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'In the @FT actor, Michael Douglas, says the following to @MattGarrahan about Brexit.'
'apparently the imperial pint bottle was 600ml so not a pint at all?'
Just look how Indian tv channel @WIONews reports on #Brexit (4 mins)
'Anyone thinking UK and Johnson didn't sell out to Australia should watch these Australian TV presenters laughing out loud about it'
Another great Raab clip, this one from 2016. It appears he and and other senior Brexiters took us out of the customs union without understanding any of the ramifications
'accession to the CPTPP highlights a major scrutiny deficit in the U.K. Parliament. Namely that Parliament is not asked to consent'
'UK joining CPTPP doesn't make that much impact any which way' (thread) - David Henig
'Here's the provision on possible withdrawal from the CPTPP. The claim that joining it means that the UK cannot rejoin the EU is obviously false.'
Lots of veg and tomato’s in Tesco in Budapest
'The world is laughing at us, not with us. Venice. When I asked the waiter what was on the brexit pizza, he said...'
"We have lost thousands of frontline staff... because of Brexit and an immovable visa system" [1 min]
Speech on the Retained EU Law bill by Alyn Smith : "If you will do this damn silly thing, don't do it in this damn silly way." [3 mins]
UTTER CAR CRASH by Andrew Bowie [3 mins]
'I’m afraid that this article by Jacob Rees-Mogg is deeply disingenuous.' - George Peretz KC
“I don’t accept the premise that Brexit will make us poorer” says Chancellor Jeremy Hunt - There is now overwhelming evidence it already has! [3 mins]
“Brexit, for our industry, there’s not a single positive about it” - Tom Kerridge
"The really big self-harm inflicted by the UK on itself was Brexit," which has made the current crisis much worse. - economist Peter Doyle
'In the Eurostar terminal in London, there’s an advert from the Wallonia region of Belgium, encouraging British firms to relocate to avoid post-Brexit trade problems.'
Brexit: an update (with Anna Ford) [3 mins]
The fall of the British Passport "In 2010, it was ranked as the most powerful in the world..."
'I hoped we would go for a sensible version of Brexit. It’s forcing businesses to comply with two sets of regulations.' - Former Siemens CEO [2 mins]
'In just one week I will finally leave Brexitland for good. Let me know if anyone ever finds those sunlit uplands.'
'New Zealand television is completely mystified by the amazing Brexit trade deal Liz Truss keeps boasting about.' [2 mins]
'Leaving the EU has made leaving the UK much more difficult. We asked to be treated like this Ian - we said we want to be third-country nationals, we want to have all of that bureaucracy.' [2 mins]
'Appalling that the Government has deliberately avoided parliamentary scrutiny of its terrible trade deal with Australia.' - RSPCA
Boris Johnson has caused "untold damage," according to Peterson Institute President Adam Posen [1 min]
'Hapless Attorney General Suella Braverman blames remainer civil servants for thwarting Brexit reforms ... I’ve added some actual FACTS'
'This week we laid off most of the rest of our staff... It's down to Brexit.'
'If this is the intellectual underpinnings of the pro-Brexit crowd, its terribly worrying. They have no evidence for their main contentions ...'
'Now we really have reached the witch-burning stage of Brexit, which makes no pretext of needing evidence'
"This gov't couldn't run a sweet shop. ... hamstrung by a gov't so desperate to show Brexit has been a success, when it's been an abject failure..." - O'Leary
"It represents a form of economic vandalism on Northern Ireland" - Taoiseach Micheál Martin [2 mins]
Adam Posen shows how Brexit has curtailed UK trade, FDI inflows, & immigration growth in a series of charts
“You’re running a natural experiment in what happens when you run a trade war on yourself” - Adam Posen
'Allowing the government's own Brexit deal to be fully implemented "would have been an act of self harm," says Jacob Rees-Mogg.'
'it now takes an extra 3 minutes for a vehicle to clear the border and check-in before boarding ship'
"The law that P&O are allegedly relying on was introduced as a result of EU directives..." Ireland & Spain banned fire & rehire. Both are in the EU.
'After the Brexit deal was signed, Boris Johnson infamously claimed that there would be "no non-tariff barriers" on trade with the EU.' - Hilary Benn
James O'Brien's ... response to a caller whose business cannot sell to the EU anymore due to Brexit.
'The Benefits of Brexit doc is out. What do I think on its space sections?'
'A Dover customs manager ... on ... massive lorry queues and the attempts to cover up the mayhem Brexit is causing at British ports.' [2 mins]
'Delays at Dover ... Every single one of them blamed Brexit.' [3 mins]
'One of my vans just coming out of Dover a minute ago.' [1 min]
“I just cannot accept it, we are seeing our industry slowly being destroyed”
We don't want to become a musical Galapagos, with our musicians locked out of the cultural partnership which is so important for creative development."
Michael Heseltine tells an audience in Nottingham tonight that they should they should never give up trying restore Britain's position in the European corridors of power
Remember that ground-breaking UK-Japan trade deal?
'This is how New Zealand TV is reporting the Brexit trade deal with the UK' [2 mins]
'The message must go out to all countries... that this is a British government that doesn't necessarily keep its word,' Tánaiste Leo Varadkar
The protocol is being attacked not because it doesn’t work, but because it DOES - strengthening north-south economic links [2 mins]
As BP closes sites ... the Road Haulage Association's Rod McKenzie says issues are down to Brexit, the pandemic and a historic shortage
'Sir Roger Gale (Tory MP) says one farming business in his constituency has had to trash £320,000 worth of produce due to no pickers and no drivers.'
'Looks like there will be disinvestment by Japanese companies in UK financial services sector for 2021 too'
#ExpresslyPredictedBrexit [Daily Express stories: then, and now]
The UK-Australia trade deal is an 'unprecedented result' for Australia, says former Australian trade negotiator Dmitry Grozoubinski
Michael McCormack (acting Australian PM) - 'The big winners, in the UK-Australian trade deal, are Australian producers, Australian farmers, indeed Australia full stop...'
Jose Manuel Barroso quote re an EU 'empire' (taken out of context)
I have been asked to debunk viral online claims about the scary "Lisbon treaty 2022".
'Remember how Freeports are beacon of #brexit lands of opportunity? Turns out only 1% of U.K. imports can benefit from tariff arbitrage - which begs Q what ARE they for?' [thread]
Five years later and this is still not a small point of detail [Tony Blair re Irish border(s), 1 min]
Kelemen Archive: 'So many stories coming out revealing ... Brexit is turning out - just as experts had warned - to be a fiasco and an enormous act of economic self-harm for UK'
'I’ve led a cross-party group to tell Liz that sticking her head in the sand is just not good enough.'
'European Commission Maros Sefcovic has told @michaelgove that sweeping changes to the Protocol will not be possible ... require the UK for its part to implement the terms'
"We’re in fits of despair" - Alistair Sinclair, of the Scottish Creel Fishermen’s Federation, says his industry is struggling after Brexit
Northern Ireland was a concern during the Brexit negotiations. It’s a concern now Brexit has happened. This is why. [5 mins]
'This is very very small beer compared to leaving the EU' - Andrew Marr
'We need to suspend accepting orders... to NI... just don’t have the resources to undertake the paperwork' - The Ethical Dairy
'Owner of Cheshire Cheese Co was planning to invest £1 million... he’ll be investing in France instead' [2 mins]
'Where is Nigel Farage? The British fishing industry is collapsing and Nigel has run away.'
'Vote Leave promised to “cut red tape” ... Oyster farmer ... can no longer export to Spain because of extra bureaucracy caused by Brexit.' [2 mins]
“Shelves were full before Christmas and there are some issues now in terms of supply chains… that’s clearly a Brexit issue” - Simon Coveney
'I am ready to present to President @JoeBiden our proposal for a new transatlantic agenda.' - Ursula von der Leyen
Ian Perkes. Brixham fish merchant. Led up the garden path by Boris Johnson. [2 mins]
Next time people tell you there's no new friction at the borders because of Brexit, you can show them this Dutch TV clip of drivers being stopped and having their lunches confiscated.
'Welcome to the Modern world of BREXIT and the mess it brings ... we have lost thousands of pounds'
"We're stuffed" - Brixham fish merchant Ian Perkes says he's unable to export his fish to France
UK tariffs on exports from Ghana were effected today due to Brexit. Golden Exotics tells me how the business is being affected.
The CEO of Aquis, London's second-biggest venue for trading European shares, says an overnight shift to EU venues "is a spectacular own goal" for Britain
"Europe has clearly won the battle for its own share trading" / 99.6% of trades shifted to the EU overnight [1 min]
After my first reading of the draft EU-UK trade and cooperation agreement, here is a short thread with some initial thoughts - Prof. Dougan
Boris Johnson disagreeing with Boris Johnson about everything to do with the #BrexitDeal [10 mins]
"Given we are days away from the Brexit cliff edge, we urge you to extend the transition period by a month." - NHS Confederation
'Deal or no-deal, the cost of food is going to rise for businesses and very possibly consumers' - Sky News
Idea the U.K. could do a quick FTA with India ... is “the biggest bucket of bollocks” - Kevin Rudd (former Australian PM)
'Problem is that the EU no longer trust the UK to keep its word. So they insist on nailing it all down in treaty text. Problem of UK’s making.' - Lord Ricketts
Ken Clarke - "Brexit is a historic moment... as we're effectively putting the clock back 50 years..."
'to understand why UK ports are going to be chaos ... Here's director of Logistics UK News' [2 mins]
Gove says NI now have the best of both worlds as they’ve unfettered access to EU Single Market & UK Single Market. Hold on... this... is... what we had in 2016
'EU will have an office in Northern Ireland from Jan 1, source confirms.'
"Remember when Gove said... Leave vote would have zero consequences for Brits living in France, Spain, Greece..."
'It's not that there are queues for miles just because the French customs authorities are "trialling post-Brexit boarding systems". It's that we aren't.'
"Serious & troubling letters from @PoliceChiefs & @NCA_UK to @CommonsHomeAffs on preparations for 1 Jan" - Yvette Cooper
'there will be no US-UK trade deal - period' if the UK government moves forward with the Internal Market Bill - Congressman Brendan Boyle [1 min]
'if UK passes law designed to break International law ... there will be no [EU] trade deal' - Simon Coveney
'We can’t allow the Good Friday Agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland to become a casualty of Brexit' - Joe Biden
'chilling explanation of what Brexit will do to the UK economy after December' - Adam Posen [5 mins]
"There is no reason to extend parts of the UK Fisheries Bill to Jersey." - Senator Ian Gorst (Jersey) [2 mins]
"Boris Johnson has been lying to the people in the UK.... truth has to be spoken." - Reintke [2 mins]
'Whatever UK citizens were told during the vote, they need the European single market' - Macron
‘This is Trumpism’ Dame Helena Kennedy on the Internal Market Bill [2 mins]
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