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Just look at his expression. He’s trying hard to be a serious politico, but he comes across as an angry #Brexiteer This is their language, their fault, their crime against our country, our homes & families. Yes, it’s them vs us as they wanted it, @Boris and his merry band of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Let him live in a tent. Let him enjoy the comforts of the English countryside in Spring under canvas. Let him cook his own meals on a Primus stove in the rain under an awning overlooking the North Sea, maybe in Clacton?
There’s nothing like a bracing wind blowing away your tent to teach MPs such as him a lesson about human frailty in the face of the elements. Vengeance will be sweet; the voters will decide, he can join @BorisJohnson in the dole queue, if he is lucky. Otherwise he could beg, I… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Colin is a #Brexiteer. He wanted to be my friend. I accepted but now he is very angry.
Don't be like Colin
#BrexitDisaster
Don't be like Colin
#BrexitDisaster
This also demonstrates how Brexorcism is a social process and just how difficult online Brexorcism is where we are only working with 7% of the comms medium.
Learn how to conduct online Brexorcisms here
#Brexorcism #Therapy #Sociology
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#Brexorcism #Therapy #Sociology
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My timeline has been reduced to mainly promoted posts, RW and #Brexiteer type posts with just a spattering of my usual collaborators.
I usually RT a lot of posts, if you think I’ve stopped I haven’t. I’m just not seeing them.
#RejoinEU 🥴
I usually RT a lot of posts, if you think I’ve stopped I haven’t. I’m just not seeing them.
#RejoinEU 🥴
My priority on Twitter has always been #IHateBullies / challenge #Brexit / promote #RejoinEU I”Also related equality issues.
#StopTheHateNow #HarryAndMeghan
#TransRights
#Immigration etc
etc …
New Twitter #algobot seems to have skewed my timeline -
#StopTheHateNow #HarryAndMeghan
#TransRights
#Immigration etc
etc …
New Twitter #algobot seems to have skewed my timeline -
#Catch22 Not sure how to deal with new Twitter algobots - I no longer see many posts about issues unless I post a lot about them - only tend to post RT a about things I see. 🥴
Also reluctant to set up any ‘circles’ that only include accounts I’ve ‘approved’
#Catch22
#Suggestions
Also reluctant to set up any ‘circles’ that only include accounts I’ve ‘approved’
#Catch22
#Suggestions
🧵Well worth a RE-READ: the late AA Gill's pre-#Brexit Ref words (abridged)
"It was the woman on .@bbcquestiontime that really did it for me. She was so familiar. There is someone like her in every queue, every coffee shop, outside every school in every parish council in 1/
"It was the woman on .@bbcquestiontime that really did it for me. She was so familiar. There is someone like her in every queue, every coffee shop, outside every school in every parish council in 1/
the country. Middle-aged, middle-class, middle-brow, over-made-up, w/her National Health face & weatherproof English expression of hurt righteousness, she’s Britannia’s mother-in-law. The camera closed in on her & she shouted: ‘All I want is my country back. Give me my country 2/
back.’
It was a heartfelt cry of real distress & the rest of the audience erupted in sympathetic applause, but I thought: ‘Back from what? Back from where?’ Wanting the country back is the constant mantra of all the Outies. Farage slurs it, Gove insinuates it. 3/
It was a heartfelt cry of real distress & the rest of the audience erupted in sympathetic applause, but I thought: ‘Back from what? Back from where?’ Wanting the country back is the constant mantra of all the Outies. Farage slurs it, Gove insinuates it. 3/
This was implicit in the #VoteLeave campaign - repeal of #HumanRightsAct #Deregulation - ultimate aim to reduce #UK to an ‘elected dictatorship’
#Brexiteer #Lexiteer and #BrexiteerNow - you are all responsible.
#YouKnewWhatYouWereVotingFor - so #OwnIt mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
#Brexiteer #Lexiteer and #BrexiteerNow - you are all responsible.
#YouKnewWhatYouWereVotingFor - so #OwnIt mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
#Brexiteer #Lexiteer #BrexiteerNow #BrexitEmbracer Far Left /Far Right/ Centrist
#YouKnewWhatYouWereVotingFor
If you didn’t bother to find out before you decided then you are a fool. 🙄
#YouKnewWhatYouWereVotingFor
If you didn’t bother to find out before you decided then you are a fool. 🙄
In 1997 I wrote a book about Jonathan Aitken, the Conservative minister jailed for lying in a libel action against the Guardian. Alas, Aitken has been at it again - claiming he received no money from #Kazakhstan for a book on its dictator. He got £166,000 theguardian.com/news/2021/oct/…
The money was routed via a PR company that works for Kazakhstan's government. Its founder Patrick Robertson is a #Brexiteer ultra who worked in the 1990s as Aitken's press guy. World PR paid Aitken the cash from secret #offshore accounts and underwrote his US book tour
The #PandoraPapers includes Aitken's hotel bill for an event at the Library of Congress. Ironically enough, Aitken’s political career came to an end in 1996 after he lied about who had paid for his stay at Paris's Ritz hotel – not a Kazakh dictator back then but the Saudi royals
Thread about the Hong Kong riots, why every single #Brexiteer should be on the side of bringing as many of the three million people as possible here to the UK, why many #Rejoiners will be against them, the importance of Sovereignty who else will be against it & why. 1/8
In order to preface this thread, I have been to Hong Kong & have many friends who live there. I am deeply concerned for their safety, as well as my inability to contact them directly
over Social Media due to the interference by the CCP & subsequent consequences to them. 2/8
over Social Media due to the interference by the CCP & subsequent consequences to them. 2/8
The people of Hong Kong are peaceful, incredibly hard-working, very family oriented, law abiding & will integrate very easily into the UK way of life. They share the same Western outlook & values. They will benefit our society hugely as we will benefit from them. 3/8
I am reposting my thread verbatim on Trudeau hashtags as Twitter censored the last one. This is mostly a point of principle! [Thread] 1/ In the following analysis, you will see pro-Trump accounts still dominating anti-Trudeau hashtags #cdnpoli
2/ Firstly I compiled samples from the beginning, middle an end of September, and also the 13th of October. These samples were mostly of the #TrudeauMustGo hashtag, as it seems to be the most enduring, and existed before Trudeau's blackface debacle. The sample totalled around
3/The total sample included over 100,000 tweets, retweets, mentions and replies. Once I removed duplicates, these were produced by around 12,000 unique accounts. That's actually not that many. It would suggest that much of the #TrudeauMustGo discourse is produced by a relatively
[Thread] 1/ I have compiled a lot of data over the past month on various Trudeau hashtags. In this analysis I compiled samples from the past 1.5 months In the following analysis, you will see pro-Trump accounts still dominating anti-Trudeau hashtags #cdnelxn2019 #cdnpoli
2/ Firstly I compiled samples from the beginning, middle an end of September, and also the 13th of October. These samples were mostly of the #TrudeauMustGo hashtag, as it seems to be the most enduring, and existed before Trudeau's blackface debacle. The sample totalled around
3/The total sample included over 100,000 tweets, retweets, mentions and replies. Once I removed duplicates, these were produced by around 12,000 unique accounts. That's actually not that many. It would suggest that much of the #TrudeauMustGo discourse is produced by a relatively
So Q I hear being posed in Brussels and Whitehall: as @BorisJohnson enters the Westminster firestorm, does he still have credibility to do a #Brexit deal ahead of Oct 31?
In short, it looks very hard, as I argue here after asking around.
1/thread
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/…
In short, it looks very hard, as I argue here after asking around.
1/thread
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/…
@BorisJohnson "Technical talks" continue in Brussels today, but not even, we are told, at the level of David Frost, the PM's sherpa.
Throughout #Brexit technical talks have always been a byword for marking time in the hope that something better shows up. See negotiations passim. /2
Throughout #Brexit technical talks have always been a byword for marking time in the hope that something better shows up. See negotiations passim. /2
@BorisJohnson On substance the two sides really are comparing apples and oranges.
In a sentence, the UK wants a trade border in Ireland to resolve the #Brexit trilemma. The Irish do not. /3
In a sentence, the UK wants a trade border in Ireland to resolve the #Brexit trilemma. The Irish do not. /3
What #ParliamentShutDown is about.
A thread on strategy and tactics.
Premises: Cummings is the decision maker, a rare beast who understands at least the most fundamental rules of strategy. His final aim is to consolidate power.
#Brexit is a tool, not the aim.
#StopTheCoup
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A thread on strategy and tactics.
Premises: Cummings is the decision maker, a rare beast who understands at least the most fundamental rules of strategy. His final aim is to consolidate power.
#Brexit is a tool, not the aim.
#StopTheCoup
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In a confrontation with multiple players, only a fool thinks it's possible to plot a precise route to victory. Smarter people know that the best way to increase the chances of success is to maximise one's own options and reduce the options available to the opposition.
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#ParliamentShutDown does this in multiple ways.
1st: it forces honest democrats to fight back, engaging in a battle chosen by Cummings. This is bad, but not baiting is even worse! It already is a tactical cost we can't avoid paying.
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1st: it forces honest democrats to fight back, engaging in a battle chosen by Cummings. This is bad, but not baiting is even worse! It already is a tactical cost we can't avoid paying.
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Aggregate IQ, SCL Elections, and Cambridge Analytica, launched out of the same addy as the News Corp building (same as Fox News HQ, NYC):
There is a detectable wry smile on @theresa_may's face as she thanks her departing Foreign and Brexit Secretarys' in a statement to a packed Westminster house. /1
Her statement on the Chequers Proposal is detailed, dense and nuanced - a bit like one of her set piece speeches, albeit with 90% less Cakeism. /2
This doesn't mean the EU will accept it of course. But that's an issue for another day. Right now it is telling that @LiamFox, the Brexiteer Trade Sec. is sitting beside her. /3
This points to No. 10 having made up its mind about the toxicity of @BorisJohnson. Which makes sense. His ability to fight proxy wars, betray colleagues, and barefacedly lie is hard to get past.
But the appointment of @DominicRaab suggests she just blinked. /2
This doesn't suggest the Brexit crew feel particularly confident about rolling May any time soon. /3
