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Those thinking the leave EU vote was wrong take biggest lead yet in YouGov’s Brexit Tracker

Those thinking the leave EU vote was wrong take biggest lead yet in YouGov’s Brexit Tracker

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If this is more than a blip it could be significant After more than a year of producing results showing that voters were split almost down the middle over Brexit the latest YouGov tracker now has those saying it was wrong leading by 5 points This is the biggest margin by either right or wrong has had since the pollster started tracking opinion in the aftermath of the referendum. As in all newsworthy pieces of polling we’ll have to wait…

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Coming back to EU – can A50 be revoked?

Coming back to EU – can A50 be revoked?

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Picture: The justices of the CJEU Alastair Meeks, who correctly forecast the outcome of the Article 50 Supreme Court case, gives his view if Article 50 is revocable. Britain is not going to be rescinding its Article 50 notice.  The Government doesn’t want to and nothing in the current progress of negotiations is bringing Britain back closer to the rest of the EU.  All of which makes a lot of the speculation about whether Britain could revoke that notice rather…

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Blaming the hard-line CON Brexit fundamentalists who are taking Britain to the brink

Blaming the hard-line CON Brexit fundamentalists who are taking Britain to the brink

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This from @stephenkb is right. Brexit's failing because it's being negotiated in the interests of the Tory Party https://t.co/KBzSvVIpDB — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) October 12, 2017 The Stephen Bush analysis of the Brexit negotiations In a well-argued New Statesman piece Stephen Bush makes a point that has not been heard much since the Brexit talks began. It is the hard-line CON Brexiteers who are calling the shots and taking us to the brink. He notes:- “ …the loss of political…

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It was a big CON to LAB Remain voter swing that cost the Tories their majority

It was a big CON to LAB Remain voter swing that cost the Tories their majority

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top psephologists Curtice & Ford confirm net GE17 traffic for Conservatives vs Lab re Brexit: no net Leave gain, significant net Remain loss pic.twitter.com/fLbesjBHrz — Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) October 10, 2017 It’s possible that LAB could’ve fared better with a unequivocal Remainer as head More serious analysis of the extraordinary GE2017 result is now coming out and is reflected in the Tweets above from leading political scientist Rob Ford of Manchester University who works closely with Prof John Curtice. The…

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Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?

Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?

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All around the developed world, political loyalties are breaking down.  Electorates in Britain and the USA have gambled on reckless options in Brexit and Trump.  The hard right is a formidable political force in traditionally prosperous countries such as Sweden and Austria (where they may enter coalition government after the imminent election), and anti-immigrant voters have found their voice in France and Germany.  Secessionists ride high in Scotland and Catalonia.  Centrists find themselves outflanked on the left too, with centre…

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TMay refuses 3 times to say she’d vote for Brexit

TMay refuses 3 times to say she’d vote for Brexit

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Good questioning of TMay by @IainDale getting TMay to refuse 3 times to say she'd vote for Brexit.https://t.co/5DH4ZqO2lb — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) October 10, 2017 If you have not had chance to watch Iain Dale’s interview tonight then it is worth looking at. The beleaguered PM doesn’t do many interviews as long as this one and Iain, a former CON PPC, did not give the PM a easy time. The news part of the session which will be remembered was…

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A European Strategy?

A European Strategy?

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It was Napoleon who famously described the English as “a nation of shopkeepers”, not meant as a compliment, one imagines.  Still, a bit rich coming from someone who sold Louisiana to the US to enrich his Treasury and help create a rival to England.  The English may have paid others to do their fighting for them, usually against the French, but they have yet to sell bits of their country off.  (The easily offended should look away now: dare I…

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