Brexit – Page 12 – Boojum

What Made Boris Johnson Flip?

Boris Johnson (2016-02-07):

Leaving would cause at least some business uncertainity, while embroiling the Government for several years ina fiddly process of negotiating new arrangements, so diverting energy from the real problems of this country.

A question on which the geo-political and economic future of this country may have pivoted: what the hell happened with this guy in the two weeks between him writing this and coming out for Leave?
(billboard location: Hull) pic.twitter.com/XYddxCLWSl

— Led By Donkeys (@ByDonkeys) March 3, 2019

Conservative politicians have been running a Facebook goup in support of Boris Johnson where its members have 'joked' about shooting immigrants & bombing mosques – alongside vile racist langauge, no doubt inspired by the casual racism engaged in by Johnson hmself… #ToryRacism pic.twitter.com/CUXURmdZB0

— StrongerStabler (@StrongerStabler) March 3, 2019

How the USA Take Control of a Little Island

So we voted to ‘take back control’ we wanted more sovereignty but looks like USA aren’t going to allow that.
America would seek to take appropriate action should officials disapprove of any terms of a trade agreement that 🇬🇧 strikes with an economy like China. pic.twitter.com/DpT6wmJjnn

— Jacq Dodman #FBPE #peoplesvote #revokeArticle50 (@jacqdodman) March 2, 2019

Hell for Planless Brexit Promoters

I agree there must be a special place in hell for that person #WeAreAllDonaldTusk check here — https://t.co/1tfeeu1fKs pic.twitter.com/SCATbNwaNy

— Chris J Keelty (@ChrisKeelty) February 10, 2019

European Council President Donald Tusk: "I've been wondering what that special place in hell looks like for those who promoted Brexit without even a sketch of a plan on how to carry it safely." https://t.co/SYBgpXU8A7 pic.twitter.com/f10OYeRhAi

— The Hill (@thehill) February 7, 2019

The art of finding a way to take offence and get on a high horse…

…called out by the John Bercow & Joanna Cherry. 👏

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— Mike Galsworthy (@mikegalsworthy) February 6, 2019

Jacob Rees-Mogg wrote this article below.

In it he says that Tusk “is saying that 17.4million people are stupid and got it wrong”

Rees-Mogg is deliberately misquoting. What a crook. https://t.co/5OAYb8Ra6F

— Mike Galsworthy (@mikegalsworthy) February 8, 2019

Dear Brits, how come that this aristocratic looking Jacob Rees-Mogg guy of yours keeps lying through his teeth and can get away with it? Seemingly he needs to misquote Tusk in order to push his project which will make him even richer but most of you poorer.

— Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) February 8, 2019

a sun which absorbs the day’s light

'Alexa, show me the sauna from hell.' pic.twitter.com/DChKFUECy9

— Julian Shea (@juliansheasport) March 2, 2019

In the Battle within the Elites the Emotions of the Commoners Are the Weapons

Actually, the Brexit is a battle about *which* elite takes (back) control over the British people.

Same story in the USA: Within the money elite, Trump was a kind of a joke. He now takes revenge.

The "idling" commoners are the weapons in these battles.https://t.co/eDhYFaHglZ

— Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) March 1, 2019

This is why Raab is a Brexiter: He needs to take back control from Europe completely in order to rule these British, the worst idlers in the world. Worse, these idlers really believe that "the people" will take back control.

— Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) February 26, 2019

Scotland Does Not Have to Sink with the Brexit Ship

The justification here from a UK Minister for trying to block Scotland’s right to choose independence is quite something – “once you've hit the iceberg, you're all on it together". Well, actually, no, Scotland does not have to sink with the Brexit ship. https://t.co/KcdBuY3ttH

— Nicola Sturgeon (@NicolaSturgeon) February 28, 2019

My goodness, the Tories really are terrified of the will of the Scottish people. This is not the look of a party confident in the strength of its own arguments. https://t.co/zGeAH7KGyw

— Nicola Sturgeon (@NicolaSturgeon) March 1, 2019

Heading for a Hard Brexit Means Heading for a United Ireland

Absolutely brilliant piece on #Brexit and #NorthernIreland by @PatricKielty who predicts that if we’re heading for a hard #Brexit we’re heading for a united Ireland https://t.co/HUQapXOZiP

— Dearbhail McDonald (@DearbhailDibs) February 26, 2019

Fintan O'Toole: Ireland has successfully shifted Brexit odds in its favour https://t.co/bd8eIUx4M8 via @IrishTimesOpEd

— Fintan O'Toole (@fotoole) February 26, 2019

Dramatic Shift in Theresa May’s Brexit Policy?

.@theresa_may is set to guarantee MPs a binding vote on whether to take no-deal Brexit off table if her own reworked Brexit deal isn’t approved by 12 March. This is huge shift by PM. It makes Brexit delay much more likely https://t.co/5jYC3QKx3P

— Robert Peston (@Peston) February 25, 2019

I Am Not Alone

We live in times where proposing to use a 2nd Brexit referendum as a step in a Deming Cycle (applied to the Brexit decision making process) seems to be a very strange idea to politicians. But today I discovered that I am not alone:

What data is this claim based on? I think it’s a hypothesis that needs to be tested by a #PeoplesVote on the specific terms of #Brexit now that we know what they are. In god we trust, all others bring data (attrib. #Deming) https://t.co/KvMeWSEdCj

— Chris Young (@worldofchris) November 23, 2018

I despair at how little it is known, and applied, in business. Management orthodoxy of command and control, and shouting, seems to go unquestioned.

— Chris Young (@worldofchris) February 25, 2019

What Kind of Second Referendum?

Labour’s move on second EU referendum seems, on face of it, v positive. But instinct says we should wait for detail. A referendum with no remain option would be ludicrous – so hopefully that’s not the proposal. https://t.co/w5e2wHa6BJ

— Nicola Sturgeon (@NicolaSturgeon) February 25, 2019

Please take care that a 2nd referendum is used to apply https://t.co/P1r9mHxoTV to the Brexit decision making process.

— Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) February 25, 2019

Let’s get some OODA loop in there too https://t.co/9wDlJxCl6A

— Chris Young (@worldofchris) February 25, 2019

"According to Owen Smith, Corbyn was asked 23 times if in a future referendum he would want Remain to be an option on the ballot paper. Corbyn declined to answer." Short version, it's a con. See @katyballs https://t.co/PouZ1Gk51B

— Sarah Baxter (@SarahbaxterSTM) February 25, 2019

Dear conservatives, please don't be stupid. Applying https://t.co/P1r9mHxoTV to the Brexit decision making process of course does not betray the will of the British people. In contrary, it helps the British people to come to reason. Seemingly you are afraid of that.

— Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) February 25, 2019

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