When, in a couple of years, we look back at the car crash that was the Brexit referendum and its aftermath, 4th September 2016 ought to stand out as the day when the post-referendum problems really started. Theresa May, we
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12 MORE ways to make it look like Brexit has happened
This is a sequel to the post “12 ways to make it look like Brexit has happened“ So my tongue in cheek post about ways to make it look like Brexit has happened turned out to be a huge success.
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12 ways to make it look like Brexit has happened
A sequel to this post is now available! “12 MORE ways to make it look like Brexit has happened“ It’s now two months since the UK’s EU referendum, but all has gone rather quiet on the Brexit front. The British
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Pro-EU folks in the UK: keep making your case, don’t apologise
I’ve never voted Conservative and, considering that I am a lefty, the chances I ever am going to do so are pretty damned slim. That means I have been on the losing side in many elections I’ve voted in, most
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My response to the most thoughtful critique about why Brexit will not happen
In amongst the Brexiteer rants on Twitter in response to my post about why Brexit will not happen, there was one long and thoughtful response. I’ve reproduced each point here as quotes, and then replied to each – that I
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Brexit is not going to happen (but it might need a second referendum)
This blog entry is going to be like a red rag to a bull to some people. The focus, as readers who persevere beyond this first paragraph will see, is on the practicalities of why Brexit will not happen, not
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The rest of the EU doesn’t understand Britain playing games with its and the continent’s future
Brexit, and the economic and political consequences of it, is serious. So why then has the UK appointed its least serious front line politician, Boris Johnson, as its Foreign Minister? (backed up by the little better Davis, Fox and Leadsom)
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Cover your ears, world – this Boris Johnson as Foreign Minister thing might just prevent Brexit
It has just been announced that Prime Minister May has appointed Boris Johnson as Foreign Minister. Reactions are not positive – see Mike Smithson, Gareth Harding, David Rennie, Antonia Mochan, Jeremy Cliffe. And I agree it’s going to look awful
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The unbearable lightness of Michael Gove
I don’t care what side of the EU referendum debate you were on. This isn’t about that. This is about how much the referendum matters to you or not. And – importantly – how it seems to not matter to
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Post-even-really-simple-fact politics
Some of the argument about fact and fiction in the EU referendum campaign is the normal, everyday political stuff trying to bend the facts to suit your purposes. The £350 million a day sent to Brussels claim by the Leave
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If you want to do something useful in the EU referendum campaign, step away from this blog, step away from Twitter, and turn to Facebook
The deadline to add people to the electoral register has passed. The campaign is entering its final straight. Those of us caught up with the debate about the referendum see an end in sight after months of spending dozens of
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#BERBritsBrexit media coverage
When Matt Hanley, Josh Posaner and I started to wonder about what the Brits in Berlin thought about Brexit we could not have quite imagined how much interest there would be in this issue. We’ve managed to build a super
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