Showing: everything
The EU referendum was won based on a corrupt campaign, but the courts can't void the result because the referendum only advisory, according to the barrister who took the government to court.
"Brexit; It's all going just as badly as we knew it would..." Prof Michael Dougan gives an update [30 mins]
18/12/2021
Michael Dougan is a professor of European Law at Liverpool University. It is part of his job to know about the EU. In a half hour Zoom talk he gives us his assessment, and it makes for interesting listening. / Politicians and journalists will inform us according to their agenda. Academics guard their reputation and tell us how it really is.
“As you would expect from an independent nation, we can’t be subject to the rules and laws made by somebody else" / Really? That could have some rather far reaching consequences...
"Colleagues, this is not a moment for shortsightedness. This is a moment for solidarity." - Terry Reintke [1 min]
18/09/2019
"Colleagues, this is not a moment for shortsightedness. This is a moment for solidarity. With the hundreds of thousands of British citizens in the streets. They are counting on us. Let us give them the time to solve this mess."
"EU Commission paper which he says resolved the Irish border issues ... This claim is false."
25/06/2019
This Johnson surrogate keeps referring to a recent EU Commission paper which he says resolved the Irish border issues. Surprise! This claim is false.
"EU is the most important defender of liberal democracy left in the world. This won't change just because Britain has a new PM"
"Europe has clearly won the battle for its own share trading" / 99.6% of trades shifted to the EU overnight [1 min]
04/01/2021
"Europe has clearly won the battle for its own share trading" / Aquis CEO Alasdair Haynes, from London's second-biggest venue for trading European shares, says 99.6% of trades shifted to the EU overnight — "a spectacular own goal" for Britain post-Brexit
Designers and architects in the UK are suffering in the wake of Brexit, with companies abandoning exports and setting up offices in the EU to avoid losing clients.
It will be much harder for the UK to seek a US trade deal with a Trump administration that's more focused on trade wars."
"I can see no reason why any prime minister in their right mind would ever take us out" - Boris Johnson [2 mins]
28/07/2020
"I can see no reason why any prime minister in their right mind would ever take us out," says prime minister taking us out of the EU.
itizens from EU countries living in the UK are being turned away at polling stations across the country. #DeniedMyVote
US House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi says that the prospect of a post-Brexit US-UK trade deal rests on maintaining the Good Friday Agreement.
"If you’re a festival organiser in Barcelona, British bands will be at the bottom of your list" - UK acts playing Euro festivals have nearly halved post-Brexit, estimates report
21/07/2022
Freedom of movement and customs woes to blame, says campaign body.
"In all areas, the U.K. continues to backtrack," says EU Chief Brexit Negotiator Michel Barnier, accusing Boris Johnson's government of distancing itself from the political declaration previously agreed with the bloc
With my Brexit Twitter hat on, let me share some details on the steps involved in getting to that agreement, and why it's unwise (read mad) to expect it to be done quickly. [thread]
The London-based wall-mounted bike storage manufacturer attracted 50% of its business from the EU pre-Brexit and has been left with a £100,000 hole in revenues. /
"It represents a form of economic vandalism on Northern Ireland" - Taoiseach Micheál Martin [2 mins]
19/06/2022
Taoiseach Micheál Martin says legislation that has been published on the Northern Ireland Protocol "would effectively be very damaging to the NI economy".
"It's Parliament's fault, it's the opposition's fault, it's the Benn Act, it's Germany, it's Ireland"
08/10/2019
Labour's Keir Starmer says No 10 briefing shows PM "never takes responsibility for his own actions", accusing him of a "reckless blame game" with the EU.
"It's the end of democracy" - Dominic Grieve
09/07/2019
Dominic Grieve says suspending Parliament to force through a no deal Brexit against the wishes of MPs would be "the end of parliamentary democracy" and "should be denounced".