EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

dexu

Is that like a cross between Dexy's and Devo?

Yes,
even the slightly cheese-infused brine is surprisingly drinkable.
Have you tried the stuff from Bulgaria?

Dexy's Midnight (Border) Runner?

stockpile food and basic supplies

I'm looking forward to the outraged headlines in the Mail in April 2020,
when it is discovered there is a warehouse, just outside Watford, stacked to the roof with 43 million out of date Wagonwheels.

Dibs.

Are the wagonwheels still available?

Kevin Rowland could never have produced 'Everything is Awesome'.

@richardshill
Yep, you just need the password to the Siemens automated handling equipment.

'Everything is Adequate'.

ftfy

Dibs if you split.

password is B R E X I T

shhhhh

If it was chosen by a mystified Siemens material handling engineer, from the Ruhrgebiet,
it is more likely to be 'Dumkopfen'.

Well, that dumbified quickly.

Dumkopfen

"Dummköpfe"

This still seems totally confusing:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/oct/22/mays-four-tests-before-she-will-sign-off-on-irish-border-backstop-deal

There is a logical problem here that can't be overcome without either causing a hard border in Ireland or causing May to lose the support of the DUP.

Good luck with this role...

https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/jobs/job/15643180/g7-senior-strategic-communications-manager-eu-exit/?TrackID=12&utm_medium=EMAIL&utm_campaign=eNews%20Bulletin&utm_source=20181023&utm_content=Campaign%20Brands%20(153)::www_campaignlive_co_uk_jo_7&email_hash=#sc=widget&me=referral&cm=12

As with all the Brexit senior jobs that you see advertised, that's a hard job and the people who could do it, won't go near it with a bargepole because a) pay is wildly out of line with what they get paid corporately and b) career ending.

"brexit means brexit"
"no deal is better than a bad deal"
"UK is the best thing since sliced cheddar"
"war is peace"

Done ;)

Indeed. As far as I can see, the argument goes as follows;

1. We have to leave the customs union.
   
2. Therefore we have to have a border, not least due to WTO rules.
   
3. We can't have a border between EIRE and UK due the GFA.
   
4. We can't have a border between GB and NI because DUP and 'no UK PM could ever agree to that'.
   
5. Therefore, there being no other place to have a border, we can't have a border.
   
6. We can't avoid a border without remaining in the customs union.
   
7. Goto 1.
   
   

It all seems very simple to me that there is no way out of this. The ERG want to wave magic 'technology' dust over everything to make the problem go away, but for these purposes 'technology' seems to me synonymous with 'cake' or 'unicorn'.

Ah, but 95% of the deal is done! Who would be worried about logic at this point?

I still can't quite get over the irony of May having to rely on the DUP's support since the general election.

Still, they'll work something out if they 'hold their nerve'!

May is going to have to get Labour votes, no other way forward for her

Yep,
given that some of the Tories who have since become the ERG have been whining about the EEC/EU for 40-odd years, and 25-odd years since the Masstricht Treaty, and getting on for 20 years since the GFA,
a reasonable observer would have expected them to have at least acknowledged the issue of borders between EU and non-EU states.

I'm certain I heard, (Gove amongst others), during the pre-Referendum debates claiming 'We'll still be in the Single Market & Customs Union'.
I wonder who wrote the speech May Gave at Lancaster House, that unilaterally withdrew us from the CU & SM?

May can probably count upon Frank Field and Kate Hoey.

I wonder who wrote the speech May Gave at Lancaster House, that unilaterally withdrew us from the CU & SM?

Nick Timothy.

Thanks for the reminder.
For some reason, I thought he went soon after the 2016 GE, similar to Fiona Hill.