RT by @Brendandonn: Perhaps asylum-seekers should from now on make their initial applications in Rwanda and cross their fingers that they are not deported to another country less respectful of international law like the UK.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/Brendandonn/status/1732453222101516733#m
[2023-12-06 17:33 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: I don’t think the bizarre actions of this government are any more dictated, whatever is claimed, by electoral considerations. Its personal and ideological struggles are simply theatres of the Conservative Party’s continuing civil war. The electorate are collateral damage.
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[2023-12-06 18:06 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: The phrase “incredibly seriously” means, if it means anything, that the supposed seriousness of the Rwandan government about implementing this treaty is unbelievable. I don’t think Cleverly meant to say that, but if he did, he was spot on.
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[2023-12-05 23:37 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: Perhaps when push comes to shove the Rwandan government will disapply this new treaty in a specific and limited way. Conservatives MPs should applaud this exercise of Rwandan national sovereignty.
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[2023-12-05 14:13 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: It is unclear where Fraser Nelson thinks these students from “India etc” should build their careers after study. The vagueness is understandable.I wonder how many people voted for Brexit in order to help folks from “India etc” to build their careers in the UK.
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[2023-12-05 13:00 UTC]
Freedom of Movement within the EU was an economically rational and culturally enriching arrangement for all concerned. The contrast with the chaotic,panicky and economically damaging measures announced by Rwanda-bound James Cleverly could not be starker. Brexit is bonkers.
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[2023-12-05 09:55 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: But it is important to Brexiters to continue pretending that the Uk is not now a rule-taker. Joining the Single Market would destroy this pretence. Brexit cannot bear very much reality.
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[2023-12-04 13:10 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: Most people have got better things to do than stand on their doorstep arguing with an uninvited canvasser, especially when the canvasser in question is the local MP whose views they don’t share.
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[2023-12-04 13:59 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: Since Conservative policies have for many years been geared almost exclusively towards stopping right wing voters from defecting to UKIP/Reform, I feel the Party’s pain at the predictable failure of this project.
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[2023-12-04 16:49 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: Not really. They were saying what they thought would get more votes for Leave. They may well have been right. Whether these claims had any relationship to later reality was neither here nor there. Many Brexiters have no doubt already forgotten most of what they said in 2016.
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[2023-12-04 18:03 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: Starmer is lucky that the Conservatives are so unpopular.Otherwise his European policy would cost him a lot of votes. As it is, many pro-European voters will give Starmer the benefit of the doubt and assume he knows he is talking nonsense about Brexit. This is a risky assumption!
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[2023-12-03 19:19 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: When the Brexiters claimed to reflect the “real” feelings of British people, what they meant was that the British people agreed with the Brexiters. Now the British people are obviously turning against Brexit their feelings apparently lose any claim to be”real.”
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[2023-12-03 15:43 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: It’s a funny old world in which the Conservatives in the next GE will be accusing the Labour Party of soft-pedalling its pro-EU sentiments ; and many of its supporters will be voting for the Labour Party because they hope that is true.
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[2023-12-01 19:51 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: This is not new. Depending on the day of the week British Eurosceptics have always alternated between criticising the EU for its dictatorial centralisation and on the other hand for its fragmented ineffectiveness.
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[2023-12-01 11:34 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: Brexit and wishful thinking often go together. The hope that Brexit can be made to work is as much a wishful thought as the belief that Brexit is working already.
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[2023-11-30 18:48 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: If, which is debatable, the Conservative Party was capable in 2019 of being led in a more constructive direction, it would have required for this to happen an exceptional intellectual and moral stamina from the Party’s leader that Johnson was always very unlikely to display.
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[2023-11-30 18:13 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: The guff about respecting the “will of the people” was only ever an advertising slogan to get Brexit over the line. Now it has fulfilled its purpose it can safely be jettisoned.
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[2023-11-30 12:54 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: The dominant Europhobic wing of the Conservative Party only supported Johnson in 2019 on the basis that he would bring about a disruptive Brexit. They were not interested in good will and reconciliation, and so Johnson couldn’t be either.
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[2023-11-30 13:23 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: The most important issue in British politics for the rest of the decade is when the disastrous reality of Brexit will force Labour to give up its European delusions. Will it be before,during or after the General Election? The sooner, the better for the country.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/Brendandonn/status/1729978756909912264#m
[2023-11-29 21:40 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: A country which cannot feed itself does not have sovereignty.
#Brexit destroyed our ability to ensure all British people can afford to eat.
🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/LizWebsterSBF/status/1729616215134310646#m
[2023-11-28 21:40 UTC]
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