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Steve Analyst
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Political Analyst, Most overrated threader on twitter, Citizen of the Universe, Normally spell it: emperor
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May 26 • 42 tweets • 14 min read
It's Debunk Sunday, and today we're covering William Waldegrave's memoirs.

I'm so confident of this one, I'm going to do it live... 🧵 William claims he refused to campaign for the European Communities while also saying it did not infringe on our sovereignty. Image
May 22, 2023 • 44 tweets • 17 min read
1. Dear @mariannaspring, you don’t know me, but I work on breaking up a particular conspiracy theory, and if you have time, I’d really like to talk to you about a possible story for BBC Verify. 🧵 2. Here in the book ‘The Great Deception’, co-written by conspiracy theorist Christopher Booker, a reference to the 1996 BBC documentary ‘The Poisoned Chalice’ is used as proof that Edward Heath was not giving us the whole story. Image
Apr 1, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
This is why I think the CPTPP deal isn't a great deal. I'm not against it, but the cumulation gain is of greater benefit to companies located in the other signatories than to UK industry.

Another example of the government putting bragging rights over British companies. Cumulation is a good thing, but it is more likely to be a factor among countries that are geographically closer.
Mar 31, 2023 • 15 tweets • 2 min read
"This is a win against all those disdainful Europhiles who said that an independent Britain would be too weak and unimportant to run its own trade policy."

Those 'Europhiles' were in equal number to the Brexiteers who said the same thing. If every one of their strawmen had a vote, we'd have won the referendum by a landslide.
Mar 30, 2023 • 44 tweets • 14 min read
1. A superstate from the start? 🧵 Image 2. The EU originates from the Schuman plan and Schuman did not support a superstate. It would be nice if we could leave it there, but... Image
Mar 24, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
They really are trying to kill the Lords off. I cannot think of another reason behind elevating people like this.
Mar 12, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Does the BBC's argument make any sense to anyone? That the BBC can have someone like Robbie Gibb in charge of BBC Westminster, but as long as he keeps his leanings secret, the BBC will be seen as less impartial?

Surely being impartial is more important than being seen to be. I understand that in producing impartial news content the process and the professionalism involved can be undermined by people's own bias of the people who created it, and therefore the public views of the creators might be counterproductive.
Mar 11, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
It's amazing how many people whose entire career has been spent pushing out undiluted bias suddenly care about people being presented impartial information. All these sticklers for BBC rules who are considerably less concerned about the government breaking international law.
Mar 9, 2023 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
According to the Radio Times, Edwina you were a presenter on a programme that engaged in lies about Heath.

You weren't that concerned with impartiality then. I was just reading this interesting story about how Edwina applied to be a candidate to become an MEP. She didn't make it onto the list that was published on 5th April, 1998.
Mar 7, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
What about the adding the context that people consistently polled that they were against it because it meant high food prices, while at the same time believing the country as a whole would be economically better off inside?

Just a thought. It's also not the case that all the polls were that negative. Since it's not that hard in that situation to develop a question which would create a different result.
Feb 28, 2023 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Back to saying how great it is.

The people of NI have no representation in the Court. No representation in the parliament that makes the laws. We had to ask for permission to sort out trade of our internal market.

As an independence and democracy project, Brexit is a failure. The big success here is that it's a failed democracy and independence project with better trade facilitation and the notion of a reduced democratic deficit.
Feb 27, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The DUP appear to be rejecting the deal.

Apparently it wasn't the sausages stealing their identity after all.

Who'd have thought? Anyone who tried to give credence to their arguments should hang their head in shame now.
Feb 1, 2023 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
One of the reasons I voted to stay in the EU was better democracy.

A duopoly, with a such a strong whip, being propped up by first-past-the-post, is not democracy.

In the EU we had more votes.
The whip was weak.
Millions of people weren't disenfranchised by FPTP. Hundreds of seats are safe in this country, and now the party system which decides who we can vote for, who can be our PM, how our PM is chosen, and what are policies are, have now reduced the number of people who represent us to 1.
Jan 31, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
The argument against having a referendum on the EU, or anything. Guess I'm going to have to do one about the Guardian expose of a report that was on the front page of the Guardian.

Where they they misquotes Heath in a parliament to suggest he was hiding monetary union, but in fact refers to Monetary Union...

Jan 21, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
A key point missed here is: How lots of EU regulation is actually made. 🤦‍♂️ Further into this anti-intellectual project we go.
Nov 28, 2022 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Apparently the BBC programme only showed the negatives of Brexit and ignored the benefits of Brexit.

Like being able to choose who leads us... I'm guessing the BBC will have to schedule a programme showing the other side of the debate, in 2072 when those benefits are predicted to reveal themselves.
Nov 24, 2022 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Another shallow trade take from Greg Hands, who once told me that being in a customs union with the EU would mean they could make trade deals that would affect the NHS.

1/10 Normally I have better things to do than correct the endless stream of trade nonsense coming from the UK, but I cannot ignore this line.

2/10

Nov 22, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
A big lie told by Brexiteers was that the UK government's 1970s negotiating position was 'swallow the lot'. It was a misrepresentation of Con O'Neil's negotiation summary which explained the political basis that left cherry picking almost impossible. By misconstruing those words, it meant that the lesson was ignored. People were allowed to believe that Britain joining was a surrender, and that if we were to stand up to them in the Great British spirit, we could get everything we wanted.
Nov 14, 2022 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Multi-nationals do not love red-tape. This classic Brexiteer grievance strategy based on the idea that Multi-nationals love red tape because it holds poor small businesses back is just nonsense.
Nov 10, 2022 • 14 tweets • 2 min read
I think it's funny that Mogg accuses the EU of being unconstitutional, when part of the argument has been driven by MPs not respecting constitutional practices and confusing 'democracy' with 'power'. Tony Benn told a story at the time of Lisbon that when he was on the Council in the 1970s he was astonished to find that they would not let him introduce a paper.
Nov 4, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Actually feel sorry for Oliver, for no other reason than I can't think of a single time I've seen someone in the UK explain the history of the European project and its development. We have, however, had conspiracy documentaries about our accession. An example which is often cited as Heath "admitting he hid the European Union" is the BBC's Poisoned Chalice that claimed that economic and monetary union were discussed before 1972 and went "far beyond the minds of most MPs".