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‘Our precious union of nations… [is] threatened by those with their narrow, nationalist agendas that seek to drive us apart ...
..It sounds like one of the strongest endorsements of the European Union ever made by a frontbench politician, either during the referendum campaign or since.

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PorFavor wrote:Good morternoon, everyon.

NonOxCol wrote:Morning. And here's the sort of hot take that almost makes you wish for a biblical plague so we can start again:

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Reuters says the German equivalent of the CBI is telling firms to prepare for a very hard Brexit.

“The British government is lacking a clear concept despite talking a lot,” BDI Managing Director Joachim Lang said.

“German companies with a presence in Britain and Northern Ireland must now make provisions for the serious case of a very hard exit. Anything else would be naive,” he said. (Politics Live, Guardian)

PorFavor wrote:

Reuters says the German equivalent of the CBI is telling firms to prepare for a very hard Brexit.

“The British government is lacking a clear concept despite talking a lot,” BDI Managing Director Joachim Lang said.

“German companies with a presence in Britain and Northern Ireland must now make provisions for the serious case of a very hard exit. Anything else would be naive,” he said. (Politics Live, Guardian)

According to the Financial Times’ Chris Giles (paywall) Philip Hammond, the chancellor, is “facing what officials describe as ‘a bloodbath’ in the public finances in his Budget next month as weak economic forecasts derail the government’s plans. (Politics Live, Guardian)

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:It occurs to me that May has finally paid for all her hiding away, refusal to debate etc.

In another world, she could have cut short her speech yesterday, with a cheery wave and an apology for a shocking sore throat. Nobody would have blinked. But no she had to "soldier" on, or face remorseless accusations of chickening out.

HindleA wrote:I linked the whole thing,but get nervous on the warning not to share article bit not that I am paranoid,fuck a police siren,or anything.

HindleA wrote:I now have my family heirloom shepherd's crook for protection.

SpinningHugo wrote:The ever brilliant Martin Wolf on the post-May world.

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The leader of the UK Labour party has already had a disastrous economic impact, by making the Brexit referendum result far more likely.

citizenJA wrote:Sterling fell

gilsey wrote:https://www.ft.com/content/0e956c1e-a8e ... c?mhq5j=e5
Google 'The economic consequences of Jeremy Corbyn' to get round the paywall, doesn't always work but this one seems to. You might not want to, seeing as the 4th sentence is

The leader of the UK Labour party has already had a disastrous economic impact, by making the Brexit referendum result far more likely.

Disappointed in Wolf for that, he usually talks sense.

Ben Chu @BenChu_
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...we shall see. But I think the much stronger argument vs Corbyn relate to competence expectations rather than the Venezuela bogey man...

AnatolyKasparov wrote:

SpinningHugo wrote:The ever brilliant Martin Wolf on the post-May world.

https://www.ft.com/content/0e956c1e-a8e ... 8314d2c72c" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Subscription needed, unfortunately.

The Labour party disappeared during the referendum campaign,

Willow904 wrote:

gilsey wrote:https://www.ft.com/content/0e956c1e-a8e ... c?mhq5j=e5
Google 'The economic consequences of Jeremy Corbyn' to get round the paywall, doesn't always work but this one seems to. You might not want to, seeing as the 4th sentence is

The leader of the UK Labour party has already had a disastrous economic impact, by making the Brexit referendum result far more likely.

Disappointed in Wolf for that, he usually talks sense.

He's right about Corbyn and McDonnell employing the language of populist socialism, though, rather than the more tentative tradition of European social democracy.

I tend to agree with Ben Chu, however :

Ben Chu @BenChu_
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...we shall see. But I think the much stronger argument vs Corbyn relate to competence expectations rather than the Venezuela bogey man...

PorFavor wrote:I don't recall Alan Johnson over-exerting himself.

SpinningHugo wrote:

PorFavor wrote:I don't recall Alan Johnson over-exerting himself.

If you're not the leader, you won't get much press.

JC had a nice relaxed time of it.

adam wrote:

SpinningHugo wrote:

PorFavor wrote:I don't recall Alan Johnson over-exerting himself.

If you're not the leader, you won't get much press.

JC had a nice relaxed time of it.

La la la.

If weren't the leave campaign or the prime minister you didn't get much press. This is a non-sensical argument to make given how labour supporters voted and is just more rewriting of history. Hate corbyn and/or labour all you like but do it for what happened, not for what it suits people now to make up.

Willow904 wrote:I should add to the above that intentions of a socialist nature combined with a question mark over ability to deliver is clearly much preferable to intentions of a fascistic nature and a definite track record of woeful incompetence.