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I for one still have faith that Boris will "lie down in front of the bulldozers" at Heathrow and thus extinguish his own life, despite him skipping off to Luxembourg on Monday when the actual vote is taking place
I hope @GregHands gets the credit he deserves for sticking to his principled position - whatever you think of Heathrow third runway - proving that some politicians do keep their word
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the Grayling ferry story has taken another curious twist with Eurotunnel writing to the transport secretary expressing “serious concern” about the £103m offer to three ferry companies to provide new routes if there’s a no-deal Brexit
the letter was leaked to me yesterday, it says:

“I must bring to your attention the distortionary and anti-competitive effects of such an action, which would be a unilateral breach not only of the Concession Agreement with Eurotunnel but...(also)..competition and state aid law”
Eurotunnel wants a similar contract for itself. Otherwise it says it will consider all options, including legal action, against the transport department....
ft.com/content/21f4a1…
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Seaborne Freight won’t have its new Ramsgate-Ostend service ready before April, several weeks after Brexit day, officials admitted during a private cross-departmental meeting of Whitehall officials on Monday - story here on @FT
ft.com/content/743b11…
the company isn’t exactly denying this:
Meanwhile it seems the company might have issued “inaccurate investor briefings” last year.

A document entitled “Seaborne Freight (UK) Limited — Investor Briefing April 2018”, claimed the company had “detailed port agreements with both Ramsgate and Ostend negotiated and agreed”.
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it’s common knowledge that even small increases in checks at Dover (thanks to no-deal Brexit) could prompt queues on adjacent roads, potentially causing gridlock in Kent....but just how bad could it be?

Here’s a report last year from @imperialcollege

google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.…
today we got our hands on the findings from another secret study carried out by UCL on behalf of the Department For Transport : the findings are much more explosive....
and here it is:

The key point is that extra checks of up to 40 seconds per truck don’t result in extra queues. But above that there would be an exponential spike on delays:

With checks of 70 seconds per truck there would be....queues of SIX DAYS

ft.com/content/d05498…
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#VOTE like you remember family separation.

#Vote like you remember Kavanaugh.

#Vote like you remember “Fine people on both sides.”
#Vote like you remember Helsinki.

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#Vote LIKE YOU REMEMBER EVERY MEMBER OF THE GOP CONGRESS WHO ALLOWED ALL OF THIS TO HAPPEN.
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It is generally around these festival days I miss my hometown very much -ಜನವರಿಯ ಜಾತ್ರೆ. ನೆಹರೂ ಬಟರ್ ಸ್ಟೋರ್. ಮಂಗಳವಾರ ಸಂತೆ. ಚಳಿಗಾಲದ ಕಾವಳ. ಅದರ ಜೊತೆಗೆ ಸೊಗಡಿನ ಅವರೇಕಾಯಿ.ರಾತ್ರಿ ಓಡಾಡುವಾಗ ಜೀವವೇ ಬಾಯಿಗೆ ಬರುವಂತೆ ಬೊಗಳುವ ಬೀದಿ ನಾಯಿಗಳು. ಸುಧಾ ಹೋಟೆಲ್ಲಿನ ಮಸಾಲೆ ದೋಸೆ. ಕಟ್ಟಿನ ಕೆರೆಯ ಬಸ್ ಸ್ಟಾಂಡ್. (1/n)
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THREAD:

Some very strange things happening:

1)GOP making lots of trips to Russia:
thehill.com/homenews/senat…
2) GOP blocks election security funding, in spite of ongoing interference from Russia. (#PaperBallotsNOW FFS!)
usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
3) Unexplained power outages (Atlanta in December, DC this week)

usatoday.com/story/travel/f…
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There’s a major, fundamental ignorance about all this talk of #TrumpTreason:

Elected officials are meant to represent the body of the people, to whom they’re meant to be accountable.

The intel community is *not* accountable to us. They’re accountable to the Executive (Trump)
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There is no reason whatsoever that elected officials should be loyal to the intel community. That’s backward. And *anybody* saying they don’t support the intel community is not “treasonous.”

Nor is saying you believe another world leader is correct over our own IC.
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The IC does not represent the people. The IC does not work for the people. The IC does not answer to the people. The IC is not accountable to the people.

It’s actually easier to make a coherent, logical argument that elected officials being loyal to the IC is treasonous.
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(1 of 5) Indications here of a potential Red wave coming in November! But let’s not get cocky or complacent. Some excerpts:
(2 of 5) Some “polls indicate the fundamentals of this fall’s midterms spell disaster for the Democrats regardless of what some of those generic ballot polls might say. They’re one reason to look out for a red wave, rather than a blue one.”
(3 of 5) “Another is the coming Supreme Court nomination, during which one of three perfectly respectable conservative jurists … will go in front of the Senate for what the Democrats promise will be a fight to the death for confirmation.”
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I'm one of a few million Americans awake when we should be sleeping because of the pain of #cancer or some other chronic illness.

Adding to our sleeplessness is knowing #healthcare is under threat. We may not be able to afford it due to the #GOP's actions.

It's terrorizing.
My parents were Civil Rights workers. My father was a Freedom Rider. As a small child I was taught the legacy of #MLK.
I watched people invoking MLK on Monday. Not in defense of #votingrights or in outrage over how the #SCOTUS ruled on two pivotal cases on gerrymandering.
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MLK wasn't being invoked for #votingrights but for Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who lies to America every day about policies that could very well kill me & others.

Policies that are hurting millions.

Policies that have kept me a citizen without equal rights in my own country.
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