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Nicholas Whithorn

10 Dec, 8 tweets, 2 min read

I don't normally express anger on Twitter but there seems to be some attempt to attribute hard Brexit to Remainers so, off the top of my head, those I consider responsible for hard Brexit are the following, in no particular order. May their names live in infamy [Thread/List] >> 1

David Cameron
Theresa May
Boris Johnson
Nigel Farage
David Davis
Michael Gove
Dominic Cummings
Matthew Elliott
Iain Duncan Smith
Steve Baker
Jeremy Corbyn
Kate Hoey
Gisela Stuart
Arron Banks
Richard Tice
John Redwood
Douglas Carswell
Daniel Hannan
Bernard Jenkin
Nigel Lawson >> 2

Nigel Dodds
Chris Grayling
Priti Patel
James Dyson
Anne-Marie Trevelyan
Andrea Leadsome
Theresa Villiers
Owen Paterson
Sammy Wilson
Arlene Foster
Crispino Odey
Anthony Bamford
Suzanne Evans
Peter Cruddas
Liz Bilney
Andy Wigmore
Steve Bannon
Mark Francois
Peter Bone >> 3

Tim Martin
David Campbell-Bannerman
John Longworth
Julia Hartley-Brewer
Ian Paisley Jr
Brendan O'Neill
Claire Fox
Michael Howard
David Jones
David Davies
Frank Field
Norman Lamont
Jacob Rees-Mogg
Andrea Jenkyns
Anne Widdecombe
Andrew Bridgen
James Cleverley
Liam Fox >> 4

Brandon Lewis
Jon Whittingdale
Therese Coffeyaa
Penny Morduant
Daniel Kawczynski
Suella Braverman
Desmond Swayne
Stewart Jackson
George Galloway
Tom Pursglove
Digby Jones
Darren Grimes
Patrick Minford
Matt Ridley
Nadine Dorries
Steve Barclay
Liz Truss
Philip Davies
Bill Cash >> 5

Michael Fabricant
Nadhim Zahawi
Marcus Fysh
Lance Forman
Catherine Blaiklock
Annunziata Rees-Mogg
Martin Daubney
Rupert Lowe
Lucy Allan
Tim Montgomerie
Mark Reckless
Patrick O'Flynn
Ben Habib
June Mummery
Alexandra Phillips
David Bull
Belinda De Lucy
Nathan Gill
James Glancy >> 6

Jake Pugh
Lucy Harris
Andrew England Kerr
Jonathan Bullock
Michael Heaver
Brian Monteith
Robert Rowland
Louis Stedman-Bryce
James Wells
John Tennant
Henrik Overgaard-Nielsen
Christina Jordan
Jim Ratcliffe
Michael Ashcroft
Isabel Oakeshott
Paul Dacre
Fraser Nelson
Rod Liddle >> 7

David Barclay
Frederick Barclay
Lee Cain
Charles Moore
James Delingpole
Richard Desmond
Rupert Murdoch
Peter Hitchens
Sarah Vine
Simon Dolan
Jim Mellon
Paul Staines
George Eustice
Peter Lilley
Michael Portillo
Norman Tebbit
Roger Helmer
Andrew Rosindell
Christopher Chope //8

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12 Dec

12 December 1985, at 8 p.m. in the Sicilian town of Villafranca Tirrena, 17-year-old Graziella Campagna leaves the "Regina" laundry, where she works to help support her parents & 7 siblings, and waits for a bus home to the nearby village of Saponara. She never arrives [Thread] >>

Investigators quickly establish that Graziella didn't board the bus, as neither the driver nor any of the passengers remember seeing her, even though she is a regular user of the service and known to many of them >> 1

A hairdresser, Maria Bisazia, who works in a salon adjacent to the bus stop, reports hearing a scream at the time of Graziella's disappearance but, when she looked out onto the street, she saw nothing, just passing cars >> 2

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24 Nov

Sometimes people are victims of the mafia even if it is not the mafia that actually kills them. This is true for Giuditta Milella (17) and Biagio Siciliano (14), who died in tragic circumstances in Palermo on 25 November 1985 [Thread] >> 1

Palermo, Monday 25 November 1985. At 1.30 p.m. the bell rings for the end of lessons at the Liceo Meli school in central Palermo and hundreds of students & teachers stream out of the building and head home >> 2

Many students from northern suburbs of the city, including Biagio (who lives in Capaci, where Giovanni Falcone would be killed in 1992) & Giuditta (who lives not far from via D'Amelio, where Paolo Borsellino would also die in 1992) cross via della Libertà to reach a bus stop >> 3

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22 Nov

23 November 1993, 12-year-old Giuseppe Di Matteo is horse-riding, his great passion, at stables in Altofonte in the province of Palermo. During a break, a group of men in police uniform come up to him, saying they have orders to take him to see his father >> 1

Giuseppe is overjoyed to hear this, as he hasn't seen his father for several months and accompanies the men willingly. His father is living under protection in northern Italy because he is a mafioso who has decided to collaborate with the authorities, a so called "pentito" >> 2

Santino Di Matteo is providing information on many cases, including the murder of Giovanni Falcone. Di Matteo was one of the men chosen by Giovanni Brusca to plan & organise the bomb attack against Falcone. After his arrest on 4 June 1993, he decided to turn state's evidence >> 3

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22 Nov

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8 Oct

How an opinion piece entitled "Pietismo fuori posto" (Misplaced sanctimony), published in Italian newspaper 'La Stampa' on 10th September 1938 is relevant to political discourse in the UK in October 2020 [Thread] >> 1

I recently commented on Twitter that Johnson's & Patel's references to "do-gooders" are straight out of the far right playbook, as in Salvini's use of "buonisti" & AfD's use of "Gutmenschen" >> 2

The origin of using such terms to depict those wanting to do good as weak & sanctimonious is to be found in the way the Italian fascist régime described those defending Jews, when Italy's "racial laws" were introduced in 1938, as "pietisti" (a rough equivalent to do-gooders) >> 3

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2 Oct

6.40 a.m. on 3 October 2013. A 66 foot long wooden fishing boat is approaching the island of Lampedusa. It left the Libyan port of Misrata on 1 October. It is packed with people (probably 543) below and above deck. Most of them are from Eritrea, a few from Ethiopia [Thread] >> 1

They have been travelling for months, paying $600 to get out of Eritrea, $800 to get to Khartoum, another $800 to cross the Sahara into Libya and, finally, $1,600 to cross the Mediterranean on what, for many of them, would become their coffin >> 2

Many Eritreans flee their country, not just because of poverty. It is a dictatorship in which young men are called up for military service & never know how long it will last. It could even be as much as 10 years. Once it is over, they can be called up again >> 3

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