EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

Like the olympics?

Im trying to see if you are making a joke, or expressing a fear.

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I'm sure the USA and India are well up for free trade deals.

The Indian FTA will be particularly popular, containing as it does a condition specifying a much greater visa allocation.

It's almost conceivable that we get some rabid pro-eu folks campaigning for joining the EU using anti-immigration rhetoric to win over the masses in 10 years. Stranger things have happened.

Jason hunter, knocking it out the park, again!

https://mobile.twitter.com/JasonJHunter/status/1027624554221527041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1027624554221527041&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fsingletrackworld.com%2Fforum%2Ftopic%2Feu-referendum-are-you-in-or-out%2F

As if there weren't enough reasons for never going to a Wetherspoons pub already.

https://www.eucitizenship.org.uk/

such bad timing

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Yeah, it feels like we’re inside a Adam Curtis documentary, where every “good” intention will turn into its complete opposite after a decade or so.

Btw, not wanting to give the Wheterspoons gammon massive much cred, but yes some of those tariffs do suck. The basic contention is how we practically force our industrial goods on Africa, but make it very hard for them to sell us fruit and veg at a decent price.

The EU exempt the majority of African countries from tariffs under the "anything but guns' program.

http://trade.ec.europa.eu/tradehelp/everything-arms

It is also agricultural subsidies that make it hard for African countries to sell their goods, they cannot compete. [and probably loads of infastructure issues, cartelization, distribution issues...]

I don't see canning food subsidies as going down well. There was a discussion earlier on here if leaving the EU fully would lead to good and more trading with Africa (which is definitely preferrable than having to run a country on handouts!) by the UK but again it is complicated...

You do already see sugar snaps from Africa (sorry I can't remember which country) in Tesco in winter.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/treasury-shifts-cash-into-euros-ahead-of-brexit-kjmjzbx7r?shareToken=68366a9d009ea70fd3ca29201e79b531

An insightful Brexit thread

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1028947328068186113.html

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/aug/14/british-expats-in-eu-launch-brexit-legal-challenge

Even with my somewhat small understanding of UK constitutional law, the fact that Parliament has voted, and government has legislated, makes me think that the constitutional arguments proposed in the article are somewhat meaningless.

@boristrump, the sign off in that article - “Hope for the best, plan for chaos”. Noted.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/exclusive-theresa-may-home-office-settle-status-plan-register-3-million-eu-citizens-alphabetically-2018-8

Particularly difficult for nationalities where Z is a common first letter in surnames. But "let's just keep picking dumb choices because Brexit only offers bad choices" is just how things are.

^ Yeah I was just here to post that.

I honestly can't keep up with my irony and WTF meter shopping lately.

next weeks headline "Deed poll offices swamped with requests for name changes to aaaaaaaaaaa[name]"

Only now got round to digging up same data on this. Small businesses serving local markets are less productive.

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Sabine Weyand, Barnier's deputy, has retweeted that scary thread by @DmitryOpines. With the comment: "while we as EU negotiators will do our best to reach agreement on an orderly withdrawal incl. a transition, there is no guarantee we will succeed. So business needs to prepare for a disorderly #Brexit"

https://twitter.com/WeyandSabine/status/1029014564745228288