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Jan 29 β€’ 6 tweets β€’ 2 min read
The Express are ranting about an EU law that the UK can now repeal.

There are two gaping flaws with this:
1) The EU recognised the issue and has already changed its own law
2) The EU has also allowed member states to diverge from EU law to eliminate the last dregs of the problem Image
Here's the EU's existing revision to the old EU law in question (it would have been revised for us too had we still been a member, but we're stuck with the "dated photocopy" we made pre-Brexit)...
eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2021/2…
And here's an analysis last year describing how the EU fixed the problem, and how the UK needs to play catch-up.
12ft.io/proxy?q=https%…
But the official UK briefing on the issue dates back to June 2021 and hasn't been revised to account for the EU's actions in November 2021.

So lazy journalists (and the ones at the Express make pet rocks look lively) won't be aware of the EU change.
gov.uk/government/spe…
A real news story would have been:
1) Why is the UK making a song and dance about an EU law that's already been superseded?
2) Are MPs doing so genuinely unaware of the change?
3) What other changes might they also be unaware of, and which "yesterday's battles" are they fighting?
Added: over 24H after this travesty of misinformation was published, it's ranking as the second most read article in the entire UK news section of the Express website... Image

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Edwin Hayward πŸ¦„ πŸ—‘ Profile picture
Jan 31
Banging the populism gong wildly, Boris Johnson's apparently going to try and change the EU system of flight compensation for a home-grown alternative.

Of course, the effect is predictable: if this costs airlines more, they'll raise the cost of flights to the UK to compensate. Image
Remember, the UK's sovereignty stops at our borders. So any change can at best only affect two categories of flights:
A) Flights by UK-registered airlines
B) Flights originating from or ending up in the UK

A) will encourage more airline firms to move domicile away from the UK.
Going back to the Express article, it's vital to note that all that's actually been announced is the start of a consultation process.

So UK consumers will see zero benefits "now" and the compensation scheme remains exactly as it was.

Journalists? Liars.
express.co.uk/news/uk/155832…
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Jan 30
The Daily Mail health reporting team are a real piece of work.

Yesterday, there was a throwaway comment about Scotland's missing covid stats (invalidated the entire article) and today both NI and Scotland's stats are missing - the latter unacknowledged.

And look at the wording! ImageImage
NI and Scotland are running at about 8,000 new daily cases at the moment, meaning the Daily Mail disregarded the missing 8,000 cases to calculate its nonsensical statistics and produce an utterly false headline.

It's not a secret that the data is delayed (see below) - just LOOK! Image
So it wasn't "the lowest tally since December 14" at all, because that involves an 8,000 case fiddle factor.
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Jan 29
This is a verified blue tick Times columnist still spreading the discredited false claim that Brexit somehow advantaged the UK when it comes to the vaccine.

Has long since been fact checked to death and found false by many separate sources.

Status: Flat Earth.
Here's the Channel 4 Fact Check team...
channel4.com/news/factcheck… Image
BBC Fact Check

"But the idea that Brexit enabled the UK to press ahead and authorise [a vaccine] is not right.

It was actually permitted under EU law, a point made by the head of the UK's medicines regulator on Wednesday."

bbc.co.uk/news/55163730
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Jan 29
We're now nearly two years into the pandemic.

Have you noticed that the main UK government sources of information still de-emphasise the primary source of transmission (droplets and aerosols in the air) and over-emphasize the danger of catching it from surfaces?
It's particularly telling when you compare with international information (WHO, Mayo Clinic, EU etc.) which all place a much greater emphasis on the primary transmission route of droplets and aerosols suspended in the air, sometimes for hours, after they're breathed out.
This seems honest. It's in the middle of a long document from the Cabinet Office: "Coronavirus: how to stay safe and help prevent the spread"

But all the stuff about airborne transmission, speaking, singing etc. magically disappears in other core docs.
gov.uk/guidance/covid…
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Jan 28
BBC's "justification" for inviting those who've refused the vaccine onto Question Time. (They're now having to screen applications for rabid anti-vaxxers.)

Ridiculous non-logic, because belief in a Flat Earth can't put the lives of others at severe risk.
theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…
Can you imagine the mindset of someone who's essentially saying: "f*** reality - if people want to believe stuff that's KNOWN OBJECTIVELY to be untrue, we should give them a platform anyway"?

Having them anywhere near the flagship national broadcaster is beyond ridiculous.
It's the old "from the point of view of representation, Mrs Miggins the pie shop owner knows as much about international trade as customs specialists" Brexit argument all over again.

Except this time it's deadly.
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Jan 13
The Express touts letting more immigrants into the UK as a major benefit of Brexit.

Once more, with emphasis.

The ***EXPRESS*** touts letting ***MORE IMMIGRANTS*** into the UK as a major benefit of Brexit.

Unbelievable hypocrisy. Just staggering.
express.co.uk/news/politics/… Image
And as per usual with the Express, most of their website visitors will only ever see the headline.

Why? Because the headline, and only the headline, gets automatically syndicated all over the site.

And very very few people who see it (comparatively speaking) will click through. Image
So all they'll see is something vague and undefined being touted as:
A) Simple
B) A Brexit breakthrough
C) Under the UK's control

And think "aha, another Brexit positive".

And they'll never realise what the Express are actually advocating for.
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