The UK Politics and EU Referendum thread - merged

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in the markets

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a centre left think tank thinks and reports

"Profound shock" of Brexit to set UK on path of permanently lower growth and living standards, IPPR claims

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/pa/article-4072710/Decade-disruption-ahead-wake-Brexit-vote-think-tank-warns.html

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you gov

Our look back at 2016 finds that Rio 2016 was Britons' BEST event of the year at 23% (Brexit came second at 18%)

https://yougov.co.uk/news/2016/12/29/britains-best-2016/

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Whereas 23% of Britons said Brexit was the WORST event this year, closely followed by Trump's election win (22%)

https://yougov.co.uk/news/2016/12/29/britains-best-2016/

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[MintTrav]

Just released under the thirty-year rule - Margaret Thatcher said that a mistake / mistakes were made when the Irish border was bring set. And it wasn't an inconsequential conversation with just anyone - the person she told was Garret Fitzgerald, Irish Prime Minister at the time.

Fitzgerald: "Both forces have a next-to-impossible border to watch."

Thatcher: "Yes, we got it wrong in 1921."

Incredible.

http://www.herald.ie/news/thatcher-admitted-uk-got-border-wrong-in-1921-35328980.html

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 Fresh Brexit challenge in high court over leaving single market and EEA

Four anonymous claimants allege that separate parliamentary approval is needed to quit the European Economic Area

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/dec/29/fresh-brexit-challenge-high-court-leaving-single-market-eea?CMP=twt_gu

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Fresh Brexit challenge in high court over leaving single market and EEA

Four anonymous claimants allege that separate parliamentary approval is needed to quit the European Economic Area

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/dec/29/fresh-brexit-challenge-high-court-leaving-single-market-eea?CMP=twt_gu

This is going to escalate into something big !

Firstly Cameron resigning " to make it all seem genuine "   then Theresa May saying she wants to push Brexit through is just subterfuge

" the powers that be " do not want Brexit to happen so watch out for some  contrived legal ruling or " we will get billed a Trillion pounds if we leave " bullshit statement

Im not an anarchist just a supporter for freedom of speech & a democratic society

Hope you all join the protests if /when this happens

# Government Brexit  Propaganda on its way

Happy New Year x

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Scottish Lab internal polling for the May locals reportedly has (vs 2012):

SNP 45 (+13)
CON 25 (+12)
LAB 15 (-16)

http://www.heraldscotland.comnews14993738.Scottish_Labour_heading_for_new_electoral_iceberg_as_internal_polls_show_it_on_just_15_per_cent/

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Hard Brexit will be 'mission impossible' for UK and EU due to 'severe side effects' on both, warns German car chief

Matthias Wissmann highlighted the ’deep reciprocal dependency’ of the two countries’ automotive industries

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/brexit-impact-car-industry-germany-warning-single-market-theresa-may-matthias-wissman-a7501856.html

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Britain WILL leave the EU’s Single Market after Brexit, Tory minister finally confirms on record:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2504920/britain-will-leave-the-eus-single-market-after-brexit-a-tory-minister-has-finally-confirmed/

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FTSE 100 Index, reaching a record high at year-end

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FTSE 100 in dollars (past six months) (slightly up, well off highs)

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'We don't do Corbyn here': Labour activists fear defeat in Copeland by-election

http://uk.businessinsider.com/copeland-by-election-preview-jamie-reed-labour-party-2016-12

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Nigel Lawson: "With Mr Trump leading the world in a more rational direction, the UK might come to its senses on climate policy."

[neeko]

Just released under the thirty-year rule - Margaret Thatcher said that a mistake / mistakes were made when the Irish border was bring set. And it wasn't an inconsequential conversation with just anyone - the person she told was Garret Fitzgerald, Irish Prime Minister at the time.

Fitzgerald: "Both forces have a next-to-impossible border to watch."

Thatcher: "Yes, we got it wrong in 1921."

Incredible.

http://www.herald.ie/news/thatcher-admitted-uk-got-border-wrong-in-1921-35328980.html

Unsayable but obvious really, I wonder how they decided at the time?

What else should politicians admit but can't?

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Labour losing out as English politics realigns for & against Brexit:

"Forget the class divide, voters now cast their ballots over Brexit – and Labour is the loser

We are entering a new era in which voting is influenced by cultural attitudes, and it's a shift that helped put Donald Trump in the White House"

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/brexit-voting-elections-labour-conservative-ukip-snip-labour-loser-a7502046.html

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this is an interesting one

"Surging stock markets say Trump is a conman and May a phoney"

Markets are betting that they won’t address the economic grievances that propelled both of them to power

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/01/surging-stock-markets-donald-trump-conman-theresa-may-phoney?CMP=twt_gu