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American friends, pay attn to UK tomorrow: Tired, cowardly MPs (including some Labour MPs) may help Johnson get his shit Brexit deal across the line. The billionaires have been VERY disciplined in wearing public down over last 3 yrs. Their shit WORKS.
Let this be a lesson; Trump could absolutely win a 2nd term. Unionize, organize, call, canvas & volunteer NOW. Facebook & corp. media delighted to collect ad $ as they narcotize you & fatten you for slaughter.
I’m really angry at everyone who normalized and championed Johnson & the Tories’ deadly austerity. And fuck the UK media, forever. What a cesspool.
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rob delaney
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I’m such a fervent @UKLabour supporter because I grew up in the US without an NHS. At 25 I was in a car accident hat left me w/ @ $50,000 in medical debt. Then I moved to UK yrs later & experienced firsthand how well the NHS took care of my son through his cancer treatment.
I just cannot countenance a government that underfunds the NHS & social care, leading directly to the misery & death of so many beautiful, vital poor & disabled ppl. Labour started the NHS & their manifesto & their actions support the NHS today.
Join @UKLabour now: join.labour.org.uk
Register to vote now: gov.uk/register-to-vo…
Politics is a game or diversion for many comfortable ppl. For the vulnerable it’s life or death.
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rob delaney
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The goal must be to eliminate private health insurance cos. Their *sole function* is to make money off of you, the patient, or “consumer” as they call you. Billions of your dollars each year go to their CEOs & their *armies* of staff whose job it is to deny your claims.
If the change of switching from private health insurance to a true single-payer, free-at-point-of-use health care system is scary to you, I can only tell you my own story which is that my family made that switch when we moved from the US to the UK 5 yrs ago.
From signing up to using the local general practitioner all the way through using the NHS as they cared for my son Henry as he was disabled & then killed by brain cancer, we have been awe-struck by what a national health service that offers true universal care can do.
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rob delaney
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How to say this simply? I lived in the US until I was 37 & had private health insurance most of my life. For the past 5 yrs I’ve lived in the UK & use the NHS. The NHS is a HUGE part of why I might never move back to the US.
It is a REVELATION to leave behind navigating private health insurance & all its Byzantine restrictions on what care you can get & when & the nightmare of getting a prescription paid for. With the NHS it’s free-at-point-of-use. It is not *free*, as we pay for it thru taxes.
In England prescriptions cost £8. In Scotland they’re free. I think they’re free in Wales & N. Ireland too. Yet I giggle with joy at paying the £8 after a lifetime of either paying way more than that or having it denied *even when I had insurance*.
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Georgina Wright
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Baffling that many in Britain *still* think Merkel will be the one to help get a #Brexit deal over the line. Yes, Merkel wants a deal as do EU27. But there are limits to what EU leaders can do (short thread):
1. EU leaders have final say, but @EU_Commission negotiates: EU Commission discusses positions with EU27 before & after *each* negotiating round (and is in regular contact with @Europarl_EN & others). EU Commission is not 1 actor among 28, it negotiates on behalf of 27.
2. Feasibility of deal: so if @EU_Commission say "no", it's usually cos EU27 have said no. Yes, there are times when EU leaders are more involved (and they will definitely be more involved in trade & sec talks). But to assume they will have radically different position is.. silly
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Jon Worth
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So why all this fuss that Johnson might actually try to get a #Brexit Deal through?
First and foremost it’s an acknowledgement that the Commons won.

The Benn Bill keeps No Deal at bay for 3 months. And even Johnson must realise that defying the Commons and refusing to extend at the European Council is a bad look.
Second, the Benn Bill *together with* opposition parties refusing Johnson his 2/3 majority makes an early election a less pleasant prospect for the Tories.

They’d have to go into an election having broken the leave-by-31-Oct pledge.
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katya adler
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EU politicians welcome the serious tone used by PM in Dublin today when spoke of importance of making deal with EU, avoiding no deal #Brexit BUT EU contacts tell me they await a change in actions not just rhetoric /1
The PMs main #Brexit envoy, David Frost, expected back in Brussels on Weds. So far EU says he’s been discussing reducing backstop commitments rather than proposing st that could realistically replace the backstop /2
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Nicolai von Ondarza
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A quick counter to the argument that if he won an Oct14 snap election, Boris Johnson could turn up at the European Council on the 17/18 Oct and quickly negotiate a new #Brexit deal.

This is not how the #EUCO operates. /1
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This allows the chefs to evaluate the proposals, to focus on the most important issues, and most often negotiate along clear alternatives./2
Second, on #Brexit, the EU27 have never done any direct negotiations with May

The Commission negotiates for the EU27, and then presents the agreement - if there is any - to the #EUCO.

There will be no direct negotiation betw Johnson and Merkel, Macron, Sanchez et al at the EUCO
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Peter Foster
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There is talk - not all of it idle - about whether the EU will give time-limits, or some other concession on the Irish backstop to get a #Brexit deal over the line.

But as I argue here, fake concessions won't do the job. Here's why. 1/thread

telegraph.co.uk/politics/2019/…
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Mujtaba Rahman
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Latest piece. With short #Brexit thread
Mood in Brussels is bleak. Many senior EU officials now put odds of no-deal at 60% or higher—their central scenario. Discussions are starting on how to cushion the EU’s economy from any macroeconomic blow that may arise from no-deal Brexit 1/
Senior EU officials think May’s deal is sunk. They’re sceptical the Commons can coalesce around an alternative plan 2/
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