The hard Brexit addiction. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. Why the Tory leadership scarcely mention Brexit but the Brexit Ultras want to do it all over again. chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-ha…

“Brexit-backing billionaire Jim Ratcliffe says leaving the EU ‘didn’t turn out as anticipated’”

…as anticipated by whom, exactly?

Because everyone, globally, except a pro-Brexit faction in the UK, anticipated Brexit would be bad for the reasons it has. independent.co.uk/business/jim-r…

The hard Brexit addiction. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. Why the Tory leadership scarcely mention Brexit but the Brexit Ultras want to do it all over again. chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-ha…

New post on my Brexit & Beyond: The hard Brexit addiction (chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com). Why the Tory leadership scarcely mention Brexit but the Brexit Ultras want to do it all over again.

President vetoes ‘foreign influence’ law theguardian.com/world/article/…

This is the key thread to read on the thread to local unis around the country.

'British decline linked to Brexit, weak leadership and poor finances in damning report': independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

🧵Shocking reality of the Brexit inland border checks at Sevington, 22 miles from Dover.

The experience and facilities seem designed to be as intimidating, dehumanising and unpleasant as possible.

(Ciaran gave me permission to use his tweets.)

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'Brexit was a huge bet against the idea that geography mattered to economic and security policy in the 21st century. Geography won.' Another🎯from Rafael Behr

Clear, balanced analysis of UK trade performance by Emily Fry. Dismal on goods trade, healthy on services trade. Overall mediocre.

[Kemi Badenoch should read/retweet this rather than the ideologically driven nonsense she was peddling last week 😉]

Latest entry on Gerhard Schnyder's Brexit blog is, as always, well worth reading

I don't remember 'clear plan' being such a ubiquitous phrase in the past but presumably it plays well in focus groups who sense UK is adrift. As well they might given the mess created by the Brexit leap in the dark. But that, of course, cannot be said, least of all by Sunak.

“The replacement of locally administered EU funding with Whitehall funding has failed to deliver a complete replacement, either in quantum, scope of intervention or duration.'

Hard now to recall the promises that 'it's just our money coming back to us, so nothing will change'

BREAKING: A judge has ruled that parts of the Rwanda Act should be disapplied in Northern Ireland, as they undermine human rights protections guaranteed in the region under post-Brexit arrangements. belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-…

'It is important to note that the UK’s goods weakness isn’t driven by EU trade in particular.'
It really looks as if Brexit has damaged UK ability to participate in global value chains

The biggest story today is that the then-Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice was a direct witness to a criminal attempt to pervert the course of justice, and covered it up for four years because it involved one of his political allies.

Every single politician, academic, journalist, peer or other member of “the establishment” who advocated for Brexit should never be listened to again. This was blindingly obvious.