The Brexit Thread

[Benjm]

John Redwood advises investors to back, sorry, back out of the UK. If I was feeling forgotten, I'd be hugely reassured to know that people like him and Dyson have got my back.

[Lang Spoon]

I’m in severe danger of expiring from apoplexy every story I read on this self inflicted shitnova. Shouldn't the slithery bastard be accused of Treachery by the Mail tomorrow?

[Benjm]

Don't hold your breath on that one...

[Pérou Flaquettes]

Will farmers be the new sacred cow voting block after pensioners post-Brexit? The Welfare State has to be dismantled

The welfare state, how quaint… what’s that again?

Hansard, the daily record of parliamentary debates, records that in the 1980s and 1990s, the phrase “the welfare state” was used on average around 170 times a year. By the mid-2000s, that had fallen to around 50. In the 1980s and 1990s, “social security” had around 2,000 mentions a year. By the mid-2000s, that was down to 370.

[Pérou Flaquettes]

Astonished he managed to earn that much money from a vacuum cleaner.

Where there's muck there's brass... Tomas Brolin doesn’t seem to have done too badly either with his Twinnovation AB, a "revolutionary" vacuum cleaner nozzle according to this.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Tory wonk types would get rid of farm subsidies tomorrow, I expect. They don't need votes in rural areas at all, so they might cut more deeply than expected. Maybe they'll try and redirect to Pillar 2 type rural development.

[Lang Spoon]

What’s pillar 2 classification?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Under the CAP.

The six priorities for the new rural development policy for 2014-2020 are as follows:
to promote knowledge transfer and innovation in agriculture and forestry (developing the knowledge base in rural areas; fostering links between agriculture, forestry and research);
to increase the viability and competitiveness of all types of agriculture, promote innovative agricultural technologies and support sustainable forest management;
to promote the organisation of the food production chain, animal welfare and risk management in farming;
to restore, preserve and enhance agricultural and forest ecosystems (biodiversity, water and soil);
to promote the efficient use of resources (water and energy) and support the transition to a low-carbon economy (renewable energy use, greenhouse gas emission reduction, carbon sequestration and storage);
to promote social inclusion, poverty reduction and economic development (facilitating job creation, promoting local development and improving access to information and communication technologies).

[Tubby Isaacs]

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Big: David Davis announces Government has conceded to Withdrawal Bill amendments enshrining Exit Deal as statute - ie both Houses/ amendable

[Ginger Yellow]

I mean, it's a minor victory for the rule of law, I guess, but it's completely meaningless as far as the exit deal itself goes.

[Tubby Isaacs]

At this rate it might be a confidence vote, after the clock's run out.

[Snake Plissken]

https://twitter.com/christopherhope/status/930113752975933447

"Audibly gasped". Why the hell did the penny only drop for them now?

[Ginger Yellow]

The amount of wilful blindness surrounding the Brexit process is truly astonishing.

[Lang Spoon]

David Goodhart on the tweets today can’t see why the bloody Irish are making such a fuss over the border. There are technical solutions! That don’t exist yet, and have to be invented within a year. No need for physical trick checking!

He is a horrible horrible cunt. Him and Rob Ford should take a long hard look at themselves and what they are aligning with. Sensible Xenophobia isn’t a good look, somewhere anywhere fannies.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Lots of them are likely gasping at the cunningness of the plan. Unfortunately, it's less like a fox who's just been appointed Professor of Cunning at Oxford University, and more like Dr Fox, Secretary of State for International Trade.

[Ginger Yellow]

There are technical solutions! That don’t exist yet, and have to be invented within a yea

And it's not like HMRC has a history of fucking up IT projects or anything.

[Tubby Isaacs]

David Goodhart on the tweets today can’t see why the bloody Irish are making such a fuss over the border. There are technical solutions! That don’t exist yet, and have to be invented within a year. No need for physical trick checking!

He is a horrible horrible cunt. Him and Rob Ford should take a long hard look at themselves and what they are aligning with. Sensible Xenophobia isn’t a good look, somewhere anywhere fannies.

Matthew Goodwin is another who tolerates this rubbish.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Goodhart reveals why he's optimistic about technological solutions.

David Goodhart
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People I know in Brussels

[Tubby Isaacs]

Spoony, have you come across this goon?

Paul Embery
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When people like me argued that an over-supply of labour, caused through EU free movement laws, depressed wages, Left-wing colleagues accused us of 'blaming migrants'.

We weren't. We were stating an obvious economic fact.

We are being proved right.

He cites an article. There's a problem with it.

Declan Gaffney
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The subheading states 'Starting salaries rose in October at the second-quickest rate since November 2015.'

The second quickest rate.

Since November 2015.

[Lang Spoon]

No, I have not. Is he one of these brave outside the box thinkers as well?

I thought yer Uni profs were all paid up Remoaner Traitors.

[Lang Spoon]

Goodhart reveals why he's optimistic about technological solutions.

Hannan, no doubt. Almost definitely a Brit anyway. Not a silly Paddy or Euroweenie.

[Tubby Isaacs]

No, I have not. Is he one of these brave outside the box thinkers as well?

I thought yer Uni profs were all paid up Remoaner Traitors.

He's a fireman. Has some role with the FBU.

He keeps retweeting Spiked stuff about people being offended too much.

[Lang Spoon]

Fucking Spiked. Sky news love that poisonous Institute of Ideas eejit (can’t remember her name but she’s almost as awful as Brendan O’Neill. Fucking Trots, dunno if I hate the one that stayed left and rapey more than the ones that went right and became rape apologists in general.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Clare Fox?

[Lang Spoon]

Oh yes. Question Time seem to love her as well. I guess unsubstantiated polemic and racist pandering are what counts as good debate now.