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Jonathan Lis
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East Germans know what it’s like to be ruled by tyranny and it’s nothing to do with qualified majority voting or bendy fucking bananas, you fanatical bellend
Even for someone as intensely zealous and weird and tone-deaf as Gove, this is offensive almost beyond words. Don’t you dare co-opt the genuine struggles of history to justify your frenzied orgy of nationalist bed-wetting.
The thing that hits you hardest about Brexit’s romantic nationalism is how deeply fucking embarrassing it is. These people don’t need a revolution, they need a hobby.
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Jonathan Lis
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If anyone’s just back from the pub and fancies a barney I’m on LBC in a minute to argue about Boris Johnson with my old Brexit mucker @MatthewStadlen
OK by ‘a minute’ I meant 1.30, thanks for staying awake at this difficult time
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Jonathan Lis
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Johnson up in Commons. Chamber weirdly half-full and muted - perhaps in deference to John Bercow, who’s lost his voice. Not sure if I can last more than a few minutes of this but here we go
PM says he cares deeply about GFA, even though he once compared a border which killed 3000 people to boundaries of two London boroughs. Then claims he wants to uphold all existing areas of cooperation, even though his proposal junks all-Ireland economy. He doesn’t give a damn.
Says, with a straight face, that he has shown ‘flexibility’, and threatens EU with no-deal if they don’t show such flexibility - as though Northern Irish lives and peace are somehow comparable to Johnson’s desire to strike a trade deal with New Zealand. This is sick.
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Jonathan Lis
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If anyone’s unlucky enough to be awake right now I’ll be discussing Johnson’s Brexit blackmail on Euronews just after 6
I’ve put a suit on over my pyjamas and will emphatically be returning to sleep afterwards
Morning
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