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Jan 19 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I was just wondering where Gerald Ratner is these days
Alternative tweet: Bono joins the rest of the country.
Did you know that Bono was originally "Bono Vox", meaning "Good Voice", which is obviously not the least bit arrogant or embarrassing.
As Billy Connolly once exclaimed, "Bono wants to save the planet - shut the f*** up !"

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Jan 20
"Reeves also made it clear that Labour would not reverse Brexit. Asked if she could see Britain rejoining the EU or single market in the next 50 years, she replied: “No, I can’t see those circumstances.”
"She said she would “make Brexit work” by improving on the EU-UK trade deal signed by Johnson, and endorsed by Labour, by seeking to widen access to the single market for professionals, the cultural industry and the City."
"But she does not want to see a return to free movement, arguing that voters in Leeds, where she is an MP, were “rightly angry” that new jobs in the city were being directly advertised in eastern Europe."
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Sep 9, 2021
Our priorities are: War with France... Image
On hating the French (by @edwest )
unherd.com/2021/03/why-is…
And Rowan Atkinson
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Aug 29, 2021
The practical start of post-war euroscepticism/Brexitism. Image
From Grob-Fitzgibbon's Continental Drift.
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Aug 2, 2021
A hypothesis on what was wrong with UK/EU relations:

The shape & meaning of the EU/EEC and of UK-EU relations were and are in the eye of the beholder.

While this is true to some extent for life in general, the EU and UK/EU relationship went further in this regard. Thread.... /1
If, as a UK citizen in 1975, you wanted to show that the EEC and its members were heading for full political union, you could (and can) do so. There's plenty on the historic record suggesting this is exactly what would happen. You could then agree or disagree with that goal. /2
May I commend @EmporersNewC 's many threads on how the goal of political union was always in plain sight. /3
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Jul 30, 2021
This will be no surprise to anyone who has tracked Pete North in recent months. Once part of "sensible Leave" centred on staying in the EEA, now a full-on anti-immigration, anti-RNLI Farageist spewing BS.

turbulenttimes.co.uk/news/brexit/so…
"Ever since the Brexit insurgency was quashed, they’ve behaved as though Brexit never even happened. We’re back to square one."

WTF is he on?
If you're still a Flexciteer after all that has happened, maybe give your head a wobble.
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Dec 29, 2020
Hmm, I find nothing interesting, surprising or original in this, never mind anything revelatory.

It's all very standard late-1990s "the internet will be a force for liberation/libertarianism", described in a thousand articles and books, including by non-Tory tech people.
Look, Rightist Brexiters have a belief: it's a belief in smaller, limited government (which they believe often gets it wrong) and a correspondingly larger private sphere (which they believe often gets it right).

And that's basically it.
Brexiters therefore want less government regulation (which becomes "regulation=bad") and more private activity/exchange i.e. "free markets".

And they are thus going to view the layer of government that is the EU - a "regulatory superpower" - with hostility.
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