WTF: How Do We Take Back Control?

Robert Peston's talk is coming up tonight - did you manage to get tickets? Fear not if not - there are other great @FestivalofIdeas #economicsfest talks coming up next week! Did we mention we have discounts available for #UoBEFM students?  http://bit.ly/2zCzrv3   https://twitter.com/FestivalofIdeas/status/928939662646956033 …

“Brexit has been such a triumph hasn’t it” 🤣 @Peston #economicsfest

"We didn't think the world would be as shit as it is" @Peston #economicsfest

"Britain has an astonishing number of shockingly bad businesses." #Cacanomics "collusion at mediocrity" @Peston #economicsfest

“The great challenge of this country is to raise the productivity of poorly-run businesses” @Peston #economicsfest

.@Peston says one of the reasons Leave won #Brexit #referendum is were they were “streets ahead” on social media #economicsfest

@Peston: no accident the EU are being such shits at the negotiating table: they're trying to get the public to stop gov't from going through with it #economicsfest

Productivity is demonstrably driven by access to big markets; it will suffer from Brexit and it's already quite bad @Peston #economicsfest

"This is the most unstable time in British politics that I can remember" @Peston #economicsfest

@Peston advocating a wealth tax #economicsfest

"It's not journalism to say 'on the one hand this, on the other hand that', it's about forming an opinion" @Peston #economicsfest