If theres anything that should gladden a rejoiners heart its this sort of article.

You can't cant rule out Britain chaning its mind in the coming years. That would be the end of democracy...which can only mean one thing:
...Brexiters are running scared.
The article is obviously correct in many things, eg:

"There is no appetite for letting the UK rejoin at any time soon – most certainly not with the budget rebate and opt-outs from Shengen and the Euro it previously enjoyed."

Which is why Rejoiners need to play smarter.
Every weakening of Brexit, every softening is a move in the right direction.

& part of that process will involve a phase of "making Brexit work" - rejoiners will have to campaign for making Brexit work as if Rejoin is a discreet far off dream, even as it brings it nearer...
I'm utterly uninterested in having conversations about UK joining Schengen or Euro.
Theres simpy no point.

Thats worrying about the design of the habour while still in a stormy sea.

Just end Boris Johnson's Brexit & start the long road back.
Work with Europe
Align
Rejoin Europe

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20 Oct
One of the enduring myths of the last few years is that “before we joined Europe we traded more with the commonwealth & empire.”

It’s amazing how embedded this myth has become to the point that even some remainers believed it.

But it’s utterly wrong.
For the last 200 years Britain’s biggest trading partner has been Europe - not the empire and not, later, the commonwealth.

This makes sense both from geography as well as comparable industrial development reasons.

However there was a time in history when this wasn’t the case…
The time when UK traded more with empire than Europe was during the “trilateral trade” era - when Britain exported manufactured goods to Africa, slaves to America, then agricultural goods back to UK.

Of course this was not free trade” but “coercion trade”.

& coercive trade is…
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19 Oct
+UPDATE+

Uptake of vaccine by Premier League players greater than media reports.

It also now looks that many players waited till end of last year's football season to vaccinate.

It now turns out 81% of players have had at least one jab & 70% of players now double vaccinated.
At the end of September there were only seven clubs in the Premier League where more than 50% of players were fully vaccinated.

The huge rapid leap in double vaccination looks to have been a large clump of PL players not wanting to "risk" vaccination during season.
I pass no judgement on whether there's a case to be made for young sportsmen to "delay" vaccinations to a sporting "off season"...

...what I will say is this:
Media reports of PL players being "anti-vaxxers" seems widely over-blown or even...simply a lie.
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17 Oct
Boris Johnson is the expression of "Brexitism national will".

What Brexit is..is what Boris Johnson wants it to be today, not what Johnson said it was last year - which could be something utterly different.

That is why you must get rid of Boris Johnson 1st.
All flows from that.
Its hard for many to grasp this.
Indeed especially hard for many remainers who are immune to Johnson schtick.
It seems so..."unbritish".
But that is where we are.

To deny this is to deny the journey this country has been on.

We cannot even begin to roll this back until he goes.
)0% of people dont the difference between free trade, the WTO & a customs union.
Why should they..they have busy lives to lead.

Brexit thus can only "percieved" as a "feeling" or a "picture" thru which hopes/emotions are projected.

It has no concrete meaning beyond this.
Read 6 tweets
16 Oct
+UPDATE+

Matt Hancock to be rejected by the UN after publication of Britain’s disastrous handling of the Covid pandemic.

Boris Johnson had attempted to place former UK health minister Hancock in an top United Nation’s Africa Covid role but UN now look to have turned this down.
Matt Hancock had apparently been advised by Boris Johnson that his appointment was “in the bag” and so announced his position before checking with the UN.
BBC confirms story.

UN nations, particularly African countries, resented having someone who was in charge of one of Europe’s worst Covid response being foisted upon them by Boris Johnson
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14 Oct
OK don’t hate me but I’m coming round to the “world cup every 2 years” idea.

There are more reasons than one might think at 1st glance why this makes sense.
1. The premier league is turning into a super league in itself with 5-6 other European clubs dominating football.

The gap between these and most clubs is widening every day.

International football is now, strangely, a more equalising force in football than club football.
In other words as club football gets more detached from the mainstream - international football is filing this gap by providing genuine completion where money is not the overriding insurmountable factor.
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12 Oct
I see a lot of people utterly dispirited at this poll..however it should be noted that if this was the result in an election…

…Johnson would be history and Britain would now have a Labour-led govt.
Aim should be to get Tories below 310 seats.
Don’t care about the final parliament composition.

The current polls are in this territory- although not convincingly so.
We’re basically at margin of error territory where we know 1-3% green votes shift to LibDems or Labour every GE.
I’m other words everything being equal the current polls suggest most likely outcome a labour led coalition dependent on LibDems & nationalist parties.

Not ideal for labour.
But if you’re looking for most likely context to give UK a shot at SM/CU quite probably the best outcome.
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