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@OriginalWhig
Sep 9, 2020 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Someone needs to tell #Brexit #Leave people:
* our English language is Germanic
* 80% of English words come from 350 languages
* our numbers are Hindu-Arabic via the Muslim world
* our alphabet is Latin

Send them all back home?

dictionary.com/e/borrowed-wor…
English language is
* 29% Latin
* 29% French
* 26% Germanic
* 16% Other

It originates entirely from outside the British Isles.

The original "British language" survives as Welsh.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_l…
Mathematics - the bedrock of western science - was built by the Chinese & Indians well before the Greeks, Persians & Arabs got involved.

“Algebra“ comes from Arabic al-Jabr.

“Algorithm” is Latinised name of Persian mathematician “al-Khwarizmi”.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_…

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Oct 15, 2022
Wow. The @Telegraph recants:
"Predictions on economic consequences of #Brexit, dismissed as "Project Fear", have been on a long fuse but turned out to be overwhelmingly correct & if anything underestimated both the calamitous loss of international standing & scale of damage."
"Perhaps I exaggerate, but not since the humiliation of the International Monetary Fund bailout in 1976 have we seen an unravelling quite as spectacular. This too from a Tory Government with a substantial overall majority. It is scarcely believable."

telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/…
"If it had been done differently it might have succeeded, but it was not. We'll be paying the consequences in reduced standing and prosperity for years, if not decades, to come."

Yes, you read it right: The @Telegraph is now recanting on #Brexit.

Read that again.
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Apr 25, 2021
THREAD:

There are multiple problems with #BorisJohnson's claim that he paid 58k for Downing Street apartment refurbishment "himself".

It is well known, from public reports, that the Prime Minister is in fact skint & struggling.

/1
He had to get the taxpayer to pay for a bed. Because he has no money and because his ex-wife had kept his stuff.

/2

metro.co.uk/2019/07/21/bor…
He reportedly slept on the sofa at Carrie Symonds' flat because he was so skint - divorce, plus costs of children.

There were reports at the time of the flaming Johnson-Symonds row where the police were called to her flat.

(Anyone who can find a link - please comment)

/3
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Apr 24, 2021
They were warned he was an imbecile, liar and cheat.

They ignored the warnings.

They put their fingers in their ears.

They elected him anyway, expecting something different.

They are now amazed to discover the warnings were correct.

#No10
#BorisJohnson
#DominicCummings
"He is bereft of judgment, loyalty and discretion. Only in the star-crazed, frivolous Britain of the 21st century could such a man have risen so high, and he is utterly unfit to go higher still."
– Max Hastings, 2012
dailymail.co.uk/debate/article…
"Values, decency and honesty play a diminished part in modern politics — but the British people may be grateful that it is still a sufficient one to have halted the march on Downing Street of this dangerous charlatan."
- Max Hastings, 2016
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3…
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Jan 13, 2021
The problem is not partisanship; the problem is the person.  Personality matters and it matters even more than policy.

Leaders should set a standard of conduct and provide a role model to look up to.
Trump did neither of these things and no I don’t care if he had some good policies.  I am delighted Trump has taken this double hit.

In these absurdly partisan times, I realise that polarisation comes from parties picking such polarising leaders from their ranks.
Before anyone accuses me (hyperpartisan-style) of being some kind of commie for cheering impeachment: there are plenty of a Republicans I’d be happy to see as President.

I have no time for tribe or party. I float. This makes politics harder for me as choosing needs effort.
Read 6 tweets
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Sep 24, 2020
Dear Colleague,

I would like to take a rain check on that vision of yours, although I can hear where you’re coming from.
I think you have the suburbs of an idea there and you’re heading for the high street. I would like to kick it around, find a window to consider it and cascade the information to some functional unit main players at the next steering group brain-storm workshop.
I will then get back to you to arrange a salient convocation in an interface situation where we can touch base so that we are all singing out of the same hymn book & not act like a pork pie in a synagogue by throwing the baby out with the bath water & bring a successful scenario
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Jan 12, 2020
Liberal ≠ Socialist
Liberal ≠ Left

Before the year 2010, people knew that without being told. Image
For those who believe “liberal” is synonymous with “leftist” - and that anyone who disagrees with alt-right populism is akin to Chairman Mao - here is my communism test result.

A #liberal believes in freedom, progress & human rights.

I’m delighted someone understands this. Image
Well worth an hour of your Sunday.

Explains very clearly
Liberal ≠ Socialist
Liberal ≠ Left

Before 2016, everyone knew this without being told.

bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06…
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