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Edwin Hayward
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Commonalities between yesterday's Brady amendment vote and the Brexit referendum:
- Very narrow margin
- Based on false promises of something undeliverable
- Many of those voting didn't appear to understand what they were voting for
- Others were just desperate for change
- Brought together very strange bedfellows
- Was portrayed as an overwhelming victory by much of the media
- Baffled people in the EU, and watching further afield
- Hurt the pound
- Unsettled businesses
- Didn't actually resolve anything
Meanwhile, as Theresa May builds glass houses then gets her loyal troops to kick balls through them, here's the damage Brexit is already wreaking (you can expect the pace to pick up after last night's fiasco):
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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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3) Leave simply would not win if the costs of the #Brexit they promised were revealed honestly in a second referendum. The only way they could win is if these costs were obscured again

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