Thread by @vivamjm

Ok so statements of the bleeding obvious that were somehow successfully dismissed as 'project fear' (now 'project here')

1/ leaving CU & SM will cause intractable problems over border in IRL. Automatic, now different customs & regulatory zones, border posts need to go somewhere

2/ leaving CU & SM means automatic need for greater space, staff & time for customs & regulatory processes at ports of entry/exit. (that UK doesn't have)

3/ leaving the CU means an extra 220m customs decs pa costs adding up alone to more than UK former EU annual contribution.

And to rules of origin complications far in excess of these costs

4/ leaving the SM means duplication of regulatory bodies & NTB/SPS compliance costs at vast expense, which combined with leaving CU (NTB) costs, meaning very obvious business job losses, contractions & failures

5/ leaving EU means leaving EU trade deals making UK more vulnerable & desperate for roll over/any trade deals. 3rd countries find themselves moving from lesser economic might to one of being much greater on leverage, against the weaker more desperate ..& ticking clock exposed UK

6/ leaving EU means *everything* in Europe (business, travel, work, touring, study & retirement) will *all* be more difficult and all more costly.... regardless of the/any "deal"..

(The "opportunities" often mentioned never expanded upon ...and no MPs/pundits care to ask)

.7/ leaving EU battle against the LPF and state subsidies is so that HMG can prop up some otherwise, no SM/CU, guaranteed doomed high profile JiT manufacturing companies/businesses for a few poltically expedient years ...

They can then state "nothing to do with Brexit guv'nor"..