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29 Aug, 3 tweets, 2 min read
1. Finally, the British establishment is ready to admit that #brexit has failed.

The Brexit promised by Boris Johnson has failed to materialise, much same as his dream of a garden bridge.

When Cameron failed to win referendum he stood down. It’s time for Johnson to follow suit.
2. Britain needs a reset and it was the #AfghanistanDisaster which has finally woken up our defences to the reality we have fools in charge.

economist.com/leaders/2021/0…
3. History shows why only a fool would destroy food security to rely on goods from the pacific.

economist.com/by-invitation/…

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22 Aug
We had a seat at the table of the largest trading block in the world.

Now we have to accept uncomfortable rule of China and Russia.

So much for sovereignty.
scmp.com/news/world/eur…
So Raab manages to take call from
Foreign Minister Wang Yi who demands Raab resist calls to boycott Beijing Winter Olympics and reinstate Chinese television.

scmp.com/news/china/dip…
Explains this capitulation
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10 Aug
Stanley Johnson, like father, like son. Interview from 2009 about his book which is crammed with insights into the Johnson family psyche.

All the things people suspect of Boris are found to be true of his father, by his own account.

independent.co.uk/news/people/pr…
Stanley has fixated on overpopulation yet he’s not embarrassed about having 6 kids and just treats it as a bit of a joke. "The population explosion was taking place in the Third World."

The implication is that the planet should be jolly glad to have so many Johnsons.
Their money comes from an ancestor who left the family farm on Exmoor to find his fortune in the City of London. They have genetic links to Turkish politics and George II.
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7 Aug
Meg is now nearly as big as the yoga ball.
The deflated yoga ball I should add ☺️
Meg after terrorising me since 5am Image
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7 Aug
Brexit has damaged 🇬🇧position as a gateway to Europe for imported goods and increased red tape

As Thatcher said we were the gateway to Europe, to get investment from Japan here: Honda, Nissan, whatever. So once you’ve imported it, it’s then free to go anywhere.

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There’s now no point. Unless it’s going to terminate in the UK, what’s the point in bringing it here? If it’s going to go into Europe, go to Paris or wherever it may be. And we are seeing that stuff that used to come here is just not coming here anymore.
But Brexit is no longer the only problem on the table, with the prices of imported goods skyrocketing due to the pandemic

For air freight, the prices have doubled or tripled in just getting stuff out the country.
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24 Jul
The Times today makes it clear that Johnson is approaching make or break.

Asked to contemplate whether Johnson could be guaranteed to return to form after the pandemic a backbencher said, “Bloody hell. I hope so. I mean, if not, we are all finished.”
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Johnson’s ready made deal is still in the freezer.

Some of the economic consequences of hard Brexit are becoming clear.

Johnson risks being judged to have over promised and under delivered. A populist who offered simple solutions to complex problems.
Proceeding with #FreedomDay despite soaring infection rates and rising hospitalisation….. if it ends badly, with deaths soaring and an NHS staring again at disaster, then that will finish @BorisJohnson
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11 Jul
11,225 volunteers took psychological tests before the referendum and were asked how they intended to vote.

Results suggest that leavers tended to be less numerate, more impulsive and more prone to accept the unsupported claims of authoritarian figures.

thetimes.co.uk/article/da4760…
Authoritarian people, who favour conformity and obedience, make up about a third of the population. In 🇺🇸 they account for a higher proportion of voters for Donald Trump.
The research suggests there may be similar splits in the UK.
“Participants expressing an intent to vote to leave reported significantly higher levels of authoritarianism and conscientiousness . . . than those voting to remain,” researchers said in a paper submitted to the Public Library of Science journal.
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