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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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Brexit is happening because of the gap between what people think MPs are elected to do, and what they're really elected to do - and because MPs are too afraid of them to correct their misconception.

People think MPs are elected to do their bidding, implement what they decide.
In reality, MPs are elected to do what is in the best interests of their constituents, and of the country as a whole. They are also meant to take every decision based on merit. All this is in black and white in their Code of Conduct...
publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cm…
Now happily most of the time what's best for the people happens to coincide with what the people want. So it's easy to see why they've fallen into the trap of thinking of MPs as their meat-puppets in Westminster.
But the role of an MP hasn't changed. And where there's conflict between what people want and what's in their best interests, MPs should always go with the latter.

Problem is, that's not exactly a vote winner, so 🤷🏻‍♂️

Instead, MPs are deliberately pursuing a destructive course.
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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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Canada won't roll over its EU trade deal for us. Bye bye all that juicy free trade.
The kicker is they're behaving exactly as everyone who understands the WTO predicted: because we are likely going to drop our tariffs to zero in the event of a no deal Brexit, Canada are waiting to see if they can get some sweet tariff-free trade without conceding anything.
And where Canada goes, we can expect most of the world to follow. Certainly the big players. Why would anyone roll over a deal when they can enjoy the benefits of free trade anyway just by waiting us out? No deal means no leverage, and no chance of striking decent deals.
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It's important to understand why the global financial crisis was so harsh, because it signposts the way for the likely damage we will incur from Brexit.

Put plainly, by far the biggest damage came from lower tax receipts (see graphic)
Through a combination of Government tax policies and slower economic growth, the Treasury took in £236 billion less over the 2008-2018 period than it was "supposed" to (ie compared to what it would have collected if you simply raise the 2008/9 tax figure in line with inflation)
That massive shortfall is 7x the £33 billion of the bank bailout (latest figure - it used to be higher, but much of the money has been repaid to the Government by now)

Think on that for a moment. Over £200 billion in taxes uncollected because of the economic downturn.
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A possibly controversial view: Labour and the Tories have decided that Brexit is so intractable, they are sabotaging themselves as vigorously as possible. Endgame: achieve the unprecedented feat of ushering in a LibDem Government.

That way, Brexit's not their problem any more.
It's hard to find another explanation for why Jeremy Corbyn and Labour are so dreadfully incompetent, and how they manage to dredge up scandals and keep them alive day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year. More frequent than buses.
Equally, the Tory leadership contest has turned disastrous so quickly, it almost feels "engineered", as if someone has taken the strategic decision to show the country just how venal, untrustworthy and uncaring the candidates are.
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