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Edwin Hayward
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Boris Johnson doing what he does best this morning: lying so hard you'd expect his tongue to turn blue.

Claims he never made remarks about Turkey joining the EU during the referendum.

Trumpian playbook: state stuff disprovable in 30s, then 🤷🏻‍♂️ independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/2…
telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/1…
And see from about 13m and onwards in this video (there are many other examples, but the point is made)
More proof, though none is needed.
If you're going to nail a coffin shut, might as well ensure it stays shut... Here's one more example of Boris Johnson doing the thing he swore several times today he did not do.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/0…
Since he's channelling Trump, you know what comes next...

In a few hours, days or weeks he'll deny ever saying what he did at the press conference today. Doesn't matter there's video & press coverage of it. It will still be "fake news".

Lamentably predictable. Just you watch...
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Edwin Hayward
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What happens in the following scenario?
A) Theresa May's slightly modified deal passes
B) Theresa May resigns shortly afterwards
C) Brexiter from the ERG becomes PM
D) New PM doesn't do much negotiating during transition period
E) We go over no-deal cliff at end of transition?
Yes, that might have consequences for the NI/Ireland border. But if a Brexiter PM set on a hard Brexit wanted it, is there anything in the WA to prevent it? (We all know by now, I hope, that the Political Declaration is so much toilet paper, because it carries no legal weight.)
In other words, does Theresa May's deal provide adequate binding safeguards against no deal? Because my understanding is that it doesn't. It just delays ND a bit.

And that might explain the recent reports that JRM is preparing to come around to backing TM's deal.
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Edwin Hayward
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This Brexit preparedness notice on existing free trade agreements didn't age well: "In this scenario, the government will seek to bring into force bilateral UK-third country agreements from exit day, or as soon as possible thereafter." gov.uk/government/pub…
What a difference a month makes...
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
Oh, and...
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6…
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Edwin Hayward
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How to understand Theresa May's position...

Imagine someone with the misfortune to be standing on not one, but two land mines. Shift a bit one way, and the one under your other foot goes off, and vice versa. But stay *absolutely still*, and you get to live another day.
That's why her red lines don't shift, and why she calls EU leaders and wastes their time by repeating exactly the same thing as they've heard from her before.

Because any change at all, and the Tory party will split.

So what she needs is a way to be yanked right out of there.
One such yanking mechanism might be a GE.

Another would be an amendment that forces her to behave in a different way. She can't actively court it, but she can quietly hope for it.

But until some external factor comes into play, she's going to stay right there on those mines.
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