Brendan Donnelly @Brendandonn@respublicae.eu

RT by @Brendandonn: The longer it remains outside the EU the greater the risk that the UK will become another turkey full stop.

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[2024-01-08 16:22 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: In theory the government wants to diverge from the EU as a proof of Brexit’s success. In reality such divergence is economically suicidal. The farce about pints of champagne is an attempted diversion from this clash between the will of Brexiters and the won’t of basic economics.

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[2024-01-07 22:16 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: Rejoin EU is the party to which pro-Europeans should give their votes. The Conservatives will anyway be kicked out in 2024.A good showing in the GE for a genuinely pro-European party would put pressure on Starmer’s government to come off the fence on which it is impaling itself.

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[2024-01-07 18:43 UTC]

History can indeed repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
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[2024-01-07 20:39 UTC]

Anecdotal reporting is a very tempting way of bolstering a weak underlying argument, since such anecdotes can never be checked or rebutted.
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[2024-01-07 20:42 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: Older viewers may remember that George Wallace, the segregationist governor of Alabama, got his wife to stand as governor when he was unable to stand a third time. He was seen as the power behind her throne and later re-elected as governor. This may or may not be a precedent.

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[2024-01-07 18:38 UTC]

Major was a leading voice in the unsuccessful Remain campaign of 2016. But it was his indecisive premiership that opened the floodgates to UKIP and its effective takeover of the Conservative Party. Otherwise there would have been no referendum. What goes around comes around.
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[2024-01-06 12:32 UTC]

At one level the desire to have your cake and eat it is simply an infantile disorder. But when elevated to a central principle of governance, as it has been by Brexit, it is a dangerous and destructive infantilisation of British politics.
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[2024-01-06 12:55 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: From a historical point of view, considerations (2) and (3) far outweigh consideration (1). Major’s indecisiveness in the face of Eurosceptic insurrection made later disastrous developments in the Conservative Party infinitely more likely than they needed to be.

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[2024-01-06 09:07 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: If you think you can have your cake and eat it at the same time, logical coherence is not at the top of the Christmas present list you leave in the fireplace for Santa.

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[2024-01-05 22:33 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: The Sun might not have approved of honour’s being paid to the dead Jacques Delors. The dysfunctionality of current British politics is summed up in the content of the preceding sentence.

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[2024-01-05 22:59 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: It’s a bit like Sam Goldwyn’s telling his secretary to weed his files and keep a copy of everything thrown away.

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[2024-01-05 23:09 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: McDonnell may not be a plausible advocate for his own argument. But it would be wrong to underestimate the possibility that an ineffectual and politically vacuous government under Keir Starmer may usher in a dangerously right wing government in 2029.

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[2024-01-05 19:59 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: Maybe Rishi Sunak is just bad at politics

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[2024-01-05 20:04 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: “Having your cake and eating it” is a disturbing thread running through Brexit-centred populism. One day Oxbridge is a target of abuse and the day after any other universities are second rate. Reality is supposed to mutate according to the changing needs of the populist speaker.

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[2024-01-05 20:40 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: I don’t think it will become a Group A event under the Broadcasting Act. It may even be a bit of a niche market. But those who are interested will find it very interesting indeed.

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[2024-01-05 16:08 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: Labour cultism is no doubt part of the Party’s willingness to tolerate Starmer’s incoherent approach to the EU. But behind the incoherence lies a cynical assessment of the Party’s electoral prospects. If Starmer can become PM talking nonsense, why risk talking sense?

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[2024-01-05 10:50 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: The Brexit self-punishment machine. New post on my Brexit &amp; Beyond Blog. The apparently trivial 'champagne pints' announcement tells us something about Brexit in itself, and much more about the confusions and fantasies of post-Brexit regulatory policy: https://chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-brexit-self-punishment-machine.html

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[2024-01-05 07:46 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: Chris Grey p(o)ints out that greater alignment with EU standards, as seems to be Labour’s policy, will not of itself bring restored access to the Single Market. For that, the UK would need to be integrated into the whole SM institutional system. Not a lot of people know that.

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[2024-01-05 09:36 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: Habib deserves some sympathy. He was assured by the Prime Minister of the day that the withdrawal agreement would have no such effect. I imagine he is now mortified to discover that Boris Johnson did not deserve the confidence placed in him.

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[2024-01-04 12:57 UTC]