Thread by @PandaScottish

[thread] This from @IainDale is a steaming pile of horse shit

Let's take a look at it from Australia

And travel back in time to February 2016

https://twitter.com/Daily_Express/status/1405455753377370113

This is written by an expert on trade and international relations

internationalaffairs.org.au/australianoutl…

"Since the mid-1970s (and the last referendum) 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."

"The latter argument is likely to prevail in Australia as the Brexit debate unfolds, for a number of reasons. 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. "

"There is no reason to think that Australia would be top of the list of the UK’s prospective trade partners and the terms of the UK’s arrangements with the EU27 may not be clear for years."

its 2021

The Northern Ireland Protocol is being reneged on

And as for the EU deal

"The terms with the EU will be especially important. Two-way trade and investment between the UK and Australia remains significant, but from inside the EU single market. The institutional architecture matters."

" Preliminary scoping (of the EU-Aus) trade agreement is proceeding on the diplomatic assumption that this relationship’s time has finally come. In this context, a British exit is at best a distraction, and at worst a serious impediment."

"The idea that Australia and the UK share certain assumptions about relationships between states and markets has some validity, but it hardly results in a common approach to the complex trade policy questions governments now face."

"This is the central point. Notwithstanding the coverage it will receive in Australia, Brexit is not the only challenge on the EU horizon. The way these challenges are dealt with may ultimately matter more to Australia than the British decision in the coming referendum."

So on that "agreement in principle" with Australia

https://twitter.com/uk_domain_names/status/1404760546658955268

Oh and

https://twitter.com/BBCSimonJack/status/1404863665799565312

Oh and

https://twitter.com/Haggis_UK/status/1405159835340005379

Liz Truss and others are interested in one thing

How they sell something

Not what it is

After all - no one cares about the lies used to sell

https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1404742761362886659

Oh yes

And see also

Japan

https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1319572058360156160

So the whole notion of the CANZUK or Commonwealth BS

theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/…

You can look at Northern Ireland

https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1402322723347615746

You can look at Ireland

https://twitter.com/nealerichmond/status/1399629289163792385

You can look at America

https://twitter.com/DavidHenigUK/status/1405452293869289473

Oh yes and

and you can look at protectionism

oh yes and also here

and a reminder on India

Here's the timeline

https://twitter.com/paul__johnson/status/1405123262946893827

And here is why Boris Johnson did not put stronger border controls in for India

He was desperate to have something, anything to sell for brexit

The delta india variant was a price worth paying

Apparently

https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1338804039115530240

Margaret Thatcher once said

"The manner of winning is a matter of honour."

She was right in part

My variant (so to say)

"The manner of your behaviour is a matter of honour. In winning and in what you do with the win."

https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1405447168576606208

@threadreaderapp unroll please