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Changed my Twitter handle from...
Edwin Hayward - book 'Slaying Brexit Unicorns'🦄🗡
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Edwin Hayward (my book: 'Slaying Brexit Unicorns')

Not sure if it was a good move or not.🤔
Tweaked again, to...
Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' book)

Hopefully that will now show ok on mobile.
Changed my profile photo to a shot of the book's cover thanks to a suggestion. I think it looks ok, hopefully.
Ok, enough playing with my Twitter profile for today, I think. New handle tagline, and a header that showcases my book. Hurrah. 🥳
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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One impediment in the way of widespread Remain Alliance pacts is "short money" i.e. the money that opposition parties receive. It can be a significant source of funding for small parties. Greens got £112,888.78 in 2018/2019 and Plaid Cymru £101,920.04.
researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefi…
Snag is, it's based on a combination of total votes received and seats won. You have to win at least 1 seat and 150,000 votes across the UK, or 2 seats and no minimum vote total. So if candidates don't stand in dozens of constituencies because of a pact, the vote total plummets.
Now, it's all very well to say "country before party" because that's fine in the abstract. But it is a real consideration that can't just be swept under the carpet. Every extra 1,000 votes a party can muster up nationally will be worth £176.5 a year in short funding.
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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The spending limit rules for the upcoming election are complicated, but fascinating. Basically they reach back in time because the regulated period is from 13 December 2018 to 13 December 2019.
electoralcommission.org.uk/sites/default/…
The amount each party is allowed to spend on the general election depends on the number of candidates they're fielding, but also on whether they stood in the European elections or not, and if so how much they spent then. Parties can carry over unspent European election limits.
It is also affected by what they spent in the local elections, and on any by-elections during the regulated period.

The basic spending limit for the GE is: £30,000 x number of seats being contested.
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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Summary of Nigel Farage's Brexit Party press conference:
- they are ready to stand all over England, Scotland & Wales and have 500+ candidates who have signed up
- fully funded for the campaign already
- wants to form a Leave Alliance with Tories and other like-minded candidates
- precondition: Boris Johnson *must* dump his deal and pivot to a Canada style free trade deal. BP won't form any alliances if the deal's still alive
- talked twice of a 1 July 2020 deadline to get this new free trade deal Brexit signed off, and if not leave with no deal
- doesn't care what the motives of other parties are to join the Leave Alliance as long as they all sign up to the same Brexit approach
- gives until 14 November for horse trading with potential allies (that's the final day for candidates to register or withdraw)
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Peter Foster
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Was Tuesday's 'leaked' Merkel conversation which appeared to signal the end of the #brexit talks actually the moment that the penny droped with @BorisJohnson that EU would not accept customs border in Ireland?

My latest 1/

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/…
@BorisJohnson It appears now that Johnson has accepted there can't be a customs border in Ireland...which is a huge step, if confirmed in weekend talks.

EU always clear a deal was there to be done if customs issue could be addressed; the door was always open. /2

@BorisJohnson The question now is whether Johnson can 'pivot' through the door and emerge the other side with a deal that is saleable in London and Belfast.

No texts produced today and several clear notes of caution on EU side about speculation/3
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Louise Mensch
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Good point, I’ll address again: I believe Russia so tainted the #Brexit vote that it was not “free and fair”. Sources advise MI6 told @theresa_may this.

But neither she nor they admitted it. *As a result*, nobody can prove vote illegitimate. I must support the rule of law.
To quote Matthew Godwin’s damning (for @jeremycorbyn) statistic: ‘Labour have not led in any of the last 40 polls’

The British people want #Brexit. If I cannot prove Russia tainted the vote and UKIC have not followed USIC in this, admitting the interference, I have to back it.
I believe the vote was not fair. I believe it should be “redone” because it never took place validly. I’d be for Brexit in a fresh vote, which I would see as the first vote. But I can’t prove it. Because MI6 won’t admit it. And that means the rule of law and accepting the result.
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Peri Hankey
@PeriHankey
"We are fleshing out the [#Brexit] details to see how far the government can move towards us & then we will be able to ascertain how far we are able to move towards them...There are certain issues... We want to take a view on the whole package, the whole deal... " (@RLong_Bailey)
We don't want this bloody Brexit!
We don't want this bloody Brexit!
We don't want this bloody Brexit!
The thing goes on & on.
Their meetings are the sharp edge of the Brexit-slicing sword,
They are fleshing out the details where the terms of wrath are stored,
They know the nation's waiting, that we're getting very bored
as this thing goes on & on.

We don't want this bloody Brexit! ...
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Peter Foster
@pmdfoster
So. IDS and fellow Brexiteers are back punting the Malthouse compromise...and @theresa_may has "reluctantly" agreed to look again per @tnewtondunn
@nick_gutteridge

thesun.co.uk/news/brexit/89…

Totally mad? Well IDS makes one good point. A quick #Brexit thread.
@theresa_may @tnewtondunn @nick_gutteridge First, lets take the 'totally mad' approach... which @Jack_Blanchard_ sums up rather beautifully here. And on the idea of a negotiation in three weeks, he's totally right.

So where does IDS have a point? /2
@theresa_may @tnewtondunn @nick_gutteridge @Jack_Blanchard_ It's here, in the highlighted portion of the Sun story - it's the dirty open secret about the Irish backstop (hugely overlooked in Brussels and Dublin) which is that in practice, it's hard to see how it gets implemented. /3
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UK Rants #StandUp4Brexit
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Thread: "#Brexit & #Chequers, the sellout. Dump it, let's move on".
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I keep hearing "Where is the plan?" and a load of misinformation on #Brexit, pushed on UK media by irrelevant & biased commentators, elevated simply because they are avid Remoaners.
They aim to distract.
1/19
We already knew from those tasked with the negotiations, there had been a definite direction of travel & #Brexit plans were well advanced, prior to #Chequers.

2/19
David Davis & his team had been constantly rebuffed by Number 10, as they tried to pursue a proper #Brexit plan, but they HAD been making progress.

3/19
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Lesley Miller
@LesleyMillercyp
#Brexit 1
Cadbury moved factory 2 Poland 2011 with EU grant.
Ford Transit moved 2Turkey 2013 with EU grant.
Jaguar Land Rover recently agreed 2 build a new plant in Slovakia with EU grant, owned by Tata, same company who trashed our steel industry & emptied workers pension funds.
#Brexit 2
Peugeot closed its Ryton (was Rootes Group) plant and moved production to Slovakia with EU grant.
British Army's new Ajax fighting vehicles to be built in SPAIN using SWEDISH steel at the request of the EU to support jobs in Spain with EU grant, rather than Wales.
#Brexit 3
Dyson gone 2 Malaysia, with EU loan. Crown Closures, Bournemouth (Was METAL BOX), gone 2Poland with EU grant,employed 1,200.
M&S manufacturing gone 2far east with EU loan.
Hornby models gone. In fact all toys & models gone from UK along with patents all with EU grants
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