Interesting Links for 17-01-2019

[andrewducker]

Young Trans Children Know Who They Are

(tags: lgbt transgender children )

Jeremy Corbyn snubs Theresa May offer to work together on Brexit unless PM rules out no-deal

Of course, no detail on how to rule out No Deal when it's what happens automatically if nothing else is agreed...
(tags: UK europe labour )

A majority of Americans support raising the top tax rate to 70 percent

(tags: usa tax )

Hundreds of homeless people fined and imprisoned in England and Wales

(tags: England homelessness OhForFucksSake )

The BBC's article on the Gillette advert is *terrible*

(tags: BBC journalism twitter OhForFucksSake )

The Scottish government isn't funding autism support which actively saves money

(tags: NHS autism scotland OhForFucksSake )

Isle Of Man Is Now The First Place In The British Isles To Decriminalise Abortion

(tags: abortion GoodNews )

How Do People Communicate Before Death?

(tags: death language viaSwampers )

Hitachi scraps £16bn nuclear power station in Wales

(tags: nuclearpower uk Wales doom )

A question of interest: Is UK household debt unsustainable?

(tags: UK debt economics )

This is an excellent summary of the current Brexit situation and our options

(tags: UK europe )

Comments

[danieldwilliam]

Mostly I agree with that but there is an option 1B. In order to rule out a No Deal Brexit there must either be 1) a Deal or 2) a revocation of Article 50. That Deal doesn't have to be the one that May negotiated, it doesn't have to be one that leaves the confidence and supply agreeement in place, it doesn't have to be one that leaves the Tory Party in existence.

If one is to ascribe some street smarts to Corbyn it might be that his hope is to force May in to a positon where she is stuck between No Brexit and a Deal that will pass the Commons - such as Norway and hopefully destroy the Tory Party in the process.

In order for that to happen he needs to not draw attention to his end game. Hence his silence on what would be the implicit policy of the Labour Party - Single Market or Remain.

Personally I do not ascribe that level of cunning or understanding to Corbyn. I think he is mostly bumbling around, blowing raspberries at the government and trying not to split his own voting base by actually doing anything. But that doesn't stop him lighting by accident on an outcome that I like.

[drplokta]

There’s one way to ensure that the UK definitely leaves, but doesn’t leave without a deal. But that way was voted down by 230 votes two days ago. There’s no other way to do it.