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BOMBARDIER & BREXIT: FOLLOW THE BREADCRUMBS...

2 October 2017
James Brokenshire emphasizes the importance of Bombardier jobs to the Northern Ireland economy.
gov.uk/government/new…
17 October 2017
Airbus takes a majority stake in the Bombardier C-series aircraft (the one produced in Belfast)
theguardian.com/business/nils-…
17 October 2017
James Brokenshire welcomes the announcement that Airbus is taking a stake in Bombardier's C-Series (aircraft produced in NI)
gov.uk/government/new…
6 December 2017
Bombardier comes out against any form of Brexit that would result in a border in the Irish Sea.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
9 March 2018
The Department for International Trade announced that UK export financing (UKEF) is being made available to support the sale of Bombardier aircraft to Korean Airlines.
gov.uk/government/new…
19 March 2018
A House of Commons report warns that Brexit could have a devastating effect on the aerospace industry.
cnbc.com/2018/03/19/bre…
25 July 2018
Chancellor announces £12 million in new funding for Bombardier, to help secure long-term manufacturing jobs in Belfast.
gov.uk/government/new…
6 August 2018
Bombardier warns that stockpiling against the prospect of a no-deal Brexit would cost the company up to £30 million, and emphasizes that represented cash it didn't have.
southwalesargus.co.uk/news/national/…
29 November 2018
Michael Ryan, head of Bombardier's Belfast plant, goes on the record to state that Theresa May's Brexit plan is something the company could live with, and infinitely preferable to no-deal.
thenational.ae/business/econo…
17 December 2018
Bombardier amongst 200 aerospace manufacturers who have applied to change regulatory jurisdiction to other EU countries to prepare for Brexit.
theguardian.com/business/2018/…
24 January 2019
Bombardier warn again of the consequences of a no-deal Brexit, and of the dangers of uncertainty. "This continued uncertainty, and the real prospect of leaving the EU with no deal, does not help with business planning."
msn.com/en-ca/money/to…
24 January 2019
Airbus (majority stakeholder in Bombardier in NI) warn that a no-deal Brexit would put the future of Bombardier at risk.
cbc.ca/news/business/…
March 2019
Report claims Bombardier lobbied the DUP to back Theresa May's Brexit deal.
newsletter.co.uk/business/bomba…
10 March 2019
Bombardier among signatories of a letter warning of the dangers of a no-deal Brexit, and that "The uncertainty linked with Brexit has additionally contributed to significant skill and labour shortages".
irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/i…
2 May 2019
Bombardier announces it is seeking a buyer for its operations in Northern Ireland, potentially affecting 4,000 jobs.
ft.com/content/7db6d1…
But of course we can now expect Government ministers and Brexiters to claim that today's news came as a surprise, a total bolt from the blue, and has nothing whatsoever to do with Brexit. And reality can go hang...
That, despite the fact that the Government have been offering funding and encouragement for years, and the HOC had warned the company was at risk due to Brexit.
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Edwin Hayward🦄🏹🗡️
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At this point, Andrew Adonis is like a vegetarian working in an abattoir. His Twitter feed is full of lofty talk of Remain and he talks the same strong game in public - but he continues to shackle himself to a Labour party that absolutely does not share his views. @Andrew_Adonis
There used not to be any alternative, but now there definitely is. So there's no excuse to stick with a party that explicitly holds value contrary to his own. Same goes for all the other principled pro-Remain Labour politicians. At the end of the day, the party sets policy.
So yes, top marks in the "principles" column. But a big fat zero in the "turning principles into reality" one.
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Edwin Hayward🦄🏹🗡️
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Newsnight and all the newspaper review shows on Sky and BBC this evening largely discredited the LibDem surge as a protest vote, focusing a lot on how Brexit voters didn't have a "real Brexit" option to vote on while ignoring the message of a massive surge to pro-Remain parties.
This plays right alongside the "plague on both their houses" narrative, and of course the notion that the local election result meant "get on with Brexit". The best antidote: a crushing turnout for Remain (by the usual apathetic European election standards) on 23 May!
That's of course if May and Corbyn don't stitch up a Brexit deal before then, figuring that the fallout from Brexit is the lesser of two evils when the alternative is both their parties being ripped apart by conflicting Brexit stances within their own ranks.
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Edwin Hayward🦄🏹🗡️
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Very very very early local election take, before I get some sleep (this could all be nonsense in a few hours, so take with a Mt Everest of salt please!)
- Tories aren't doing *that* badly because in many areas they're the "hardest" Brexit party there is (no local UKIP candidate)
- Greens and Liberal Democrats seeing some fab numbers 🤗
- Labour discovering that when you sit on the fence and attempt to please everyone in a *highly* polarised situation, you please nobody at all. So they're suffering at the hands of voters putting Brexit over local issues.
Overall, a good way for the pro-Remain forces to kick off an intense 3 weeks running up to the European elections.

And with that, good night!
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Dr Anna Jerzewska
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Since the CU option lost #indicativevotes by the smallest margin, a short one on customs unions and borders including the NI border /1
CUs don’t remove the need for customs formalities. They can facilitate and streamline but not necessarily. This is normal as in order to use preferential tariffs under an FTA or CU you normally need to jump through more hoops than when paying full rates. /2
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When all the #Brexit chat is about parliamentary shenanigans it’s easy to forget that these decisions will have real-world impacts, including a potential #nodeal… here’s a quick look at where #nodeal planning currently stands:
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Peter Foster
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The #Brexit tunnellers are tunnelling in pursuit of that elusive crock of gold - a deal.

What are they trying to finesse? How are they trying to close a deal? Here's what I know after chats with both sides. 1/Thread
As we all know, "it's the backstop, stupid" that is the problem.

But more specifically, how long the backstop lasts, and whether the UK can ever leave it.

This is the crux of the matter. /2
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So not a promise to do this in the future, but an operable text that requires no subsequent additions to function. /3
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"#Brexit and EU agencies", our extensive look into third country relationships of the 36 EU agencies and how the UK might fit in.

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But they are important for single market, but also justice and home affairs.

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Lesley Miller
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#Brexit 1
Cadbury moved factory 2 Poland 2011 with EU grant.
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Jon Worth
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Having been accused of “No attempt at serious analysis” of David Davis’s speech yesterday, let’s do some then, shall we.

A little thread.

1/11
The headline quote from the speech - trailed by the UK Government *before* it was delivered - was to not “putting politics above prosperity”.

To even choose such a line is odd. The UK Brexit referendum was a vote to do *precisely* that.

2/11
Whether right to put politics above prosperity is every individual’s call to make, but it is pretty hard to say the economic case won the referendum.

But to make that the centre piece of a speech to an intelligent audience in Germany is embarrassing.

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