Sarah Ludford 🇬🇧 🇮🇪🇪🇺 🇺🇦
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Never in my lifetime have things been this bad in the UK, horrible
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If Commons speaker Lindsay Hoyle cannot oblige Johnson to apologise for lies, there is something hopelessly wrong in our parliamentary system
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I’m a white Islingtonian Londoner.
Neighbour: Italian
Local shop: Turkish
Drycleaner: Iranian
Dressmaker: Albanian
Hairdresser: Rumanian
Builder: Polish
IT chap: South Asian
Staff in M&S/Waitrose/JS: very varied
Youngster giving me Tube seat: Black
#ThisisLondon
#Thankyouall
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I object to way Letwin amendment is being portrayed on
@BBCr4today
as provoking ‘groans across the nation as meaning yet more fudge and delay’.
How about ‘as saving us from a disastrous no-deal crashout and giving the chance for proper scrutiny and even a new vote by citizens’?
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Most Brits had no idea how much of the streamlining of European travel was thanks to the EU: EHIC card, pet passports, ability to work/retire, no roaming charges, no green card, no international driving licence, no visas.
They just took them for granted. About to discover loss.
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“Lord Parkinson was asked how many ounces were in a pound. He said 14 ounces but the answer is 16. He was then asked how many grams of sausages he would get if he ordered a pound, and answered 250g. The correct answer is 450g.”
Marvellous.
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For those of us who intensely dislike Johnson, this is all the most enormous fun.
But I weep at how low our country has been brought.
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It is utterly shameful to call any person ‘low-value’.
"We had a huge number of very low-value, low-skilled people coming through” – Iain Duncan Smith on EU migration
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Johnson is by far the worst PM in my lifetime. I feel such utter contempt for him.
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The ghastly Suella Braverman refers to John Major as ‘part of the
#Remainer
elite’
Major grew up in very modest circs in south London, went to state schools & did not go to university
Leavers Boris Johnson, Jacob Rees-Mogg & Nigel Farage are public school/Oxbridge/City boys
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BBC editor (Robbie Gibb) ‘ordered colleague not to investigate’ £350m Brexit claim’
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State of emergency declared at port of Dover, disrupting both business and holiday-makers, because of long queues.
Those fabulous
#Brexit
benefits just keep on flowing.
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Theresa Villers - a former Northern Ireland Secretary - tells
#bbcpm
that ‘the NI Protocol is not consistent with the Good Friday Agreement’.
So WTF was your Tory government doing signing it then?
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I was there and it’s one of my favourite moments of all time.
I disagreed strongly with Tony Blair re the Iraq war. But here, 2005, he hands Nigel Farage his arse on a plate. Farage's face is a picture.
#C4News
#ConManFarage
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Lot of people, especially women, on Twitter tonight asking why the
@metpoliceuk
are so apparently soft on the largely (if not entirely) male football hooligans in contrast to the harsh way they treated the largely female attendees at the
#SarahEverard
vigil.
I’m one of them.
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A month ago the UK had the lowest number of Covid cases in Europe.
Now we have the highest.
That’s Johnson’s fault.
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“
@DavidLammy
has accepted an invitation from EU foreign affairs chief
@JosepBorrellF
to attend the October meeting of the EU foreign affairs council – something that was rejected by the previous Conservative government.”
Excellent.
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My
#NewYear2022
wish is
#FreeNazanin
, to give Richard & Gabriella their wife and Mummy back
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You know how the govt whinged about the ‘interim measures’ (injunction) from the ECtHR to stop the Rwanda deportation flight until UK courts determine the issue?
Well, ECtHR interim measures have also been served on Russia to stop execution of the 2 British POWs they’re holding
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.
@maitlis
on
@BBCNewsnight
to Tory MP Dean Russell:
“Your govt reached a reckless ideological
#Brexit
deal & then failed to prepare for it”
The first upfront depiction of the problem I have heard on the BBC
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Sue Gray “had been in discussions with the Met for weeks, sharing information as she went along. Yet the force had declined to get involved until the point when her report was almost completed and ready for publication.”
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Did this Tory govt
@patel4witham
@DominicRaab
really have to charge the Vietnamese families whose loved ones died in the lorry over £2k each for repatrn of their bodies?
I’d rather my taxes went to this cost of <£100k total than the absurd ‘no-deal Brexit’ preps costing £bns
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Tories are now saying neither Met Police investigation nor
#SueGray
report are decisive for Johnson’s future. Now we apparently have to wait for the Privileges Committee report.
Cans. Road. Kicked.
All the more incentive to defeat them in
#TivertonandHoniton
&
#Wakefield
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I honestly would not have believed when I was 23 if someone had told me that when I was 73 would be the worst time in my life for a woman to be a woman
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I’m in a bad space personally because my dear husband Steve Hitchins died suddenly last week.
But I’m also gutted politically because of how the UK government is treating Ireland, North and South.
Once back in action, I will be fighting again to
#StopBrexit
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Someone saw fit to rebuke me earlier for ‘doing politics’ on Christmas Day. Just as well I did, IMHO, as it’s the only way I’ve discovered how to get a copy of the Brexit deal text I’m supposed to pass judgement on next Wed.
I will make no apology for trying to do my bloody job.
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Defeat no 2 for govt in Lords on
#NationalityAndBordersBill
:
we knocked out clause 9 which gives power to govt to deprive a person of citizenship without notice
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I was there but I never tire of retweeting this.
Blair, for all his faults, knew how to call these lunatics out.....
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So while our govt passes the buck on RT to Ofcom, which prevaricates, RT goes off air in the UK anyway because it depends on satellites broadcasting from bases inside the EU which were closed down by EU sanctions.
‘Sovereign independent global Britain’? Gotta laugh.
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Mick Jagger’s sister-in-law has been caught out by the end of free movement.
Her husband Chris Jagger says:
‘
#Brexit
- the whole thing is a disaster’
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“What the BBC needed was someone who could take a step back, away from the scrum, and tell audiences when they were being lied to.
That was something neither the BBC nor Kuenssberg has ever come to terms with.”
This is absolutely brutal, but not unkind.
She was the wrong person in the worst possible place at the worst all possible times.
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I have just heard a
@BBCNews
presenter ask with a note of incredulity in her voice ‘how credible a threat is it that the City of London’s access to the EU market could be at risk?’
Seriously, what on earth have they learned in the last 4 years??????
Deja vu all over again: headline news in supposedly informed media today - incl
@guardian
@FT
& of course
@BBCNews
(lead item on
@BBCWorldatOne
) was the incredible/shock horror/outrageous *NEWS* that the UK cannot have the same rights & benefits as a non-member as an EU state
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There is no other UK Prime Minister in my 70-year lifetime who has practised the politics of the gutter in the way Johnson does. No longer the fun bloke you could have a laugh with, he is now actively dangerous.
Tory MPs surely cannot now allow this to continue?
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Ex CSA Sir David King:
“Johnson viewed pandemic as ‘distraction’ from Brexit. Cummings’ free market ideology crippled our response. Between the 2 men’s actions, w hospital handshaking & Barnard Castle eye testing, the govt has ‘lost all moral authority’.”
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There are now one million cases of Covid in the UK, the highest since January. But getting relatively little media coverage compared to eg speeches by Lord Frost.
Very low spirits as I go to bed..
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Lord True has just told me, in an oral PQ on trade in services with the EU, that ‘the British people voted to leave the Single Market’.
That is untrue. They were not asked that question in the 2016 Ref. And prominent Leavers assured them there was no question of leaving the SM.
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@SebastianEPayne
tells
#r4
that Penny Mordaunt shows ‘competence & authority’, & describes her 2016 claim that Turkey was about to join the EU - which might well have caused
#Brexit
- merely as ‘controversial’.
It was in fact a gross lie, as was the claim that UK had no veto.
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God this is tedious:
‘We want the EU to recognise that we are a sovereign country’
Over, and over, and over. A stuck, sterile, meaningless record.
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Really extraordinary that
@ToniaAntoniazzi
’s support for female single-sex spaces should be described as ‘toxic bile’ when it’s simply upholding existing law under the Equality Act
- & indeed Labour’s 2019 manifesto (unlike my own party’s) endorsed it.
Tonia has my full support.
No Labour MP should ever post such toxic bile, we have to hold ourselves to the same standards that we’d hold Tory MPs to, solidarity with our trans siblings 🏳️⚧️
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They are going to ring Big Ben at 11pm on New Years’ Eve to mark Brexit.
They are doing this to Londoners, by a solid majority Remainers.
The Bastards.
Londoners and Remainers will get even, one day.
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Johnson says he ‘fears for the security of Europe’.
If that was true, he would not have foisted on us a
#Brexit
which weakens the security of the UK, the rest of Europe, and the transatlantic alliance.
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I just don’t understand what government policy on Covid is. Anyone?
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Leave-voting boss of Iceland Richard Walker tells
#r4today
:
‘Anyone who voted Leave thinking immigration wouid stop will be disappointed’
But they did, Richard, they did, because that’s what they were told.
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.
@BenChu_
on
@BBCNewsnight
asks (British) lorrydriver who’s waited 10 hours at Dover:
‘Is it going to get any better?
‘Not unless we go back in the EU’
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#Brexit
has imploded. Time to repair.
We still - amazingly - have so many European friends willing to help us, in
solidarity.
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Appalling that
@BBCNews
should adopt untrue Tory designation of people seeking asylum as ‘illegal’ arrivals.
The BBC surely knows that under international law, especially the Refugee Convention, it is lawful to seek asylum, even if that may not be granted after processing.
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Just look at that swing to
@LibDems
! In Gove’s constituency.
Bisley and West End (Surrey Heath) council by-election result:
LDEM: 66.0% (+48.8)
CON: 34.0% (-0.8)
No Ind (-31.8), UKIP (-9.3) and Lab (-6.9) as prev.
Votes cast: 1,948
Liberal Democrat GAIN from Conservative.
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Matthew Parris (ex Tory MP):
‘I’m not confident the Conservative party will exist at the end of 2019; it is in a dreadful state’
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Lord Frost complains in Lords that he only negotiated the NI Protocol in 2019 under pressure from Parliament (does he not believe in parliamentary sovereignity?) & that his ‘forebodings have been borne out’.
Well, he was pretty triumphant at the time! Now blames everyone else!
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My late husband went through many hoops before appointment as NHS trust chair; was explicitly vetoed at various points by both Lab & Tories because of LibDem background - in one case because ‘he is married to a LibDem MEP’.
So how come a Tory peer gets a top post just like that?
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Why did Johnson, Gove & Frost negotiate, and declare as ‘Brexit done’ victory, arrangements in the NI Protocol that they now say are unworkable?
Was it that they didn’t know or that they didn’t care?
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When you propose to buy a new house, you do so 'subject to survey', & if the survey proves bad, you wisely pull out of the purchase
Leaving the EU is a bit like moving to a nicer home. The move can involve stressful moments, but it's worth it.
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Former Ukrainian defence minister rightly rebukes
@Channel4News
- and any of us - for referring to Luhansk & Donetsk as ‘contested territories’:
“if you invade another country and occupy part of it, these are not ‘contested’ territories”
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We just defeated the govt yet again on the
#NationalityAndBordersBill
- this is the 6th time, after 5 on Monday. This time it was to delete cl15, which would allow the HO to deflect asylum-seekers off to other countries rather than process their claims in the UK
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Rees-Mogg blames Nissan’s ‘corporate governance problems’ for Sunderland cuts and claims ‘just-in-time’ problem is a fake problem.
Why do any broadcasters let alone the BBC give these sneering ignorant Brexiters house-room?
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Why did Brits have to wait another 10 days for the Roche antibody test to be approved in UK, given that it got EU approval on May 3rd? I thought the WA allows for CE-marked goods to be marketed in UK during transition?
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JKR did not say Khelif was trans.
She said he was biologically male.
Boxer Imane Khelif could sue JK Rowling for alleged false accusations
They led to misreporting that Khelif is trans (she's not) & a wave of hate & abuse against the Algerian boxer. SHAME!
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Complete & utter rubbish: firstly because UK, not being in Schengen, has maintained border & passport checks (as everyone who travels knows); secondly because our participation in Europol, EAW, SIS and other EU x-border cooperation instruments that you want ‘out’ of keep us safer
EU membership is incompatible with the vigorous border security we need
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#Brexit
is culmination of decades of failure of UK to become a modern decentralised federal state with a fair voting system, empowered citizens, well-resourced local govt, clean politics, good civic education, a balanced economy, & decent housing & social conditions for all
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I’ve decided with a heavy heart to opt out of Hancock’s GP
#NHSDataGrab
. I strongly support health research, but I will not even passively condone the shoddy, stupid, disrespectful way he’s trying to do this on the sly.
I’ll be using this guide:
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Am unhappy with language used on BBC1 TV report of Plymouth shooting:
“Police believe a domestic incident sparked the violence”.
Sounds dangerously like ‘she provoked me’.
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From the Telegraph. The only possible response is: 'If only'
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Brexit minister Lord
@DavidGHFrost
told
@LordsEUCom
last wk that UK had rejected EU proposal of visa waiver agreement (which would have enabled mobility for service providers like musicians).
When I put this to
@LordCallanan
today, he accused me of ‘parrotting EU propaganda’
🙄
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The
@England
football squad & their manager have redefined Englishness to mean diversity, inclusiveness, commitment, decency & progressive values - & have liberated it from Conservatism
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I shouldn’t get too personal, I suppose, but I’ve realised my dislike of Boris Johnson now exceeds my dislike of Margaret Thatcher. Whatever my feelings about her, I could not accuse her of being an incompetent buffoon, hence she earned some (grudging) respect.
For BJ, none.
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Liberez-nous de ce prat
Boris Johnson, speaking outside the Capitol, says it’s time for the French to “prenez un grip” and “donnez-moi un break” after the spat over a U.K. submarine deal with the U.S. and Australia
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Boris Johnson and this Tory government are harming my mental health. I’m perfectly serious.
Since my husband died 3 years ago I’ve tried to get back on my feet, but Johnson & co’s appalling behaviour and degradation of public life have enormously damaged my wellbeing.
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I am neither involved (obviously) nor informed about why
@joannaccherry
has lost her frontbench position with the
@theSNP
.
But honour compels me to record what a great colleague she is on Parliament’s Joint Committee on Human Rights
@HumanRightsCtte
.
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So now Johnson says he’s going to introduce new sanctions.
Why is he & his govt always ‘going to’ do things, without ever actually doing them?
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Not sure if this is the right thing to do; if not, put it down to shock.
But I want people who knew him - in the
@LibDems
, as Islington Council leader, as chair of
@WhitHealth
or otherwise - to know that my dear husband Steve Hitchins died suddenly last night.
Hugely missed.
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A day after the PM blamed MPs for failing to implement the result of the Brexit referendum,
@Anna_Soubry
told reporters:
“I can't go home this weekend, I'm not able to go home this weekend, I am not safe.”
What a disgrace
@theresa_may
is
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One of starkest lies, among many, in Gove’s Times article is that ‘outside the EU we can tackle the injustices & inequalities that held Britain back’
- Tories created many of those injustices & inequalities.
-EU policies & funds helped to tackle them.
- UK will have less money
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Regrettable that
@bbclaurak
uses terminology of this Tory govt by referring to asylum-seekers as ‘illegal migration’, as opposed to ‘legal migrants’.
It is not ‘illegal’ under international law to arrive irregularly to seek asylum, however this govt classifies them domestically
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Disgraceful that India (and UAE) failed to back the UN Security Council resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
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It's been a bleak 6.5 years of
#Brexit
(for me, personally as well).
But the persistence of we
#Remainers
in continuing to make the pro-European case is finally paying off. Yes, the unavoidable material evidence of the
#ToryBrexitDisaster
has broken through, but we contributed
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I do not speak for
@ALLIANCELGB
. But setting up a charity to focus exclusively on the protected characteristic of sexual orienation is not wrong, or hateful, or transphobic, simply a reasonable choice for them to make, like any new charity which wants a focus to its work
@SarahLudford
@DominicBuxton
It was founded to oppose Stonewall’s inclusion of transgender rights in its work so if it’s not a hate group it’s certainly not a nice group. They describe LGBT+ work towards equality as a new kind of homophobia.
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I get it that people are a bit sore at those of us who can get Irish passports. But I was an Irish citizen from birth, with mother born in Dublin, so not my ‘fault’!
Have finally submitted my passport application. And look at this vision of joy:
‘Ireland passport; European Union’
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The Observer view on Brexit: “Dishonesty runs through every aspect of the Brexit pitch because the honest case for the ideological pet project of the Tory right is so unappealing that voters would never have endorsed it.”
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Rory Stewart on
#r4today
says ‘the problem with a Customs Union is that the EU would negotiate our trade deals’
Yup, like the great one just concluded with Japan, which has said UK alone cannot expect as good terms.
This needed to be pointed out to him.
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Conflating valid criticism with death threats is truly scraping the barrel of dishonour
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“Civil servants in the Cabinet Office’s propriety and ethics team are said to have alerted Boris Johnson to a HMRC ‘flag’ over Zahawi before his appointment. The PM appointed him despite the possible concerns over his tax affairs.”
Jaw-dropping.
Revealed: officials raised ‘flag’ over Nadhim Zahawi’s tax affairs.
The Conservatives are full of people who became wealthy via tax heavens.
No wonder any Tory government won’t do a thing about it.
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TOP reason
@theresa_may
gives for how wonderful her deal is: ‘free movement will come to an end’
What a slap in the face for all the young - or older - people whose dreams of discovering Europe as students, workers or retirees is snatched away
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I’m fed up with being angry.
And I’m fed up with having so much to be angry about.
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.
@Billbrowder
:
“We discovered that UK was largest recipient of [dirty RU] money. We went to National Crime Agency, we went to Serious Fraud Office, we went to HMRC, we went to Financial Conduct Authority, & every single one refused to open a case.”
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We live in strange times. I am starting to dislike Theresa May more than I disliked Mrs Thatcher, who for all her faults - and battles with the EU - did not exhibit the same degree of insularity and xenophobia as Mrs May.
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I shall never ‘reconcile’ myself to
#Brexit
, however long I live.
It is a total, unmitigated tragedy for this country.
It is the product of decades of lies, misinformation, lack of fair reporting and citizen ignorance, in which the Right, the Left and the media have colluded
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Wouldn’t it be great if Trump out in 2020 was followed by Bibi out in 2021, Orban out in 2022 and Johnson out in - 2023?
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The dishonesty of Brexiters summed up in one man, Digby Jones:
2016: ‘not one job is at risk from
#Brexit
’
2019: ‘I always said we’d be economically worse off from
#Brexit
’
As it’s before 8am, I cannot express what I really think of this scoundrel.
Digby Jones just said he always said we'd be economically worse off.
Did he not say not a single job will be lost due to Brexit?
#Newsnight
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“In 2 announcements slipped out on Christmas Eve, ministers said British fruit & veg growers will be able to recruit overseas workers to help bring in harvests over next 3 yrs, while foreign care staff will be allowed into the country under a special visa from early in 2022.”
Brexit is dying. Slowly but surely we are inching our way towards brino. A failure of epic proportions
Financial Times: UK allows overseas workers to fill staff gaps in agriculture and care.
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Oh FFS, Johnson refers to climate change action as ‘bunny - hugging’? What a prat this man is.
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I’ve struggled a bit this week.
My mother-in-law died last weekend. She was (a brilliant, feisty) 100 so her death was not in itself a huge shock.
But my late husband Steve who died nearly 2 years ago was her eldest child & her death breaks a link with him, & stirs it all up
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Raab claims that Macron visit shows that in leaving the EU ‘we can forge even closer relations with individual European states’
That is just balderdash
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"In pre-Brexit days, thanks to...European single market, spare parts for cars, dishwashers – you name it – could be delivered almost overnight thanks to the sophistication of the EU supply chain. No more! There is supply-chain chaos all over the land."
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Yippee! My Irish passport is currently being printed. Won’t be long now. Should mean that I can attend meetings in Bxl of EU-UK Parl Assembly as an EU citizen, which gives me much (subversive) pleasure!
cc
@nealerichmond
@D0Sullivan
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Some of the ‘advice’ given today - flag down a bus, be ‘streetwise’ and bone up on the law - does serve one purpose.
It gives an insight into just how badly 51% of the population is being let down by those elected and appointed to keep them safe.
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