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Draft Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, as agreed at negotiators' level on 14 November 2018 | European Commission ec.europa.eu/commission/fil…
EU and Uk will seek to build “a single customs territory”
“Single Customs Territory” between UK and EU until future relationship... this is the backstop.
No resignations so far, but split verdict in Cabinet
Doesn’t look like anyone has quit - some Cabinet allies using word “yet” - Raab definitely still Brexit Secretary
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EU sources say there will be “no summit” and there are “no actual talks”, some discussions on reassurances. Another diplomatic source tells me even those will not come before the vote next week. /1
Still not entirely sure whether the Meaningful Vote debate that resumes tomorrow will be the continuation of the one curtailed last month or a new one. Former more likely. Would have to make special provision for previous speakers to speak again /2
Tory MPs who attended the Downing St drinks were expecting a bit of a rousing unity speech from PM - surprised there wasn’t one at all even “none of you will be back here” type cajoling. On the way out none I spoke to had changed mind.
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22 Tory MPs including PPSs, trade envoys, grandees among 209 MPs signing joint cross party letter from Caroline Spelman/Jack Dromey “must not crash out of EU without a deal. We urge the Government to agree a mechanism that would ensure a ‘No Deal’ Brexit could not take place”
... Tory 22 include Spelman, Boles, Soames, Letwin, Vaizey, Keegan, ex Trade Minister Garnier, Trade Envoy R Graham... more than enough rebels to win vote. As opposing No Deal is manifesto policy of Labour, LDs, Plaid, SNP and Greens it seems highly likely there’s a Commons maj..
At this stage the 209 MPs are
162 Labour,
22 Tory,
18 SNP,
5 Lib Dem
and 4 Plaid.

“we had to send a clear message tomorrow before a fortnight of key debates commencing on Tuesday with the Finance Bill” said one signatory.
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Ramsgate port approach now being dredged (NB by a Dutch dredger) in preparation for the potential taxpayer-funded ferry service to Ostend as a part alternative to anticipated No Deal Brexit blockages on the main Dover-Calais / Channel Tunnel routes
Meanwhile the first stages of “Operation Fennel” which we reported last month are now taking place - @TomBoadle has obtained this DfT letter about live testing Manston Airport Monday as another lorry park, in addition to 13 miles of M20 AND the M26 for No Deal Brexit disruption
Here is Operation Fennel - storing 10,000 cross channel lorries - the 5000 headed for Dover Port at Manston and 2000 For Eurotunnel on the M20 with a further 2000 on the M26 and then potentially stage 5 is for storage outside of Kent, if all that gets full...
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Oh, Wait,, It is the Symbol of the Holy Roman Empires , So , that must mean,,, they still exist !

The Holy Roman Empire Still Exists.
This is the Proof.
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Outline of the Brexit deal, assuming there is one:

1/

“It would see the EU agreeing to write into the legally-binding withdrawal agreement the outline of a bare-bones customs union covering the whole of the UK.”

irishtimes.com/opinion/if-the…
2/ “...agreement would still include a Northern Ireland-specific backstop that would require compliance with the full EU customs code and regulations on goods and agri-food products. The UK-wide version would see Britain applying same tariffs as EU on imports from outside Europe”
3/
“The proposal would mean that there would be no customs barrier in the Irish Sea, remaining within the red line restated by May’s official spokeswoman on Friday that Northern Ireland must not be in a separate customs territory to the rest of the UK.”
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Thread on the backstop and why it may be more feasible than thought before.
With Chequers dead, it's clear now UK must choose between
-No deal (economic suicide)
-Remain in EU (tories would sooner drop dead)
-Backstop (special arrangement for N Ireland)
-Stay in SM/CU 1/
I'd love to have Remain or Stay in SM and CU. But let's look a bit more closely at the backstop option. A timely reminder that the Cabinet has AGREED to the backstop. It is necessary for the Good Friday Agreement 2/
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
The backstop is not, as the DUP wants us to believe, a first step towards Northern Irish unification. Rather it's a N Ireland specific solution to keep N Ireland in SM and CU until a better solution is found. See here for explainer video: 3/
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I’ve actually spent too much time over the last year correcting people who say the U.K. when they mean Britain or England. Researchers, charities, normal people etc interchange it all the time but it’s just further erasure of people in the north.

Some examples to follow:
‘Irish women travel to the U.K. for abortions’ - no Irish women travel to Britain for abortions and that distinction is important - I’ve had to correct many Irish people on this too.
‘We did a survey of migrants in the U.K. and found X’- no you didn’t, and research on ‘the UK’ rarely includes experiences in the north and at any rate the differences between the regions are huge but you still aren’t including it.
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Wildlife we don't have in the UK but that keeps turning up in US written books set in the UK:

Skunks
Blue jays
Vultures
Bears
Wolves
Raccoons
Wrong deer
Wrong badger
Wrong fox
Wrong otter
Muskrat
Any wild dog
Any wild cat but wildcats
Rabies

We have 3 lizards and 3 sneks.
The UK's largest predators are the european badger which mostly eats worms and the red fox which mostly eats bins.

Our buzzards aren't vultures and none of our insects are dangerous though midges are annoying af.

Pet cats roam everywhere because nothing eats them.
I remember reading Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and they had a skunk pass by and that was my jump off point.

I can accept Austen era zombies but skunks in England is too far 😂
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Against backdrop of Windrush and debate around “hostile environment” powers an important amendment (38, 45 and 55) to EU Withdrawal Bill will be tabled this afternoon from Baroness Kennedy that again raises spectre of racial profiling and border controls
Much of the focus of the debate on the Irish land border (and also on movement between NI and the rest of the UK) has focused on the freedom of movement of goods rather than the freedom of movement of people NI. See CAJ Briefing bit.ly/2vMahcp
Amendments 38, 45 and 57 tabled by Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws would preclude any amendments to provisions in the 1971 Immigration Act that prevent passport control in the Common Travel Area
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