#BREXIT

Richard Elwes

RichardElwes

These articles on the Demise of Soft Brexit by @anandMenon1 and @jillongovt are thoughtful and interesting. But there is something that bothers me about them. 1/8https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/who-killed-soft-brexit-eu-european

Anti-Bullshit Alien

LennieMerrick1

Why is everyone limiting the "cost of Brexit" to lost GDP? What about the actual, uh, costs of Brexit? The extra civil servants? The trade negotiations? The ferry deal? The

davidallengreen

davidallengreen

"Ha ha, you thought Article 50 would never be triggered" come the occasional tauntLooks around at the increasing political, policy, legal and economic chaos'And this is why,' is my response'No

Max

maxetempler

I've not tweeted about this yet, but at @BritainThinks we published our latest version of the #BrexitDiaries on Monday (full report here: https://britainthinks.com/news/the-brexit-diaries-the-end-or-a-new-beginning-a-study-by-britainthi

🇪🇺 Om until serene 🇫🇷

Sonnet_Lumiere

I just had a (controversial) epiphanyTo Brexiters telling me "You just want Brexit to fail"You're damn right I do! I hope it is a catastrophic failure & UK crashes &

Pascal 🇪🇺🇬🇧

PascalLTH

If you're curious how other countries are presenting the UK-EU deal, this is the verdict from a French left-wing paper:It is "packed with regulatory brakes stopping London from undertaking social,

emptywheel

emptywheel

SuperCOVID has become Practice Brexit.https://twitter.com/SiCarswell/status/1340718950951358466 Again, SuperCOVID is practice Brexit.At least we know that BoJo is going to be flail squared once the real one starts.https://twitter.com/BBCSim

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

OK, so we're apparently getting more or less a UK-EU free trade area for goods, although service trade will de facto face new protective barriers 1/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/24/business/Brexit-deal-british-pound.html?action=click&

Joe Mayes

Joe_Mayes

New: EU hauliers are refusing deliveries to the U.K. in January, due to threat of Brexit border chaos. Excellent story by my colleague @alexlongley1 1/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-15/europe-s-top-trucker-says-brexit-chaos

Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡

uk_domain_names

There is a notion in Remain circles that everyone had access to all the facts of Brexit, weighed them up, THEN decided to ignore them.Reality's more prosaic: the massive Brexit

Aaron Rankin

Aaron_R_Rankin

Forgetting for a moment that the EU itself is a serial breaker of international law (see the recent German Constitutional Court decision) & the fact we haven’t actually seen what

David Henig

DavidHenigUK

In how many ways does it need to be said that it is the UK government's choice to go for a hard Brexit with minimal regulatory alignment and maximum checks?Also,

David Henig

DavidHenigUK

Today, in "predicted consequences of Brexit turn out to be right", our first entry is some shortages of fresh fruit and veg...https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9132689/Supermarket-shelves-hit-Brexit-port-chaos-staff-shortag

Duncan Hothersall🌹

dhothersall

Remember when the Scottish Government was happy to cite the Centre for Economic Performance when assessing the economic impact of Brexit in 2016? Apparently the same organisation's assessment of the

Mujtaba Rahman

Mij_Europe

I agree there are now tailwinds behind a UK-EU Brexit trade deal, but *not* because EU is supposedly suddenly willing to compromise on state aid, but rather because @10DowningStreet now

Michael D. Watkins

mdwatkins_

If you'd asked me a year ago what my stance was on Welsh independence, I would have been fervently against. In the last 12 months, however, I have experienced a

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