https://twitter.com/TheNewEuropean/status/1046278536720523264

Jesus christ.

No-one mentions the future we're stealing from younger people, a future in which they had an entire continent to explore and who have now, against their will, been strapped down to just this little island because of the small-mindedness of their elders

Apparently if you earn less than £50k a year, you are "low skilled".

What fantasy world is Theresa May living in?

While he said there was “zero chance” of the EU agreeing to the economic elements of the prime minister’s Chequers plan, Rogers was equally blunt about ideas promoted by Johnson and the “pinstriped Robespierres” of the European Research Group, led by Rees-Mogg. “The Johnsonian Canada-plus-plus is as big a pipe dream as Chequers. In some respects, rather bigger,” he said.

Rogers resigned as ambassador in January 2017 after being dismissed as “the gloomy mandarin” by Tory Eurosceptics, who disliked his warnings that leaving the EU would be an extremely complicated process that would dominate UK political life for a decade.

Last month, Rogers warned Brexit negotiators on both sides risked “sleepwalking into a major crisis”, but his latest speech is his most outspoken critique yet of the people behind the Brexit project. Leaving the EU showed “no plan and little planning, oodles of PPE tutorial-level plausible bullshit [and] supreme self-confidence that we understand others’ real interests better than they do”, he said.

But the greatest lies will all come from the ERG Tories. They have had two years to propose a credible plan for Brexit. They could not have asked for a more pliable media, or a more generous political culture, in which to issue their mewling tantrums. They were able to attack any compromise position without being asked what they would do in its place. They were able to constantly propose no-deal Brexit - or a 'world trade deal' as they laughably tried to brand it - without being interrogated about the damage it would do the UK. Rarely could any political campaign have been so steeped in attempts to mislead the public.

At no point has anything ever been their fault. Even when the aggressive time constraints of Article 50 dominated the Brexit process, they did not admit that it was lunacy to have triggered it, or that doing so without a plan amounted to a supreme act of patriotic irresponsibility. When their assurances that Britain could have full access to the single market but also an independent regulatory system were shown to be false, they blamed the EU for being inflexible. When they were forced to legally establish their promise about a frictionless border in Ireland, they said the Europeans were trying to turn us into a vassal state. When David Davis was defeated on every single battle he tried to wage with Michel Barnier, they blamed Remainers for failing to get behind the government. They're like a doomsday cult leader. Every apocalypse date which passes, annihilation is simply recalculated to take place a few years in the future. No-one blinks an eye.

Dominic Raab has been ridiculed after saying he “hadn’t quite understood” the importance of cross-Channel trade to the UK economy.

Holy shit.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 24036.html

Mrs May is in an impossible position, because a good Brexit never existed outside the glib fantasies of its proponents. There has never been a deal available that would allow the United Kingdom to continue to enjoy all the many benefits of its partnership with the European Union, as the Brexiters once promised, from the outside. As I’ve remarked before, any deal negotiated by any prime minister was bound to be suboptimal, because there are no terms more favourable to Britain than those that it currently enjoys as a member of the EU. There never was some tremendous bargain there to be struck if only Mrs May had had the wit to spot it. From the start, she has been choosing between varieties of the inferior. And where she has made mistakes, they have flowed not from betraying the hard Brexiters but from doing their bidding and seeking to appease them.

It is now nearly 30 months since the referendum, with fewer than five to go before Britain is due to leave. If there were some smart solution to Brexit, we are entitled to wonder why the Brexiters have never revealed it to the rest of us. They have been florid in their denunciations of Mrs May’s ideas without once producing a plan of their own that passes the most basic tests of viability. Michael Gove, purportedly the cleverest of their number, has been reduced to arguing that the cabinet should swallow whatever terms Mrs May can cobble together in the hope of having another go at some unspecified date in the future.

If there were a blindingly superior negotiating strategy, and the secret of it was known to Boris Johnson or to David Davis, you might think they would have shared it with the rest of the cabinet when one held the great office of foreign secretary and the other was in the influential role of Brexit secretary. Those positions are now held by Jeremy Hunt, a self-proclaimed convert to Brexit, and Dominic Raab, a protege of Mr Davis and always a believer. They have done no better than their predecessors at illuminating the path to El Dorado.

https://twitter.com/SamCoatesTimes/status/1061910513381269509

On a potential GE:
Check out @MaliciousA’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/MaliciousA/status/1 ... 7790773249

I think that if that were the case, and the Tory position switched to ditching Brexit, I would vote for them over Labour, because I think staying in the EU with a tory government is a net better position than being out of the EU with Labour's current offerings.

— MaliciousA (@MaliciousA) November 11, 2018

Given how much of their last manifesto they've actually actioned, what makes you think that (if they campaigned on a Remain platform) they'd actually go through with it and stop Brexit?

Who's in your fantasy cabinet?

Holly Willoughby and me, for seven minutes.

Who's in your fantasy cabinet?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-46200010

Apparently a draft deal has been agreed...

And already rejected by almost everyone to have read it (allegedly).