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It's going to be a long march back home to our European friends. So much damage has been done. However, the best time to start is today and the next best day is tomorrow.
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They’d better get on with it because I’m worse off than last year and I’m willing to bet I’ll be worse off next year too.
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People don’t want another narrative. They want delivery.
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GB News.
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I think they would unanimously chorus 'Dullness is just what we need after 14 years of....' in a flat monotone voice.
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🤦♂️
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For the holiday homes brigade, it's also tied into the psyche of property ownership in the UK and 'an Englishman's home is his castle'. Buying a house vs renting or just having a holidaty confers a set of imagined rights of utility.
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There's a skill involved in dealing all day every day with miserable Brits who blame other people for their own problems.
#xenophobia #stupidity #Brexit
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Vaccines aren't that profitable. People not taking vaccines and having long term health complications will buy other drugs and need healthcare.
Given the timescales taken to develop and approve drugs, I suspect that there's concern but not panic as yet.
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Well, I grew up in the North so I'm going for thick and Northern and thick and Southern, if they're still trying to pretend this has been anything but an exercise in self immolation.
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Repairing a damaged car isn’t making the car crash ‘work’.
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You’re drowning in your stupidity if you think Brexit has worked for Gibraltar.
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It’s a pragmatic solution to a Brexit problem that affects people on both sides of a border. Nationalists, as ever, can argue who has won and lost and to what extent.
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Doubt they’re happy but, as with all things Brexit, it’s finding the least worse option to deal with the grinding stupidity that it has caused.
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The people of Gibraltar voted overwhelmingly to stay in the EU because they knew Brexit would cause all sorts of problems for them, and it has.
Bit ironic that Brexiters are suddenly so concerned for their welfare.
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It’s not in the culture of civilised people in the U.K.
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They certainly have the same mentality.
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In other words, Reeves and the Treasury have achieved a rare - though not unique - distinction of alienating vast numbers of British voters for next-to-zero fiscal or economic benefit. Bravo Rachel 👀
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A pointless exercise and a painful retreat.
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Yep, but too many members pretending that Brexit is some kind of side issue and not holding their feet to the fire.
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Still Labour supporters pretending Labour are pro EU and they’ll be doing it again in 2029.
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It won’t be easy, but the biggest impediment at the moment are people serving up a smorgasbord of excuses not to try.
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Labour supporters have bcome complicit in the nonsense too.
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Poor comms is another political problem but people take far more notice of things actually delivered. How many times have we see Governments announce housing targets but fail to deliver?
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Given news, interest in news and commentary is largely about disaster and threat, I’d consider that to be a sign of Irish success.
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Are people elsewhere in the EU interested in Irish politics? My friends in Portugal are bothered about Trump and the rise of Chega.
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Labour are keen to disassociate any of the effects of Brexit from Brexit itself but have no other means to repair the damage. Indeed, many things are worsening.
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We don’t have De Gaulle working actively to prevent us rejoining.
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A lot of the 'rejoin' movement really imagined that if they unconditionally donated / 'lent' their vote to Labour then Labour would 'pivot to rejoin' once in power.
Labour activists fed this narrative.
Once Labour gained power, the same activists switched to 'rejoin is impossible this term'