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On this day: the Putney debates.
Interesting question (I think) - why is public awareness in England of the English Revolution/Commonwealth/Glorious Revolution period much lower than awareness of the Tudor period (Henry VIII, 6 wives etc)?
(Measure it by TV series - dramas and histories/historical fiction/popular history/(I think) time spent teaching in in school.)
The 1641-1690 period has both huge personalities and enormous contemporary resonance (Crown v Parliament; England/Scotland/Ireland relations; relations between Britain and the continent/fundamental debates across the land about how the country should be governed).
Huge scope for great story-telling there. Both popular history and historical fiction. Read Christopher Hill (great though a bit dated now) if you are in any doubt.
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“Get Brexit Done” in fact means “Carry on Brexit”.
Johnson’s ruling out an extension means he will be forced to choose between “no deal”, a bare bones deal not much different from no deal (no LPF commitments and a few tariff reductions where it suits the EU), and a UK commitment-heavy deal to secure much inferior access than now.
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Accepting that will protect for a while all the various cherries that the UK will be keen to keep post-Brexit and which any sane government will fear losing. And since it is essentially off the peg it is probably (with good will) doable in time.
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The consequence of @michaelgove’s promises 2 and 3, if meaningful*, is that a FTA with the US will either be impossible or very limited (so can’t begin to compensate for worsening our terms of trade with the EU).
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