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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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The Government will spend £100 million on no deal Brexit propaganda, including leaflets to every household in the UK, TV ads etc. It would take a real cynic to suggest they're doing it to get around the spending limits that would apply during a GE...
huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/no-deal-…
It would take an even greater cynic to point out that the £100 million being used is taxpayer money, not party funds. 🤔
Now, I can see only two realistic outcomes of this insanely profligate spending...

1) The campaign is built on lies: the general public end up even more brainwashed about the unicorn that is Brexit "success"

2) The campaign tells the truth: everyone panics.
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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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The huge disconnect at the heart of Brexit is the notion that no deal represents walking away from the negotiations.

But in any other negotiating scenario you can imagine, walking away means the status quo. The dealer won't give you a decent price for your car, so you keep it.
In the case of Brexit, on the other hand, no deal means throwing away everything you've got. The dealer won't give you a good price for your car, so you hand it over meekly to be crushed. You don't even get to keep the ignition key as a souvenir.
So, far from being a strong negotiating tactic, no deal is the weakest you can possibly imagine. It's standing stock-still, eyes closed, as your opponent rains blows down freely.

Either those advocating it know this and choose to lie for political reasons, or they're VERY dense.
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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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"In the first five months of the year, the UK exported almost £152 million of [sheep meat] to the EU, and around £5 million outside the EU. The EU accounts for 97% of British sheep meat exports." So we're giving up 97% of our export market to grow the 3%?!
fullfact.org/europe/lamb-ja…
Giving up 97% of something so that you can expand the share of the pie occupied by the 3% isn't opportunity, it's stupidity. Because you've first got to make up the 97% just to get back to the status quo (which will take decades) before you see a penny of benefit.
It's like you have two part-time jobs. One pays £9,700 a year and the other £300 a year.

In what universe would you give up the one paying £9,700 a year in the hope of being able to wring a few more hours out of the one currently paying you £300?Because that's the trade-off.
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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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If we weren't already members of the EU, we might take a long, hard look at it before joining, and conclude we would be better off striking our own trade deals. Unlikely but possible.

But we're not starting from scratch. We're already members. And Brexit means giving up so much!
It's as if, 20 miles into a marathon, a treacherous thought surfaces: "You know what, we should have worn the other pair of shoes". On impulse, we go all the way back to the start to swap them.

There's no way to get ahead in that situation. Because nobody else will stop running.
This is the thing Brexiters never admit. They talk endlessly about all the new trade deals we could do, and the opportunities that might open up. But they never acknowledge the Mt Everest of trade deals and opportunities we're surrendering overnight to unlock that potential.
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