I do have sympathy for Brexiters who are victims of what they voted for when they are at least able to acknowledge that what they were told would happened didn't happen & that this is the direct consequences of the UK's choices. There could have been a far less damaging Brexit.
Nothing will change until they, the Leave voters who represent most Tory party voters, start being really angry. Their fate is in their hands. We have been ignored since June 2016 & still are. Our voices & votes do not matter to the Tories. The Leavers' votes matter to Johnson.
Happy to play a supportive role if/when it happens. But not if they continue to blame others for the direct consequences of the choices they supported.
PS this is not directed to @LochfyneLangous who have wonderful products & for whom I am genuinely sorry. One cannot under estimate community pressure in small areas.
This is what I mean by getting angry. Also hauliers could play a big role by blocking roads like in France!
Not for profit? REALLY? Or as disclosed by an unusually truthful PM, capitalism & greed? Massive private profits when the risk has been funded by the taxpayers?
"Pure" scientists at Oxford University or massive PERSONAL beneficiaries? A 🧵 khn.org/news/rather-th…
Under its deal with AstraZeneca, Oxford will receive no royalties during the pandemic but could make millions after it ends through a web of patents including those held by Vaccitech, a for-profit spinoff. Vaccitech’s ownership includes a 50% stake held directly or indirectly
by Oxford & 5.25% each owned PERSONALLY by Hill and Jenner’s other top vaccine scientist, Sarah Gilbert, U.K. regulatory filings show.
The potential for vaccine profits at Vaccitech was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
Staggering hypocrisy (like on vaccines exports) of Johnson on the NI Protocol exposed by the BBC.
Just 4 days after Johnson's triumphant signing of the WA, the Department for Exiting the EU (DExEU) produced an analysis of the Withdrawal Agreement Bill . bbc.com/news/amp/uk-no…
DExEU report was clear: "Goods moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland will be required to complete both import declarations & Entry Summary Declarations because the UK will be applying the EU's custom code in Northern Ireland"
This means "additional documentation required on all agri-food goods moving from GB to NI to ensure that they comply with the necessary regulations," including "Export Health Certificates for products of animal origin, fish &live animals & phytosanitary certificates for plants
DAVID FROST 02/2020:
"In brief, all these studies exaggerate –in my view- the impact of non-tariff barriers, they exaggerate customs costs, in some cases by orders of magnitude" & "also assume unproven decline in trade with implausible large effects on Britain’s productivity."
Quietly, a Vote Leave prime minister and chancellor have accepted that so-called project fear was right all along. m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/amp/entry/brex…
Overall, the net cost of Johnson’s Brexit to the public finances will come in at almost £30 billion each year.
The chancellor announced a further £29 billion of extra taxes by 2025, almost as much as Norman Lamont’s 1993 tax bombshell budget, to fill the projected fiscal hole caused by the pandemic. As a result, the tax take will rise to its highest as a proportion of GDP since the 1960s.
Thou hypocrite, @borisjohnson first cast out the beam out of thine own eye
& then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Last tweet of the day on the UK vaccine posturing 1/
@nyt notes that "The EU exported 25 million doses of vaccines produced in its territory LAST MONTH to 31 countries with BRITAIN (Pfizer)& Canada the top destinations".2/
"Practically speaking, ban or no ban, Britain is not exporting vaccines authorized for use at home. The country has said it would be prepared to give excess doses to Ireland, though only after it was done with its vaccination efforts at home" 3/
This doesn't stop our PM giving morality lessons to others & stating in his Munich speech that "we in the UK have kept the flame of cooperation alive". 🤣😅