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9 Dec, 18 tweets, 6 min read
[thread] on the tub thumping jingoism of "best in the world"

Whether it be Gavin Williamson

or Jeremy Hunt

Why they need this amidst the shitshow of brexit and the disaster of covid?

Is a fascinating question
A reminder

A reminder

thepoke.co.uk/2020/11/27/cov…
huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/coronavi…
explained also by George here

I crudely tried to thread it here

Anyway back to science

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_c…
Also here by ranking

scimagojr.com/countryrank.php
Here is Michael

"expertly" tied in knots

thepoke.co.uk/2020/12/09/pie…
The UK on innovation

Strangely there ahead of us in terms of our neighbours there is Sweden (2), Germany (4), Switzerland (5) Finland (7), Denmark (8), france (8), Austria (12), Ireland (13), Belgium (14), Norway (15), Netherlands (16)

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
"We cannot even expect a neutral outcome anymore,” he says. “The question now is simply: to what extent is this going to be a disaster for science in the U.K."

independent.co.uk/news/science/b…
bloomberg.com/news/features/…
ons.gov.uk/economy/govern…
"37 UK-headquartered companies made the Innovation 1000 list this year, spending on average 2.9% of revenue on R&D, up slightly from 2.3% the year before, but considerably lower than the global average of 4.2%."

pwc.co.uk/press-room/pre…
Here's our win on Galileo

"The document insisted that the EU’s guiding philosophy was that a country withdrawing from the union could not enjoy the same benefits as a member state."

theguardian.com/technology/201…
The damage of brexit

We chose to do this to ourselves

And having done it

Those who sold the lies

Cannot even own the consequences

Anyway to end

You know who aren't the best in the world

Our politicians

And not only do they know it

But how they sell anything to deflect from it

Well

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14 Dec
[thread] on the state of this
"Even in the tumultuous hour of victory"

I saw how Gove and Boris looked in their "hour of victory"

They looked scared

Given that Michael can't recall what he did in core group

Why was it his hour of victory?
Not just forces

But mighty forces

How dark and ominous sounding
"I knew mighty forces would do anything to thwart Brexit" Image
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14 Dec
[thread] "Our Capital is not safe for young people"

It is almost like there is a Tory mayoral election coming up

So let's have a quick look at this here
Now here is a Home Secretary

Who defunded the Police

Who told the Police to stop crying wolf at the consequences of cuts

Who then DENIED having accused them of crying wolf

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-474729…
Now Sadiq Khan has held summits on tackling knife crime

2016

london.gov.uk/city-hall-blog…
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11 Dec
[thread]

Let's unpack this
"Since Brussels is convinced"

I like that

Personalise it to Brussels

Not 27 EU nations, our friends, neighbours
"convinced that leaving is an unprecedented act of self-harm"

it has been an act of self-harm

see the damage so far

see why no deal has to be sold as an Australia style deal

see why it has to be hidden within the "massive success" of covid
Read 9 tweets
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10 Dec
[thread] on "sovereignty"

"Some fears have been expressed that if Britain joins the Common Market she will cease to be able to formulate her own foreign policy and will lose her separate identity. "
"Looking at the European Community at present, it does not appear that its separate members have lost either their identity or their sovereignty. "

edition.cnn.com/2020/06/25/uk/…
"Most people when they talk of sovereignty mean the effective control over the destiny of the nation by Parliament. "
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6 Dec
Why there was even talk of starving the Irish

thetimes.co.uk/article/brexit…
But that's ok

Priti only meant it unintentionally

And she was frustrated when she said it

So that's ok

It's not like the UK talked of invading Spain or Calais

Or was busy trying to incite Irexit, Itexit or the AfD or so other discord in the EU

After all that 50 pence piece

Talks of friendship

So surely we were good friends?
Read 73 tweets
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6 Dec
I recall many of the debates in the Scottish Independence Referendum

Those with young people

Were some of the best
See also Danny Alexander (yes yellow lunchbox man)

"Some of the best debates and discussion I have had about the Scottish referendum have been with young people in schools and Newsbeat's Big Debate."
Here is someone else who supported votes at 16
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