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@Louise_Rowntree
Dec 22, 2019 • 3 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
.@toryboypierce just declared on his @LBC show that busineses, not civil servants, are the only ones with real experience negotiating trade deals. Nope Andrew: business lobbies governments, govt 'civil servants' do the negotiating
We're leaving in 1 month, media: read up on it
@toryboypierce @LBC One @LBC caller, Simon (.@toryboypierce agreeing) just said we all need to buy 'the power of positive thinking' for Christmas to change how we see Brexit.
Given how little our govt & media seem to know about EU & global trade, I'd recommend this instead amazon.co.uk/Trade-Policy-E…
@toryboypierce @LBC .@LBC now debating whether or not Big Ben will 'chime' on 'Brexit Day'.
I go to France for one week and come back to this.
#BrexitShambles #NotMyPM

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Louise Rowntree Profile picture
Dec 13, 2020
In decades to come my children & grandchildren will want to know why Brexit happened and why it created the loss, waste, bureaucracy & damage it has ‘already’ started creating.
Here’s my pledge, as someone who was in Brussels then London:
I will remember it ‘all’.

#ShameOnYou
I will remember the allegations of blackmail ahead of the Brexit votes in the @HouseofCommons & @UKHouseofLords , and then the intimidatory ‘staring down’ by @theresa_may in the Lords.
I will remember how @theresa_may tried to sidestep our sovereign Parliament & ram through Brexit without MPs’ approval - only to have to be stopped by our Supreme Court. I’ll remember how our judges were then vilified and branded ‘traitors’.
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Dec 12, 2020
Yes @DKShrewsbury : UK’s share of trade with EU is decreasing; but no that doesn’t mean UK is best off outside EU - exact opposite: UK needs to access huge global markets so it needs the negotiating might of the world’s largest trade bloc (EU) now more than ever.
@AndrewCastle63
Why do so few get that the EU trade project isn’t just about people ‘inside’ the EU having access to each other’s market of 450million, but also joining forces to forge a negotiating powerhouse that can gain ‘way’ more access to global markets than smaller countries.
As Michael Plouffe at @uclspp points out, UK decrease in trade power outside the EU is highlighted by the fact US is already taking a tough line in US-UK trade ‘chats’ - because it can: the UK’s 66m people & US$3 trillion GDP is dwarfed by EU’s 500m people & US$20 trillion GDP.
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Aug 15, 2020
1/ My late father, Brian Rowntree’s (centre) letter home, from his ship #hmsindefatigable , about #VJDay
( #VJDay75 thread):
“Well, we have got a third and last surrender, after all that suspense. Censorship has been lifted this morning, so I can spread myself in this” Image
2/ “Rumours were driving us mental... on the morning the Japs threw in the towel, we were as usual at action stations & we had a strike out over Tokyo Bay. They came back, having knocked down six, and we cancelled our further planned strikes...
3/ “and the Commander broadcast & pointed out that the flagship was flying the signal ‘cease activities against Japan’. We all leaned over the rail and were goofing at the string of the bunting, when...
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Jul 22, 2020
Wow. @BorisJohnson in today’s #PMQs called @Keir_Starmer ‘s question about why Johnson sat on the #RussiaReport for so long, when it stated Russia was such an immediate threat, ‘absurd’.

Absurd.

#NotMyPM
Mike drop: when @BorisJohnson tries to avoid answering #RussiaReport questioning by saying @Keir_Starmer ’sat on his hands’ re Russia, Starmers replies that he was one of those involved in ‘prosecuting’ Russia in the #Litvinenko case.
“I spent 5yrs as Director of Public Prosecutions” says @Keir_Starmer (after @BorisJohnson suggests Starmer could have done more -in opposition-re Russia) “working on live operations with security services, so I’m not going to take lectures from this PM about national security’
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Feb 23, 2020
1/‘Why should EU nationals get priority over people from other countries -like America or India?’ People still ask.
Because they got it ‘in return’ for something: ‘our’ right of free movement to 27 other EU countries. Brexiters might not care, but this was a ‘huge’ bonus for us
2/ EU free movement meant I could pack my bags & go study in Paris, then return - a French & UK qualified lawyer - and work there. When I fancied a career/country change, I just moved to Brussels: €800 pm salary? Sure, no problem said Belgium. No ‘minimum’ salary’ requirements
3/ The freedom that EU free movement gave me changed my life, and what I could ‘give back’ to my UK. Apart from skills, and taxes, that includes a handsome Belgian husband who supports his UK family of five and happily pays £££ in taxes into UK coffers.
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Jan 26, 2020
Struggling to read @FTLifeArts piece by #LouisdeBernieres for its absurdity; the worst being “It was easier for continental Europeans to compromise on democracy because they do not have the advantage of being protected..as we are..by..being an island.

google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.ft.c…
@FTLifeArts Christ, he goes on about Germany’s role in WW1 & WW2 & concludes: “in view of what has happened twice in one century, is it unnatural that some people are wary of this?”. Perhaps if you’d worked with Germans in Brussels, as I have, you’d realise how absurd and offensive that is.
@FTLifeArts Next he opines that Schengen ‘may come to an end’ & EU free movement ‘may be lost’ because of Islamic terrorism & a ‘threat to security’: I have never, in all my years working with EU officials, heard one even brainstorm this idea. What is Mr de Bernières’s on about?
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