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21 Dec, 7 tweets, 2 min read
Maybe it is time for some calm assessment of what has happened. A short thread.
1) The border closures we have seen temporarily seems to be based largely on UK government information. That led the UK government to drastic measures in the UK. Is @ABridgen alleging the government of lying? If so, he should come out and say that, but he better has proof.
2) What the government said is that the mutated virus spreads more easily. This alone makes it more dangerous. Why? Because one of the greatest risks of corona is overburdening health systems. More spread, greater risk.
3) The measure taken is a temporary one. It is, now, time to assess what risks there are, how to mitigate the risks and ensure that traffic keeps flowing. Is all of this dramatic? Yes. But It is also what was to be expected.
4) There is a lot of "the government is overdramatizing" stuff out there. We have nothing to support that claim. Except "everyone is overreacting" tweets. Until we have more data, I am not ready to believe the government is lying to us.
Quick update: it already seems like it won't be 48 hours.
To some extent this is how things are supposed to happen: new danger realized, quick reaction with immediate thoughts about how to resolve it. Done.

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Holger Hestermeyer Profile picture
21 Dec
I only believe this after seeing an official source, because this tweet is erroneous on several aspects:
- MPs don't get a vote on ratification. Never did. Not provided for in UK law.
- MPs vote on implementing legislation. They'd have to for provisional application (thread)
Some more detail: UK law knows TWO ways of treaty control:
CRaG treaty scrutiny - which relates to ratification and does not include a mandatory vote
Treaty implementing legislation. Here a vote is required.
The only exception to this I am aware of is the "meaningful vote" that a statute provided for with regard to the withdrawal agreement. That was the one instance in which Parliament had a mandatory vote on a treaty for ratification purposes. It did not work well. It was abolished.
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20 Dec
Here's how the European Parliament could take control of Brexit and enhance rather than weaken its position @davidmcallister (thread)
1) establish a realistic timeline towards a possible deal. (Yes, the EP has set deadlines before that were ignored. Hear me out)
2) set out how the deal can be brought into force and the road towards ratification. Setting only a deadline for ratification won't help.
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17 Dec
Three points on the whole “ramping up pressure” fallacy (thread) telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/…
1) I am not sure “we’ll send MPs home, they can always be recalled if there’s a deal” is very much a statement of anything except letting MPs have a holiday, which, given the time of year, is not all that unexepcted.
2) We’ve repeatedly read stories how the EU likes to run down the clock thereby exerting pressure on its negotiating partner. Certainly both cannot be true.
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15 Dec
Curiously Erasmus+ covers NZ, Canada, Australia, the US, Brazil etc.
That said: The UK has a strong university sector. Particularly the big names have strong connections worldwide. That definitely applies to KCL.
But please refrain from commenting something something global Britain. Your fictional idea of global glory is not an existing global program.
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10 Dec
The President's amicus brief in the Texas case before the Supreme Court. It is insane. (short thread) supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/2…
First of all it literally says that a violation of state election law is automatically a violation of the constitution and hence a matter for the federal courts. And that's not the insane part.
The insane part is that its substantive argument starts off with a survey showing that a significant part of the population think the election was stolen and argues things like he's won Ohio and Florida, hence he cannot have lost the states at issue. How crazy.
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6 Dec
I feel I owe an apology to the Guardian and to @danielboffey . Not because I think I'm wrong - the wording of the clause is in the thread, I think I characterize it correctly - but because journalists do a tough job here and I was too harsh /1
This is technical stuff. Journalists have to rely on what they get and what they hear. If they get briefed a certain way, that's what they have. None of them have ever gone into the business to report on the difference between dynamic alignment and ratchet clauses.
And so I apologize. The description of the ratchet clause in the article is wrong - I stand by what I wrote factually, but that's bound to happen in today's world of how journalists are briefed and it's not embarrassing.
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