Stopped opposite the UK Mission to the EU on my way in to the office to show you a fully functioning queue-free petrol station. Guess it wasn’t Brexit! #fuelshortages
I guess I should have been a little clearer. I’m outside the UK Mission to the EU which is *in Brussels*. I’m in Belgium, not the UK. And I *am* blaming Brexit for the #fuelshortage.
top logic here
Just making absolutely sure that I've understood the argument.
Bit concerned at the number of people who think the UK Mission to the EU is in the… UK. 😑
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I will never understand why some people will stick with their bucket of cold sick because they don’t like the taste of unsweetened tea. You don’t have to love Starmer, you just have to #GTTO. Jesus.
“I support women’s rights and I support trans rights and I find the tensions between these two positions to be too complex for simplistic soundbite answers”
YOU’RE WORSE THAN THE TORIES I’D RATHER HAVE NADINE DORRIES AS CULTURE SECRETARY
I’m currently on board @LeShuttle on my first trip back from the UK to Brussels in 15 months. As some followers may know, this is my normal weekly commute, or was until March 2020. Short thread of impressions here for anyone who is interested. 1/
The M20 is miraculously roadwork-free for the first time in many years. It was a much quicker trip to the tunnel than usual. 2/
The tunnel terminal itself is a sad echo of bustling pre-pandemic pre-brexit times - a ghost town haunted by screeching gulls. There’s barely a soul here. I guess that’s to be expected. 3/
I don’t think it’s paranoid to see the present UK government as committed politically, strategically, ideologically to weakening, damaging, and ultimately destroying the EU. The EU’s continued existence stands as a repudiation of their Brexit.
You won’t see the UK show hostility to EU member states. But by acting with hostility towards the EU, or at the very least pretending the EU is an irrelevance, the UK *is* hostile to EU member states, because a successful and strong EU means successful and strong member states.
The very fact that states which perceive themselves to be in competition with the EU - and the UK isn’t the only one - invest so much effort in bypassing the EU to deal with member states bilaterally is all the evidence you need that the EU confers an advantage to its members.
Twas the night after lockdown, when all through the land
Not a person was stirring, except for a Spad;
The eye tests were hung by the Castle with care
In hopes that St. Dominic soon would be there;
The patients were intubated in their beds,
While hydroxychloroquine danced in their heads;
When out in the car park arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the ward to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.
The moon on the breast of the new lorry park
Gave the lustre of noon when it should have been dark,
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a scruffy posh blonde with an arrogant leer,
Short thread on @IanDunt’s interesting (and very good) line of argument on @OhGodWhatNowPod talking about the incremental approach to #RejoinEU: 1/
I have been a vocal and passionate opponent of a soft Brexit, BRINO, Norway, EEA/EFTA solution as I see it as unsustainable, democratically outrageous, rule-taker not rule-maker, worst of all worlds. It is all those things, but 2/
that works in both directions. If we go from full EU membership to BRINO then that’s highly unsatisfactory and unsustainable and will only lead to pressure to pull away further. But if we go there from a skinny deal/no deal Jacobin hard Brexit, the momentum is reversed. 3/