Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan@respublicae.eu

As always, the reflexive response is: "Ha! Well, you signed it!"
That's it, guys? That's all you've got?
Yes, it was signed - signed when the Benn Act held the government hostage. People who supported the Benn Act really don't get to make that complaint.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyOUnYA0P84&list=PLwbCAr7Ox3Qs_1-xNfYUODHxJk4ZxqMUw&index=36

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We are two lions litter'd in one day,
And I the elder and more terrible...
RT @edwest: America and Britain 'they're basically Siamese twins, or two heads of a dragon, but Britain has historically been the more evil head of the dragon'

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The UK government has no option but to suspend parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol. It cannot undermine the stability and prosperity of the province simply because the EU is still grumpy about Brexit. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/a-vindictive-eu-is-stirring-trouble-in-northern-ireland

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@RedRangerIsBack @7nestingwrens @Keir_Starmer I was against the fines all along, and would favour a general amnesty. Including - if he gets an FPN - for Starmer, since we are not a banana republic that uses partisan investigations to punish politicians of whom we happen to disapprove.

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@RedRangerIsBack @7nestingwrens @Keir_Starmer I'm not cheering Keir. I think he'd make a terrible prime minister. And it would take a heart of stone not to laugh at his hoist-petarderie. But I think it's crazy to demand that people be punished for unwitting infractions - or, in this case, not even that.

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@7nestingwrens @RedRangerIsBack @Keir_Starmer Civility, courtesy, moderation and common sense are intrinsic to my understanding of conservatism.

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@K_Niemietz @edwest @post_liberal Same here. He's a reminder that some Marxists - unlike the cloth-eared old cadger himself - can write beautifully.

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This is getting completely out of hand. There is nothing remotely wrong with @Keir_Starmer scheduling a party in case restrictions had by then been relaxed. What a ghastly bunch of Malvolios we are turning into.
RT @alexwickham: NEW: Starmer's office sent an email to 40 staff inviting them to an in-person Christmas party in Dec 2020

London was in Tier 2: indoor household mixing banned, rule of 6 outside

Labour source declined i…

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@drhannan @BorisJohnson A bit harsh, there, cousin. One of his grandfathers served with the RAF during the war, the other won a Distinguished Service Cross with the Royal Navy.

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A very astute point just now by @ChrisMasonBBC. Boris never sets moral bars for others to clear. Starmer does. Situations like this, however unfairly, are therefore more dangerous for censorious prigs than for libertine rakes.

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RT @peteswonenine: Excellent piece by Daniel Hannan.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/05/07/now-time-pm-govern-like-conservative-britains-sake/

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@johnsharkey5 Really? When was Ireland united - other than under the British Crown? What dates?

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@tomhfh The final should be held in Rostov or Voronezh, which will by then have been annexed from Russia to teach Lavrov to mind his manners around British foreign secretaries.

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@johnsharkey5 “Back”?

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We can have devolution and power-sharing in Northern Ireland, or we can have the Northern Ireland Protocol. Pick one.

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Were Tories punished in the South for building too few homes (@michaelGove's argument) or too many (@TomTugendhat's)?
Depressing thesis. They're both right. Voters want cheaper housing but oppose development, and blame politicians for the dissonance ("They Just Don't Get It!")

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RT @TomWentworth4: ‘The expansion of the state means fewer people paying into the system and more drawing from it. It sacrifices future growth to present revenue. Yet, again & again, we hear ministers boasting of higher expenditure as if it were itself a measure of success’ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/05/07/now-time-pm-govern-like-conservative-britains-sake/

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RT @DanielJHannan: I once gave a talk to some Year 7s, and showed them slides of meerkats that looked like @nigel_farage, orangutans that looked like @BorisJohnson and manta rays that looked like @David_Cameron. This (just found in a drawer) was their thank you letter.

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RT @harryph: .@DanielJHannan: "To watch Labour frontbenchers now scrambling to argue that, no, an investigation is only an investigation is a piece of irony so funny – so beautiful, indeed – that it could be mounted on Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth." https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/05/07/now-time-pm-govern-like-conservative-britains-sake/

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@MichaelLCrick
RT @DanielJHannan: Quite right. It would be absurd retrospectively to fine someone over what was at worst a technical infraction (in my view not even that). When did we start doing this Latin American thing of launching partisan investigations against political opponents? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/04/28/keir-starmer-wont-fined-lockdown-beer-even-found-have-broken/

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