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16 Dec, 11 tweets, 2 min read
🎄12 Days of Brexit Christmas🎶

On the 1st day of Christmas, Brexit sent to me
Mobile roaming charges.

On the 2nd day of Christmas, Brexit sent to me
Haulage industry chaos,
And mobile roaming charges.
On the 3rd day of Christmas, Brexit sent to me
Horrid sewage discharges,
Haulage industry chaos,
And mobile roaming charges.

On the 4th day of Christmas, Brexit sent to me
Parcels delayed at customs,
Horrid sewage discharges,
Haulage industry chaos,
And mobile roaming charges.
On the 5th day of Christmas, Brexit sent to me
Expensive foreign studies,
Parcels delayed at customs,
Horrid sewage discharges,
Haulage industry chaos,
And mobile roaming charges.
On the 6th day of Christmas, Brexit sent to me
Crops rotting in fields,
Expensive foreign studies,
Parcels delayed at customs,
Horrid sewage discharges,
Haulage industry chaos,
And mobile roaming charges.
On the 7th day of Christmas, Brexit sent to me
Shrinking export markets,
Crops rotting in fields,
Expensive foreign studies,
Parcels delayed at customs,
Horrid sewage discharges,
Haulage industry chaos,
And mobile roaming charges.
On the 8th day of Christmas, Brexit sent to me
Crumbling food standards,
Shrinking export markets,
Crops rotting in fields,
Expensive foreign studies,
Parcels delayed at customs,
Horrid sewage discharges,
Haulage industry chaos,
And mobile roaming charges.
On the 9th day of Christmas, Brexit sent to me
Pet travel problems,
Crumbling food standards,
Shrinking export markets,
Crops rotting in fields,
Expensive foreign studies,
Parcels delayed at customs,
Horrid sewage discharges,
Haulage industry chaos,
And mobile roaming charges.
On the 10th day...
Free movement losses,
Pet travel problems,
Crumbling food standards,
Shrinking export markets,
Crops rotting in fields,
Expensive foreign studies,
Parcels delayed at customs,
Horrid sewage discharges,
Haulage industry chaos,
And mobile roaming charges.
11th
Care staff shortages,
Free movement losses,
Pet travel problems,
Crumbling food standards,
Shrinking export markets,
Crops rotting in fields,
Expensive foreign studies,
Parcels delayed at customs,
Horrid sewage discharges,
Haulage industry chaos,
And mobile roaming charges.
On the 12th day of Christmas, Brexit sent to me
Nothing at all. Unfortunately, full incoming customs controls have come into force, and the resulting tailbacks are such that the intended gifts failed to get there in time.
Here it is all in one place (it's a slightly older version - will tidy it later today when I get the chance).

Enjoy!
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Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡 Profile picture
17 Dec
The UK continues to fall down the ranks of fully vaccinated countries, even within Europe.

Why? Because it's a marathon not a sprint, and we've practically stopped running. Almost nobody is coming forward for 1st and 2nd jabs any more. Other countries are persuading more people. Image
That's why it's galling to see the Tories continue to boast about our unprecedented vaccine performance on a daily basis.

It's true that we were the first country to begin vaccinations. Genuinely something to be proud of.

But overall, we haven't executed as well as many others.
We're doing well on the boosters.

But there too, we risk topping out below other countries, even if at the moment we're a bit ahead.

Why? Because we have fewer 2-dose people than they do as a % of the population, so we will literally run out of booster candidates.
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Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡 Profile picture
16 Dec
Of the UK's 67 post-Brexit trade deals (i.e. Liz Truss' trusty photocopier):

38 are fully ratified.

25 are provisionally in place ahead of full ratification

4 are bridging mechanisms because a deal's not been fully sorted out yet

3 remain in discussion
gov.uk/guidance/uk-tr…
But the EU also has trade agreements with:
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Iraq
Kazakhstan
Madagascar

None of the above countries feature on the UK's list, either in the "trade deals" or the "not yet negotiated" sections.
Also, the EU has trade agreements in the process of ratification (i.e. negotiations are finished, but the deals aren't yet in force) with 24 more countries.

None of those feature on the UK list either.

So we're very far from copying what we had before.
ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/c…
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Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡 Profile picture
15 Dec
"Get Boosted Now" plastered on the podium at Boris Johnson's press conference.

Boris Johnson: "Every eligible adult over 18 can get boosted now."
"Each and every one of you who rolls up your sleeve and gets jabbed is helping the national effort."
"Yesterday was the biggest booster day yet, with over 650,000 boosters delivered across the UK".

(We needed a million plus every single day to meet his end of December target. So way short of that.)
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Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡 Profile picture
15 Dec
Boris Johnson went hard on the success of the UK's world-beating vaccination programme again at #PMQs today.

We set out first, and ran the first laps faster than anyone else. But it's a marathon not a sprint.

Now, the UK is decidedly middling in terms of vaccine penetration.
The UK falls even down the European league table if you look at the share of the population that's been fully vaccinated (because we leave a longer gap between doses than most other countries do).
We're modestly ahead of other European countries on booster shots (NOT of the whole world, as Boris Johnson falsely claimed).

However, you have to consider that we began vaccinating earlier than any other country, so by definition we have the greatest number in need of boosting.
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Edwin Hayward 🦄 🗡 Profile picture
15 Dec
The 12 Days of Brexit 🎶
[a seasonal thread]

On the first day of Leaving, Brexit sent to me
Mobile roaming charges.

On the second day of Leaving, Brexit sent to me
Haulage industry chaos,
And mobile roaming charges.
On the third day of Leaving, Brexit sent to me
Horrid sewage discharges,
Haulage industry chaos,
And mobile roaming charges.

On the fourth day of Leaving, Brexit sent to me
Parcel delays at customs,
Horrid sewage discharges,
Haulage industry chaos,
And mobile roaming charges.
On the fifth day of Leaving, Brexit sent to me
Expensive foreign studies,
Parcel delays at customs,
Horrid sewage discharges,
Haulage industry chaos,
And mobile roaming charges.
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3 Dec
Did you know that every publisher was biased towards Remain? Yes, every single one...

At least, that's the excuse Mark Francois gave for having to self-publish his Brexit memoir after shopping it around and finding no takers.

No, really. Listen below...
Rather not listen to his dulcet tones? Here's an article summarising the whole sob story. (Of his failed publishing quest. No idea if there are tears in the book itself. Though there could easily be rips, if one applied oneself... Isn't English fun?)
12ft.io/proxy?q=https%…
He has an "interesting" style of writing (based on the small sample you can see by clicking "Look Inside" on Amazon) since he seems to be one of those people who believes some Words should randomly be Capitalised for no very obvious Reason. Ho hum, each to their own.
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