Brexit.

When you have to pick a line that doesn't actually say what you're campaigning for coz after 2 years you still don't know what it is.

"it's time to deliver what the people voted for"

Just to be clear leave. If we give you another 2 years will you have an answer? I mean honestly how ridiculous is this. How about

"time to deliver Canada+"

Or

"time to deliver EEA"

Or

"time to deliver no deal and go WTO"

And why don't we have those lines? Coz these clueless idiots rely on not admitting they have no idea what they want.

Brexit.

The plan to turn Great Britain into Hate Britain. Brexit.

From Rule Britania.

To Cruel Britania.

You're married with kids, you both work, life is tough but you're getting by. You sometimes row but mostly get on.

One day the other half leaves you with the kids and the bills.

It's not an affair. It's worst. They're off to find themselves on a beach and have no plan.

Brexit You have an OK job, it's not great but it pays. One day you get made redundant, it's devastating. How are you gonna pay the bills?

Your asshole boss says, "don't worry, you won't have to pay for the petrol to get to work, let's call that a bonus"

Brexit Dividend.

They charged forward.
No plan and
No thought for the consequences
A combination of
Naive Optimism
British Arrogance
And deaths on their hands

The Charge of the Brexit Brigade

I give you this celebration of their failure. The Charge of The Brexit Brigade

Half a measure, half a measure
Half a measure onward
All in the valley of Uxbridge
Rode the six hundred thousand maginals.
“Forward, the Brexit Brigade!
Charge for the guns!” he said.
Into the valley of Failure
Rode the 600,000

The vile misrepresentation of the latest Wetherspoons beer mat is horrendous.

You can all pick your own holes in the childlike representation of the issues but if you care to read further then I've done so for you.

You gotta wonder how Tim Martin personally benefits. 1. £39B is what we owe due to previous British comittments to the EU like pensions.

Not paying is like ditching your flat before renewal, and leaving your flatmates in the lurch with the bills.

Good luck finding new flatmates.

Who would trust you not to do similar to them?

Let's talk about Patriotism.

These people are the last true British patriots. They fought and died in the second world war, sacrificing everything to defeat the ever appealing evil populist ideas of Fascism and Totalitarian Communism. These wonderful people, grandparents and great grand parents of anyone under about the age of 50 were like a great vaccination for society.

They had died fighting populists and demagogues. They recognised false promises and tribalism. And they promised to never let it return

I'm attempting an oto analysis on what the press support of Brexit was compared to the Government spending on consequences of Leave might be.

The number I get is

Spent by Gov £9m
Spent by Pro Leave Press £109m

Has anyone actually done this seriously by collating articles. Methodoly as follows

Number of pro leave papers = 5
Time devoted to leave arguments =365 x 2 (longer of course but counting serious pre campaign period)
Average EMV of leave coverage £30K per day*

*this is a complete SWAG. It's based loosely on advertising space unsold

A thread on the problems of No Deal and its friends WTO and FTA.

I'll be neutral, simple and logical and to avoid fake news and stay objective, I'll quote data.

Brexit often skips the awkward details to sell a dream. I don't want to do that so call me if I miss stuff. Definitions.

No Deal and WTO - same thing. One is the plan, the other is the result. In other words crashing out of the EU with nothing agreed and relying on "WTO" terms.

The Free Trade Arrangement assumes no tarrifs on either side and otherwise no agreeement crashing out.

Brexit seems to have run completely into a wall. This will be a thread on how to leave the European Union.

It's written by someone who thinks the idea is ludicrous so before you attack me leavers, instead think how objective that makes me, and how honest I'll be on the issues. There are a number of significant hurdles associated with leaving the EU so we'll move away from the politics and divide them into bite sized chunks that everyone can understand.

When we've done that we'll look at what we have at the end and decide how we approach it now.

A thread on the contradictions of leaving the EU. It'll try to be as neutral as possible in the circumstances. And it'll try to be simple and logical.

Let's separate this area by area into bite sized chunks so we can understand them, and then look at what we have at the end. 1. trade.
EU is the UKs largest trading partner, about 40-50% of trade depending on whether you count services. That trade % is declining over time, but not fast.

Most of your infrastructure and logistics are built around the EU too so that's a factor to consider.

I was inspired by the marches in the US and UK. They look like the Civil Rights Movement and that reminded me. There is evil in the world but fighting one form of hate with another version of the same hate isn't the answer.

This will be a thread about hope for our country. In the 1960s. Martin Luther King had every reason to hate. He'd been discriminated against, beaten, and segregated from society. Yet he built his civil rights movement on hope for the future. He had a dream that all people were equal.

Northern Ireland is a tipping point for Brexit. Even my more Brextremist family members have started to say "Whoa. Hold on there old chap. We liked this idea but not enough to screw that whole Ireland thing up again".

And that from the least pragmatic Brexiters I know. Over the last month its become a palpable problem. First the weird technology that the more buffon supporters jumped on, but the older family members frowned at. Then the hoey intervention that the GFA wasnt sustainable and now Boris Borders.

The whole thing scares the horses