Pro-Brexit parties (2019 definition) improved their vote share by 5.2% over 2014. Pro-Remain parties improved their vote share by 24%+ (Scottish Green data to come) Tories and Labour both got almost equally crushed. #RemainSurge#EUElectionResults2019#EUElectionResults
Takeaways...
- BP got largest vote share, was rewarded with most MEPs.
- We're more polarised as a country than ever.
- Elections did not give Hard Brexit a "mandate".
- Elections did not demonstrate a burning desire to "get on with Brexit".
- Labour's dead if they don't change.
- There's no "middle" between Brexit and Remain. Those pushing for a Hard Brexit will never ever compromise. As a result, Remain won't either. Which comes back to my previous point about Labour.
- Tory MPs running for leader on "no deal" platform are bickering over 35% of vote.
Inland border checks are going to be off the scale bonkers. A failure of implementation only a Tory government could dream up.
1) Enter the UK. 2) Drive 22 miles to get checked. 3) If found dodgy, drive 22 miles back and meekly leave the UK.
Gaping holes ripe for exploitation.
Why does it matter? The article helpfully explains:
"The EU carries out strict controls on all goods coming into the bloc, but exerts a lower degree of control on goods transiting, for example from outside the EU to the UK." archive.ph/2024.04.27-071…
And what happens when the checks at the inland border take several hours and the drivers run out of legal driving time that day? Are there huge lorry parks in the area where they can stop and rest for the legally required amount of time, while their loads wilt or rot in the back?
The Tories have published their new definition of extremism. It includes 3 components.
It is well worth reading the full definition of each of the components (reproduced later in this thread) because they're extremely sweeping. gov.uk/government/pub…
Wonder how advocating to leave the ECHR (and indeed agitating to hold a referendum on doing so) squares with this?
After all, doing so would unquestionably strip us of numerous legal protections.
"And we have secured the most comprehensive deal that the EU has ever agreed to in its history."
Er, no. That would be their EU membership offering.
Our own trade deal with them is a mouse fart in a hurricane by comparison.
Let's take a random lie as an example: "Within the EU, the UK would not have been able to cut VAT on the installations of solar panels, heat pumps and insulation to zero"
In case you missed it, today we've had the Daily Mail, Telegraph and Express all soiling themselves with glee at a report showing that trade since Brexit has been going well.
Only snag is, the report (by murky Tufton Street outfit the IEA) was quite literally a pack of lies...
How did they pull their stupid stunt off? Quite simply.
1) They compared two different types of data (inflation-adjusted for the pre-Brexit period, unadjusted for the post-Brexit period) to draw false conclusions.
2) They got Kemi Badenoch to swallow the lot and talk about it.
Here's more info about the holes in the original IEA report the size of the Grand Canyon...