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If not now, when?
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Dec 21, 2022 11 tweets 1 min read
I was wrong about Brexit

🧵 It has unleashed growth that no one could have imagined
Nov 29, 2022 8 tweets 2 min read
Freedom of Movement Has Always Been Limited

🧵 Here is the link to the relevant directive:

eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/…
Nov 25, 2022 6 tweets 2 min read
Apr 8, 2022 8 tweets 2 min read
What a scoundrel @GregHands is!

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No Rishi’s wife does not have to be a non-dom because she is not British

There are genuine questions as to where her permanent residence is

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Jan 22, 2022 7 tweets 2 min read
A thread on defences run by Tories 🧵
Jan 3, 2021 4 tweets 1 min read
Some context - it is personal:

3.8m applications to reapply to stay in their homes

Many EU citizens consider Brexit a vote against them being here

Being called “queue jumpers”

That GOV letters have been sent to EU citizens questioning their right to be here/ 1 U.K. GOV celebrating ending free movement

U.K. GOV and the windrush scandal

The impact of Brexit on the UK’s reputation is significant context
Jan 2, 2021 13 tweets 4 min read
Well that’s out! Said @GeoffreyBoycott ! / 1 If you are English and like cricket

Which was invented in Belgium...

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/eur…

🤯🤯🤯

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Dec 28, 2020 7 tweets 1 min read
U.K. Gov wants the Turing Scheme to replace Erasmus to offer more opportunity to U.K. students. If that is so then ask the following: /1 Why did Johnson commit to staying in Erasmus in January 2020? /2
Dec 27, 2020 28 tweets 3 min read
The U.K. Audiovisual Sector and the new trade deal with the EU / 1 The U.K. AV sector is worth about £15bn so ten times the size of the fishing sector /2
Dec 27, 2020 8 tweets 1 min read
So here is how it will go /1 U.K. has already made itself less competitive with new barriers to its largest market - the EU /2
Sep 14, 2020 10 tweets 1 min read
For fuck’s sake UK GOV /1 You organised a referendum with no plan /2
Sep 13, 2020 12 tweets 9 min read
Tomorrow I am going to rob a bank for £200 so I can feed my children for the rest of the month.

Presumably this is ok
@RobertBuckland and @SuellaBraverman
because it is

- only in a certain specific and limited way; and

- you would not find it unacceptable?

#canibreakthelaw is it ok
@RobertBuckland and @SuellaBraverman

if I don’t pay my council tax this month because I have lost my job and need the money to feed my kids?

#canIbreakthelaw
Jul 10, 2020 9 tweets 2 min read
Oh dear @DamianGreen MP for Ashford thinks it is unfair to build a giant customs site in his constituency /1 Image There will be disruption you wang. It is not a temporary site nor is it “in case of disruption”. The UK is creating trade barriers /2
May 31, 2020 13 tweets 2 min read
Gaslight alert/1 The EU gets its mandate from the 27 Member States. They set the European Commission’s negotiating mandate /2
May 30, 2020 14 tweets 2 min read
1/ Nissan in Sunderland - take that you doommonger remainery types 2/ First up, it is great news that Nissan is staying. No-one wants any job losses
May 29, 2020 12 tweets 1 min read
1/ If UK GOV is willing to muddle pandemic laws and guidance to protect one unelected advisor at whatever cost to the UK public then 2/ Do you really think their Brexit plan will have the interests of the UK public at heart?
May 23, 2020 8 tweets 1 min read
Questions questions questions /1 Why did Cummings put his kid in a closed environment where the kid would catch the virus?
Nov 19, 2019 13 tweets 2 min read
1/ 2019 UK Elections Brexit Permutations 2/ The election is on 12 December with MPs returning on 17 December to elect the Speaker and be sworn in
Nov 17, 2019 24 tweets 15 min read
1/ Scheming, tricksy thieving EU citizens are bleeding our precioussss NHS claims Gollum of the NHS @MattHancock @MattHancock 2/ @MattHancock endorses this from torrent of bullshit supremo @michaelgove
Jun 19, 2019 28 tweets 6 min read
1/ Welcome to Wednesday in the independent republic of Brexitlandia 2/ Last night we were treated to a mass debate among the potential leaders of Brexitlandia. What a load of wank
Jun 18, 2019 6 tweets 2 min read
@RoryStewartUK What is your proposal for the future relationship with the EU? As far as I know you have not said what that should look like @RoryStewartUK I mean it seems reasonable to ask how hard a Brexit you will seek to deliver given the Government’s own analysis shows all forms of Brexit will make the UK poorer and weaker