Your regular reminder that Brexit is going badly because the UK has still to decide what the purpose of leaving the EU is

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#EUref came about as piece of party mgt by Cameron, rather than as culmination of considered and structured debate about UK's place in the world

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Yes, we talked a lot (A LOT) about 'Europe' and the EU, but primarily as a function of lots of other things

A touchstone of dissent, if you will (h/t @PaulAdamTaggart)

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Referendum campaigns on both sides were simply about getting people to vote their way, not efforts to set out settled plans of What Comes Next

"Vote for us and everything will be dandy" is not a plan

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That might have been alright if post-vote there had been a national discussion on how to proceed in an inclusive manner, but instead the political logic pointed to trying to capture the meaning of it all to serve particular agendas

All very majoritarian, as per

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However, absent robust parliamentary majorities, May couldn't own the narrative, but nor could any one else

Cue fudging and obfuscation. And battles over dominance that were (again) more about being top dog than any sense of where the UK might be going

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And so it went until 2019, when someone finally had a solid majority in the Commons to do what they wanted

However, that someone was Johnson, someone not given to strategic vision, but instead to rolling with the good times
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Unfortunately for him, we are already in a situation where good times cannot be built from the objective geopolitical or economic facts.

And maybe not even from the subjective tropes of 'taking back control'

It's a choice from various problematic options

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Hence the indecision

Which only makes things more difficult down the line

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And behind all this, we still don't know what Brexit is for, in the sense of having anything like a national consensus, or even just a meaningful government policy.

Crisis management isn't it

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So however the next week and month plays out, I'm confident that we'll still be in the same position we have been since 2016: disappointed and frustrated

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That's not good for the UK, for the obvious reason that were going to have a lot more of All This [expansive hand gesture]

But also for a less obvious reason

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All this is very tiring and annoying, not to mention unstable

So it's still there for the picking

And you might not like who is doing that picking

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So if you want to avoid a future that you really won't like, then you need need to try to shape the debate, to find common ground, to build something that includes

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Because if you don't, then someone else will, and other people might not be as good about those things as you are

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It is time to talk Brexit and standards again. (thread)


Let's start off with: I don't think any trade experts are surprised by this. It is why the TCA did not do much on SPS. It is why the EU did not offer much on SPS. It is why the UK did not ask much on SPS.

But it also shows that the popular slogan "after Brexit we'll have the same standards as before, so why would anything change in trade" was wrong - and worse, it was purposefully trying to stifle a necessary debate.

And this leads me to the next point: I have no issue with changing the rules, I have a massive issue with how it is done. Here's what we should discuss:

The decisive question: What are the standards the UK as a country wants. To inform this debate, we need the following information:
A further thread on the EU/UK musicians/visa for paid work issue (the issue is paid work: travelling to sing or play at eg a charity event for free can be done without a visa).


The position that we now have now (no relevant provisions under the TCA) is complicated. For EU musicians visiting the UK see


In essence the UK permits foreign (including EU) nationals to stay up to 30 days to carry out paid engagements, but they must (a) prove they are a professional musician and (b) be invited by an established UK business.

Either condition could be tricky for a young musician starting out and wanting to play gigs. And 30 days isn’t long enough for a part in a show with a run.

Longer stays require a T5 visa - which generally requires you to be in a shortage occupation (play an instrument not played in the UK?) or to have an established international reputation.

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