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I've just heard an English fishing boat captain called "Gerry Podschies" on CNN say that Britain should embrace #NoDeal, take our chips off the table, and then renegotiate "from a position of strength". ... WTF !!!? ... These people are utterly deluded!
Scotland's economy is the size of Hungary's, but with less people. An independent Scotland also has massive potential for growth. The idea that it wouldn't be welcomed into the EU with open arms is nonsensical. As is the notion that it wouldn't fulfil the criteria.
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As for the border problem with England. Yes. There'd be a border if England stayed out of the Single Market & Customs Union. Just like the border that will exist from January between England and Northern Ireland. But in exchange, Scotland would have EU trade & global EU FTAs
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So if Denmark, Finland, Slovenia, Estonia, Luxembourg, Ireland, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania, Cyprus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Malta and many more smaller countries can flourish as sovereign states within the EU, then so can Scotland!
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Anti-Maskers are a mix of white supremacists and QAnon anarchists. They showed their true anti-democratic face in Berlin today by trying to storm the Bundestag. A mask isn't just a symbol of common sense and empathy anymore. It's a symbol of anti-fascism.
And before anyone makes a joke about this, the extreme right in Germany have already killed many via the NSU and other groups bbc.com/news/world-eurβ¦
Ps. As you'll see with some replies to this:
"The first rule of QAnon is we do not let people define QAnon."
The thing about herd immunity is, it doesn't work with #COVID19. Because even if you catch it once, there's nothing to stop you catching it again after a few months. So everything the UK government did in order to promote herd immunity was a complete waste of time, money & lives
Here's the evidence.
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WHO (and all serious reports): "There is currently no evidence that people who have recovered from COVID-19 and have antibodies are protected from a second infection." who.int/news-room/commβ¦
And in case you want to argue that no proof of immunity doesn't mean there isn't immunity (in certain rare cases that are still being investigated and which may turn out to have other causes) spare your breath. This isn't an intellectual game. People are dying.
And for those who say ... "this is normal, nothing to do with global warming" ... wake up ffs! The period from 01 July 2019 - 30 June 2020 was the warmest 12 months ever recorded!
βOne thing is clear, at least: βBrexitβ is not primarily about Britainβs membership of the European Union, and never was." bit.ly/2MxAC6r#883d88β¦
"Brexit is a lesson in how quickly a country can degenerate into division and factionalism, and how tenuous are the bonds that hold us together around the vexed issue of national identity."
I would disagree with this. For me, Brexit has been on the cards for at least 18-20 years
In the early 2000s, England in particular began to detach itself culturally from Europe. It became a quirky version of America. Its overriding, all-consuming obsession with house prices. The religion-like status of Reality-TV. And worst of all the incurable addiction to Nostalgia