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BREXIT DREAM SHREDDER (AKA a compilation of factual threads about Brexit)
Simply toss all unicorns into the top of this thread. They'll never make it to the bottom intact...

Advisory: includes graphic scenes of economic carnage, and frequent bubble-bursting. Happy Halloween!🎃
The unvarnished truth about Brexit, the "no deal" scenario, the EU "punishment" narrative, and the reality of trading on WTO terms. Includes full supporting sources.
A detailed overview of how every Brexit scenario will hurt the UK economically, with the North East, the West Midlands, the North West and Wales bearing the brunt of the damage.
An "open letter" to MPs about Brexit. Summary: Brexit changes everything. You can forget ending austerity, funding the NHS, reversing cuts to the police force, etc. There is only ONE challenge over the next few months: Brexit!
How Brexit risks gutting the haulage industry, and how the Government has gone to lengths to deliberately conceal the true damage a no-deal Brexit will cause.
Relative trade negotiation strength: EU vs UK, aka the shark and the minnow (summary: our situation isn't pretty!)
Brexit and the car industry: consistent, across-the-board warnings about the dangers of Brexit from CEOs and other senior figures.
10 Key Brexit Facts
A close-up view of the trade deals we will lose on Brexit Day
Roasting an old chestnut: why Brexit is NOTHING like Y2K...
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Doesn't really matter, since neither's likely to be carrying the food and medicine we need after a no-deal Brexit. AKA why you can't just replace road and sea freight with air freight, no matter how much you might wish to...
How the Government's secret plan to hire ships to beat problems at Calais will give unprecedented power to a new army of pen-pushing officials...
Clearing up a frequent misconception: extending the transition period post-Brexit will NOT delay our departure from the EU...
Why James Dyson (businessman darling of the Brexiteer) is building his new electric cars in Singapore
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas... The majority of businesses are gearing up to execute their no-deal Brexit contingency plans before the year-end.
DEXEU (the Brexit Ministry) has already spent over £100 million on staffing costs, and the trend is rising...
Brexit is killing off the #1 source of funding for tech startups
Ah, the nostalgia: How Theresa May REALLY saw the UK's relationship with the EU in April 2016, mere months before the referendum...
How the whole notion of a "no deal Brexit" is a recent invention...
How the predictions in the leaflet circulated by Government to all households in advance of the Brexit referendum are turning out to be remarkably prophetic...
If we trade solely under WTO rules, we'll be stuck with a system in which every single WTO member - large, small or microscopic - can exercise a veto over anything we do...
Ladybird books publishes "The Story of Brexit"
The tale of L & R: a Brexit parable...
What should be on the ballot in the case of a hypothetical second referendum, or People's Vote, and why "no deal" shouldn't be one of the options...
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This is a radio ad the Government has started running as part of its no deal Brexit preparations...

It directs people to a nice website with warm and fuzzy graphics...

And as soon as you go deeper, you're thrown into the opaque preparedness notices.
euexit.campaign.gov.uk
That's like flying a sky banner saying "Roll up. Learn the secrets of the Universe" then handing people a copy of Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time".

Utterly, utterly bonkers. And as much use as a bun at a bear fight.
(If you missed the link to the "helpful" website further up this thread, here it is again...)

euexit.campaign.gov.uk
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A few thoughts on alternatives to Brexit...
- Bring in proportional representation
- Cancel HS2 and spend the tens of £billions on improving *regional* rail and other transport links
- Turn the HOL into an entirely elected second chamber (its oversight function is useful)
- Recognise the merit of a booming economy in London and the SE. Celebrate it and nurture it. Then milk the cash cow and spread that delicious cream across the whole of the UK.
- Foster an entrepreneurial mentality that rewards a "British Dream" (parallels to the American Dream)
- End the culture of secrecy in Government, except in cases of genuine national security. Transparency and accountability at every level. Shine a bright light into the darkest corners.
- Set up a "regional sifting committee" to vet all large infrastructure projects to ensure that
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Government is trying to foist the blame for any Brexit chaos in the adult social care sector off on local authorities and directors of adult social care facilities. This from the letter sent to them on 21 December last year... (Full letter at link below.)
gov.uk/government/pub…
More from the letter:
" Many of these issues will have either a direct or indirect impact on councils and it is also possible that they will have a financial consequence for providers."
More from the letter (doubling down on the "legal" bit):
"I encourage you to work closely with your adult social care providers, in line with your legal market shaping duties, to assure yourself that any impact on providers can be managed locally."
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1. #Brexit was never an economic proposition but that doesn't mean we can simply disregard the economic concerns. They are both real and urgent. Our future trade and geostrategic position matters - and for Brexit to be workable long term we need to be mindful of that.
2. On that score we need to start from a position of relative strength - which we won't if we leave without a deal. We'll be taking a hit of anywhere up to 200bn a year in trade by way of losing critical single market participation. That's a substantially weaker starting position
3. Much of our trade is interwoven. It's not a matter of shipping a tin of beans from point A to point B. Complex products are only worth selling if you can sell the service contracts that go with them - and that means being able to dispatch engineers.
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I am sick of hearing warnings about how if #Brexit is cancelled it will result in violence and therefore we should go ahead with brexit through fear of racists
A lot of this comes from the right who know their project #Brexit is falling apart but whoever now expects anything better or indeed anything good at all from them. It's when you hear it from left wingers it really angers me
People who are receptive to the idea that immigrants have taken the jobs or depressed wages or pushed up housing costs or stretched public services often have genuine grievances in employment housing or access to health and education which are ignored
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The #Brexit rant 👇
1) In 2015 Cameron went to EU for reform.
I said, if he returns with something tangible, I'd support his choice on EURef (Remain, turns out).
EU sent him home with his tail between his legs & made me a hardened #Brexit supporter, when I saw them humiliate him.
2) Cameron was a giant amongst mere clowns, but they still disrespected him.
He stands above every one of them, as the leader who steered his nation best through the choppy waters of the 2008 economic crash.
They had no RIGHT to humiliate the man.
3) Ever since then, EU has been arrogant & constantly felt entitled to humliliate our PM.
I've gone from being willing to listen & possibly Remain, to wanting out on whatever terms necessary.
WTO is my benchmark, I'll accept a reasonable deal, but no half-way measures at all.
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Right. I'm ready to call it! The UK government is aiming for the #Brexit negotiations to lead to:

- A Norway deal
- A 'Norway' v '#Remain' referendum.

I'll show my working below!

#stopbrexit #peoplesvote
Why Norway?

Well, the answer to that lies on the island of #Ireland. Due to the GFA, there are not many ways of squaring the circle of having the hard border that is required by the WTO, Northern Ireland remaining in the UK and the UK being outside the customs union.
So the options faced by HMG are:

1 - call a border poll and let Northern Ireland and the Republic reunite as a single entity. While the Conservatives are nominally the Conservative & Unionist Party, there are many who would not share a tear at the loss of NI....
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UK is heading for #Brexit In Name Only. And maybe the slow, spasmodic death of British nationalism. Thread.
I’ve never believed UK & EU would agree terms on a new - indefinite - relationship. There’s a chasm between EU’s position & UK rhetoric 2/
Conservative Party backed EU for 50 years. Most grandees, funders and MPs still believe UK would do very badly if it left SM. Financial Times & Treasury agree 3/
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THREAD (1) When the likes of Hannan feel the need to 'brush off' something so critical to the right-wing/neo-con #Brexit wet dream, we find digging a little deeper to be useful. After all, ground breaking 'shadow trade deals' with right-wing US think tanks is no small fish.
(2) In fact, given the growing negativity surrounding the #Brexit negotiations, compounded by the Govts' own damning economic analysis, one would have thought Hannan and Fox et al, would be shouting from the roof tops about their bespoke 'shadow US-UK trade deal.' Wouldn't you?
(3) The problem for our intrepid trade deal making duo, as almost always, is to be found in the detail; just what are, and who is, behind these neo-con US think tanks? Perhaps Daniel would enlighten us?
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