Few of you would wish to read "The Sovereign Individual" book... I can understand... but do read this summary. 10 minutes well spent
#BrexitReality
was a planned
#BrexitDisaster
There are reports of Russian troops abandoning tanks and handing them to ukrainian forces... if this is true maybe there commanders have lost control. It maybe tiny but if it spreads it could rebound on Putin.. wouldnt that be nice
YouGov poll puts the Liberal Democrats in the lead with 30 percent of the vote, ahead of the Tories on 24 percent.
The Brexit Party comes in third with 19 percent followed by Labour with just 17 percent
I am just eavesdropping on two middle-aged women talking about how they voted. They are chuckling about how they voted โleaveโ (ie Tory) to โspiteโ their kids.
Their logic was โitโll teach them to depend on themselves, like WE had toโ.
@MichaelTakeMP
@BorisJohnson
Yes it was quite an achievement... never in the history of England has so much been spaffed on so many failures by a few led by their dear leader
These are women who have spent their entire lives with the support of a welfare state and EU membership since they were in their teens.
๐คฌ๐คฌ๐คฌ๐คฌ๐คฌ
@cgeorge2020
@mrjamesob
The EU spends a pot that all pay into to build up the weakest parts of Europe so that in the end we all benefit. Its investment for the future. That so much is spent in the UK indicates how poorly we address our own failings.
โIt is difficult to see how Britain would be in the position it is in now โ weakened politically and economically โฆ โif a truly independent and accountable press had provided the necessary checks on power all healthy democracies need.โ
Eavesdrop update: They are now expressing incredulity at the notion that โthey donโt do proper cheese like Cheddar and Stilton in Spainโ.
๐คฆ๐ปโโ๏ธ๐ข๐ข๐ข
Update 2: it transpires that one of these women has a daughter and son-in-law living in Spain who are applying for residency. She acknowledges that Brexit could make this more difficult for them but her response is that they will โjust have to try harder, wonโt they!โ
@Brexit_Ricky
@sunriseblade
You can respect but profoundly dissagree and I am 69. The Brexit camp have a very warped sense of the EU and how it has helped the UK economy.
#Remain
is the only sane option
#PeoplesVote
@BBCr4today
@mcgough_p
@MattHancock
Stockpiling assumes there are extra supplies available. That shelf life is not an issue. That somehow the costs whixh could be huge are funded. Every month of stockpile needs 1.5b in funding. Another Brexit benefit?
@sentoffagain2
@carolJhedges
@albawhitewolf
I wonder what you understand. My views and understanding have evolved through interaction with others. I would suggest shes had more interactions and experience in 2 years than you or me in 2 lifetimes. Im 68 and think shes a great example to everyone. Young or old.
@MonicaCollantin
@carolecadwalla
@francesweetman
I suspect most of us have had more difficult jobs and have better qualifications to run the country. But he lusted after the job. Lied his way to get there..... and now hes stuck
@mrjamesob
UK is like an overgrown child. If I dont get my way Ill squeem and squeem. Eventually the bluff is called. As Luxembourg prime minister Xavier Bettelโs commented in from March 2018: โThey were in with loads of opt-outs and now want out with loads of opt-ins.โ
@guyverhofstadt
@APFSDS_aboteur
And the current Conservative party in the UK who preferred the extreme right block in the EU parliament are partly funded by Russian money and have actively encouraged Russian billionaires to set up shop in London.
#StopBrexitSaveBritain
@fionaandstu
@finbarfin
My son saw some reports there was also this one in the metro. Also the Red Army is known to kill recruits who dont obey commands. Their squaddies are not SAS trained pro's. Many probably dont even know they are in Ukraine.
@JoeHunter_
@cirian75
For balance can we have the shorter list of pragmstic intelligent MPs with a touch of leadership skills. 5 for staters
Lucas
Sturgeon
Benn
Starmer
Lammy
@bbclaurak
@MikeMol1982
This is our Prime Minister lying AGAIN. Vicars daughter claiming her faith makes her certain shes right. Believes her faith whitewashes lies. A strange game of paper stone scissors with her party.
@theresa_may
please call a
#PeoplesVote
and then resign
@patrickgcox
@archer_rs
So now there's zero chance of billions in investment upgrades to a smart grid able to handle total demand served by highly distributed renewables and enormous storage capacity...
@johnredwood
What is it about a collapsed NHS, sewage, high taxes, economic stagnation, teacher shortage, potholes, inflation, corruption, racism stoking and creeping fascism theyโre just not understanding?
Copied because I could not invent a better summary
@PrfChrisPainter
@acgrayling
I cant wait for the govt to announce a full Biden state visit with all trappings including an official visit to Belfast Brussels and Dublin
@Tom___Scott
#LabourParty
should state that any contract signed by this government will be reviewed by the next with the right to cancel without compensation
@lazyfred1971
As
#Covid
restrictions gradually lift who thinks that there will be yet another divide between people who continue to be cautious, wear masks and avoid poorly ventilated and crowded places and people who dont?
@Red_In_Grimsby
@August05398614
The fish we brits like most dont live inside the 12 mile limit. Thats why we have deep sea trawlers. Now access depends on the fisheries agreement with... wait for it. The EU
@Thee_Roxy_Cox
@emeicen
@LBC
Meanwhile its now 65% think Brexit was a bad idea... classic begging for votes from voters who lost faith in Labour with good reason
@RobWilliams100
@jeremycorbyn
Whichever party out and out backs a peoples vote or remain would get my vote. Other than and ever after that I would vote and campaign tactically to kick either main party out in my consituency.
#PeoplesVote
#Remain
@richardhorton1
Great review in the Economist. the same approach used to cure two italians in India. Combination of HIV and malaria drugs. So sooner some protocols are developed the better
@guyverhofstadt
@theresa_may
@EP_President
She does not represent the UK but a minority of extremists in her party. She cannot be trusted and her party less so. There is a pressing need for the sensible majority of our MPs to stand up for the meaning of membership and if necessary put her deal to the electorate v
#remain
@Andrew_Adonis
@its_johnmartin
There are few areas of the world that can ride out a trade war with limited damage. USA and EU. The USA can have its hissy fit. It will just help the EU deepen trade relationships everywhere else. Brexit anyone or stay in the EU trade shelter?
#StopBrexitSaveBritain
@Anna_Soubry
The only sane option is to remain. We have opt outs a rebate vetos a seat at the table influence and we helped desin all the regulations which we will still have to follow even with a hard brexit. If politicians dont have the guts to fess up then
#PeoplesVote
#Remain
is needed
@an_it_guy_in_uk
@BrendanBracke10
@mrjamesob
40% of uk farmers going bust. Fruit and veg not super little earners and need hands on harvesting in all weathers... and or growing in industrial greenhouses a la Holland. On the scale required its unlikely to happen in a rush if at all. New local v not so far away challenge
@msjanebond007
I live in Netherlands. All the transport companies want extra drivers. The EU economy is growing despite Covid. If 100k drivers left the UK many, maybe all will have found new jobs, paying more, closer to "home" without the negativity others have mentioned.
#ToryBrexitDisaster
@OlgaBazova
Why would Ukraine agree to this? It gifts a win to an aggressor. Such security guarantees are rather worthless in practice. And why reveal this now well over a year after the fact.
Headline news in Holland tonight. Tens of thousands of kids went on strike in Germany and Belgium to protest of inaction on climate. Was it covered in UK? Pity UK kids aren't politically motivated against brexit. Its their future. They should strike and protest.
#PeoplesVote
I'm amazed. Yesterday I picked up over 700 new followers. So a big thank you and have a great weekend.
#JohnsonVariant
and other targets will still be there on Monday
@mikegalsworthy
@theresa_may
Methinks a home counties vicars daughter with a childhood running in wheatfields a bit of an authoritarian streek and talking nonsense might just find it hard to create empathy with working class geordies who know theve been led up the garden path
@BorisConSome1
@cathie_wood
Gordon Brown was unfairly blamed for a USA regulatory failure. Most of the things he presided over were admirable. Most of the things since have been a disaster. eg herd immunity. It was exactly the concept that Johnson would leap on because it meant he didnt have to do anything.
@sloane_london
@IanDunt
It was... but many russian soldiers have fefied orders and many will have been shot for doing so. Not all Russians are to blame. The regime is and anyone in the chain of command who orders attrocities
@Gerashchenko_en
If they are just transitting, Finland and everywhere else should close the border and just leave them in Russia. It's a Russian problem for Russia to solve
@JolyonMaugham
As I understood it revoking A50 is not subject to any vote by the EU. They may not like it if its not connected to a plan but we can just do it. Its clearly the best option.
#JoSwinson
is right. Then sort out the tory
#BrexitShambles
@gerald_hone
Gerald so have I. Worked internationally on 4 continents and in most EU countries. I can assure you if we want to maintain our position in the world and avoid a fall in living standards we should
#RevokeArticle50
and
#remain
The EU prevents nothing unless you support tax havens.
@DonRoach5
First they remove your vote then they remove your support system ... then they change all the rules so others cant follow you ... simple. Survival of the richest
@NickBoles
Cancel brexit and focus on the real issues. Its that simple. Seems politicians in the UK can no longer speak the truth nor act independently. UK is no longer a democracy its a farce.
@idreesali114
This is very detailed info... mobile numbers ids everything. Its a goldmine route to send the truth. I suspect and hope its already happening
@gavinesler
@thetimes
She keeps going back with the same begging bowl. Please break your red lines so I can show im strong and keep my Party happy. 2 and a half years of the same discussion. I suspect you would become fed up with her. If she wants to be strong then recind A50 and calฤบ a
#PeoplesVote
@Channel4News
She ought to be appologising on behalf of her party for causing the very real problem she describes and for which she bears a large responsibilty of 10 years of hostile environment as Home Secretary and 3 years as PM
@fascinatorfun
@MisterRascal
@LeaveEUOfficial
Its always been 5 years and then time in A&E and then specialities. Part of the SM is to allow qualifications to be equally respected across the EU.. not just in medicine. The UK helped define the medical standards. So this is just another crazy idea.. why not make it 2 years.
@FinanceTiger
@carolvorders
On what basis do you say they have the best system out there. Nothing in the USA health system works better... except profits
@andywigmore
@sarahwollaston
And you should probably be in jail for repeated lying.. see petition "Make it a criminal offence for candidates to knowingly lie in election campaigns"
BREAKING: the UK has proposed a string of "customs clearance centres" on both sides of the Irish border as a key part of its plan to replace the backstop, RTE News understands. The "centres", effectively customs posts, would be located between 5-10 miles "back" from the border.
@mwfamhist
@bbclaurak
Its also via representative MPs supposed to respect the views of all consituents howsoever they voted or didnt vote. UK democracy is broken because of FPTP and because MPs are individually subservient to their parties
Jeeps its
#FollowBackFriday
again and I'm still following back from last week and culling folks who never follow and rarely tweet. But dont let that stop everyone building. I will catch up ... eventually ๐
Having just watched the great hack it beggars belief that the referendum resukt can still stand. Essential watching for everyone. Mandatory for politicians. An education vehicle in schools. The only question it doesnt really address is how to make fake news or propaganda illegal.
Steve Bannon confirms that those who favour hard Brexit are revolutionaries whose interest lies in chaos. On this point if nothing else, the hard right are united with the hard left. Thank you
@BBCr4today
@PoleWilf
I would rather hope NATO / US/UK services are clever enought to spread disruptive information whether true or not. You can be certain the Russians will be trying to project that defence is futile to the Ukraine forces and population
Weve had long parliaments, prorogued parliaments, hung parliaments what do we call Johnsons current farce. A mini parliament, Fake parliament. Answers please and RT
@HeleneBismarck
The alternative is loch fyne smoked haddock with a soft poached egg on top... soooo good but hard to get the real smoked haddock these days
#Russia
should now be excluded from everything.. all international agencies, all financial institutions, SWIFT etc all sports, all cultural events.. Russians should be removed from any position of influence in
#UK
even if they are now british citizens.. etc..