Brexit border bewilderment. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. No, it doesn't discuss the local elections results, but instead has the latest on import controls plus a deep dive into the convoluted issues beneath the Ireland-UK asylum row: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2024/05/brexit…

It's Friday, so we're treated to another of Chris's deep dives into Brexit. Well worth the read, as always.

🚨🚨 I did not have time to sit down and read Chris blog until now, but I can assure that this is another lovely and highly insightful installment well worth investing your time to enjoy. Short 🧵

Brexit border bewilderment. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. No, it doesn't discuss the local elections results, but instead has the latest on import controls plus a deep dive into the convoluted issues beneath the Ireland-UK asylum row: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2024/05/brexit…

Of all the Brexit news stories, pint bottles of champagne is undoubtedly the most ... oh, words fail me ...

FWIW, my analysis of the issue, from January: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-br…

It's true that the 2% figure is adjusted for inflation. But the figure given immediately before, stating that 'the value of UK exports was £862 billion in the 12 months to February 2024', is not adjusted for inflation.

I see the completely unnecessary suppressive voter ID legislation continues to be an absolute triumph.

I hate to be pedantic (and no doubt this will mean I'll be labelled as one of those doomsters Kemi Badenoch is calling out here) but there's a few problems with the data the biz/trade sec is quoting here.
When you correct them, the picture looks a little different...
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.Tom Hunt MP

Hoist on your own petard.

~Tory MP pleads for help ahead of local elections after discovering he has no valid form of Voter ID | The Independent ~

independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

a lovely afternoon break to attend the citizenship ceremony of the first refugee we hosted 6.5 years ago.

From being homeless after standard rapid refugee status eviction w barely any English to now having a good job as a licenced building site lift operator. #RefugeesAtHome 1/3

“If the medium-sized countries aren’t banding together the giants are going to sit on us.”

The 🙈🤯 part is how UK politics reached a level of nostalgia-nationalist delusion that that’s considered a profound insight, not a statement of the obvious.

I don't think I've come across a single piece of Tory propaganda with 8 falsehoods in it before...

One to bookmark

I enjoyed this:

There seems to be no sleight-of-hand the govt won't employ to claim the Rwanda policy as a success, but I suspect that those disposed to support it are as sceptical about the claims as those disposed to oppose it are disgusted by them.

Expert analysis of the legal issues underlying the UK-Ireland row over asylum seekers

A key question & I'd really like to know the answer, too (@stevepeers?). Given Priti Patel (!) was complaining in 2022 about poss of refugees (not AS) reaching UK via IE, it seems unlikely that UK wouldn't have invoked, or at least mentioned, such an agreement if it existed.

London And Dublin Insist Rwanda Row Is A 'Storm In A Teacup'
politicshome.com/news/article/l…

'The number of UK businesses trading with the EU has fallen to a three-year low. Those having no option but to cease trading with the EU continues to grow. This is a worrying sign for businesses that have traditionally relied on a European customer base.” thebusinessdesk.com/northwest/news…

Tice's view on returning migrants to France without French consent is legally absurd, as explained here. But if it *were* legal, then Ireland could simply do it to the UK in turn.