Watching News at Ten a spectacular corrective to the anti-Brexit echo chamber on Twitter.
To apolitical voters, the main impression tonight will simply be that the PM has pulled off something “they said couldn’t be done”
To apolitical voters, the main impression tonight will simply be that the PM has pulled off something “they said couldn’t be done”
Interesting how content-free the story is ... there are just these abstract “things” — “Brexit,” the “deal”, people who hate them, people who like them, MPs who will & wont back them
No discussion of any substance about what any of it will do at all
No discussion of any substance about what any of it will do at all
11 minutes in we get to a brief explainer on what it means — the dull but important details which many will have switched off from by now
I’m also finding the explainers awry: main takeaway is “something to do with Northern Ireland”
But for UK economy far bigger news from the May backstop going is GB is out of customs union
Unless you’re paid to follow this stuff, you’re extremely unlikely to have picked that up
But for UK economy far bigger news from the May backstop going is GB is out of customs union
Unless you’re paid to follow this stuff, you’re extremely unlikely to have picked that up
Few thoughts on how the substance slowly dropped out of the discussion, over 1,286 days
prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/how-b…
prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/how-b…
