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Alex Andreou
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It’s an incredibly complex, totally unprecedented, constitutional law matter. Quick, let’s get the views of three stall holders in a market somewhere. FFS BBC, grow up.
I have nothing against stall holders, you understand. What I resent is the toxic @BBCNews attitude of treating them as the the only “authentic” voice of Britain. It’s absolute bollocks and insulting to EVERYONE involved.
I know hundreds of really switched on, well informed, working class folk, some of whom supported Leave and some Remain for valid intelligent reasons. Get some in the studio and interrogate their views, same as you would with anyone else. Stop reducing them to a voxpop stereotype.
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Interesting @bbctbq debate on returning antiquities to their home. Many good points made, but amazed nobody drove home the clear distinction between objects made to be transportable and displayed like a painting and parts of a monument like the Parthenon marbles. @NickyAACampbell
That’s not to say there’s no case for returning important cultural artefacts anyway, but the debate “to whom do they belong”, is simply unsustainable when a country is refusing to return parts of a building with a definitive location. @NickyAACampbell
Some “expert” on it was saying: “Yes, but do those marbles belong to Greece? Is modern Greece the same as the ancient city state of Athens?” But that’s cynical sophistry. The point is they belong TO THE PARTHENON and that has an undeniable geographical location. @NickyAACampbell
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Strip away noise. This is what happened: Commons gave gov’t 18 of 24 months to get deal; then 3 months to present it. Gov’t overreached and stole another month, leaving only 2. Commons refused to reward this bad faith by giving the gov’t a TWENTY-THIRD month for its blackmail.
Bercow didn’t do this and didn’t say this. Parliament did. The Speaker merely facilitated a democratic vote for the House to express its sovereign will. The bad faith is all on the gov’t side. #BercowWasRight
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The toxic effect of an immigration salary threshold is that it equates “value” to a society to “making money”; it lures us into accepting that anyone making less than £30k is a drain, even though that includes the vast majority of us. It’s a national statement of self-disrespect.
By saying “oh, this doesn’t apply to you; it applies to THEM”, it stratifies an entire society, including the people endorsing such a philosophy, in a way that entrenches the notion a sportsman or a hedge fund manager are of more value to society than a teacher or a nurse.
And is doubly bitter for coming from someone whose migrant bus driver father would be considered valueless and undesirable under the criteria conceived by his own son. Although, I’m sure, even @sajidjavid finds ways to intellectualise why it somehow doesn’t mean that.
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