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Since that dark day in 2016, there was not a single point in this process where #remainers had ANY INPUT WHATSOEVER about what form Brexit would take.
We put our arguments. We marched in our millions. And were excluded. Ignored. Ridiculed.
Own your #BrexitRiots, #Brexiters.
We put our arguments. We marched in our millions. And were excluded. Ignored. Ridiculed.
Own your #BrexitRiots, #Brexiters.
This article from 2 days before the referendum was true then. True now. It doesn't matter where you insert your union jack.
No patriot would do this to their country.
Own your #BrexitRiots.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
No patriot would do this to their country.
Own your #BrexitRiots.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
We patriots marched in our millions to rescue our country. To rescue our freedoms. To rescue peace.
Not a single word of the Brexit Agreement was shaped by a #remainer.
Not one.
After a divisive referendum of lies won by a narrow majority.
Own your #BrexitRiots, #Brexiters.
Not a single word of the Brexit Agreement was shaped by a #remainer.
Not one.
After a divisive referendum of lies won by a narrow majority.
Own your #BrexitRiots, #Brexiters.
In defence of the British in Europe.
’Expats’ in Spain eh? You think you know what they’re like, don’t you. Well here’s a perspective you’ll never get on CH4, BBC, Sky or ITV.
A short and personal thread :
’Expats’ in Spain eh? You think you know what they’re like, don’t you. Well here’s a perspective you’ll never get on CH4, BBC, Sky or ITV.
A short and personal thread :
After the CH4 piece the other night, I’d have to turn over quite a few rocks before I found the people interviewed. I don’t recognise these people a part of my community. They are outliers.
Lesson 1: It was wholly unrepresentative of the majority of UK in ES.
Lesson 1: It was wholly unrepresentative of the majority of UK in ES.
The overwhelming majority of Brits in Spain are not pensioners. Nor did they vote “like turkeys for Christmas” in favour of leaving the EU. Working age families account for about 70% of resident UK nationals in Spain.
Lesson 2: We were not responsible for #Brexit
Lesson 2: We were not responsible for #Brexit
I was bureau chief for the BBC in Baghdad between 2004-09, & I want to say something to the people knocking the BBC; but as an "unashamed" #Remainer, I want to say some things to the #BBC too (Thread 1/
I left the BBC in 2014 after a 25 year career. It was the only UK news organisation to maintain a presence in #Iraq for the entire period of Britain's involvement. I'm not citing myself as an outstanding exemplar of #BBC journalism... 2/12
But to give you an idea of the lengths we would go to, in 2006 when the Askari Shrine in Samara was blown up, & the de facto civil war began in earnest, we were lied to by the authorities about the numbers of dead... 3/12
