References, notes and quotes, Summer 2018 issue

Labour MP Hilary Benn, the chair of the Exiting the EU Committee, says the government's plans would take to 2022 to implement, and he asks if the government will extend the transitional arrangement, which currently only goes to the end of 2020.

"No," Mrs May replies.

16:51

"Settled virtually all of the Withdrawal Agreement" says May

Katya Adler, BBC Europe Editor, columns

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/correspondents/katyaadler

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-44770630

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-44397779

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-43992845

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-43788080

Staying in the EEA – Robin Walker MP

https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-06-21/156347/

David TC Davies MP

https://brexitcentral.com/theresa-mays-plan-half-loaf-brexit-disappointment-need-swallow-pride-back/

Andrew Percy MP

https://www.politico.eu/article/how-brexiteers-lost-control-of-brexit/

Labour’s “Six Tests”

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39398049

https://www.politico.eu/article/labour-big-brexit-vote-jeremy-corbyn-keir-starmer/

Corbyn and McDonnell

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/983683/Brexit-news-UK-EU-Theresa-May-second-Brexit-referendum-vote-Labour-Party-Unite

Labour manifesto 2017

http://www.labour.org.uk/index.php/manifesto2017

Brussels bureaucrats overworked

https://www.politico.eu/article/brussels-eu-staff-workload-european-parliament-elections-brexit-legislation/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-44762836

18:11

EU doesn't want resignations to delay Brexit

Speaking in London today, Germany's minister of state for Europe has said the EU does not want these resignations to delay Brexit.

Kurz, Austrian EU Presidency, on hard Brexit, timescales

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/984300/Brexit-news-Sebastian-Kurz-Article-50-Ireland-border-negotiations-UK-EU-latest

Britain’s European Parliament seats may stay in July 2019?

http://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-7-2018-REV-1/en/pdf (legislation)

http://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2018/06/29/the-european-council-establishes-the-composition-of-the-european-parliament/pdf (PR omits mention)

Hague on danger of no Brexit

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/983051/brexit-news-theresa-may-conservatives-william-hague-customs-plan

Stefaan de Rynck on a likely FTA.

https://www.politico.eu/article/michel-barnier-financial-services-excluded-from-brexit-trade-deal/

Berlin Foreign Policy journalist Dave Keating

https://berlinpolicyjournal.com/brexit-doesnt-mean-brexit/

Pascal Lamy on FTA

http://www.freetradeagreements.co.uk/projects/pascal-lamy/

EU support for multi-lateralism in trade

http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2017/july/tradoc_155735.pdf

http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2010/november/tradoc_146955.pdf

Association Agreement, Lisbon Treaty TFEU Articles 199-202 and Annex III

https://europa.eu/european-union/law/treaties_en

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=OJ:C:2007:306:TOC

Chile, Association Agreement modernisation

http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/countries-and-regions/countries/chile/

http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/html/156550.htm

Northern Ireland backstop

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/jul/06/michel-barnier-eu-willing-to-compromise-if-uk-softens-brexit-red-lines

However, the conciliatory tone of Barnier’s speech was striking and may help move negotiations to the next phase. On Northern Ireland, he repackaged the need for a backstop solution, spelling out the need for regulatory alignment for livestock and agri-food. He said this was necessary for food safety and animal health across the border and would allow farming to continue as it does.

https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/07/michel-barniers-pointed-questions-point-to-no-deal/

One small ray of light for May arrived in Barnier’s comments on the backstop. Although he stressed that not enough progress had been made on finding an agreement on the Irish border, he did seem to soften his language – saying his side were open to any solution

http://www.irishnews.com/news/brexit/2018/02/28/eu-publishes-plan-to-keep-northern-ireland-in-customs-union-after-brexit-1266659/

Mr Barnier promised to “delete” the backstop Northern Ireland plan if a trade deal or British technological solutions solve the border issue,

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/984889/Brexit-news-Michel-Barnier-Ireland-backstop-EU-UK-latest

https://brexitcentral.com/avoid-hard-irish-border-remain-outside-customs-union-single-market/

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/977687/Brexit-news-Jean-Claude-Juncker-grilled-Irish-Parliament-Richard-Boyd-Barrett

Richard Boyd Barrett, a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dún Laoghaire constituency, asked Mr Juncker how the EU could be trusted on Brexit after turning Mediterranean Sea borders “into a fortress”.

“We don’t trust the Tories but can we trust you that there will be no border under any circumstances?”

Mr Juncker replied quickly with a firm “yes”.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/eu-calms-varadkar-s-fears-of-physical-border-checks-after-brexit-1.3569485

The European Union has reassured the Government that no physical checks will be needed on the Border even if the UK crashes out of the bloc without a deal, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said.

Mr Varadkar said that such a “doomsday scenario” would mean that the “commitments of others” would be relied upon to prevent a hard border.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/taoiseach-s-confidence-of-no-border-controls-not-shared-in-brussels-1.3570514

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/uk/brexit-what-is-the-backstop-agreement-and-why-does-it-matter-1.3571135

https://ukconstitutionallaw.org/2018/07/05/anurag-deb-the-unquiet-irish-border-problem-implications-in-the-aftermath-of-the-withdrawal-act/

https://www.independent.ie/business/brexit/government-gears-up-for-showdown-with-wto-on-future-of-soft-border-37130111.html

(speculation) Now Government sources say they are prepared for major confrontation with WTO officials, who will insist on a Border with the North as part of strict trade laws…('It is understood')

Global Counsel on ‘no deal’ scenario

https://www.global-counsel.co.uk/analysis/insight/what-does-no-deal-mean#annex-examples-potential-enhancers-wto-baseline-no-deal-scenario

"No deal" scenario not an option

http://www.eureferendum.com/blogview.aspx?blogno=86917

EU institutions united on ‘Norway deal’

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-brussels-suggests-norway-model-for-uk-after-brexit-talks-negotiations/

Referendum and Remoaner Propaganda

New Statesman on Labour petition

https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2018/07/campaign-second-brexit-referendum-fatally-flawed-it-could-still-hurt-corbyn

Greening and Mandelson referendum proposals

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44840154

http://www.mydup.com/news/article/second-vote-call-a-hare-brained-divisive-and-duplicitous-proposal

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/14/chequers-compromise-brexit-worst-of-of-both-worlds-peter-mandelson

FFS (bananas) campaign

https://ffsakes.uk/

Open Britain ‘People’s Vote’ petition

https://www.peoples-vote.uk/

Remain voter Alastair Benn

https://reaction.life/peoplesvotemarch-shows-remainers-lost-plot/

Remain of 2018, reduced to arguing for a status quo that has been roundly rejected and to arguing for another referendum that no-one backs; it has retreated into clear and luminous little world in which all citizens are virtuous, still European and still right.

http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=39732

BBC propaganda

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44873179

Led with main headline “Second Brexit referendum needed”, yet the Times was the only paper to give this priority.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-44842623

Led with main headline “'Voters turn to far right' over Brexit”, yet the Times was the only paper to give this priority. A YouGov poll merely suggested that more than a third of the public were willing to support a new hard Brexit party.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-44913965

Remoaner views

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-44589464

BBC’s backing for the Brexit blockers’ beano, Gary Oliver

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/bbcs-backing-for-the-brexit-blockers-beano/

... the Beeb – an organisation within which the official Twitter account for Woman’s Hour was brazenly used to announce participation in last weekend’s march for a so-called People’s Vote (a tweet subsequently deleted).

https://infacts.org/we-the-people-can-stop-brexit-yes-we-can/

We, the People, are the underdogs in this battle. ….The BBC tries to ignore us…