Brexit transition. Often mentioned by politicians but seldom understood. In this blog entry I am going to try to make sense of it, and to try to explain why the current effort devoted to this is all probably a waste
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Category: Brexit
Why even clueless Brits should care about the Irish border and Brexit
Let me lay out my cards on the table: I am clueless about Irish political history. I was born in the early 1980s in Wales. My childhood was spent in England and Wales. In did not learn about Irish politics
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Democratic standards, Russian money, and the Brexit referendum
A tweet I wrote earlier today drew some interesting reactions: https://x.com/jonworth/status/930712456447582208 It was written in light of two developments – that further information about Russian bots in the Brexit referendum has come to light, and that Theresa May’s rhetoric about
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No more Remoaners. No more Saboteurs. No more Citizens of Nowhere. No more We Are The 48%.
A tweet by Alexander Clarkson caught my eye this morning: https://x.com/APHClarkson/status/924929190629081090 Once in a while you read something that crystallises your thinking, articulates something that has been nagging at you but you have not been able to state. So it
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Ian Dickinson (@iandicko73): a little Brexiteer case study
In the last 24 hours I’ve encountered a gentleman called Ian Dickinson on Twitter. He tweets with the username @iandicko73. He did not follow me, and I do not follow him. This was our first interaction: https://x.com/iandicko73/status/924258575693897729 It relates to
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The terminology and practicalities of Brexit delay
Whatever Theresa May or David Davis might say (as he did this week), the UK is not going to be completely out of the EU with a negotiated agreement by 29th March 2019. Any agreement will require longer than the
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Brexit: something has got to give. But what? And when?
Last week’s European Council in Brussels – as expected – did not agree that sufficient progress had been made on the three first stage Brexit issues (cititzens rights, financial settlement, Irish border) to allow the negotiations to move to the
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That Theresa May photo
https://x.com/BeardedGenius/status/921315451845660673 https://x.com/stephenkb/status/921323572643139584 What is the answer to that? Via this Buzzfeed piece I know it is an AP image. Looking through AP’s image bank you get to this. It says it was taken by Geert Vanden Wijngaert at October 20,
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No deal means no deal – fisking the BBC’s Chris Morris on Brexit
Earlier today I Googled “No Deal Brexit”. It’s en vogue these days, what with the UK having to grow its own food and the enduring refrain that No Deal is better than a Bad Deal. The top result in Google
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Brexit means some people lose. That’s why Brexiteers are playing a blame game.
That Theresa May is not adequately committed to Brexit is the latest one. That the EU side is too tough or too inflexible is another. That the UK civil service is full of Remain people has oddly dropped out of
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Dominic Cummings (@odysseanproject) deletes his Twitter account – piecing it back together
NOTE: due to disk space requirements, the files mentioned in this blog post have been removed from the web. If you have any questions about these files, or this issue, please contact me. Dominic Cummings was Campaign Director of Vote
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Brexit: hopelessly trying to buy time while the Article 50 clock is ticking
When Theresa May delivered her Florence Speech a fortnight ago, my first reaction was “Is that it?” The speech had to outline something on citizens rights, the financial settlement to leave the EU, and on the Northern Ireland border, yet
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