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Jonathan Lis Profile picture
@jonlis1
Aug 24, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Enjoy another week or two of relative summer calm. After that we’ve got the shitshow of school reopenings and the return of Brexit.
This, from @ShippersUnbound yesterday, illustrates the calamitous miscalculation circulating in Downing Street right now. They genuinely believe no-deal will unite the people against Brussels. They could not be more wrong. Image
The UK establishment has used EU as a scapegoat and whipping boy for 40 years to cover up British failure. That no longer works. Literally the point of Brexit is to go it alone. For the first time, there’ll be no-one else to blame but the ones who’ve always been to blame: us.
Blitz spirit will only take the Tories so far. We can’t blame the virus for Brexit food shortages or stranded lorries. The chaos is both predictable and predicted. Voters are not going to inculpate themselves and can’t vote out the European Commission. This is on the government.

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Dec 19, 2023
I see some of the nicest people on the internet are incandescent that I said on TalkTV earlier kids should be supported to be who they are, that if trans kids don’t want their parents to know there may be a reason for that, and that maybe we should trust and respect kids. (1/5)
As adults we like to centre ourselves and assume we know best, but you can also frame it like this: if a child genuinely believes they’re in the wrong body and every adult around them tells them no, they’re wrong, they’re a problem, how does that help the child ever? (2/5)
This isn’t about persuading or encouraging kids to be trans, it’s encouraging them to be who they are. Maybe some will change as they grow older, maybe some won’t. This isn’t a conversation about surgery (or even puberty blockers), it’s about names and pronouns! (3/5)
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Oct 4, 2023
Good to have an early shoutout for aspiration by Sunak’s wife. Remember kids, if you work for Goldman Sachs and marry a billionaire’s daughter you too can have a lot of money!
Extraordinary chutzpah for Sunak to remind everyone how Labour tried to make Corbyn prime minister when he’s addressing a crowd that literally voted for Liz Truss
How has this man still not received any media training? I beg someone to teach him how to do public speaking, it’s not fucking Blue Peter
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Mar 22, 2023
Ok I have to bloody watch it now because I’m talking about it on TV later
Johnson now protesting that Sue Gray’s evidence should be admissible when it suits him, even though he spent the last few weeks discrediting her as a Labour stooge
He’s also blathering on about how short the leaving parties were, as though law-breaking events were allowed if they were very brief. News to all the people who were told by the then-PM on a nightly basis they weren’t even allowed to meet friends for a quick cup of tea
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Feb 15, 2023
Even Nicola Sturgeon’s critics should acknowledge that she has been Britain’s most talented, persuasive and successful politician for the last eight years. It will be extremely hard to fill her shoes.
Whether it was the trans issue or the Supreme Court decision, in both of which cases she behaved with integrity, the truth is Sturgeon had seemed to pass the peak of her powers. The SNP’s problem is that the cause of independence appears to be headed in the same direction.
With the Conservative government refusing to budge and the Supreme Court blocking even an advisory referendum, the SNP’s hands are tied. The party is very unlikely to win over 50% of votes in the proxy indy vote at the next general election. Sturgeon had very few options left.
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Jan 11, 2023
I’m not sure that Starmer ‘being on the side of the nurses’ union’ is the killer attack Sunak thinks it is #PMQs
‘Gone from clapping the nurses to sacking the nurses’ may, however, prove a good line
‘If we’d listened to him we’d still be in lockdown now’ is probably the stupidest thing Sunak has ever said
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Nov 9, 2022
Interesting start to PMQs when Sunak refuses to confirm that recipients of Covid fines won’t be elevated to the Lords
Starmer now going hard on Williamson. ‘A pathetic bully who’d never get away with it if people like the PM didn’t elevate him to power.’ Sunak says it’s right that he resigned but not that it was wrong to appoint him. To put it politely, he’s struggling.
Starmer cleverly makes Williamson an example of the ‘sad middle manager’ bullies familiar to people everywhere - and that everyone knows someone like the PM who turns a blind eye. He says Sunak is weak. The Tory benches are almost silent.
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