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15 Jan, 16 tweets, 10 min read
1⃣1⃣7⃣Days since Brexit would actually have been done if the 44% hadn't voted Tory in 2019.

Several fishing companies have simply stopped sending boats out because of the paperwork issues selling to the EU.
#IsBrexitDoneYet?
1⃣2⃣4⃣ Days since Brexit would actually have been done if the 44% hadn't voted Tory in 2019.

Fishing companies are having to freeze their 'fresh' produce because the Brexit paperwork is taking too long.
@PeterAdamSmith #IsBrexitDoneYet?
itv.com/news/2021-01-1…
1⃣2⃣6⃣ Days since Brexit would actually have been done if the 44% hadn't voted Tory in 2019.

UK small businesses say they can't afford the cost of extra red tape at the border so people will be losing their jobs.
#IsBrexitDoneYet?
theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
1⃣2⃣6⃣ Days since Brexit would actually have been done if the 44% hadn't voted Tory in 2019.

UK Fishing companies say they're days away from collapse because of Brexit, and Dominic Raab, who negotiated Brexit, denies all responsibility.
#IsBrexitDoneYet?
1⃣2⃣8️⃣ Days since Brexit would actually have been done if the 44% hadn't voted Tory in 2019.

Tonnes of British meat is being thrown away in Dover because of the extra red tape. (Also Green Brexit?)
#IsBrexitDoneYet?

cityam.com/tonnes-of-meat…
1⃣3⃣0⃣ Days since Brexit would actually have been done if the 44% hadn't voted Tory in 2019.

Remember when the government said the customs red tape alone would cost UK businesses an extra £7billion/year. We're just getting started...
#IsBrexitDoneYet?
news.sky.com/story/freight-…
1⃣3⃣2⃣ Days since Brexit would actually have been done if the 44% hadn't voted Tory in 2019.

Government is telling UK businesses to move to the EU.
#IsBrexitDoneYet?
theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
1⃣4⃣0⃣ Days since Brexit would actually have been done if the 44% hadn't voted Tory in 2019.
Subway announces: “Due to the impact that Brexit is having on [the] supply of food, some of our fresh ingredients may not be available today.”
#IsBrexitDoneYet?
thetimes.co.uk/article/brexit…
1⃣4⃣1️⃣ Days since Brexit would actually have been done if the 44% hadn't voted Tory in 2019.

@MakeUK_, which represents UK manufacturing says it's just not working.
#IsBrexitDoneYet?
reuters.com/article/us-bri…
1⃣4⃣8⃣ Days since Brexit would actually have been done if all votes had counted equally in the 2019 election.

UK hauliers report that exports to the EU have fallen by 68%.
#IsBrexitDoneYet
news.sky.com/story/exports-…
1⃣4⃣9⃣ Days since Brexit would actually have been done if all votes had counted equally in the 2019 election.

JD Sports is considering partly shifting to an EU distribution based to get around the extra Brexit costs and delays.
#IsBrexitDoneYet?
bbc.co.uk/news/business-…
1⃣5⃣4⃣ Days since Brexit would actually have been done if all votes had counted equally in the 2019 election.

Hearing that Amsterdam has overtaken London as a financial trading hub, Raab admits EU will be able to "nick a bit of business".
#IsBrexitDoneYet
1⃣6⃣0⃣ Days since Brexit would actually have been done if all votes had counted equally in the 2019 election.

Being outside the Single Market means you can't sell unpurified shellfish. Fishermen turn to alcohol & fear homelessness.
#IsBrexitDoneYet
news.sky.com/story/brexit-u…
1⃣6⃣5⃣ Days since Brexit would actually have been done if all votes had counted equally in the 2019 election.

Faced with thousands of fisherman who can no longer sell what they catch, Boris Johnson tells Brits to just eat it all.
#IsBrexitDoneYet?
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politi…
1⃣7⃣2⃣ Days since Brexit would actually have been done if all votes had counted equally in the 2019 election.

UK government announces plans to break international law over the Good Friday Agreement... AGAIN!
#IsBrexitDoneYet?
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northe…
1⃣7⃣3⃣ Days since Brexit would actually have been done if all votes had counted equally in the 2019 election.

The very next day... loyalist paramilitary groups reject the Good Friday Agreement which underpins peace in Northern Ireland.
#IsBrexitDoneYet?
theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/m…

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More from @Femi_Sorry

4 Mar
Today Loyalist groups in Northern Ireland rejected the Good Friday Agreement.

In 2019 Boris Johnson said that if major parts of Northern Ireland's economy were governed by the EU, it would 'undermine the balance' the GF Agreement is based on.

His Brexit deal does exactly that.
And here you are saying that the backstop was unacceptable because it would increase NI/GB checks.
You deal does that.

Go on @10DowningStreet. Delete the tweets. I dare you.
Read 4 tweets
25 Feb
The DUP and the ERG are now BOTH attacking the agreement which, in terms of international law, WAS LITERALLY BREXIT.

If our journalists had any integrity at all, they would admit that the ''Will of the People'' ideology was a lie that they historically failed to challenge.
I mean... For ****s sake!
It's not like I predicted these problems with the ERG, Faragists and DUP OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
I called the situation we're literally in now a "democratic travesty" to their faces, on national TV!
Read 6 tweets
22 Feb
I'm just going to put this out there...
An 87-year-old retired man shouldn't be allowed into clubs before a 19-year-old student.
#VaccinePassports
If you could choose one year of your life to have no social life at all because of a pandemic lockdown...

How many of you would choose your late teens and 20s?

Please raise your hand!

By that metric alone, those age groups have lost more social contact than any other!
So the idea that the age group that made a larger sacrifice in terms of social contact, would be deprived of that contact for longer than the age groups they made that sacrifice for...
It just does not sit well with me.
Read 4 tweets
21 Feb
.@MattHancock You can EITHER:

Proudly refuse to apologise for unlawfully failing to publish PPE contracts on time, saying you were saving lives.

OR

Deliver expired PPE, buy £250million of unusable PPE from Tory mate Andrew Mills & let 100s of NHS staff die.

YOU CAN'T DO BOTH!
Was this the kind of contract you righteously broke the law for?

Giving £250 million in tax-payer money to a company owned by the wife of Liz Truss' former advisor, only for the PPE they made to be found defective?
#Marr #Ridge

thetimes.co.uk/article/andrew…
Is this where you got the arrogance to be able to brazenly say screw the law on national television?

Were you just so proud of your track record as health secretary, @MattHancock, that the rule of law simply melted into insignificance.
#Marr
channel4.com/news/revealed-…
Read 4 tweets
16 Feb
Without our shop staff, nurses & bin men during lockdown, we'd have been starving, dead or living in our own sh*t.
Have the Tories forgotten that already?
#Budget2021
It's working class people who've been keeping us alive more than any hedge fund manager.
It's working class people who've been less able to work from home, and therefore more exposed to Covid 19 so...
It's working class people who've sacrificed the most during 2020-1.
#BudgetDay
Therefore statistically...

Middle class: Job + work from home - travel costs.

Working class (unless furloughed/fired) : Job + travel + extra safety procedures + PPE + viral danger + childcare but with less academic support + downgraded A-Levels - Wages.

#BudgetDay
Read 4 tweets
15 Feb
Had an argument with a relative about my attitude to journalists. Boiled down to whether an interviewer's role is to:

▪️ Just extract the messages from the politicians and relay them to other politicians.
Or
▪️ Come up with their own arguments against politicians' narratives
1/3
Them: If the politicians are bad, it's up to the people to see that and remove them. Journalists have no such electoral responsibility.

Me: The public aren't experts in all political issues, so journalists have to provide the info the public needs to judge MPs accurately.
2/3
e.g
Journalists accepted the "Will of the People" narrative because neither Labour or Tories were saying: "If 52% want different incompatible EU-UK relationships, it's not possible to please them all".
And here we are.

Journalism shouldn't depend on Westminster Wisdom alone.
3/3
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