Excellent subtitle error as Michael Gove winds down no confidence debate. #batman #jeremycorbyn #NoConfidenceMotion 🦇 pic.twitter.com/WCj25DV583
— Nina Massey (@ninamasseyPA) January 16, 2019
Tag: Brexit
Waving the Union Joke
White flags 🏳 usually more appropriate for our Eurovision entry.
— ken grieve (@kenmgrieve) February 8, 2019
Donald Tusk
This is the photo of Donald Tusk painting an industrial chimney. He had to work like this for 8 years during the communist regime in Poland as he was blacklisted by the communist government due to his political activism. In case someone uses the "Brussels' elites" argument 😉 pic.twitter.com/IJ3639dk11
— Kasia Michalska #FBPE (@KasiaMichalska_) February 6, 2019
That's 2017 if anyone wonders — and yes, he carries 9 litre 6-pack of mineral water.
— Adam Ciernicki (@ACiernicki) February 7, 2019
Bad Customs
Secret Brexit agreements cover No Deal “open border” plan to not enforce customs checks at UK border
Exclusive: Secret Brexit agreements cover No Deal “open border” plan to not enforce customs checks at UK border
— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) March 16, 2018
Full Story #brexitforensics
Govt privately acknowledges no space for checks at key borders.
No Deal scenario discussed under NDAs involves not enforcing checks on as ‘pragmatic approach’, expecting reciprocity from EU.
Industry says its not happening:https://t.co/do0fbrlZkY— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) March 16, 2018
Government responds to our story.
Dexeu spokesman: “We want to have a customs arrangement that ensures trade with the EU is as frictionless as possible .Deal “by far and away the highest probability, but we have a duty to plan for the alternative. That is common sense”. pic.twitter.com/OnyjNWNavv
— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) March 16, 2018
Thread:
1. Eurotunnel tell us re the Government’s promise of “as frictionless as possible” trade… “the ‘As possible’ has to go. The only way to run this is frictionless.”— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) March 16, 2018
2. Treasury in minute to PAC has admitted there is not enough space for checks at key border points. “Border Planning Group has reviewed all border locations…at a number checks difficult to accommodate”… “Government is taking pragmatic approach to border controls…” pic.twitter.com/NGZCqTqmE2
— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) March 16, 2018
3. PAC chair Hillier unimpressed: “If solving this means throwing open the borders to all players… it is staggering after all the Government’s constant talk of controlling borders – we are faced with a situation which could be fairly open borders and chaos on Day One”.
— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) March 16, 2018
4. Freight Transport Association say EU will not reciprocate any UK unilateral non enforcement of border checks: “the EU is going to enforce the rules it has, it has to, thats the way it works,” says FTA’s Christopher Snelling
— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) March 16, 2018
5. Out of Single Market and Customs Union, there will have to be checks somewhere… current facility for both Channel Tunnel AND Dover, is off M20 at Stop 24 – it has 82 lorry parking spaces: pic.twitter.com/HQFHEzRVpu
— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) March 16, 2018
6. FTA’s Snelling tells me that operators are already operating dual pricing pre and post Brexit Day: “they’re having to set two different prices: one for now while we are still in the EU and then a higher price once you are out of the EU because of uncertainty”
— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) March 16, 2018
7. Border professionals basically not optimistic, eg JCCC Brexit committee chair MacSwiney (who refused to sign NDA) and is worried about a “disaster”.. though a Leave voter in referendum. “I did, but I didn’t vote for what it appears we are going to get now though”.
— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) March 16, 2018
WATCH FULL video report on our exclusive on No Deal, no border checks scenario communicated under NDAs to key border partners, which some have nicknamed “throw open the borders” option…https://t.co/2OxlIDJzhW Part 2 #brexitforensics investigation
— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) March 16, 2018
8. Meanwhile in Parliament, 34 MPs write to PM on this and similar Grayling comments… https://t.co/gVCveGypNc
— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) March 16, 2018
9. Other details – contacts say No 1 option for customs from Mansion House, the “customs partnership” which maintains no checks, but requires businesses to track goods to consumer refund different tariffs has been repeatedly treated contemptuously by manufacturers & logistics cos
— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) March 16, 2018
10. They say Highly streamlined customs option requires negotiations to start, will not deliver NI open border, and doubt the interest in EU negotiating it when majority perceived for staying in a Customs Union
— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) March 16, 2018
AAWG!
I desperately need to get some work done today, but have decided to set up an Alternative Arrangements Working Group to look at what even is work, why I should have to do it, and whether I might retroactively change my work contract to remove the idea of work from it entirely https://t.co/4xjYIeTmye
— Marina Hyde (@MarinaHyde) February 4, 2019
Fool Britannia
This is such a great piece by @harikunzru (and @fotoole).
Read it if you are British; read it if you are not! https://t.co/Wnbg2U733k— Sean Condon (@spc1965) February 4, 2019
Fool Britannia by Hari Kunzru, 2019-02 Issue of The New York Review of Books, about Fintan O’Toole’s Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain.
Brexit for the Birds
It is not the handling of brexit – it is brexit itself. The idea that Labour could negotiate a positive outcome to unilaterally withdrawing from the trading agreements we have with the whole world – not only all of Europe – next month (!) is for the birds. https://t.co/QxRgneL38z
— Brian Cox (@ProfBrianCox) February 3, 2019
Collective Madness
'Britain is one of the richest and most advanced democracies in the world. It is currently locked in a room, babbling away to itself hysterically while threatening to blow its own kneecaps off. This is what nationalist populism does to a country.'https://t.co/34SwtOZSnf
— Brexitshambles (@brexit_sham) February 2, 2019
D-Day
And yes, I’ve seen the shitrag spread for tomorrow. But I’m not sure whether I’m more angry about the ahistorical D-Day crap it seeks to invoke, or the completely twisted nonsense about settled status and the fee that it covers next to that. pic.twitter.com/4pSUYFASrL
— Prof Tanja Bueltmann (@cliodiaspora) February 2, 2019
Bollocks! There will be no election on the 6th June. After her 2017 performance the Tories wouldn’t let May take the risk. This story is designed to scare the shit out of MP colleagues in Leave seats in the hope they will vote for Mays deal. Let’s hope they can see through it. https://t.co/bJfS2gWWgs
— David Lammy (@DavidLammy) February 3, 2019
UK Labour Is a Mess
If it's real, then from day 1 they'd better be getting together with the Greens and Lib Dems to work out a shared electoral strategy.
— Zed Lipid (@ZedLipid) February 2, 2019