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My book includes a section "Potential Benefits of Leaving the EU". It attempts to do what nobody seems willing to ie enumerate things Brexit frees us to do...

You can read it for free by clicking the link, choosing "Look Inside" and paging to the end.
amazon.co.uk/Slaying-Brexit…
Note: that's Brexit in a nutshell. It would be false to say there's no benefit to leaving. I've acknowledged that. But the rest of the book (and reality!) shows that the "benefits of Brexit" are vastly outweighed by the negatives of leaving...

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Added: Amazon generates the excerpt automatically. It's not something authors on the Kindle platform have any control over. But I love the fact the last section of the free sample happens to be about blue passports, and how we could always have them. Cosmic karma!
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Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡, 🇬🇧 🔜 🇪🇺
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The UK will cut VAT on female hygiene products to 0% after the transition period ends. Important to emphasize the EU is changing its VAT rules, so we wouldn't have had to leave in order to do so anyway (though it might have taken a bit longer). #TamponTax
ec.europa.eu/taxation_custo…
So it is a significant development, but it shouldn't be held up as "proof" that the UK was right to leave the EU.

EU rules aren't carved in stone for all time. They adapt too. And generally (but not always) for the better, in response to concerns raised by member states.
Here's more background to all this. In fact, the UK helped drive the initiative that led the EU to reconsider its VAT rules. Our influence worked!

But then Brexit happened, and our side stopped pushing. The EU slowed off a bit (but has *not* given up).
infacts.org/we-dont-need-t…
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Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡, 🇬🇧 🔜 🇪🇺
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The National Audit Office has prepared the first comprehensive report on Government spending on Brexit preparations. It estimates absolute minimum spend of £4.4 billion out of the £6.3 billion allocated. At least £1.9 billion was burnt up on 22,000 staff.
nao.org.uk/wp-content/upl…
The report is laden with interesting figures, so I'll just pull a few out here...
- Even though not all the money was spent, some individual government departments overshot their budgets by £301 million total, meaning Brexit took away from the other work they were doing.
- £288 million went to external consultants, so the big consulting firms will have been rolling in Brexit loot
- Meanwhile, local governments received a relatively lean £104 million across the whole country.
- Defra spent the most; a lot went on duplicating EU regulatory regimes
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Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡, 🇬🇧 🔜 🇪🇺
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There's been quite a bit of scientific discussion about why men might be more susceptible to the coronavirus than women, but until yesterday I hadn't seen mention of what "all men know" ie men have poor toilet hygiene. Distressingly many walk out without washing their hands.☹️
It's probably one of those things that is such commonsense that it was on nobody's radar. Neither gender has much experience of the other's intimate habits in public toilets, otherwise it would have been much easier to get to that💡moment.
That's not to say that the other ideas about chromosome-related differences etc. are wrong. I have no idea, frankly. But if the very best way to stop the spread of the coronavirus is frequent, thorough hand washing, and women do so more than men (which on average they do) then...
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Anna Ellis
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And we're off. Govt motion #2 for a General Election. Boris out of the gate with a reference to the Speaker always acting in what the *Speaker* judges to be in the National Interest. In Parliamentary terms, that's a low blow.
"Corbyn first Leader of the Opposition in history to show his confidence in the Government by declining to have an election with a view to removing the government." Corbyn doing the usual attempt to kill Boris with a glare, clearly not kept up with Sith training.
"The Surrender Act has now passed; he's done his level best to wreck this country's chances of a successful election, by his own logic he must now back an election." Entire Labour front bench avoiding looking across at the Tories. Amazing how many directions a minister can gaze.
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katya adler
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EU watching Westminster closely this week but not rushing to any
conclusions. Here is some of the key thinking in European capitals on
the main #Brexit issues of the day: /1
On Labour/second referendum: Corbyn seen in Europe as convinced
eurosceptic so EU is sceptical of his backing a second referendum. EU
has watched #Brexit turmoil long enough to see huge complications in
holding the vote and realise many leave voters have changed their
mind. /2
Of course EU would still rather UK stayed but Europe's leaders don't
see this as realistically on the cards right now. Most realistic,
considering turmoil in Westminster, says EU council President Tusk:
would be to extend article 50 leaving process. /3
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tony nog #FBPE
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1) Leave supporters and "what we voted for"
@andrew_lilico here really highlighting a strange phenomenon I've seen a lot of in #Brexit supporters, a marked inability to see any variation in the leave vote

He says "We are not...", But we *know* these things apply to many leavers
@andrew_lilico 2) we know that some leave voters believed we could have the exact same benefits on leaving the EU, so were in fact naive.
We know leavers were lied to, by liars, about those exact same benefits
It's pointless arguing that no leave voters is xenophobic

@andrew_lilico 3) it's true that not all of these characteristics apply to all Leave voters, and it may be true that none of them apply to @andrew_lilico (though to be fair some of his blogs are pretty naive, and he believes in a post empire "Anglosphere" so...)

However
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tony nog #FBPE
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#Brexit
1) Thread - All Brexits are bad and what we voted for
It's often said by brexiters that "it's not all about economics"
However, the *actual* Leave campaign was almost wholly about economic arguments

With the leak of this 2-8% report those arguments are now trashed
2) We seem to have forgotten this however economics played a huge part in the Vote Leave campaign, making up over 2/3rds of the primary arguements. The clear message was we would at the least be no worse off and at best much better off. 4 of the 6 below state this clearly
3) & the fact is voters believed we would be no worse off. People prioritized immigration certainly, but against a backdrop of there being no consequences from Brexit - few are prepared to actually pay for ending FoM
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