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Houston, we have a paperback! 🚀
My book 'Slaying Brexit Unicorns' is available as a paperback from Amazon (Kindle edition too!)

It busts two dozen Brexit myths, and examines the dangers of no deal and the reality of trade on WTO terms.
amazon.co.uk/dp/1916271308
Note: the chapters on a second referendum and on stopping Brexit are only going to be of historical interest (sob) but the rest of it is solid and completely relevant to our situation, given that we have yet to face "proper Brexit" because of the transition period's insulation.
If you appreciate facts, logic and reasoned arguments, you'll be as happy as a hippo in mud! 🦛

And with close to 700 mainstream references in the endnotes, you don't have to worry that I'm leading you up the garden path...
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Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡, 🇬🇧 🔜 🇪🇺
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Watch how many of our lot, in the coming days and weeks, will claim to be blindsided by stuff that's now firmly in the public domain. And that extends to our media too.
Bonus: watch out for those who express outrage at the restatement of positions that have been known for months or years.

Extra super duper bonus: fury at statements of the obvious, basically waving their fist at the sky and railing at the nature of reality itself.
"Of course, we have no idea what the EU want."
"But they've published their negotiating guide-"
"Shh! As I was saying, we have no idea what they want from us..."
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Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡, 🇬🇧 🔜 🇪🇺
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"MI5 chief asks tech firms for 'exceptional access' to encrypted messages"

They never learn. If there's a backdoor, hackers *will* eventually exploit it, period. Weaker security for law enforcement purposes hurts everyone. theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/f…
Compromised security is like a condom with a hole in it. Might be better than nothing 🤷🏻‍♂️ but it's no longer fit for purpose.
And if they do the same to e-commerce encryption, that's the end of online shopping. Banks aren't going to authorise payment systems that are knowingly and deliberately compromised.
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Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡, 🇬🇧 🔜 🇪🇺
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"A Leave-voting business owner has said he regrets the decision because his fruit farms will collapse if he has no access to EU workers after Brexit."

Let's be magnanimous and hope he survives. It takes *huge* guts to admit publicly that you're wrong!
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
I need not have worried. That article has been doing the rounds today, but it's from 2017.

In September 2019, the majority of the operation was sold to an agricultural investment fund. Doesn't solve the issue, but means the original chap is off the hook.
fruitnet.com/fpj/article/17…
Of course, now that the farm's owned by a faceless fund, they'll have no qualms about chopping the business to bits to survive, if that's what it takes. Their only concern will doubtless be the bottom line.
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katya adler
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EU views Johnson’s intention to legislate end date of Dec 2020 on EU-UK trade negotiations as sabre rattling. PM broke his key red line line of avoiding post #Brexit division between GB and NIreland in divorce deal. EU expects he’ll eventually back down in trade talks too /1
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THREAD👇13 automotive #Brexit myths – busted

MYTH 1: The automotive industry shouldn’t worry about leaving the EU with #nodeal

TRUTH: Leaving without a deal would trigger the most seismic shift in trading conditions UK Automotive has ever experienced
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THREAD 👇 13 automotive #Brexit myths – busted

MYTH 1: The automotive industry shouldn’t worry about leaving the EU with #nodeal

TRUTH: Leaving without a deal would trigger the most seismic shift in trading conditions UK Automotive has ever experienced smmt.co.uk/2019/03/13-aut…
MYTH 2: This is just the automotive industry scaremongering

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MYTH 3: Industry is blaming Brexit but the problem is falling diesel sales & the slowdown in global markets

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#Brexit thread:

So. Tomorrow the House of Commons will vote on a series of possible amendments to Theresa May's 'Plan B' - or rather the 'plan of action to achieve a Plan B' - which itself officially reads as follows:
The amendment most likely to pass – and therefore the one on which most attention has been paid – is this one from Conservative party chairman Sir Graham Brady. It's effectively an instruction to go back and seek *some unstated other way* to avoid a hard border in Ireland:
Tonight, Theresa May has asked her backbenchers to vote in favour of this amendment. She is basically asking them to tie her hands, so that Brussels will clearly know what it would take to win the Commons' backing for any deal.
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