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23 Jun, 10 tweets, 3 min read
.@DavidGHFrost appeared before @TomTugendhat & @CommonsForeign yesterday, together with one of his most senior civil servants, the Director-General of the EU Secretariat in the Cabinet Office. You don’t need a body-language expert in order to understand how it went. /1.
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P.S. Anyone who thinks these are uncharacteristic of the session of a whole is welcome to watch it in full, here👇

parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/c7…
(“… session as a whole …”, obviously)

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10 Jun
President Biden’s visit, & the newspaper front pages which accompany it (next tweet), bring into sharp focus the realities of current geopolitical power 👇
A generation of “elite”, groomed to be fantasists, is facing a crisis the like of which they’ve never before experienced.

Dragging the rest of the UK with them.
For what?👇
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3 Jun
The Chancellor, PM & even the Bank Governor can, if they wish, propagate the fiction that UK govt deficit spending in GB£ creates “debt” which needs to be “paid back”; that they’re not in complete control of the interest rate; that a necessary requirement for controlling …/1.
… inflation is interest rate rises; & that huge, non-inflationary deficit spending is not only entirely available to them but also essential, if we’re to look after the well-being & prosperity of the UK population.

They can pretend all that. /2.
But they’d be dissembling. Or just plain wrong. Take your pick.

With one proviso. /3.
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27 May
🔺Is LOT flight 677 from Warsaw to Moscow really going to fly over Belarus?🔺

If it does, what happens?

If it doesn’t, what happens?

Watch this space. Image
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24 May
.@pritipatel’s claim is wrong on the specific case: no one votes for a particular raid to take place.

It’s also out of line with Scottish public opinion.

Which raises the question of whether the authority of the Home Secretary, or her colleagues, is accepted in Scotland. /1.
That in turn throws into question whether the current legal & constitutional arrangements represent the settled “will of the people” in Scotland.

And, if they don’t, whether they’re sustainable. /2.
Brexit, the subsequent shift toward greater support for Scottish independence, the Scottish parliamentary majority achieved ob 6 May for an independence referendum, & the local rebellion against Home Office officials in Glasgow, all suggest not. /3.
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23 May
When is state terrorism an act of war?

Genuine question. Try this for size.

Belarus today used its security agencies and a military fighter jet forcibly to seize an EU civilian airliner flying between two EU/ NATO capitals & abduct one of the passengers. /1.
The threat of devastating, fatal military force against the airliner is obvious & undeniable. (If you don’t believe me, ask any civilian pilot what the calculus is when faced with such a situation). /2.
The abducted passenger is threatened with extrajudicial execution. (Belarus has no credible judicial process). /3.
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17 May
.@vonderleyen’s response to @DavidGHFrost’s comments on the “unsustainable” NI Protocol👇

The problem with her position is: he’s right.

The problem with his position is ... his Brexit deal.

It’s that which is unsustainable. Fundamentally flawed. Unworkable. And he knows it./1.
There are many & varied, often highly debatable, claims as to what Brexit’s “about”.

One point, at least, is beyond any reasonable challenge.

Brexit is & always has been necessarily, unavoidably about Ireland. /2.
The legal & political realities are clear. The only workable, sustainable Brexit for the UK of Great Britain & Northern Ireland is one in which it remains in (or now rejoins) the EU customs union & single market. Or substantially identical arrangements. All else is hot air. /3.
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