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Two striking takeaways from
@AndrewMarr9
today. First, his questioning of Nicola Sturgeon was far harsher than of any English politician like the PM, Hancock or Raab. Why? Second, Ms Sturgeon plainly is an outstanding leader, clear, rational & authoritative. Scotland is lucky.
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Speaking to
@CNN
Johnson was asked if Brexit had made the UK ‘better off’. He said ‘yes’ & gave as an example “we had an independent medical [sic] agency that was able to make sure the first Covid vax in anyone’s arms in the world was British”. Untrue, as Kate Bingham has stated.
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I see from Google that
@CamillaTominey
of
@Telegraph
seems to take issue with my view of Patel’s horrifying & un-Christian Rwanda deportation & ‘re-settlement’ plan, & question my academic credentials. Odd - when on many other security related issues, they cite me as an expert.
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Grant Shapps interview: ‘Forcing out Boris was a mistake. Yes, he is flawed but who isn’t’. He says he prefers British Airways to Ryanair because it’s ‘British’. But it isn’t. It’s owned by IAH, a Spanish company (also owns Iberia). And he’s Transport Sec
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We’re told
@SkyNewsBreak
Bin Afolami MP has started to canvas for the Tories in Dorries’s Mid-Beds seat. Mr Afolami must be hoping they’ve forgotten his little problem claiming his driving fines on expenses
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James Cleverly claims
@BBCr4today
that UK students doing medicine in the UK pay far lower fees than ‘in the USA or comparable countries’. In GER their own students pay nothing or next to nothing. Of course you can’t expect a UK Education Sec to know that. Or tell us.
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We’ve Brexited. Priti Patel has said we’re out of Europol, out of the EAW, out of SIENA 1&2, out of INTCEN. Why should the French or anyone else ‘step up to the plate on our behalf’. We’ve ‘taken back control’, it’s our problem, we own it.
A Former Border Force officer says many of his old colleagues think authorities on the continent are not stepping up to the plate
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To hear the Brexit Secretary Steve Barclay say
@BBCr4today
that ‘No Deal is less of a risk than No Brexit’ shows how demented Tory policy has become.
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Dear
@BBCr4today
how on earth can you expect to be taken seriously if in a feature on the UK’s lousy economic growth & our labour shortage 07:36-07.43 that did *not mention Brexit or the abolition of free labour once. Not once. Yet it’s key.
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‘Australia to fight UK beef hormone ban in post-Brexit trade talks’: Oz minister says the UK ‘unshackled from EU regs’ will be a great market for their beef containing suspected carcinogens, banned by EU.
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‘Germany knew the floods were coming, but the warnings didn’t work’: 4 days warning from Efas, the European flood advisers; 1 day from GER experts but the authorities didn’t act & disaster protection tools didn’t work. Key report from
@olivermoody
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‘M&S boss warns Spanish chorizo and French cheese could run out’: You need to read this carefully to understand this is Brexit UK’s doing, not the EU’s & it’ll get much worse in Sept when Frost’s full controls kick in. He’s been quiet recently. For why?
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The public has a right to hear from the DG/MI5 why they do not appear to have carried out their statutory duty to combat Russian subversion. It should be top of the new ISC’s list to seek a statement. Dr Julian Lewis MP must act.
I’ve spent 4 years investigating the subversion of UK elections but nothing prepared me for
#RussiaReport
. Utterly gobsmacked. Intelligence services had done *nothing*. This legal action is a last resort. That’s why I’m backing it. And hope you will too
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‘Publish report into alleged bullying by Priti Patel, says ex-MI5 boss’: A very significant intervention by Lord Evans. He also insists Robert Jenrick should be investigated for corruption. Boris will not be best pleased. Good.
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Mr Zahawi’s pitch is both gushing & odd: “The CONS party has made me who I am today. It gave me an education, it provided my family with a home & most importantly it provided hope”. If he’s referring to his being a refugee, it begs the q of his support for deportation to Rwanda.
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Rory Stewart: “The Tories are heading inexorably for the right. They’ll think that they lost because they lost votes to Reform, that if they had been more right wing they’d have done better, but that won’t be true. They’ll have lost to the centre ground”.
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Fabulous interview
@Channel4News
Krishnan. You did not let Redwood get away with saying a majority want a no-deal. He looked gobsmacked to be caught out telling porkies. Very well done.
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Waitrose. Why don't you spell out, in very simple language, why Brexit has poleaxed both the agrifood business and the supply of fresh food and veg. Cheap(er) Shiraz and frozen lamb and beef from OZ and NZ won't make up for what you're scuppering.
Some supermarkets are turning into food showrooms because of increased shoplifting due to the
#CostOfLivingCrisis
As prices soar and food becomes more scarce goodness only knows where this will lead.
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‘Brexit: How has pet travel to EU countries been affected?’ Pre-Brexit a pet passport cost £30-60 & could be used 28 times. Now it costs £200-300 (vets fix the price & can be used for ONE return trip only).
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Don’t forget Grieve is also Chair of the Intelligence & Security Committee. His investigation into interference in the 2016 Referendum has made him some serious enemies, not just his local crackpots.
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How very irritating to hear the BBC’s global trade correspondent Darshini David
@BBCNews
just now describe the USA as the UK’s largest export market. This is not true, it’s the EU. She should apologise & get some facts under her belt.
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Global France. Within the EU. Sovereign. Leading, not leaving.
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‘Nestle factory near Newcastle set to close as production offshored’: One is bored with saying it; it’s Brexit. What we voted for.
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‘Britain sees in new year on a wave of optimism’: Times headline. Based on poll that says 1 in 5 Brits think they’ll be richer by 2021. 1 in 5. And the 4 out of 5 who don’t?
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Matt Hancock wrongly claims vitamin D doesn't work for Covid-19
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@theAliceRoberts
Well, legally they are ours, literally. Elgin acquired them lawfully (as a parliamentary inquiry confirmed) & he sold them to the British Govt. How many other artworks would you return? The Rosetta Stone to Egypt? We need to safeguard our share of our European heritage.
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We're told that it is rumoured in Westminster that gas-cooled nuclear reactors (we have 14 in the UK), cooled by CO2, were running very short of CO2 and that this, rather than fizzy drinks, was the reason HMG got panicky. .
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Utterly outrageous decision. Gisela Stuart is properly seen as toxic by 48% of the UK & by many in the EU. At a time when Wilton Park (with an historical link to Germany) should be building bridges to Europe, the FCO has appointed a demolition expert. Sends a terrible signal.
A terrible decision. Ms Stuart - who was involved with an organisation that broke electoral spending law, and chaired an inquiry into the rights of EU citizens then voted against the results - is wholly unfit for public office.
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‘Parkgoer gives Boris Johnson a piece of his mind as PM walks in park’: The fourth time this week Boris seen walking across St James’s Park with a cup of coffee. What on earth is this about? Where’s he going? Where’s he been? No 10 has a great garden.
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You’re absolutely correct. We have the same thing here in the shires. Many empty coop & M&S shelves day after day. Shortages of EU fruit & veg. This time last year, in the midst of lockdown, shelves were full. Why on earth don’t the media investigate this?
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Post Office boss: I was told to stall compensation to help Tories’ Badenoch needed someone to sack, even if they weren’t in any way to blame. Totally out of her depth.
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Please wake up, this is important. She's had a British passport since 2003. But she's director of a UK company that has assets of just £23,000 and liabilities of £8.4m (says the
@thetimes
). So where does the £1,765.804 she's donated to the Tories come from? Might it be Russia?
so how can there be outrage when the lady is a British citizen ........???
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If NatWest apologises to Farage for getting things wrong when closing his account, will Farage now apologise to the British people for getting things wrong about Brexit?
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40 years of prosperity, progress, market economy, cooperation all chucked on to the scrap heap. To satisfy a Tory Party that has been taken over by ideological fanatics.
Looks like the EU Withdrawal Bill will complete its passage through parliament tonight. It’s a big moment because it means the UK framework for Brexit is established and law. A big hurdle in way of leaving EU surmounted
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The unvarnished truth from
@BBCSimonJack
on
@BBCNews
at Ten. Two EU great exporting firms describe the massive barriers to trade from Brexit. One will set up a warehouse in the EU, the other likely to go bust, with EU orders now non-existent. It’s mad. No other word for it.
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What Priti Patel is saying is ‘we should encourage the young to break electoral law’. This is disgraceful. It shows how much these Brexit fanatics want to change the lawfulness of UK democracy.
Tory MP and ex-cabinet minister encourages people to give money to support Brexit activist fined after the Electoral Commissiom found the law was broken during the referendum campaign
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Our only flower shop, here in the shires, which used to be bursting with fresh Dutch blooms, delivered by a Dutch lorry, is now almost entirely empty of flowers. A few come to order via a small van.
The owner openly admits that Brexit is killing off her business.
A disgrace.
New Brexit border checks are causing havoc for the flower industry with trucks getting stuck for hours and missing delivery slots.
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Amazing revelation about Nissan from Carlos Ghosn on
@BBCNews
i/v with great
@JohnSimpsonNews
Government offered bribes to keep Sunderland working; hard Brexit will end car production here. Full stop.
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As some of us suspected all along, Mrs Sacoolas never had diplomatic immunity. The whole thing is a disgrace.
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Stolen by Gisela Stuart & her chums. She was born in Bavaria, studied at Manchester Poly to improve her English & has benefitted in every way from a UK in the EU, rightly so. Now she shuts the door on others like her. Frankly, odious.
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‘Hunt for fruit pickers extends 6,000 miles as shortage bites’: The madness of Frost’s Brexit (part 1001): far from ‘higher wages’ to tempt Brits, & nuking the market of willing EU labour, we’re flying in pickers ‘from Kenya & Nepal’. Beyond absurd.
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Just incredible. Well done Liz Truss. Not.
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Dear Ms Stuart, this sounds rude and I don't mean to be, but if there's a Deal we need never hear another word from you, or your Brexit chums, even if you've been given every golden elephant that No 10 can bestow. You've betrayed a generation, caused us years of anxiety. Now hush
Any deal emerging from the long and tough negotiations deserves rational and calm consideration rather than rushing to judgement. For some it will never be enough whilst others regard anything with leaving EU as too much.
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Rachel Reeves
@BBCr4today
(discussing LAB policy on the drivers crisis & if free movement might sort it) says Brexit has been voted on & ‘we have moved on’. No, in all senses we have *not ‘moved on’. Brexit is a process & it’s moving us backwards. LAB: Frost’s deal must go!
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Wales voted to Brexit. We’re poorer & can’t afford this. Had we stayed in the EU this is exactly the sort of scheme that would have attracted EU regional/ infrastructure funding. With Airbus a double whammy for Wales.
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100% authentic. Excellent. Contrast with Mogg and Patel. No contest.
“I’d rather look like a fool and protect my constituent’s jobs” says Jess Phillips
#Peston
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@BBCr4today
Ben Wallace tells us ‘Boris cares deeply about people’. Is that why he’s ready to hit the UK twice in 2020, on CV19 & Brexit? Is that why he told his sister ‘I love Brexit. I love how it makes people go mad’.
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Some pix from Waitrose’s Oxford store & a Coop illustrate the damage. No cantaloupes, artichokes that are basically rotten, no fresh veg from the EU. But ‘Yes, we have some bananas ‘. It’s madness.
Kudos to
@jayrayner1
for reminding people that the next installment of Brexit damage is imminent. And if anyone doubts it, recall that it was Rees-Mogg who (when delaying them) admitted they "impose new administrative burdens and risk disruption at ports"
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Chequers housekeeper ‘forced out by clash with Carrie Johnson’: Housekeeper allegedly left with a pay-off & NDA after Carrie accused her of “inappropriate handling of a personal item belonging to Johnson in his bathroom”. The mind boggles.
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Sums up useless Boris & useless Eustice. Our supermarket today, 60m from Westminster. No fresh fruit or veg.
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Brilliant. Top left is clearly
@afneil
ancestor.
The
#Romans
, especially in the Republican era, did not mask the impact of ageing in their portrait busts. Here are examples of older Romans portrayed very realistically & all from the 1st Century BC- 2nd Century AD.
#MuseumsUnlocked
- from various museums.
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"£ has lost 17%of its value against the dollar and 13% against the euro relative to pre-referendum averages. Indeed, £ has become so volatile that Bank of America observed in a recent note that it is trading more like an emerging market currency": Brexit.
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The proud boys' behaviour this morning will have sealed Suella's fate. If he doesn't sack her, the calls for a General Election will be deafening. We can't and won't have Trumpist US politics imported into Britain.
If I were Sunak, I’d sack Braverman before the Sunday papers go to print.
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Liz Truss, politely i/ved by Nick Robinson,
@BBCRadio4
demonstrated a quite remarkable shallowness and lack of grip, almost a pastiche of someone pretending to be a foreign secretary. An irritating speaking style, plodding and ending every sentence on a high note.
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#andrewneilshow
Tony Blair is still head & shoulders above all others. ‘If the problem is Brexit, ask the people about Brexit’. A general election is the answer to a different problem. On the nose.
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‘Anger at French call for £30 million payment to stop migrants coming to Britain’: Another page in the ‘you couldn’t make it up if you tried’ book: the ‘anger’ is ‘Priti’s’ says the ‘source’. France isn’t interested in cooperating with her. Quelle surprise
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At last, some good news: ‘Suella Braverman struggles to find safe seat for next election’.
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‘Tory candidate in Tiverton by-election booed over Johnson’s conduct’: Ouch. No wonder BJ decided to fly to UKR (no boing there) rather than bother with Doncaster (he’s made the NRG look daft, of course). We recall his flight to Kabul to avoid HRW vote.
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Spot on.
@BBCNews
at Ten had a long analysis of the economic outlook 2022-3 & lower growth by
@faisalislam
(who’s not daft) which failed to mention Brexit. Not once. This airbrushing is clearly an editorial policy & frankly it’s a disgrace.
Whole week of not even a mention of damage caused by Brexit to the economy on C4 news, or BBC news. It’s almost as if newsroom staff have devices fitted which trigger instant vaporization if they mention it.
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Excellent, as ever: 'It has now emerged that, apparently without having realized it, the government has permanently destroyed British shellfish exporters. There are also new reports of serious problems facing the fashion industry and, as with the situation facing musicians'...
Brexit is coming apart at the seams. Latest post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog on the EU's Article 16 error, its context, the opportunistic response of the government & others, the wider picture after the first post-transition month, and a rhetorical question
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Not an excuse. The waffle is all the PM's. Starmer is kippering him. Thank God.
Six, forensic, fact-based, important questions from Keir Starmer to the PM, asked in a courteous manner. The PM did not always give full and proper answers. But one thing clear in the waffle: we stopped track and trace March 12 because we simply didn’t have the testing capacity.
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This is absolutely brilliant. Quite one of the best pieces anyone has written about where Brexiters have taken us, and how we have been the victims of their fraud. If the perpetrators ever face trial, Chris Grey’s testimony will crush their defence at a stroke.
Brexiters are running away from the consequences of what they have inflicted on Britain. My latest (and, apologies, lengthy) blog post just up:
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‘Brexit outside the EU single market isn’t working’:
@Tobias_Ellwood
is one of the few Tory MPs with the guts to tell the Emperor in No 10 he’s naked. ‘Let’s not become a Brexit nationalist party’ insists Ellwood. Act now, Tory MPs!
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‘Liz Truss ‘like a dog with a bone’ choosing her top team’: Kwarteng Chancellor, Cleverly For Sec, Braverman Home Sec, R-Mogg Bus Sec. A cabinet of ideologues, led by a highly ambitious, boosterish, intellectual lightweight. We must weep for our country.
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Don’t be ‘concerned’. Do something. You are, after all, the Foreign Secretary of Great Britain. Netanyahu needs to be stopped. Like now, this evening.
Deeply concerned about the prospect of a military offensive in Rafah – over half of Gaza’s population are sheltering in the area.
The priority must be an immediate pause in the fighting to get aid in and hostages out, then progress towards a sustainable, permanent ceasefire.
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‘UK plans visa deal to tempt India into trade talks’: ‘Thousands to move’ is how
@thetimes
describes this frantic attempt to find new trade using Indian immigration to the UK as bait. We destroy trade with the prosperous EU to pander to poor Modi.
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If you want to buy from the Germans, English is OK. If you want to sell to them, you need to speak German. Our failure to teach the languages of our nearest trading partners shows how vacuous is the Brexit ‘global UK’ rhetoric. It’s ‘little England’ writ large.
A very disturbing report on what seems like the terminal decline of German & French language learning in UK. Blair’s policy started it, Brexit Britain embraces it. Disgraceful
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Dear Mr
@Theothebald
when reporting the 3rd year of Whetherspoons losses on
@bbctoday
& mentioning ‘labour costs’ as a cause, don’t you owe it to your listeners to explain that Tim Martin was a passionate Brexiter who wanted an end to free movement of labour. It’s his d*mn fault?
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Food security (which is what the CAP has delivered for 3 generations) is as important as all other kinds of security. The idea that Brits can always buy cheaper food ‘on world markets’ is nonsense & places us at great risk of much higher prices & shortages. Mad.
For what it’s worth, the European Parliament would never sell out its farmers in trade deals like this govt is doing.
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Nadhim Zahawi to stand down as Tory MP at general election As he writes “a boy from Baghdad, fleeing persecution, arrives on these shores”. Great.
Denying others like him the chance to do the same thing?
Frankly, despicable.
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‘Contenders to lead civil service tell No 10: thanks but no thanks’: None of them fancy working with Cummings. What a laugh.
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Keep on asking those straight, clear and to the point questions, Mr Femi. You're great. Should be an MP.
Just think for a second... Millions of people voted for Brexit to help the NHS. But Brexit is reducing our access the the European Medicines Agency.
Does that seem right to you?
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‘New cars built in Europe are expected to be pricier from next year’: Dept for Intl Trade says this 10% hike in prices will protect UK car industry. But it’ll also make UK made cars (BMWs!) 10% more expensive in the EU. The economics of the madhouse.
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Quoting Dan Hannan of all people
@Channel4News
on how best to use the vaccines (implying he’s advising the govt on this) is off-the-wall crazy. Hannan should be nowhere near govt on anything, least of all on our national health.
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The EU had made it crystal clear to the UK that it won’t give access to its Single Market for goods & services that do not meet its standards. The - utterly mindless - ‘bonfire of regs’ will mean even fewer sales to the EU & so do further, massive damage to the UK economy.
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‘British students locked out of new medical schools’: this scandal will hammer Sunak (claims he’s an education champion) Health Sec, Barclay & Keegan, Education Sec: 3 new medical schools but ONLY for o’seas students, at Brunel, Chester & Worcester. Mad.
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Sedwill was sacked from BOTH posts as his resignation letter makes clear. To fire a Cabinet Secretary right now is bad enough but to fire a National Security Advisor adds a dangerous dimension to the Brexit revolution.
Notes post Sedwill ousting: holding Cabinet secretary role and national security adviser was always untenable; Frost is NOT a political appointment because he is a career diplomat; but Frost is not a securocrat so looks like a reward for loyalty. More ...
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Brexit Britain headed for 'big benefits' in 2022– economist dismantles Remoaner 'nonsense': Prof Minford insists AUS & NZ deals 'will have an enormous impact on consumer prices and the availability of superb agricultural produce for the UK'...
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“Eat Out to Help Out was launched in August 2020. It allowed diners to claim 50% off more than 160m meals at a cost to the Treasury of about £850m. In the process, it also drove new Covid-19 infections up by between 8 and 17%, according to one study carried out a few weeks later”
Everything tainted by Johnson’s lies needs to be undone. That includes his Brexit
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This ‘man of integrity’ (working for someone Gove told us in 2016 was unfit to be PM) drove an infected person from London to the North East, in total contravention of his own instruction. ‘Integrity’ it ain’t.
"I know that he's a man of honour and integrity."
Michael Gove MP tells
#BBCBreakfast
that
#DominicCummings
sought to "reduce the risk of infection to anyone else"
More here:
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Fascinating
@Daily_Express
headline (with pic of Lord Frost flashing his paunch at readers): ‘EU Bullying proves Brexit is a Success’. Clearly now some doubt in Frost’s mind about the benefits of Brexit - if being ‘bullied’ is one of them. Clutching at straws.
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‘Red Wall Tories won’t forgive a no-deal Brexit’: Remarkable poll from Worthington. 61% want a Deal (incl 57% who voted Brexit); 44% want an extension (incl 24% of Brexiters). Because they fear the double whammy of CV19 & No Deal. There it is.
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Notes that Ms May's Brexit video claims Norway is 'in the Customs Union' (so a Norwegian solution wouldn't work for Britain). Only problem: Norway isn't in the Customs Union.
Government is apparently crossing a line. It has launched a social media campaign,
#RoadtoBrexit
, and there is a good argument that it breaches both Government Communications Service and Advertising Standards Association rules on accuracy and impartiality
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The Brexit lot continually attack the ‘Westminster Village’ & the ‘Establishment’. Actually it’s clear Brexiters ARE the key inhabitants of it, sloshing their cash around in the unbridled pursuit of power.
As this Tice / Oakeshott affair was "NO SECRET IN WESTMINSTER", why wasn't their relationship questioned during their multiple appearances on TV last week rather than handing them yet another platform to facilitate their blatant pro-Brexit gaslighting campaign?
#BullyBoysOfBrexit
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What amazes is that a man like Lord Bethell
@BBCr4today
0810 should say he knew Johnson was chaotic & incapable of running a govt but that bc he’d won in 2019 & ‘delivered Brexit’ he was ‘inspiring’. It doesn’t occur to him & chums that Boris’s Brexit was equally chaotic & a con.
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Didn’t you want ‘WTO rules’? Best not to whinge. Why should the EU give us anything that’s not in their interests? We’re not in the club any longer.
In what looks like an astonishingly vicious decision the EU has refused mutual recognition of standards in cars, chemicals and pharmaceuticals to Britain, something which it agreed with Canada, Japan and other countries with which it has FTAs. Is this raw protectionism or hatred?
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Theresa May: Boris, Brexit and me “I started off with the view that we had to find a way of doing Brexit that recognised the concerns of the 48 per cent who voted Remain,” she says.
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Thank you Sir John Major
@BBCr4today
You speak for the Decent Majority who have no real voice but are utterly aghast at what Johnson, Frost & the Hard Brexit junta are now doing to us. There is another England, listen to it
@BBCSounds
at 0810.
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Brexit cons consumers left, right & centre with its bonfire of regs. But
@waitrose
is self-evidently in big trouble. Its Oxford store just a few days ago at 1100 am on a Friday. Shortages of fresh produce & usually now poor quality.
Can you please explain
@waitrose
why you’re saying apples from Chili are British?
@FarmersWeekly
@DailyMailUK
@Telegraph
@FT
@thetimes
@GBNEWS
@LBCNews
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@AuschwitzMuseum
I think we probably know why. Netanyahu has done your noble mission much harm.
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One of the many key differences between Trump & Trumpites v Boris & Brexiters is that the US media refused to be cowed by Trump & never flattered him (‘fake news’). The US media kept decency alive in the dark Trump years. If only our media would rise to the challenge like them.
I wonder if young Jacob has needed a bit of reassurance from nanny today.
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What a pathetic weasel of a man Gove has become. He’s lost any conscience & any credibility he ever had. He knows he’s a coward, the eyes, the expression, the shiftiness.
Corrupted by two ‘B’s: Boris & Brexit.
This will inevitably morph into another betrayal myth: the Privileges Committee report which ended the parliamentary career of the architect of Brexit was voted for largely by Remainers. But all that will do is exacerbate the civil war in the Tory party after the 2024 election.
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Grieve deploys his brilliance with great skill. He has just knocked Sir Geoffrey Cox (who is not as clever as he thinks he is) into a cocked hat. Parliament should and must get at the truth about what No 10 has been up to.
Dominic Grieve tells Parliament he has received information from inside Government, the implication of which, is that Boris Johnson misled the Queen about his reasons for requesting the prorogation of Parliament 🔥🔥🔥
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@NeilClark66
You can have Covid but be without symptoms (common). Masks, social distancing, vaccine but none are 100% effective. All reduce the risks, vaccine esp so. How is that 'confusing'?
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‘Kwasi Kwarteng reveals help for families tackling rising bills’: He says ‘No country is immune from rising prices, least of all Britain’. Why ‘least of all Britain’? Brexit was meant to make Britain stronger not weaker. Spilling beans, Mr Kwarteng?
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‘Tory peers told to come clean about Russia links’: an amazing scoop. Prominent peers Greg Barker & Robert Skidelsky both on boards of Putin enterprises. Who else is on the payroll?
@carolecadwalla
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Farage’s ability to have shape English politics is one of the oddest features of the first two decades of the C20th. Almost completely unexplained by our political scientists. Massive power with no responsibility & a supine media.
Can
@BBCNews
please explain why it still gives valuable news-space to Nigel Farage ? According to
@Wikipedia
he is a former this and that and currently only a ‘broadcaster’ on GB News . Frankly I don’t care if
@Tesco
withdraw his clubcard let alone some vanity spat about his
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‘Liz Truss wants to lunch, and only a Tory donor’s place will do’: Lunch (!) £3k for ten = 2xTanquerays, 3x bottles of Albariño (£153), 2x bottles of Coudoulet (£130). The ‘donor’ was Robin Birley (also a UKIP donor & half-bro of Goldsmith). Ugh.
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The current attack of amnesia among Brexiters is remarkable. They told us specifically we no longer needed a manufacturing base in the UK bc our services would drive the future post-EU economy. Prof Minford said this endlessly.
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Julia: The 40+ years we spent in Europe will come to be seen as a golden era, huge economic advantages from being in the largest market of free peoples in the world, European free movement & education, competition, variety & choice for the consumer. Binned 4 yrs ago.
Happy Brexit Day anniversary, everyone! Four years ago today we voted to leave the EU.
#simplerhappiertimes
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