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Edwin Hayward🦄🏹🗡️
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It may astonish you to discover that the UK Government has badly messed up no-deal Brexit planning, and tried desperately to hide it.

How dare ANY Cabinet-level MP be publicly complacent about no deal! They will have been privy to this inside information. theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
But the real guilt lies squarely on Theresa May's shoulders. She knows we're nowhere near ready. She will have been appraised of the chaos that awaits. Yet she is willing to let the UK sleepwalk over the no-deal Brexit cliff, triggering months of panic and desperate firefighting.
Every clinic and hospital will have to complete a 60-question assessment EVERY SINGLE DAY, with questions like “Are you assured you can maintain urgent cancer treatments until the next daily ‘sitrep’ submission is due?”

I wonder what happens when they say "no"?
What we really need is some good Samaritan MP or civil servant to dump a trove of these documents in the public domain on Wikileaks or similar. Evidence of incompetence this vast should not be hidden behind a veil of secrecy.
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Edwin Hayward🦄🏹🗡️
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Bill Cash was banging on on Sky News about how the UK's still leaving the EU on 29 March. Kept saying "that's the legal position". He's right, at the moment. In domestic law that's still the case.
But the fact he repeated it so much makes me wonder whether the ERG will try and sabotage the SI needed to change the date in domestic law?
For instance (and I am not completely familiar with the dirty tricks they use) could they talk out ie filibuster the SI so that the vote never happens?
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Edwin Hayward🦄🏹🗡️
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Reminder: Theresa May's deal is a hard, no deal Brexit, only with the pain deferred. Why? Because the hardness of Brexit depends on what ends up replacing all the treaties and trade agreements we will lose on Brexit Day. And Theresa May's deal leaves that question wide open.
So the transition period will disguise most (but not all) of the problems that the loss of those treaties will bring. But they'll still be gone. And after transition we will feel the full impact of their loss (hard Brexit) unless they can be replaced during transition.
It didn't have to be that way. We could have plumped for a specific model of a future relationship already (eg Norway+) and just finished the fine detail during transition. Instead, Theresa May has carefully chosen ambiguity to try to minimise the split within her party.
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How *surprised* would you be if Brexit gets completely cancelled?
(Note: I'm not trying to gauge what you would *like* to happen, but what your reaction would be if it were cancelled.)
Personally I'd be v surprised, because we've had nothing good come of Brexit in over 1,000 days, and everything always seems to go the most wrong it could be.
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