Brendan Donnelly @Brendandonn@respublicae.eu
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Joined Apr 2022
RT by @Brendandonn: Probably the marbles should be in Athens, but I don’t much mind one way or the other. What I do mind very much about is the demeaning vulgarity of a Conservative Party that seeks to provide a cheap xenophobic thrill for its supporters through this issue.
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[2023-11-29 13:07 UTC]
Now Sunak accuses the Greek PM of “grandstanding.” It would not be easy to state the opposite of the truth with greater exactitude. Sunak may of course not be the first politician of whom something similar was said by someone or other.
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[2023-11-29 19:01 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: The people who are enthused by Sunak’s snubbing the Greek Prime Minister don’t much care whether is an Anglophile or not. He wants to take something away from us. What we have we hold, however we acquired it,
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[2023-11-29 19:29 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: By no means every columnist in the country claims that Brexit is going well. This problem is that most of them accept it is going badly but claim nothing can be done about it. Have they no ambition?
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[2023-11-29 19:42 UTC]
It is not enough to moan about Brexit. We have to fight to reverse it.
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[2023-11-29 19:48 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: All too often influential columnists find it all too easy to accept Starmer’s breezy optimism about relations with the EU. They don’t want to point out that the next PM has no European clothes.
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[2023-11-29 19:56 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: If #Brexit hasn’t been delivered why do we have trade barriers between Britain and the EU and Northern Ireland?
Why can’t we work, travel, study, retire across EU27 any longer?
Why can’t EU citizens come here and help us run our country any longer?
What did you expect Brexit to do?
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[2023-11-29 19:57 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: Von der Leyen has her critics, but in this case she is quite right. Those who think Brexit is sustainable in the medium term are pitting themselves against the incoming tide. At least King Canute knew that he could not reverse the incoming waves.
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[2023-11-29 20:13 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: Like homelessness, being a Conservative MP is a lifestyle choice. Public service? Up to a point Lord Copper.
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[2023-11-29 20:19 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: Perhaps if Cameron becomes Secretary General of NATO we could hold a referendum on British membership of that organisation. If David Cameron is on the Remain side the result will be a foregone conclusion.
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[2023-11-29 20:26 UTC]
It is extraordinary that Sunak apparently expects the Greek Prime Minister to come to London and not say that the Elgin marbles should go back to Greece. This is the Brexiter mentality which reconstructs the rest of the world in the image of its own superficial convenience.
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[2023-11-27 20:45 UTC]
In this podcast John Stevens and I discuss whether Sunak has a realistic strategy to deal with the changes Brexit has brought about in British politics. We rather doubt whether he has. See
https://rss.com/podcasts/federaltrust/
via
https://nitter.cz/rss
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[2023-11-20 21:15 UTC]
Sunak swings with the wind, as we discuss in this video.
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[2023-11-15 19:36 UTC]
John Stevens and I debate whether there is a strategy behind Rishi Sunak’s reshuffle. If there is, can it work?
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[2023-11-14 16:53 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: What the Covid Inquiry tells us about Brexit. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. Though focused on how the Govt dealt with CV-19, the Inquiry reveals what kind of Govt was dealing with Brexit. It'd be absurd to think it was any more competent at that: https://chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2023/11/what-covid-inquiry-tells-us-about-brexit.html
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[2023-11-10 07:44 UTC]
Chris Grey lays bare with customary forensic skill the wreckage inflicted on our whole system of government by Brexit. It is difficult to believe that this wreckage can ever be reversed without the reversal of Brexit.
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[2023-11-10 08:54 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: Brexit has damaged Britain’s “openness,” said Bank of England governor.
Andrew Bailey stressed that as a public official he took “no position” on the decision to quit the EU.
“That was a decision for the people of the UK,” he said which isn’t true as the Supreme Court ruled that parliament had to decide but were never asked, so Theresa May made the decision!
“It has led to a reduction in the openness of the UK economy, though over time new trading relationships around the world should, and I expect will, be established.
“Of course, that requires a commitment to openness and free trade.”
He forgot to mention that Britain has cut itself off from the largest free trade bloc in the world with Brexit.
Other economists, and the Government’s own watchdog, the Office for Budget Responsibility, have warned that Brexit has delivered a multi-billion pound blow to the UK.
Mr Bailey also warned that interest rates, hammering many homeowners with higher mortgage rates, were not set to fall significantly in the short-term.
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[2023-11-08 11:39 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: It also makes no sense given we rely on the EU for so many commodities. Brexit self harming isn’t seen by those who are lost to Brexit boosterism. The denials are the same as smokers who continue to smoke.
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[2023-11-08 11:58 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: BIT – 8 November 2023 – Honesty Is not An Option: Evolving pro-Brexit arguments in post-truth Albion.
Brexiters will have won when we are too exhausted, tired, and demoralised to argue with them. Here’s another long post debunking ‘Brexiter economics’
http://www.gerhardschnyder.com/brexit-impact-tracker/2023/11/8/brexit-impact-tracker-8-november-2023-honesty-is-not-an-option-evolving-pro-brexit-arguments-in-post-truth-albion
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[2023-11-08 17:00 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: One additional point is that, in praising the IEA report, Trade Secretary Kemi Badenoch is effectively saying that she does not accept the OBR analysis which itself informs her own government's budgetary policy.
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[2023-11-08 19:02 UTC]
Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ Former Member of European Parliament; currently Director of Federal Trust for Education and Research. All tweets personal opinions only.
Joined Apr 2022
