Brendan Donnelly @Brendandonn@respublicae.eu

RT by @Brendandonn: It was our membership conditions, opting out of this, that and the other, that led many electors to believe that an arms length relationship with the the EU was the most desirable outcome. Brexit was the unsurprising and even logical culmination of this process.

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[2023-12-16 22:16 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: It was the calculation of the British establishment that the culture of optouts would make membership of the EU more palatable to the British electorate. It didn’t work out that way and said establishment should now admit its errors. We need to be full, not reluctant EU members.

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[2023-12-16 22:49 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: Many Brexiters feel better about themselves and their country by despising the EU and its member states. The best advice for the EU would be to take no notice of these Brexiters. Don’t even ignore them.

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[2023-12-15 23:40 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: As far as the nuts and bolts of Brexit are concerned, the “nuts” element is much more prominent than the bolting element, except if you have stable doors in mind,

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[2023-12-14 23:16 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: They probably tried it in 1753 and it didn’t work then. And it’s obviously too early now to repeat a failed experiment.

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[2023-12-14 14:50 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: Or he might ask the Rwandan authorities to adjudicate on a claim from him that he is the subject of political persecution. He could be confident that his case would be dealt with by the Rwandans in accordance with the demands of the ECHR.

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[2023-12-14 12:02 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: The suggestion that Farage, who was never an MP, could “return” to Westminster, reminds me of the Soviet joke about the future’s being certain, but the past’s changing all the time.

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[2023-12-13 23:13 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: Perhaps “culmination” would have been more accurate. But contempt for the rule of law and revelling in pointless cruelty do mark a Rubicon for today’s Conservative Party. There is no way back to acceptability after the Rwanda legislation. It is both absurd and outrageous.

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[2023-12-13 20:27 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: When goods bearing the Northern Ireland mark are sold in GB perhaps an extra sentence could added to the packaging saying that the mark has been disapplied in a specific and limited way. That ought to reassure the woke Remainer nervous Nellies.

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[2023-12-13 20:41 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: The conflation of the EU and the ECHR often seems based on the view that both are bunches of foreigners telling us what to do, so it is hardly worth trying to differentiate between them. Brexit and nuance are not necessarily natural soul-mates.

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[2023-12-13 11:19 UTC]

The great majority of Conservative MPs yesterday voted for legislation based on performative cruelty and contempt for international law. Opponents of the legislation thought it was not performative or contemptuous enough.Reason and decency seem to have deserted this party.

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[2023-12-13 00:18 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: At least they demonstrate some self-knowledge in comparing themselves to criminal gangs who batten on civilised society and pose an existential threat to the rule of law.

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[2023-12-13 00:29 UTC]

William Hague tells the Times that he is worried about the future of the Conservative Party. Well he might be. The Party has finally reached the end of the path on which he set it at the turn of the century. It is deeply ironic now to witness his much too late unease.

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[2023-12-12 13:31 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: Backbone in politics behaves like a human muscle. If not exercised it wastes away. One Nation Conservatives used to provide the solid, rational core of their Party. The atrophy of their backbone is at the root of the Conservative Party’s now galloping degeneration.

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[2023-12-12 14:20 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: The feebleness of moderate Conservatism in the contemporary Party predates Brexit and was one of the main reasons leading to Brexit. The past seven years have simply made this feebleness more manifest.

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[2023-12-12 10:17 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: The Conservative civil war on Europe was always fought asymmetrically. The One Nation wing always bowed to pressure for party unity. The ERG and its allies on the other hand were only prepared to permit party unity on their own terms. The latter tactic was much more effective.

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[2023-12-12 08:17 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: The insanity resides in the willingness of the government to take seriously the vapourings of the ERG. The press are simply reporting the doings of political folk who have chosen to live in the manner of a lunatic asylum.

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[2023-12-12 00:30 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: The fundamental misconception of current One Nation Conservatism is the belief that there is a significant difference between saying “we can reluctantly accept this” and “go ahead and do whatever the lunatics in our Party want you to do.”

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[2023-12-12 00:47 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: Johnson and Sunak have treated the electorate with contempt in their testimony to the enquiry. If we acquiesce in their behaviour we will deserve their contempt

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[2023-12-11 22:12 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: All Conservative Prime Ministers since 2016 have struggled against inevitable political destruction. It’s just that some of them have been marginally more successful in postponing the evil day. Sunak’s struggle will be useless but it may not be long.

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[2023-12-11 22:45 UTC]