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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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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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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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📌Johnson and Bannon became friends when Johnson was still Foreign Secretary and Bannon was still in the White House in early 2017.

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