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On the First Day of Christmas, no deal Brexit gave to me...
Trading exclusively on WTO terms, like no other country in history.
On the Second Day of Christmas, no deal Brexit gave to me...
The death of the UK car industry, eviscerated by tariffs and the loss of just-in-time production.
On the Third Day of Christmas, no deal Brexit gave to me...
Food rotting in the fields (too few seasonal workers to pick crops) and at ports.
reuters.com/article/us-bri…
On the Fourth Day of Christmas, no deal Brexit gave to me...
Chlorine-washed chicken, GM modified food and hormone-laced beef as a price of a US trade deal.
businessinsider.com/peter-westmaco…
On the Fifth Day of Christmas, no deal Brexit gave to me...
The complete obliteration of the international haulage industry, felled by only having 5% of the required number of permits to keep plying their trade.
On the Sixth Day of Christmas, no deal Brexit gave to me...
The loss of valuable protections on human rights, environmental standards, workers' rights, and a swathe of other issues.
On the Seventh Day of Christmas, no deal Brexit gave to me...
A dramatic acceleration of job losses, investment cuts, and firms moving assets to the EU27 or redomiciling.
On the Eighth Day of Christmas, no deal Brexit gave to me...
Rationing of medicines and pharmaceutical supplies, overseen by central Government.
theglobeandmail.com/world/article-…
On the Ninth Day of Christmas, no deal Brexit gave to me...
The loss of the essential passporting regime underpinning the financial sector, which contributes 11% of the whole of the UK's tax take.
gov.uk/government/pub…
On the Tenth Day of Christmas, no deal Brexit gave to me...
The halting of fresh food exports for up to six months, gutting the farming sector.
freshplaza.com/article/902692…
On the Eleventh Day of Christmas, no deal Brexit gave to me...
Cancelled operations, and widespread NHS staff shortages.
theguardian.com/society/2018/o…
On the Twelfth Day of Christmas, no deal Brexit gave to me...
An endless procession of fact-immune idiots from the ERG and other fringe groups, continuously singing the praises of no deal, evoking the Blitz spirit and the myth of British exceptionalism.
But on the upside...
Nothing has Changed on the Yuletide front.
Santa is Strong and Stable.
No presents are agreed until all presents are agreed.
and, of course...
Christmas Means Christmas.

Ho. Ho. Ho. Have a good one, everybody!
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"Operation Figleaf 2: Electric Boogaloo" takes place on the roads of Kent this morning.

The farce, involving 79 lorries, is meant to simulate no deal Brexit congestion of 10,000.

Because a gathering of friends behaves like a stadiumful of people, right?
theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
The punchline? "The challenge facing the government and Kent county council was evident at dawn as an argument broke out between marshals about where the trucks were supposed to go."

*79* trucks, and they still managed to fluff it.

Give. Me. Strength.
Here's how things panned out, blow by blow (in the "being punched by a boxer" sense)...
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Today, and all this week, you're going to hear a lot of talk about the Government's incredibly amazing 10-year Long Term Plan for the NHS...

... but not a peep about how Brexit will come along and rip its guts out on 29 March, like a lion taking down a gazelle.

#NHSLongTermPlan
If you're in any doubt as to Brexit's ripping power, take a look at this...
And a lot of the money is going to be snatched back very, very directly...
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Just a quick hello and a wave to the 1,000 new people who've followed me over the last 48 hours.🤗

(It's been some weekend. But then, we're heading into the very teeth of the Brexit storm... Hope you've brought your fightin' boots!)
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1. So from the top. A no deal Brexit is devastating to trade. If no deal is what you want then make an honest case for it but please do not pretend trade carries on as normal. It doesn't.

#Brexit thread
2. No deal means the overnight termination of of all formal external relations including FTAs with non EU states. We are instantly classed legally as a third country with no single market participation at all. We move to the outside of third country controls.
3. That means our product certifications are null and void. Goods cannot circulate in the market unless they have gone through the process of authorisation and food of animal origin cannot go through Calais. The full array of controls kick in.
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So @DominicRaab and Brexiteers think a defeat for @theresa_may
on Dec 11 will allow the UK to renegotiate the Irish backstop, specifically the right to leave unilaterally.

Here's why, after chats with both sides, that ain't happening IMO. 1/thread

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/…
@DominicRaab @theresa_may First Raab thinks a PM that shows some "will and resolve" can get the EU to change its mind.

But his own experience must tell him different. Remember his own failed tilt at @simoncoveney demanding three-month exit clause? Fail. /2

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/…
@DominicRaab @theresa_may @simoncoveney But even allowing for disingenuousness, there are 3 reasons why the EU is not bluffing when it says it won't renegotiate the backstop to give the UK a unilateral walkout clause.

1. They actually want to avoid a hard border
2. Political solidarity
3. They don't buy UK bluff /3
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1. The no deal #Brexit advocates are in full spin mode. They say we can trade on WTO terms alone. So anybody with a clue asks them about aviation and nuclear sectors etc where they mutter something about bilateral deals. That's an admission that we cannot trade on WTO rules alone
2. They then pretend we can have an amicable negotiated exit to WTO rules. We can't. This would be a package with all the bilaterals covering aviation and nuclear - there bare minimum to avoid civil emergencies. It would not include any mutual recognition on anything.
3. There is no way the EU would sign such an agreement without the existing agreements on citizens rights, the financial settlement and the NI backstop. There is no rowing back from that. The government would have to agree or there is no deal.
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1. I've noticed that threads debunking the WTO #Brexit option have become something of a cottage industry. They are all the rage these days. It doesn't do any good though because we are not actually dealing with people who respond to facts. We are dealing with a belief system.
2. Certainly it helps to raise awareness among those who are not intellectually subnormal but the people who most need to listen simply won't. They are not thinking it through and they are oblivious to the breadth of EU integration and just how much the EU really does.
3. That's because most of what the EU does is "invisible government". That which you'd never know existed unless it concerned you directly. This ignorance, however, is shared equally among remainers and leavers.
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1. This is going to sound a bit preachy but I'm going to roll with it anyway. The Tory Brexiters have pulled a fast one. They have shifted to goalposts and now propagandists are spinning the narrative that any deal is a betrayal of #Brexit. These people are professional liars.
2. If we had a functioning media the people who say we can rely on WTO rules as a basis for our post-Brexit trade relations would be hauled over the coals by all of the major newspapers because it is not a matter of mere opinion. It is an outright demonstrable lie.
3. But rather than outing liars as indeed our media should, many vessels are actually complicit in the lie. Particularly BrexitCentral, City AM, The Telegraph, the Express and The Spectator. They will give houseroom to liars without flinching. This is what they do now.
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1. I know this is a total waste of breath because Tory tribalists are impervious to details and facts, but I suppose I have to go through the motions anyway. So about those #Brexit tweets from Sir Christopher Meyer regarding the WTO option...
2. He tweeted this...

3. And formerly this...

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