Doing a bit of a reorganisation of my Twitter lists...

You can find all my public lists here:
twitter.com/jonworth/lists
There are two sorts:

5 lists for my everyday use
_EU
_DE
_TRANSPORT
_BREXIT
_INTERESTING

If you're on one of these it means I am more likely to see tweets you write than if you're not

If you think I ought to add you to one, let me know 🙂
I'm in the process of moving some Brussels based people from my _BREXIT list to my _EU list, and the latter needs a good bit of reorganisation

The priority for *all* lists is helpful and thoughtful people, people who help me understand the world
Then there are lists (I call them Special Lists) for different purposes

Aarhus EU Top 30
#EUTweetup 18.2.2021
Tory Brexit Radicals
UK Coord Group in the EP

I will make more of these in future
I am aware that there are some on Twitter who use Lists for malign purposes, and some people who dislike even being added to lists

My purpose here is simple: lists help me make sense of Twitter. Nothing more than that!

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1 Mar
An honorary visiting prof at City University, London

A member of the House of Lords

And a hack at the Daily Mail

... and a little story of hypocrisy, UK elite style
This at 12:11pm today from the hack Image
This at 13:22pm from @MichaelLCrick confirming the resignation Image
Read 11 tweets
1 Mar
After all the wrangling in December about the European Parliament and Provisional Application of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement... everything has gone weirdly quiet.

Where *is* the vigorous scrutiny of the TCA that was promised?
I can't even find a proper schedule of what's happening, when! europarl.europa.eu/ukcg/en/statem…

Rapporteurs @KatiPiri @CHansenEU when is scrutiny in Committees? When is the Plenary vote? Late March mini plenary, or end of April?
The European Parliament is the *only* body well placed to scrutinise the TCA (and the interplay between it and the NI Protocol) right now - so the absence of any meaningful public communication about all of this?

To me it doesn't make sense
Read 4 tweets
25 Feb
I'm worried. It strikes me that if ERG, Foster, Gove and Frost stick to their current approach (demanding NI Protocol abolished or Art 16 triggered) *and* the work to do the required checks in NI from 1 April doesn't happen... it's a matter of time before UK Govt triggers Art 16
It won't happen before end of April, because triggering it before the European Parliament has even ratified the TCA is too dangerous (even for the political geniuses in 70 Whitehall), but once that's done... what's going to stop them?
Labour wants Brexit problems to go away. It's not going to mount a defence of the NI Protocol nor demand the work on the ground gets done

So discontent will grow, accusations of bad faith will be flung at the EU - with no-one UK side to balance them
Read 5 tweets
24 Feb
It's the sheer brazenness of the Gove (backed by Foster) approach to "grace periods", & asking for them to continue until 2023...

As if it's self evident that UK is not going to be ready anytime soon... to do what it agreed to do when it signed TCA just 2 months ago!
Really, what has *changed*?

Unionists *that the 2020 WA and NI Protocol sold down the river* are annoyed? Consider me shocked.

That the EU actually thinks what's in a Treaty ought to be complied with? Can't be having that!
Or that vdL's faux pas on Article 16 and vaccines means the EU now has to change its approach to the texts it has agreed with the EU? Come on, that's not serious
Read 4 tweets
24 Feb
Conclusion from the complete absence of reaction to this - on Twitter and directly on my blog - is that serious pieces like this on UK-EU relations, if not written by a think tank, now just sink without trace

jonworth.eu/brexit-coordin…
Maybe I should pitch things like this to an organisation like @UKandEU - but then editorial processes and timetables come into play, but I guess I need to stomach that
And I am pretty sure I am not the right sort of person to work for a think tank, and founding my own makes no sense (we don't need more EU think tanks anyway)
Read 4 tweets
24 Feb
Frost replacing Gove to front 🇬🇧 Govt's relations with 🇪🇺 has provoked a lot of debate about leadership, accountability and coordination of #Brexit in Whitehall

But similar questions need urgent answers 🇪🇺 side too

New blog post
jonworth.eu/brexit-coordin…
This draws on analysis of changes 🇬🇧 side by @jillongovt @Brigid_Fowler @rafaelbehr @NickCohen4 @Mij_Europe

It examines the impact of @MichelBarnier stopping, and what @MarosSefcovic can now do, and asks if @ClaraMartinezAl will continue
How the EP is struggling for coherence draws on discussions I had with @aphclarkson

On NI Protocol issues it looks at accountability and Art 16, based on work and comment by @tconnellyrte @eurocelt & @KeohaneDan, and draws on comment by @simoncoveney
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