Married, father of 5 beautiful children, fed up with having to continually debunk nonsense on the internet - from AGW denial, through flat-earth to Brexit
@TriciaM89674123
@GrumpyGertrude
@Bradley4652
@RussInCheshire
Believing in brexit relies on the dynamics of a ponzi scheme - promised but illusory benefits
& ppl still pay into a Ponzi scheme long after the know themselves they are being scammed
Realising you have been conned is painful & takes time
@pmdfoster
@DennisNovy
You get the same effect with people investing in ponzi schemes, they keep believing, keep paying in well after its obvious its a scam
But you have only lost your money when you stop believing
People telling them its a scam often strengthens their beliefs
@scottygb
Fun fact - every single word in the shipping forecast has a well defined and known mean
So when they use words like "soon" it means with in with 6 to 12 hrs, or "good" means visibility of more than 5 n miles
it is a matter of life & death
@NickHolmes4
@John_Cotter
But funny if some were - "I want to be able to travel to the EU without filling in an ETIAS form"
Or "no roaming/bank charges"
Or "the goods I make automatically recognised for sale in the EU"
@ThatTimWalker
Just seen a picture of a Tory councilor pictured cutting the ribbon at the opening of a food bank
All smiles as if it 100% normal
Just parse that for 5 seconds
@BowenBBC
@TfL
I was pickpocketed in Piraeus a few years ago - a wonderful lady from Athens central library (where the wallet was found) sent it back to me
after ringing me to tell me she had found it and how sorry she was on behalf of Greece
we still love Greece and the Greeks !!!
@bmay
Essentially UK passport holders no longer have the automatic right to enter the EU - their right of entry has to be determined by the EU border force
@danielgoyal
When my nan collapsed in her basement flat on the Bishops Bridge Road - back in 1982 (I was 17 & found her)
The ambulance staff were so brilliant, compassionate & familiar "hello Phyllis, what on earth.."
In my naivete I thought they knew her
@michaelwhite
Poland now Ireland - I wonder how long ppl will accept being poorer than their continental peers
Eating food labelled "for UK consumption only"
The penny has dropped for quite a few
@DmitryOpines
It seems to me the "sanctions never work" are basing that view on old assumptions that don't factor in an integrated economy in a global economy
There was a good thread on aviation that illustrated this point, 30 years ago the Russian fleet would be Russian now its Boeing
@GabeFin
@acatherwoodnews
@British_Airways
Yes ironic Canadians and Americans with IRE passports have way more rights to live, travel work on the UK's home continent of Europe
Where we have voted ourselves 2nd class citizens
@mrjamesob
What's so depressing is that I am SC cleared and work on government/ security contracts and we have rightly the fear of God put to us - plus endless security hoops to navigate
Yet these gifters in government treat it as a game
When we were in the EU, every single product legally put on the UK market - from a blood testing machine thru a pot of Jam to an aircraft wing could legally be sold across the EU/SM - automatically
Now that figure is 0,
Well done Brexidiots
"Milk, butter, meat, fish and vegetables will be labelled 'not for EU' across the whole of the UK, and not just Northern Ireland, under Brexit plans being discussed by the Government and supermarkets."
More red tape costs due to Brexit. 👏
@EdConwaySky
@SnellArthur
That's what (self imposed) trade sanction tend to do
Why is anyone surprised? The UK has gone from the most open & integrated economy to the most closed
@thatdlh
@sturdyAlex
remember the "Malthouse Compromise" a somewhat naïve exercise in explaining to the EU what was in their best interest because it aligned with what was in the Tory parties interests
delusional - the lot of them
@robin_stafford
@pimlicat
the closure of these sorts of businesses that relied on a modern 21st century trading environment with our nearest trading partners were always very vulnerable
some will locate part of their businesses to the EU (as reported today), some will simply move 100%
inevitable really
@DanielLambert29
Application to re-join is only off the cards because it will embarrass people who voted for this shitshow
There will always be a small minority of Brexit Taliban who will never be convinced though, they should just go back to grumbling about it in the pub
@pswidlicki
I am old enough to remember commentators suggesting her first PMQ's would rattle Labour
I mean - the state of our commentariate is very depressing
@Life_Disrupted
@iainmartin1
@thetimes
I always maintain the big lie euro sceptic spun for 40yrs was that we where hapless supplicants as EU members with 0 agency
When the reality was very different, the UK actually led a faction (🇸🇪, 🇵🇹 🇲🇹 etc) countries to successfully represent our common interests
@policies4poland
The EU/SM where too successful in reducing trade barriers - & ppls memories too short
Most assumed frictionless trade between countries in Europe was just how things worked, axiomatic
Not the result of the legal, administrative, technical & political frameworks of the EU
@JupiterWhistles
@jamescsinclair
@BBCRadio4
not sure anyone is saying Brexit is solely to blame - but it will always play a part - simply because it adds extra red tape to ever process
after all post 911 security checks aren't the sole cause of queues / delays, but they will never help - thats Brexit
@KeejayOV3
@StevePeers
A shame tnh the obvious retort to his "why did I leave then" was to say
"You dislike being laughed at and mocked very slightly more than you hate woke - it's an ego thing "
@PJTheEconomist
Our daughter competed with private school kids who had a completely different A level experience than she did, she had 1 shot at proctered exams, fiends at private school had best of three
She was extremely stressed by the whole thing - especially the unfairness
@jackslad2000
@pmdfoster
@FT
remain certainly had no answer for the firehose of shit that came from the Leave campaign
it was like trying to explain gravity (like frictionless trade it's boring and limiting) to people who believe they can fly if they chose to vote too
@RScowler
Can we just skip to the inevitable end point where the Tories become a marginalised far right party, the Libdems sort of go where David Gaulk is - & there is a genuine cross party consensus we need to reverse Brexit (Blukip excepted)
@kevin_barnett01
@paulshoward1950
@sophielevin11
This "not now" shtick is the same tactic the NRA use after every primary school slaughter of toddler's
"Not now, too soon, have some respect"
Followed by "what problam" 3 months later
It's quite effective tbh, which is why they do it
@WritesBright
worth pointing out Sam - this was tried in Kansas in 2012, known as the "real life red state experiment"
The tax policy was designed by Laffer and the same RW libertarian Think Tanks, same opaque backers, same MO
it was predictably a disaster
@pondlifetwit
@johnharris1969
Brexit had the dynamics of a ponzi scheme
Some ppl pay into one long after they know it is a scam, the cognitive cost to admitting you have been conned is more than the cost of pretending to yourself otherwise
@jo_eliza1
@djrothkopf
They say the US coughs and we (the UK) catch a cold
You got Reagan we got Thatcher
And we too are still living with the disastrous legacy
@DanielLambert29
This will be the next realisation imo - that these drags on business / commerce / indeed any economic activity at all, are here to stay
Brexit is a chronic disease
@KathyLo56824537
@syrpis
Yes this delusional sense of unilateral decision making that the UK can do
Not surprised tbh Brexiters refute the notion borders have two sides & refute the notion other sovereign nations have agency
It really is a 19th Century view of the world
Hilarious really
@sianushka
Buy it isn't even a "foriegn" court, it has a UK Judge alongside Judges from every other European country
So to every other country it is "foreign" aswell, so actually the very phrase is meaningless
@jonnyboyblock
@HindHassanNews
I saw a tweet from an immigration lawyer who said the underlying law re removal of citizenship was from 2007
This is just a further consolidation of it, I.e they don't even need to inform you now
@markaphill
@MarieAnnUK
Love the way they even predicted the fragility of brexit
The terror from the likes of JRM that the curtain gets pulled back
& that was before we had even brexited
@BenChu_
@StevePeers
So in summary
Big companies coping, just extra cost = worse productivity
SME moving parts of the business to the EU = divestment from the UK to the EU
And small companies stopping altogether
Predicted, observed measured
Well done brexidiots
@GeorgeMonbiot
"Russell is not on the far right"
Although it reminds me of this
"If you are sitting at a table with 11 nazis, there are 12 nazis at the table"
He seems pretty far right to me
@sjaybee2
@Steven_Swinford
@JuliaHB1
It's extraordinary the gaslighting that has taken place - over our political class
That simply being dressed is worthy of comment & praise
@vanmaneuro
few years ago I had a twitter spat with some random gammons over the price of Lavazza coffee, I was in Italy at the time & it was far far cheaper than the UK
One simply said "yes course it's cheaper in Eruope as it's made in Europe" - sadly thinking he had made a killer point
@DmitryOpines
It is a growing "stabbed in the back" myth but
May killed soft brexit with her Lancaster hse speech, which was roundly cheered by 99.9% of brexiters
@BestForBritain
I have been a windsurfer for over 35 yrs - I remember the campaigning group SAS in the 90's
we were fed up with sharing the sea/coast with shit back then - & getting ill after a session on the water
really sad to see they are needed more than ever, less than a year after Brexshit
@NFUtweets
@StevePeers
@Minette_Batters
This nonsense is all the more laughable because not only did we leave the EU, we left as one of the biggest influencers
We sat at the top table & drove the agenda
And it worked for the UK - just not the WW2 private Pike wannabes
Remember this picture every single time you hear someone in your city say "we're not Amsterdam." This was
#Amsterdam
in the 1970's via
@fietsprofessor
. The cities we admire made better choices regarding cars, and are still making them today. Better choices instead of excuses.
@annettedittert
The thing is queues at airports are just a visible physical manifestation of UK passport holders reduced rights in Europe
Johnson (Snr) and Abramovich don't pay £10000's for an EU passport just to avoid airport Q's
In a way focusing on Q's whilst understandable trivialised it