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Any politician trying to assert that what they propose, as we enter the final month of Article 50 process, is the “will of the people” should be treated like a snake oil salesman.
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Does that necessarily equate to membership, or is there a way that we can be outside and have some degree of preferential access?
I suppose you can argue that the offered alternative implies that Freedom of Movement would be the price of this access, which does suggest that it equates more or less to membership of the single market, but it is these sort of textual inconsistencies that have been a feature of the Brexit "debate".
https://twitter.com/liamyoung/status/1100391400217153536
If the first sentence is true, how can the second sentence be true?
Williamson - either feck off and join the SWP or expect to be kicked out of the Labour Party.
On topic - there is a small (10%?) minority of Brexit zealots who would be happy with 'no deal' - but nearly half the population (Remain voters) want to maintain close economic links with the EU, and most Leave voters are pretty agnostic on the matter and do want good relations with the EU afterwards - thats why May's deal is probably the least bad show in town.
I'd be surprised if this doesn't take hold for the next 36 hours.
Up to a point, Lord Copper. The actual question was 'Maintaining Access to the Single Market' - which is not quite the same as staying in the single market.
Hasn't there been some polling on 'trade offs' along the lines of:
- 'staying in the single market even if that means keeping free movement'
and
- 'ending free movement even if that means leaving the single market'?
https://whatukthinks.org/eu/questions/if-there-was-a-referendum-tomorrow-with-the-option-of-remaining-in-the-eu-accepting-the-governments-brexit-agreement-or-leaving-the-eu-without-a-deal-which-would-you-support-2-2/
https://twitter.com/Andrew_Adonis/status/1100689601386168321
The ERG really have been very stupid.
Being a member allows a country to be involved in decisions about what those rules are. But every country on earth has access to the Single Market in that they can sell into Europe so long as they meet the said rules.
Of course in setting the rules members are in effect setting non-tariff barriers to trade so as to protect domestic production. That may be an advantage to EU producers, but often enough at the cost of consumers within the EU.
If you want to know what proportion of leavers want to stay in the single market ask them that!
Farage expects a delay beyond June and is happy this will happen so he can start his new party with European elections. I predicted this 3 months ago and the next big betting event will be around the European elections with Farage, TIG added to the mix. Should be fun.
Kaboom!!!!!
Williamson needs to be suspended, but this is all too late in the day.
Corbyn needs to resign.
Will he act?
In any event, one thing which 'maintaining access to the single market' really can't mean, however you might try to parse it, is leaving without a deal.
Popcorn on order.
Being given the whole of the world to talk at. They can show just how big they are, having opinions and that. It's like 13 year olds, having their first half dozen pints of snake-bite....
https://twitter.com/propertyspot/status/1100165462317563905?s=21
At the moment it's super boring because we are all agreeing that Jezza and Williamson (and...and...) are all antisemitic c**ts and need to be thrown out of the Labour Party.
But where's the fun in that? Where are @TheJezziah and @bjo and our very own @NickPalmer to explain to us why we have got it all wrong?
Jeez...
Surely in the last TWO YEARS Corbyn should have sat Williamson down and told him, old friend, this would be a good time to shut up?
In all seriousness, there is a cancer at the heart of Labour - as we see occasionally on here.
Not that the Conservatives should crow - they should be thankful that they have UKIP to take some (though not all) of the right-wing poison.
https://twitter.com/Emmabarnett/status/1100677904353116161
wouldn't be surprised though if she demanded the whip withdrawn from him
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47383559
Captain Salad has neither the intelligence nor the common sense to do what is needed.
https://twitter.com/iainmartin1/status/1100705999764275200
Then like you say there's the DVD sales and the money they get from selling the rights to other countries plus various spin-off and merchandise profits...
#kerching #kerching #kerching
Streaming market fragmentation, as is already happening in the US, is driving piracy rates higher again.
right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8VZX4sHn-4
(I'm unsure quite what lefty Ms Allen would think of this...)
The video streaming market (in the US) now has Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, HBO and soon Disney, all touting exclusive content. People aren’t going to go back to paying $60 a month for TV, that was the reason they cut the cable cord in the first place!
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