The UK Politics and EU Referendum thread - merged

[neeko]

More of this type of article is needed, by Daniel Hannan - leave Tory MEP:

https://www.conservativehome.com/thecolumnists/2017/08/daniel-hannan-twelve-principles-to-unite-remainers-and-leavers.html

The ultimate outcome to Brexit will i am sure be a EU/UK fudge, both extremes of each side are going to be unhappy, the miserable middle is the only way forward.

[TightEnd]

 latest YouGov weekly poll has 3 pt Labour lead, drop in support on Tory performance on Brexit

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[TightEnd]

Viewed from Brussels, the U.K. seemed so ill-prepared in the early rounds of Brexit negotiations that some EU countries think it must be a trap.

http://www.politico.eu/article/united-kingdom-brexit-eu-david-davis-the-uks-secret-brexit-strategy-so-stealth-even-the-british-cant-see-it/

[TightEnd]

The Brexit Beartraps, a new series

1: The Irish border issue http://www.newstatesman.com/2017/08/brexit-breatraps-1-irish-border-issue

[TightEnd]

Yes Labour had a great election but they got a leg up from the Tories

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/03/labour-great-election-bad-tory-campaign-votes-corbyn?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

[TightEnd]

Britain couldn’t leave the single market if it tried | Andrew Adonis

(doesn't have the capacity to do bespoke trade deals)

https://t.co/rr97XMu6AP

[TightEnd]

Tory election campaign shouldn't have been so presidential, & shd have been "change" not "continuity": Nick Timothy

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/04/nick-timothy-election-went-wrong-tories-can-beat-corbyn-next/

[TightEnd]

Mervyn King: Wider issues about globalisation at root cause of 2008 crash: http://bit.ly/2fh7v6Y

[TightEnd]

Superb column by Marina Hyde on Nick Timothy

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/04/just-about-managing-tory-failures-david-samantha-cameron-george-osborne

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[TightEnd]

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[TightEnd]

Given the chaos in the government over Brexit, companies are preparing for the worst and pining for the best

https://www.economist.com/news/britain/21725780-uncertainty-about-britains-departure-eu-deepens-bosses-are-preparing-move?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/businessesarepreparingfortheworstversionofbrexit

[The Camel]

Tory election campaign shouldn't have been so presidential, & shd have been "change" not "continuity": Nick Timothy

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/04/nick-timothy-election-went-wrong-tories-can-beat-corbyn-next/

This is the worst sort of aftertiming.

The election was called basically because Theresa May was seen as "strong and stable" and Jeremy Corbyn was "unelectable" and "dangerous"

The Tories couldn't run on their record of 7 years of austerity, could they?

If they had known what a useless campaigned May was, they surely wouldn't have called the election in the first place?

[TightEnd]

They say after Brexit there’ll be food rotting in the fields. It’s already starte

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/05/brexit-uk-food-industry-eu-fruit-veg-pickers?CMP=twt_gu

[TightEnd]

Mark Carney’s gospel: give us an interest rate rise, Lord – but not yet https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2017/08/mark-carney-should-stop-blaming-brexit-for-rock-bottom-interest-rates/ …

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[TightEnd]

Wall St Journal has a point here about Mark Carney's credibility. No Bank of England governor can afford to cry wolf.

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