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11 Feb, 16 tweets, 4 min read
"Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, Mr Martin said: "We need to dial down the rhetoric on both sides.""

"He added that people need to bear in mind that it is only about six weeks since the Brexit deal was agreed."
"I would say in the context of the island of Ireland and Northern Ireland and we all need to cool it down because I think that the debate around protocol got to too high a level, and tensions were rising unnecessarily."

irishnews.com/news/brexit/20…
Evolution takes time!!

...and it is generally easier to build on earlier successes, rather than creating something from scratch.
The initial outlook for UK on joining EEC in 1973:

"What will be disastrous is if Britain devotes the next two, three, or four years to introspective champing over the issue: “Who went wrong when?”"
"Among the most human and least attractive phrases in the English language is “I told you so.” There will be much scope for such a Great Recriminative Debate. The transition period will not be all Beaujolais and boules."
"Change is always painful, and although the change arising from membership of the European Community will not be as sudden or all-pervasive as either its zealots or its most fiery critics believe, there will be enough change to cause trouble if people are determined."
Has History not taught us, that lessons can be learned from the past but, that history need not be repeated?!?
"If every change in prices, costs, wages, taxation, growth, and unemployment is to be put under the microscope to separate its European from its non-European elements, the effect on British politics and possibly on Britain’s role in Europe and the world will be corrosive."
"Can we remember also that it was partly in the hope of rescuing Britain from growing political aimlessness and economic lassitude that governments of the two parties have in turn sought membership of the Community?"
"Labour is entitled, if it regains power, to seek changes, particularly with the benefit of experience. The Community is, and needs to be, an evolving institution. Even the Common Agricultural Policy may not be written on tablets of stone."

Déjà vu!
"One temptation should be avoided, however; to prepare a future Labour Government’s negotiating position by seeking, month after month, to prove that membership of the Community has created all Britain’s ills. We enter Europe with the reputation of being a nation of shopkeepers;"
"...we would be unwise to present ourselves as a nation of second-hand-car dealers. Above all we should avoid creating a new, semi-permanent rift in British society, between pro and anti Europeans..."

Alas, Brexit has forged this in stone!
"Britain has much to contribute to the new Europe’s main need – for effective democratic control of a bureaucracy that grows in power all the time."

Then as now, perhaps, according to some.
"In making that contribution we may even give our own parliamentary institutions a new injection of vigour and some relief from 👉the staleness that long unsolved problems have created at Westminster."👈

Remember, Einstein's wise words!

theguardian.com/world/2020/jan…
What a difference, populism and undue influence of wealthy elite and lobbyists can make...

theguardian.com/politics/2017/…
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More from @Sakura509

11 Feb
Caveat: This article is sourced from @Daily_Express !!!

"End of Sturgeon?"

Frankly, an appropriate response from @NicolaSturgeon might be to quote the infamous Mark Twain response to an erroneous 'obituary' known to all...

"The reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated."
More accurately, the media have quoted:

"Ms Sturgeon said she had a “real job to do” and was focused on guiding Scotland through the Covid-19 pandemic."

It's very reassuring to hear that @scotgov and @ScotGovFM have prioritised safeguarding lives and Scotland, above all else.
Read 26 tweets
9 Feb
"Scotland's Constitution Secretary Mike Russell said the new law will mean, on devolved matters, Scottish law can keep in line with those in Europe "when appropriate and practicable to do so"."
"The SNP politician also said the new law will make it much easier for Scotland to rejoin the EU if the country gained independence from the UK."

Now, you're cooking!

#indyref2 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
#ScottishIndependence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
"Express.co.uk readers have reacted furiously to the news, as they claim SNP was wasting resources when it should have been focusing on the coronavirus pandemic and the needs of Scottish people."

#Express at it again - Telling readers how they should think & feel!
Read 13 tweets
8 Feb
"No matter how bad the economy might look, no matter what government ineptitude might be revealed, no matter the injustices arising from people, corporations or institutions on the make – " 1/2

We need look no further than Tory UK Government, it's donors and loyal supporters!
"I believed that given the freedom of speech and expression, the freedom of association and reliable rule of law, British people – who enjoy those liberties and are innocent until proven otherwise – could tackle all the problems we face."

This glosses over Brexit corruption!
"I would ask why should Scots settle for running Scotland when we could run Britain?"

Frankly, this is a prime example of manipulation!

#LittleEngland, the mouse that is too feart to pursue #EnglishIndependence but dragged Scotland, Wales & NI along with it, seeks #Empire 2.0!
Read 8 tweets
13 Jan
@StarstuckT @Odiepops @YesScot The UK is no longer the UK it was in 2014, due to rampant corruption and illegalities in actions of Tory UK Government.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
@StarstuckT @Odiepops @YesScot Furthermore, one of many lies used to coerce and manipulate UK electorate is that #ScottishIndependence 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 would result in Scotland having to leave the EU.

In 2014, there was no open discussion that UK was considering staging a referendum on whether or not UK would leave the EU.
Read 20 tweets
12 Jan
And don't think it's not happening in UK...in plain sight!
Read 10 tweets
29 Nov 20
"Maugham has, over recent months, launched crowdfunding for a legal challenge to the appointment of Dido Harding – wife of Tory MP and government “Anti-Corruption Champion” John Penrose – "
"- as head of the newly formed National Institute for Health Protection, without any interview process or open competition."

"It has ongoing proceedings aimed at answering the question “Just how does public money end up in the pockets of Cummings’s friends?” "
"Separately, last week it opened the latest in a series of cases against the Department of Health to shed light on the award of PPE contracts worth more than £250m to Saiger, a Florida-based jewellery company with no experience of supplying PPE."
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