Garret Beggan 🇺🇦🇵🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@Garret_Beggan
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Personal: Dublin 66, Galway 71, Birmingham 88, Málaga 19. Political: Irredeemable Centrist. Bite me. Professional: PMO stuff. Yay! 🤓 @Garret_Beggan @mastodon .ie
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@SirSocks
But you didn't, did you? What you did is: throw away the May deal with no barriers GB-NI or NI-IE, renegotiate a WA to include the NIP, win an 80-seat majority on the "oven ready deal", THEN sign the treaty & push it through Parliament.
Quite the fit of absent-mindedness, no? 🤨
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@ArfonJ
@ottocrat
@BarristerSecret
@AthertonNWales
A Conservative MP has *blocked* the Police & Crime Commissioner? Astonishing...
Who the hell has been messing with Reality? Can you restore the previous settings please?
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@ArquetteHenri
@FT
Dude, we're literally dealing with Hungary's capo di capos & his criminal mafia regime. He can comply with the laws & rules of the union or face the consequences. Hungary is free to leave at any time and follow the UK into the outer darkness.
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@tomerdean
@pommpommzz
@OwenJones84
22,000 dead civilians say otherwise. Don't piss on our legs and tell us it's raining.
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@albundysdad
@BBCr4today
@bbcnickrobinson
The labour government had a £57bn new schools programme that the Cameron-led coalition cancelled in the name of austerity.
Really sick of you popping up on my timeline now. The combination of blue tick, palpable falsehoods and swaggering oafishness is very unattractive. 🤮
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@MBRoberts4004
@ACJSissons
A better observation may be how the fatuous Tory decision to ban onshore wind and solar generation is working out. Imagine if the last 12 years had been spent mandating solar panels on every new house, warehouse or office, and retrofitting every council house or block?
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@AllisterHeath
Y'know, if 50%+ of your own country, 3 of the 4 constituent parts of the UK, and every foreign state bar Russia despises Brexit as nonsensical in principle and calamitous in practice, y'might want to check your understanding of the word "elite". 😉👍🏻
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@dave43law
@BobbyMcDonagh1
@campbellclaret
@mrjamesob
Astonishing that the relevant professional body hasn't moved to strike her off or suspend her. Absolute failures, of ethics and of integrity on her part; of nerve and of responsibility on theirs.
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@hwallop
@SurfLadyDude1
You couldn't see Deliveroo for dust when Spain ruled that delivery riders are employees and must be paid for all their time. They - like Uber & Airbnb - are "disrupters" only in the sense that you or I could equally "disrupt" the market if we drop standards & underpay our people.
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@TheKingInYello8
@danidonovan
@arcane_huntress
No, that's weird. Normal is pressing the bell to stop the bus, realising you've done it too early, but getting off at the wrong stop anyway because staying on until the right stop would be a humiliation now. 🙃
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@DavidTCDavies
@UKLabour
What's wrong with the language? (Other than it isn't Russian & doesn't seem to be accompanied by a large "donation") 🤔
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@PhilBeachbum
@jacquep
Recall that the billionaires who bought this rally also bought Cambridge Analytica, Vote Leave, Conservatives & the UK Govt, in that order. They would love people to lose confidence in central govt, laws & regulations, the better to offer the "solution" of privatised city states.
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@LKwesiJ
@SabFis3
Those aren't "next door countries" though.
A *very* good Western example would be the UK's comprehensive failure to understand Ireland, its place in the EU and its worldwide diplomatic network while trying to impose its will on Brexit. UK got its arse handed to it on a plate.
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@Russ_Eionbot
@RichardBurgon
Paul, you know how tax works. First you send the bill & then you send the bailiffs. Billionaires, to the extent that they are functioning adults, will figure it out like the rest of us do. Don't fret about them. 🙂
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@LOS_Fisher
UK Ministers from the PM downwards *are* the Russian security risks, for God's sake. Bunga-bunga parties with the KGB, cash-for-tennis from Russian government wives, Russian agents in the Lords or working as SPADs.
UK domestic media complicity may be bought but *we* see you. 🤨
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@KurtDecker1
@BBCLauraKT
I'm old enough to remember when waiting for the Queen to die was the precondition for the time being right to talk about it. 😀
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Hey, Legal Twitter folks, what course of action for my good friend who is still expected to show up for Jury Duty in London for Monday? Can't believe HMCS is being so murderously irresponsible.
@BarristerSecret
@RupertMyers
@JudiciaryUK
@HMCTSgovuk
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@LiveFromBrexit
@SirSocks
Ireland didn't join Schengen precisely because, since the UK refused to join, it would have meant an end to the CTA. It is no secret that Ireland takes decisions to its own disadvantage in order to avoid messing around with the lives of people along the border.
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@Janmakarta
@RickJon78125320
I recommend Private Eye if you really want to know. The front pages are fun but in the back pages the corruption &shenanigans in Central & Local Government, press, professional instututions etc. are laid bare. E.g. they carried the Royal Mail subpostmasters scandal for years.
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@DavidGHFrost
Secure food supply in NI.
Fully-stocked supermarket shelves in NI.
Petrol stations have fuel in NI.
CO2 supply fine in NI.
No power cuts warning in NI.
If you're looking for any negative effects, maybe try looking in the mirror. 😉
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@anggglo
@SasiBar1
@kamilkazani
Oh, ask the Uighurs and the Tibetans to explain how much the wishes of indigenous Siberian peoples will matter. 😐
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@stickmanley1963
@AlastairMorgan
Not so much Brexit itself as the authoritarianism the Government has permitted itself since. I have to tell you:
- it is not normal to ban protests because they are noisy
- it is not normal to arrest journalists covering a protest.
- it is not normal to restrict voting rights.
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@nigelncrockford
@itvnews
@ITVJoel
The Brexit vote was 6 years ago.
The Brexit deal was 2 years ago.
The grim Brexit consequences are now, and next year, and the year after, and will continue on like that forever until you fix the mistake.
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@Sunpoches
@MichelBarnier
Man, you need to read the WA, that the UK co-wrote, which was the "oven ready deal" that Johnson used to win the election ("Get Brexit Done").
NI is in EU customs union *and* in UKCU. GB is not in the EUCU. Therefore GB shipments to NI undergo 3rd country checks to enter EUCU.
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@RealAlexRubi
"It has come as a surprise to me that in a battle to recover occupied parts of our country, we might have to shoot at and bomb the occupiers". 😀
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@DBauer191
@PoD_travelnews
How many accompanied lorry loads of illegal immigrants are queuing up in Kent for the ferry to France?
Flippin' imbecile.
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@ChinaAmbBelgium
I'll file this with the Auschwitz orchestra.
See also: only happy and carefree ambassadors can lie so beautifully. 🤥
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@BillJon78838853
@sarahoconnor_
@adamlangleben
Bill, we're watching the economy tank in real time. You don't grow the economy by borrowing billions & throwing it at wealthy folk who don't need it & won't rush out to spend it. This is the Govt who dropped GDP 4% by pursuing their idiotic ideological Brexit; now here's round 2.
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@ConsPost
"Please sign our petition to break the Good Friday Agreement & restart the Northern Ireland war, plus breach the UK:EU TCA so we can blockade half our food supply and kill off what's left of the car industry!"
Erm, how about NOT doing that, eh? 🙄
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@AlanSeeAlanDo
@ejnagouse
You know it takes 5 years on average for even a rape case in the UK to make it to trial? Then 2% success rate. You think the undermanned police, underfunded CPS, or collapsing Courts system is going to run to her aid (or yours, or anyone's who hasn't enough money to buy Justice?)
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@peterpalmer901
@TobyonTV
I guess Tufton Street & its shadowy backers forgot to infiltrate & neutralise the regional broadcasters? For folk who pretend to disdain the arrogant metropolitan elite, they seem to think & act awfully like an arrogant metropolitan elite.
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@BladeoftheS
@james_barclay3
He lives in Ireland. Where else would he pay tax?
Tesco, the UK company, pays Corporation tax in the UK.
Ken Murphy, the Irish CEO living in Ireland, pays income tax in Ireland.
This stuff isn't hard.
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@SimonCatRiley
@rorybremner
"Feelings" my arse. A land border affects real people living real lives. A sea border affects fish and freight forwarders.
Flipping Unionism in a nutshell: angry little men shouting at concepts.
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@bobhaigh13
@StephenMcGann
It would be fun to put this to the test by poisoning him, shooting him, and throwing him into a frozen river. Just in the spirit of scientific discovery, you understand.
(Disclaimer: No actual Dominic Cummings were hurt in the making of this tweet)
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@MikeJ_A
@afneil
Brexit failure was built in from Day 1. We just want you (plural) to notice and do something to correct it.
Listing a bunch of UK deals that are literally roll-overs of existing EU deals & crowing that the EU doesn't have deals like that shows that you (singular) don't get it.🤪
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@ledredman
@vivamjm
I think the damage is much graver. Sunsk is the 5th Prime Minister in a row to either break international law, or threaten to do so, or make drastic policy changes that up-end industry plans. So, the warning that is now firmly "out there" is that the UK itself cannot be trusted.
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@dog_rise
@TihomirSabchev
@walegates
"And people always say racism is a purely American thing. "
Which people? I have never heard such an assertion.
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@Darrencruz74
@nikeshshukla
Isn't that kind of the point? Aren't people who go around pinning Empire medals on each other the very epitome of folk trapped in the past?
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@scottythegoat
@PatrickLenton
If "women" means "all women", then it stands to reason it cannot also mean "all women except trans women".
In my day, we did Venn diagrams in primary school. I recommend it. 😉
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@GermanyDiplo
3 days of terror and genocide from Hamas left 700 dead Israeli civilians; 3 months of terror and genocide from IDF has left 25,000 dead Palestinian civilians *so far*.
Is von Ribbentrop back in charge of the Auswärtiges Amt again? How else should we understand German collusion?
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@LouiseMensch
@amnesty
Save them from what?
Amnesty have been around for a long time. They shine a bright light into dark places. They are not going to disappear because Social Media can't get past Black Hat/White Hat. Supporters of human rights are not going to abandon Amnesty because of one tweet.🤷🏻♂️
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@terrelljstarr
I think you are projecting US sensibilities onto a very different cultural context. Ukraine didn't have colonies, Ukraine didn't trade slaves, Ukraine doesn't have a black underclass. From that POV, if you want to imitate an admired black artiste, you wear black make-up.
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@JohnnyCakes1990
@PeterSLucas
@sushi_ginger1
@Number10cat
@e23529_nemo
@Marcoangelo111
@Peston
You missed everything after the word "candidates". HTH. 👍🏻
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@Doodf72
@mcguffindavid
@julianborger
This is the vaccine nonsense all over again, isn't it? Yes, you were better at the beginning when no-one else was up to speed. Now they are & they've lapped you. Again.
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@AuntJodiesGuide
@1goodtern
@ShepherdWales
I took off my medical bracelet (T2 diabetes) & have never worn it since. A very sobering moment to realise it would just be used to fast track me to the morgue, with no regard whatsoever to how well I actually control my diabetes.
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@sbunting_
@DarraghFeeney
And when they tell you they don't want black neighbours, what will you say?
It's not your job to amplify the prejudices of the dregs of society, even if you find it wins you votes.
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@MikeWar44598772
@fastcarspete
@BorisJohnson
Excellent news! UK only needs to find another 33 Indias now to recover the 4% loss to the economy due to Brexit barriers with the EU. I know Brexiters are all about recovering past glories - but sailing around the world looking for New Worlds to discover may prove optimistic.😬👍
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@Shayan86
That's like me wagering my entire Bitcoin fortune, plus all my estates in Tuscany. *ALL* of them, d'you hear me!!😆
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@JohnChaytor
@EmmaKennedy
Oh No! Are you telling us that Foreign Secretary Johnson didn't leave a robust legacy? Are you telling us Foreign Secretary Truss didn't restore the office to good health?
Quick! I need my fainting couch & smelling salts. I fear I may swoon. 😵
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@amnesty
@NeilHealyFox
For those who think Amnesty is somehow letting Russia off by tweeting about Ukraine:
Since Russia began its war against Ukraine we have been exposing violations of human rights & intl humanitarian law. From the devastation of Izium to the siege of Mariupol, shelling in Kyiv to displaced people in Lviv, Russia’s war is an act of aggression.
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@foggedoff73
@SamCoatesSky
To those for whom an explanation is necessary, no explanation is possible. 😉
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@Nigel_95
@MayorofLondon
@TfL
Your mask protects me. My mask protects you. It is cannnot be left to your personal choice whether or not to protect me, or to my personal choice whether or not to protect you. We neither of us have the right to choose to expose the other to harm. 🙂
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@ionewells
"Suspected migrants"? Do migrants come under suspicion now? Shall we round up all English migrants on the Costa del Sol & put them in detention centres, since being a migrant is so terrible? Is fomenting xenophobia the realisation of your career dream, or just a stepping stone?
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@JHochderffer
@EdKrassen
That's not how we got rid of Naziism the first time round, my man. Roosevelt & Stalin didn't out-argue Hitler in a debating club. 😉
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@LanceForman
@OwenJones84
Is it or is it not wrong for snipers to fire on crowds of civilians?
For the avoidance of doubt: this is a yes/no question.
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@SimonDalling
@Otto_English
I don't understand the link between a Libertarian billionaire's disinformation platform - famously bought for him by Russian & Saudi money; famously accommodating to censorship requests from China, India or Saudi - and "free speech".
Perhaps one needs a blue tick to get it? 🤔
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@NewtonEmerson
The Head of a State should attend a ceremony commemorating (not "atoning for" or "expiating") the undemocratic partitioning of that state under threat of "immediate & terrible war"?
I think not. 🤨
I'm very glad we have peace now but don't take the piss, Mr. Emerson.
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@MatthiasMuell15
@EUMarauder
Well, yes, there's that.
But also the blatantly obvious fact that MI5 and MI6 have rolled over without a whimper since 2016. A far lot of good they proved to be - 2 agencies happier supporting a Russian/ Libertarian-backed coup than protecting their own country and people. 🙄
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@paulvmarks
@johnredwood
Alas, British passport holders may be free to leave, but they are not free to arrive elsewhere & will be returned to you.
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@Im_thefarmer
@sarahoconnor_
@REWearmouth
The thing about mean & selfish people is they think being mean & selfish is the natural order of things; that everyone else is equally mean & selfish; and that anyone who talks about fairness or solidarity or community is an idiot, a liar or both. 😬
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@CalumMercer
@stefanstern
@FT
Another Brexit zealot bewailing the Financial Times' stubborn addiction to Reality, I see. 🙄
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@eddiemakesart
@blexcelente
@ninamonei
Exactly. Counting down from £10 item by item as you fill your shopping basket is not a rich person's skill. 🙂
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@pmontpellier
@RHARodMcKenzie
@julesmchamish
@RHANews
The UK media is either state media (BBC) or licensed by the state (ITV, C4, Sky) or run by the oligarchs who bought the current Government (most newspapers).
If state and oligarch interests coincide, you'll hear or not hear whatever they want you to. 🙂
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@chimenesuleyman
I kind of get what you're saying, but I also see a terrible war between two European countries, a million refugees on the move - and you popping up to make it all about you.
Now, you can help 🇺🇦 refugees or not as you please, but if you don't want to help, stay out of the way.
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@fredolia
@thatginamiller
The time & place to oppose authoritarianism is when you see it being practised against your fellow citizens, no? Or are you personally going to start writing to Chief Constables & MPs about this, but only from next Tuesday?
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@HeikeOleary1
@daneydemaniac
@georgebernhard
@mattfrei
@LBC
In the old DDR there was an area where folk couldn't get West German TV & *only* saw the East German official line: "The Valley of the Clueless". The UK has become a similar place, where an isolated island audience watches British Bullshit & has no clue what's really going on. 😬
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@ZaryaSteel
@ChrisMasonBBC
@BBCr4today
Shall we all sit on our hands then until an actual Saint descends among us to condemn this regime?
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@jonathansimons
@JuliaKollewe
You forget this is the Vote Leave government!
Step 1: send all the foreigners home;
Step 2: plug gaps with contracts to cronies who run relevant businesses such as bouncy castle hire;
Step 3: report all is well, even as numbers show the NHS equivalent of "exports down 50%".
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@Janmakarta
@RickJon78125320
I say "if you really want to know" because once you know it you can't un-know it. You have to live with knowing these people act with impunity, have done for decades, and will do forever. They will never be prosecuted & their victims will never have justice. It's the British way.
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@jncatron
@kootsoop
@DmitryOpines
@rohantalbot
As with Prince Andrew, we all find the payment of twelve million in cold, hard cash a convincing demonstration of the most exalted type of innocence. 👍🏻
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@nealerichmond
My favourite bit: in the space of 2 consecutive sentences, we go from "...some Loyalists have now concluded it may only be violence that can get rid of the border in the Irish Sea" to "While the Unionist Community is law-abiding...".
The one or t'other, lady! 🙄
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@bigalfsmate
@Mij_Europe
Take a look at the stunning economic growth in Ireland since the Single Market was created in the early 1990s. Look at how much it exports to the EU, and what those exports are. Look at how the UK has dropped below 8% share.
Now give your head a wobble. 😉👍🏻
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@GerBrowne4
@marylouisepearc
Air and Sea protection *from whom*?
The only enemy Ireland has ever had to deal with, since the Vikings were defeated in 1014, is Britain, in its periodic descents into murderous covetousness or paranoid fear.
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@daneydemaniac
@brontewoodruff
This made the Canal Sur evening news in Andalucía. They spoke with a HGV driver from Seville who regularly does the run - it is now 24 solid hours of queuing to get to the ferry. Causes explained as IT system outage & Brexit. (IT only needed coz of Brexit, so "Brexit & Brexit")
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@JP46251093
@christopherhope
Take it up with your Govt, which signed this in a binding international treaty last year after winning the December election. 🤷🏻♂️
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@LogicalFallac18
@steve_lieber
@GrandSoLike
You realise you come across as a weird fantasist saying this, right? Especially on a thread littered with people saying how they spent 2+ years fixing date-based computation of e.g. accounts payable, accounts receivable, invoicing, interest calculation, policy maturation...
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@thomasdolphin
75 staff at Carlos Haya hospital here in Málaga are out with Covid after a Christmas dinner 2 weeks ago. Concentrated among ICU staff. Not smart. 🤷🏻♂️
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@gimmingham
@AdamBienkov
Your bio: "Fiscally right, socially left. I try to be kind but struggle with foolishness"
I wish you strength & good fortune struggling with foolishness, particularly - on the evidence of this tweet - your own. 🙂
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@henryj17
@castlvillageman
@SuellaBraverman
@StevePeers
By convention outgoing AGs keep the QC. But then there's also a convention of putting traitors' heads on spikes at the Tower of London, so who knows how her future will pan out? 🤷🏻♂️
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@Patrici89225734
While her brother uses his public office to loot the treasury like an industrial vacuum cleaner in human form.
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@ruggerbugger4
@SarahDonegal
Only a week or two ago we marked the 100th anniversary of the British withdrawal from Dublin. It may surprise you to learn that they weren't invited in the first place. 🤷🏻♂️
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@Cr0mw3II
@stokel
@kattenbarge
Not a thing I ever saw in the UK. Feels like the level of detail you might see in a policy document but not in the contract itself. And I very much doubt such a provision would even be allowed in a German contract.
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@voigaas
@mirandajewess
The English rhyme isn't much better:
"Ladybird, ladybird,
fly away home,
your house is on fire
and your children are gone."
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@jeremybear123
@gmai_sutton
And let us pause here for a minute's silent reflection on the wise leadership of those who, being masters of an island that can feed only 60% of its population, want to starve an island that could feed 500% of its population. Truly inspiring, isn't it?
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@NetTaxpayer
@ErinInTheMorn
- Cops shooting Black folk?
- meh
- Massacres at schools?
- meh
- Attempted coup on 06 Jan?
- meh
- Drag brunch?
- NOW HOLD ON THERE ONE GOLDARNED MINUTE! THINGS HAVE GONE TOO FAR!
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@OperadorNuclear
No realmente. Falta la categoría "el país operaba reactores, pero ya ha cerrado todos" - como Alemania. 😉
Mientras tanto, España muestra liderazgo en el desarrollo de renovables - más seguro, mucho más rápido y muchísimo más rentable. Nuclear ya es el pasado. 🙂
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@Kilsally
@dsmooney
@ArleneFosterUK
So we're all laughing at silly Ireland where if the people reject something in a
referendum the deal will be renegotiated & a better version brought back for a 2nd vote. While if the people of NI reject something in a referendum they can take what they're given & be glad of it.🤔
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@jamesrbuk
PR means you get a democratic outcome - no more AND NO LESS.
You have no right to a Progressive majority in Parliament if a majority of voters didn't vote for it.
Jesus, UK people, 6 years of enjoying the fruits of political illiteracy & you're still against learning the ABC.🙄
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@JW72334263
@BarristerSecret
The order in which you substitute the words doesn't help. "The fraudster was a president" doesn't get you to a better result than "the president was a fraudster".
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@hiltonholloway
@missguideme
@Jim_Cornelius
You can do that now. Because you have that freedom now. You have always had that freedom. 🙄
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