Annette Dittert
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Senior Correspondent/Bureau Chief ARD London since 2008 • prev. Warsaw/New York • Also Writer/Presenter. @Newstatesman @Prospect_uk @Blaetter • Views my own.
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This is exactly what Musk did in the U.K. during the riots in August. Trying to inflame a situation to stir up division and disrupt government. This has to stop.
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Everyone in Britain still acts as if this was a normal government. Instead it is a project of deliberate destruction, of laws, of institutions, of anything that stands in the way of a PM who just doesn’t want to be held to account.
NEW: Have it from 2 senior sources that Cab Office about to do a write round to all permanent secretaries to ask them to model headcount reductions in their departments of 20% 30% & 40%. This follows calls from PM for 20% reduction in staff -90,000 people - across Whitehall 1/.
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So I finally made into the Mail. Thanks to all those lovely people who made this clip go viral and just one thing that needs to be clarified: I didn’t swear myself, I just quoted a Tory in despair.
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How can you possibly think it is a good idea to have Rachel Johnson on a panel when the big story this morning is Boris Johnsons potentially corrupt relationship with the BBCs chair? . It's honestly unbelievable.
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Fascinating. She knew it all. In 1997. And nothing happened.
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Brilliant MacTaggart lecture by @maitlis - Why journalism woke up too late to populism and what do to now. A speech absolutely everyone interested in healthy democracy should watch. Here's the link.
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Just embarrassing.
Former UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman and right-wing commentator Laurence Fox arrive in Washington DC for Donald Trump’s inauguration. Wearing a ‘Make America Great Again’ cap, Suella Braverman says she is ‘grateful’ for the invite.
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Can't we all just agree that Brexit simply isn't possible? . And then just pretend it never happened, as it was all too awkward? . The British are good at these things. Normally.
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Short and crisp. And true, sadly. The way Scholz handles the Ukraine crisis might turn out to be a historic mistake that destroys European unity at the very moment when it is most needed.
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I’m sorry, but listening to Jeremy Hunt claiming he wants to now make a ‚terrific success‘ of Brexit made me laugh out loud. As long as the problems with it aren‘t acknowledged Britain will not get over this crisis. Brexit is at the heart of all this.
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Prob the most damaging own goal of the day yesterday.
Nadine Dorries tells the world that the donors own the Conservative Party.
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This is really the very last thing Britain needs.
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Interesting to hear Grant Shapps so passionately arguing for the P&O boss to resign, because he deliberately broke the law. Well.
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This is quite something. The most comprehensive investigative research into Royal finances I've seen. Even the NHS is being charged by the Royals. If there is no discussion now about whether the monarchy can go on like this, then I don't know when.
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To falsify pictures really is a new (and dangerous) low for a party who still claims to be part of the democratic fabric of Britain.
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What is this, Elon Musk? . The BBC is not government funded. It is funded by the British public through a system known as the licence fee. Entirely different.
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This doesn’t normally happen in a democracy.
On the day that “noisy” protest becomes unlawful under the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, at least 20 police officers have just surrounded anti-Brexit protestor Steve Bray outside the Houses of Parliament and seized his loud speaker. @LBC
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Why is the Public Order Act not applied here? Genuine question.
"My family come from a country where there are lots of farmers, quite hard to find a poor farmer," Labour MP Dame Siobhain McDonagh tells #PoliticsLive as tractors take to the streets of Westminster.
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Finally someone dares to say it. Maybe if the Tory party manages to get rid of Johnson after all there might be some hope for sensible conservatism again in the UK? It's urgently needed.
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Endless queues for British passport holders this morning in Berlin. A very lovely airport employee telling me she feels genuinely sorry for the Brits. So no Schadenfreude here. But what a mess.
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If Tory MPs keep Johnson in office without a proper assessment of how parliament was misled, then any party with a clear majority can basically do as it pleases. The constitution wd mean nothing from now on.
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Kwarteng feebly blaming the Labour Party for the mess the country is in after 12 years of Tory governments. Honestly.
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The glamorous life of a foreign correspondent. 😉
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So now John Oliver as well. Maybe time to retire for good. Not much more one can achieve in life I guess. The only thing I would like to object to is that he apparently can't distinguish a British from a German accent. But hey, they're Americans. ;-).
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Cummings will announce. So no-one pretends anymore that Johnson is in charge.
Cummings will announce an overhaul of the Cabinet Office and No 10 next Monday. The adviser has said his intention was to create a “smaller, more focused and more elite centre”, but his critics will suspect an effort to scapegoat the civil service
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For those of my British followers who have asked why I started talking so much about Poland lately. Three reasons: .1) Poland is the only country in Europe atm where mostly young voters have managed to turn the tide and kicked out an autocratic,corrupt and criminal government.
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After having put the son of an ex KGB agent in the Lords, here we are again. It’s genuinely unbelievable.
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She hasn't been misrepresented. It was in her press release. In black and white. Post-Truth tactics might get worse with Truss.
"I never had any intention of changing the terms and conditions of teachers and nurses. But what I want to be clear about is I will not be going ahead with the regional pay boards”. Liz Truss says her policy on regional pay boards has been “misrepresented”.
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OMG. This had to happen.
For the #C4LeaderDebate Liz Truss has recreated Margaret Thatcher’s appearance from her 1979 election broadcast down to the last detail
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This kind of imagined British exceptionalism is just tiring. It’s the other way round: U.K. is the first country where a Conservative Party has been taken over by them. The Tories have embraced far right policies and Braverman also frequently uses far right rhetoric. So please.
Once again it looks like the UK will be the only major European country where the far right don’t have Parliamentary representation. The liberal (small l) tradition we have is something to be proud of, and distinguishes us from many or most EU members.
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Could someone please pull the plug on all of this. It really has to stop. For the sake of the country, the British ppl and my own mental health.
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They did it again. Scotland is quite something.
Ongoing direct action against a Home Office immigration raid at Nicolson Square. Members of the community are blockading the vans & offering noisy support. Agreement seems to have been reached that enforcement officers can leave as long as they do not take any detainees.
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The way the maj of the British press is out there to destroy the new Labour government is quite breathtaking. This needs to end - in the interest of the whole country.
Read to the end & a health department spokesman says: ‘It is categorically untrue that the Government is considering changing licensing hours.’
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For those who’d rather want to read what Maitlis had to say, @prospect_uk has been so kind to publish her brilliant lecture in full. (and btw, thanks for quoting me, @maitlis)
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So on the morning of this scandalridden day Laura Kuensberg has Ian Duncan Smith and Boris Johnsons sister on her panel. Really?.
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Genuine question: Why would the BBC give Johnson airtime to promote his book?.
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Daily deaths in England remain in three figures. Now basically a footnote on the news. And still no proper tracing in sight. Seems like ppl now have accepted Johnson's death rate. The ability of the British to endure impossible situations remains a mystery to me.
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Caroline Lucas has more class, integrity and dignity than Braverman will have in her lifetime.
Suella Braverman - "I'll miss Caroline Lucus' doom-mongering when she leaves this house." 😬
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This is hilarious. Finally a reporter who asks the right questions without fear of favour. 👇.
“You must be furious with whoever signed up to a deal this bad?”. Boris Johnson wants to make reforms to the Northern Ireland Protocol, @PGMcNamara asks the prime minister why he signed it in the first place?
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When @carolecadwalla published stories about potential links between Brexit and Putin's Russia she was hounded as a mad fantasist. She was always right.
West provoked Ukraine war, Nigel Farage says
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The German problem in a nutshell. Endlessly discussing the Pro and Cons of different Vaccines instead of just doing it.
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Theresa May finally has her revenge. What a blow.
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It’s November 2024 and I am listening for the first time ever to BBCs ‚Today‘ talking about the damage Brexit has done to Britain. I mean, it has just been 8 years. .
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Ich verstehe nicht, wieso jemand wie Alice Schwarzer noch in deutsche Talkshows eingeladen wird. Absurder Auftritt.
Hier das Video von Schwarzer dazu. #Stellvertreterkrieg #maischberger ."50 Prozent sind meiner Meinung" - klar, Beweis per Behauptung ;) Tolle Gegenrede von Vasili Golod.
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Not true. It was and is possible to accelerate the process while being a member of the EU. Which Britain did. While still formally being a member of the EU. The predictable attempts to make this into a big Brexit show are just misleading. Again.
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Feels like the world slowly sliding into dystopia.
Bone chilling to see at #RNCConvention people chanting "Fight" in unison with one arm punching in the air. Instantly conjures up rallies from 1930's Germany. There is no other way to put it:
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Liz Truss keeps saying she got things done. She didn’t.
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She knew it earlier than most of us and paid a high price for pointing it out. She’s back now and not for a cheap ‚told you so‘. But to warn us again. That it’s late. But not too late. Rarely say sthg is a must read, but this is.👇 @carolecadwalla
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What nonsense is this? It was a British court that blocked Rwanda today. He is losing me here. .
Rishi Sunak: "We will take the extraordinary step of announcing emergency legislation. This will enable Parliament to confirm that with our new treaty Rwanda is safe. I will not allow a foreign court to block these flights to Rwanda."
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Das ist nicht ernsthaft Eure Frage ? @ZDFheute ? - Wenn wir öffentlich-rechtlichen mit solchen Fragen simple Realitäten in Frage stellen, dann wird man uns bald wirklich nicht mehr brauchen.
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It's good and important to have the BBC and other British media reporting about the Far Right making gains in Europe. Yet when the same thing happens at home, it gets normalised. It is time to look at #Farage in the same way. Stop inviting him as a political entertainer. Still.
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They always forget to say that they are taking away the freedom to live and work in Europe from the British as well.
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For those of you who asked what happened yesterday. 😉.
Während der Liveschalte in der tagesschau mal kurz auf's Handy schauen? Was war da los @annettedittert? #tagesschau #cop26
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Could the BBC news please stop talking about Greg Wallace? There is a lot of important stuff going on in the world. Thank you.
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My take on today's chaos in Westminster and also the first time ever I do swear in English on German TV. ;-)
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Let's keep it simple. It's called corruption.
The Conservative Party is helping donors apply for public roles, with officials offering behind-the-scenes support and directing applicants to a secretive Number 10 unit closed to members of the public
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Impressive. And Berlin wasn’t the only city where this happened today. 👇.
This is Berlin today. Calling for resistance against the Far Right. All around Germany, people took to the streets in the last days. History tells us: . We cannot wait until it is too late and Fascists are in power. We have to stand up to them. NOW.
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What kind of a party fires their PM for lies, corruption and the total lack of moral integrity and only a few days later gives standing ovations to just that same man ? Sleep well everyone.
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Annalena Baerbock in the Bundestag now: "Putin wanted this war whatever it takes. We now do have the duty to defend the Charta of the UN. We will support the Ukraine with military means." . Again: It is hard to overestimate how big a change this is for Germany. And for the Greens.
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The Telegraph explaining how Brexit is damaging Britains economy. Never thought I’d live to see that day.
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Has he ever kept a promise. I mean, ever ?.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson committing to building Northern Powerhouse Rail from Manchester to Leeds, July 2019.
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That man killed two people. But yeah, let’s celebrate. Some Tories really going down a dark road now, too.
Hallelujah. Rittenhouse cleared on all counts and shame on you Joe Biden, shame on you.
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On days like this I sometimes wonder whether Habeck wouldn’t have been the better chancellor for Germany. The right words, the right tone.
Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck on the dimension of the terror, Germanys historical responsibility and our deep solidarity with Israel. 🇮🇱. סגן הקנצלר והשר הפדרלי רוברט האבק על ממדי מתקפות הטרור הברבריות, האחריות ההיסטורית הגרמנית והסולידריות העמוקה והבלתי מעורערת שלנו לישראל 🇮🇱
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One day after a far right extremist party won its first state election in Germany after 1945, one of the leaders of the centrist conservatives has nothing better to do than publicly destroying the Greens while parroting the paroled of the far right. Dangerous strategy.
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It’s surreal that she is asked to leave because she refused to lie about Johnson lying to the HoC. #DawnButler.
The moment Labour MP Dawn Butler asked to leave House of Commons after refusing to withdraw claims PM Boris Johnson "lied to the House and the country over and over again".
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Since when is it the job of a Pope to advise people they should surrender to evil ?.
Pope Francis in new interview: “Ukraine must have the courage to raise the white flag and to negotiate.”
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This is how Orban is being described in a report on @BBCr4today just now. „He is accused by some in the EU of undermining democracy at home.“ As if this was a disputed matter. Astonishing.
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Genuine question: Why is Rachel Johnson sitting on @bbclaurak show talking about Ukraine?.
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Listening to @BBCMarkEaston on @BBCr4today reporting there still is no visa application center in Calais and explaining how this is a deliberate policy by the Home Office to make it harder for refugees to come to Britain. Honestly: What has become of this country?.
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“A Trumpian effort to mislead that shows a lack of intelligence to understand”. @Tobias_Ellwood on Jacob Rees Mogg on @BBCr4today. The slow self-destruction of the Tory party is well underway.
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So we are now in the midst of a national crisis, army called out, even the right wing press turning against the government this morning. And where's the opposition? Nowhere. Haven’t heard a single soundbyte from Starmer so far. How many open goals can you miss ?.
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How others see us. The view from a Brit living in Berlin. It's heartbreaking, but yes, every single word.
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Braverman insists on saying the Supreme Court might be “thwarting“ her Ruanda policy on #Radio4. Wrong. If the SC decides against it, it means her policy is illegal. So far we still have something called ‘the rule of law’ in this country.
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Interesting that @BBCr4today dedicates a long slot to the devastating economic damage the pandemic will do without even asking a single question how a hard Brexit will accelerate it. It will be all Covid's fault eventually.
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The worst thing about the immoral and inhumane Rwanda deportation plan is that ppl all over the country are now seriously discussing whether it is ‚value for money‘. What has become of Britain.
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I would like to thank everyone for their supportive messages after yesterday's slightly irritating attacks on me here. Good to see a debate starting in the U.K. about the role of journalists holding government to the account.
The Shipman delusion: Why 'impartial' political journalism is often anything but
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Die bornierte Arroganz mit der Harald Welzer Melnyk belehrt ist einfach nur beschämend. #justsaying.
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8 years ago I came back home and found flowers on the back deck of my boat. There was a card in it, that said "Please, don't go." .I still don't know who put those flowers there that day, but it almost made me cry. Whoever it was: Thank you. And yes, I'm still here. #Brexit.
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That was a resignation speech unlike any other in UK politics. Honest, candid and intelligent. Whatever you make of her latest policies, there goes one of the best politicians Britain had. #Sturgeon.
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Why is this not all over the British media? Another scandal that goes without the public really noticing it. @GeorgeMonbiot
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@IainDale You shd know that it’s not mutually exclusive to criticise your own government (which I have done extensively if you had read any of my tweets) and realise what’s going wrong in another one.
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Brilliant as ever. @fotoole in Germans weekly DIE ZEIT today: "The EU scapegoat has now been ritually sacrificed to the gods of national identity. When the gods do not respond to the sacrifice, the people often turn their wrath on the high priests."
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Watching Merkel's Good Bye Ceremony and feeling slightly more emotional than I thought. Her modesty, seriousness and moral integrity. She will be missed.
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Man kann es auch kaum besser sagen.
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It’s astonishing that so few ppl in the British media are able to see that connection. 👇👇.
The "big calls" were Brexit and Covid. Johnson got both of them disgracefully, disgustingly and disastrously wrong.
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Just hearing on @BBCr4today that Haribo is finding it hard to keep British shops supplied after Brexit. I've put up with a lot here, but if there is no more Gummibärchen I might have to seriously think about moving back to Berlin.
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It's called Brexit and it was the @Telegraph who promoted it most.
New rules will limit the amount of time Britons can spend in their foreign boltholes
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So Raab keeps claiming here that Johnson followed the rules after presenter clearly laid out he wasn’t. Including pics as a proof. This is the justice minister. Surreal.
On #BBCBreakfast Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab defends PM Boris Johnson’s choice not to wear a mask during part of his visit to Hexham General Hospital.
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This is party unity ahead of competence and integrity. Bravermann a massive mistake. Maybe it keeps UKIP/Tory hard right happy but bad signal to Macron and most decent voters in U.K. #SunakCabinet.
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Super Idee, wenn man bedenkt was für ein großartiger Erfolg der Brexit ist.
#AfDBPT23 | "Diese EU muss sterben, damit das wahre Europa leben kann", so der Vorsitzende der @AfD_Thueringen, @BjoernHoecke. Die #AfD entscheidet auf ihrer heutigen Europawahlversammlung über ihre Kandidaten für die Europa-Wahl im nächsten Jahr.
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The Luftbrücke in reverse. Never thought it would come to this.
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