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26 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Don't blame me! It's @rickygervais that said it!
I'll probably wake up to a bunch of angry replies so, as I've said MANY times:

The public, BOTH remainers and Leavers alike, on average, did not understand UK-EU relations well enough to be given that question.

Even I didn't understand the Northern Ireland dimension until 2018.
The above tweet is being quoted by people choosing to take the last sentence in isolation and pretend I wasn't OBVIOUSLY saying that despite being more qualified on EU law than 99% of Britain, there were still aspects of UK-EU relations I was ignorant of.
Ahh good. A verified one this time...🙄

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If a PM hires a Health Sec he calls "hopeless", watches him give NHS contracts to family/mistress-linked companies, kill 130K people, spend £156million on unsafe PPE & shag his aide in lockdown, but still has "full confidence" in him...
Maybe Matt Hancock isn't the core problem.
There's a lot in there so I'm gonna thread the sources.
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Can we stop pretending that unconditional national pride is a good thing?

e.g.
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Yemen...
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We debated Brexit for 3 years after this, and the British media STILL failed to explain this stuff.
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We've skipped straight to the Tory Youth phase... I can't. 😬
It took me 8 minutes to tweet that. The first 5 were purely on disbelief... I was planning to tweet something along the lines of. I know this is a parody, but isn't it crazy that we all think they could actually do this.
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I got 3 white friends (worse academic/detention records than me) to untuck their shirts, pull down their ties & undo their top buttons while queuing to be let into lunch.
I undid one button.

The teacher only stopped me.
I laughed.
#WhitePrivilege
Which is why this didn't really come as a surprise.
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People are going nuts over this, calling me a liar, so for the record...

I honestly have no idea whether it was 2 kids or 3 kids. I can remember 2 (best friends) but can't picture the third.

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How many Brexit factions need to reject this Brexit before they stop calling it democratic?
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