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29 Dec, 8 tweets, 3 min read
FGS @UKLabour stop the childish quarrels Behave like responsible adults. @labourlewis @BenBradshaw, @RichardGCorbett If is hardly a surprise that the TCA is sub-standard. It was know it was taking us out of FoM, the SL & CU. Why act surprised? (thread)
2/This meant necessarily only basic provisions for services& minimal facilitation for trade in goods. Within those constraints, there is a lot to build upon in this deal. The EU had tied the UK into multiple processes which will force collaboration (as on the NI Committee)
3/This is a gigantic web.
4/It will bring us back into the fold
5/So much to play for in 5 years including a Swiss version of FoM, a much better access for services, a form of CU...
6/But now THIS is what matters
7/So please stay united, you are giving a lamentable spectacle of disunity, GROW UP &concentrate on working hard (including with other parties) winning the next GE which may be very soon. We are tired of self-defeating tribalism.
8/ @johnmcdonnellMP you in particular, really should know better. This is revenge factionism, not a principled policy. You are elected to serve US.Not you narrow party interest /END

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Yesterday I spent time (&far too many tweets) trying to defend @Keir_Starmer 's position in a Guardian article which angered & disappointed many who, like me, are passionate pro-Europeans. I will try to explain why (thread)
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An excellent thread from an expert of the ecosystem for the UK car industry. I have been doing many cotporate deals in the automotive & engineering sectors of the Midlands
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30 Dec
Many wise fishermen in Brixham. Surprisingly realistic & far from the cliches
theguardian.com/politics/2020/…
“I thought it was a bit harsh to try to cut the rest of Europe off from our fish completely,” he said. “To be honest we don’t have the fleet to catch all the fish. If they suddenly said: ‘All the fish is yours’, actually we don’t have anything to catch it with.”
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I am so fed up with this repeated Brexiters' lie that "the EU sent Cameron packing" that I did this thread to bookmark for future reference This is what Cameron secured:
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- commitment to exempt Britain from "ever closer union" to be written into the treaties, a very big deal for the EU
-inclusion of a new "red-card" mechanism. If 55% of national parliaments agreed, they could effectively block or veto a commission proposal.
2. Migrants & Welfare
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-EU migrants are banned from claiming jobseeker's allowance for three months.
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1/Brexit is a romantic fiction. It is this romance of the High Seas which appealed to many intelligent Leavers. In a world of interdependence it was always a colosssly stupid idea.
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A broken arm, psoriasis, migraine, depressive episode, are all treated as "pre-existing conditions . This is a shocking perversion of statistics which should be trustworthy
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