Brendan Donnelly @Brendandonn@respublicae.eu

Re @DavidGHFrost If Brexit were succeeding Frost would be rightly indifferent to criticism from outsiders. Because Brexit is failing he feels himself understandably vulnerable. He used to be a Remainer. Time to rerat?

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Re @DavidGHFrost Lord Frost seems to agree by implication that when the UK was a member of the EU it had considerable influence over European legislation. Many Brexiters would have you believe that the UK was consistently bulldozed into humiliating submission by the EU. This was always nonsense.

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Re @DAaronovitch For ideologues an “exchange of views” means exclusively that people who arrived at the discussion with their own set of views leave the discussion having fully imbibed the views of the ideologues.

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Re @NicholasTyrone And we don’t much care for the Australians either after their shamelessly exploiting the laws of cricket to our disadvantage last Sunday.

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Re @APHClarkson @Dan1763 @Usherwood The danger is that the Labour leadership will convince themselves that they have a viable European strategy. They will then be inclined to blame the EU when the latter very probably refuse to play ball as hoped in 2026.

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RT The Rejoin EU Party
🚨Today @ 6 pm
@RichardHewison on why he’s running in Uxbridge.
Rejoin EU, Why I'm Standing in Uxbridge.
#UxbridgeandSouthRuislip #RejoinEU
https://youtu.be/TQmmoNKM_ao https://t.co/8kBi35ESDX

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Rejoin EU, Why I'm Standing in Uxbridge? https://youtu.be/TQmmoNKM_ao via @YouTube

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Re @Parody_PM I can understand why sometimes Rishi Sunak likes to pose as a moderate and rational member of the Conservative Party. What puzzles me is that the non-negligible number of remaining moderate and rational Conservative MPs feel compelled to take his implausible pose seriously,

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Re @PrfChrisPainter The former England captain Michael Atherton thought Bairstow was at fault. But we can safely disregard his views. He is after all an expert.

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Re @chrisgreybrexit @edwinhayward I would distinguish between “being in the SM/CU” and “seeking as a a policy to be in the SM/CU.”I am unenthusiastic about the latter because it is a probably unachievable diversion from the need to rejoin. But being in the SM/CU, if achieved, would be better than the status quo.

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Re @Se25a @chrisgreybrexit @edwinhayward To join SM/CU the British government would need to accept EU rules which it had no part in formulating. I cannot see this as ever being acceptable to British public opinion. Rejoining the EU is a more coherent position. I fear Labour may win handily in 2024 but yet lose in 2029.

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Re @seandanaher5 @chrisgreybrexit @dasvee All of the above came together in a cocktail toxic for the future of the United Kingdom.

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Re @implausibleblog Can we perhaps encourage locksmiths from the Red Wall to carry out keyhole surgery? British patients are fed up with traditional experts.

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Re @chrisgreybrexit @seandanaher5 @dasvee It was essential to Leave’s victory in 2016 that Brexit could mean different, often contradictory things to different people. Otherwise the winning coalition could never have been assembled.

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Re @pswidlicki A number of British politicians pursue a similar strategy about the the skeletons in their closets. By definition, we do not know how many of them get away with it.

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Geoff Martin and I discuss the impact of the Windsor Framework on Northern Ireland in the new Federal Trust video. See https://fedtrust.co.uk/video-can-northern-ireland-survive-brexit/

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Re @chrisgreybrexit @ElliH53 An argument can be made that some of Neil’s aspirations would be marginally more achievable outside rather than inside the EU. But that leaves wholly unanswered questions about the desirability of his aspirations and the price worth paying for marginal progress towards them.

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Re @NicholasTyrone @acheremeteff01 His listeners would be much less irritated by his condescending tone if he convinced them that fundamentally he knew what he was talking about. Unfortunately for him and his Party, he doesn’t come anywhere near managing to do so.

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Re @NicholasTyrone That is a thought we discuss in the new Federal Trust video. See https://fedtrust.co.uk/video-johnson-sunak-and-brexit-a-trio-from-hell/#iLightbox%5Bgallery7635%5D/0

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Re @TorstenBell The Federal Trust is indeed talking about Brexit. We think Brexit and Johnson will always go hand in hand. See https://fedtrust.co.uk/video-johnson-sunak-and-brexit-a-trio-from-hell/

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