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Nice article, reminds me of the DH Lawrence poem, Snake, which I recreated when I was younger (to my lasting regret)
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Indeed… so let’s have Leveson 2, strong media plurality laws, ban on foreign ownership/interference in elections/social media disinformation protection, and wholesale clear out of the BBC Board and senior leadership. Should be possible with massive parl majority
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Please go much much further and demand Rejoin!!!
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Yes, deeply disappointed to hear the BBC in full fat UKIP mode with zero sum/surrender narrative. It’s puerile and clearly slanted journalism. Where was the other available narrative? Ie “many think this is not ambitious enough, many want return of FOM, SMCU… what do you say to those” etc etc
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Same here with NL passports... also, why is free movement for ham sandwiches (SPS) good, but EU FOM of people (despite that increasing overall migration 4x), a bad thing? UK still trapped in Brexit Paradox Limbo, sadly.
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Indeed... Para 30 is quite funny, that's the 'rule taker provision' disguised to look a bit like a not-rule-taker 😂
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Next time I get a cold, I'm going to betray it by having a Lemsip and some ibuprofen.
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Exactly right, I think Nick Robinson was doing the same on BBC Radio 4 this morning... saying well aren't we "surrendering sovereignty" and are we now "rule takers"? etc etc... well yes, because UK threw away the seat at the table, but needs the market access. Not hard!
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That's only about 2-3 times per day each, easily attainable... although only £666 bonus each (assuming distributed equally)
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Congratulations Chris!
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Well said Ian, what a refreshing article! You hit on many strands that I have felt but never expressed, even as an immigrant myself (Dutch, came here aged 8, pretty fully integrated, but still somewhat a citizen of nowhere, and proud of it!)
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Yes, agree with this Niall. Henig is usually balanced, but this take is very poor, to call EU 'greedy' etc. is just naive from an otherwise knowledgeable trade expert. Of course EU/MS's will push their interests!
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Did it also apply to ~3m EU citizens?
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xx. maintaining more arbitrary Brexit redlines than even Farage and Owen Paterson et al ever advocated during the referendum (no CM, no SM)
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Spot on. The effect of declining population is illustrated nicely in this video:
youtu.be/Ufmu1WD2TSk?...
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I’m not into the detail, but this ongoing transactionalism is not exactly feeling like a’win’. It’s reinforcing the Brexitist notion that EU citz are a threat to be limited, no?
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Less than the cost of clinging to a fantasy. But if you’re into figures: £40bn lost GDP annually, £15bn in red tape, £4bn in lost trade—rejoining is the discount aisle.
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Much less than the benefits of joining
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£20,000 million - annual cost of Brexit/red lines continuation, to placate Reform voters and Nigel Farage
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CTRL+X is accurate just to the right, in black
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I'm looking foward to the day (might be a while), that the "tough, difficult decisions" that politicians are compelled to take, with dramatic heavy hearts, involve you know, maybe some Brexiters having to suffer their less-preferred outcomes/consequences.
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This would certainly be refreshing!
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Puerile stuff from Growth Commission (and stupid name); are they in favour of excessive tariffs or against them? Or only in favour of Trumps tariffs? I think he’s effectively arguing for global regulatory harmonisation with USA. No thanks!