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“O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us. ”
Here is the UK view
“O would some power the giftie gie us to see ourselves as others see us. ”
Here is the UK view
https://twitter.com/LOS_Fisher/status/1384617042481930240
Your reminder 
A reminder
My favourite replies to it
From Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
From Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
https://twitter.com/AntonyGreenABC/status/1384657149419134976
So going back to the Sydney Morning Herald article
"The briefing was met with disbelief in Australian quarters. While Tehan is relatively new to the cabinet position, he has decades of experience in diplomacy and trade negotiations."
"The briefing was met with disbelief in Australian quarters. While Tehan is relatively new to the cabinet position, he has decades of experience in diplomacy and trade negotiations."
"He joined DFAT in 1995 and served as a diplomat between 1999 and 2001, before helping negotiate Australia’s free trade deal with the Bush Administration in 2004 when trade adviser to the Trade Minister between 2002 and 2005."
"A senior DFAT official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said Tehan was the most respected Trade Minister in decades given his experience in the department."
“If this was briefed by a member of Truss’s staff, that is very disrespectful,” the official said. “It’s also a very bad tactic. It won’t work.”
The key quote from Australia
"While Australia is happy to work on a trade deal with Britain it is not seen as a vital boost to the economy whereas the British government is desperate to sign new deals to justify Brexit."
"While Australia is happy to work on a trade deal with Britain it is not seen as a vital boost to the economy whereas the British government is desperate to sign new deals to justify Brexit."
Liz Truss is desperate
Desperate to sell anything at home
See her words before 23/6/2016
Desperate to sell anything at home
See her words before 23/6/2016
She still knows this to be true
It is why she cannot explain how brexit will be better
See Andrew Bowie MP
It is why she cannot explain how brexit will be better
See Andrew Bowie MP
https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1367474671017418758
Here is Liz "articulately" defending the policy of austerity
https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1202012607928061952
Here is Liz talking of "levelling up"
Ask from whom and what
Ask from whom and what
https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1339496129570979840
See how desperate and enfeebled the UK is with America
And this is irrespective of whether it was a Trump or Biden presidency
And this is irrespective of whether it was a Trump or Biden presidency
See Liz on Japan - where she HAS to compare it to no deal in order to make it look like a success
https://twitter.com/EmilyThornberry/status/1331920701171888133
See also India - where the UK is desperate to sell anything
As fodder to the victims who fell for the con of cheating, lies, racism and simplist fantasy of brexit
As fodder to the victims who fell for the con of cheating, lies, racism and simplist fantasy of brexit
https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1338804039115530240
"The third area I would highlight is the importance of keeping our people safe and I think the discussions we’ve had here about Ebola, which is obviously the biggest world health crisis we’ve faced in many, many years, I think it’s been purposeful here."
Your reminder
Exercise Cygnus suppressed
Pandemic preparedness cut
Exercise Cygnus suppressed
Pandemic preparedness cut
"the importance of keeping our people safe"
Screams into the F**king abyss
Screams into the F**king abyss
I did a thread on covid here
It is a long thread
And I wrote it in August 2020
Before the disaster of autumn/winter 2020
It is a long thread
And I wrote it in August 2020
Before the disaster of autumn/winter 2020
https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1298934733813014528
"British Prime Minister David Cameron said the Australian relationship with his country was vastly more than a sepia tinged scrap book of sentimentality and there was scope for the countries to start working together strongly."
“Your vibrant society with its citizens drawn from an ever-expanding pool, especially Asia, your thriving economy, 23 years without a recession, your readiness to step up when international order is threatened,"
Tony Abbott
“The relationship between Britain and Australia has changed beyond recognition but it’s still important and we still matter to each other,’’ he said.
“It is now a relationship of peers.’’
“The relationship between Britain and Australia has changed beyond recognition but it’s still important and we still matter to each other,’’ he said.
“It is now a relationship of peers.’’
Labor leader Bill Shorten concurred that the nations were now “equals and peers’’.
“Britain has joined Europe and Australia has found our place in Asia,’’
“Britain has joined Europe and Australia has found our place in Asia,’’
Bill Shorten also:
"Mr Shorten thanked Britain’s harsh sentencing laws for ensuring “some of my mother’s ancestors’’ came to Australia."
"Mr Shorten thanked Britain’s harsh sentencing laws for ensuring “some of my mother’s ancestors’’ came to Australia."
Also on trade
"it has generally been argued that Australia would not gain from a British exit, but rather benefits from active UK membership of a strong EU."
"it has generally been argued that Australia would not gain from a British exit, but rather benefits from active UK membership of a strong EU."
"First, the oft-peddled notion that the UK could leave the EU and return to a golden era of trade cooperation with Commonwealth countries does not stack up. "
" The practical impact may be additional (complex) trade negotiations and major trade partners which are more concerned with each other than third countries."
internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutl…
internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutl…
To wrap up with a thread on brexit
It is a shitshow
It will always be a shitshow
What is so sad
Is just how desperate those are who sold the shitshow sell on the shite eternally
It is a shitshow
It will always be a shitshow
What is so sad
Is just how desperate those are who sold the shitshow sell on the shite eternally
https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1342019458366382081
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