Nick Webb
@Nick1webb
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Television producer/director/scriptwriter on lots of shows you know. Aiming for effective communication of accurate information. Experts are good. Be nice.
Joined April 2013
The best way to 'tackle small boats' is to rejoin the Single Market. FOM only exists for SM member state citizens so anyone without a passport from those countries can't flow freely, they are detained at our border. Meanwhile the Dublin Convention gives us the ability to 1/4
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@grahamstuart 1% lower growth per year - which Brexit has cost as a bare minimum - is ยฃ1 trillion cumulative by 2030. You massively underestimate how much Brexit has cost the UK.
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@GoodwinMJ @AllisonPearson You're going to be furious when you learn about a thing called Brexit. If you care about the economy you'll prioritise that, trust me. I'd recommend rejoining this thing called the Single Market and entering into a Customs Union with the EU before negotiating rejoining. Quids in.
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Tried it , didn't work. Oddly if you voted Remain every single thing you voted against happened . If you voted Leave , none of what you voted for happened - because it was all lies.
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I would welcome informed debate about ๐ฌ๐ง joining EFTA. It's a genuine option that still fulfills the 'Leave the EU' vote from a decade ago. Any future referendum has to embrace this as an option.
This isnโt correct. The EUs only power is its market & so it must guard it resolutely. Particularly when future British trade policy was an unknown. The barriers are like a castle wall. ๐ฌ๐ง stepped outside the wall by not taking the EFTA option. Now we must make the best of it.
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Details matter. In depth knowledge and understanding matter. People with these things should be recruited by government and involved in strategy/campaigns/negotiations. I hope they are. It's hard to argue this was the case with Brexit.
This is wrong. Gib has joined Schengen (Common Travel Area) which is not Free Movement (the right to be there, stay, live & work/study indefinitely). There is no EU Free Movement of people for N. Ireland - but UK does have a CTA with Ireland - only Free Movement of Goods with EU
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More wasted ๐ฌ๐งยฃ in the Brexit bin. Government still keeping up the illusion that rejoining the SM isn't the ultimate solution to the problems caused by leaving it. Improved by SM/CU. Further improved by rejoining EU. https://t.co/iMoJ2f3wUi
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Programme launched by last Tory government was worked on by Deloitte and IBM but was paused in 2024
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We need to promote the benefits of Freedom of Movement by effectively communicating accurate information. Nothing would influence our future relationship with Europe more than the British public seeing it as the huge positive that it undoubtedly is and wanting it back.
I often see Brexiters stating FoM was of "no benefit to the have nots". Putting aside apparent justification is therefore to *level down* more of us into the 'have nots' it needs to be pointed out *EVERYBODY* benefitted from FoM, every time they went (FoM of goods/food) shopping.
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@justinallen1976 @Tesco @Keir_Starmer Cod is caught in Norwegian & Icelandic waters. Since Brexit UK no longer has EU rights to fish these waters. More mackerel for us: problem being Brits prefer cod & we made mackerel harder to sell on the continent. Get more used to mackerel, or campaign to get UK back in the EU
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Wow.
๐ณ๏ธ Poll | Should Britain rejoin the EU? ๐ก Rejoin: 61% (+13) ๐ต Stay out: 39% (-13) Source: @YouGov, 22-23 Jan (+/- vs 2016 ballot)
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Time for a re-run of this thread ? @IainDale
Once again for the Brexit liars & dummiesย 1/ All countries start with their own market standards, regulated & customs territory. If an outsider wants to sell on it you must prove you meet its standards & pay a tariff at its border
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Hard to argue that mistakes didn't cost us. Amazing group of players, small margins, big consequences. Congratulations ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ
No issue with the result - tough day for England. I hope it becomes a game they look back on as a major lesson and moment they learnt from. Painful. Talented group. Very harsh red card - but time to learn as much as possible and come back stronger ๐ค๐ค
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@TiceRichard How "handcuffed" to them? EU membership does not prevent sales into other economies... Brexit has just made it much harder to sell into EU27, without - not in our gift to - making it any equally compensating easier to sell into any other market. Hence the queue to join not leave
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@Nick1webb @IainDale @wh500w We can certainly "choose not to"...then we will sell nothing in the EU27 (nor EFTA4)....for - considering importing markets set their rules of entry, not us - equal compensating sales where? @ungagged13 @MrDavidCatt1 @RobinPirates @bsdnazz @PolicyReviewEU
https://t.co/i6V2rvM1Lq
@ShankerASingham Importing markets set their standards so if UK deregulates & diverges its standards away from EU (inc NI), where will the GB produce & products be sold? Where are we diverging to? The standards of which market are we targeting that's bigger than EU - on our doorstep - to sell to?
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@IainDale We are rule takers by being outside the EU. To EU, US & China: just a matter of how much to each. We can't afford to enforce UKCA or even our own "tariff free" TCA. Cost of access will again be dwarfed by the economic benefits of again regaining lost 85% of our *internal* market
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@DavidDavisMP You lie...the exact opp is true. Brexit benefits EU exporters..& smugglers. Aligning with the bigger market will benefit UK exporters inc farmers I'd urge all to read this whole thread & engage with those (listed at end of this thread) that know the truth https://t.co/RmAHjSyumm
This report fails to tell truth this because GB no longer part of same single market under mutually recognised legal authority. Instead GB now needs border controls it hasn't got the extra capacity for. "How Britain became dumping ground for illegal meat" https://t.co/utmYr2y6sI
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Anyone thinking of booking a holiday to our typical European hotspots this year should read this thread and explain it to others. If EES is finally fully implemented, EVERY Brit arriving will be subject to it= v long queues. We chose this by leaving SM and surrendering our FOM.
@newts13 @easyJet @BBCNews @SkyNewsBreak My thread from 2022....one of many from 2016 warning of what was still to Brexit come, including on this here... https://t.co/O2QHH2P2TY
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UK Tax paid by Jim Ratcliffe in 2025: ยฃ0 UK tax paid by immigrants in 2025: ยฃ17,000,000,000
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This will not change. Every single conversation regarding trade should begin with highlighting the lost>ยฃ100billion to our economy as a result of leaving SM/CU and asking where we were ever going to replace that from. It's a huge number and has had a huge impact on ๐ฌ๐ง lives
"Transparent" but true!! *Only way* to bilaterally remove the hardest of barriers to trade, prosperity & growth (regulatory & customs borders between countries) is to join/agree a single market of regulations, under mutually recognised legal authority AND customs union with them
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