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Martin Jones

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3 years

Significant but very sad that US Secretary of State Blinken crosses the Atlantic not to visit UK, but to meet with EU nations in Brussels. Brexit has sidelined us. Anyone with international experience knew that, when US looks transatlantic, their view is of Europe, not Britain.

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Once upon a time, if I was ill the GP used to come and see me. Does anyone else remember those days?

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It turns out that Michael Gove’s cancellation of school building maintenance caused neglect which led to rainwater percolating into RAAC concrete. It wasn’t a good idea. He had further ideas which led to the 2016 Brexit referendum. They weren’t good either.

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Just returned from an authoritative Cambridge lecture on the legal implications of Brexit and their impact on the UK's economy. Not to exaggerate, it's clearly an absolute total disaster and both this govt and Labour Party have backed us all into a poverty-stricken corner. Angry.

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2 years

I try to love my neighbour, but it’s difficult when he’s divided my family, destroyed my business and devalued what little money I possess. All for the sake of those struggling to manage their offshore wealth.

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1 year

I used to be baffled about how perfectly decent Germans in the 1930s became persuaded that evil Nazi-ism was the way forward for their country. After the past few years of supposedly Conservative government, I’m beginning to understand how such evil can intrude & get out of hand.

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This government is sending my business all sorts of alarming “Get Ready for Brexit” emails indicating all sorts of burdensome red tape after Dec 31st. I’m ignoring them though because they must be fraudulent. The Brexiters assured me that there’d be no extra bureaucracy.

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2 years

We’ve now learned a disturbing fact about UK journalists - that they’re not inclined to report to us the truth about government corruption until public outrage makes it impossible to keep the lid on the pressure cooker. @BBCNews @itvnews @SkyNews

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2 years

Of course…….Cumbria coalmine is owned by private equity firm with Caymans base

Cumbria coalmine is owned by private equity firm with Caymans base

West Cumbria Mining, which set up Whitehaven office during push for new mine, owned by EMR Capital

www.theguardian.com

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1 year

Brexit really hurts when it prevents my son buying a house for his family (our daughter in law and our grandsons) in Warsaw where they live and work. Frost & Johnson never seemed to think of the ramifications. So angry about its damage to our family - all for Johnson’s ambition.

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2 years

Pretty grim that, on the basis of a referendum that expressed some dissatisfaction with Cameron and his ‘posh boys’ government, Johnson and the unelected Frost managed to completely remove our freedom of movement throughout Europe. Are you angry too? It’s totally outrageous.

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Martin Jones

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2 years

Sadiq Khan speaks the truth on Brexit. “It’s weakened our economy, fractured our union and diminished our reputation. But, crucially, not beyond repair. “We need greater alignment with our European neighbours – a shift from this extreme, hard Brexit we have now.”

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1 year

How many Brexit voters realised that they were cruelly restricting UK-based bands like this? Did Johnson know how much he was punishing UK entertainers?

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2 years

Brexit to Blame for Collapse of Electric Car Battery Company Britishvolt, Tory Grandee William Hague Says

Brexit to Blame for Collapse of Electric Car Battery Company Britishvolt, Tory Grandee William...

Brexit to blame for collapse of electric car battery company Britishvolt, Tory grandee William Hague says. The collapse of UK car battery

batteriesnews.com

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2 years

In the actual ⁦ @Telegraph ⁩ “If the first elephant in the room is that Brexit’s days are numbered, then the second is that the Conservative brand cannot possibly survive such an ignominious outcome.”

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1 year

Will no one admit Britain blundered? “Remainers such as Starmer are being weak in bowing to the view that this country has to stick to the results of a “democratic” referendum that was conducted on false pretences and has proved to be a colossal mistake.”

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Martin Jones

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2 years

The existence of the Monarchy is difficult to defend in 2023, but if we didn't have a King, who would fill the role of statutory head of the Nation? We'd be in danger of a stupid error like selecting a Boris Johnson character.

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1 year

Kemi Badenoch clearly has no understanding of the difference between a trade deal like CPTPP and the massive EU Single Market and Customs Union.

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2 years

Once upon a time, we used to rely on @BBCNews for the truth. Now, evidence suggests we only hear a government-approved version of the truth.

Nige the Northern Brummie

@brummienige

2 years

The BBC news have just explained that the empty fruit n veg shelves in supermarkets are due to bad crops across Europe and Africa. The Tory Govt have obviously briefed the BBC to not mention Brexit. Here’s a supermarket in France 👇👇👇 they don’t have the same ‘supply issues’

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2 years

I wonder why @RishiSunak declares that membership of the Single Market is such a bad thing when it was virtually invented by Margaret Thatcher.

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@MHartleyJones

2 years

We have a major problem. Most of today’s government ministers are, by selection, Brexit supporters. All the evidence suggests that Brexit wasn’t a good plan. What does that tell us about the judgement of today’s government ministers?

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1 year

Will Brexit destroy the Tories?

The shifting make-up of Britain’s electorate will put pressure on both

www.theneweuropean.co.uk

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10 months

“ My next tour will use 78 days of my permitted 90. If I am offered another EU tour of longer than 12 days before March next year, I will not be able to accept it. The 90/180 day rule is killing both our ability to earn a living and our contribution to the UK economy.

Mike Galsworthy

@mikegalsworthy

10 months

"I recently toured the EU with a band as an LED technician... The tour played five cities, and used seven articulated trucks full of lighting... All the techs had to apply for A1 certification, via HMRC." How Brexit wrecks the UK touring industry. 👇

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11 months

Privatization was intended to encourage customer ownership of our key utilities so that customers had control of the way that they were run. But somehow the Government has allowed it to go wrong so that most utilities are owned by foreign entities who have no interest in the UK.

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2 years

@ITVNewsPolitics @brexit_sham @BorisJohnson So, @BorisJohnson , just which are these 'safe and legal' routes that people can use to come to the UK?

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@MHartleyJones

2 years

Do you remember when our civil servants applied their knowledge and rational approach to the prospects for Brexit. They came up with the Yellowhammer forecast. How accurate was it?

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@MHartleyJones

1 year

“Let’s face it. Starmer was right about the damage that Brexit would cause, and the Brexiters were wrong about the imaginary benefits – hopelessly wrong. Why is Starmer so scared of the Daily Mail & the Sun, both of which backed the wrong horse in Brexit?”

Can’t Labour offer more than Brexit and fiscal flagellation?

After years opposing the blight of austerity, Starmer is embracing it as he embraced the failed dream of Vote Leave

www.theguardian.com

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“You will no doubt be aware of the new evidence that directly contradicts the former prime minister’s claim that he was not aware of any rule breaking at 10 Downing Street. There are also reports of evidence demonstrating rule breaking being destroyed.”

Met urged to reopen Partygate inquiry as fresh allegations emerge

‘New information’ includes claims that Downing Street staff corroborated stories and destroyed evidence

www.theguardian.com

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Martin Jones

@MHartleyJones

2 years

As a manufacturer, I used to believe that the Conservative Party supported me and my business. Nowadays it’s very different. Government seems to view business only as refracted through City Hedge Fund Managers whose way of adding value to our actual businesses is questionable.

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1 year

In the U.K., a Disaster No One Wants to Talk About

Opinion | In the U.K., a Disaster No One Wants to Talk About (Published 2023)

The political taboo around Bregret.

www.nytimes.com

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Martin Jones

@MHartleyJones

3 years

Reassuring that there are still grownups around. Just not in Government. I guess we need to rectify that problem.

UK is with EU

@ukiswitheu

3 years

..What do you say about pulling people out of the European convention of human rights? ..It's a very stupid idea #Skynews Dominic Grieve

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Martin Jones

@MHartleyJones

2 years

UK Budget: why the economy has grown so slowly via @FT “Brexit shows a massive failure in the UK’s political system (first past the post giving way too much influence to extremist cabals like the ERG).”

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Martin Jones

@MHartleyJones

2 years

Once upon a time, before we joined the EU, we had problems exporting our products because each European country had its own product standards, requiring multiple approvals and in some cases multiple different products. We worked with our EU colleagues to achieve common standards.

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2 years

““The Conservatives have broken their promise to farmers to keep farm funding at CAP levels,” said Tim Farron, “They have rushed to cut basic payments and failed to deliver the new schemes on time. This will lead to farmers going out of business.”

Revealed: farmers received only tiny sum from post-Brexit sustainability fund last year

Agricultural businesses risk closure as direct subsidies cut and figures show only small fraction of green payments made

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Martin Jones

@MHartleyJones

2 years

When the Tory Government goes, I guess that Brexit will go too, despite its currently being the great unmentionable. Once the GE is over, Starmer will feel confident about speaking the truth.

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2 years

Apart from historical studies, I have no direct knowledge of life in 1930s Germany, but Lineker’s comparison of current UK political culture with the beginnings of Hitler’s rise to power does I’m afraid have a ring of truth about it. /1

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2 years

It’s not just Gary Lineker… “The government’s new asylum and migration law “amounts to cruelty without purpose” and is “immoral and inept”, the Archbishop of York has said in a powerful intervention over plans unveiled last week.”

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3 years

“The irony of it all by the way, is that after a decade of near ceaseless activity in trying to cut red tape, leaving the single market has burdened British industry with the largest ever increase in red tape in history.”

Yorkshire Bylines

@YorksBylines

3 years

If Tory government efforts over the last ten years are anything to go by, there will never be a 'bonfire' of EU regulations and red tape | Anthony Robinson @AnthonyBylines #Brexit @BylineTimes

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Martin Jones

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2 years

In case you were wondering why many UK companies have given up trading with E U countries, here’s just a snippet of the new ‘Rules of Origin’ procedures that Brexit has now imposed on businesses which used to trade freely with customers in the EU single market. See the problem?

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Martin Jones

@MHartleyJones

3 years

Johnson’s constant dishonourable behaviour recalls a more honourable age when John Profumo was found to be consorting with Christine Keeler. He promptly resigned and spent the rest of his days volunteering in worthy social work. Can we imagine such honourable behaviour today?

Chris Shaw

@The_ChrisShaw

3 years

What will it take for the country to come to its senses and realise the monster we have elected to occupy Number Ten...?

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Martin Jones

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2 years

Will Johnson ever repay that ‘loan’? Or was it just a kindly bribe?

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1 year

“The painful difference is that unlike EU membership, where we worked to raise standards, pressure from CPTPP members is more likely to result in the UK having lower food standards and environmental protections.”

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@MHartleyJones

2 years

Watching PMQs discussing ambulance delays and seeing Tory ministers smiling and laughing about people dying whilst waiting for ambulances. To them it’s all a game.

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Martin Jones

@MHartleyJones

2 years

The drop in exports after 2016 is particularly dramatic. Thanks David Cameron and successive Tory governments. Did you expect it to go better?

John Sweeney

@johnsweeneyroar

2 years

Brexit is an act of self-harm.

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Martin Jones

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1 year

Prof Minford proposed a theory. Johnson decided to run the experiment. We’re all currently suffering the results. The theory turned out to be wrong. Isn’t it finally time to abandon the experiment - for Goodness’ sake.

David Harpham

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I have actually done a simulation and can exclusively reveal that Professor Minford is a lying charlatan.

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Martin Jones

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2 years

Brexit hit UK growth by £29bn. “The study…is likely to fuel concerns that the Brexit vote and the strategy adopted by the former prime minister Boris Johnson to leave the EU single market and customs union has done irreparable harm to the UK economy.”

Brexit hit UK growth by £29bn, says Bank of England rate setter

Investment in the country since the referendum has ‘stopped in its tracks’, according to a study led by Jonathan Haskel

www.theguardian.com

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Martin Jones

@MHartleyJones

4 months

Just returned from holiday in the wonderful Lake District. I don’t think I saw a single hotel or restaurant without an advert in the window trying to recruit more staff. Brexit ‘benefit’ I guess. Staff shortages abound.

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@timfarron

4 months

A youth mobility visa scheme with European countries would help hospitality businesses here who are struggling to recruit staff, and give our young people fantastic opportunities abroad. Today in Parliament, I urged ministers to put the needs of the country above their ideology.

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Martin Jones

@MHartleyJones

2 years

What’s all this problem with EU rules? If we are to sell our products in our neighbouring countries, we have to comply with EU rules anyway. Of course, before Brexit, we had a big influence in actually making EU rules. Shame we gave that authority away.

David C Bannerman

@DCBMEP

2 years

This is scariest part of Protocol deal. Yes there will be ‘Stormont Brake’, but that’s for emergencies & what she implies here is that to avoid getting into such emergencies we should stay close to EU rules and consult. The whole point of NI border dramas - to stop UK divergence.

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Martin Jones

@MHartleyJones

2 years

This right was stolen from us without our legal say-so. Isn't there a penalty for this kind of illegal stuff?

John Foley 🇮🇪🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #FBPE #FBPR #KTTO

@Munsternut

2 years

The good old days.

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Martin Jones

@MHartleyJones

2 years

And this is in the actual ⁦ @Telegraph ⁩. “Even among die-hard Brexit supporters, the disillusionment is palpable. After six years, just what have we got to show for it? Seemingly nothing beyond economic, fiscal and financial chaos.” We were misled.

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Martin Jones

@MHartleyJones

2 years

Tomato shortages. - The explanation. I guess, in summary that the shortages are entirely due to Lord Frost’s incompetent deal. Evidence suggests that Frost never understood the problems of non-tariff barriers to trade. He thought it was all about tariffs. Wrong!

lucy woods

@LucyWoodslucy70

2 years

Daniel: I live in the Netherlands. We have too many tomatoes! We used to export them to the UK but it now takes a truck driver 77 hours of queueing to take tomatoes to the UK and all truck drivers simply refuse. So now we have cheap abundant tomatoes here in the Netherlands.

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Margaret Thatcher’s idea of privatisation was that we’d all have a say in the running of the utilities that we rely on. And that we’d benefit from their financial success. But…. Revealed: more than 70% of English water industry is in foreign ownership

Revealed: more than 70% of English water industry is in foreign ownership

Guardian unpicks complex web of investment firms, wealth funds and tax haven-based businesses that own most of sector

www.theguardian.com

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Martin Jones

@MHartleyJones

6 years

Sunderland voted overwhelmingly in favour of Brexit. A shot in the foot if ever there was one. Indicates the level of public understanding of Brexit's implications prior to the referendum.

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@MHartleyJones

2 years

Has not David Frost now become, to put it kindly, somewhat eccentric?

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2 years

Brexiters claim that Britain should be deregulated "like Singapore". But I've worked in Singapore and it seemed highly regulated to me, with rather fewer freedoms than the UK. The Singapore authorities even took an interest in the appearance of your front garden.

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@MHartleyJones

2 years

It seems that we must go to Papua New Guinea for the truth about our own country. Cheers to the PNG Courier for its accurate journalism.

HENRY MORRIS

@mrhenrymorris

2 years

The Papua New Guinea Courier talks Match of the Day and1930s Germany.

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There’s more to Coutts’s banning of Farage than has so far been revealed. Just how much laundering of Russian cash has been happening? Just what does Farage get up to in his spare time, and is it in the interest of the UK?

Carole Cadwalladr

@carolecadwalla

3 years

Britain has a Russia problem. And his name is Nigel Farage. Today, Ofcom finally banned RT. 8 long years after Russia illegally invaded Crimea. But this is their man. RT - whose editor described it as a "weapon" of the Russian state - is what made Farage into who is today. 1/

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3 years

Sadly, this. lab was not UKAS accredited, the lack of which may have been at the heart of the problem. How on earth did they get that massive Government contract?

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@MHartleyJones

2 years

Here’s the true legacy of Boris Johnson: dishonesty is standard, the Commons has lost sight of the truth | Polly Toynbee

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@MHartleyJones

3 years

When a PM isn’t actually participating in Parliamentary debates, isn’t he expected to be reviewing paperwork, meeting with ministers, chairing Cabinet etc. etc.. He surely shouldn’t be just hanging out round hospitals interrupting their lifesaving work.

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@MHartleyJones

2 years

If I pause for a while and think about what’s been happening, I become very angry about the confidence tricks of Farage, Johnson, Gove et al. In the interest purely of their own careers and personal wealth, they convinced the convincible that Brexit would be good for them. Wrong.

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2 years

“In one sensible and crushingly obvious observation, Sunak, a Brexiter himself, has blown the case for Brexit. This should be a moment when the rejoin campaign reinvigorates itself, and forgets all this pessimism about “it��s going to take years”.”

Sunak likes the single market. Why doesn’t Labour? | William Keegan

The PM’s commendation of the EU’s benefits to Northern Ireland is surely a sign for the party to embrace rejoining

www.theguardian.com

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@MHartleyJones

2 years

“ Brexit is failing to deliver on its promises, not because the Tories haven’t done it properly, but because it was never a viable proposition, as is now obvious with its dire impact on the UK economy.”

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@MHartleyJones

2 years

“How on earth has England fallen so far so fast?”

Jude 🇪🇺

@jude5456

2 years

@Laurence_in_EU Sunak: Brexiter Braverman: Brexiter Zahawi: Brexiter Stride: Brexiter Barclay : Brexiter Mordaunt : Brexiter Shapps : Brexiter Coffey : Brexiter Raab : Brexiter Cleverly: Brexiter Johnson: Brexiter

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Why Sunak, apparently irrationally, still supports Brexit. “What Brexit was largely about was people at the top being able to employ the rest of the country for a lot less and pay a lot less tax,”

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@fauxcanard Labour has studiously avoided providing any opposition to Brexit and continues to do so. Why? It’s really not difficult because the debate is now about economic facts, not forecasts.

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@MHartleyJones

1 year

@johnandi @Vicktor1111 Is Labour still HM Official Opposition or not? There’s been no detectable official opposition to Brexit despite the now obvious economic calamity.

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@MHartleyJones

1 year

At what stage did @DavidGHFrost begin to lie about the Single Market? Here’s the real truthful David Frost. I guess that he began to favour Brexitism when the peerage was offered. We have a name to describe someone who damages their own country for their own personal interest.

Chris Shaw

@The_ChrisShaw

1 year

@DavidGHFrost @Telegraph And yet here you are, busily extolling the huge benefits of remaining in the EU's single market, and even quantifying the value of staying. You need to own the consequences of your failed Brexit.

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Martin Jones

@MHartleyJones

2 years

Rees-Mogg seems me to exemplify the sort of guy that we in the defence industry used to get warned about by the MI6 chap who used to come along and give us security lectures. Outwardly friendly and gentlemanly, but thinking further about his message, clear he’s not on our side.

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@MHartleyJones

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@MHartleyJones

1 year

It occurs to me that there’s now an entire new generation of people in Britain who have no experience of normal government - one where things progressively improve and there’s no adherence to some ideology like Brexit. A government that gets on with the job. Those were the days.

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@MHartleyJones

2 years

⁦ @Telegraph ⁩ .”Such dishonesty will one day prompt a reckoning. Tory MPs must decide if that reckoning comes now or at the hands of the electorate later. But if they choose to delay, many will go down with the PM.”

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Martin Jones

@MHartleyJones

10 years

Another shot of Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red. Sometimes critics would do better to remain silent. http://t.co/WrLqVjOebm

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Martin Jones

@MHartleyJones

2 years

There’s also been lots of anxiety and depression in those businesses whose European trade you and your ERG mates have totally wrecked with your crazy Brexit. Not to mention the rest of the UK population struggling to pay sky-high bills with the Brexit-wrecked devalued Pound.

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Martin Jones

@MHartleyJones

2 years

“In other words, it is, once again, all bloody Brexit. It’s not enough that it divided families, or wrecked the economy, or mucked up our holidays. It also gave us a zombie government: too weak to renew but too strong to die.”... John Elledge on current politics.

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Martin Jones

@MHartleyJones

2 years

So, for the past decade, the Conservative Government has been pretty much entirely focused on Brexit and their internal party battles with the ERG Dark Side. The country? Now you mention it, that does seem to have been seriously damaged while nobody was looking.

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Martin Jones

@MHartleyJones

2 years

That 2016 referendum has been proven to be no more than a badly managed opinion poll. Why can't we simply declare the result invalid because: a) It wasn't a legal referendum and b) the key assertions and promises of the Vote Leave prospectus have been demonstrated to be untrue

Sir Mike Jansen #FBPPR #FBPE #RejoinEU #PropRep

@MikeJPretzel

2 years

We’ve lost on a scale of 178:1 yet we were promised £350m per week EXTRA for our NHS.

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Martin Jones

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2 years

I wonder why this could be……….

John Smyth #FBPE

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1 year

THANK YOU for constantly stating that school staff are responsible for checking for RAAC, because we all know that teaching diplomas must include structural engineering modules by law.

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Martin Jones

@MHartleyJones

2 years

"Everything that’s happening now in British politics is a result of a series of failures to hold power to account. It began with the unprecedented fraud at the heart of the Brexit vote and the cover-up of it by the UK authorities & their runners and riders in the British press."

nick abbot

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2 years

All of this

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@MHartleyJones

3 years

“The first evasion technique was to set up the Sue Gray inquiry. In Whitehall this is Evasion 101. Setting up an inquiry means that Ministers can say they cannot comment until the inquiry is complete.”

Mike Galsworthy

@mikegalsworthy

3 years

NEW: The author of this piece, ⁦ @colinrtalbot ⁩, predicted 2 weeks ago (in the ⁦ @Daily_Express ⁩) that the Met Police would intervene at the last minute in order to delay the report & help Boris Johnson evade scrutiny. He was spot on.

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The Tory Party was once an honourable group of enterprising business supporters combining enthusiasm for ethical business and responsibility for the underprivileged. Then Farage's noisy self-centred UKIP appeared & the ethical responsible elements vanished. What's left is ugly.

Pip the second

@stfcphil

2 years

My partner, a confirmed Tory when I met her, is watching @grantshapps on TV and exclaimed "they're all scum, they have to go!" My work here is done 🤣🤣

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2 years

Is this actually true?

Paulier#FBPE #GotTheTorriesOut #LGBU

@Paulieraw

2 years

Almost all of the government who fought hard for Brexit, now hold EU passports. The level of hypocrisy within the Tory party is astounding. They have denied us the right to live travel freely, and work in Europe whilst ensuring it doesn’t apply to them.

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Martin Jones

@MHartleyJones

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This was a clear lie from Johnson and will have misled thousands of musicians.

Peter Stefanovic

@PeterStefanovi2

4 years

Musicians will be rightly outraged by Boris Johnson’s blatantly misleading reply to the Parliamentary liaison committee to reports his Gov’t rejected a visa-free touring deal as part of the Brexit negotiations He basically says it’s OK musicians can still go on holiday!

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Martin Jones

@MHartleyJones

3 years

When it comes to professional news reporting from a troubled country, @SkyNews must surely be the best in the world as a result of the courage and skill of @ramsaysky and @ShootEditToby .

Beth Rigby

@BethRigby

3 years

“Purgatory. Day or night, they have to wait hoping…” Latest dispatch by ⁦ @ramsaysky ⁩ & ⁦ @ShootEditToby ⁩ from Kabul airport. G7 meeting Tues to discuss ext of evacuation beyond Aug 31. But even then, surely wld be for only matter of days?

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Martin Jones

@MHartleyJones

2 years

“No longer having to pretend to care about anything very much….Trying to eke out his time in No 10 for as long as possible. In denial that there isn’t a business in the country who thinks the Conservatives will win the next election.”

Rent-a-gob Rish! plays to the Tory echo chamber | John Crace

Sunak was thrilled to get the opportunity to cosplay the hard man in front of his own MPs as he defended his immigration bill

www.theguardian.com

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Martin Jones

@MHartleyJones

2 years

Rees-Mogg doesn't have first idea about the role of regulatory standards in international commerce. If I'm building a product to sell into Europe (including UK), its design and manufacture conform to EU standards. If selling to US, they conform to US standards. No place for UKCA.

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Martin Jones

@MHartleyJones

2 years

Brexit. And another thing……..

EuropeanPowell

@EuropeanPowell

2 years

Dutch friend here in The Hague just returned some clothing to the UK because the postal company charged her an extra 140 quid for the import costs. She just got a full refund. It's just not worth it anymore for EU customers to buy from the UK #BrexitBrokeBritain #BrexitDisaster

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Martin Jones

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2 years

“Changing course requires first admitting that Brexit is not working. That admission is still heresy. The Conservatives won by promising to deliver Brexit. They may soon lose because Brexit cannot deliver for them.”

Yes, the mood has shifted against Brexit. But the road back to Brussels is long and hard

Three years on, the reality of the split with the EU has changed minds. But dashed hopes could come to haunt Labour, too

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Martin Jones

@MHartleyJones

2 years

The facts from the reliable @PeterStefanovi2

Peter Stefanovic

@PeterStefanovi2

2 years

Here are all the times Boris Johnson lied to Parliament and the public about lockdown parties in Downing Street Breaking the law and lying to Parliament are resigning matters Cc @CommonsSpeaker

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Martin Jones

@MHartleyJones

2 years

“ Opinion polls suggest that the public has seen enough and wants back in the EU. That would resolve the matter of the protocol at a stroke, as well as many other things as well.”

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Martin Jones

@MHartleyJones

2 years

Just a reminder of the Johnson/Farage lies which persuaded the UK to indulge in the current self-harm…..

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Martin Jones

@MHartleyJones

2 years

‘Levelling Up’ has now changed its key objective from improving life in Northern towns to winning back lost votes from the Blue Wall in the South. I guess it was only ever about maximising Tory votes.

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Martin Jones

@MHartleyJones

2 years

“In total, on a very quiet day, I wasted four hours waiting in queues at the UK and French customs offices. A trip that would, pre-Brexit, have been easily achievable in one day now requires three days to account for the unquantifiable queues at each of the four customs offices.”

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Martin Jones

@MHartleyJones

2 years

You may recall that Germany also held a referendum (in 1933) to gain nationalist support for withdrawal from the League of Nations. Support for ‘The Will of the People’ in a referendum tends to override parliamentary democracy and give carte blanche to political leaders. /end

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Martin Jones

@MHartleyJones

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Thanks to the turbulent aftermath of the referendum, we do as a country now understand the importance of the EU a whole lot better. I suggest that we should resit the exam.

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Martin Jones

@MHartleyJones

1 year

A principle of privatisation was that as customers, we’d all share in the performance of our water suppliers. But unfortunately…… Revealed: more than 70% of English water industry is in foreign ownership

Revealed: more than 70% of English water industry is in foreign ownership

Guardian unpicks complex web of investment firms, wealth funds and tax haven-based businesses that own most of sector

www.theguardian.com

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