EU analysis, cross-posted to Blogactiv
The lines in Iain Dale’s blog post about the EU referendum yesterday started to gnaw at me. Here are the lines in full: They don’t even really take on the argument that the £350 million a week “promise” wasn’t in any way a promise. The words on the bus actually said “We send the EU […]
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£350 million for the NHS, Brexit, EU Politics, Iain Dale, UK EU Referendum |
20/02/2017
After Tony Blair’s Brexit speech last week, former Deputy Director of Britain Stronger in Europe (and now Edelman exec) Lucy Thomas tweeted this: Not all former Remain campaigners agree with this. #Brexit was democratic vote & need to work for best possible version not fight it. https://t.co/5rvPKvh3wX — Lucy Thomas (@lucycthomas) February 17, 2017 Shortly […]
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Brexit, David Aaronovich, EU Politics, James Savage, Jessica Elgot, Lucy Thomas, Nicola Sturgeon, Steve Peers, Tony Blair, UK EU Referendum |
When I set out to dissect Andrew Marr’s “An optimist’s guide to Brexit” (his piece here, my fisking here) I had no idea quite what a reaction it would provoke. Whenever I write something about Brexit it ends up leading to some Twitter debate, but nothing like what has happened the past 4 days. The tweet linking […]
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Andrew Lilico, Andrew Marr, Andrew Neil, Brexit, EU Politics, Iain Martin, Joe Armitage, UK EU Referendum |
16/12/2016
Trying to talk to someone in the UK about Brexit? Don’t contradict the laws of Brexit! Brexit means Brexit The British are never to blame for Brexit or any of its consequences Anyone seeing any problem with Brexit is talking the country down Giving any detail about Brexit shall be ruled out as the government refuses […]
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Another day and another “that can’t possibly be true, can it?” Brexit moment. This morning I read this in The Guardian, quoting Helena Kennedy and the House of Lords work on the rights of EU citizens to stay in the UK post-Brexit. The piece contains this line: People living in the UK for more than …
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Brexit, EU Politics, Helena Kennedy, House of Lords, National Health Service, UK EU Referendum |
Ask any Brits whose formative political years were the 1990s and they can answer you this question: “When will Britain join the Euro?” The answer, of course, is: “When the five economic tests are met!” The thing was that no-one could ever remember what the five tests were (they are here if you are interested), but …
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Brexit, EU Politics, Gordon Brown, Keir Starmer, UK EU Referendum |
I am often confronted with the line of argument that because something or other may or may not happen sometime into the foggy future, opposing Brexit is hopeless now. A Twitter conversation with Rachel Heyburn and A C Grayling this morning was a case in point. Now I am always someone who wants a plan. A way forward. …
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A C Grayling, Brexit, EU Politics, Keir Starmer, Opposition, Simon Usherwood, UK EU Referendum |
“Brave MPs” was how Guido Fawkes described the 6 Members of Parliament who represent constituencies that nominally voted Leave in the referendum, but who voted against the opposition motion* in the House of Commons this week that supported the government’s Brexit timetable and demanded a Brexit plan from the government (more about that plan here). …
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Brexit, Chris Hanretty, EU Politics, House of Commons, Representative Democracy, UK EU Referendum |
Yesterday was a significant day for those who follow the minutiae of Brexit, for those of us who try to ascertain what is actually going despite the cloud of obfuscation and media distortion. For months the answer to what Brexit means has been “Brexit means Brexit“, and when Theresa May has been asked for a way …
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Article 50, Brexit, EU Politics, Keir Starmer, UK EU Referendum, White Papers |
I count a pretty senior UKIP person as a friend. Yet whenever I tell that to some liberal lefty pro-EU contacts of mine they are repulsed and perplexed. They assume the person in question must be a Paul Nuttall or Roger Helmer, someone so hopelessly dim, racist or inconsistent that they cannot imagine how I could spend …
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Brexit, Bundestagswahl 2017, Cambridge Analytica, Dominic Cummings, Donald Trump, Echo Chambers, EU Politics, Online Marketing, UK EU Referendum |
Idealistic European with a British passport. Member of the Grüne in Germany. Campaigner, consultant, blogger. Writes about EU, DE, UK and tech. Train traveller.
