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Mark S - Extreme EU Loyalist & Maquisard 🇪🇺 @FanaticRealist
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Not going to bother with countering this bilge from @BBCr4today and @hbaldwin. It's already been covered to death in the responses. Here's a thing though: This is not the first time that this nonsense has come up nor is it the first time that it's been dismantled by experts. ➡️
Last week, @JasonJHunter said - following his appearance on @BBCRADIOKENT that Remain supporters shouldn't refer to Leavers as 'liars' because they could genuinely just be under-informed. And that's a fair position to take…the first time. ➡️
Jason's interviewer on Radio Kent didn't seek to present himself as an 'expert' and - to be honest - he appeared scrupulously fair in allowing a debate to develop between Jason and @Isaby. He allowed himself to be educated by both sides. ➡️
That isn't what's happening in this clip: @BBCsarahsmith is presenting a government MP and minister with talking points which are - by any interpretation - misleading at best and is leading her by the hand with no challenges to the false information being presented. ➡️
There are several reasons to find that troubling, but the one I'm going to choose to be concerned with is that the BBC's news/current affairs teams generally and individuals specifically have been told on numerous occasions about the nature of EU tariffs on African goods…➡️
…and the nature of the EBA, GSP or GSP+ arrangements not to mention the fact that the EU's deeper free-trade arrangements are documented on the EU's own website. ➡️
Now, either the BBC's journalists and research staff are incredibly lazy and don't do any qualitative research or indeed read their own Twitter accounts or…➡️
…THEY'RE JUST LYING AN/OR NOT CHALLENGING BECAUSE IT SUITS THEIR OWN PREJUDICES or BECAUSE THEY"VE BEEN TOLD TO AS A CONSCIOUS EDITORIAL POLICY. ➡️
So I guess the question is: "Which is it?"

Why does the BBC's news and current affairs division simply not bother with verifying facts and ensuring presenters are briefed by subject matter experts/analysts before allowing politicians to spew disinformation on air? ➡️
Because, being honest, anybody could do the job of presenting a BBC news/current affairs programme based on the current standard. And the sole qualifications for presenting @BBCr4today seem to be being able to get up early in the morning. ⏹️
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@Jacob_Rees_Mogg Based on a prospectus which included the idea that the fees paid to the EU (£18.2 bn) would be diverted to the NHS, that VAT on domestic fuel bills would be eliminated and that there would be no material change to the country's trade relations with the EU. ➡️
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg That, Softy Walter, isn't what's on offer and - with the best will in the world - the British public aren't willing to be the victims in your massive 'bait and switch' con-trick. ➡️
@Jacob_Rees_Mogg If you believe that people want what's now on offer, be a grown-up and put that belief on trial in the court of public opinion. Because otherwise you're just a grifter in, as @NSoames said, a moderately well-tailored suit. ⏹️
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So, in Johnson's view and in the eyes of May, and the remainder of her cabinet - the December declaration was nothing more than an artificial confection agreed to for the benefit of moving to the political declaration part of A50 regarding the future relationship. ➡️
Or, and this always has to be a consideration with Johnson, he's lying his considerable ass off and he knew exactly what the December Joint Report was and is only changing his position now for his traditional reasons of his own personal advancement in the Conservative Party. ➡️
Neither is a particularly edifying prospect: Either the UK's current head of government is a sociopathic liar or everybody else in the upper echelons of the current ruling party that aspires to the job is a sociopathic liar. ⏹️
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Where's the punishment?

• UK government choses to remove itself from EU SM and CU.
• UK gov chooses to minimise/denigrate importance of EU SM and CU in UK trade
• A bemused EU allows the UK to test its assumptions against reality

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The Leavers have spent the last 30+ months saying that the EU's Single Market, Customs Union and Common Commercial Policy effectively hold back British competitiveness and innovation.➡️
So the EU are saying "Off you trot, put your money where your mouth is; but - just so you're aware - please don't expect us to act as your safety net or to allow you to compromise the standards that we have established. Out of the EU means out of the SM". ➡️
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