Brendan Donnelly @Brendandonn@respublicae.eu
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Re @nialloconghaile Brexit only continues to enjoy the shadowy half-life it does through a copious supply of new myths to nourish it. These myths change from week to week and bear at best only a passing relationship with reality. They are nothing more than blood for the ghost of Brexit.
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Re @ElenaAdaal @nialloconghaile British politicians and officials tend to believe that if they want something then other people will and should want it too. They are always therefore always on the lookout for signs, however marginal, that other people are starting to fulfil the role allocated to them.
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Re @andrewhesselden @AndrewPRLevi The EU’s leaders believe that the people who live in the countries they lead benefit from maintaining the legal integrity of the EU. I think they are right, but it is for them to make this decision, not for the British government.
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Re @nickreeves9876 It’s always tempting to have your cake and eat it at the same time.
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Re @APHClarkson @nialloconghaile @JXB101 Putting any offer on the table highlights the British role of demandeur. But Brexit was supposed to put an end to all that. Brexit relied on the belief that “they”needed us more than “we” needed them. The Conservative Party can never find a way out of this dead end.
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Both the Labour and Conservative Parties are struggling for a coherent political identity. John Palmer and I discuss their crises of identity in the new FedTrust video. See https://fedtrust.co.uk/video-will-brexit-split-the-labour-party/
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Re @chrisgreybrexit Better that a hundred criminals walk free than that one Nigel Farage risk being deprived of his Coutts bank account.
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Re @NicholasTyrone These guys take politics very seriously indeed. Their opponents need to take them seriously as well. There is danger in underestimating one’s opponents, however ludicrous they appear to rational outside observers.
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Re @chrisgreybrexit I imagine Luz Truss would see half a million as being a small price to pay for ridding herself of a turbulent civil servant who might pester her with rational advice.
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Re @DPhinnemore @APHClarkson How much of a barrier this ratchet will be to the UK’s rejoining the UK depends on how long and how quickly the ratchet will have been operating by the time the UK (inevitably) asks to rejoin the EU. Here’s to a slow ratchet quickly reversed!
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Re @annaturley Perhaps in the circles where Rishi Sunak moves Coutts is a basic service. Not that the Prime Minister is a member of the metropolitan elite or anything like that. He is fully attuned to the will of the people, as are Johnson, Rees-Mogg and all their proletarian cronies.
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RT Richard Hewison
And so, just 2 days to go!
Many thanks to all the amazing people
I’ve spoken to in #UxbridgeAndSouthRuislip over the last few weeks!
Our final video message below
https://youtu.be/smba17iAmYk
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Re @gabrielmilland @APHClarkson As the current Conservative Party moves ever further away from policies grounded in facts and rationality, those with an educational grounding in facts and rationality will inevitably move ever further away from the Conservative Party.
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Re @ProfDaveAndress No doubt Sunak would see his Premiership and David Cameron’s as being proof of the benefits of a PPE degree. After all, British Prime Ministers earn a decent salary and can give lucrative lectures indefinitely after they retire. What more could one ask of a degree course?
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The Rejoin EU Party hits out at Starmer’s Brexit stance https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/the-rejoin-eu-party-hits-out-at-starmers-brexit-stance/
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The Rejoin EU Party hits out at Starmer’s Brexit stance - The New European https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/the-rejoin-eu-party-hits-out-at-starmers-brexit-stance/
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Even thought I say so myself, there are some good quotes in this article.
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Re @JohnSpringford Because they are afraid that such journalists and their employers, if criticised, will try to hold their critics up to the same public humiliation as they inflicted on Huw Edwards.
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Re @JohnSpringford I suspect we are writing at cross-purposes. I was referring to journalists who hold back on criticising The Sun for its disgraceful reporting of the Huw Edwards story. Apologies for the misunderstanding.
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Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ Former Member of European Parliament; currently Director of Federal Trust for Education and Research. All tweets personal opinions only.
Joined Apr 2022
