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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿Welsh European 🇪🇺 No Party politics, it's all about #stopbrexit. Many RTs for info only.

Joined July 2009
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Elaine Blackledge #SuspendA50 #FBPE retweeted
What is the ESF? Why isn’t the UK Gov doing this? The United Kingdom is using the European Social Fund (ESF) to reduce inactivity among young people and the long-term unemployed and to improve training
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#OTD 1858. Charles Darwin publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection. We have all seen how Brexit has evolved from easiest deal and sunny uplands to food shortages and no planes at Heathrow for 2 months. #StopBrexit
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Elaine Blackledge #SuspendA50 #FBPE retweeted
“We’re saying please engage meaningfully with a way of life that is cherished and valued by people from all different backgrounds.” “This is not a political campaign….people who have been through borders before are frightened." @DerryGirlsAB 📣📣 belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/…
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Elaine Blackledge #SuspendA50 #FBPE retweeted
In a world where key decisions are being made on the basis of slogans, and where truth is treated as an awkward inconvenience, a QC explains that WTO will provide no easy solution after what is now being called a clean Brexit bit.ly/2OPNGjS
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Elaine Blackledge #SuspendA50 #FBPE retweeted
This story is behind a paywall, but the intro is interesting - Nigel Oakes who founded SCL, the parent of Cambridge Analytica is trying to distance himself from CA and said that he operated for years “without much of an ethical radar” /1 thetimes.co.uk/article/i-did…
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Elaine Blackledge #SuspendA50 #FBPE retweeted
Replying to @DmitryOpines
This is a bit misleading. On FTAs – rollover is only possible under transition period. Since you’re writing about no-deal preparations this is not the case. No-deal means UK loses access to all FTAs on Brexit day next March. There is no rollover under no-deal. /1
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Elaine Blackledge #SuspendA50 #FBPE retweeted
Poll: Our party political system is tribal and rigid, and blocks the rational, cooperative and flexible politics that is needed in the modern world. #Brexit Please RT
94%Agree
3%Disagree
2%Don't know or neutral
553 votes • Final results
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Elaine Blackledge #SuspendA50 #FBPE retweeted
📣 There will be a round of #Brexit negotiations @EU_Commission this week 🇪🇺🇬🇧 The agenda is available online: 1) Withdrawal Agreement & 2) Future relationship. @MichelBarnier will meet @DominicRaab Tues afternoon. Press arrangements tbc: ec.europa.eu/commission/publ… – at Wexford, Ireland
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Elaine Blackledge #SuspendA50 #FBPE retweeted
Risk of a no-deal Brexit matters for European bank bonds on.ft.com/2PqJ84f
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Elaine Blackledge #SuspendA50 #FBPE retweeted
So now I’m being told that despite the fact pretty much everyone agrees that Brexit will destroy the NHS, tank the economy for 50 years and lead to complete societal meltdown, we HAVE to do it because if we don’t, Europhobes will piss & moan. Wow. Imagine that.
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Elaine Blackledge #SuspendA50 #FBPE retweeted
Also important not to lose sight of reality in brandishing threats of no-deal. EU 27 have a larger population and GDP than USA. It’s them not us that have the 54 free trade deals, the air services agreements etc. The EU will take #Brexit in their stride. The impact will be on us.
Important not to misrepresent my words: Britain WOULD survive and prosper without a deal...but it would be a big mistake for Europe because of inevitable impact on long term partnership with UK. We will only sign up to deal that respects referendum result
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Elaine Blackledge #SuspendA50 #FBPE retweeted
So my working hypothesis on Brexit's impact on EU-UK services trade is that, outside SM, main impact = much more difficult to sell cross border from UK territory into EU. So in nerd speak, mode one supply of services becomes significantly more constrained.
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Elaine Blackledge #SuspendA50 #FBPE retweeted
Brexit is sentencing the UK's financial services industry to a long slow death bloom.bg/2nThnEU
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Elaine Blackledge #SuspendA50 #FBPE retweeted
The British people all 65m of us actually are represented by parliament. Parliament didn’t decide to leave, the PM did. No impact assessment or due diligence she based it on a flawed frauderendum full of lies. The British people should vote on the deal.
The British people will not be bullied or scared into changing their minds and they certainly won’t be bought off by rich donors who think they can overturn a democratic vote with slave labour money @Superdry
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Elaine Blackledge #SuspendA50 #FBPE retweeted
As #LiamFox continues with his ‘spinning’ over post Post Brexit #export targets and opportunities this is what’s happening in the real world that Fox hardly ever visits. Remember his claim that a Brexit deal will be ‘the easiest in history’ telegraph.co.uk/business/201…
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Elaine Blackledge #SuspendA50 #FBPE retweeted
“We have had to close one third of our in-patient NHS beds through Brexit.” Palliative care doctor, Rachel Clarke, wants to remain in the EU, and would like another referendum. #VictoriaLIVE
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Elaine Blackledge #SuspendA50 #FBPE retweeted
Hey people, hope y'all enjoyin the great British #Summer? I sure know I am, been exploring #Wales again, such a bEUtiful country. Help me out here - can anyone tell me which word is from which country on my #EU t-shirt? *Together* I already know.. #StopBrexit #FBPE #Remain ✊✌😎
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There's a big problem with the Most Favoured Nation rule at the WTO and #NoDealBrexit trade with the EU. Until we get trade deals, if we keep our tariffs with EU at zero then we also have to have zero tariffs for everywhere else, including China, USA etc. Which destroys UK jobs.
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Elaine Blackledge #SuspendA50 #FBPE retweeted
29.3 MILLION traveling BRITS will be affected IF we leave the EU... In passenger transport, maritime and aviation are particularly reliant on passenger flows between the UK and other EU Member States.
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Elaine Blackledge #SuspendA50 #FBPE retweeted
Best speech I’ve seen so far for a people’s vote - and funny too #PeoplesVote
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