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Ian Dunt
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Chris Grayling can't even organise a fucking traffic jam.
I can't actually... It's really quite taxing, even in Brexit land, to fully comprehend the scale of the incompetence here. He just spent £48,950 of taxpayer money on a failed traffic jam.
On a fucking... I can't. I just can't.
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Ian Dunt
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Theresa May sounds completely defeated, running through her speech fast as possible.
Although she always sounds completely dreadful so admittedly it's hard to tell.
Think May has removed the section on Welsh parliament.
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Ian Dunt
@IanDunt
Strongest bit of the letter to Theresa May from Tusk and Juncker. Still nothing like strong enough to do her any good.
It's my reading - maybe wrong - but I take that 2nd par to be suggesting that, as they have said it is supposed to be temporary, an ECJ case on a de-facto permanent backstop could be successful.
That's the closest you'd get to something legal I guess. But I can;t imagine many ERG types being convinced that it was safe because of future ECJ cases.
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Ian Dunt
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Telling that May retreats back to Brexit base: a speech in the highest voting Leave area warning of vote being reversed. She is incapable to reaching out to opponents.
She tried for about two weeks, with the winning argument that she had preserved... security cooperation. And that was it. Now back to the same tribal populist dogfight.
She may be boring and mechanical, but she is also the most divisive prime minister of our lifetime.
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Brexit is the backstop; the backstop is #Brexit.

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@tony_nog
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@tony_nog
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