The amount of time taken to make the diagram, versus the rather meagre Twitter and blog reaction, is not good.
Other than from @Usherwood there is no engagement whatsoever from anyone else in the quasi intellectual UK-Brexit Twitter circle.
Think tankers prefer to retweet think tankers.
Lawyers engage with lawyers.
Trade nerds talk to trade nerds.
Journalists - especially UK ones - have never paid any attention to these diagrams, and I can't see why that might change now.
Yes, the diagrams are complex. But these procedures are complex. I can't refine the technique further without dumbing the whole thing down too much.
Also the accuracy of the four previous series of #BrexitDiagram have been spot on - throughout the whole of last year. This method *actually works*.
But I suppose we'd all just prefer quick emotional engagement with content that confirms our confirmation bias to having to do any serious thinking to explain and synthesise the complexity of what is happening 🤷♂️
Or maybe the method is now as tired and as tiring as Brexit itself is, and I better find some different way to explain all of this.
I do not earn a cent from these diagrams, and they're slow and hard work to make.
The only point continuing is if they are useful to people - and the meagre reaction gives the strong impression they are not useful *enough* to people to justify ploughing this furrow further.
The next time anyone asks my "why is there no diagram?" about something, I will point them to this thread.
There might be further diagrams in this Series 5, when major events shape outcomes. But following every twist and turn of this - that's unlikely.
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This morning I’m one of the first new regional trains Maubeuge 🇫🇷 - Charleroi Central 🇧🇪 #CrossBorderRail
It was a bit of a #fail at the station. I needed a ticket to Erquelinnes, the first station in Belgium. But prior to today trains from Maubeuge didn’t stop there!
Ticket machine ⛔️
Ask at the ticket office. “Le train ne s’arrête pas à Erquelinnes!” I politely told the SNCF employee that yes, it did stop at Erquelinnes. I explained the situation to the SNCB train manager and he laughed, confirmed it did stop there, and I bought the ticket online!
Delays in my favour. Maybe? S-Bahn to FFM Flughafen. Get a late running ICE to Köln Messe/Deutz there. Then try to blag my way onto a Thalys Köln Hbf to Bruxelles? It’s a long shot but it might work…
ICE 612 Frankfurt Flughafen to Köln Messe/Deutz.
This is why accurate live running data in apps matters. Were this not running 10 min late I’d not have caught it… but live data allowed me to plan a connection that’d otherwise not work
Already on the 2nd train of the day: TGV Montbard - Paris. All being well I’ll be in Denmark tonight… but that feels a long way off just now! #EGPCongress#crossborderrail
Across Paris RER Gare de Lyon to Gare du Nord, walk to Gare de l’Est (faster than changing into a Métro to Est) and it’s onto the TGV to Mannheim. So far so good, but I banked on this bit working 🙂 #EGPCongress#CrossBorderRail
Franco-German train service. Very French prices! And no, it’s too early (and expensive) for #beerontrains 😉
Jeez. It could take until 2025 until TGVs are approved for the line.
And the whole effing point of Stuttgart21 - of which this line is a part - was to create a Paris-München high speed corridor!
Really, how can everyone mess up *so badly*?
And to those going “yeah but there are few TGVs anyway” true, but so it goes on and on. International services are the lowest priority - even when *they were the stated rationale for building the line*