Looks like a con job sale of a bill of goods:
Oh and on top of that, Labour will be seizing or spending hundreds of billions on nationalising industries (most of which are owned by non-British companies), and undergoing a foreign policy shift from the West to the likes of Russia, Venezuela, Iran and Syria, so even we get to smile about the Tories being obliterated for generations we’ll have survive the Glorious Peoples Republic of Jeremy.
Yup. The governments own non partisan figures put the BEST CASE scenario under Brexit as being twice as bad as the 2008 crisis.
I mean I know Brexit isnt all about money but I would have thought that would give everyone pause.
Brexit austerity is going to be a real thing, less money for the NHS, less jobs and obviously far less foreign investment in the UK.
It is rather terrifying to me that the leadership of Conservative and Labour have no basic understanding of how the economy works. If they did they would be rather focusing on this a lot more.
So far even the soft impact has been huge, London has lost over a trillion pounds in assets already with more to come.
“In its latest Brexit Tracker, EY said that 23 companies have announced the transfer of about a trillion pounds in assets, up from 800 billion pounds in the last quarter.”
They can’t. Because you can’t in good faith accept those numbers as being real, and still support Brexit - and most of the MP’s have now tied their political identity up in delivering the Brexit they think their voters want. So… not real.
Of course. Also the reason why EU negotiators are reported as being rather bemused by the UK government’s weird fixation on physical trade goods. But again, the cognitive dissonance in the UK is strong on this area. Because there’s no way to avoid the exodus without accepting freedom of movement, and since nixing freedom of movement is a red line - seemingly THE Red Line of Brexit - the UK government is willing to accept that wound in order to deliver Brexit.
It’s funny how, no matter how badly people get screwed by capitalism, they always point to their fevered imagination nightmares of how much worse the socialists would be.
Remember I attend CLPs and sit alongside these people. Their plans for nationalisation are utter fantasy and are completely incompatible with a global economy. This isn’t about taking utilities and transport infrastructure into state ownership by offering fair, market value compensation to the shareholders at home and abroad. This about “seizing companies from billionaires” without compensation. This is about punishing “evil” corporations, and ending banking. This is the key takeaway from the hard left. All companies are immoral, all banks are evil, trade and finance are the enemy. (Although not the main enemy, which is the The Great Satan, America) .
Seizing the means of production and centralised command economies just aren’t going to work in 2019. We cannot afford to be a global pariah.
Don’t get mixed up between the British hard left and the left centrism of AOC, Bernie and the American socialists, who sit closer to me and Blair on the spectrum. AOC and Bernie probably sit to my right tbh
And another extension is requested, out to the 30th June.
I’m delighted because the extensions give me more time to continuing transferring a large portfolio of clients ($billions) to our EU regulated entity. The project went from crazy rush to a more relaxed pace.
It’s never coming back. The tax revenues probably covered an A&E unit and staff for a year, but who needs hospitals and nurses eh, we can cure everything with magic sovrunty beans.
I particularly like how she says the impasse cannot be allowed to continue, in a a letter in which she asks to be allowed to continue the impasse.
30th June is a weird date chosen almost as to guarantee a rejection.
Asking for 22nd May (one month less) would have avoided EU elections. With this request, they will have to have elections, but I’m unclear whether UK’s elected MEPs in this case would even get to sit in their seats, given that there’s just a month after the election to the requested departure date.
The EU was offering a one year extension that could be cancelled on WA approval. Not going for that seems misguided.
It’s easy to read some strategy into that date, but all I see is panic and flailing. The Tory party must be freaking out at May calling the leader of the opposition to come and help her solve problems she cannot.
Guardian coverage is speculating that May doesn’t want to be seen as willingly taking up Tusk’s offer of a one-year flexible extension so has offered the June 30 extension knowing it will be rejected. As if she’s trying to appear to have been left with no choice.
This exchange is pure gold.
Brexit is absolutely going to result in the dissolution of the UK. Or to put it another way; if Sturgeon cannot leverage Brexit into a referendum victory for leaving the UK, then Scotland is never going to leave; or, at the very least, it will take a generation or two before another vote becomes possible. The only question is whether it will also result in the loss of Ireland and/or other places.
Sturgeon is smart, though. She’s letting the UK government (and Labour) have all the rope they need to hang themselves with, before she makes her move. But no question she will ask for another referendum once a deal (or no deal) has been agreed.
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Interestingly the polls don’t appear to have moved much:
Latest for Scottish Independence:
Remain in UK: 51%
Leave the UK: 45%
I’m expecting that once the Brexit pain begins to hurt for real, those numbers will shift quickly.
Are the DUP actively opposed to / trying to end the GFA? It’s hard to understand their pro-no-deal Brexit stance otherwise.
Implacably. They were opposed it at the time, they resented power sharing with Sinn Fein, and they blew up the latest power sharing agreement over the Irish Language Act, of all things.
Ah, well that’s very helpful of them. I guess it explains a lot about how things have gone, since May’s majority relies on them. Thanks!
Brexit is still an abstract thing to most people (enter obligatory quote about how twitter/internet does not reflect the real world).
When things go south badly - and they will eventually - it would be very surprised if those numbers don’t shift. And obviously, the SNP will be working to put the blame on Brexit for everyhing that goes wrong - deserved or not.
I’m pretty sure that, among Scots, opposition to Brexit is greater than opposition to independence. Those two attitudes are in conflict, then, and I would not want to rely too much on the latter given what’s happening with the former.
