EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

^^Now that is a fantastic question.

Hopefully he’ll be serving a few months at her majesty's pleasure.

The police and cps don’t fuck about with this shit, he’ll be locked up by the new year.

Brilliant - more Farage bashing here
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/nigel-farage-tweet-brexit-contempt_uk_5a32392ee4b07ff75b005334

https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/blog/its-a-deal-brexit-phase-one

https://www.chathamhouse.org/publications/twt/what-will-britain-s-role-be-now

Ahh but but but... momentum thugs... hard left fascists... Corbyn’s nasty army... abusive remoaners... etc etc
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I can't get any other summary out of this than 'We're fucked!'

The last sentence - "Above all (Britian) requires successful government at home and a strong economy." Hmm. Finger's crossed, then.

Unbelievable. Some people. It's "hanged" not "hung". Tut.

Quite right. Game should be hung, people are hanged. Fucking illiterate peasants.

Aahh, bless, it's just dawned on the brextards that leaving the EU, but wanting 'a deep & frictionless' trade deal means you have to follow EU standards and laws without any input to their derivation;

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/dec/17/boris-johnson-breaks-ranks-with-brexit-vassal-state-warning

Oue emmissary from the 1750s, Rees-Mogg, was spluttering the same 'vassallage' on Friday's Newsnight.

UK minister David Davis has failed to produce his promised Brexit sectoral impact assessments.
But don't worry! Our economists, with colleagues from @CityREDI and @UoS_Management, have done the calculations.

https://twitter.com/UniGroningenFEB/status/940547566269353985

On cakes and eating them:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/dec/18/uk-cannot-have-a-special-deal-for-the-city-says-eu-brexit-negotiator-barnier

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42411144

"Proper receipts and invoices were not provided for 80 payments worth more than £80,000, the watchdog said."

"Meanwhile the official Remain campaign, now known as Open Britain, has been fined £1,250 for wrongly reporting its spending.

Most of this is because of payments that were added together rather than being reported individually."
Libdems and one remain campaign fines for not declaring all cash spent.

I won't hold my breath on Leave.Eu as they may have all the receipts....and a Tory call centre campaign didn't lead to any fines either.

I don't know if the Commission has -actual, not just on paper- powers beyond checking if expenses are proper receipted. Which they totally should be.

Areas that voted for Brexit will suffer the biggest impact post-Brexit.

Prof Raquel Ortega-Argilés from the University of Birmingham said: “London is genuinely the most globalised part of the UK and as such less dependent on European markets for its prosperity.

“In contrast, many parts of the UK, especially in the Midlands and in the north of England, are heavily dependent on European markets for their trade and prosperity, but in fact these are the regions that voted for Brexit.”

The economic readjustments following Brexit, she said, “are expected to be more challenging and difficult for the UK’s weaker regions, in part because they are more dependent on European markets, but also because they are less resilient”.

Mind you - sounds like a forrin what wrote the report. And experts >>>

This morning's Commons Brexit committee (taking evidence from three academics and specialists. And what do they know.) sounded like fun. Some examples:

Stephen Booth, Open Europe Policy and Research Director: "There is a risk of trying to analyse this rationally when in it's just a political fudge and therefore it's difficult to find much meaning in it."

Now Professor @anandMenon1: "The difference between fudge and compromise is that compromise is judicially enforceable and can be implemented. Some of this agreement can be implemented, just about. But some of it... frankly cannot."

Professor Dougan: "We have irreconcilable promises to different sets of people and someone is going to be disappointed."

Some good replies to DAG's request for help

https://twitter.com/davidallengreen/status/943538536082526208

An early Christmas present from Theresa. The mythical Brexit sectoral analyses.

https://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/exiting-the-european-union-committee/publications/

Well well well... the finTech report is a whole 4 pages ending with "We have more info but we are not publishing it" with this cracker in it "As the Government has already made clear, it is not the case that 58 sectoral impact assessments exist".

Christ on a pushbike. What on earth use is this?

First reply wins. 'Boxes of angry bees' isn't bad either.

This. Just read the one on the automotive sector. Wikipedia project.

Wow. They sound even shitter than expected.

Sample insight: "The food chain includes agriculture".
Have flipped through the aerospace one. It's entirely descriptive. Zero analysis of Brexit impact.
the food and agriculture sector "is vital for consumers

Amazing that this has been allowed to happen.

Have just been reading about the Hinkley Point C development and history. Interesting snippet about "government policy papers" (which I guess are what these woeful documents are {?}, hence the extract.) prepared for the government of the day to consider the impact of the industry's privatisation, and benefit as such, for the country.
Would have been helpful to have had / to still have a Brexit Prospectus in this process we're 'invested into'.
I wonder if that's still possible to create a demand for / or something like it actually exists? Wishful thinking most likely...

"A former civil servant closely involved with the privatisation remembered the shock of discovering the sheer scale of the risks and costs associated with the creaking first generation of nuclear plants. Whereas government policy papers could massage figures and make optimistic projections, the prospectus, which provided financial information for potential investors, could not bend the truth. “A government paper was one thing,” said the former civil servant, “but if the figures were misleading in the prospectus, it was a criminal offence."

Skimmed the Chemicals pdf.
Can't believe it is any more than the current state of play summary that would be maintained by the disaffected civil servant looking for no more than 'Satisfactory' in the next (lack of) performance review.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-21/u-k-s-secret-brexit-studies-reveal-that-airbus-makes-planes