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25 Oct, 11 tweets, 4 min read
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While we were in the EU, Our UK govt and the European Court of Justice (ECJ) had many running battles over water & air pollution.

UK govt kept trying to be lazy on pollution. The ECJ kept trying to hold UK govt to cleanliness standards it signed up to.

Some articles...
theguardian.com/politics/2009/…
2009: "[surfers against sewage] has spent the summer highlighting the inadequacies of the UK’s sewerage system, specifically with ... Stormwater Overflow drains (CSOs), culminating in the hard-hitting Panorama programme “Britain’s Dirty Beaches”"

sas.org.uk/news/campaigns…
2017: "the UK... will have to pay legal costs in a case that also found a number of other breaches around the handling of waste water in England and Gibraltar.

The problems stem from the UK's ageing Victorian sewers"

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-…
"The government is facing a potential court date in Europe after six years of failing to stop sewage leaking at sites in Sunderland and London... with Brexit looming there is uncertainty about whether [ECJ] can continue fighting for British water quality."
independent.co.uk/climate-change…
"The government believes the judgement is unfair and is mulling its next move." 🤦‍♂️

bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…
“While air pollution knows no borders and puts everyone at risk, those most vulnerable – pregnant women, children, the elderly, those already ill or poor– are particularly affected.”

theguardian.com/environment/20…
"The UK has “systematically and persistently” broken air pollution laws, the European Court of Justice has said"

euroweeklynews.com/2021/03/05/eu-…
"UK has been prosecuted by the EU for failing to properly treat sewage at several locations.
After complaints from members of the public, the European Commission began legal proceedings in 2009 against the UK for breaching the Urban Waste Water Directive."
iema.net/articles/ecj-r…
"The British government could find itself off the hook in up to 11 key cases where the EU is pushing it to improve environmental protections if they are not taken up by a new UK regulator."

unearthed.greenpeace.org/2020/02/25/bre…
"Since 2012, this conflict between private interests and public duty has been played out in Europe after Yorkshire Water and United Utilities went to the European Court of Justice."

Really superb long piece in FT from 2019.

ft.com/content/5c1a33…

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4 Oct
I just interviewed Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion.

Discussing the incident of the Insulate Britain protesters blocking a woman in tears trying to get to a hospital - he says he’d do the same.

… and he would block an ambulance.

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That’s the shock part to get your attention.

This was a full 1h interview in which we thoroughly covered why he would be prepared for, even maybe welcome, protests to cause deaths. He says that happened in civil unrest movements of the past - only extreme levels are effective.
He also discussed how to break the system and remould it around citizen assemblies to make a power dynamic that is effective at bypassing entrenched power and engaging changes needed.

Keep an eye on The London Economic for more content from this interview.
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23 Sep
Stop. Just… stop. 🤦‍♂️

#KermitTheFrog
So silent you can hear teeth cracking from the cringing… 😬
“He was wrong!” (nothing)… “He was wrong!” (nothing)… talk faster now.

🦗
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12 Sep
Given that Brexit has so thoroughly screwed the music industry…

…it’s lovely to see this new tradition of European & UK flags together at the Proms really take hold.

🇬🇧 ❤️ 🇪🇺
So apparently this is from 2019 (naughty @EUflagmafia - I just shared your video!)

Video from 2021 is below. There were performances outside the hall & flags inside. I know people who went.

So I’ll try to dig out that stuff. Apologies.

Here’s one of the outside activities:
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26 Jul
Agree UK was driven into Brexit cul de sac.

I don’t attribute this to SW1 though.

Mess was started by Vote Leave campaigning with no written prospectus. “Leave SM/CU” was declared late. Messy. Then ERG nutcase pressures. Then Lancaster House speech baked inflexible positions.
For example, after Brexit vote, many of us accepted result (albeit w/ serious misgivings about behaviour in the referendum).

I, for example, wrote academic pieces about how to build UK-EU science after Brexit. Many of us up for discussion & co-work.

Lancaster House killed that.
We’d even been holding meetings about the UK as a “third pillar” (alongside EU & EFTA) within the Single Market- with advice from Norweigen reps.

But all such discussion got rejected out-of-hand by ERG/VL/Govt/BBC.

Felt like they’d won by an inch but felt entitled to miles.
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25 Jul
But @Dominic2306

You’re talking about a no-deal Brexit here, which would’ve instantly shafted “our science & tech agenda”.

It would’ve frozen all UK Horizon 2020 projects with UK as coordinator (issue wasn’t technically solved), wrecked future collabs, UK reputation [thread]
Also, there would have been instant cessation of data passing between UK and Single Market labs/sci teams. That’s because there would have been no contractual underpinning for data security.

There would also have been no deal on movement of experts/ qualification recognition…
Supplies of sensitive/dangerous/ biological substances would be put on hold (eg DNA or test samples that need chilled/ deep freeze transport) for lack of known regulation and insecurity around time to transport materials that require special shipping conditions…
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