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Hugo Dixon
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1. David Davis is either ignorant about how Brexit negotiations work or prepared to inflict chaos on us.
2. Under article 50 there is no way to do a withdrawal deal with out the European Parliament giving its consent.
3. If there is time for the European Parliament to approve a deal, there will then be time for our parliament to approve the deal as well.
4. If our Brexit secretary is really ignorant of this, God help us.
5. But if David Davis is really plans negotiations to continue until March 2019, this means we will crash out with no deal. Total chaos.
6. Government's promise to give our Parliament to vote on the deal before European Parliament considers it is in tatters
7. Government is treating Parliament with contempt.
8. All the more reason to amend withdrawal bill so MPs get a vote whether there is a deal or no deal.
9. Government is making such a hash of Brexit that NO Brexit must be an option. #StopBrexit.
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Hugo Dixon
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1/ PM's Brexit proposal will turn UK into a eunuch without even protecting 80% of our economy, services. And to get a deal, we'll have to make more concessions to EU. This is NOT a soft Brexit. It is a castration Brexit. We need a #PeoplesVote
2/ May doesn't just want to follow EU rules on goods. She wants to do same on competition policy - and is hinting she'll do same for environmental, social and consumer policy too. How is this taking back control? Vote Leave = LOSE control
3/ We'll pay "due regard" to the ECJ too. No harm in following EU rules or ECJ when we make the rules and have judge on the court. But doing so without a vote on rules or a judge turns us into a quasi-colony. #StopBrexit #PeoplesVote
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Hugo Dixon
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Absolutely bloody marvellous. Theresa May has caved on a meaningful vote. Fab day for democracy. Chance of #PeoplesVote has gone up. So has chance of stopping Brexit entirely.
My column gives more detail infacts.org/may-caves-on-m…
UPDATE. I have edited the column to inject more notes of caution. Still think this is good news. But more work will be needed before government concessions can be banked.
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Hugo Dixon
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1/7 Customs partnership isn’t enough to avoid border controls - we'll also need to copy EU rules on goods too infacts.org/7-home-truths-…
2/7 …but "Max Fac" isn’t even part of the solution. Embrace that and we undermine peace in Ireland and gum up our industries’ supply lines too.
3/7 Customs partnership doesn’t help services... To achieve that, we’d probably need to follow the EU’s rules on services too.
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