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Edwin Hayward🦄🗡️
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Sky News are saying that Sajid Javid is poised to splash another £2.1 billion on no deal preparations. It's amazing how much taxpayer cash is disappearing into the Brexit shredder, isn't it?
A cynic would wonder whether they're picking up the spending pace to deluge contracts on their buddies before Brexit runs out of road and gets stopped by Parliament.
You also have to wonder what changed since Wednesday last week. Under Theresa May, we were still experiencing the Tory austerity programme. Now Boris Johnson's suddenly splashing the cash like a Euromillions winner. But the fundamentals of the economy haven't changed at all.
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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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