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Edwin Hayward
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🚨HOC has just voted for Theresa May to go back to Brussels, stamp her foot, and shout: "Give us Brexit unicorns. We *demand* unicorns!" by supporting the Brady amendment that tears up the essential (and long-agreed) Irish border backstop. It passed by 317!votes to 301. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️
Reminder: the EU, Juncker and Macron have all pre-emptively turned this down already.
All I can say is, I hope you like your trousers in brown.
Also, watch the front pages, because I would expect companies to pick up the pace of executing on their Brexit contingency plans.
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Edwin Hayward
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Brexit already doing massive harm to the UK. Over 200 examples of job losses, lost investment, police & army prepping, companies moving assets to the EU or redomiciling. Meanwhile, the Government burns through £billions chasing a nutty no deal Brexit. Real life, not project fear!
The Government has spent £4.2 billion pounds on Brexit preparations (£2.2 billion in previous Budgets, plus an additional £2 billion in the most recent Budget.) 1/205
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EU citizens will be obliged to register to stay in the UK after Brexit (deadline is June 2021). The registration system, which cost the Government £175 million, will have to cope with over 3,500,000 applications, or several thousand a day on average. 2/205
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Edwin Hayward
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Calling all Remainers...
Next time you're about to argue on Twitter, check the profile of the person you're responding to first. There's a huge chance they're a bot (established profile, huge number of tweets, very low follower count)... If so, don't reply - BLOCK!
If you engage instead of blocking then:
A) You're wasting your time. Guaranteed.
B) You're legitimising their contribution in the eyes of someone coming to the thread later.
Note: some bots are human. They're not sophisticated AI. But they're being paid to hammer home a specific point of view. Much like click farms, there are also comment farms: rooms stuffed with people stirring up trouble as a living, often in cheap offshore jurisdictions.
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Edwin Hayward
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The Government claims to be doing a lot of things to prepare for Brexit (and has £4.2 billion to spaff around). But as Brexit Day gets closer, it's more and more clear its core plan consists of *telling others* (supermarkets, pharmaceutical firms etc.) to stockpile.
For instance, in a written answer a couple of days ago, the Government admitted it has not itself purchased *any* medicines as a Brexit contingency.

In other words, when things go wrong they'll sit back and say "Nothing to do with us - we told them to be ready!"
If that's the case, where's the money going? Most of it is likely to be vanishing into salaries and overheads, given there are over 10,000 civil servants working exclusively on Brexit. And then there's ferry contracts, feasibility studies for a Galileo replacement, etc.
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So in a #Brexit nutshell.

The 230 vote defeat confronts us with the fact that the problem is bigger than the backstop or time-limits.

It is a brutal rejection of May's strategy of obfuscation.

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So here's my last #Brexit thread of the year.

If you saw Theresa May's message today you'll see that all she has is bland platitudes. She's totally disconnected and out of her depth. She doesn't understand Brexit or the sentiment behind it & has no idea what direction to take.
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Vote Leave hijacked Brexit, telling lies when there was no need. The Tory right have since made it an economic proposition based on a feeble command of the issues making bogus claims which do not stand, drawing red lines that will have to be crossed.
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