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Andrew Lilico
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Tory leadership candidates say they are in favour of "fairness". But what does that mean? Here's the answer... policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/upl…
Being fair is a form of being proportionate, & can be subdivided into 3 main classes: equality, proportionality & desert.
It is not always right to be fair. Three key cases where it is wrong to be fair are: promises; family; and property.
Being fair is a residual form of morality. When we have no good reason not to act fairly, we should do so.
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Andrew Lilico
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Continuity Remainers have got away for far too long, unchallenged, in declaring that the Vote Leave £350m per week to Brussels claim was a "lie". It was not. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/…
If you have a salary of £25,000 is it a "lie" to say that you get paid £500 per week? But don't get £500 paid into your account by your employer each week, do you, or even 4.3 times that per month? So it's a "lie" to claim your pay is £500 per week, right?
"Ah, but what counts is the actual overall net amount we end up paying in respect of each week. That wasn't £350m." No. *That* (that actual overall net amount) was more like £325m-£340m, though by now it would be much much more than that.
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Andrew Lilico
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May is completely wrong - nay, deluded - to allege that her Leaver opponents refused to compromise. Indeed it was her utter failure to grasp that we *were* willing to compromise & did but Continuity Remainers were utterly unwilling to compromise that was one source of her undoing
The other thing abt compromise is that there is always a limit. Being willing to compromise does not mean just accepting *anything*. May did have her own 2 red lines: no FoM & no change in the security situation in NI. They were just the wrong 2 red lines.
In particular, May's no change in NI's security situation is a terrible thing to make a higher priority than the UK setting its own laws & doing its own new intl deals. It gave the IRA a veto over Britain's future. No. No. No.
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Andrew Lilico
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It's interesting to contrast 3 types of job or role. Some of us have jobs where we expect most expert input to be neutral, so if we are out of line with the consensus we're either making a big call or we should be worried we're wrong.
Others have jobs where their role is to offer some plausible challenge to conventional wisdom, so they are trying to be against the consensus, to be contrarian or innovative.
In a third type of role we do not expect most expert opinion to be neutral. We expect it to be slanted, and we expect it to be hostile to us. So being attacked by most expert opinion is neither a surprise nor, except in a routine sense, a threat.
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Peter Foster
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Ahem. Sorry to intrude on today's Westminster drama but....

A faction of the Tory Party is trying to unseat @theresa_may over the the Irish backstop #Brexit

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@theresa_may First, the simple politics.

The ERG hates the backstop. They want a unilateral exit clause - but the more they talk about that, the more the EU and Irish are going to cling to the need for a backstop that guarantees no return to a hard border. /2
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The brave new PM (Raab, Boris, DD or whoever) rides into Brussels with an ultimatum: it's the deal-minus-backstop, or No deal.

And against all the odds and predictions of smart alecs like me, the EU caves... /3
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Peter Foster
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Replying briefly (apols, day job intervening) to issues raised in this thread.

- agree that part of issue is lack of political will, but that's the reality.
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Go to Newry or Crossmaglen and you'll see this is not 'neutral' territory; the political context is hugely important in determining what is practicable. /2
The PSNI have been very clear in the risk that cameras/checkposts pose.

theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/d…

And repeated that again 5 days ago.

belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/brexit/br…

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe… /3
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This is a long thread (I might release an abridged version), but it's quite important I think.

I know some will not make it to the end, so let me be absolutely clear upfront. This claim is a fantasy! It's not based on reality.

People are being misled!

Let me explain why.
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Peter Foster
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Can 'technology' or 'maxfac' solve the Irish border question problem?

Boris and Davis say it can.

David Trimble, who signed the Good Friday Agreement says so too.

So does a paper today by @Policy_Exchange

I think that's wrong. Here's why.
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telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/…
Let's start with that Policy Exchange report, with a forward by David Trimble. You can read it all here:

policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/upl…

It admits defeat almost from the outset, by arguing that UK Govt "conceded too much” last December in the Joint Report. /2
Recall the UKG promise to avoid a hard border “including any physical infrastructure or related checks and controls.”

That set's a high bar for MaxFac - so high that Davis and Boris talk about some infrastructure, "set back" from the border. /3
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Georgy Bradders
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The argument that leaving the Customs Union will lead to a reduction in the UK’s food prices seems to originate in a Policy Exchange think tank paper. But the “evidence” for this is a list of EU WTO tariffs on agricultural products. policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/upl…
Here’s where the UK imports fruit from, the EU (and that includes us) has tariff-negating trade deals with pretty much all these countries (except Brazil).
And are our food prices more expensive than comparable countries round the world? Not if you look at meat. UK ranks well both on price and affordability, despite not being a major producer. This is ranked on price of chicken breast.
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chart of threats to undersea cables. let's talk about fish bite...no, wait...did you just say iceberg? policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/upl…
"fishing" needs to be split out more, once you read that Russia "accidentally" cuts cables under the guise of commercial vessels policyexchange.org.uk/wp-content/upl…
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