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Edwin Hayward🦄🏹🗡️
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The UK's new no-deal Brexit tariff regime will impose a crippling 22% tariff on imported HGVs. Adds £15,000 to the cost of an average vehicle - an amount that the haulage industry says it will be incapable of absorbing.
cittimagazine.co.uk/22pc-hgv-tarif…
This isn't scaremongering. This isn't Project Fear. 22% is the tariff the UK Government has officially announced it will be levying. You can find it on the list of post-Brexit tariffs on the Government website.
gov.uk/government/pub…
To put it into context, there are between 40,000-50,000 new vehicles purchased a year that fit into the weight class affected by the new 22% tariff. (Not all them will have been imported from the EU, of course, but a lot will.)
motortransport.co.uk/wp-content/upl…
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Edwin Hayward🦄🏹🗡️
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If this is true, it's a whole new chapter to the Brexit pantomime of the absurd. Also proof positive that the Government has abandoned even the pretense of playing by the conventions of Parliament.

MPs take note: Theresa May *will* sabotage your amendments if humanly possible.
This could backfire extraordinarily badly. Some MPs, already minded to vote against MV3 because the prospect of a long extension is tantalisingly close, may be outraged by this naked attempt to subvert the centuries-old functioning of Parliament, hardening resolve against MV3.
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Edwin Hayward🦄🏹🗡️
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So the net result of John Bercow's ruling drawing on precedent going back to 1604 is that Theresa May's undead Meaningful Vote has finally had garlic chucked at it and a stake through the heart... "MV3: The Unnecessary Sequel" drops off the Brexit production schedule. Or does it?
Actually, there are a whole bunch of things the Government could still do if she insists on having another crack, come what may.
1. CTRL-ALT-DEL to Parliament: prorogue this session, and start a new one. Would kill a ton of work-in-progress bills and be super controversial.
2. Put forward a motion saying that the HOC agrees to ignore its own process for the span of MV3. But that would need a majority to pass, and why would it get one if MV3 doesn't have one?
3. Get changes from the EU. (I am leaving this here for completeness.)
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Edwin Hayward🦄🏹🗡️
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Urgent Question just beginning in the HOC on the procedure applicable to the Article 50 extension.
Justine Greening quite rightly calls out the Brexit Secretary for having closed the debate about extending Article 50 and then immediately voting against the motion.
In response, the Brexit Minister Kwasi Kwarteng says that he also voted the same way as the Brexit Secretary. Much backbench muttering ensured.

(Everyone knows the best way to extinguish a fire is with a big bucket of petrol.)
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#Brexit: ricapitoliamo.

1) La Camera dei Comuni incarica Theresa May di rinegoziare il backstop per evitare il ritorno della frontiera fisica tra Irlanda e Irlanda Nord.

Cioè quello che May ha cercato di fare a dicembre e inizio gennaio ottenendo una lettera Ue di chiarimenti
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Come già detto a dicembre l’accordo di ritiro, backstop incluso, non si può rinegoziare.
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#Brexit: martedì potrebbe iniziare l'uscita di Uk senza accordo.

Tutti i governi Ue si stanno preparando con avvertimenti a cittadini, amministrazioni, imprese. Alcuni assumono migliaia di persone per le dogane.

Forse mi son perso qualcosa. Ma il governo italiano che fa?
Facciamo un esempio: in Italia risiedono 28.168 cittadini britannici.

Dopo la Brexit diventeranno extra-comunitari. Cosa ne facciamo in caso di no-deal? Tutti espulsi con foglio di via il 30 marzo?

Oppure li facciamo votare alle elezioni comunali come ora?
Un alto esempio banalotto: l'Italia esporta 760 milioni di euro di vino, di cui 300 milioni di prosecco.

In caso di no-deal servono doganieri per le pratiche di esportazione. E chi glielo dice ai trevigiani che devono prendersi un broker a Dover per sdoganare?
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As the UK pores over the government's no-deal notices, let's have a look at how all of this is seen on the EU side.

Running thread (👇) on reactions & commentary from EU media, industry groups, politicians, etc.
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Writes that Theresa May uses "fear as a weapon", also against opponents within her own party.
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Also Austrian daily @derStandardat writes that the UK government “has recognised that such a [no-deal] scenario can help her to exert pressure on the EU.”

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