Brendan Donnelly @Brendandonn@respublicae.eu

RT by @Brendandonn: She’s having her cake and eating it because she holds all the cards. Getting rid of Rishi Sunak will be the easiest deal in history. And it will save us hundreds of millions of quid every week.

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[2024-01-29 20:35 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: The IEA’s supporters will no doubt be discombobulated by Dr Comte’s rehearsal of these fairly obvious arguments against Brexit. They should hold on to their hats. There’s a lot more of such shocks heading down the track towards them as Brexit unravels ever more speedily.

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[2024-01-29 21:57 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: In making the libertarian case against Brexit Dr Comte implicitly endorses the arguments used by Corbyn and chums against the EU. In reality, the EU is like Goldilocks, being neither too libertarian nor too interventionist. That is why both extremes of the spectrum oppose it.

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[2024-01-29 19:54 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: In 1975 Remain won the referendum largely because the political extremists were all in favour of leaving. In 2016 the extremists combined their contradictory arguments to ensure a vote for leaving. It is hard to claim that this marked progress in the UK’s political culture.

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[2024-01-29 20:04 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: Claims that the EU will never want the UK back are often Brexiter propaganda. But the UK can’t simply announce its willingness to rejoin and then expect grateful plaudits from the EU. There will be work to be done to persuade our European partners that we are serious this time.

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[2024-01-29 18:16 UTC]

Continental Europeans often follow British politics quite closely. They tend to be amused or dismissive in their judgements rather than appalled or outraged. The UK has lost in weight and credibility throughout Europe as a result of Brexit.
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[2024-01-29 18:22 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: Remainers who intend to vote for Starmer usually claim to believe that in government Starmer will move away from his clear undertakings about not joining the SM or CU. It’s a funny old world where people will vote for someone hoping he will do the opposite of what he promised.

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[2024-01-29 18:49 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: As a ex-member, the UK can expect be the object of suspicion from the EU rather than fond enthusiasm. Starmer’s attempts to reassure Eurosceptics by ruling out CU and SM have reinforced this tendency. He can expect civility from Brussels but anything more needs to be earned.

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[2024-01-29 14:20 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: It’s not really a question of making policy about migration. The point is to make angry people direct their anger away from the Conservative Party. That way, Professor Goodwin argues, the Conservative Party has a chance of avoiding annihilation at the GE. I doubt if he is right.

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[2024-01-29 15:04 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: I think the perception in continental Europe is that the UK has been run in recent years by incompetent buffoons rather than that it has been run by traitors. They also wonder about the stability of a political system that has produced and may produce again such strange leaders.

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[2024-01-29 15:42 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: It is not necessarily an advantage, when debating with ordinary, commonsensical folk like Nick Timothy, to cite one’s personal experience of the issue being discussed. He might accuse you of being an expert. You wouldn’t want that, would you?

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[2024-01-28 20:42 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: When even Roger Bootle recognises that Brexit has developed in a way”not necessarily to our advantage” can an unconditional surrender of the Brexit lobby be far away? After Brexit has been reversed lots of people will want to be Hirohito rather than Tojo.

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[2024-01-28 21:05 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: It is striking how far the dial of public opinion has moved on Brexit. Nobody can now plausibly claim that Brexit has been a success. Instead the argument is that it is really not so bad after all; or that it has been undermined by someone or other’s lack of zeal for the cause.

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[2024-01-28 21:15 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: This story may or may not be true. But the apparent hope from Sunak’s PR team that its publication would endear him to the British electorate is truly bizarre. Most Conservative voters in particular will regard going without breakfast on Monday as the worst kind of food faddism.

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[2024-01-28 21:43 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: Critics of this government have claimed it is not serious about its “levelling up” agenda. Its willingness to improve the precarious situation of City bankers shows just how misconceived such criticism is.

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[2024-01-28 22:42 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: To many advocates of Brexit, the concept of “research” is already an unattractive one. “New research” is even more suspect. Much better, in their view, to stick to old preconceptions about the British Empire and about a lot of other things too.

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[2024-01-28 15:19 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: This linkage is not surprising. The Empire was an important building- block in the philosophy of British exceptionalism. This exceptionalism was in turn an important motivating force behind Brexit. Why should Great Britain share its turbo-charged sovereignty with tiny Luxembourg?

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[2024-01-28 12:33 UTC]

The problem for the Conservative Party is that MPs no longer ask themselves whether Sunak should go but when. Their differing answers to this question generate the present confusion. Add in clashing personal ambitions and the impasse is complete.
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[2024-01-28 09:17 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: Badenoch or Braverman might think the risk worth taking. If after their becoming PM the opinion polls improved a little and the election defeat was slightly less shattering than predicted then they could take the credit. Anyway,it is always useful to be the woman in possession.

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[2024-01-27 23:39 UTC]

RT by @Brendandonn: For all the talk about Global Britain the Express in this faithfully reflects the thinking behind Brexit, which is that foreigners are always out to do us down and it’s best to keep them at arm’s length. What’s someone with a French name like Trudeau doing running Canada anyway?

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[2024-01-27 14:41 UTC]