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9 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
An educated friend tells me everything was going well until the French decided to get involved. I asked him where he had heard that? Answer: the BBC.
And this shows that unlike the UK the EU are all disunited and at each other’s throats. Source: the BBC.
I met my friend’s reasoned arguments with a tirade of abuse against this government of charlatans and against the BBC. He surely thinks I am unreasonable and just plain wrong. His source: the BBC.
Thank you BBC for poisoning this country and my friend’s mind.

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Simon Cosgrove 🇪🇺#FBPE #Remain Profile picture
11 Dec
For those of us who didn’t know it before, these negotiations have revealed the beauty of the Single Market. It enables the creation of enormous economic power through scale while at the same time by regulation setting economic activity firmly in the context of social values.
Contrast this with the brutalist, one could almost say 19th century, approach to economics of #Brexit advocates whose vision is limited to a simplistic profit motive & who consider social provision, the environment & human rights etc essentially as hindrances to economic growth.
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8 Dec
#Brexit is driven in large part by hate and destruction. Delivered by - amongst others - the BBC to an uncritical population.
When the destruction begins to take effect, the hate will also probably peak. We are in for a rough time.
It’s interesting to think that this destructive urge was in large part born and nurtured in the larger English public schools.
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My prediction: there will be a poor, threadbare deal, and then will begin the long, slow climb (over many years and probably many different governments, with incremental improvements to the ‘deal’) back to sanity.
The whole Brexit thing has been an absolutely pointless and absolutely destructive waste of time. 😡
We used to be a “member of the club.” In future we shall have to pay (in one way or another) to get the benefits we require, but without full membership and without a say. Pure folly.
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6 Aug
“As an MP, Zahawi earns £74,962 a year. He also earns £241,500 a year from the Kurdish oil company Gulf Keystone, on top of regular bonuses. He is paid a further £40,000 a year by the recruitment company SThree.” theguardian.com/politics/2017/…
“Zahawi has embarked on a series of property purchases, including a £13.75m house in one of the most exclusive areas of London in 2013. He has spent more than £10m on commercial property through Zahawi & Zahawi, a company he co-owns with his wife, in the last 18 months.”
How can you “earn” £241,500 a year from the Kurdish oil company Gulf Keystone when you don’t work there?
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Simon Cosgrove 🇪🇺#FBPE #Remain Profile picture
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Why aren't the British people angry?
I must have been phenomenally naive in 2016 because I could not believe people would vote for the rightwing project of #Brexit, something no one could say they understood but that was obviously extremely damaging, in the nonbinding frauderendum. I was phenomenally disillusioned.
But that wasn’t the end of my naivety. I couldn’t believe three and a half years later that people would vote for the spoiled-brat, self-serving charlatan and liar, the poisonous Toad .@borisjohnson. Can you be phenomenally disillusioned twice? It felt like it.
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What does it mean to you to be British today?
I find it hard to answer this question. A necessary legal technicality? One step up from statelessness? Resentment? Anger? Shame? Horror?
The UKIP/Brexiter/Tory attempt to assert Britishness has so mangled, impoverished and destroyed the notion that it only conjures up negative emotions. And having lost our moorings in the EU, a small shift of opinion in Scotland is all it will take and - RIP Britain (1707- 202?).
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