Steve Peers
@StevePeers
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Professor of EU Law & Human Rights Law, @rhul_law. No longer post here; see https://t.co/U8pSranb2a instead
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Trashing British ties with the EU to sign a trade deal with a failing state led by a demented violent racist. Hard Brexit becomes an ever more squalid, bankrupt doctrine with every passing day.
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It's now definitive that Vote Leave broke election spending law. They dropped the case on Friday afternoon in the hope that no one would notice. Retweet if you want to confound that hope.
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A genuinely terrible appointment. I worked with her on a inquiry to secure EU citizens' rights, and she then voted against the results of the inquiry. Untrustworthy and untalented.
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The National Trust is the second most trusted institution in the country; your party is the *least* trusted institution.
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Again, these aren't new EU rules. They are existing rules for non-EU citizens if their country has not signed up to free movement. The Mail campaigned for years for the UK to become one of these countries. It simply lacks the integrity to take responsibility for the consequences.
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Truly terrible appointment - one of the cruellest and most dishonest people in public life.
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People banned from travelling more than 15 minutes. "Blanket" 20mph speed limits. Meat taxes. Fake gay refugees. Jews terrified of Sadiq Khan. The Conservative party has simply become addicted to lying. It lacks the competence or integrity to make an honest appeal to voters.
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You have tabled a bill that would significantly curtail the right to protest. You have zero credibility here.
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"I did not have a party. But if I did have a party, then I followed all the guidance."
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"We could prove our innocence, but all the data has been destroyed"
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You wanted @mrjamesob fired, you work for a Prime Minister who discussed beating a journalist up, and you have retweeted doctored videos.
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You literally voted for a bill allowing for huge restrictions on protest in the UK.
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If it comes home, you will prosecute anyone who facilitates its entry.
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When Boris Johnson discussed the prospect of beating up a journalist, Carrie Johnson was two years old.
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I've delivered a letter to Gareth Southgate demanding to be added to the England team, a letter to the Nobel Committee demanding the Nobel Prize for literature, and a letter to the BBC demanding the news budget be spent on producing daily episodes of Doctor Who instead.
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The Sun records £68m loss amid falling sales and hacking damages.
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Indeed. Melville blocked me after I pointed out that he was passing off a photo of Moscow in 1990 as a protest in Paris in 2021.
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The Transport Secretary is indeed lying. International law does not require asylum seekers to apply in the "first safe country".
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And there it is. Having whined (misleadingly) that Parliament did not get a vote on free trade agreements negotiated by the EU, John Redwood just voted against Parliament getting a vote on FTAs negotiated by the *UK government*: .Contemptible hypocrisy.
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I don't use the term lightly, but this is the language of fascism.
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A blatant falsehood. The corporation tax deal is from the OECD, not the EU.
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You wanted to leave and to end free movement. You won on both points. Therefore passports are stamped. This takes longer than not stamping passports. Therefore this delay is a consequence of your actions. Accept some responsibility for that for once.
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The new Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Education.
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So here's my collection of Braverman's low points . 1/ this nonsense claim about EU contributions
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Fisheries committee meetings you attended: 🐟. Fisheries committee meetings you didn't attend: 🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟
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Johnson starts with a false claim that Cummings had "no alternative". Overlooks his wife's family and other support in London.
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The first claim is demonstrably a lie, as Farage was in Tulsa two weeks ago today. The second claim implicitly misstates the quarantine law in England: there's no "negative test" exception from the obligation to self-isolate for two weeks -
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Chris Grayling on Brexit is every bit as bad as you thought it would be
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Cummings said it was vital that he got back to work in London. But one of the first things he did was to amend his 2019 blog post to make it look as if he had predicted the virus in advance.
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Is this a good moment to remember that Henry Hoovers are made in the UK by @GMB_union workers?. Yes. Yes it is.
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The BBC objected to this honesty about Trump's racist comments by @BBCNaga - so I'm retweeting them in support of her journalistic integrity.
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Again the Prime Minister falsely claims that a "foreign court" is the issue - in fact it was the UK Supreme Court that found the Rwanda policy unlawful.
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Last night Andrew Neil organised repeated pile ons of his abusive followers against me, for pointing out that the numbers in this study are wrong. This morning, the author of the study significantly revised the numbers.
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Good lord man. You literally advocated and voted for this treaty and called for *shutting down debate* on it, and now you quote a reference to it as "imposed"? You utter, utter charlatan.
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The Greens now have as many seats as Reform. Will they get anywhere near as much press coverage?.
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EU citizens can't come to the UK purely to claim benefits. Try telling the truth for once.
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The UK chose to leave the EU and free movement. Brexiters wanted to treat EU citizens in the UK the same as non-EU citizens; therefore UK citizens in the EU are treated like other non-EU citizens. FFS grow up and stop whining about the consequences of your actions.
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Mate, you voted to restrict the right to protest. Sit down.
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The real problem with cannabis and cocaine use is that it's a gateway to major abuse of election spending law.
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Last week your party's MPs legislated to remove the government's obligation to negotiate family reunion for child asylum seekers. Your words are hollow. Sit down.
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I will never understand this degree of hostility and resentment of young people.
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"Dad, that rat tasted weird"."Son, at least we could eat it outside, thanks to our Brexit freedoms"
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No, Telegraph, this remains the consequence of the Brexit which you advocated
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Today, Remainers are responsible for *spins wheel* the consequences of a US Presidential election. Next week: Remainers found responsible for late buses, Muzak and Maradona's handball
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Surely we should also cancel Britain's membership in the United Federation of Planets, the Seven Kingdoms, and the Fellowship of the Ring.
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Mate, you have been vomiting out far right rhetoric for months, what did you think would happen?.
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I *very* rarely swear on here. But these people have lost their fucking minds.
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The state of this. "How dare a footballer criticise the Home Secretary, fire him."
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Dan Hodges on the BBC, mouth so full of government boot that he is barely able to speak.
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I could not dig: I dared not rob:.Therefore I lied to please the mob. Now all my lies are proved untrue.And I must face the men I slew. What tale shall serve me here among.Mine angry and defrauded young?. Rudyard Kipling.
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He literally drove round pointing to hotels, saying look at the scary asylum-seekers aargh #FaragesRiots
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@legalclaret @paulpowlesland Yes, because authoritarianism should be constantly challenged.
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Fatuous. The UK could always decide on its policy towards non-EU migration.
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5/ Lord Frost very, very falsely states that the Northern Ireland protocol was 'imposed on us'. In fact, the UK govt presented it as a negotiating victory, campaigned on it as an 'oven ready deal', and Parliament voted on it.
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You condemned people as "citizens of nowhere" and "queue jumpers" when you thought it served your political interests to be divisive. You cannot, with any credibility, ask people to unite behind you.
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The criticism of Neil is not just about political bias; it's about the childish unprofessionalism of unpleasant tweets like this.
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Brexit party MEP: why listen to you, what do you know about economics . @MollyMEP: actually I am an economics professor.
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Your party took £10 million from a man who thinks that an MP should be shot.
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Nah, the seat was 60% Leave and the bookies thought you had it in the bag. Farage showed up to gloat and then legged it into the night. You know full well it's not a great result for you. If voters are really gagging for no deal you would have won it. They aren't.
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I had the misfortune to work with you on a proposal for unilateral guarantees for @The3Million - which you pretended to support but then voted against. You are utterly unprincipled: a personification of why so many people are disgusted with politicians.
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The public in each constituency decided to vote tactically. And it's not the role of the Attorney General to engage in this sort of hyperpartisanship.
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The EU made a reciprocal offer weeks ago. Surely you know that. Can't you stop lying for one day? You shame this country.
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I very rarely make comparisons to Nazis, but calling groups of people "vermin" was a standard dehumanizing Nazi technique. This law breaking outfit is becoming ever more extreme and disturbing.
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