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9 Sep, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Surprise! The Sun's front page story today was false.
More here:
Changing its name...to another name with "Churchill" in it. The sheer moonhowlery of the Sun newspaper.
This is also an obvious falsehood (h/t @Otto_English)
Inevitably, Johnson weighs in with a false claim about this story
bbc.com/news/uk-politi…
Just as inevitably, here's Farage with a false claim on this concocted nonsense

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2 Sep
CJEU is back from the summer break

New judgment - one of final remaining UK cases - reference from Supreme Court - on food standards and judicial review: curia.europa.eu/juris/document…
CJEU, external relations law

Commission wins case against Council re adoption of EU position on implementation of treaty with Armenia - the treaty is mostly not about foreign policy: curia.europa.eu/juris/document…
CJEU, immigration law

New judgment: Italy in breach of EU law on access to benefits for non-EU workers: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2021/06/discri…

Background to this case, by @Vi_Passalacqua - https://t.co/5jiC4HO1pf

Press release: curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/do…
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1 Sep
Brexit law

Proposal to extend deadline for evaluation of UK law for 9 months, so as not to disrupt exchange of policing data: data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/S…

(Has to receive approval of EU Council, then agreement of UK, to be adopted)
More Brexit law

Northern Ireland Court of Appeal refuses leave to bring judicial review arguing that the PM didn't sign the withdrawal agreement in good faith

Summary of judgment: judiciaryni.uk/sites/judiciar…

(Text of judgment not available yet)
This was the case where the lawyer got headlines by talking about "fraud" (which wasn't really what was being alleged): belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/brexit/co…

Like the lawyer in the challenge to the NI protocol talking about "Vichy", grandstanding doesn't necessarily help litigants
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24 Aug
1/ A few points on these interesting minutes from the EU/UK Partnership Council
2/ Follwing this dispute the UK has dropped its obligation under the European Social Charter re non-discrimination in fees. The UK argument in the last sentence of para 20 is dubious: the Member States, not the EU, are party to the Social Charter.
3/ This argument from the UK takes some chutzpah: the UK sought to end the transition period, including the free movement of UK citizens in the EU, ASAP, and would not agree to a declaration on visa waivers for artists, falsely equating it with free movement.
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4 Aug
Leaving aside Farage's absurd comments, the law does not provide for exemptions for countries unless they have a free movement deal with the EU, besides three microstates. 1/
2/ Here's the text of the exceptions. But hey, why don't I just cosplay as an Express journalist and make the law up?

"There's an exemption for Brits who jump naked into the EU wine lake, chanting their allegiance to von der Leyen."
Economists may have the stats on how much those Member States' economies are actually "dependent" on UK tourism. But do we seriously think many people who can afford a foreign holiday will be put off by an extra €7 every three years?
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25 Jul
As @JMPSimor has pointed out, this is a false claim from Cummings about Vote Leave's breach of electoral spending law. Vote Leave in fact dropped its appeal against the fine imposed against them for their unlawful spending. 1/2
2/ Vote Leave was successful in a separate appeal against the EC to the Court of Appeal, but that doesn't affect the original finding of unlawful spending by Vote Leave, as Cummings falsely implies.
electoralcommission.org.uk/electoral-comm…
3/ Here's a link to the tweet at the time
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25 Jul
As for the reference to "decades" here - Vote Leave put out a paper projecting Turkey and other countries joining in 2020 with no transition period for free movement: theguardian.com/politics/2016/…
Not everything is your blog, there's a limit to how much you can try to change history
Also this complete falsehood: the actual FACT ✅ is that the EU proposal to drop the short term visa requirement for Turkey would not have applied to the UK due to its opt outs
Exacerbated by additional falsehoods from Leave folks
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…
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