Claire Fox @Fox_Claire@respublicae.eu

Well, well...
RT @PippaCrerar: 👀 Jean-Claude Juncker, former president of European Commission, tells @AndrewMarr9 that Rishi Sunak’s Northern Ireland protocol deal gives Brussels “more authority than it seems” which “some in Britain are trying to hide”…

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Inside The Lords this wk: 2 stories gripping Parl - #WindsorAgreement & Hancock WhatsApps. Rishi sold Brexit Deal well; Tories have bought it. Who wouldn’t welcome easier trading lanes? There's even a veto to deal with ECJ? Then you read LEGAL text! Ouch https://youtu.be/4RaZfDyJxCI

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Absolutely. I won't forget the baying mob on Labour & Lib Dem benches in House of Lords daily demanding more/harder lockdown measures, however draconian, all in name of safety. Any dissent was labelled anti-science denial. Oh, and the media - NEVER forget those press conferences!
RT @joenutt_author: @Fox_Claire @ollysmithtravel The Tories will reap the whirlwind - but they were all in it up to their scalps.

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Our take on Hancock WhatsApp leak and also exactly why @acadofideas did its own Lockdown Inquiry mid those terrible Covid years. We knew we'd want to put horrors behind us, but that key to say "lest we forget," with remarkable mini films made at time when too few asking questions
RT @acadofideas: Academy of Ideas: 100,000 WhatsApps later, what have we learnt about the pandemic years? https://clairefox.substack.com/p/100000-whatsapps-later-what-have?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=auto_share&r=eylcj

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Important gp of amendments protecting press freedom from ill-advised, illiberal, chilling clauses in National Security Bill. I'm not allowed to speak but NB media already risk-averse/walks on eggshells re reporting dissent or challenging state. Security can't be excuse to silence
RT @UKHouseofLords: Live now: #NationalSecurityBill.

🔴 Watch live https://www.parliamentlive.tv/home/_404?aspxerrorpath=/Event/Index/2c4a6922-1d71-4fd9-8e01-ad340c999a57

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How to spectacularly miss the point. But I've noticed that scapegoating DUP for inability to fully realise Brexit's promise of sovereignty has become the latest fashion from all parties. "Pandering" seems such a cheap word to use in this context.
RT @PetronellaWyatt: Time to stop pandering to the DUP, which has done nothing but blackmail successive British Governments into fighting their wars. Cast them adrift for good and give up NI.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/brexit-deal-latest-news-rishi-sunak-dup-x37jvjhcq

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Really quite extraordinary, even if not surprising for some of us. To see it ii in black and white still shocks at just how brazen media manipulation can be.
RT @danbloom1: Some texts between George Osborne and Matt Hancock, as published by the Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/02/28/how-matt-hancock-achieved-100k-daily-covid-test-target/

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One thing I genuinely don't understand: why has Gov definitely scrapped Northern Ireland Protocol Bill BEFORE anyone in UK -public, Parl, DUP- has decided IF it accepts #WindsorAgreement? No doubt EU wanted it gone, but surely it COULD still be needed, unless this is a done deal?

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Another of those helpful, makes-you-think threads on #WindsorAgreement from @BarristersHorse - always worth a read
RT @BarristersHorse: 1. It seems to me that world events have forced perspective. Whilst the UK has been kicked from pillar to post since 2016, it became clear that our leaving the EU rocked the core of the Brussels institution.

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I'm RTing lots of thoughtful threads eg from Brexiteers like @RyanPHoey below, some more/ some less favourable re #WindsorAgreement. Everyone should read it themselves but I find mulling it over collectively helpful cf Town Hall mtgs/public conversations in @acadofideas tradition
RT @RyanPHoey: Ok, so it has been over 24 hours since the UK-EU Agreement on the Northern Ireland Protocol was published and I've had a chance to look through it. Tl;dr despite initial sc…

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Does this really illustrate Green Party's priorities? Message for Danny (and God knows if this pronoun is acceptable): Politics is not all about YOU.
RT @sarahrutherfor2: Newham Green leader Danny Keeling storms out of council meeting after being repeatedly misgendered. Called ‘he’ instead of ‘they’. Why are adults behaving like this? And why do other adults then feel they must apologize? Monty Python sketch. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/newham-green-party-danny-keeling-council-meeting-gender-b1063546.html

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Useful thread on #WindsorAgreement. Defintely verges towards positives (but there ARE positives) and underplays negatives (there ARE negatives). But it is a good summation of contents. As always, political issues such as proper sovereighty need to be given more weight in all this
RT @RaoulRuparel: Initial thoughts on quick reading of the Windsor Framework paper. My overall view is that it is much better than I expected. There are some real & meaningful changes 1/ …

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Really learnt a lot from this insightful podcast with @Future_Cities @briangr0254 @Colin_Brown_MAG & @JohnJohnStewart. Not more of same but lots of nuanced argument & new insights on seeming assaults on freedoms of drivers. Do listen to add more layers in discussing #LTNs #ULEZ
RT @Future_Cities: A fascinating discussion with @briangr0254 @Colin_Brown_MAG & @JohnJohnStewart on "Mobility in an Age of Restraint."
On #LTNs #ULEZ #cleanair & why people who oppose re…

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This is the section that requires close reading in legal text
RT @lisaocarroll: Biggest announcement seems to be the "Stormont break"
ECJ will have final say on single market issues.
Arbitration panel - mechanism based on consent in Good Friday Agreement says Sunak.
Emergency break will involve "extensive consultations" on EU laws and some "veto" powers

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No doubt far better than now, in terms of practical arrangements for trade & people in NI. Rishi v chipper. Fact #VonDerLeyen hardly blinked by confirming ECJ will have final say: imp sticking point. Whether it offers enough, we can only assess THAT when legal text scrutinised
RT @WilliamClouston: I offer cautious support for the Windsor Framework. It reduces intolerable trade friction within the UK, retains NI access to the SM and should pave the way to end har…

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They take us for fools. Btw, #VonDerLeyen is not a Head of State.
RT @DavidTWilcock: NEW: No10 defends King Charles' decision to meet EU's Ursula von der Leyen in margins of Windsor Brexit talks today, saying it is 'no different' to him meeting Poland's Duda and Ukraine's Zelensky on recent state visits

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Really like this piece of social history re housing in @unherd - explains why building more homes/proper home ownership (not #Leasehold) so historically important for democracy. And why Tories seem to be losing grasp of that. Labour set to take advantage https://unherd.com/2023/02/how-the-tories-lost-their-way/

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More smiling ERGers. When we actually get to see this damn deal, we'll know who exactly stands where. Such a shame that the public are sidelined, not able to make up their own minds in order to tell Rishi et al. what they think of it - good or bad - before anything signed off.
RT @tomhfh: “The Prime Minister is on the cusp of securing a really fantastic deal for everyone involved” says Northern Ireland Minister Steve Baker to media in Downing Street.

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!!! If ever anyone's high-handed, self-regarding, tone-deaf disdain for democracy & self-rule illustrated what triggered Brexit, this thread is a perfect example.
RT @Otto_English: Why did the UK fall for Brexit? Hubris, damned lies, weapons grade exceptionalism and the very dangerous conceit that we could "shake things up" and still land on our feet all played a part. Nations do not have a God-given right to thrive. And we are learning that the hard way.

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None of us know what's in Rishi's Deal. Indeed, secrecy a problem that fuels suspicion. Don't know if DUP/ERG will accept it. What I do know: this whole episode, incl paying court to #VonDerLeyen, crowing by likes of Guy below, induces familiar, gut-wrenching feelings of sell-out
RT @GuyVerhofstadt: PM Sunak says "There’s unfinished business on Brexit".

Yes..reversing it!

This deal might be welcome, but it addresses the symptoms, not the Brexit malaise.

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