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31 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Calling all French-speakers... Is my translation accurate?

NOTE: This is the paragraph from a longer letter that has been causing so much trouble over the last few hours, with many journalists claiming France wants to "damage" the UK.

(Original above, my translation below.)
More context, if you're coming on this story fresh...
Here's the BBC, seemingly relying on the original false translation...
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-591011…
Thanks for all the feedback. I've made a few tiny tweaks.

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Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡 Profile picture
31 Oct
What Labour should say to the Tories about Brexit:

"You told us you had an oven-ready deal. We chose to respect the referendum result by letting you try to implement it. Subsequent events have shown that it was a rotting mess. It is time to reverse the damage you've inflicted."
That instantly defangs the "But you voted for it too..." accusation.

They can lean hard on a sense of fair play:

"Given the large Tory majority and the original outcome of the referendum, it seemed prudent to let you implement a deal that you assured the public was oven-ready."
"But now that it has become clear beyond any doubt that what the British people were promised was not what they got, we feel compelled to step in."

etc. etc. etc.
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31 Oct
Politico's reputation crumbles with stunts like this. If you speak French, you'll see there's been a deliberate mistranslation of what the letter said, in order to stir the pot on Brexit.

(If it's not deliberate then it's incompetent. Most news media took their cues from it.)
But then, Alex Wickham is alleged to be a godparent to Johnson's kid, so there's a very tangled wev there...
spectator.co.uk/article/inside…
Even our Brexit useful idiot in chief is quoting this false translation, and using it to attack the EU...
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30 Oct
Here's a nifty trick I just found out about...

Amazon has a "Matchmaker" tool for Audible audiobooks.

You can use it to check if any Kindle ebooks you own have audiobook versions available.

If so, they'll often be offered to you at a hefty discount.
amazon.co.uk/hz/audible/mat…
(It's particularly useful if you bought the Kindle books during a periodic sale or offer, because the discount on the audiobook seems to be independent of what you originally paid for the Kindle edition.)
Of course, it depends on you having Kindle books to match in the first place.

However, if you're an avid consumer of audiobooks, you may find it cheaper to buy the Kindle edition and add the discounted audio edition than to just buy the audio edition directly through Audible.
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25 Oct
Let's play a little game of "Which Tory MPs copied each other's homework on the sewage vote debacle?"

Each of these MPs authored a first-person blog post cribbing from the same underlying material. Some rewrote bits, others copied verbatim.

Simon Jupp
simonjupp.org.uk/news/environme…
Rachel Maclean
rachelmaclean.uk/2021/10/25/exp…

Anne Marie Morris
annemariemorris.co.uk/news/comment-l…

James Wild
jameswild.org.uk/news/measures-…

(Keep reading, there's more...)
Selaine Saxby
selainesaxby.org.uk/news/amendment…

Danny Kruger (he tweaked his base script more than most)
dannykruger.org.uk/news/what-last…

Ben Spencer
drbenspencer.org.uk/news/protectin…

(Keep reading, there's more...)
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25 Oct
The Tory vote on raw sewage discharges is the difference between stomping on the hands of someone who's hanging over a precipice, and failing to haul them to safety.

Tory MPs certainly didn't stomp on their hands. But they walked away knowing they would plunge to their death.
In other words, did they vote to pump raw sewage into Britain's rivers and coastlines? No, of course not.

But they could have outlawed a practice which has been going on in defiance of EU law (EU were trying to prosecute us before we left) and which has no legal consequence now.
Here's what the Environment Bill will do in its now unamended form.

(See excerpt below from an MP's blog.)

If that doesn't sound like much, it's because it isn't. Lots of report writing, precious little action.

And in the meantime, it's dump dump dump.
drbenspencer.org.uk/news/protectin…
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22 Oct
Gillian Keegan says it is "not comfortable sitting for hours in a mask" and warns they should not "become a sign of virtue".

She's the Care minister. 🤦‍♂️

Nothing says "I care" like not giving a fig about your fellow men and women.

Masks protect others. theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
This Gillian Keegan...

"Gaffe-prone minister Gillian Keegan dismisses as 'teething trouble' huge health data bungle that saw 16,000 Covid-19 cases 'missed' because of outdated software, saying 'these things do happen'"
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8…
This Gillian Keegan...

"Education minister posted snaps of holiday in French Alps as exam fiasco unfolded"

(She was messing up other jobs before becoming Care minister.)
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
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