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Even by the standards of the #Brexit saga so far, it has been a harrowing week. This thread summarises it all. (1/11)
Davis talked about Czechoslovakia in Commons, while boasting he had good knowledge of the rest of Europe 🇨🇿🇪🇺
euronews.com/2017/10/25/bre… (2/11)
Tory MP Chris Heaton Harris sparked controversy by writing to universities about Brexit 🤦‍♂️ standard.co.uk/news/politics/… (3/11)
No one knows what’s happening with the 57 sector impact assessments on Brexit, except May hasn’t read them 😡 independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi… (4/11)
But despite important people not having read them, the assessments won’t be published after FOI requests 🙃 bbc.com/news/uk-scotla… (5/11)
DExEU lost another minister - Joyce Anelay stood down due to a helicopter injury 🚁💥 standard.co.uk/news/politics/… (6/11)
We also discovered that Cabinet has not actually discussed what future trade deal UK wants 🇬🇧🚛🇪🇺 express.co.uk/news/uk/869842… (7/11)
Some Brexit hard line Tories want to circumvent May and talk to 🇪🇺 direct. Good luck with that! standard.co.uk/news/politics/… (8/11)
Then we had Boris blathering on about a 350 year old treaty to get Portugal to help the UK 🇵🇹 politico.eu/article/boris-… (9/11)
And last but not least, the EU wants more negotiation rounds before December. But UK doesn’t 👏 bloomberg.com/news/articles/… (10/11)
Meanwhile the Article 50 clock keeps ticking.
Have a good weekend everyone! 🎉 (11/11)
Oops. @AnneFairweather reminds me I missed a few things. May said no transition w/o a trade deal. Sure! 😜 theguardian.com/politics/2017/… (12/11)
And David Davis said Commons might only vote on #Brexit deal *after* March 2019. ⌚️🤦‍♂️ theguardian.com/politics/2017/… (13/11)
This thread never ends. @mark_johnston reminds me Ivan Rogers said UK is screwed. The only honest news? politico.eu/article/ivan-r… (14/11)
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Jon Worth
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This brilliant put-down by @piris_jc was not only amusing, brutal, and correct...

...but made me get around to writing a blog post I've been meaning to write for ages.
Twitter may have its problems as a social network, and its fair share of detractors, but as a means to understand what is going on with #Brexit there is nothing like it.

But I am followed by the guy who wrote part of the Treaty of Lisbon! If you're an 🇪🇺 nerd, isn't that 😎?
Here is the blog post:
jonworth.eu/in-praise-of-t…

It's part thank you to those I have learned from in the past couple of years, and then also a kind of who-to-follow.
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Jon Worth
@jonworth
Before this week's #Brexit shenanigans, I said this:

"With May as Prime Minister there can be no Brexit deal"

I stand by that statement

I see no way that the #EUCO - ongoing as I write this thread - can give May anything that'll appease the Brexit hard liners in her party

🇪🇺 is not going to make the backstop time limited or allow 🇬🇧 to unilaterally withdraw it. So the deal on the table is essentially unchanged
The Tories reaching across the political divide to Labour still looks like a ridiculously long shot as well:
theguardian.com/politics/2018/…
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Jon Worth
@jonworth
In less than a fortnight the Commons is likely to reject May's Brexit in the Meaningful Vote.

When it does, the #PeoplesVote (a 2nd referendum) could yet be an appealing way forward.

#Brexit
I'm not much of a fan of referendums, but I see no way to stop #Brexit without a further vote. There are numerous practical barriers to holding a further vote, all of them surmountable.

BUT the main question is this:
*** How could such a vote result in a REMAIN vote? ***
I've sketched out 6 things that would have to happen were Remain to triumph in this blog post:
jonworth.eu/how-to-make-su…

A summary of the points is in this thread.
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Peter Foster
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So. A quick gut of the Juncker #brexit letter.

Shorter: not a game-change as expected, but SOME new stuff that might influence waverers. 1/Thread
First up - the Withdrawal Agreement isn't getting reopened. That's still the line, see second para in letter, which is here /2

assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
Then repeats December European Council conclusions which (as May said to House) do themselves have legal force - all that good stuff about "expeditiously" concluding a trade deal etc.

(Leave aside for now UK doesn't know what deal it wants) /3
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tony nog #FBPE
@tony_nog
1) @UKLabour - please think again - your leadership is not what you voted for

thread here following John McDonnell's appalling statement this morning where he said in effect it doesn't matter if Banks carried out illegal activity

@UKLabour 2) I'm not here to beg you to join the LDs or the Greens, but I am here to beg you to do *something*, because I'd argue "fighting from within" Labour isn't working fast enough.

And I admit I am focused on #Brexit, but I also want good, solid, *moral* government afterwards
@UKLabour 3) #Brexit, right now, let's be honest, should be on its a**e
- there's investigations into illegal funding
- the Gov. are a mess
- the leaders are deeply compromised
- 700k marched for a #PeoplesVote
- public opinion is turning
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Chuka Umunna
@ChukaUmunna
THREAD: Today's events in Westminster - which relate to the process and not the substance of Brexit - do not change the fundamental mess and chaos of Brexit. The UK is heading for a bad Brexit deal but its not a done deal - a lot will happen between now and the Autumn. /1
Its disappointing the so called "Grieve 2" amendment did not pass this afternoon (I,of course, voted for it) but significant that Ministers were forced to climb down and issue a statement acknowledging Parliament's vital role at the end of the process. /2
There are still 5 #Brexit related Bills still to make their way through Parliament which are legally binding and amendable: Customs Bill; Trade Bill; Fisheries Bill; Agriculture Bill; and, Immigration Bill. There will also be a huge number of statutory instruments to pass too. /3
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Steve Parks
@steveparks
Once again the @frontlineclub is packed with journalists, @Byline_Media folk, and TV cameras for the latest revelations in the Cambridge Analytica / Trump / Brexit saga from two whistleblowers.

Follow this thread for live-tweeting coverage, and forgive my typos...
... first thing to note is that security has been increased a level or two since last week’s gathering. Two checkpoints against the guest list, and a minder scanning the room.

We’re about to kick off...
... the focus of attention tonight is Shahmir Sanni, joined again by @chrisinsilico who was the focus last week. @carolecadwalla will be joining later when she’s filed at the @guardian
Chris is carrying a large ring binder of documents...
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Brexitshambles #FBPE
@brexit_sham
THREAD (1) When the likes of Hannan feel the need to 'brush off' something so critical to the right-wing/neo-con #Brexit wet dream, we find digging a little deeper to be useful. After all, ground breaking 'shadow trade deals' with right-wing US think tanks is no small fish.
(2) In fact, given the growing negativity surrounding the #Brexit negotiations, compounded by the Govts' own damning economic analysis, one would have thought Hannan and Fox et al, would be shouting from the roof tops about their bespoke 'shadow US-UK trade deal.' Wouldn't you?
(3) The problem for our intrepid trade deal making duo, as almost always, is to be found in the detail; just what are, and who is, behind these neo-con US think tanks? Perhaps Daniel would enlighten us?
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tony nog
@tony_nog
1) strong message here for remaining #Brexit supporters

You were lied to, you are led by chancers, get a grip
amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
2) Yes, ok, Remain ran a terrible campaign & Cameron was an arrogant fool.
Yes #Brexit sounded easy & even exciting
But, enough's enough
3) whatever happened in the campaigns, this is the reality.
There is no £350 M, #Brexit will cost far more than our membership
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