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29 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Sterling scores 4 minutes after Chris Waddell demands he be substituted.

15 minutes of glorious torture now.
Can England see this out?

They have the players, do they have the temprament?
They have!
And thats it!

ALL OVER!

The trauma is over.

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Nick🇬🇧🇪🇺 Profile picture
30 Jun
I know a few people a bit nervous about England doing well for “jingoistic/Brexit related” reasons.

Don’t be!

The England team is a wonderful group of lads led by a socially conscious manager.

& a 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Championship win could help align/rejoin in lots of unexpected ways….
The connection between success in sport & jingoism is more complicated than many liberals realise.

There’s a school of thought that winning a sporting event can be quite useful to defuse feelings of unhealthy nationalism as this comes from an unhealthy inferiority complex.
3/
Next point:
What would you rather have?

Patriotic feeling channelled into Rashford Southgate & co or Brexit?

Some will of course do both, but it’s a lot more difficult to sing the praises of this England team & be rightwing as Tory MPs have found out
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26 Jun
+UPDATE+

Understanding of UK’s position on the Irish protocol is changing in the EU.

The original view was that the UK was “playing hardball” to extract advantages & “appease domestic voter base”.

This view is now considered to have been a false reading of UK govt’s policy…
2/
Emerging EU view now is that Johnson simply doesn’t want a Northern Ireland that can extract benefits from a compromise status which gives NI advantages over restUK due to a negotiated aligned position with EU.

As this would offer a template of successful EU-UK relationship.
3/
The debate in EU has been whether UK policy was merely “tactics” playing hardball to extract your extra benefits - or a “strategy” to reach a set final objective.

Turns out neither might be true & instead a permanent awkward dysfunctional status quo may be the real aim.
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Nick🇬🇧🇪🇺 Profile picture
23 Jun
+UPDATE+

EU to grant Northern Ireland an extension on chilled meat - the “sausage war” - for 3 months.
2/
This additional grace period agreed by the EU “assumes” that UK aligns with EU food standards rules during this time.
3/
This additional grace period also “assumes” (ie stipulates) that the UK works towards ways to undertake processes & actions that will fulfil the northern Irish protocol in a “sustainable way”.
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21 Jun
+UPDATE+

Grouping of EU states led by France to ensure steep reduction in UK TV productions becomes EU policy.

UK TV is seen as “overrepresented” as it ran under EU content rules despite being oft internationally funded.

In future UK TV will have to have majority EU content.
2/
By European content this means programs made in the EU.

This is likely to see an increase of “British productions” made (or majority made) in the EU.
3/
There is no real need for the EU to show as much UK produced TV on its screens as say US or Australian.
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20 Jun
+UPDATE+

A number of Conservative MPs in southern “LibDem facing” seats have already told Conservative HQ they believe their 2019 election results “won’t be repeated” as the fear of Jeremy Corbyn getting in suppressed LibDem votes at the last election.

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Tory MPs in these areas think Starmer is effectively copying the 1997 election strategy whereby soft Tory areas go LibDem.

While “defusing” the Brexit issue in leave voting trad. labour seats where Tory gains in midland/north are expected to melt as Tory-Brexit reality sets in.
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Also the logic is that the demographic/social change in places like SW London & Buckinghamshire was already going on before Brexit but that Corbyn “suppressed” this vote.

In other words quite a large number of southern leafy seats are “ready to drop” with the right strategy.
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19 Jun
Can't see the article.

Anybody know what points are here raised?
So had a look.

I try not to be harsh but the problem here is EVERYONE who has spent time on this issue dismisses idea of it working in Scotland.

Indeed I’ve done so since years for the very obvious reason:
Scottish voters cleave two ways:
Unionism/Indy
Prog/conservative

So..
So for someone to use Scotland as an argument for “why a prog alliance wouldn’t work” is basically saying that he hasn’t been paying attention.

Nobody working on this uses Scotland.

Secondly…
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