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Fasten your seatbelts. We're doomed.

This is all on you, Leavers. All on you.
And if you want to know exactly what lies in the circles of Brexit hell we are merrily lowering ourselves into, read this (warning: it's long, and you may never sleep again)

politics.co.uk/blogs/2020/01/…
But of course the 800 pound gorilla in the argument stakes is my Brexit myth-busting book, Slaying Brexit Unicorns. Pulls apart two dozen misconceptions, and shines a spotlight on the reality of WTO. Kindle and paperback.
amazon.co.uk/Slaying-Brexit…
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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Sajid Javid's off his head. As soon as the legal door is cracked open to divergence, checks have to be introduced to ensure that no such divergence is taking place. Friction, friction, friction.
"I promise I'm not doing something, even though I absolutely could" doesn't cut it in international trade circles. Not even if you look them straight in the eye.
It's different now, of course, because the law prohibits divergence and so there are real consequences for cheats.
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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So, we leave the EU...

Days, weeks or months later, the Brexiters discover that everything they'd pinned their hopes on was nothing but mirages and unicorns.

What then? We're already out of the EU? Article 50 is dead, and the option of remaining with it. So what happens next?
That's the really scary scenario, because the Brexiters will be desperate, absolutely screamingly desperate, to avoid taking the blame for the UK's greatest ever fiasco. How far will they be willing to go to deflect attention?
In my mind, the consequences of this desperate blame avoidance scramble could be even more horrific than Brexit itself. Who knows what kind of repressive Big Brother police state the Tories will conjure up to stop the unwashed masses learning the truth about Brexit?
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Edwin Hayward ('Slaying Brexit Unicorns' author)
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"Brexit 2020: Everything you need to know about Boris Johnson's trade deal nightmare"

Whenever a Brexiter gets uppity, just direct them at this article. It's like a mincing machine for unfounded, unrealistic hopes and dreams. A definite must-bookmark! politics.co.uk/blogs/2020/01/…
And if they're stupid enough to parrot the WTO acronym like some magic talisman, show them this...

And here's the third piece of the explainer puzzle: the EU's super simple, super readable explanation of the Withdrawal Agreement...

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Francis Jones
@senoJsicnarF
I continue to be struck by how far some Remainers are unwilling to accept that Brexiteers really believe in Brexit and Leavers really want to Leave.

#Brexit

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I have to assume it's because Remainers themselves have never had a nationalistic thought in their lives, and tend to come from the left of the political spectrum. So they find it difficult to accept that Leavers (or their core element) are sincere right-wing nationalists.

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It's a bit like Dawkins atheists who can't quite bring themselves to believe that religious people are genuinely religious. So religion must be explained away as something else, e.g. a mechanism for controlling women or the poor.

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Collab blues
@Collabblues
A #brexit story with #flags, in english, with the amazing translation of @240185

1950
🇫🇷 "We got our ass kicked badly this time. Never do this again, eh?"
🇩🇪 "Ach, Ich agree"
🇫🇷 ceases Occupation of Saarland
🇫🇷 🇩🇪 cast ECSC
🇫🇷 🇩🇪 invite 🇧🇪 🇮🇹 🇱🇺 🇳🇱
🇬🇧 "WTF, what's that shit?"
🇬🇧 "Don't care, won't work anyway"
🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇧🇪 🇮🇹 🇱🇺 🇳🇱 cast EEC and Euratom
🇬🇧 "What can I do to piss them off?"

1960
🇬🇧 casts EFTA
🇨🇭 🇳🇴 🇩🇰 🇵🇹 🇦🇹 join EFTA
🇪🇺 casts Customs Union
1961
🇬🇧 "May I play with y'all?"
🇫🇷 "Piss off"
🇩🇪 🇧🇪 🇮🇹 🇱🇺 🇳🇱 "Ya sure?"
🇫🇷 "I know him, he's a punk. He keeps breaking my toys since 1066. I swear to God he won't enter"
🇬🇧 "Don't care, don't want to join your shitty club anyway"
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Hilary Times. I'm a Joiner. We all are.
@atatimelikethis
So much noise about what Brexit means. Why not just check the source. Dominic Cummings.

Simple answers

Here we go: thread👇

Did we know what we were voting for?
How about Tory Red Lines? Were they part of "the brexit people voted for"
So what does respecting the vote mean?
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Chappers
@PJChapman74
Thread!! Big thread! Oh, coffee! Don’t go any further without coffee! This is an 80+ tweet thread about tax! People with goldfish-type attention spans, or people with no interest in tax or #Brexit need not even attempt. You have been warned!! There are three facets…
…to the “Brexit was about tax avoidance” conspiracy theories. We have “Brexit was brought in after the EU introduced the Anti-Tax Avoidance Directive”, “Brexiteers want to keep details of their tax avoidance schemes secret from the EU” and “Brexit is about protecting…
…the UK’s tax havens. Did you know Mogg’s firm made £103million profit and paid zero tax?! Shocking!” The success of the conspiracy theory lies in the complexity of the truth. “The truth is out there” as they say. Well in this case, it’s in here. For the first time all…
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Peter Foster
@pmdfoster
Right. Congrats to all those that knifed @theresa_may - she was pretty useless, and the author of her own failure to deliver #Brexit

But the reality is that it wasn't 'her' deal...it was a deal created by gravity, not strategy.

So can the next man/woman defy gravity? 1/thread
@theresa_may Because, to re-cap, @theresa_may began in her first conference speech in Octber 2016 by shooting for the #Brexit stars.

She was going to have Britain float free - of the ECJ, of the Customs Union, of the Single Market - and yet by some miracle.... /2
@theresa_may ....retain 'frictionless' trade with Europe. Like @BorisJohnson she was 'pro having cake, and pro eatiing it'....

But then step by step gravity took over as she tried to square circles and resolve the dreaded Irish trilemma/3
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tony nog #FBPE
@tony_nog
1) Why was #Brexit doomed to fail? Because it never had a majority
Brexit was doomed from June 24th 2016, from the day after the referendum, because there was not, and never could be, a working majority for it

This poll was taken in September 2016 - and it highlights the failure
2) Now polls are notoriously self selecting however this ran in pro #Brexit telegraph, 52K people took part & the breakdown roughly equals the ref vote

We can translate the questions roughly into Brexit options (no deal wasn't there then,because brexiters weren't that desperate)
3) Lets put Remain to one side for a second. In such a close vote, literally every Leaver would have to want roughly the same thing. But they didn't, it wasn't even close

For every 2 leavers who wanted a Hard Brexit, 1 wanted Norway & the single market, which are polls apart
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