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Jacob Rees-Mogg "I would remove tariffs on wine. It's a very small industry." #PoliticsLive
He's talking about a rapidly growing industry producing over 5 million bottles a year. And it's just collateral damage in his mind.
(Later in the same discussion, he clearly had no clue what the tariffs on Australian and NZ wine actually added up to. Babbled his way past that when he was challenged.)
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Edwin Hayward🦄🏹🗡️
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Here we go... Dyson axes 100 UK jobs. The cuts come a mere few weeks after announcing they were moving their HQ to Singapore. Not a Brexit poster child any more, eh!
Digging into it a bit more closely, it looks like the cuts were actually sneaked out mere days before the HQ move, so that the company could "truthfully" say "no jobs *will* be affected". Yeah, only because they already cleaned house just before going public with the news.
More on the story...
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Edwin Hayward🦄🏹🗡️
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According to this new SI, US companies will have to update their privacy policies after a no-deal Brexit before it's legal for UK companies to transfer data to them (currently legal to transfer data to those participating in the EU Privacy Shield program.)
gov.uk/eu-withdrawal-…
The Explanatory Memorandum claims "The only cost that UK business will incur is a small amount of additional procedure to check that their US counterpart has updated their privacy policy to include the UK under their Privacy Shield commitments."
Of course, as you've probably already spotted, that's absurd. Because the cost is potentially massive if they haven't. You'll either have to then persuade a company on the other side of the Atlantic to change its policy, or shop around for a different provider, move data etc.
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Edwin Hayward🦄🏹🗡️
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Wouldn't it be fantastic if the Tory and Labour parties threw off the 80-ish most extreme MPs on each side, and merged into a Party of National Unity with a giant super-majority? It could then cancel Brexit, HS2 & Trident, and throw £100s of billions at hypercharging the economy.
Green electricity, smart cities, truly robust railways, Hyperloop, you name it. By slaying all 3 white elephants at once, there would be masses of funding to do all sorts of great things, and we could always borrow more and invest it wisely for a better future.
It could agree to stay together for two election cycles (ie ten years) and repair the damage from over half a century of neglect has inflicted on vital infrastructure, poorer regions, our housing stock, etc. Its final act would be to bring in proportional representation.
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Robert Saunders
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Jacob Rees-Mogg says that "you've got to understand the history" before condemning the British concentration camps during the Boer War. Unfortunately, he doesn't. So here's a fact-check. [THREAD] 1/10 bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-pol…
2. First, some background. From 1899 to 1901, roughly 48,000 people died in British concentration camps in South Africa. Of the 28,000 white deaths, 22,000 were children under 16. Over 4,000 were women. The 20,000 Black deaths were less clearly recorded, but c.80% were children.
3. The camps killed about 10% of the total white population & perhaps a quarter of Boer women and children. Most died of diseases like typhoid, their resistance weakened by malnutrition. This is Lizze Van Zyl, whose food rations were cut to put pressure on her father to surrender
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Jacob Rees-Mogg doing apologism for the concentration camps in the Boer war now saying the death rate was the same as Glasgow. About 28,000 Boers died and over 20,000 black South Africans, although the British didn't bother counting.

bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-pol…
There were around 230,000 people interned between the Boer, black, and overseas POW camps, so that's a death rate of about 10% over two years. Vast majority of deaths were children.
He also says people were interned for their own safety. Black camps included a whole network of forced labour camps. Boer camps were a counter insurgency measure to cut off Boer fighters from food/support, which included a scorched earth policy against farms by the British.
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Jacob Rees-Mogg's response to someone explaining how Brexit has hurt the business she built, as well as 1000s of others around the UK, is truly shocking. #BBCqt
My mistake. Jacob Rees-Mogg was referring to Ineos, the multinational global corporation. It's their interests he's choosing over those of the woman in that video, and all her employees. #BBCqt
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But you might be thinking: "Yeah, but surely that total disregard for how Brexit is hurting ordinary people isn't shared by those who've actually been running Brexit, like @DominicRaab"
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Alex Andreou
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Jacob Rees-Mogg tribute act and Guido wannabe, Tom Harwood, spanked by @NickyMorgan01 on #politicslive. Spanked.

PS Why do all those “anti-establishment” representatives of “ordinary people” ALWAYS sound like a Fast Show parody of angry posh boys?
How interesting that dozens of Brexiter responses to this are about how the “females” or “hags” are “shrill”, “gobby”, “uppity”, “hysterical” or “ugly”. Or about me being a foreigner, “a luvvie” or “a beardy”. Every day the ugly source of this “movement” is revealed more starkly.
Also worth noting what Tom “Everyone Knew What They Were Voting For” Harwood thought (and sold to his followers) before the referendum. Now he’s all “OMG THAT’S NOT REAL BREXIT, THAT’S BRINO”.

Such a profoundly undemocratic power grab. A hijacking of a mandate. Shame on you.
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Jeremy Corbyn is a lifelong brexist he has voted with the tory Europhobe right more times than any other Labour MP #Brexit might be said to be his most consistent belief
Corbyn's own brother said he would have campaigned to leave if he wasn't labour leader #brexit
Old friends and political allies are all of the same opinion Jeremy corbyn would have campaigned for #Brexit had he not been Labour leader
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Michael Deacon
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Jacob Rees-Mogg was supposed to board the Brexit fishing boat at Embankment pier. But he's just been told he's not allowed on because no one asked TFL's permission
Blocked from boarding his Brexit boat, Jacob Rees-Mogg is now having to walk to Parliament instead
A cyclist stops at the side of the road to inform Jacob Rees-Mogg that he (Jacob Rees-Mogg, not the cyclist) is "our next prime minister"
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