barnier. And bosses of big companies.

The are surprisingly sanguine. /2

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/…
@ManufacturingNI If the backstop emerges as the British want (and that is still an 'if') it would look as follows:

- all-UK in a temporary customs Union
- Northern Ireland only in Single Market for goods, via devolution
- no checks GB-NI
- 'de-dramatised checks on regs NI-GB

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Thread.  “Brexit was about tax avoidance!”, so the conspiracy theory goes. “The referendum was announced in 2013, just as the EU announced plans to tackle tax avoidance!!” “The referendum date was announced just after the EU announced the Anti Tax Avoidance Directive.” And…
“…article 50 was invoked so the UK would avoid the implementation of the Anti Tax Avoidance Directive in 2019!  You Brexiteers have all been conned!” Well, let’s see who’s being conned by who. Here’s a timeline. The issue of “base erosion” (eroding your tax base) was first...
…discussed at the OECD summit in Mexico in June 2012, and again at the G20 Finance Minister summit in November of the same year. At this summit the UK and Germany agreed to combat Base Erosion and corporate tax avoidance, issuing a joint statement. Later, France also agreed…
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Reading and tweeting HMG's White Paper.
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
Starting with the conclusions (always the best bit)
1 Principled and practical are TM's new adjectves for #Brexit, which sounds conciliatory and is the sort of thing the EU do want to hear.
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a Frictionless trade at the border (specific border not stated)
b UK out CAP & Fisheries, but in on crime & terror & shared prosperity fund
c No hard Border between NI & I, but protect the Union
d End of CJEU in UK, return "accountability" to the various elected assemblies
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As a new believer In #brexit I am especially convinced by the doctrine of Marxism lexitism
I see now that the British government has been prevented by the EU from implenting the European social model that exists in France Germany Sweden Denmark the Netherlands and many other EU member States
The EU is to blame for privatisation as is witnessed by the way other European countries retain nationalised industried
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