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Interesting the Government is still right now the heaviest advertising spender? Presumably not advertising Oct 31st ...
that from Monday -when Govt Brexit readiness campaign was still running - presume latest data different....

Quite interesting Nigel Farage and party don’t seem to have paid for Facebook advertising since PM struck his deal... chimes with “go dark” story

facebook.com/ads/library/?a…
Here is that story...
In past 30 days top spenders on Political ads on Facebook are by far - Government @brexitgetready . £531k
Then referendum/Remainy campaigns
@peoplesvote_uk : £186k
@BestForBritain £90k
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Faisal Islam
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Tesla chooses Germany for its new European Gigafactory- making cars, batteries etc...
“Brexit [uncertainty] made it too risky to put a Gigafactory in the UK,” perhaps worlds greatest entrepreneur Elon Musk told AutoExpress at launch of Berlin European electric car/battery plant - NB Telegraph report PMs GE speech at electric car plant...

autoexpress.co.uk/tesla/108395/t…
specific technical issue around electric cars and Brexit that I reported a year ago.

The value of the electric battery powertrain is a large proportion of value of finished car, much more than petrol engine would be.

Therefore, v difficult to risk it not counting as EU content
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Faisal Islam
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PM welcomes Farage’s move not to stand against sitting Conservatives, in a statement
No one really know how physics of all this will pan out..

Last time after local elections 2017 there was almost a stock market style response to the “uniting of the right” of Con + UKIP vote.

problem with strategy was that it did not anticipate reaping equal & opposite response
In late May/early June 2017 it was pretty extraordinary to see this occurring in real time, on ground. It was there for everyone to see.

& yet last time there was no Con+UKIP arrangement or discussions. May just absorbed the UKIP vote. This time PM welcomes BXP standing aside
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Faisal Islam
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Just interviewed Chancellor - who argue the 0.3% number was “strong” and “solid” in international context. And slower performance down to uncertainty about Brexit not happening, and a Corbyn Government “sending us right back into recession”... - as you’d expect during GE campaign
Also - I put to him Bank of England assessment of Johnson Brexit deal - that it would lead to checks on customs “as a result trade flows are likely to fall and some companies might exit the market”

** Javid acknowledges “when we trade with the EU there will be some changes”
Full quote: “we will have our own custom territory & yes, as the UK when we trade with EU there will be some changes but it also means there's opportunities..to strike our own free trade agreements around the world, investments in freeports. there's a lot to look forward to”.
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Mark Scott
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Now that a ‘No Deal’ #Brexit is looking like the most likely outcome, I would (again) bang the drum for how this is really bad news for anyone who moves data btwn the UK & EU, and vice versa.

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Right. It's the £39bn question...could @BorisJohnson or other hard brexiteer PM really withhold payment of the #Brexit bill. Legally? Politically?

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Sam Hooper
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The thing I find most frustrating about British politics is how nearly everyone with political power or a media platform is myopically focused on how Britain navigates the next few years, while there is no national conversation about where we want to be in 10, 20 or 50 years.
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2/ The rest of the world is left listening to Britain’s therapy session as they drone on about their ex-spouse, unable to see, admit or address their own flaws.
3/ The promise of Brexit was that it would make Britain feel big again. “Britain is special,” the Brexiteers assured British voters, who cast their ballots accordingly. But Brexit has proven that for the first time in modern history, Britain is small.
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Simon Usherwood
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Right then

Let's have another bash at unpicking what's actually getting decided in #Brexit

1/
Listen to the radio or TV, read stuff online, and it's all 'Chequers this', 'no-deal that', 'Northern Ireland the other' and frankly it's confusing, not least because a lot of media are getting confused

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