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William Lees #FBPE @WilliamDLees
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It's easy to forget the problems around brexit when news is short. So here's a quick summary of key issues ahead for the Government and the deal. #fbpe
ft.com/content/9251ec…
Firstly, the NI border. Pretty much everyone except the Government, including Parliament's EU Select Committee, thinks that the only solution is for NI or the entire UK to stay in the SM and CU, breaking remaining red lines. theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/f…
Secondly, other borders. Customs checks need infrastructure that is not in place, and would cause massive tailbacks. Is the Government prepared to risk food shortages and wreck manufacturing? Again SM/CU only answer.
theguardian.com/politics/2018/…
Next, EU agencies. UK now wants to stay in medicines, checmicals, flight safety, space agencies but it's not clear that's on offer if we leave. No contingency plans in place, no time anyway. uk.reuters.com/article/us-bri…
Then there's Euratom, which we don't wish to stay in, for some reason. Again no time to get our own agency ready. Risks to cancer care, research projects, power station spare parts news.sky.com/story/mps-dema…
If plans to stay in EU agencies don't work out, or cross too many red lines, will the government really put our health, flights, and energy security at risk? Would Parliament? Wouldn't we finally take to the streets?
Supply of overseas labour is a problem. Here is industry lining up to say that moving all overseas workers onto existing non-EU arrangements would cause major problems, red tape, disruption. Factories, nursing homes shutting. gov.uk/government/col…
Problems in parliament are looking tricky: both in the Lords, and in bringing business forward in the Commons. Telling thread from @YvetteCooperMP.
Brexit is by no means 'on course' or 'looking reasonable'. There are issues that could derail it entirely, disrupt it in Parliament, or make it just too unattractive to continue. When talks start up again and Parliament returns, there will soon be plenty more reasons to #Remain.
Worth noting that Parliament’s exiting the EU committee just issued success criteria that cover all these issues: free trade with EU, no border checks, alignment on standards. Also highlights security issues publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cm…
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At a time of widespread concern over one slogan on a bus, Leave campaigns were pumping out whatever messages they wanted on Facebook with no scrutiny. Readers may not even have realised where they came from. #fbpe #peoplesvote theguardian.com/technology/201…
Robert Mercer was investing huge amounts in Cambridge Analytica and its sister companies in order to influence politics - in the UK, US and other countries. Widespread potential for data misuse, but also links to black ops hackers and intelligence companies.
Russia was using harvested data to target misinformation on SM, aiming to destabilise Western countries and influence elections. It was also building business links with key players that may have gone beyond the exchange of information.
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On news, Any Questions and Today, BBCR4 has allowed the views of hard brexiteers to be spoken unchallenged. For months they spoke about WTO rules being perfect for our needs, seldom with any challenge from interviewers.
The same voices are heard over and over again: Farage, Lawson, Tim Martin, Dyson. Their continued appearances make people think that many people share their views, which is just not true.
R4 is doing little to educate and inform. On Today this morning, for example, the emphasis is on light weight articles about coming to terms with brexit, with little focus on the huge challenges in negotiations before then.
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Brexit Irony No.521:
Brexit would make Metropolitan Elitism worse-

The Brexit vote was against our London-centric system. So if there's an economic hit because of a Brexit London voted against, Westminster would make sure the London Banking sector survived but everywhere else...
Many of the problems that pushed people to vote Brexit had nothing to do with the EU. One of those problems was the government choosing to protect the banks who caused the crash with bailouts while ordinary people just got austerity.
The rich took irresponsible risks with the country's future, but they were protected either by moving their money away or by the government and it was those with least who suffered the most.
Sound familiar? #Brexit
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1. Labour Schism: the threat's real if there's not a major shift in #Brexit policy at Conference.
A #BrexitShambles harms UK
A #PeoplesVote is Democratic
A #FinalSay Confirms the Will
#Remain + Current Deal is Best Deal
Prob is the Leadership Stance
#FBPE
ft.com/content/e03f1e…
1a Big diffs between 1980s & today's #Brexit emergency which play to a new Centrist Grouping not being SDP2..
1. Politicised Remainers
2. Party loyalty less strong
2. Far Right infiltration of Tories
3. Macron
4. LibDems a Catalist with a base
5. Big Funders
A new party is Viable
1b IMHO #Brexit must be stopped before a Gen Elect...time's too short for that & a Ref & this #BrexitShambles can't be sorted in a multi issue GE unless Labour stands full square behind
#Reject #Revoke #Remain #Reform
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Here's a thread on the #Brexit #Backstop, the #Border and NI/IRL,
in which I try to succinctly explain why I think the UK govt has got itself in an unnecessary pickle on this one,
& how it might get out of it.

1/11
The Protocol is intended as ‘insurance’ in case a future UK-EU agreement is insufficient to meet the commitments made in the Joint Report bit.ly/2Bgjvj6. In that sense it is *already* conditional & envisaged as temporary.
It is a backstop, not a precursor.

2/11
The Protocol is the EU showing most flexibility (cherrypicking) *for* Northern Ireland in the very areas that the UK is finding hard to swallow, i.e. NI being in a Common Regulatory Area and the Customs Territory of the EU.

3/11
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#FBPE is on the same side as:
TUC
Unite, GMB & Community Unions
CBI, IoD, FSB, BCC & EEF
Labour NW & West Midland MPs
Majority of Labour MP's
Majority of UK population
UK public
Majority of Labour members
LibDem
Green Party
NUS
On: #CustomsUnion #SingleMarket & #PeoplesVote
The transport union, TSSA:
"The left should unite now and come together to stop this Tory act of war against our class...

Supporting Tory/UKIP Brexit is unacceptable class collaboration.
Full stop.

I like this. This is fighting talk

Ref:
tssa.org.uk/en/whats-new/n…

#StopBrexit !!
TSSA General Secretary, Manuel Cortes:

"Our focus is our people, their rights and those of their families, which includes retaining their ability to move across EU borders freely”.

TSSA was and is in favour of remaining in the EU.

tssa.org.uk/en/Your-union/…

#FBPE
#StopBrexit
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What the hell will it take to bring down the corrupt @Conservatives government?

Here's an evolving thread listing Tory atrocities (in no particular order).

#fbpe #waton #abtv #indyref2 #notinmynameTheresaMay
1) Tory sex papers... remember them?

#fbpe #waton #abtv #indyref2 #notinmynameTheresaMay

standard.co.uk/news/politics/…
2) @DamianGreen wanking at work?

#fbpe #WATON #abtv #indyref2 #NotInMyNameTheresaMay

theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/n…
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#Brexit 1
Cadbury moved factory 2 Poland 2011 with EU grant.
Ford Transit moved 2Turkey 2013 with EU grant.
Jaguar Land Rover recently agreed 2 build a new plant in Slovakia with EU grant, owned by Tata, same company who trashed our steel industry & emptied workers pension funds.
#Brexit 2
Peugeot closed its Ryton (was Rootes Group) plant and moved production to Slovakia with EU grant.
British Army's new Ajax fighting vehicles to be built in SPAIN using SWEDISH steel at the request of the EU to support jobs in Spain with EU grant, rather than Wales.
#Brexit 3
Dyson gone 2 Malaysia, with EU loan. Crown Closures, Bournemouth (Was METAL BOX), gone 2Poland with EU grant,employed 1,200.
M&S manufacturing gone 2far east with EU loan.
Hornby models gone. In fact all toys & models gone from UK along with patents all with EU grants
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