Here's the website for the Festival of Brexit (aka £120 million taxpayer cash spaff). It's been rebranded 'Unboxed' in the vain hope people will forget its origin.

WARNING: If you scroll too quickly down the page, you'll need a sick bag. Startling strobe!
unboxed2022.uk
How can anyone think that spending £120 million so that the 52% who already ruined all our lives can lord it over the 48% represents money well spent?

Feed. Hungry. Children. Instead.

Here's an article with more info about this chameleonic travesty.
timeout.com/news/the-festi…
BTW, I didn't read every word of every page, but I did have a jolly good peek around the Festival website and there's no mention of Brexit anywhere.

The Tory press release doesn't mention Brexit either.

Funny that, isn't it?
gov.uk/government/new…
Added: You can use this simple Google search to prove word "Brexit" doesn't appear anywhere on it:

site:unboxed2022(dot)uk brexit

Change (dot) into .
[Had to format it that way, or Twitter messes it up.]

Only 1 result: the site homepage. But "Brexit" isn't in its source code.

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2 Nov
"I never realised we were going to incur all these costs. We were told it was going to be free trade."

Comment from fisherman who regrets voting Leave can be read two ways. Free = frictionless, but also = no cost. Some people may have thought the latter?
theguardian.com/business/2021/…
If your instant reaction is "how can anyone be so foolish!" take a deep breath and a step back, stop, and REALLY think about it.

What would "free trade" sound like to someone immersed in their work/life and with no interest in politics (shock news: most people don't care much)?
The fact that you're reading this thread at all means you're in the minority of people who do care.

But that creates the "don't think of a pink elephant" problem: because it's obvious to you, it's impossible to see how it couldn't be equally obvious to others.
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31 Oct
What Labour should say to the Tories about Brexit:

"You told us you had an oven-ready deal. We chose to respect the referendum result by letting you try to implement it. Subsequent events have shown that it was a rotting mess. It is time to reverse the damage you've inflicted."
That instantly defangs the "But you voted for it too..." accusation.

They can lean hard on a sense of fair play:

"Given the large Tory majority and the original outcome of the referendum, it seemed prudent to let you implement a deal that you assured the public was oven-ready."
"But now that it has become clear beyond any doubt that what the British people were promised was not what they got, we feel compelled to step in."

etc. etc. etc.
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31 Oct
Calling all French-speakers... Is my translation accurate?

NOTE: This is the paragraph from a longer letter that has been causing so much trouble over the last few hours, with many journalists claiming France wants to "damage" the UK.

(Original above, my translation below.)
More context, if you're coming on this story fresh...
Here's the BBC, seemingly relying on the original false translation...
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-591011…
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31 Oct
Politico's reputation crumbles with stunts like this. If you speak French, you'll see there's been a deliberate mistranslation of what the letter said, in order to stir the pot on Brexit.

(If it's not deliberate then it's incompetent. Most news media took their cues from it.)
But then, Alex Wickham is alleged to be a godparent to Johnson's kid, so there's a very tangled wev there...
spectator.co.uk/article/inside…
Even our Brexit useful idiot in chief is quoting this false translation, and using it to attack the EU...
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30 Oct
Here's a nifty trick I just found out about...

Amazon has a "Matchmaker" tool for Audible audiobooks.

You can use it to check if any Kindle ebooks you own have audiobook versions available.

If so, they'll often be offered to you at a hefty discount.
amazon.co.uk/hz/audible/mat…
(It's particularly useful if you bought the Kindle books during a periodic sale or offer, because the discount on the audiobook seems to be independent of what you originally paid for the Kindle edition.)
Of course, it depends on you having Kindle books to match in the first place.

However, if you're an avid consumer of audiobooks, you may find it cheaper to buy the Kindle edition and add the discounted audio edition than to just buy the audio edition directly through Audible.
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25 Oct
Let's play a little game of "Which Tory MPs copied each other's homework on the sewage vote debacle?"

Each of these MPs authored a first-person blog post cribbing from the same underlying material. Some rewrote bits, others copied verbatim.

Simon Jupp
simonjupp.org.uk/news/environme…
Rachel Maclean
rachelmaclean.uk/2021/10/25/exp…

Anne Marie Morris
annemariemorris.co.uk/news/comment-l…

James Wild
jameswild.org.uk/news/measures-…

(Keep reading, there's more...)
Selaine Saxby
selainesaxby.org.uk/news/amendment…

Danny Kruger (he tweaked his base script more than most)
dannykruger.org.uk/news/what-last…

Ben Spencer
drbenspencer.org.uk/news/protectin…

(Keep reading, there's more...)
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