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10 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
BJ: Michael, I've just been looking over what you said in the referendum about Scotland, and I was wondering if you still believed it?
MG: Boris, I didn't believe it then! I thought we had an understanding. I thought everybody knew I'm the epitome of the deceitful amoral smug little shit.

With the exception of Chris Grayling, I'm the worst person to be anywhere near a government.

I'm a terrible human being.
BJ:OK, well I'm just reading here that the minister in charge said "Scotland should have the strongest devolved powers of any one earth".

So what they put in place should work in our favour, right?
MG: Yeah, about that...

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9 May
The priority at the moment "is recovery from the pandemic".

From the same man who wouldn't agree to an extension to the EU negotiations at the worst point of the pandemic.
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2016, Scotland wanted to stay in the EU.
England voted no.
2017, Scotland wanted to stay in the Single Market. England voted to leave.
2019, Scotland was happy to have a referendum or stay in the Single Market.
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Then we had a referendum in 2016 where they said that if we left the EU, it would reopen the matter.

We voted knowing it would do that.

People wanted to go ahead with Brexit and now we all have to be prepared to live with the political consequences.
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Well this is just nonsense, Philip.

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If Labour are being punished for not supporting Brexit after the vote, it's because of people like Philip Collins casting them that way.
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Eurosceptics used to be uncommonly honest about Ireland and Brexit being a problem. They didn’t think there would be problems with goods, but also referred to people too.

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