… the notion that large numbers of pro-Brexit voters are experiencing buyer’s remorse is both unproven and irrelevant. … And it is hard to avoid the feeling that much of the Remain camp disappointment comes from people who are simply not used to losing votes that might negatively affect their own lives. As Manchester Professor Rob Ford put it, the English middle class is simply experiencing what UKIP voters have had to put up with for years.
– Uniting the United Kingdom by Anand Menon for Foreign Affairs
As so often, political reality will trump the lawyers. Alan Renwick of the UCL constitution unit argues that there is now a political imperative for the next prime minister to hold a parliamentary vote before the invocation of Article 50. But it is hard to imagine that MPs would choose to overturn the majority decision of the referendum on June 23rd.
“I want to speak to the markets,” says Andrea Leadsom, with the air of someone who imagines you can negotiate with gravity.
— Marina Hyde (@MarinaHyde) July 7, 2016
Andrea Leadsom also just said: "Forecasts for a disaster for sterling have not been proven correct."
— Richard James (@richjamesuk) July 7, 2016
This comment on Andrea Leadsom wanting to certify every website through the BBFC before they go live is very funny. pic.twitter.com/i0DIRECndf
— Dan Ellse (@dan_ellse) July 5, 2016
Why were no contingency plans made for Brexit? Foreign Sec Philip Hammond: “I’m not sure that I see the need." pic.twitter.com/jOtQ9RTkrY
— Emily Ashton (@elashton) July 7, 2016
Hammond says if they’d made plans & they had been leaked, it would have been seen as an “unwarranted intervention” in the #EUref campaign
— Emily Ashton (@elashton) July 7, 2016
UK foreign secretary brands 27 heads of gov't "bureaucrats in Brussels" – and you still wonder why Leave won EUref https://t.co/4w9u7iCIII
— Alberto Nardelli (@AlbertoNardelli) July 7, 2016
Five things better than being the "greatest" nation on Earth. 1) Happiest 2) Healthiest 3) Most stable 4) Most progressive 5) Most inventive
— Caitlin Moran (@caitlinmoran) July 7, 2016
'It was the WTO not the EU which led to Brexit vote'. Correlation of Leave vote with areas which lost jobs to China https://t.co/u2nm1izfrI
— Paul Kirby (@paul1kirby) July 7, 2016
This is fascinating:
Leadsom profile by @SamCoatesTimes on why her CV mistakes might help her in these odd times. https://t.co/3SJIPG5iK1 pic.twitter.com/zLJy9cO9TH
— Jim Waterson (@jimwaterson) July 8, 2016
Pound Overtakes Argentine Peso to Become 2016’s Worst Performer https://t.co/QxGAzCzElc by @aragaomarianna pic.twitter.com/8RW9Tacn8M
— David Goodman (@_DavidGoodman) July 8, 2016
Interesting snippet on the "people have had enough of experts" issue https://t.co/6l209zjHJC pic.twitter.com/tXHvOeLkwB
— Conor James McKinney (@mckinneytweets) July 8, 2016
#EUref turnout, by age group:
18-24: 64%
25-39: 65%
40-54: 66%
55-64: 74%
65+: 90%
(via Opinium for LSE)https://t.co/5AzAJF2flB— Britain Elects (@britainelects) July 9, 2016
…by their silence Corbyn and his troubled, paranoid court have delivered us, in effect, and for the time being, into a one-party state…
– Britain is changed utterly. Unless this summer is just a bad dream by Ian McEwan for The Guardian
Thanks to Iain Duncan Smith for helpfully illustrating my point. https://t.co/ChO02vp1uJ pic.twitter.com/wo6psy4muV
— Michael Deacon (@MichaelPDeacon) July 10, 2016
The idea of four new political parties for the UK proposed by @montie in 2013 is worth another look. pic.twitter.com/5YKKt4XpE3
— Jim Waterson (@jimwaterson) July 10, 2016