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Molecular Immunologist at Univ. of Roehampton. Amateur choral singer. London-dwelling German dismayed by Brexit #FBPE and by climate change inaction. Agnostic.
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Am I right to have reported this tweet?
In these inflamed times, serial reports have crossed my timeline of journalists, Remain activists and politicians receiving threats of violence, I cannot dismiss dogwhistling about spreading fear among political opponents as light bants.
"We can again start to put the fear of God into our MPs - they deserve nothing less after the way they treated us"
Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage launches his new Brexit Party
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As a German who, years ago, came to the UK in peace, might I suggest that we all just enjoy a lovely game, and may the best team win?
(ducks and covers)
You fucking what!?!? My loathing is for this alleged so called newspaper. Fuck me!
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Terible take. Ms Kuenssberg should have fact-checked.
- International experience was available throughout: ignored.
- Some SAGE advice at key points disregarded: ministers are responsible.
- Ministers botched gov't response: Care homes. PPE. Ventilators. TTI. Premature reopening.
"Maybe there were things we could have done differently"
PM Boris Johnson tells
@bbclaurak
there will be time to "understand what exactly" the government could have done to tackle coronavirus
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Am I too German for finding this profoundly worrying - at a time when plenty of the UK's print and television media are at best selective in their scrutiny of government?
MP Steve Baker just bluntly told Sophy Ridge that Paul Dacre is being put in charge of OFCOM because he wants UK News to be censored by "conservatives". When fascism arrives it will come in a smart suit.....
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I've never lived in a country where the head of government stays put if s/he patently fails to get approval for a signature government policy, but resigns on condition that a failed policy is approved.
The UK has gone down the rabbit hole into Alice in Wonderland statecraft. 🤯
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"I messed this up as instructed, so brace for No Deal" would have been more concise.
Here is my statement after Round 7 of our talks with the EU.
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@dave43law
@NadineDorries
Not to mention the desperate effort all the way up to that point to dither, deny, deflect, and the super-soft touch of the Met in issuing fines against higher-ups.
Nads has no leg to stand on.
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To immunologists, "herd immunity" refers to the protection afforded the non-immune by having a high % of immune ppl around them, which reduces their risk of infection.
Politicians have twisted the term to mean letting infection run rampant and accepting deaths of the vulnerable.
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I was glad to join
@Keir_Starmer
,
@Femi_Sorry
and many others today at Parl & No 10 to oppose proroguing Parliament at this critical time. The demo was sizable, peaceful, determined, democratic.
Some pics as evidence. My fierce determined look needs work, and no tie was worn!
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In other news, unclothed emperors dislike having their nudity pointed out.
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UK fisheries actually benefit from EU membership.
That leaves as beneficiaries of Real Existing Brexit:
Hedgies
Asset-strippers
Tax shelterers and their enablers
Immigration lawyers (hard Brexit only)
Bureaucrats
EU lawyers, ironically
Have I forgotten anyone?
Today
@Bluemarinef
publishes report on fisheries, co-written by yours truly. In short: industry not just fishermen, but fish processing too. They all need access to EU waters and markets. If we leave SM & CU, industry will sink.
Rough waters ahead.
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I just watched a TED talk by a former military interrogator of terrorists @ GTMO, on liars' giveaways. She pointed out incongruous body language, e.g. headshaking while delivering positive messages, as a key "tell."
Then I watched this again. Try it with sound off.
#StopBrexit
"Today Parliament has passed the EU Withdrawal Bill, a crucial step in delivering a smooth and orderly Brexit – the Brexit people voted for." - PM
@Theresa_May
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@davidallengreen
Well, the civil servants who weren't there couldn't have done.
The entire absurdist stunt of leaving notes inherently incapable of delivering their message to the intended recipients is a bit of an indictment of JRM's "government efficiency" brief.
So, yes, sounds totes legit.
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An interesting Brexiter argument that takes some unpacking.
I am old enough to remember the journey that got us here.
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@MrMarkEThomas
What you write is obvious to those who know and care about these things.
That much of the population doesn't realise it is part of the problem.
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It is no absurdity. It is a display of power of government over Parliament and the people it represents, while at the same time stripping power from MPs.
Remember now that Brexit was once justified by the present incumbents as a wish to return sovereignty to the UK's Parliament.
Unless you know the layout of the parliamentary estate, it's hard to describe just how absurd those long queues of MPs are.
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The vox pop that went gloriously off script. Predictably prescient in view of what has happened since.
"Boris Johnson has stuffed the DUP"
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@IndiaWilloughby
The door to EU accession is open: A49 Lisbon Treaty.
It isn't "rejoining" as it won't restore the status quo ante. It's a different process now, with a different outcome.
To get there, the UK has to be committed to joining and complete 35 chapters of negotiations.
Good luck.
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I've done lab work at Containment Levels 2 and 3 (SARS-CoV is handled at CL3). You would change PPE anytime you'd even suspect pathogen contact had taken place, and when switching to uncontained activities (fetching reagents, bathroom breaks). 1 set per day falls short of need.
UK Health Secretary said that healthcare staff have plenty of coronavirus PPE.
Doctors say that is not true.
The Minister responded on morning BBC TV and said staff should use the same PPE kit for the entire shift.
A sure recipe for spreading infections.
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The British people were sympathetic in 2015 when a lone refugee boy washed up dead on a Greek beach. It took 4 years of Brexitish Breaking Point propaganda to install a Home Sec who seeks refuge of scoundrels to use gunboats to turn refugees from UK's shores.
Brits are better.
I’m so sick of this ‘The British People’ nonsense. It’s inflammatory and divisive and also errant vacuous nonsense with no meaning in a multi-party democracy. The phrase should be banned from political discourse.
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@dansabbagh
@guardian
I am a German scientist resident in London. I came to an open, confident, welcoming, democratic UK with a special status in the EU. Brexit has paralysed democratic governance, damaged economy, will worsen inequality, pander to xenophobes. I want to see my adopted home restored.
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It is the UK's Brexit. It is the responsibility of Brexiters to make it work.
They can't, they know it, and they are now busying themselves trying to shift blame to the EU. It'd be better if they admitted their abject failure to those who voted for their not-so-cunning plans.
And the Euro Parliament has been asking Mrs May again and again to come and explain her plan for the UK, as almost every other PM Of the 28 have done, but we get a resounding......... nothing.
She hasn’t the courtesy to attend.
Why not
@10DowningStreet
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I am one of Mr Corbyn's hordes of cheap foreign labour. When I moved back to the UK after 10+ years in US academia and biotech, I took a big cut in salary for a basic research opportunity at a great UK uni, and to be closer to my German family. But no undercutting happened: 1/n
Jeremy Corbyn resorts to the standard tropes of dogwhistle racism again.
What a nasty little man he is.
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BREXIT FURY as Brits discover that Brexit means Brexit, actions have consequences, the Pope remains opposed to Protestantism, and the EU serves its member states.
These rules do not apply to EU citizens. They only apply to people from non-EU countries. You voted to leave the EU. What did you expect would happen?
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@DavidGHFrost
@HumzaYousaf
In which an unelected chief negotiator of a failed national project, mis-sold on a spurious claim to restore UK's self-determination by seceding from a voluntary union of states, denies the legitimacy of a move by one of its constituent nations to achieve the same. The brass neck
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@miffythegamer
Where do I start? The EU-compliant fire-retardant flag, the mixed up brown-shired Rosie the Riveter (?) strutting in the background, and the bungled burning of a flag the Nazis hated and that, since the mid-1800s, has stood for democracy in Germany?
🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
@cliodiaspora
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@BettsHelen
Indeed it cannot. They messed up. UK citizenship beats the need for Settled Status.
They should see the Light on production of the password. Otherwise get help. I think Citizen's Advice are good on this.
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I am struck by Javid's phrase "anti-democratic backstop," prob Cummings' focus-grouped delegitimising catchphrase of the day. Reminder: backstop was necessitated by UK red lines (no SM/CU/ECJ) raising issues of how to avoid WTO border checks in IRL, absent workable alternatives.
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@hannahrosewoods
If they mean that jingoism and war metaphors for unwarlike global emergencies are less palatable to us, having lost 2 world wars, and that we now prefer pragmatic measures and international cooperation, I find myself guilty as charged. I just don't understand what the problem is.
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So, 3 weeks b4 Brexit becomes irreversible, UKgov have not yet figured out what "Brexit means Brexit" means for the future relationship, not only with the EU but also the US.
No joined-up impact assessment.
Only possible conclusion: they'd rather not know, or just don't care.
As ever we come back to the question of what the UK wants or doesn't. That's where a realistic mandate for US and EU talks should come in, based on some serious impact analysis, cross government working, consultation etc. From what I hear a lot of this still needs to be done 4/4
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Printable words fail me. Anyone want to respond in emoji?
Theresa May urges people to abandon the Leave-Remain split that's divided Britain since the Brexit referendum
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@vincecable
@IndyVoices
@Independent
Don't call us Remainers/Rejoiners. UK has left; status quo ante is gone. Call us Europhiles, pragmatists, patriots.
We haven't gone anywhere. We face structural obstacles to changing things. Help us, don't blame us.
LDs joined those who wanted to stop banging on about Brexit 🙄
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@drdavidbull
Sounds like you never lost what you now claim as a Brexit benefit.
Enjoy if you must. In your place, I'd feel cheated.
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@freddiejh8
@NewStatesman
Sadly ironic that someone who opposed the EU for its mildly privatising tendencies enabled a Real Existing Brexit that has given power to the kleptocrats and carpetbaggers.
I support Lynch's battle on behalf of his union members. His other views are another matter entirely.
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European "research" group have now done enough "research" to realise that leaving the EU entails a loss of sovereignty. 👏👏👏
Their conclusion: the UK must leave the EU but continue to be permitted to meddle in its affairs. 🤦♂️
What part of "Brexit means Brexit" don't they get?
You’ve got to be kidding right 🤦♀️.
Want a veto?
Get involved and stay you stupid stupid deluded fools!
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@ElliotElinor
Also the UK's equivalent of the CE mark now postponed until 1/23, I hear.
They seem so very keen to take back control, except where actual taking back of control is involved.
Other than immigration and executive power, of course.
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@Mohameddharoor
The ignorance and bigotry are appalling. I suspect I would have been speechless, too; the snappy comebacks are hard to come up with at such times.
I wish you success in your vocation and patience who appreciate your care and professionalism.
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@Charbrevolution
Dislikes vaccines. Dislikes NPIs. Dislikes places she visits. Must be a sad way to live. Reported and blocked for the plain, gleeful misinformation. Rebelliousness my foot.
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@sturdyAlex
The Greeks invented tragedy and comedy. This exchange shows how few words are needed to have both.
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@meQueenieB
Sad. Want to change it? Lobby and vote for people advocating for ever closer UK/EU relations.
You know it makes sense.
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How does one argue with such vacuous mental fog?
UK's vaunted global leadership in some areas has been built during 40+ years of EU membership, which is valued and cherished in the affected sectors for the advantages that it affords. It can only suffer from real existing Brexit.
“Outside of the EU we’ll be able to start focusing, not only as a global citizen, but also which direction and what relationship we want to have with the rest of the world.”
Conservative activist
@NasimiShabnam
says how Brexit will shape Britain’s role in the world
#Newsnight
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Importantly, if the UK had wanted to recruit more non-EU talent, it was always free to do so as an EU member. Doing so did not require Brexit or cutting Brits off from FoM.
Neither does it require abandoning control. Many EU member states check and enforce Treaty limits on FoM.
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Anna Soubry MP has shown considerable fortitude in standing up to the braying mob. Pressure to submit to party whips will have been no less crushing.
You know what happened to those publicly dissenting from party view in Nazi Germany? Course you do.
Be like Anna. Huge kudos.
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@PeteAldridge4
@sturdyAlex
He is there, and this is statistically far safer from COVID-19 than in the UK, because their government acted more promptly in line with internationally recognised best practice.
Yet Alex gives a fig about this country, or he wouldn't be commenting on our supine press.
👏👏👏
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@JHowellUK
Like the 40 new hospitals, the labour gaps in health and social care, agricultural labour, and people processing the new border red tape?
You'd think there's a magic labour-supply tree.
Oh, there was, it was called EU FoM, and we axed it?
Oops...
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- Gov't turned down EU collab offers.
- Chronic neglect of pandemic preparedness bc Austerity.
- Nightingale hospitals without nurses running them - but no capacity to isolate the mildly symptomatic.
Too little, too late. CoV not suppressed. Learn lessons now: Winter is coming.
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@implausibleblog
Grieve is often on the money. Here I think he is too kind to Sunak.
He is also too kind to the "philosophical idea of" a Conservative Party. The party calling itself thus has not been conservative in any previously meaningful sense of the word since mid-2016, less so since 2019.
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@joepublic99
I didn't get a vote. UK'd be better off if it were accepted into the EU as full member via A49. Acceptance of € is far from sole obstacle - present-day UK fails to meet many constitutional accession requirements. "Reversing" Brexit doesn't begin to describe the overhaul needed.
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The main political exponents of Brexit are globalists: only the second tier are Little Englanders. Yet there is material loss to the UK's global trade connectivity from Brexit as now pursued. So the inference that tax avoidance & deregulation are the bigger motives is reasonable.
Everyone was broadly ok with our relationship with the EU. Until it said it was going to crack down on rich people's tax-fiddles.
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@LozzaFox
You are seeking election to public office - equally paid for by taxpayers, but unlike NHS doctors without the need for any documented expertise in anything, and with at best unproven benefits to the public that pays them. Good luck getting your deposit back...
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Worth pointing out that the 2021 headline is also wrong. The new rules due to affect food shopping bills aren't EU reqs but rather the UK's import controls, which should've been in place from Day 1 post transition but were waived because UKgov couldn't manage them.
#BrexitReality
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It further pointed out, again, that the average EU citizen had a more favourable balance of tax contributions to benefit burden than the average Brit or non-EU immigrant (who were comparable to one another).
EU immigrants stole neither jobs nor benefits.
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A tragic reality check on the UK's diminished global clout.
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I just trawled through Hansard in search of incisive comments on the executive power grabs in the latest Brexit bill. Sadly far less attention given than to fish or Erasmus. THREAD.
The only one anywhere close to target was by Clive Lewis
@labourlewis
. Bravo.
He abstained. /1
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@PollingReportUK
@SuellaBraverman
Shame on 48% of the people of Fareham for voting for someone responsible for policies both inhumane and counterproductive.
Pity on 52% of the population who could unite to defeat her.
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Today, on not-quite-Brexit Day, MPs are getting schooled about the Customs Union that they are due to leave, having spent 40 years in it, 3 years after campaigning in a referendum on EU membership. Gorbachev said that he who is late is punished by history, but this is ridiculous.
So
@SamCoatesTimes
says that dozens of MPs next week have a tutorial scheduled on what the customs union is from some trade experts...
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@Nigel_Farage
Au contraire: welcome to Singapore on Thames. EU countries have protections against hire & fire. The UK opted out of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and was late to adopt the Social Chapter, before opting out of the EU entirely. Brexiters "EU red tape" protected them - no more.
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Moreover, the MAC report advised that shortages of housing and public services (eg NHS) were due to under-investment in those sectors, despite EU citizens' net fiscal contributions.
It showed that FoM, part of Thatcher's single market, worked, as intended, to the UK's benefit.
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Forward to 2018, when the May government got the MAC report it commissioned. It was an extraordinary document. It confirmed years of academic research showing that immigration EU FoM users had not had the detrimental effect on employment and at worst a minute effect on wages.
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@joepublic99
Indeed, I think "re" phrases such as "reverse Brexit" and "Rejoin" risk painting UK Europhiles as backward-looking. Better perhaps to extol patriotic virtues of ever closer EU alignment & internal reforms needed, on their merits, until A49 accession becomes a natural last step?
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@DPJHodges
I cannot speak for Labour, but I for one am horrified that defenders of the incumbents make this about the letter E and not about the plain, substantive violation of human rights and the inability of the UK's own checks and balances to put a stop to that.
Dark Sesame St politics
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@EmmaKennedy
Later means longer and more damaging.
Earlier means being seen as the Christmas grinch a second year running, only without credibility on "one rule for them" grounds - but saving lives and sparing the NHS.
Tough one. /s
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Important distinctions in recent discussions about immigration and its regulation by the UK. Thread.
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Therein lies the crux of the matter. The 2016 ref did not specify the future relationship with the EU. Leading Brexiters promised 6 mutually incompatible things before breakfast. No specific form of Brexit can fulfil such a woolly mandate. By the same token, neither can No Deal.
For those in Parliament now pushing for a Norway type deal with the EU with its 4 freedoms could they explain how this in any way reflects the referendum vote in 2016...wouldn’t they be more honest to simply say they wish to remain in the EU...
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@mrjamesob
Wasn't it Brexiters who accused People's Vote advocates and the EU of re-running votes until they got the result they want?
Methinks they do project too much.
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@LeeAndersonMP_
"If you don't like my party's odious policy, go live elsewhere" is arguably not the best attack line against those who criticise the Home Sec over HMG's treatment of people who, often loving their countries deeply, were driven from them by war and persecution.
Just a thought
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A good job, partially done.
Labour needs to set out the end game, urgently, in the event further extensions are refused by EU-27. Joanna Cherry's motion to revoke as a backstop would have done that.
Our cross party Bill now has Royal Assent. Parliament has voted tonight against the damage & chaos that No Deal would cause for jobs, manufacturing, medicine supplies, policing & security.
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And there we have it.
The UK, on Brexiting, left the Dublin Accord but, according to the Lord Foreign Secretary, former PM who triggered the Brexit ref and Greensill shill, the Rwanda policy is the fault of ... the obstreperous French!
@nialloconghaile
, one for you methinks.
Unelected bureaucrat David Cameron explains how we need the Rwanda plan because of Brexit 🤦♂️
Anushka Asthana, "Hand on heart. If this had come up when you were PM, would you have gone with this Rwanda policy?"
David Cameron, "We had a situation where you could return people
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Very soon now, a fractured EU will cave to the UK's demands because of German car makers. They need us more than we need them.
/s
Now official: EU ministers have just adopted Michel Barnier's negotiating mandate, meaning talks can begin next week.
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The latter means almost exactly the opposite of the former.
We should really call the politician's idea something else, like "viral laissez-faire" or "decimation by inaction."
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In her 18 Xmas speech, HM QE2 avoided Brexit entirely (she did mention Commonwealth), in the "BBC balance" interpretation of Royal obligation to be politically neutral. We can speculate on meaning and intent. But it got me thinking about requirements for reconciliation. Thread.
Have huge respect for the QEII but I'm sorry there's no way we'll reunite as a Country over
#Brexit
; the Divide is morally, politically & personally too deep.
There's no compromise.
It's a disaster of generational & existential proportions.
We're having Rights & Futures stolen
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This offers photo ops of boat landings and round-ups at Dover, distracting from the fact that Johnson has thrown much of his fan base under a bus.
It has been suggested to me that the timing of the MoU with Rwanda vs. Partygate was coincidental. Well, here's the other reason.
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Young Brits, please take note.
Polish election: Right-wing ruling party to lose majority - A larger proportion of 18-29 year-olds had turned out to vote than over-60s. 👍
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Uh oh.
Re: my earlier thread on truth and reconciliation over Brexit:
Cancel all NDAs signed with HMG over Brexit-related disclosures, except where they impinge on commercial IP. Publish the lot. Prominently. We must know what's happening for an informed
#FinalSay
.
Sorry to sign off on a slightly grim note. My daughters boyfriend went for a repeat prescription of Naproxen following recent Op. Three pharmacies visited had none and told him of a national shortage which will get much worse with
#Brexit
Just so you know
#FBPE
#Peoplesvote
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The answer, as ever, is distraction. We now see inordinate media focus being lavished on a performative, and indeed abominable policy of transporting refugees abroad - a group who rightly enjoy protections under international law but are prevented from arriving by legal routes.
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Berliners are famous for not being reticent about their views.
Germans in Berlin tell
@BylineTV
there are no shortages.
And they think that the UK govt claiming Germany has the same problems is just to protect Brexit.
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1. Having to apply to HO to be allowed to retain residence/work rights is not the preservation of full rights that most Brexiters promised.
2. Other EU countries with a universal local authority registration system manage to verify FoM eligibility without discrimination.
EU citizens and their families will need to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme to continue living in the UK after 31 December 2020.
Find out more:
#Brexit
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@PrfChrisPainter
Yes re: conclusion, but not because a rapid move would "re-ignite all those divisions." We will always have those divisions with us. Without a major party making a case to move towards closer EU relations with a strategic aim to join eventually, when will the time ever be right?
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@montie
@trussliz
An interesting plea.
Con MPs and members heaved her into high office, without a GE, after Con governments going back to 2010.
She outed herself in previous offices and in her race-to-the-bottom campaign.
We need the UK to succeed, not her personally.
#NoHoneymoon
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It is telling how little public outcry the curtailment of reciprocal rights for
@BritishInEurope
and
@The3Million
has caused. This is a rare exception. Thank you, Bishop.
British friends: when the rights you care about become privileges, may you be more vigilant and outraged.
The announcement of a “Settled Status” for EU citizens after Brexit is, in effect, telling people who have lived in the UK for years that they were “never really one of us”, the Bishop of Leeds, the Rt Revd Nick Baines, has said.
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@ukiswitheu
They weren't discussing the plight of Afghans fleeing their new rulers. Far more preoccupied with receiving pesky emails asking for help on their behalf, and "amazed" that IS's terrorist attack on those trying to flee hadn't quite finished the job of keeping them from UK shores.
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Remainers would need truth for reconciliation. A Europhobe press and revolving-door pols would have to come clean about decades of peddling Euromyths. Full investigation of the Leave campaigns' 16 referendum shenanigans and punishment of any personally attributable crimes.
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I've spent >10yrs as a scientist in the US, on non-res visas incl O-1 "Alien of Extraordinary Ability" (a moniker that'd make
@LennieMerrick1
proud; yeah, it was offered more generously then).
The red tape was unbelievable. Aping that model makes UK less, not more, attractive.
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From the mouth of a BrexiCon, a moment of accidental truth. Or possibly, just possibly, belated recognition of a colossal error.
The responses are gold.
🤦♂️🤷♂️🤦♂️
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@joriszwart
@JulienHoez
Fair point, but the pigs are still dead, and the UK is still short of essential workers.
The greater scandal in this video is that the journalist doesn't mention the role of Brexit in creating this horror.
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@tomhfh
Yet the present incumbents have abetted an inflation-boosting, growth-sapping Brexit, joined developers in throttling housing supply, and proceeded to raid the Exchequer on behalf of well-connected friends during a pandemic.
It's almost as if they aren't keen to help the country
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@AndrewBartletta
@chriswadeevans
@bbclaurak
"Fine people on both sides," according to Kuenssberg... 🙄
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The first issue is that Brexiters had promised n mutually incompatible things before breakfast to cobble together their 52% (of voters on the day) coalition.
The questions about immigration are a prime example.
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@Femi_Sorry
@ABridgen
You'd think a common travel area would be easy to distinguish from a right to another country's passport, especially for someone so keen to take back control of immigration.
Apparently not.
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The unofficial Leave EU campaign were the Little England outriders, with "Breaking Point" scare tactics, in the aftermath of Merkel's 2015 "Wir schaffen das" Syrian refugee crisis response. It was their Project Fear.
(The Syrians won't get FoM until they become Germans.)
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Transparently poor excuse: these are not personalised data.
Either they haven't a clue or the news is terrifying. These options ate not mutually exclusive.
Chief nurse again uses this argument that she won't disclose how many NHS staff have died from Covid-19 because families haven’t all been asked for permission - feels like a very weird argument, nobody is asking for identities, rather anonymised figures
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@tinageta
@NPSusa
@mrsorokaa
@ekatso
From being press-ganged into fighting a war of aggression, a no-no under international law.
Imho that qualifies.
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Impressive and laudable, within a deplorable system that makes charity essential for the poor but taxes partially optional for the rich.
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@TelBabe
A TV anti-littering ad campaign years ago showed the filthiest British streets to a voiceover of Shakespeare's "scept'red isle" monologue. We aren't bitter. We are angry, appalled, dismayed at the size of the growing gap between ideals and reality under the present dispensation.
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So, farewell then, UK.
You were once an major member state at the ❤ of our bigger, ever closer Union.
You provided a home, opportunity, friendship and love for 3.7m of our own, and placed over 1m of your own, each one an ambassador for Britain, in our safekeeping.
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@Southldntabby
A virus being treated with antibiotics.
(Also, come to think of it, a Brexit metaphor...)
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If it then takes another decade to join the EU, I'll be in my mid-80s. I might just make it.
I'll gladly take any acceleration on this timetable.
🗣️ “I think the 2016 referendum is going to be as unsuccessful as the 1975 one".
👉As featured in Playbook this morning, Sir John Curtice predicts that there may be another EU referendum before 2040.
👀 Catch up on last night's Unlocked here
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