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24 Nov, 14 tweets, 1 min read
Festival of Brexit?

Festival of disaster capitalism.
Festival of Brexit?

Festival of red tape, tariffs and taxes.
Festival of Brexit?

Festival of fear. Of foreigners. Of cultures. Of skin tones.
Festival of Brexit?

A bonfire of freedoms. To trade and travel.
Festival of Brexit?

A bonfire of protections. Medicines, foods, security arrangements.
Festival of Brexit?

A celebration of the weakened Pound. The sledgehammered economy.
Festival of Brexit?

A dance for the end of viable British fishing. A jig for the closed car factories.
Festival of Brexit?

A song for the companies relocated to Europe. A knees-up for the talented staff gone. Britain's brains drained.
Festival of Brexit?

Fireworks for the lorry parks in the English Garden of Kent. For the portaloos and the permits to travel.
Festival of Brexit?

A delight in division. Between UK and Ireland. Between NI and GB. Scotland and England. Neighbours and families and friends.
Festival of Brexit?

A party better held offshore, where the only financial winners will hide the proceeds of their massive bets against the UK.
Festival of Brexit?

A vecherinka best enjoyed with a good vodka in Moscow, where the only political winners can celebrate their palpable hit on Europe. Huzzah.
Festival of Europe?

A glass raised to a country's demise. A Festival of Britain grotesquely inverted. A palace of glass, a glorious past, shattered. A Great Exhibition of Folly.
A Festival of Brexit?

What does it mark, in the end? Queen and Country exiting the world stage - the briefest of bangs heralding the longest of whimpers.

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Dominic Minghella Profile picture
23 Nov
Flabbergasted at the cost of Covid - a debt we will all carry - and furious all over again at the regime's gross incompetence. Not just the lives ruined, but the economy shattered. They didn't "fix the roof when the sun was shining" - we were caught completely on the hop - ...
..and when the rain did come, they insisted we would be impervious to it; that there was no way it could bring our great British ceiling down. But by any economic or social measure, the ceiling is down.
How bad, compared to others?

Chart shows perhaps the worst net economic hit in Europe (worse even than Spain, which is predicted to bounce back better in 2021).

On economic damage, Tory "stewardship" is one of the worst in Europe. On loss of life, same.

statista.com/statistics/110…
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8 Oct
Trust me, if you had been in or near a Covid ward, if you had been struggling for breath with no idea whether they'd end up intubating you, or whether you'd see your family, or even a whole human face again, if you had felt that icy fear, the terrifying loneliness of it...

/1
... you would NEVER spout that "we'll just have to learn to live alongside it" BS. Instead, you'd want, as I do - on behalf of all those who have suffered, who have died, who have nursed and attended - to punch the f*cking lights out of anyone who repeats it...

/2
.. and as for the academics, those few, those happy few, who for reasons of attention or contrariness or stupidity or sponsorship - God knows - who, without submitting to peer review, pronounce with gravitas these same "it's just flu" lies...

/3
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13 Aug
One more thing while I'm venting:

How, HOW, has it been that the politicians destroying the UK have managed to claim to be patriots, and decry their detractors as traitors? HOW?
How can those who have shamed their country on the international stage, who have literally turned their backs on our European neighbours in a show of teenage petulance, how can they be the patriots?
How can those who have kicked their own country out of the market square, like sulking cheats caught leaning on the scales, be the patriots?
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29 Jul
There's an idea with alarming currency which suggests that young people, who are less likely to suffer and die with Covid, should not have their lives "put on hold", and older and more vulnerable folk should hide away while the young get on and go about their business.

/1
That this idea is still given credence - eg @bbcnickrobinson put it to the WHO Europe fella today on R4 - makes me feel sick.

What kind of society needs reminding that we each have a duty to protect our parents, our families, and the wider community?

/2
Because the point isn't that the young are safer; that's only half the story. The other half is that what they might spread is massively, cataclysmically lethal.

In no other circumstance would we defend lethal behaviour on the basis of the individual's own comparative safety.
/3
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30 May
What the Prosecco-drinking doomster/gloomster/snowflakes who predict 2nd and 3rd surges don't understand is that we hold all the cards in this battle, with our "world-beating" tracing system and our status as "international buyer of choice" for PPE.
The doomsters moaned and cried big tears that it would be "Armageddon" if we didn't lock down early, but look outside? Do you see Armageddon? No! Our brilliant NHS coped, didn't it?

But STILL they moan, inventing "65,000 deaths", etc. You lost, lockdown moaners! Get over it!
Lesser countries can only look at how we've taken back control from the virus and weep (behind their scaredy-cat masks) at their own Johnny-foreigner ineptitude.
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12 Apr
I'd call it a war, too, if I wanted to characterise myself as Churchill.

If I wanted people to look outwards, somewhere else, over there, to a conveniently invisible enemy, and rally blindly behind me.

1/7
If I wanted to deflect responsibility for my hollow words, my failure to deliver even basic testing, masks and gloves.

If I wanted to divert attention away from my arrogant denial of the threat, even though it was clearly coming.

2/7
I'd call it a war, too, if I wanted to divert attention away from my murderous, eugenicist, early policy of "herd immunity".

From my lies about being "guided by the science" while ignoring the advice of the WHO and countries already in crisis.

3/7
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