#Brexit

Just writing to call out some of the more ridiculous claims I've seen on Twitter today regarding the violence in Belfast. (1) The Good Friday Agreement is not over nor
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It bears repeating that responsibility for the Brexit deal rests with the government that negotiated it, signed it and recommended it to Parliament and the country as a great outcome.
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THREAD 1I am tired. STOP. CALLING HERD IMMUNITY DARWINIAN. ITS NAZIISM. ITS FASCISM. ITS a pogrom. It’s MURDER. THERE ARE CHEMICALS FOR TESTS. GOVE IS A LYING WHITE SUPREMACIST. WHO
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Outsourcing Brexit: £180 Million in Cabinet Office Contracts for Corporate Giants https://bylinetimes.com/2020/10/26/outsourcing-brexit-180-million-cabinet-office-contracts-corporate-giants/ Huge #Government contracts for the delivery of #
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A former Irish Ambassador retweeting a former French Ambassador, half in condemnation half in sorrow about the UK government. Once upon a time this would have mattered deeply to any
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Amid all the announcements today, it's easy to overlook that the OBR has updated its scenario on a no-deal Brexit. It exposes an undeniably hard reality for the Govt that
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#ToryCorruption-3Per The Times article, 14 Cab&junior mins + 2 ISC members received Russia-linked largesse. But it's worse than that...#Temerko bragged you need 20 MPs to get rid of a PM,
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I wonder if anyone in the UK government has realised that Brexit and its impact is an existential issue for the Republic of Ireland? Not a pretend one, to be
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It's not hard. If you elect vain, inept, rich, populist politicians who prosper on the hot air of bullshit and who make all kinds of crazy and divisive pronouncements simply
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There’s a perfect economic storm gathering, and we’ve got new data that shows just how significant the decision to extend transition or not could be for this country and its
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False Narratives. Thread. 1/37 Brexit is a stupid, dangerous and hugely damaging process to put the UK through. Furthermore this ‘oven ready Brexit’ will not deliver a single benefit that
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@markriceoxley69 Just got your Guardian supporters letter. Can I suggest Cummings is too bright to accidentally make a grotesque, insulting excuse when he could have just said he'd been taking
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All journalism is suffering from the same illness. Nick Robinson no more than anyone else. Nor any less either. The illness I'm talking about is the boneheaded refusal of English
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Some economic comparisons:A failing #Brexit has so far cost us the equivalent of the total of every payment we've made, ever, to the EU, since we joined. Some economic comparisons:
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The smearing war against Corbyn and the left should have been a wake-up call. The UK electorate should have realised they were being conned by powerful interests into voting for
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Dear @BorisJohnson, if you want a facile #10pointplan to help get your leg over, try this:1. Keep the elderly and vulnerable at home (a choice they have anyway), and get
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