I'm catching up on the full Lord Frost speech now. I'm 2 minutes in and I'm already really embarrassed.
It's like he's literally trying to buy time by talking about any random historical anecdote that pops into his head!
Oh my god!
Lord Frost opened his speech by basically telling the EU: We don't negotiate based on reason. We're just angry.
How is Lord Frost even alive?
Surely just to breathe you need to know that you exist, and that's a level or self-awareness that is clearly beyond him.
I don't even want to make a video about this. Because... Quite simply...
Lord Frost says EU is bullying us by:
🔹Not letting us into Horizon 2020 which we Brexited out of
🔹Maintaining the fishing Single Market which we Brexited out of
🔹Threatening take legal action when we said we were breaking the law
🔹Not trusting us when we're breaking the law.
Lord Frost: It's not good for us electorally to draw attention to Brexit...
I WONDER WHY!!!!
Lord Frost: The Northern Ireland Protocol (AKA Brexit) is not working.
The Northern Ireland Protocol (AKA Brexit) is disrupting the Good Friday Agreement.
The EU needs to fix Brexit.
Lord Frost is shocked to discover that Brexiting and leaving Northern Ireland behind in the EU Single Market causes problems...
IF ONLY SOMEONE HAD MENTIONED THAT!
(Sorry I accidentally left my microphone on while screen-recording this one. 😬)
Lord Frost: How dare the EU take advantage of our weakened state during the negotiations... We only had an 80-seat majority to get the deal through, as well as all the cards!
Lord Frost then has a crisis of faith on stage and surprises everyone by coming out in support of Remain, by stating the founding principles of European Union.
I want you to watch this video I made in 2018.
I want you to listen to your own words in the tweets above.
Then I want you to sit and think about how utterly stupid you sound.
Lord Frost, you embarrassed this country in Lisbon today.
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Can you imagine if, during the years of Brexit renegotiations (2020-24), journalists had grilled the Tories on their manifesto promise to get Brexit done.... as much as they're now grilling Labour on whether they're "taxing working people"?
It shows they CAN do their jobs.
They just chose not to with the Tories.
Look at this.
It's very good journalism by @WilfredFrost, exposing that the Labour manifesto used the technicality of not directly taxing working people, but it still hits them.
"Get Brexit Done" was literally the title of the Tory manifesto and was NEVER challenged like this.
Boris Johnson started renegotiations SIX MONTHS after winning an election on a promise to end the Brexit negotiations.
So there's nothing subjective about the fact that the Tory government was elected on a lie.
Yet NOT ONE news station categorically communicated that fact.