Brendan Donnelly @Brendandonn@respublicae.eu
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Joined Apr 2022
RT by @Brendandonn: A facility for phrase-mongering and the occasional use of Latin phrases are thin proof of high intelligence. Most of the tributes to his supposed intellectual capacity come from other inhabitants of the political/media villages which spawned him. A slab of salt is called for.
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[2023-12-29 15:09 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: The phrase “last spasm” in Chris Grey’s analysis is important. How long will the British electorate be prepared to tolerate the nonsensicality of Brexit? When a pretentious project like Brexit descends into a pint-sized farce, its days must be numbered.
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[2023-12-28 23:02 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: In the not too distant future very few people will be willing to admit that they voted for Brexit in 2016. It is worth accelerating that process by not pressing people too much on how they actually voted in the referendum. A Pact of Forgetfulness has much to commend it.
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[2023-12-28 23:44 UTC]
An important part of reversing Brexit will be allowing many people who were in favour of Brexit in 2016 to pretend that they weren’t. That seems a small price to pay for ending a national tragedy.
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[2023-12-28 23:55 UTC]
R to @Brendandonn: It will also be important to allow people who said it would take thirty years to rejoin the EU to be an unembarrassed part of the campaign to reenter the Union at the end of this decade or the beginning of the next. There is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents….
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[2023-12-29 00:22 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: The article says "producers in both France and the UK have said they have no plans to sell their bubbles in pints". So it's not even an "incremental improvement": it's, literally, a non-event, the last spasm of Rees-Mogg's silly consultation & Brexiters' manufactured grievance.
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[2023-12-28 18:50 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: To make a success of Brexit we obviously need to elect a new population.If the present British public are unwilling to pay more for pint-sized bottles of wine then they didn’t deserve to be liberated from the tyranny of Brussels in the first place.
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[2023-12-28 14:37 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: British political culture can be pragmatic and realistic. But pragmatism did not always shape British policy towards the EU. It made no sense to join an organisation based on sovereignty-pooling and then spend forty years hoping that national sovereignty would remain unaffected.
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[2023-12-28 09:52 UTC]
This is not just a matter of historical interest. Our partners will not let us rejoin the EU unless we demonstrate a firm commitment to sovereignty-pooling, for instance by joining the euro and ending the culture of British opt-outs.
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[2023-12-28 10:41 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: But it is important to recognise that within the EU member states exercise a portion of their sovereignty supranationally and not simply nationally. The EU is not a merely intergovernmental organisation. An error of successive British governments was to hope that it might be.
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[2023-12-28 11:23 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: I wonder how many Conservatives really believe that abolishing IHT would be a game-changer. I think it’s more a question of trying to keep their spirits up by appearing to have options for action. Nobody wants to be the party-pooper admitting that defeat is now unavoidable.
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[2023-12-28 12:11 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: I am reminded of Eric Morecambe’s claim to be playing the right notes on the piano but “not necessarily” in the right order. Apparently Brexit’s benefits will eventually appear, but not necessarily in any useful order.
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[2023-12-28 12:32 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: I had to reread the text to make sure it was about Russia. I thought at first it referred to another country which also has a problematic relationship with the EU.
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[2023-12-28 13:28 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: Neither of them will have any very definite feelings on the subject. They will therefore simply be wondering what to say that will offend as few and please as many potential voters as possible. The temptation to say nothing must be overwhelming.
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[2023-12-27 21:13 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: Winston Churchill also wanted a United States of Europe https://youtu.be/y5o2WF5K9Go?si=OjT5h8kn1-58tVHo
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[2023-12-27 21:20 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: So sad to hear this. We would not have a single market, a single currency, or even a European Union without his dynamic and determined leadership. A true founding father of the institutions that governing Europeans today. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-67830106
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[2023-12-27 21:51 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: I think it probably needs a General Election to do this?
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[2023-12-27 17:44 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: So we will have a General Election next year in which the Conservative Party is accusing Keir Starmer of lying about his fiscal plans; and many of his supporters will be voting for him in the probably desperate hope he is lying as the Conservatives claim. It’s a funny old world.
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[2023-12-27 18:54 UTC]
RT by @Brendandonn: It will be interesting to see how British politicians react to this news. No doubt some Conservatives will say disobliging things. But I imagine the rest of the British political class will mostly sit on their hands. Which will be a sad response to the death of a great man.
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[2023-12-27 19:08 UTC]
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Joined Apr 2022
