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Simon Wardley #NfN #EEA @swardley
7 years ago, 11 tweets, 6 min read Read on Twitter
This needs support from both sides -> Pro-Brexit Lawmakers Mull Temporary Norway-Style Arrangement - bloomberg.com/news/articles/… .... oh, and please do read Yarrow's paper - rpieurope.org/Publications/E…
e.g. Frank Field suggests Norway-style Brexit transition deal - theguardian.com/politics/2018/…
or @SKinnock support for an EEA / docked to EFTA pillar style deal - stephenkinnock.co.uk/eea_efta_based…
There will be some ... hard leave / hard remain ... who won't support but EEA / docked to EFTA (aka "Norway for Now") is the compromise between all sides.
A Norway-style Brexit should be enough for a country as divided as ours - telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/…
Norway offers way out of the Brexit maze - thetimes.co.uk/edition/commen…
"Norway model," is now the most popular Brexit option - uk.businessinsider.com/british-public…
X : You're in favour of soft brexit?
Me : There is no soft / hard brexit, that's the language of division. There is just leaving EU & whatever trade arrangements we make. I find that EEA / docked to EFTA as per @george_yarrow - rpieurope.org/Publications/E… - is a good compromise.
MPs unite behind calls for the Norway route - dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6… #NfN #EEA
I'm not keen on the use of language by @pollytoynbee ... but, I do support a shift towards #NfN #EEA
"A plan B is gaining ground among the sane" - theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
mentions X : I am a little chaffed by this suggestion that the problem is remainers.
Me : Remainers aren't the problem, they are part of the solution ... there is the compromise around EEA / docked to EFTA, it just needs support. #NfN #EEA
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X : How do you do research?
Me : University or commercial?
X : Is there a difference?
Me : In academia, people tend to do the research before they submit the proposal to do the research in order to fit in with some sort of scheduled research delivery process / gantt chart ...
... i.e. they spend the time "researching" actually doing research on something else which once completed is submitted as the next research proposal so they guarantee milestones of when it'll be delivered (as it is already done). It's all about hitting KPIs etc.
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6 years ago
Lunch and a quick scan of NHS long term plan - longtermplan.nhs.uk/publication/nh… ... page 6 (summary) and rapid expansion of "personal health budget" - england.nhs.uk/personal-healt… - aka full scale privatisation of NHS under the cover of giving patients choice. Bye Bye NHS, you'll be missed.
... not that we really have an NHS, it is more of a franchise. Anyway, personal choice is the way to kill it off and embrace a market led insurance model. First health, police next - "Then he swiped his credit card to pay me for arresting him" - newyorker.com/humor/daily-sh…
.. but let us not sweat the little stuff like health, society, cohesion but focus on big things like staying in the EU. As we all know, the EC will save us. I can hear Juncker on the phone to May saying "you can't continue privatising the NHS, the EC is going to stop you". Lol.
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6 years ago
X : Predictions for 2019?
Me : Not my thing.
X : Go on.
Me : What are you after?
X : Acquisitions.
Me : Hmmm, a bucketload of tech acquisitions around Kubernetes. Expect big juicy deals.
X : It's the future?
Me : No. Mostly cash rich past giants with no future being clueless.
X : No market for Kubernetes?
Me : Some very profitable niches. Savvy tech buyer will wait until hype dries up before swooping in for tasty acquisitions around 2021-2022. This year will mainly be the clueless with big chequebooks. Hoping some friends will make it big this year.
X : The market doesn't operate to make your friends rich.
Me : Are you sure? It has been doing a good job of it - Cloud, Big Data, Containers ... it's always the same.
X : So, where is the future?
Me : I thought you were interested in acquisitions? They are not the same.
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7 years ago
Again.

Dear journalists - can you please drop the totally unhelpful and divisive reference to the 'War Cabinet' from your articles?

Thanks.

#Brexit #dontmentionthewar

@guardian @Telegraph @FXstreetNews @heraldscotland @Daily_Express @bpolitics @MailOnline
Why call it 'war cabinet' ?

theguardian.com/politics/2018/…
And here.
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7 years ago
1) Thread: "We knew what we were voting for" & #Brexit
This shouldn't really need saying but no, we didn't, we couldn't, because of the dishonest campaign ran by the Vote Leavers
History has been rewritten but the following are some edited highlights
#Lab18 #LabourConference2018
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8 years ago
Apparently UK Govt’s current #Brexit plan is to go to individual 🇪🇺 countries to try to explain 🇬🇧 position: bloomberg.com/news/articles/… (1/7)
🇪🇺 has offered 2 or 3 negotiation rounds before December European Council but 🇬🇧 declined those bloomberg.com/news/articles/… (2/7)
Although Telegraph in this @pmdfoster piece says 🇬🇧 has demanded continual talks telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/3… - not sure which is true (3/7)
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8 years ago
Even by the standards of the #Brexit saga so far, it has been a harrowing week. This thread summarises it all. (1/11)
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