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3 years

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Reading Patel's comments at the presser, it is clear that what is intended is that people sent to Rwanda will not be "processed" for UK entry but will be expected to settle there permanently. It is deportation, not off-shore processing.

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The Brexiteers got a "free-ride" for the past 4 years because the realities of Brexit never hit. It looked like the UK had left the EU but everything stayed the same. Well, "phony Brexit" is over. "Real Brexit" is here. And the worst is yet to come. We've only just begun.

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There is a major "anti-growth coalition" in the Commons. It is called the ERG. It opposes the single move that could boost growth at a stroke. The UK rejoining the EU Single Market and Customs Union.

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Here's a prediction. The Tory leadership race is over. Truss has it. Sunak will withdraw within the next week. Either he will do a deal with Truss on a cabinet position or he will pack his bags, quit politics and head back to the US. He will not want to be humiliated in the vote.

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@afneil Decode: I'm a lazy bastard, so I believe everyone else is as well. I am making a judgement about the world of work based on my own inability to do any work.

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4 years

Johnson to the BBC: “They’ve done a deal with Canada — long way away — of a kind that we want, why shouldn’t they do it with us, we’re so near, we’ve been members for 45 years.” Just look at that comment and think about it. And then think about it again.

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Watching French TV. Macron's people handing out EU flags to supporters in anticipation of victory. It will be a victory for Europe. A victory for anti-Putinists. Emotional. Time for us European to go on the front foot. It is not a perfect union. But for now, the best we have.

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2 years

I have always thought that it is the "small things" that will see support for Brexit crumble. Long waits at airports; refused permission to travel with your dog because the dog no longer has a "passport"; roaming charges; unexpected medical bills; and the rest. Covid delayed it.

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3 years

On Jan 8, 2018, Farage met with Barnier in Brussels. As the meeting ended, Barnier asked him what he saw as the future UK/EU relationship. He replied, "After Brexit, the EU will no longer exist." He was not the only Brexiter to think that. Not the only thing they got wrong.

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2 years

A Brexit question. I have seen plenty of reports of UK businesses losing markets in the EU because of Brexit. Has anyone ever come across a business which said: "thanks to all the new barriers to trade with the EU and all the extra paperwork, we have grown our EU business?"

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Tom Hayes

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6 months

These rules do not apply to EU citizens. They only apply to people from non-EU countries. You voted to leave the EU. What did you expect would happen?

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2 years

I have now read the Frost piece a second time. I knew there was something missing. Could not quite figure it. Then it hit me. Not a word of explanation why he cut and run from government when he was in the box seat on Brexit. he can talk the talk, but can't walk the walk.

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I see that the latest Brexiteer "line to take" is that a trade deal with the US was never really that important anyway. Which explains why they went dolally when Obama told them about the back of the queue. With each passing day, they have less and less to show. No benefits.

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2 years

What really upsets you is the realisation that despite all you talk about “equals” you were the lesser part in the negotiations and that did not sit well with Britain’s imperial DNA.

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3 years

Could someone explain to me why Brits living in Europe are called "expats" but Europeans living in the UK are called "immigrants"?

Thousands of expats in EU could miss deadline on residency rights

Tens of thousands of Britons living in the European Union have only 30 days to secure their post-Brexit residence rights.Citizens of the UK who have emigrated t

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It is not rocket science. Why, after Brexit, would EU workers want to come to the UK to be workers with "second-class" rights when they can stay in the EU and have "first-class" rights?

UK hospitality industry loses nearly 200,000 overseas workers

Survey highlights squeeze on jobs market from Brexit and coronavirus pandemic

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2 years

If Johnson believes that he is right to equate the EU with Putin's Russia then under no circumstances should he be invited to the EU Council meeting next week. He has crossed a line.

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4 years

A sad week for all Europeans, the week the UK confirmed beyond doubt that as and from 1/1/2021 it will rebuild a border between it and the European mainland. Even sadder to see, the delight some took in this. When the consequences become clear, the delight will fade.

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10 months

Why is there "fury" over the EU respecting and implementing the Brexit deal that Johnson and Frost negotiated?

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Tom Hayes

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3 years

Some thoughts on the "vaccine wars" and Brexit. I have followed politics across Europe and the US since the 1960s. You learn quickly to differentiate between the "thunder of the now" - short-term sound and fury - and what matters in the long-term.

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It is not French or European law that is causing Brits these problems. It is Brexit and the ending of Freedom of Movement, which is what the UK voted for in 2016

The Brits forced to leave their dream French homes

Evelyne Heeley, 77, and her husband Brian paid €230,000 (£197,000) for a stunning home in the Occitanie region of southern France in 2004.

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3 years

This article cannot bring itself to say it - after all, it is the Telegraph - but what it is trying to say is that Brexit sold out the City. And there is no way back.

The City refuses to back down as Brussels piles on the pressure

City bankers are increasingly voicing their frustration and many have chosen to quit rather than relocate to the Continent

www.telegraph.co.uk

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2 years

The NI Unionists increasingly remind me of the Afrikaners in the dying days of apartheid. Almost alone against the world, except for some friends in a right-wing Tory gov in London.

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3 years

Sometimes, you just can't let it go. You got to respond.

President Barnier would be a disaster for Britain

An arrogant, aloof, wordy, pro-EU centrist drawn from the same narrow elite that has dominated the country for decades. It’s not that hard to see how French voters might choose to replace Emmanuel...

www.spectator.co.uk

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2 years

Another day, another Brexit benefit announced.

Brexit adds £200 to food bills

Brexit added more than £200 to household food bills over two years, contributing to record price inflation, according to research. The Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Econom...

www.thetimes.com

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7 months

Why "fury"? Did the UK not support these measures which apply to third-country nationals when it was an EU member? The UK by its own choice is now a third country. What's the problem with applying a law you voted for?

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3 years

Cattle, horses, mussels, models and bankers all being hit by new Brexit barriers. By the day, it becomes clearer that UK gov ministers and their Brexit advisors, such as Lord Frost, had no real understanding of what leaving the CU/SM would really mean. Brexit bill now coming due

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2 years

More from Frost: "My negotiating team was treated brutally as the supplicant representatives of a renegade province, culminating in us being shut in the meeting room in the Berlaymont until 2am on the final night of talks".

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6 months

A question. British TV is full of programmes about a "new home in the sun", a "chateau in France", and "rebuilding in Italy". Are there programmes on European TV about "escaping to Britain"? If not, I wonder why.

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3 years

It would appear that "freeports" should now be understood as ports free of exports as most countries will not accept their tax-free goods. Another Brexit promise bites the dust.

UK freeports blow as exporters face tariffs to 23 countries

Ministers admit some markets will be subject to duties under post-Brexit deal

www.ft.com

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2 years

Shut up in a room until 2am? Were they without food and water? Clearly, you have never been involved in an all-night labour relations negotiations. Did the EU threaten to send gunboats up the Thames to blow London out of the water if you didn't agree to the deal?

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4 years

The Brexiteers got a free ride from 2016 until now because the devastating impacts of Brexit were all invisible. Now the visible impacts are hitting like a hurricane. And what negotiating leverage does the UK have?

Baffling Brexit rules threaten export chaos, Gove is warned

Business groups tell ministers to sort out bureaucratic mess caused by EU trade deal

www.theguardian.com

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4 years

I have read Gove's speech. As a UK outsider may I make 2 observations. (1) He invokes FDR. Not a mention that at the heart of FDR's project was the promotion of unions and collective bargaining to ensure wage growth and the sharing of economic prosperity. I wonder why?

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Tom Hayes

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5 years

The level of delusion displayed in this article is staggering, on so many levels. Apparently, where the UK has ended up on Brexit is all down to Barnier. It should have been so simple. Just give the UK what it wanted. Not looking good for the next round.

Barnier was a total failure in his role as chief Brexit negotiator, and we can expect the same on...

The EU should have sent Barnier off to rewrite Croatian fishing policy

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Tom Hayes

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2 years

As @chrisgreybrexit has often observed, Brexit is a slow puncture. You know something is wrong with the car but you can't quite put your finger on it. Dover/Eurostar last weekend was different. It was a blowout. Can't be ignored. And the Brexiteers cannot lie their way out of it.

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Northern Ireland Unionists are losing, and they know it. If they had any sense they would campaign for the UK to rejoin the Single Market and Customs Union. Then the sea border would disappear. The UK will do it eventually. But by then NI Unionism will be irrelevant.

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3 years

Interestingly, all the business voices quoted in this piece complaining about the "Frost approach" to the EU are British. It is British businesses that Frost is wrecking, not European.

Business urges Frost to cool trade tensions with Brussels

Exporters call for less abrasive stance and build consensus to avoid damaging economy

www.ft.com

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2 years

Strange. Germany's per capita exports are almost twice those of the UK. Germany must have left the EU a long time ago to turn in such a performance. Germany did leave the EU, did it not? What! it is still a member?

Business chiefs: Turbocharging exports will give UK £500bn windfall

The Global Britain Commission report will this week detail how supercharging the UK's export market could deliver a massive post-Brexit windfall.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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1 year

Always worth pointing out that the DUP is not the government of Northern Ireland. They are a minority party, which greatly resents that they are no longer the majority party.

Northern Ireland unionist leader demands ‘change’ to Windsor framework

Jeffrey Donaldson says new post-Brexit trade deal fails to remove all barriers to trade with Great Britain

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3 years

Only one thing is certain. Every week the Daily Telegraph will carry at least three articles predicting the imminent implosion of the EU. Some things will never change.

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5 years

I see that Brexiteers still believe that (1) the EU is about to implode and (2) the UK holds all the cards and (3) "Magic Johnson" will deliver the UK to the sunny uplands. Nothing changes.

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2 years

When did any rational country seek to improve its economic performance by making it incredibly more difficult to trade with its biggest market by far? Brexit is a "business buster". Great piece by @pmdfoster

Channel ports could ‘grind to a halt’ over Brexit border checks

Modelling projects 29-mile queues from potential delays caused by new digital controls, says trade body

www.ft.com

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3 years

"An arrogant, aloof, wordy, pro-EU centrist drawn from the same narrow elite that has dominated the country for decades". More wordy than the arrogant aloof Boris Johnson, drawn from the same narrow elite that has dominated the UK for centuries?

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4 years

This is a great piece by @PeterKGeoghegan which explains a lot about Brexit. No 10 is not negotiating with the EU. It is campaigning against it. That is all it can do. It is all it knows how to do.

Why is Dominic Cummings still in No 10? Because Vote Leavers never say sorry | Peter Geoghegan

The adviser is at the heart of a government that is treating the pandemic just like the 2016 Brexit referendum campaign, says Peter Geoghegan, investigations editor of openDemocracy

www.theguardian.com

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3 years

"President Barnier would surely be a disaster for the UK. Why? Because he was the man responsible, on the EU side, for negotiating Britain's departure from the bloc". The UK was not expelled from the EU. Barnier was responsible for protecting the EU's interests as the UK walked.

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2 years

Truss in Belfast. "How many more times must I pose before Vogue comes calling? I am so much better than that Scottish attention seeker. I'd knock spots off her. They could headline me as "The Dame that Delivers".

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The way Lloyd George did in the 1921 Irish treaty negotiations when he said he would send gunboats up the Liffey?

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"Whitehall sources also say that Rees-Mogg will move to scrap the working-time directive in the UK that brought in the 48-hour working week." This is a key law for the EU. Scrap it and calls to end the TCA will be loud on level-playing field grounds

Ruthless Liz Truss plans to stamp her authority with four-day whirlwind

As Liz Truss hosts President Biden and other world leaders at Chevening in Kent this weekend, her team is preparing for a week of frenetic activity.Politics will begin again in earnest after the...

www.thetimes.com

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Tom Hayes

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3 years

2 points: 1. If Frost believes that the NI Protocol is inoperable then it just underscores how incompetent he was when he negotiated it. 2. It also underscores how incompetent Johnson was when he signed it. They always had an alternative - "no deal".

LORD FROST: EU must stop point scoring and work to protect the peace

LORD FROST: Just two weeks ago, the European Parliament finally ratified our agreement with the EU. This agreement gives us full control over our own laws, courts, borders and money.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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4 years

“The problem with this government is that it is led by journalists,” says one senior official. Not true. It is even worse than that. It is led by columnists. Journalists deal in fact. Columnists in opinions. A government of Oxbridge, columnist rhetoric.

Even Tories increasingly fear they have inflicted the worst of all worlds on Britain | Andrew...

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Frost is gone. Allegedly, because, ideologically, he no longer agreed with the government’s political direction of travel. But he was not appointed to the Lords and then to gov to craft a political philosophy. He had one job. Brexit.

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2 years

The argument advanced today that the UK is not a "union" but a unitary state that parts, such as Scotland, cannot leave seems to me to be undermined by the fact that Ireland, which was once a part of the United Kingdom, left.

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4 years

Brexit means borders and borders need permission to be crossed - whether people, goods, services or data. Permission costs and comes with consequences. The Brexit fiction always was that the UK could build borders at no cost and with no consequences. We'll see on 1/1/2021.

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4 years

Over recent weeks London has been calling on EU leaders to get involved in the Brexit negotiations, to sideline Barnier, seen as an obstacle to a deal. Yesterday, the EU 27 did get involved. They turned out to be even more hardline than Barnier. Be careful what you wish for.

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3 years

Reading around the WA/NIP over the past day or so it seems clear to me that: 1. Johnson/Frost always knew exactly what the NIP involved. 2. But because it was wrapped up in the overall WA they had no option but to sign to "Get Brexit Done".

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2 years

@simon_schama @adamboultonTABB The son of immigrants appoints the daughter of immigrants to stop immigrants from coming to the UK.

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3 years

Barnier/Macron: "Apart from the fact he (Barnier) is older, his hair is greyer, and his wife is slightly younger, it is quite hard to tell the difference between them". You can tell the difference. Barnier is a Gaullist. Macron is not. Your sexist comment is disgusting.

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27 days

What happens when the French army, navy and airforce show up and stop this happening? Just asking as someone who lives not far from a French beach.

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1 year

I was asked recently why I did not write about "Brexit" anymore. My answer: Because Brexit is done. The UK is no longer a member of the EU. But...came the reply. So, here are my thoughts on how I see things. I'm not sure they'll please anyone.

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2 years

I generally don't Tweet on issues outside Brexit. On Ukraine I will make an exception. I believe what we are seeing is the citizens in one European country after another forcing their politicians to get off the fence and be more robust in assisting Ukraine. Rightly so.

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3 years

@StevePeers There are no "advantages left for Ireland in the EU" except as the prime English-speaking base for all those multinationals who want to trade and sell into the Single Market. When we Irish see the shambles that is Brexit we are double-jabbed against following the UK out.

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3 years

"Johnson called on Macron yesterday to close France’s border with Belgium, where seven in ten Channel migrants cross on their journey to Britain." Close an intra-EU border to facilitate the UK? Delusional. That border is crossed by 1,000s daily.

Stop migrants crossing the Channel, France told

Boris Johnson has called on President Macron to stop the surge of migrants from French beaches after nearly 1,200 people crossed the Channel in a single day thi

www.thetimes.com

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3 years

But Brexit problems will not go away. They are here to stay. Issues over vaccine availability are not going to make structural border barriers over fish and pork and the rest suddenly disappear. When the vaccine tide goes out, the nakedness of Brexit will again become clear.

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2 years

This is a complete delusion. There are no circumstances in which the EU will agree to a "Swiss" deal with the UK. The EU does not like the "Swiss" deal it has with the Swiss! The piece also has the smell of "German car makers" - businesses will demand it.

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2 years

If the incoming CEO of a major multinational said: "My predecessor was wrong to withdraw from our biggest market. It has hit us hard. But I am not going to reengage with that market because it would upset a minority of our shareholders." He would not last long. That's Labour.

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"All through those years, he delivered ... lectures about ‘cherry-picking’ and the ‘integrity’ of the single market, oblivious to the fact that both sides would have to work out a way of getting along somehow once we had left". No. He set out what your Brexit red lines meant.

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"And he is completely locked into the Northern Ireland protocol he negotiated, even though it is clearly unworkable, and will have to be reformed at some stage". Do you mean the Northern Ireland Protocol that Boris Johnson signed and hailed as part of his “Oven ready deal”?

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I have now had a chance to read Forst's Command Paper. A fundamentally dishonest document, built on a myth of victimhood. "We were forced to sign the Protocol to get Brexit done". It also neglects the fact that NI voted against Brexit. The DUP is not NI.

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3 years

Well, this did not take long, much as we predicted yesterday: "Brussels has warned that it will sever a data-sharing agreement with the UK if London’s attempts to rewrite its internet laws are found to pose a threat to EU citizens’ privacy."

EU takes aim at UK plan to rewrite data laws

Britain seeks to chart its own course on internet regulation in the wake of Brexit

www.ft.com

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4 years

As an outsider, it looks to me as if the UK government with its defence of Cummings has just ended lockdown. Lockdown and the rest depend on public acceptance and adherence. And the police. The moral backing for lockdown has just disappeared.

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2 months

Halfway through Tim Shipman's third Brexit book. A fourth to come. They could all have been reduced to one sentence. "The Brits did not have a fucking clue what they were doing." All the rest is just padding.

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3 years

" ... Barnier is now committed to that deal. He made it clear that the UK had to be seen to have ‘suffered’ from leaving the EU". Read his book. He was at pains to make it clear that the EU was not interested in “punishing the UK. It was the UK that decided to punish itself.

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4 years

I would like you all to know that today I have informed my bank manager we have taken power to override clauses in our recent loan agreement because we now realise that they infringe our "domestic sovereignty". We will now unilaterally decide on payment terms. She is not pleased.

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3 years

"His personal political credibility is tied up in the agreement being stuck to rather than renegotiated, and in the UK suffering as much damage as possible". Any damage the UK is suffering is a result of UK choices. Stop blaming others for your own stupidity.

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3 years

Brexiteers might wish that the UK was in the Pacific but, unfortunately for them, it is in the Atlantic, 50K from the European mainland. While Brexiteers continue to obsess about the EU and wish it ill, 99% of Europeans think little about the UK, just shrug at its mention.

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3 years

Iain Martin writes: "Forget Brexit and build bridges with Europe", through culture, media, universities and bilateral political ties. Good idea, except for one thing. A great deal of such European activities is organised through and funded by, the EU.

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6 months

I keep reading pieces about how easy it will be for Starmer to rock up in Brussels and reset relationships. The writers still write as if the UK was inside the EU. It is not. It is a "third country". Outside. That changes everything. Someday, that euro will drop.

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2 years

Have a read of this report from @UKandEU - or even just dip into it - and then ask yourself: Why would any country want to impose such unnecessary burdens on its manufacturing sector? For what benefits? It is beyond bonkers.

Manufacturing after Brexit - UK in a changing Europe

David Bailey and Ivan Rajic summarise findings from their new report, Manufacturing after Brexit.

ukandeu.ac.uk

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3 years

"Macron is hardly popular". Check the polling data. Unless you believe everything you read in the D Telegraph. On, wait, You write most of that rubbish.

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Wallace paying the price of Brexit? Did anyone think the US would impose a Brit over the heads of EU leaders?

Britain’s fury with US as Joe Biden ‘blocks’ Ben Wallace for Nato chief

Minister’s ambition to be the alliance’s next secretary-general thwarted as Washington reportedly refuses to endorse his candidacy

www.telegraph.co.uk

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2 years

Explain to me again how the Protocol is hurting Northern Ireland?

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3 years

"In the end, his hardline stance meant both sides ended up with a far worse deal than was necessary and an atmosphere of mutual mistrust and suspicion that will take years, if not decades, to repair". It was not “his stance”. It was the stance of the leaders of the EU 27.

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3 years

Reading this by Iain Dunt the question occurs to me that if UK HGV training diverges from EU standards will UK drivers be allowed to drive on EU roads?

The government can't fix the lorry driver shortage until it admits it was caused by Brexit

They know that Brexit lies at the heart of what is happening, and that what’s happening must therefore be ignored

inews.co.uk

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5 years

It seems to me that many on the UK side completely underestimate what leaving the EU actually means. They seem to think it is just a matter of negotiating ex-member terms, similar to membership terms but without the obligations. Reality beckons.

Brexit talks: EU chief questions feasibility of Johnson's time limit

Ursula von der Leyen airs concerns about PM’s refusal to extend talks beyond 2020

www.theguardian.com

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3 years

"Asked if she could see Britain rejoining the EU or single market in the next 50 years, she replied: “No, I can’t see those circumstances.”" I suspect that these are red lines Labour may come to regret.

Labour party is now ‘pro-business’, vows Rachel Reeves

Shadow chancellor wants to reverse the UK’s decade of ‘lost growth’ with capital spending and partnerships with business

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2 years

Remind me of those unions which backed Brexit because EU membership was not good for workers?

DS Smith to close Kent factory as it pushes ahead in Europe

Chief executive calls on UK government to align regulations with EU rules to ease trade

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1 month

I see posts about the Brexit vote 8 years ago. It is over. The UK is out of the EU. You made a bad choice. Now, decide what you want for the future. That is not a question for the EU. This is now an internal British political issue. We in the EU have other things to do.

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3 years

According to James Forsyth in the Times "Covid is unlikely to transform the way we live" and cities will soon return to their old selves. He is wrong. Every major multinational I work with is planning for hybrid working, a mix of remote and office work.

Covid is unlikely to transform the way we live

The foreign policy debate of today would sound remarkably familiar to anyone working in Washington DC 20 years ago. The main topic of conversation was China’s r

www.thetimes.com

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2 years

I see Lord Frost is again calling for the scrapping of the NI Protocol. In the final chapter of my book on Brexit, I discuss the circumstances in which the WA was agreed and signed - no one forced Johnson and Frost to do so. They did it freely.

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3 years

"With President Barnier, if that is what happens, there will be no chance of that — and relations between the two sides will just get worse and worse". All as a result of UK decisions. Again, get real. Oh, and it will be Macron.

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3 months

What a stupid response from the Labour Party - and I am of that tribe. The correct response is: "When we are in gov we will see what the EU is proposing and we will seek to negotiate a deal that is in the best interests of young British people."

EU offers to strike youth mobility deal with UK

Labour party rebuffs scheme, which it says crosses Brexit red lines

www.ft.com

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3 years

Correct me if I am wrong, but did the people of Holyhead not vote for Brexit? It has been obvious that Irish traffic would start going direct to France etc. What did they think was going to happen?

Ports feel the chill as trade re-routes around Brexit Britain

In Holyhead, traffic has fallen 50% as hauliers stymied by Brexit find their way from Ireland to France without entering the UK

www.theguardian.com

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3 years

The slow puncture continues, key financial jobs drain away little by little.

Brexit transfers: Barclays, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley move senior City dealmakers to the EU...

Investment giants Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Barclays have started to move a range of senior bankers from their offices in Canary Wharf and the City to financial hubs across the EU. Ongoing...

www.cityam.com

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3 years

Can someone remind me? Who is David Frost and when was he elected by the British public to any office? Isn't he just an unelected Brexit Bureaucrat?

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3 years

So, this is Michael Gove's letter to the EU over the NI Protocol. Now, I have to say this reads like something written by a newspaper columnist, rather than a serious negotiator. Something to generate an immediate headline. "Gove gets tough with EU"

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3 years

@JMPSimor I live in France. Irish. Heading to Spain on Sunday. Got a Covid test yesterday. No cost. Medical team also updated my Covid cert so that it is now scannable. Test centre working like clockwork. After a slow start, France powering ahead.

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5 years

@DavidDavisMP @DominicRaab If only David Davis had been in charge of the Brexit negotiations... what a waste... why was he never given the chance....

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3 years

The reality is this. The UK has left the EU. It will not be rejoining anytime soon. Despite what Brexiteers would like, the EU is not going to implode or disappear. It will continue to evolve as the idealistic, but deeply flawed, economic and political construct that it is.

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1 year

According to Brexiters, we Irish "should know our place". We do.

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