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25 Apr, 9 tweets, 3 min read
"Have you seen that Express is rebroadcasting one of your Euronews interviews?" @RobHarrison_EU asked me earlier

"What?" I replied

And so they are... here I am saying there is "fear in Brussels at the moment" in a clip on the Daily Express site

A 🧵 on fake news
The story is titled "Brussels chaos: UK tells EU it's all set for WTO rules as Australia deal gives huge boost" and is dated yesterday, Saturday 24 April

I have never even spoken to Euronews about the EU-Australia trade deal

The story by @DavidPBMaddox
express.co.uk/news/politics/…
I have also looked at the code - the clip is not an embed of video from somewhere else. The file is hosted by The Express

Perhaps one for @euronews to follow up there...

But there's more...
So what *is* the clip they are using?

It's an interview I did with @jackeparrock on
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8th February

It's almost 10 weeks old!
And the subject of my interview?
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The setting up of the Conference on the Future of Europe, something that has *nothing to do* with a UK-Australia deal, Brexit or WTO rules
I cannot find the original video on the Euronews website, but the exact same words I speak in the clip the Daily Express uses are written up in this article by Euronews
euronews.com/2021/02/07/jun…
So a 10 week old clip, about a completely different topic, is used in a Daily Express story, and the key words they choose are "at the moment"
I'm loathe to use the term normally, but there's only one way to describe this: fake news

/ends
OK, IPSO complaint now submitted...

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Damn I'm annoyed at vaccine supply pieces like this one on Novavax
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I'm going to take this one apart piece by piece...
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60m doses, sure, but *by when*? Without that answer on the schedule the number has little meaning
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I know what-ifs are hard, perhaps even borderline futile...

... but what if the European Commission had *not* introduced its vaccine export transparency mechanism end of January?

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But beyond that?

Would more AZ doses have gone from EU to UK had it not been introduced?

Would J&J have sent more doses to the USA?
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Turn your head away from some silly argument in a pub between a politician and a landlord in Bath for a moment

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So listen up...

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Two nerdy German coalition questions...

1. Is there any likely situation where no 2 party coalition would work?

2. If the GRÜNE were the largest party would GRÜNE-CDU/CSU be tried rather than Green-Red-Red?
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I have said a few things about the Grüne issue, but it's much simpler and less controversial
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The two of them will decide which one of them it will be, and it will be announced tomorrow
My money is on it being Baerbock, chances 90% to 10% I reckon

And if it is Baerbock, the amount of fuss about it within the party will be really minimal. If it's Habeck there will be more of a problem, but even then it can be overcome
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