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Edwin Hayward🦄🏹🗡️
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You may not have much sympathy when you hear about people forced to repay huge sums to HMRC, or facing bankruptcy, because of the "loan charge". But remember:
- under the rules at the time, it was tax avoidance (legal) not evasion (illegal) - that has been changed retroactively.
- A lot of miss-selling went on. Taxation is a complex affair at the best of times, and huge numbers of firms were offering to set up these kinds of arrangements. It's inevitable that some cut corners in explaining the ramifications to their customers.
Anyway, just thought I'd bring it up, because this won't get a lot of mainstream coverage with Brexit shouting "Look at me! Look at me!" all day every day.
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Edwin Hayward🦄🏹🗡️
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I get the feeling most MPs just want Brexit to go away. (You and I know that the argument about our future EU relationship will rage for years, but it may feel less raw and pressing to them.) To that end, they're looking for a way to annoy the least number of people.
That may, unfortunately, turn out to be May's deal. Jeremy Corbyn can try and get a people's vote amendment passed, and fail. That's him off the hook with the membership. And Theresa May will say and do whatever it takes.
As for the Brexit headbangers like the ERG, well May's deal plays into their hands because they can oust her after the deal's done, install one of their own, then pursue slash and burn negotiations with the EU on our future relationship, before turning us into a low tax haven.
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My artistically challenged attempt at explaining what's next in the Brexit process... (reposting from yesterday)
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Important: despise the efforts of the media to portray it otherwise, Theresa May is NOT offering MPs a chance to take no-deal Brexit off the table.

What she is offering is much less useful: a vote on whether to leave under no-deal scenario. If that vote passes, we crash out.
If no-deal vote fails, MPs will be offered a vote to delay Brexit by extending Article 50. That's all. Doesn't take no-deal off the table, but merely postpones it by a few weeks or months. Make no mistake, no-deal will remain the default outcome even after *2* votes against it.
That's why the ERG are sounding remarkably relaxed about the prospect of a Brexit delay (though they're making token protest noises). They know:
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B) EU are unlikely to accept a second extension
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