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"The awkward relationship between Brexit and facts"

An extract from my book "Slaying Brexit Unicorns", available on Kindle and in paperback from Amazon. Looks at the problem of false equivalence in the Brexit debate, and other related issues...
And here's an extract that debunks the absurd "Get Brexit done" narrative, explaining exactly why Brexit will not end on Brexit Day.
Finally, here's a look at Freedom of Movement and everything it offers us...
If I've succeeded in whetting your appetite, please buy my book! You can pick up a copy at the link below...
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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It's been 3,481 days since the Tories took power.

Think about all the changes that happened in your own life since 6 May 2010...

It's a long, long time in political terms!

Yet they're still trotting out the "Labour wrecked the economy" excuse on the campaign trail every day.
Do you know why? Because they don't have a *real* excuse. They've mismanaged the NHS, underfunded schools, slashed police numbers, and wrecked local services. Meanwhile, the rich have become richer and richer and richer.
This isn't an empty assertion. If you can bear it, pour yourself a stiff drink and then dive into the thread below, which shows how the Tories have systematically ruined the UK over the last decade (it says 10 examples but I kept finding more, so it's actually 38+!)
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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Fuel duty freezes since 2010 have cost the Treasury over £46 billion in lost tax revenue. The cost of this giveaway to motorists is now running at over £8 billion/year. It's bad for the environment too, as it encourages car use over public transport use.
parliament.uk/written-questi…
That amount is nearly 50% more than the total cuts to welfare payments, housing subsidies and social services since 2010. In other words, none of those cuts would have been needed if fuel duty had continued to rise like it used to before the Tories came to power!
Bear in mind too that car ownership is just 35% amongst the poorest 10% of UK households, so 2/3 don't benefit from the fuel freeze whereas all will have been affected by the cuts.
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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Here's the big problem with Labour's broadband plan: what happens when people want to pay more for a faster service than the "free for everyone" offering, but can no longer do so because other players have been driven out of the market by the State's monopoly?
Already today some select cities have access to gigabit ethernet, others to speeds of 500Mbps or 350Mbps. All are significantly above the 100Mbps that is being used to define ultrafast broadband. But if the companies offering those speeds get pushed out of the market, game over?
In the next 2-5 years, private firms have plans to bring near gigabit speeds to over 10 million UK households. But all those plans may be put on hold if Labour dives in boots-first and disrupts the market (not in a good way).
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David Hills
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1/ A thread about the Government's response to the petition asking for a Public Inquiry into illegality in the #Brexit referendum, because this sort of self-serving and bilious dismissal of the public needs calling out sometimes. And I'm cross.
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In this thread, we would like to address a few brexit issues. But before we do, we would like you to look up the terms 'Potemkin Village' and 'force multiplier' #brexit
2/ In the UK, there has *NEVER* been a demand for a hard brexit. @_SimonBarnett can get you some stats on this. And the Tory backbench MPs who kept the flame of euroscepticism alive for decades talked about a Swiss style deal with the EU or a Norway deal, an FTA at the least.
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Peter Foster
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So in a #Brexit nutshell.

The 230 vote defeat confronts us with the fact that the problem is bigger than the backstop or time-limits.

It is a brutal rejection of May's strategy of obfuscation.

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As @MichelBarnier has said this morning, the deal he brokered was a function of UK red lines - the consequences of which May never confronted.

All that nonsense about "frictionless trade" outside the Customs Union and Single Market.

Those lines surely now need to change. /2
@MichelBarnier Brexiteers were happy to hold May to account on the half of those promises the likes (on trade independence and frictionlessness) but never accept that the consequence when pointed out by the other side.

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EU diplomats shrug at what they view as U.K. hysteria over Canada+ or Chequers #Brexit debate. The EU says the choice was never the UK’s alone 1
EU viewsChequers as a U.K. government position. Not an end in itself. Brussels aim: to navigate between Chequers and EU red lines.. 2
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Sergio Graziosi
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Yesterday @bbcnickrobinson made a disturbing mistake, while interviewing Jean-Claude Trichet about #Brexit and financial services for the Today Program (@BBCR4Today)
The mistake boils down to broadcasting demonstrably false information, I assume @BBCNews will want to rectify.
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The details.
The offending claim was made shortly after 1:15:03 (running time). Full audio is here: bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09…
Transcription:
@bbcnickrobinson "..it is a year to go until Britain is due to leave the EU and there is no evidence that Britain is changing her mind.."
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Nick's claim is unquestionably false, but concurrently aligned with what the current government would like us to believe.
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