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10 Dec, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Disabled, Cancer and Sick U.K. citizens will be penalised, lied to and left without the insurance cover to travel abroad as a result of a no deal Brexit independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
Any chance of EHIC and Erasmus continuing are history with effect from the end of the transition period yet we have more deliberate attempts to mislead the U.K. public into thinking it will survive for a period of time once a no deal Brexit occurs in January, 2021. 🤷‍♂️😡
Insurance hikes on holiday cover will effectively discriminate against disabled or sick U.K. travellers disproportionately under a no deal Brexit when compared to the previous EU arrangements.
No deal Brexit = no more health or education benefits! Brexit sucks!

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14 Dec
How the UK government can assert that fishing rights are one of the two main priorities is totally incredulous given that decades of mismanagement by successive British governments have hastened the decline of an already threatened industry before the UK even joined the EU.
The quota hoppers ( ie. Spanish Trawlers registered under a British flag) that joined the biggest English fleet in a cooperative pre 1970's was the beginning of decline. Then followed a UN convention which allowed a coastal state to extend its fishing zone to 200 miles.
By the mid 1970's Iceland seized upon the opportunity given by the 1970 UN convention and launched the cod wars to seize more fish in British and Irish territorial waters. The British government did nothing and compensated whole fleets to stay in port doing nothing.
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13 Dec
Freedom, Fish and Foreigners. The three things Brexiters have a compulsive disorder over. The rabid right wing press feed them their daily dose of toxic messaging of gunship diplomacy, a pirates understanding of the Law of the Seas and a rogue state's notion of sovereignty.
We are being fed a simpleton's version of the Law of the Seas Convention which much more complex than the media or Tory ministers and MP's care to study. At its heart is negotiation, customary rights and obligations, not gunships or jingoism.
International Law contradicts the simplistic narrative offered by the British government. Fishing rights are exceptionally poorly understood, as generally in common law jurisdictions their ambit is defined by a collection of ancient court cases under the public right to fish.
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11 Dec
It’s ironic that those Ulster Unionists who are bleating on about their ‘Britishness’ now being betrayed when they were the ones, led by the DUP they voted for in big numbers who backed Brexit to the hilt.
They were misled by the DUP all along and sold the belief that by voting leave they would ensure their union was future proofed by ringfencing the partition of Ireland through a hard land border. That was the plan anyway.
Of course they didn’t factor in the untrustworthiness of the British government as they thought it was all sown up the minute the DUP signed the toxic confidence-and-supply deal with Theresa May.
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10 Dec
I have no doubt that many Brits are now looking to move to places like Ireland to escape Brexit food shortages. It will go down in history as the British diaspora invasion of Ireland. It will be their new land bridge to Europe.
Whether it be a genuine cultural matter of reclaiming their lost heritage or just doing the maths on purely economic grounds where the push factor is greater than the pull of remaining in Blighty, my bet is with the first! Brexit will shape more than just the price of bread!
For Irish nationalists or republicans that might pose a future conundrum in light of any United Ireland where the struggle for an Ireland free of ‘the Brits’ will be difficult to attain when there will be more English accents on every street corner than ever before!
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9 Dec
The British media simply don’t get it do they? The EU have given Wednesday as THE penultimate deadline and will implement their contingency plans already in place for a no deal situation thereafter. The inexhaustible patience of the EU over 4 years has finally run out.
So many of today’s U.K. headlines leading with the narrative that Johnson is heading to try to clinch a last minute deal with Ursula von der Leyen is ignoring the fact that the EU have been the most patient & flexible in these negotiations despite pig headed Brexit flag waving.
Why is there no reality check on the U.K. side? Why is the media so complicit in lining up behind Johnson instead of shredding him and his negotiating team for not having done anywhere near enough to reach a compromise that amounts to any significant shift in their position?
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28 Oct
Time we stopped being blinkered by privileged politicians or the current political system either - all political parties are untrustworthy, really poor value for money and mostly nothing but bloodsucking chancers and liars whom we don’t need to run any country #citizensassembly
Why can’t we do away with political parties altogether and vote in citizens assemblies that appoint experts in their respective fields on renewable short term contracts as their civil servants to advise and carry out their will.
That way we the people get to control and exercise real and full democracy, by the people, that is equally shared - positions on assemblies rotated by a system of random selection from electoral registers. Then there can be no whip or elites influencing its decisions!
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