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Andrew Lilico
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A key consequence of forming a customs union with the EU post-Brexit, & hence being unable to do new FTAs with anyone else, is that that prevents us from creating any new geopolitical partnership once we're outside (FTAs are typically the centrepiece of geopolitical partnerships)
I think I now grasp why Corbyn wants a customs union with the EU. He wants to make sure we can't do a trade deal with the US, & he also wants to make sure we don't pursue unilateral free trade.
By forcing through a permanent customs union, Corbyn also hopes to prevent the UK from enhancing its ties with Commonwealth partners, which wld be likely to hv a military dimension (v bad from his pov).
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Andrew Lilico
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It's interesting that I write abt how the constitutional monarchy shld hv intervened, either way, on Cooper-Letwin, & a zillion people tweet at me abt Brexit. This isn't abt Brexit, per se. It's abt our rotting constitution. Remainers shld care abt that as well as Leavers.
Here is me writing on why constitutional monarchy is an ideal system & the reforms to the constitutional monarchy required for it not to atrophy into an undesirable ritual monarchy, in 2002:bowgroup.org/sites/bowgroup…
"Forty years ago, every serious Conservative would have known the arguments for a largely hereditary second chamber. But these arguments were allowed to fall into such disuse, and the constitutional position of the hereditary peers
was allowed to become so decrepit,+
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Andrew Lilico
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Try this. Next time a Remainer says "Why did you hv to try to disturb everything? Why cldn't we just leave things as they were?" ask: "Explain to us about this 'things staying as they were'. How was that supposed to work once deeper €zone integration progressed as planned?"+
The €zone bloc already has a qualified majority. Even now, if it all voted together (as it almost always will in the future when more integrated) it cld set all the EU's rules, overruling the UK every single time, on everything. That's the future. There's no "carry on as now".
So ask them: Explain how we "carry on as now" when now we can get our policies thro & block those we don't like but in the future the €zone will set all the rules & our votes will be totally irrelevant? Our only future inside the EU is one in which we are dominated by the €zone
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Andrew Lilico
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Theresa May told 'you are the problem' by backbenchers furious over Brexit paralysis as they urge her to go for good of the party telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/… via @Telegraph
@Telegraph So, the 1922 told May today that she should step down. When she doesn't, more than 1/2 of Conservative MPs will hv to openly call for her to go tomorrow. This can't wait 'til Wednesday - that's the day she presents her plan to the EU.
@Telegraph Now is the moment of decision, Conservative Party. It's Change or Die. Even changing may not save the party, but not changing = Doom.
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John Locke
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Excellent letter from Liam Fox to Sir Graham Brady setting out the real implications of a Customs Union with the EU post-Brexit. It makes for frightening reading and beggars belief that anyone would understand this and still support it. Thread.
THE RT HON DR LIAM FOX MP {North

HOUSE OF COMMONS
LONDON SWIA 0AA
020 72194198

08 April 2019

Dear Graham

Following my appearance at the 1922 committee on Wednesday last week, I committed to sending a letter setting out the issues around a customs union and
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1/ "Whose Brexit vision is better?" we are sometimes asked - Labour's or the Conservatives? As a cross party organisation we try not to take sides, but we will try to answer as clearly as possible. #brexit
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The link is below, but in the interim, here are some excerpts and some commentary - since, as you'd expect, it gives a shrewd account of where #Brexit is now/1

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