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Fionna O'Leary #FBPE #BrexitBetraysBritain @fascinatorfun
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Brexit ‘bad or awful’ for UK prospects in 2019, say 80 economists

ft.com/content/5a9076… via @financialtimes
And some excerpts from an aligned article suggesting that economist forecasts for 2018 have been pretty accurate.
Full figures for 2018 shan’t be available until February but are expected to reflect forecasts.

ft.com/content/65c318…
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YouGov, 25,000 sample 21/12/18-4/1/18.

Remain v May’s WA, Remain leads by 26 points: 63% to 37%.

Remain v No deal
Remain 16% lead. 58% to 42%.

WRITE TO YOUR MP. THAT POLL IS HUGE. theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
when voters are asked how they would vote if Labour failed to resist Brexit, the Conservatives open up a 17-point lead (43% to 26%) - an even worse result than in Margaret Thatcher’s landslide victory in 1983, when Labour slumped to 209 seats, its worst result since the 1930s.
“The key reason for this is that, if Labour is seen to facilitate Brexit in any form, YouGov’s results indicate that the party would be deserted by millions of Remain voters – without gaining any extra support from Leave voters.”
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@cathynewman @Channel4News For those wondering here are 7 of the companies Ben (John) Sharp has been recorded as Director.

1) Polaris marine Recruitment Ltd (Director only for 1 M. Company dissolved after 16 months
2). Mercator International Ltd (compulsory wound up 2016 . Plaintiff HMRC!!!
@cathynewman @Channel4News 3) Mercator Ship Chartering Ltd. (Compulsory Wind up in Jan 2016 ...Plaintiff HMRC.

4) Mercator Platforms Ltd. (Dissolved after 2.5yrs operating in Nov 2015)

5)Albany Shipping Ltd. (Still operating . In debt).
@cathynewman @Channel4News 6) Agile Shipping International Ltd. (Yup. You guessed. Dissolved 8 months after incorporation on 28.11.2017)

7). Seaborne Freight (UK) Ltd. Incorporated April 2017..
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Nov‘18 Sir Craig readmitted Russia to International competitions saying

“I find it very hard to believe,” he found it very hard to believe, “that the guarantees, made to us by the Russian authorities, that they won’t deliver.”

He’d better believe it! theguardian.com/sport/2019/jan…
2/. I am reminded, again of the tale of the Scorpion and the Frog...

“Why did you sting me?” asked the frog.

“Because it is in my nature” replied the Scorpion.
Some terrific caustic lines in this piece.

“I can’t believe that former 1960s badminton starlet Craig Reedie has had his arse handed to him yet again by former KGB colonel Vladimir Putin. Honestly, what are the chances? Also, how many arses does Craig have?“
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Services: 80% of UK economy (architecture, management consulting, legal, creative etc) & big services surplus UK runs with RoW & EU. So why does Govt want to damage economy in #Brexit plan being discussed by cabinet today (focusing on goods only?) ft.com/content/2ce78f… via @FT
And anyway services get bundled in today's global value chains for high-value high-tech goods (c. Aircraft engines & their maintenance) which is what UK government is supposed to be promoting via its (mysterious) industrial policy announced back in 2016.
If you wanted a better trade & industrial policy for UK (which is desirable to create high-paying jobs via higher productivity) you wouldn't put it together in the way that #Brexit is taking us (raising barriers to trading with UK's big EU markets).
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UK NI 'backstop' proposal problematic on many levels - a short thread.
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 ft.com/content/8834c2… via @financialtimes
According to the FT: “Under the proposal, if technology for a new customs arrangement is not ready by the end of the post-Brexit transition period in January 2021, the entire UK will continue to apply the EU’s common external tariff.” 2.
But NI wd need to stay aligned w EU regulations too - & either UK as a whole too (but EU unlikely to agree) or else accept a border in the Irish Sea. 3.
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The Brexiteers are correct: if UK doesn't leave the customs union - enabling it to make its own trade deals - then there is no real #Brexit
(Trouble is: leaving CU will damage UK prosperity, jobs & Ireland. Is this the "will of the people"?).
And here is a succinct summary of the Government's customs union conundrum (of its own making) @SebastianEPayne ft.com/content/d07b5c… via @financialtimes #Brexit
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We need to talk about Eeyore:
Brexiteers keep describing people who are gloomy about #Brexit as Eeyores. Philip Hammond has been described as such ft.com/content/1315f6…
.@BorisJohnson has described my own employer's coverage of #Brexit as "making Eeyore look positively exuberant": ft.com/content/a1180a…
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