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Have you read my book yet? 'Slaying Brexit Unicorns' tackles the lies, half-truths and fantasies surrounding our decision to leave the EU. As well as busting two dozen myths, it looks at trade on WTO terms, why no deal would be disastrous, and much more...
amazon.co.uk/dp/B07Z1FTRQW/…
You'll also find more facts and stats than you can shake a stick at! The book's written in the same breezy style as my tweets, so it should feel familiar... Why not take a peek at the Table of Contents to get an idea of everything it covers?
If you're ready to give my book a go - or check out a free sample - here's the link to it again...
amazon.co.uk/dp/B07Z1FTRQW/…
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Edwin Hayward - 'Slaying Brexit Unicorns' book🦄🗡
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Time to bust a Brexit myth
A: Why can't we replace trade with the EU with trade with the rest of the world?
B: The world's huge. That's a problem because stuff has to go by sea, which takes a long time
A: How long?
B: 10-30 days to USA, 19-29 days to India & 23-25 days to China.
A: Hmm. What about the EU?
B: We can drive stuff there in a few hours. Ferry or Channel Tunnel, then keep going.
A: We could fly stuff over instead!
B: No. We currently move 177 times less by air than by sea. There's no way to make a meaningful dent in such a huge difference.
A: I have a cunning plan... What if we called on the plucky RAF to help?
B: Good thinking. Unfortunately they'd only be able to move 1.2% of everything the UK imports. And that's with its entire transport fleet working 24/7.
A: Doesn't sound like much.
B: You're right, it's not.
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Edwin Hayward - 'Slaying Brexit Unicorns' book🦄🗡
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BREXIT BY THE NUMBERS...
- Days since the referendum: 1,209 (as of 16 October 2019)
- Days until the UK leaves the EU: 15 (as of 16 October 2019)
- Brexit Day: 31 October 2019 at 11pm UK time
- Taxpayer money spent on Brexit preparation: £6.3 billion
- Cost of “divorce bill” (exit payment on leaving the EU, payable in installments): £39 billion
- Remaining cost of “divorce bill”: £33 billion (we’ve already paid off some during delay)
- Cost of developing the new IT system to register EU citizens after Brexit: £175 million
- Estimated number of international treaties and agreements we will lose: over 1,000
- Estimated number of critical treaties: 157
- UK exports to EU: £274 billion (43% of all UK exports)
- UK imports from EU: £341 billion (53% of all UK imports)
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Edwin Hayward - 'Slaying Brexit Unicorns' book🦄🗡
@uk_domain_names
SOLVING BREXIT
Brexit could be solved if enough brave MPs stood together for the good of the UK. They would have to state, in a cross-party non-partisan manner that EVERY effort had been made to turn the referendum result into workable reality, but it proved IMPOSSIBLE. 1/7
In other words, a collective mea culpa from across the political spectrum: "We tried, but the task proved beyond us ALL. Why? Because there is no scenario in which Brexit can be made to work for the UK. This wasn't clear before the referendum. It is crystal clear now." 2/7
Detail might also be provided of the huge, palpable effort that had been deployed in trying to "make Brexit work", not just in financial terms, but in time, energy, planning, expertise. A secondary consideration, but one which underpinned the seriousness of the main message. 3/7
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The first one concerns the “annullment” of the referendum. Let’s suppose that electoral law would allow that - would that be effective?
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The second, #A50Challenge, is that an express, legally effective decision is required to legally start the process, which has not yet been made.

The first theory, Revocation, depends on two untested assertions about EU law which can only be decided by the European Court. 2/
#A50Challenge relies on existing UK law which was the basis for the decision in Miller. The solution lies in the hands of UK Courts under UK law.

It is not Parliament that has failed us, but Govt, which didn’t ask Parl for the decision needed for A50 to be lawfully invoked. 3/
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