#RejoinEU is only satisfactory means of addressing manifest problems caused by #Brexit.
To #GetBrexitUndone is a substantial challenge, but failing to pursue it is not a means of avoiding problems which mount around us as Brexit continues harming 🇬🇧
🧵 fedtrust.co.uk/getting-brexit…
Claims that rejoin is not a practical option are in a sense self-fulfilling.
A key obstacle to this objective is that those who might seek to achieve it are dissuaded by the perception that such a programme is doomed to fail.
Recognising that such predictions need not ….
be correct is a means of overcoming them. It is not possible atm to provide a precise map or timetable to rejoining. But it is clear that the process can only begin with people openly acknowledging the necessity of this objective.
When doing so, they should urge others to combine with them, working within and outside existing party-political structures. When faced with growing harm, the time to commence reversing the action that has caused it is now.
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2022 saw rise of #Brexit regret. Opinion polling saw high support for #RejoinEU
So what changed?
1. In Dec @CER_EU found that Brexit cost 🇬🇧 a staggering £33bn in lost trade, investment and growth with estimated the tax loss from Brexit at c. £40bn.
1. We must be better at succession planning… local parties should be supported and encouraged to look at forward cycles, in both all ups, and by thirds’
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2. Our local Council teams are fantastic, but we can improve. I talk to too many Cllrs and candidates who are frustrated by the lack of reasonable adjustments. I will help local execs understand and improve the issues.
3. Data is important locally, but it's not "all" that's relevant. People vote for people. A really strong candidate (even with little data available in the seat) is sometimes worth promoting more than a less popular candidate in an election with strong data.
Heseltine opens with claim @Keir_Starmer has made major political mistake on #Brexit.
Heseltine says we are interwoven with Europe and Truss has to do another u-turn on Brexit.
@DavidGauke says Truss is asking right Q on growth. We need to address issues caused by #brexit.
The issue is access to European markets. Restoring a sensible relation with the EU has to be a priority. So we will become rule takers but economic logic is pulling us in that direction: despite labour and Tory interagency on this issue.
Undermining of institutions is part of 6 yr Brexit-driven flight from reality in which any individual/institution that provides unwelcome advice is dismissed as part of some giant left-wing, woke Remoaner plot, a conspiracy that now apparently includes the world’s dealing desks.
Kwarteng’s budgetary gamble was driven by urgent need to demonstrate some economic benefit from a Brexit that so far has led only to slower growth, weaker public finances and higher taxes.
The risk is that the failure of this gamble, with cost of higher interest rates looking likely to wipe out any demand boost from lower taxes, will only intensify the search for people and institutions to blame.
Letter in the Times today from Leigh Lewis, who headed DWP between 2005 and 2010, saying that if Simon Case does not have the “courage and conviction” to stand up for the civil service, then he “needs to make way for someone who has”.
And there’s more ….. 🧵
Former head of civil service Lord Turnbull says ministers are picking a fight with civil service to distract from their “rubbish” leadership on the economy over past 12yrs.
He said it’s “completely unconvincing” to blame officials for sluggish growth ….
… while ministers ducked unpopular reforms that wld boost the economy.
After Truss promised to overturn “Treasury orthodoxy”, Turnbull denied such thing existed, pointing out the dept had implemented policies as diverse as bank bailouts, austerity, furlough & energy price caps.
Expectations for #Brexit benefits have in fact mirrored hopes of #iraq invasion unearthing WOMD.
Hopes for cheaper food/fuel have seen 🇬🇧 prices soar above EU as 🇬🇧 businesses drown in red tape.
Even #Brexit opportunities minister failed to identify Brexit bonuses.
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Rees-Mogg was promoted to business secretary and now in charge of cutting regulation to “boost business-led growth and investment”.
A crucial job as 🇬🇧 is crushed by global energy crisis — a role that one of wealthiest in cabinet is expected to relish.
But who will benefit?
@MarkJLittlewood says JRM is instinctively opposed to heavy-handed regs … he once observed that he’s not sure it wld have been possible to set up Somerset Capital due to growth in financial regs.
Regulations introduced to protect people from repeat of 2008 financial crisis.