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Edwin Hayward🦄🏹🗡️
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Today's news about UK pallets not meeting the required standards after a no-deal Brexit, presented as coming as a "surprise", was actually known in September 2018. Here's is a snapshot of the Google search results to prove that... It links to this document
data.parliament.uk/DepositedPaper…
So clearly Defra has done a genuinely appalling job of conveying that information to industry, because they're now having to scramble and hold emergency meetings about a matter that was explicitly known 5 months ago!
It is true that the later guidance document is much more recent, but the detail of the problem with the pallets was already known even before the information was tidied up and put in its new form.
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Edwin Hayward🦄🏹🗡️
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687 hours until Brexit (less than 30 days!)
We still don't know:
A) If Brexit will happen on 29 March
B) If we will have a deal
C) If the Labour party will survive
D) If the Tory party will survive
E) How to stop (not delay) no-deal
F) Whether necessary SIs can be passed in time
G) Whether the EU will allow an A50 extension
H) Whether we have to take part in the European elections in May
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I) What the ERG are thinking?!?
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Edwin Hayward🦄🏹🗡️
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So, these 20 fine people voted against Yvette Cooper's amendment, which exactly mirrored Theresa May's own pledge yesterday. The stormtroopers of the ERG emerge...
Another 88 abstensions too, mainly ERG types. Theresa May's far from out of the woods.
So that's just over a hundred country-wreckers we have to contend with. Not a huge force compared to 650 MPs, but a big chunk of the Tory Party. We can expect them to keep pulling Theresa May's strings like the puppet she is.
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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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