UNICORN MINCER (AKA a compilation of factual threads about Brexit)
Feed all your unicorns into the top of this thread. They'll never make it to the bottom...
Parental advisory: includes graphic scenes of economic carnage, shattered dreams and bubble-bursting.
Happy Halloween!
Feed all your unicorns into the top of this thread. They'll never make it to the bottom...
Parental advisory: includes graphic scenes of economic carnage, shattered dreams and bubble-bursting.
Happy Halloween!
Truth about Brexit, the "no deal" scenario, the EU "punishment" narrative, and the reality of trading on WTO terms.
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!
Brexit and the haulage industry, and how the Government has gone to lengths to hide the true damage a no-deal Brexit will cause.
Relative trade negotiation strength: EU vs UK (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 closer look at trade deals we will lose on Brexit Day
Why Brexit is nothing like Y2K
Why you can't just replace road and sea freight with air freight, no matter how desperate the need...
How the Government's secret plan to hire ships to beat problems at Calais will give unprecedented power to 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 (prominent Brexiteer) is building his new electric cars in Singapore
The majority of businesses are gearing up to execute their no-deal Brexit contingency plans... before Christmas
DEXEU (the Brexit Ministry) has already spent over £100 million on staffing costs, and the trend is rising...
The approach of Brexit is already killing off the #1 source of funding for tech startups
A refresher: How Theresa May saw the UK's relationship with the EU in April 2016, mere months before the referendum...
Why 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 under WTO rules, we'll be stuck with a system in which every single WTO member can exercise a veto over anything we do...
Ladybird books publishes "The Story of Brexit"
The tale of L & R: a Brexit parable...
It could take over a century to register all the EU citizens living in the UK, based on the Home Office beta test of the registration system...
Ireland is moving at speed to help goods traffic bypass the UK with new ferries and shipping routes that will see thousands of trucks a week go direct to continental European ports.
Brexit means bye bye insurance business. Who knew? Brexit Day is 5 months away, but many insurance firms aren't waiting. Instead, they're moving business out of the UK to EU27 destinations...
Once we're out of the EU, we'll also be cut out of the pan-EU transport strategy (which unlocks billions of euro in grants and other funding). Indeed, the EU transport maps will be redrawn (policy-wise, anyway) so that the UK doesn't even appear any more.
One oft-overlooked aspect of the EU is its role in keeping the UK Government on the straight and narrow. It prevents our Government from weakening environmental protections, human rights, food standards etc. This is expanded on in the thread below...
Much of the Government's advice for businesses under a no-deal Brexit scenario involves... reaching deals! Yes, seriously. Many of their plans hinge on there being "side deals" to cover the lack of an all-encompassing deal...
Citizens from the EEA are not yet covered by the UK’s promise of settlement rights for EU citizens.
