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"Alexa, call Michel Barnier."
"Bonjour."
"Hello, Michel. Boris Johnson here."
"Ah oui, my friend. What can I do for you."
"Can we please extend the Brexit transition 2 years, then put negotiations on hold until the world stops collapsing?"
"Mais bien sur. Our pleasure. Be safe."
Our decision to leave the EU has literally never looked more stupid than it does today. Faced with the twin bogeymen of coronavirus and recession, where will multinationals make the first cuts? Easy answer: the newly minted Neo North Korea. Thanks, Brexit!
Today appears to be "Black Monday 2: Electric Boogaloo". And there's no reason for the stock market to pick up again, so long as the US opts for prayer as the primary way to shield itself from the coronavirus. (They've tested less than 1% of the people many other countries have.)
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Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡, 🇬🇧 🔜 🇪🇺
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Here are a few excerpts from my book "Slaying Brexit Unicorns" to give you a flavour of the kind of myths it tackles...

A) Our "worthless" EU membership
(Summary: It's about much more than pounds and pence.)
B) Other countries do just find outside the EU
(Summary: They were always outside the EU.)
C) The Red Queen race for trade agreements
(Summary: The EU is changing all the time.)
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Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡, 🇬🇧 🔜 🇪🇺
@uk_domain_names
Resources different countries have pledged against coronavirus crisis.

UK: £46 million = £0.69 per person
Ireland: 3 billion euro = 621 euro (£540.25) per person
Italy: 7.5 billion euro = 124 euro (£107.88) per person
Australia: AUD$10 billion = AUD$406.50 (£204.47) per person
But then, we are talking about *this* Boris Johnson...
All that said, it is Budget day tomorrow, so we should hopefully hear about a support packages for businesses and people affected by the crisis. I am not optimistic about it coming free of strings, though.
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Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡, 🇬🇧 🔜 🇪🇺
@uk_domain_names
MYTH: "Other countries do just fine outside the EU"

Since countries such as Japan and Canada thrive outside the EU, why are we so afraid to join them? 1/9
The logical flaw in this question is that the countries being held up as examples of successful non-EU states have never been in the EU. 2/9
They’ve had years and years to build up their relationships with other countries, layer after layer, like geological sediment: bilateral free trade deals, participation in regional trade associations, industry partnerships, knowledge transfers and so on. 3/9
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Julia Mazza #Labour
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The GLA investigation into the Johnson-Arcuri case is on hold pending completion of another inquiry by the IOPC which is itself suspended. Beyond that case here is a thread of other concerns about #Boris #Johnson conduct while #London #Mayor #Corruption
2. Marcus Ball reports that Johnson's lawyer, now Judge Supperstone, was paid £35,500 by the GLA in 2008.

3. Save Britain's Heritage investigated 15 decisions where Johnson personally intervened against a local plan or a Borough planning decision
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Peter Foster
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Right. As we slough off the excesses of the holiday season, here are my five 'known unknowns' about the coming #Brexit negotiation....

First up: Will Boris listen to business? 1/thread

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.@BorisJohnson is, after all, the PM who (as my colleague @JamesCrisp6 revealed) memorably replied 'f*** business' when asked in June 2018 why fears of industry were not being given more consideration in Brexit...it was quite a statement, but it points to a key question. /2
@BorisJohnson @JamesCrisp6 Is the Boris Johnson who quit over the Chequers Deal and the inexorable slide to the EU's single market for goods, going to put his money where his mouth is - or was? /3
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katya adler
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Boris Johnson has written to EU accepting the new #Brexit extension which, he writes, was “imposed” on his government (by Parliament) /1
The PM urges EU to make clear that a further extension after 31 January is not possible. EU highly unlikely to do this. Its main goal is to avoid a no deal #Brexit (whilst safeguarding its red lines in negotiations) /2
In back of EU minds is the possibility (after 3 years of false dawns during the Brexit process) that Brussels may be asked for yet another extension come January .. if a general election proves inconclusive regarding #Brexit etc. It would then grant one to avoid no deal /3
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Karol Cummins
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‼️Boris Johnson is Britain's Donald Trump

– Complete with Breitbart's Bannon and Russia Cover-Up

BORIS JOHNSON
MAIN MEGA THREAD

#Brexit #VoteLeave #BorisJohnson

H/T @paulhanley12
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Boris Johnson is/was advised by Steve BANNON – Trump’s campaign manager & VP of the notorious, now-shuttered electioneering firm Cambridge Analytica, which he co-founded in 2014 w/ hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer, who also backed the Breitbart sites.
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📌Johnson and Bannon became friends when Johnson was still Foreign Secretary and Bannon was still in the White House in early 2017.

📌They have been in contact ever since and the fruits of this friendship have been evident for some time

bylinetimes.com/2019/06/12/bor…
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Antonello Guerrera
@antoguerrera
Perché la #Brexit si è oramai avviata verso una possibile catastrofe, perché oramai i due scenari più probabili sono quelli più estremi possibili e perché non bisogna credere alle parole “caute” (secondo alcuni) di Boris Johnson - perché non erano caute. THREAD (IN ITALIAN) 🇬🇧🇪🇺
1. Oggi è stato un giorno importante, anche se passato sotto traccia: prima di tutto, Boris Johnson ha finalmente lanciato la sua campagna per diventare leader dei conservatori e premier. Il suo discorso è stato estremamente importante. E rivelatore. 🇪🇺🇬🇧 #Brexit
2. Innanzitutto: non credete a coloro che dicono oggi “Johnson ha messo il No Deal” (l’uscita del Regno Unito senza accordo dall’Ue, potenzialmente catastrofica, ndr) “all’ultimo posto”. Non è vero. O meglio, non corrisponde a quello che accadrà. Vi spiego perché. 🇬🇧🇪🇺 #Brexit
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Nicolai von Ondarza
@NvOndarza
UK position paper on transition has leaked here: assets.bwbx.io/documents/user…

First major discussion point is of course that UK wants #Brexit transition to last until new relationship is in place.

3 things to learn from that:
a) A sense of realism is taking hold in Westminster on #Brexit. As long argued, a time limited transition is dangerous esp. for the UK, as it creates a new cliff edge. There is very little chance of a fully fledged future relationship negotiated, agreed and fully ratified by 2021
b) The EU strategy of making the UK ask for an extension has worked. If the EU had proposed this, it would have seemed like it wants to keep the UK close indefinitely.

Now it is clear that it is the UK, for economic reasons, that needs this potentially very long transition
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