Brexit Watch

Independent analysis and news on #Brexit and #EUreferendum.

[Brexit Watch @BrexitWatch]

Real wage growth since 2007:
Greece: -10.4%
UK: -10.4%
France: +10.5%
Germany: +13.9%

[Gergely Polner @eurocrat]

. @HeathrowAirport has found the perfect way of destroying their business.

They are the only airport I know where everyone needs their individual boarding cards - penalising families into a long queue (1/2)

[James O'Malley @Psythor]

This really is outrageous and everyone should be mad about it. He shouldn’t have just been “spared jail”, he shouldn’t have been prosecuted at all. https://t.co/qPQa7RY7nG

[Jonathan Freedland @Freedland]

People keep saying that Britain has a “noble tradition” of taking in refugees, citing the kindertransport as proof. Simon Heffer did it again on Radio 4 this morning. But here’s the problem.

[Richard Corbett @RichardGCorbett]

Over the last 10 years (in which the EuropeanUnion & Brexit have been regularly debated) #BBCQT has invited UK MEPs onto its show some 50 times.

Every single one has been a #Brexit supporter.

Never had a Remainer.

Never had a #Labour, #LibDem, Green, SNP, or PlaidCymru MEP

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

Those final results, expressed as % change from 2015, are remarkable:

UKIP: -82%
Tories: -24%
Labour: -4%
Lib Dem: +109%
Green: +273%

The notion that Tories shed seats because “people just want them to get on with Brexit” doesn’t fly when you look at where those seats went.

[Mike Smithson @MSmithsonPB]

Probably the pottiest front page today. Suggesting that local elections that saw the LDs with their best result in decades as being sending a pro-Brexit message. Eh?

[Brexit Watch @BrexitWatch]

If the PM does resign any time soon, we will have to endure another decade of the ‘Sun Wot Won It’

[Bojan Pancevski @bopanc]

#Brexit fighting talk from the man who runs the @EU_Commission. Politicians who have constituencies and economies to run are slightly more realistic about the no-deal preparations.

[Peter Foster @pmdfoster]

Question. Did Martin Selmayr just call the Polish foreign minister a 'nobody'?

@PolandMFA #Czaputowicz

https://t.co/hmUCiKoGjz

[Gergely Polner @eurocrat]

A short list to follow immediate commentary on #Article50 ruling https://t.co/NG4eEYhGbt

[Gergely Polner @eurocrat]

#article50 ruling is out: UK is free to unilaterally revoke the notification of its intention to withdraw from the EU

[Josep Borrell Fontelles @JosepBorrellF]

The agreement on #Gibraltar reached today within the framework of the #Brexit negotiations is highly positive for #Spain and the most important one since the #Utrecht Treaty of 1713. I want to personally thank the Secretary of State for the #EU, our Permanent Representation (1/2)

[Alex Wickham @alexwickham]

Suspect some MPs have not yet realised what May has agreed to here...

[Gergely Polner @eurocrat]

I fear this is wishful reading of the Gibraltar deal. EU spells out that Gibraltar will NOT be covered by future relationship agreement (unless Spain agrees). And PM will endorse deal with this caveat tomorrow.

[Gergely Polner @eurocrat]

4. We show that in case Macron makes a decent showing with En Marche and joins forces with ALDE, this En Marche - ALDE group would be the kingmaker in the new European Parliament

[Gergely Polner @eurocrat]

3. @HanburyStrategy polling analysis shows that grand coalition of @EPP and @TheProgressives would not have a majority in the next European Parliament (under current polling)

[Paul Stephenson @P_R_Stephenson]

Tomorrow’s front pages show how changing of the top brass at the big tabloids is already having an impact. Can’t imagine the Mail or Express running those front pages a few months ago #tomorrowspaperstoday

[Gergely Polner @eurocrat]

This is wholly speculative, but the shift in UK public opinion against #Brexit is nonetheless significant https://t.co/qArS9aCX7o

[Jennifer Rankin @JenniferMerode]

"Britain never had a lot of influence in Europe," says former minister Digby Jones.

This is staggeringly untrue. Ignores creation of the single market and British support for EU enlargement - two of biggest EU policies of last 25 years, but that's not all...