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Edwin Hayward
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If we get a no deal Brexit, I fully expect the Government to declare martial law. After a few months or years of doing exactly what it wants, with no Parliamentary oversight, and shredders running 24/7, nobody will be able to investigate anything.
The legislation is already in place, and it's been discussed in some quarters in the context of Brexit...
legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/36/…
Can you think of any other way the Tories can avoid the inevitable investigations? Because I can't...
uk.reuters.com/article/uk-bri…
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
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Edwin Hayward
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There's something magic about Brexit and 10% (if we allow a bit of vigorous rounding...)
- 10% of the trade deals we need
- 10% of the haulage permits we need
- 10% of financial assets of the City moved to the EU27
- 10% fall in GDP after a no-deal Brexit
- 10% tariff on cars
Bear in mind that a 10% fall in GDP means a > 10% fall in the total tax take. As incomes and profits drop, HMRC's slice gets less and less. This translates to a return to austerity on steroids.
This effect is multiplied when it comes to the loss of well-paying jobs. Not only a loss of income tax, but an increase in the demands on the public purse in the form of benefits etc.
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Edwin Hayward
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New no deal Brexit guidance for the space sector is stark: "UK-based businesses, academics and researchers will not be able to bid for future work on EU space programmes." Nothing equivocal about that. Bang, that's a massive market gone, just like that.
gov.uk/guidance/the-s…
Interesting how much more blunt the latest publication is than the much longer one published on 13 September 2018. Looks like the Government is tired of beating around the bush.
gov.uk/government/pub…
The UK space sector was estimated at £13.7 billion turnover for 2014/2015 in the pathetically inadequate "sectoral analysis" cobbled together towards the beginning of the Brexit process. It also provides over 38,500 jobs.
parliament.uk/documents/comm…
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Edwin Hayward
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The EU side have described Theresa May's attempts to negotiate with Brussels as a "photo op" and said that she's "pretending to negotiate". We kinda sorta knew that already, but it's one thing to "know" it and another to see it spelled out so baldly.
theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
If you ignore the ludicrous "EU is punishing us" paranoia, this delay is great for the EU side of the negotiations. All it does is make our position weaker & weaker. No deal will hurt them, but their prep is already far more advanced than ours. Plus they're only losing 1 member.
They still have 27 countries in a market of 500 million people, and a stack of trade deals, including with Canada, Japan and Singapore. None of their laws will be changing. We will have trade deals with the Faroe Islands, Chile and Switzerland, plus an almighty legislative mess.
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