Ben Kelly
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Writing and podcasting. @unravelpod - Pod about films quickly unravels into chat about life, parenting, mental health & various inanities. TGUpod @gmail .com
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- Inside Out 2: A Mad Max Saga: IF
Ben and Mat disagree on the merits of Inside Out 2, play 'Furiosa or Fake-iosa', Jim from The Office's new film, IF, tiny little dragons in the pond and why Ben might be moving to Copenhagen.
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I don’t mean to be melodramatic, but I actually don’t think I can psychologically cope with another lockdown
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@Trailer_Swift69
@screenrant
It was an excellent love story in a post apocalyptic setting, a side story diversion from the main plot.
Review bombed as it was a gay couple.
And it wasn’t being “woke” or whatever, it was a really good story
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1995. Johnson would go on to have a daughter with a mistress. His biggest concern with daughter Stephanie Macintyre was denying paternity then seeking an injuncton to prevent it being reported on. He now has nothing to do with her.
Feckless deadbeat dad
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CONFESSIONS OF A "LIBERAL BREXITEER"
If the UK doesn't leave the EU I don't personally care anymore.
I don't really consider myself a "Brexiteer" now.
I used to have passion for Brexit. Though it was an enthusiasm for a certain vision of it. That died ages ago.
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The Retained EU Law Bill is being championed by the same people who argued for a 'no deal' Brexit, who said that leaving would be 'simple', that negotiations would be easy & we held all the cards.
They continue to be wrong with great confidence and arrogance. Utterly reckless.
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Yeah, all northerners hate Harrods, or can't afford it, infact most of us have probably never heard of it. We tend to go to the market instead of department stores, where we barter over produce and walk our ferrets
Harrods van going into Downing Street via the back gate as Johnson keeps it real for those Tory Northern seats
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IKEA boycotting
@GBNEWS
while operating in Saudi Arabia is a perfect example of how daft it is to jump down the “corporate values” rabbit hole.
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Repeat after me.
The four freedoms are a good thing.
The four freedoms are a good thing.
The four freedoms are a good thing.
The four freedoms are a good thing.
The four freedoms are a good thing.
The four freedoms are a good thing.
The four freedoms are a good thing.
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A lot of deeply unpleasant replies from Remainers to tweets sent out about reuniting the country and undoing some of the Brexit damage. Basically remainers want the country to be in the shit so they can revel in their bitterness. Bizarre. Very constructive. Fine then sit it out.
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Good news for those businesses struggling to prepare for the change in trade conditions for January. You now have the certainty that you’re fucked.
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They did not stand on a manifesto pledging to leave the EU with no deal and sever all of our trade treaties at once. That would’ve been crazy.
If you’re a Cabinet minister who doesn’t agree with your own government’s main policy (which was a key manifesto pledge in the last election that you stood on) then you probably shouldn’t be a Cabinet minister in that government any more.
#justsaying
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I attempted suicide twice in 2020.
Now I just want to grab life by the balls.
Roll on freedom day and the end of this lockdown nightmare.
Friends reunited. Familys gathering. Hugging. Pubs bustling. Tables for 2. I will still offer you my hand when we meet. I want to live.
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British democracy. One minute you're PM,the next you're sitting in a wall eating chips while people say "is that..?"
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Actually having learned a lot about the war over the years, I decided long ago that at not point did I ever want a chance to display 'blitz spirit'.
In-fact, unashamedly, I want my life to comfortable, safe, relatively easy and free of want. Is it just me?
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Imagine if your sole purpose in life was to defend the Conservatives no matter how wrong they were. With flimsy crap like this. Pitiful.
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Give up, you’re not going to win this one. The genie out of the bottle. The world of work is now more flexible, for the benefit of many.
Stop miserably trying to force people back to their commutes, pointless day after day in the office. Just fuck the fuck off.
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There are people who have lived in this country for decades being made to apply for settled status. Some even been here 40, 50, 60 years. Not born here, but British nonetheless.
It’s wrong. I’m so ashamed of my country & so embarrassed myself for believing this wouldn’t happen
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A deal is now not Brexit. Soon only carpet bombing the continent while we physically move our island further into the Atlantic will be considered true Brexit.
👇🏻Not only can Jeremy Corbyn not bring himself to say how he would campaign in the referendum he says he wants to offer, but he won't offer the option of a clean-break Brexit. The people voted in 2016 to Leave, yet now he would only offer two variations of Remain 😡
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I imagine a lot of people who say this would be more than happy to, say, bow to someone in Japan out of respect, because it’s not their own culture and therefore they don’t instinctively loathe it
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Support for ‘no deal’ Brexit is the pinnacle of Leave's descent into zealotry. The end result of refusing to plan
Like Trump, 'no deal' advocates have flooded the debate with “alternative facts”
It won't end well
THREAD! PLEASE RETWEET!
#Brexit
#WTOBrexit
#NoDealBrexit
#SOS
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I get a lot of snide comments on here for writing for The Telegraph. Well, frankly, sod off. In 2015 I was an obscure blogger. It's progress to now be an obscure columnist and be writing regularly for a major media outlet. I'm proud of it and my dad would be well chuffed!
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I don’t care which side you’re on, this is just embarrassing
“There is a pattern consistent throughout history of oppressed people turning on the oppressors. Slaves against their owners. The peasantry against the feudal barons.”
Brexit Party MEP Ann Widdecombe makes her maiden speech in the European Parliament.
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A symbol of the difference between us and them between civilisation & barbarism. Paramedics fight to save attackers life
#WestminsterAttack
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Boris Johnson has committed to delivering Brexit ASAP, has pivoted to a much harder Brexit than Theresa May proposed & is the only Party that could form a govt to deliver Brexit.
I genuinely don't understand why any Brexit supporter would vote for the Brexit Party.
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Britain is drifting towards economic oblivion
'What we are really witnessing is an abject failure of government, much of it down to Boris Johnson and the people he has surrounded himself with.'
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Baffled by the childish fantasies of atlanticist Brexiteers who believe in the "special relationship" and that the US will treat us favourably and with some kind of sentimentality. It's based on Hannan fantasies and misreadings of history. US trade negotiators will turn us over.
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In 2016 I was arguing that that the UK government would inevitably prioritise the economy in Brexit negotiations, and that post-Brexit Britain should be a champion of the international rules based order.
I'm really enjoying the 5 year intensive course in how wrong I was.
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Michael Gove articulating the very dishonest Conservative position that there will be no extension to the transition period because they’ll get the deal done in a year. Nonsense.
#r4today
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Generally, if something is a good idea, you don't have to make contingency plans for imposing martial law in case of riots, suspending competition law to prevent food shortages & ferrying vital medical supplies
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Worst thing is EU nationals in the UK being treated as bargaining chips. How sad. The worst broken promise of Leave. Making these human beings with real lives feel insecure & unwelcome. This isn’t, or shouldn’t be, what Britain is all about!
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Polls: Would you like your country to join the EU?
Norway: No 67% Yes 22%
Iceland: No 54% Yes 26%
Switzerland: No 93% Yes 7%
In a few years the UK could be perfectly comfortable with its new partnership with the EU.
The rejoin campaign would then die on the vine.
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Leaving the Single Market was a reckless anti-free trade, anti-growth, anti-consumer economic decision.
The argument for rejoining it is strong and backed by the evidence. The case is there to be made!
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Ending free movement represents the biggest loss of our rights and freedoms in living memory, all based on a false assumption that it has overwhelming public support.
via
@politics_co_uk
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Hard brexiteers don't care there is no majority in parlaiment for 'no deal'. They don't care that there is no majority in the country for 'no deal'. Nonetheless, they are ideologically committed to it and will pursue that aim relentlessly now. They can't be appeased.
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Oh good, Mark Francois is on the telly again,
"I wouldn't vote for it if they put a shotgun in my mouth," Conservative Mark Francois says he will still vote against the
#Brexit
withdrawal agreement
Live updates:
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You just lost your Finance Secretary because he was sexually harassing a teenage boy. SNP tried to keep this quiet and were previously aware of some of his behaviours.
I'd sit this one out, champ
Boris Johnson has lost control. Rather than prioritising the interests of people across the country, he is embroiled in an ego battle between his de-facto deputy Dominic Cummings and his former Cabinet ministers.
#reshuffle
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The last 3yrs has been a descent into mediocrity. Terrible PM. Worst govt in living memory. An appalling, morally repugnant, divided opposition with a Far-Left populist leader. A divisive national debate awash with false information…
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Tory/Labour/Lib Dem or remainer/Leaver, whatever. This man is a grade A cunt.
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Funny, the KFC chicken shortage handily highlights the importance of supply chains. Imagine how annoyed people will be if the food supply chain is badly disrupted due to the fantasies of Boris. Imagine what that would do to the car & aerospace industries.
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Leaving the single market was a huge mistake.
Anti free trade. An economic folly.
It’s one of the reasons we are suffering such steep inflation.
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"What makes Welsh lamb the best?"
"It just is"
Great video Mr Raab. Sadly, 92% of Welsh Lamb exports go to the EU. So when you pledge here to leave on the 31st October with no deal you're backing a policy that will hit Welsh sheep farmers hard
I’ve been campaigning across the country, talking to people about how we need to leave the EU by October 31st.
Watch my latest video and join my campaign at
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Read my 2020 timeline and you’d think I have a vendetta against the Conservative Party. I haven’t. I can honestly tell you I am just constantly astonished by how appalling this government is at everything it does.
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I set out a vision for & argued for a “Liberal Brexit” & was openly supportive of free movement & the Single Market. My case for Brexit was based on false assumptions, bad political misjudgements & an overestimation of the government & political system’s ability to cope.
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If I had stood back and analysed it properly, might I have taken the same position as
@davidallengreen
? A post-Maastricht liberal Eurosceptic who went Remain because he considered that the risks were too high, govt likely to bungle & it would get too messy.
‘Well.’
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Fuck off
MPs are telling homeowners to switch off Christmas lights to help the environment and asking people to 'celebrate in moderation'.
Should Christmas lights be banned to save the planet?
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I didn’t sufficiently account for incompetence of govt; radicalisation of Brexiteers; LeaveVRemain becoming an intractable culture war; both sides becoming entrenched in their positions for 3 years with no compromise; Northern Ireland; Trump/Corbyn…& a shambolic election.
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Are your eyes not working or do you just not have the bottle to say what you see?
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This is now my life, and I can tell you it is one of the biggest improvements in the quality of my life i've ever experienced. The government is not going to force me, or my employer, backwards.
It's a huge advancement for worker's rights.
The one really good thing that came from this experience was a glimpse of a better life. Go to the office sometimes, work from home sometimes. It's perfectly achievable and could work for everyone. But even that level progressive change is too much for some people to understand.
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Japan isn't a few miles away from EU, doesn't send 43% of its exports there. It's entire economy isn't geared towards integration into the Single Market. Its entire infrastructure doesn't rely on frictionless trade with EU to function. It has no NI issue
A small industrious Island nation has negotiated an attractive comprehensive free trade deal with the EU...
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Hard Brexiteers don't understand the consequences of a WTO deal Brexit
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@lovemylife81
@AaronRHanlon
Haha, yeah we’re still sore over the revolutionary war, of course. The worse part of that war was that it we were essentially defeated by the French
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When Corbyn posted this there wasn't a Twitter storm as right wingers called for a boycott and sent the Yorkshire Tea account abuse. It's not normal. It makes you look like a bunch of lunatics. Stop it.
#SueYoureShoutingAtTea
#YorkshireTeaGate
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With the PM in intensive care. With Gove in isolation. With Europe in lockdown and economies on life support. With no time or practical ability to adaquately prepare. An irresponsible waste of time this, playing politics.
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Delingpole neatly sums up what drives conspiracy theorists. It makes them feel special and clever.
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Why do supporters of a no deal Brexit suppose Ireland will be “fucked” but the UK will prosper?
Think for a minute. Join the dots. You’ll get there.
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@amyywrites
And it includes forcing poor, ethnic minority women to touch a mans penis and scrotum and wax him? Fascinating development
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My 3 year old has taken to telling his mummy and me that 'you're fired'. I don't know where this has come from.
I'm like, mate, after this sodding long year, just tell me what my severance package is and we're done here.
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Sadly, the referendum brought out the worst in Britain. It brought out the worst in a lot of people, including, sadly, myself. I’m a writer and I consider it important for my integrity to finally, explicitly, admit I made a lot of mistakes and said a lot of things that were wrong
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The governments’s removal of Freedom of movement from British citizens wanting to travel, live and work in the EU, and EU citizens in the UK is the biggest blow to liberty in living memory.
Universal rights. Reciprocal. Something we should have cherished.
#RestoreFoM
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Are you actually gleeful about the prospect of EU nationals having to leave? You’re mocking them?
Wow. That’s very nasty indeed. Ugly.
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@jo_bartosch
@billybragg
Nazi groups don’t support women’s rights. Anyone who says otherwise is a liar. It’s laughable.
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The increased support for a ‘no deal’ Brexit is the ultimate failure of the Leave movement. It’s the inevitable consequence of the refusal to grasp details, come to terms with complexity & coalesce around a plan. Compromise can be frustrating. So instead they will have a tantrum.
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I didn't get the culture war kicking off.
I was having a debate about how we are governed, the extent to which we should be integrated, supranationalism, democracy etc
It wasn't about that in the end. It was a culture clash.
I ended up in bed with a lot of of nasty ppl
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@zaktivist
@PippyBing
@damiengayle
@peterwalker99
@JustStop_Oil
Not when trying to win people over to your cause kid
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My boss is hybrid working too you clueless spoon faced twat
'If there are members of staff going into see their boss on a daily basis...naturally the relationship with their boss is going to be far greater than those who are plunked at home.'
Ryan- Mark Parsons says people should get back to the office.
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Intelligent, capable, experienced and reasonable. In these divisive times, a former diplomat like
@RoryStewartUK
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By the way, you don’t get to criticise David Beckham, Gary Neville or anyone who works at Qatar World Cup AND watch it. You wanna stand against it you don’t watch it, you can’t just make yourself feel better by criticising them. You also need to not support it.
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We’ve seen Britain’s relations with its key allies deteriorate, the exposure of so many of our politicians as woefully inadequate, our Brexit strategy - the very height of ineptitude - has been an embarrassment. My pre-ref reassurances were humiliatingly wrong.
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This is the brainchild of Jacob Rees Mogg. A man who put in charge of finding Brexit opportunities and came up with nothing. A man who loftily insists everything is simple and gets proven wrong every time. NO CREDIBILITY. Yet the government ploughs on.
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The fact is that the UK is the only major economy not to have returned to its pre-pandemic size. Thus far, Bexit has not been a success and a great part of this responsibility goes to the uncompromising ideologues in parliament whose ideas on Brexit are consistently proven wrong.
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It's still strange to reflect on the near total death of the decades old Eurosceptic belief that though the "political union" was bad, the "common market" was good. Now the idea of the Single Market & regulatroy harmonisation is a betrayal apparently.
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Worst of all, nationalistic attitudes are flourishing – manifesting in backlash against notion of retaining close ties with EU, silly anti-economic attitudes to regulatory alignment, preferential migration regime for EU nationals etc
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In the end the only thing Leavers united around was leaving the EU. After the ref Brexiteers became hardened & ‘no deal’ gained traction because it does away with the need for detail or compromise. It’s the height of ‘Brexit means Brexit’, ‘Leave means Leave' unthinking dogmatism
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Retaining optimism for 3 years of relentless negativity has proved impossible. The last year has been particularly draining. Been fed up with the government, the opposition, MPs, the appalling national debate, hard Brexiteers & frustrated with myself for being a mug.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg’s idea of a Brexit dividend is the ability to lower food safety standards by checking goods less
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@DavidHenigUK
@FabianZuleeg
I think we should just start turning up to EU meetings like nothing ever happened
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There are people on the Leave side, like me, who find economic integration acceptable but oppose political union. We didn't used to be so isolated. ‘Common market good, political union bad’, this is the classic Eurosceptic mantra that has been doing the rounds for years.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg delaying EU import checks is an admission that the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement is an act of economic self-harm
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The Conservative Party committed to net zero in their election winning 2019 manifesto.
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So much for “global Britain” and “Liberal Brexit”, the voices of the small minded, the ignorant, the mis/ill-informed are amplified now. They need to be put back in their box for Brexit to actually work and Britain to slowly repair its reputation.
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We will make our products smaller and less tasty and still charge you the same! No need to thank us
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Operation Yellow Hammer warned of the consequences we are now suffering. It’s because the thin Brexit deal Boris negotiated isn’t that much better then no deal in many ways.
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I was part of a campaign warning about what a stupid idea leaving with no deal was before many others were. We got a lot of info out there, never believed we’d actually be contemplating it weeks before our membership expires!
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Sorry to my reasonable Brexit supporting friends but I haven’t felt it for a long time now.
Sorry to everyone else for my small cameo in this too.
I no longer hear the music.
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Remain campaign had EVERYTHING on their side. UK, Euro & global establishment. Government machine. Now complain about "level playing field"
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I know I will get replies asking why I seem to blame one side. Well, Brexiteers wanted Brexit. They wanted a referendum. They wanted a big change. They got it. They had no plan. Parliament Brexiteers had unrealistic and/or unviable ideas & hamstrung the govt with red lines.
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I think we should enhance the political declaration for a closer relationship or switch to the EEA.
However, if there WAS a second ref, I would not recommend giving Brexiteers another crack at this. They don’t deserve it. I’d just tell Brexit to shut up and go away.
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Look, I’m sorry, but this can’t be real. Is this some kind of vast performance art that I’m not in on? What is going on?
Is it an experiment to see how unpopular they can make themselves?
Conservative chair Jake Berry: People know when they get their bills, they can either cut their consumption or get higher salaries or higher wages and go out there and get that new job
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Perhaps the Conservative Party needs another 13 year sit down while it thinks about what it’s done
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This imagines that get absolutely nothing back for the membership fee though. Money saved in shared resources (eg regulatory infrastructure which we will now need to rebuild nationally). Never thought “saving money” was a strong or honest argument for Brexit.
Spending a one off £2 billion to ensure we're ready for no deal is just 10% of what the EU debits us /every year/.
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I'm still marvelling at living in a country where the PM decides he's too fat and then implements policies and changes law based on his personal Damascene moment.
This country is pulled all over the place by the whims & fads of our ruling class. Silly country.
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The launch of the Brexit Party has been a huge success & they look set to win the Euro elections. It's amazing just how bad the response from "Change UK" has been. Embarassing.
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