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9 Sep, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Our priorities are: War with France... Image
On hating the French (by @edwest )
unherd.com/2021/03/why-is…
And Rowan Atkinson
As this thread will gradually show, the EEC/EU is a triumph of French diplomacy.... and a place where British diplomacy was buried.

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29 Aug
The practical start of post-war euroscepticism/Brexitism. Image
From Grob-Fitzgibbon's Continental Drift.
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2 Aug
A hypothesis on what was wrong with UK/EU relations:

The shape & meaning of the EU/EEC and of UK-EU relations were and are in the eye of the beholder.

While this is true to some extent for life in general, the EU and UK/EU relationship went further in this regard. Thread.... /1
If, as a UK citizen in 1975, you wanted to show that the EEC and its members were heading for full political union, you could (and can) do so. There's plenty on the historic record suggesting this is exactly what would happen. You could then agree or disagree with that goal. /2
May I commend @EmporersNewC 's many threads on how the goal of political union was always in plain sight. /3
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30 Jul
This will be no surprise to anyone who has tracked Pete North in recent months. Once part of "sensible Leave" centred on staying in the EEA, now a full-on anti-immigration, anti-RNLI Farageist spewing BS.

turbulenttimes.co.uk/news/brexit/so…
"Ever since the Brexit insurgency was quashed, they’ve behaved as though Brexit never even happened. We’re back to square one."

WTF is he on?
If you're still a Flexciteer after all that has happened, maybe give your head a wobble.
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29 Dec 20
Hmm, I find nothing interesting, surprising or original in this, never mind anything revelatory.

It's all very standard late-1990s "the internet will be a force for liberation/libertarianism", described in a thousand articles and books, including by non-Tory tech people.
Look, Rightist Brexiters have a belief: it's a belief in smaller, limited government (which they believe often gets it wrong) and a correspondingly larger private sphere (which they believe often gets it right).

And that's basically it.
Brexiters therefore want less government regulation (which becomes "regulation=bad") and more private activity/exchange i.e. "free markets".

And they are thus going to view the layer of government that is the EU - a "regulatory superpower" - with hostility.
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27 Dec 20
Smirk...
I'm not explaining it to him. These people claim to have their own experts so why do they need anyone else...?
1. Realise you're heading into a worse place
2. Double down on your beliefs
3. Realise you're heading into a worse place
4. Double down on your beliefs
5. Realise you're heading into a worse place
6. Double down on your beliefs

Rinse/repeat.....

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23 Dec 20
In June 2016, no one knew about No Deal AKA the WTO Option. Almost no one was calling for it. I had published something in 2015 about what would happen in a No Deal situation. It was not until June 2016 that people picked up on it and the FT phoned me. No one understood. THREAD
In June 2016, a lot of people didn’t expect Cameron to resign.
In the immediate aftermath of the vote, judging by their ‘soft’ responses, Vote Leave leader Boris Johnson and Vote Leave architect Daniel Hannan didn’t expect & didn't understand/foresee the radicalisation of their own side.
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