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French TV's Mr Europe 30 yrs Host international events (+1 500) Write books on languages Teach journalism at Sorbonne and have tamed camels 🇪🇺🇫🇷🏳️‍🌈🇬🇧

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Delighted to have moderated several round tables today on the digital world with President Macron, VP Kamala Harris, Ursula von der Leyen, Justin Trudeau, not to mention the CEOs of YouTube, Microsoft, Amazon, Unicef etc ! @ParisPeaceForum Quite the day ! 😀
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Wow. You have to watch this, it just happened live on #SkyNews A Portuguese woman, in GB for 20 yrs, papers refused... "I gave this country my youth - I looked after your children, your elderly. You must make me part of this process, I have no voice. You can't just kick me out."
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No one has ever called out, with such clarity and sheer authority the "glaring omissions" of UK broadcasters who refuse to discuss Brexit ("the obvious economic cause of major change in this country)" as @maitlis just has here in one minute 👏👏 Absolutely this 💯👇👇👇
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So I just subtitled exactly, word for word, what Macron said about sovereignty and Johnson - and not the mangled version you might get in the UK media (or from certain UK politicians) 😀
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Here's exactly what Macron just said replying to the Truss "friend or foe" comment (my Eng subtitles 👇) (although I think his silence and look when asked the question says it all 😀👇)
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YOU CANNOT COME OUT OF A CUSTOMS UNION, AND THEN BLAME EVERYONE ELSE IF THAT CREATES A BORDER - ESPECIALLY, ESPECIALLY !! IF YOU'VE SPENT THE LAST 5 YEARS SHOUTING YOU'RE TAKING BACK CONTROL OF YOUR ..... YEP, - BORDERS !!! Oh I give up - I'm off to bed😀
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My goodness, this must be the mother of all Freudian slips - by the Russian ambassador to the UN just now 👇 "The corpses in Boutcha that didn't exist before the Russian troops arrived ... er, er, left, sorry - before they left ..."
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BORIS JOHNSON'S BREXIT IS THE CAUSE OF FOOD AND PETROL SHORTAGES IN THE UK WE DO NOT HAVE THESE PROBLEMS IN THE EU IT REALLY IS THAT SIMPLE
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I'm sorry but this is just incredible !👇 "Since 2015 we have resettled 25 000 people, more than any other country in Europe " says Javid, totally unchallenged on @SkyNews HELLO ??? GERMANY TOOK IN OVER A MILLION !! False UK narratives on migration are simply breathtaking
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Oh dear, she's already missleading people Truss says 👇 "if taxes are put up to the same level as France, that will put off investors" How come then, that for the 3RD YEAR RUNNING, France has attracted more foreign investment than any other European country ? #PMQs
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Amazing @itvnews ! This is actually the first report on 🇬🇧TV I've actually seen which calls a spade a spade and calls out the "economic damage Brexit - not Covid - has caused and which is becoming harder and harder to ignore" 👇👇👇
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Controversial one from me this morning, but remind me why I, as a French taxpayer, should pay to protect the UK's borders, - now that the UK's "taken back control" of them ?
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This is worryingly unconvincing from the BBC. I have worked in TV news for 30 years and in the highly sensitive atmosphere of an election you cannot edit out laughter at a statement by a PM and replace it with applause and say you did it "for timing reasons". You really can't.
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@OborneTweets This clip, which was played in full on the 10 o’clock news last night, was shortened for timing reasons in today’s lunchtime bulletin. We’ve fully covered Boris Johnson’s appearance on the BBC QT special, and the reaction to it, across our outlets.
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This is the European Parliament NONE of its 705 MPs voted to allow companies to discharge raw sewage into Europe's rivers and seas ... #TorySewageParty
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"We've checked - in France Poland, Germany, Italy, NL, Spain - no other country in the EU - not even N. Ireland - is seeing the kind of problems in the UK" Thank-you Thank-you Thank-you ! #Marr 1st UK journalist I've seen who did this, AND to the man responsible for it 👇
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At last !! 👏👏 First time I've seen on major UK news programme a reminder that the UK receives FAR FEWER asylum claims than most EU countries - it's NINETEENTH in Europe per population !! You wouldn't think so from most reports on it ! 👏👏 @BBCMarkEaston @thehuwedwards 👇👇
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Words fail me that this loathsome man actually just compared the Ukrainian people's current quest for freedom to the UK voting for Brexit Just when you thought he couldn't sink to new depths 👇
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Dear UK journalists, please stop calling it "post Brexit bureaucracy" "friction at the borders" "mountains of red tape" "rigorous new customs controls" etc etc etc And start calling it what it really is ..... "Not being in the EU"
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Ludicrous doesn't even begin to cover this 👇 @Jacob_Rees_Mogg telling an actual wine importer whose livelihood is collapsing because of Brexit that since Brexit it's much easier to import wine They lied to get their Brexit - their lies are even more barefaced about its damage👇
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This is truly outrageous. The PM doesn't realise that ending free movement for EU citizens into the UK will work the other way. She fumbles, consults paragraphs and says the EU won't end similar rights for British people. Thanks @PeteWishart for challenging her on this. Galling.
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Thankyou @BBCr4today They have just "fact-checked" Gove's interview yesterday and confirm Brits will NOT have free health coverage in the EU from January and young Brits will NOT be able to take part in Erasmus All because of Brexit, alas, alas In other words, Gove lied
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"The UK chose not to be in Erasmus" Barnier "Chose not to be" Young Brits will remember that
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Live : he's finally lost the plot. He is actually insane. 😱😱
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My goodness ! Quite the letter in today's @thetimes (Important to read it right to the very end !) 👇
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After Patel misled Parliament yesterday about a non-existent Visa Application Centre in Calais for Ukrainians with family in the UK, Truss said today there was one in Lille I can't find any evidence of it, no address, or even phone - and I'm a journalist here and I speak French
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The elected representatives of 27 EU countries applaud Zelensky (video link) I reported from this place for 30 years and never saw it speak with one, very loud voice like this before. Putin has done what no one else achieved - brought the whole of our continent together, united
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"Johnson is someone who lies all the time. Lies are ontological, elemental, essential for him" So 😀 I just subtitled into English what my friend @MarionVanR said about him on French TV, mentioning, among other things, the @PeterStefanovi2 video 👇
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This is how New Zealand TV is reporting the Brexit trade deal with the UK They visibly can't believe their luck that British farming has been made the "sacrificial lamb" for a deal hugely beneficial to NZ with "negligeable benefits for UK farmers who get nothing in return" 👇
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This is damning ! Anyone thinking 🇬🇧 and Johnson didn't sell out to 🇦🇺 should watch these Australian TV presenters laughing out loud about it 👇 "Name 1 good export from the UK !" "It's hard. Black pudding ? Spice Girl CDs ? It's more about what we can now sell to them"
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Something quite amazing on 🇫🇷 TV just now 👇 Macron being interviewed by 50 journalists all with autistic spectrum disorder. They ask him questions no one else would, and he replies as normally he wouldn't. Incredible to watch Chapeau 👏 to him and @France2tv @JournalPapotin
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Les journalistes du Papotin ont rencontré le Président de la République, Emmanuel Macron, pour une rencontre sans filtre. Rendez-vous samedi 7 janvier à 20h30 sur @France2tv pour découvrir l’émission. #LesRencontresDuPapotin #Papotin
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Oh dear. The Express raging that EU citizens receive "preferential treatment" whilst travelling within *checks article* .. the EU !! 🤡 Yes, they actually say that Well that would be the free movement you got all your readers to ditch for the rest of us !
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Rage as Brits stuck in airport queue while EU travellers fly through

BRITONS have taken to social media to share their frustration as they are forced to queue for hours at EU airports while other passengers fly through arrivals.

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🇬🇧It's not Brexit. It's the weather ! 🇪🇺You wanted out of the Single Market. So, when there are fewer tomatoes (because of THE WEATHER) sorry but you're gonna be last in the queue for everyone's tomatoes, SO YES, IT'S BREXIT (and btw stop gaslighting your people. Thanks 🤡 !)
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YOU CANNOT COME OUT OF A CUSTOMS UNION AND THEN BLAME EVERYONE ELSE IF THAT CREATES A BORDER, - ESPECIALLY, ESPECIALLY !! IF YOU SPENT THE LAST 6 YRS SAYING YOU WERE TAKING BACK CONTROL OF YOUR, YEP, ... BORDERS As long as they keep doing this 👇, I'll keep tweeting that 👆😀😀
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How many vaccines have been exported from the following ? 🇺🇲 0 🇬🇧 0 🇪🇺 41.6 MILLION - (the largest recipient, by far, of which being 🇬🇧 (10 million) 👇👇👇 But guess who gets accused of "outrageous vaccine nationalism" and "behaving like a dictatorship" about vaccines (Raab) ?
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Brexit Party's last day in the🇪🇺Parliament They think they're patriotic but these jingoistic charlatans, banging tables👇 have done untold long term damage to the reputation of🇬🇧, fought for notably by my parents' generation Good riddance, bon débarras und auf Nimmerwiedersehen
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I spent 30 yrs of my career saying very cool things about the UK on French TV. Even last week I did the rounds (for free) saying lovely things about the Queen I've just said no to a French TV news channel about the Rwanda deportations because I'm actually ashamed to be British
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Here's the extract of Macron being interviewed on @France2tv yesterday by journalists with autistic spectrum - this time with English s/t 👇 Amazing TV 👏 @JournalPapotin @EmmanuelMacron
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Thank you @BBCRosAtkins as ever for being one of the very rare UK journalists to show UK has far fewer asylum applications than big EU countries👇 Most UK media never point this out, fanning the "they're all coming here" hysteria behind Sunak and Braverman's hateful policies
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With the alleged victim saying the Sun's claims were "rubbish", the Police saying no criminal offence was committed and Huw Edwards suffering a serious mental health breakdown in hospital, what was the point of the Sun's campaign other than to destroy him ? Disgusting newspaper
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This man has done immeasurable damage to the 🇬🇧🇪🇺relationship so many of us care so much about He didn't even have the guts to see it through. To walk away shows the vacuity of both the man and his cause. Shame on him. Shame on the havoc Brexit is wreaking everywhere in its path
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"I'm going to end once and for all your right to live, work, study and retire anywhere in the EU" With a big smile on her face, that's what @patel4witham is saying here 👇 Absolutely galling for the millions of us British people whose lives have been made so much richer by it
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Here we go again Erasmus just presented on @BBCr4today as if it's only about European students who won't be able to come to UK universities No mention whatsoever that it works the other way too and is a huge loss for young Brits I give up !
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The awful thing about the non-edited video is that the audience applaud Braverman They react to what Holocaust Survivor, Joan Salter MBE, says with silence
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Oh and by the way this morning the EU has just signed a whopping €15 billion free trade deal with New Zealand (probably not too many mentions of that in UK media 😀) (and it hasn't sold out its farmers)
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EU-New Zealand: Council adopts the decision to sign free trade agreement

On 27 June, the Council adopted a decision on the signature of the free trade agreement (FTA) with New Zealand.

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Just in case you missed @BBCFarmingToday at 645 😀 remember those 800 temp butcher visas ? 50 turned up (not even 2/EU country) So 30 000 pigs culled - and burnt, while UK imports pork from EU Got a bit lost in the news, but Brexit means better treatment of animals, eh ?
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Aha ! 👏 to @bbcnickrobinson for asking if "Brexit" had been a cause of dentist shortage in UK "Yes, we saw thousands of EU dentists return home after the vote - and for the moment they haven't come back" says man from UK Dentist Association SPOILER : THEY AIN'T COMING BACK !!
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Here's Biden's very probable Secretary of State Antony Blinken saying on French TV how important a partner the EU is to 🇺🇲 On top of it in native level French (he grew up and was a lawyer here) Please tweet this at Brexiteers ! (if there are any left) 😁😁
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What a courageous lady @Anna_Soubry is who just stood up in Parliament and told Mrs May, the leader of her own party, it was time to admit Brexit is "complete chaos" and there needs to be another vote. It takes guts to do that.
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Stanley Johnson, father of, got French nationality this week, keeping the free movement his son took away from the rest of us "One rule for them" runs in the family
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Stanley Johnson, père du Premier ministre britannique obtient (enfin) la nationalité française

Si Stanley Johnson est devenu Français, son fils ne peut pas profiter de cette nouvelle nationalité, qui "ne s’étend pas à ses descendants".

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If all those generations of French and Germans who fought each other could have seen this ...
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Genuinely shocking. They just tell barefaced lies about Europe👇 "Many other countries in Europe send refugees to Rwanda" says ex Tory Chairman Denmark discussed it, but ditched the plan. NOT A SINGLE OTHER EU COUNTRY IS AS MUCH AS THINKING ABOUT IT But hey, just lie, eh ? 👇
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Jake Berry(Tory MP) - "I'm completely relaxed about people being removed to Rwanda as many other countries around Europe do it" #PoliticsLive
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"Pour la première fois de l'histoire, c'est le navire qui quitte le rat" - un ministre GB 🤡
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Plutôt que de se soucier de convaincre les 60% de vaccino-réticents en 🇲🇫, je propose qu'on vaccine dare dare les 40% d'entre nous qui n'avons qu'une envie - sortir de ce truc - puis si on se porte bien, aux 60% de changer d'avis s'ils le veulent par la suite Problem solved 😁
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How did France grade its Covid-year students ? Taking the average of 1st + 2nd term marks, always rounding "up" and creating 10 000 extra university places No negative algorithms France levels up. Johnson talks about it but does the very opposite
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France to create 10,000 new university places after record numbers passed school exams

France’s minister for higher education says 10,000 new university places will be created to cope with the huge demand after record numbers of students passed the Bac exam this year, qualifying them...

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Le petit garçon anglais qui apprenait à conjuguer ses verbes français n'imaginait pas qu'un jour on lui dirait - à lui, citoyen français (et pas peu ému ❤🇲🇫) ... "... a voté !"
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"Net migration has doubled since Brexit" If you voted for Brexit to stop immigration (and that's why many did, despite all the "sovereignty" rewriting)- you've been had Your gullibility cost you your free movement (and more importantly that of your children, and the rest of us)
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So Brexit was backed by Russia after all .....
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The Telegraph (for years) : "We want our blue 🇬🇧passports back !" The Telegraph (today) : Why has "the power of our 🇬🇧 passports plummeted, causing chaos ?" (dramatic loss of residency and work rights, more visas, more queues, more hassle and expense etc)
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So, Brexiteers, you took away our right to live all over Europe, telling your supporters you'd cut immigration Not only have you not cut it, it's TRIPLED 👇 since we left the EU TRIPLED👇. And for that we all, especially young Brits, had OUR free movement stripped away
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The Mail (for years) : We don't want you foreigners here. Vote Brexit everyone ! Let's send the migrants home ! The Mail (today) : Why aren't you people "turning up" (the sense of entitlement in that verb ! 👇) to pick our vegetables any more ? 🤡
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How lucky for Braverman's parents, from Kenya and Mauritius, that there were safe routes for economic migrants when they came to the UK in the 60's, eh ?
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"Brexit apocalypse" "Brexit chaos" "Brexit collapse" Front pages throughout Europe calling out UK shortages for what they are, precisely because they're not happening in the EU ...
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How's that leaving "the incompetent, corrupt EU with all its cronyism" thing working for you, Brexiteers ?
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So here it is ! The much-awaited "yes, we have no tomatoes" 🧵You knew it was coming ! Years of journalistic experience fired me up on a perilous mission to see if, as is being claimed in UK media, the tomato shortage is "a Europe-wide thing and nothing to do with Brexit" 1/6
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Truss doesn't know if Macron is friend or foe ? Really ? The UK deserves so much better than this constant cheap europhobia Putin is a foe, Al Assad, the Taliban but if you can't figure out if Macron is in the same category, you're really not fit to be a British Prime Minister
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Julia Hartley-Brewer - President Macron, friend or foe? Liz Truss - "The jury is out" 🤦
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"Give me concrete wins from Brexit" asks @KayBurley So Rees-Mogg cites not having to pay "Vnuk" insurance on lawn mowers 🤡 That's surely up there with his unbridled joy at being able to have different road signage in the Dartford Tunnel What Brexit boons 🤡 What a goon ! 🤡
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"You'll actually need 2 000 Australian free trade agreements to offset the impact on GDP of leaving the EU Single Market. We get to 0.02% in 15 yrs. It does seem to make a mockery of the choices this government has made" No one delivers a killer blow quite like @maitlis 😁👇
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Ca y est ! RV Préfecture ce matin pour chercher mon passeport français flambant neuf ! Très fier :) Petite victoire perso aussi sur tous les Brexitteurs qui ont tant fait pour enlever à certains d'entre nous nos droits UE et notre identité européenne :)
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Très, mais très fier de mon pays d'adoption qui a dit un "non" si décisif et sans appel au populisme ... Et un oui si retentissant à l'Europe ❤🇲🇫🇪🇺
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A truly moving European moment Anita Lasker Wallfisch, 92, world famous cellist, Auschwitz survivor, who said she'd never set foot in Germany again, in the Bundestag praising Germans for their "unbelievably humane gesture welcoming 1m refugees" 1min Eng s/t Unnoticed in UK media
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Remember all those "migrants" Merkel let in ? Turns out a lot of them are doctors and nurses and only too willing to give something back to the country that welcomed them ....
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Let's not lose sight of the fact that the biggest lies this deceitful man told were not about Xmas parties or wallpaper, but about the supposed benefits of Brexit - lies for which the rest of us are only just beginning to pay the price
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THE EU NEVER SOLD OUT UK FARMERS ! THE EU GAVE THEM A FANTASTIC DEAL WITH TOTALLY FREE ACCESS TO 500 MILLION CUSTOMERS NEXT DOOR ! AND YOU'VE GOT THE ABSOLUTE NERVE TO WHINGE ABOUT HOW THE DEAL YOU BREXITEERS NEGOTIATED WILL DESTROY THEIR LIVELIHOOD. STREWTH !
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When I was a boy, like everyone in 60s🇬🇧my Dad joked about "queers" In the 80s he came to meet my 🇫🇷boyfriend. He went home and put a pic of us on his mantelpiece At 90, with dementia, when a nurse asked him if I was married he said, proudly "no, he's got a boyfriend" Miss him
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"We're already greatly benefitting here in Dover from Brexit because we've had to employ hundreds of people to deal with all the Brexit red tape" 🤡🤡 You couldn't make these people up ! Dover MP Nathalie Elphicke on #Newsnight
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"J'ai donné ma jeunesse à ce pays, j'ai gardé vos enfants, j'ai soigné vos vieux - et vous me mettez dehors ?" Une portugaise interrompt en direct #SkyNews et exprime sa colère, juste, - celle d'innombrables personnes. La honte. Vraiment. J'ai s/t en fr .....
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"It was absolutely important that Germany didn't grab all the vaccines for itself and that we shared them with our European neighbours and the world, even if that slowed us down for 1 or 2 months. We can very proud of that" Merkel's last summer press conf My subtitles Eng.
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A man whose moral compass allows him to walk into a centre welcoming traumatized displaced children and ordering it to paint over its colour murals is light years from the decent British values I for one grew up with, so basically - good riddance
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Just imagine having the right to live, study, work, shop, do business or retire freely, wherever you want, over a whole continent full of so many wonderful cultures, languages, foods, history and people ... Just imagine taking that right away from your children. Who does that ?
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The Single Market is Europe's crown jewel. A market where 450 million people are free to study, live, shop, work and retire and enjoy products from all over Europe. A global champion worth €14.5 trillion, empowering 23 million businesses to move and trade ⬇ #SingleMarket
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If it takes a TV drama 3 DAYS to get the Met to investigate the Post Office for fraud years after the facts, how come nothing happened in the 3 YEARS you, "daughter of a subpostmaster" were in charge of the actual Police? But of course, feel free to jump on the bandwagon now👇
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"After legal action from the EU and directives on bathing and urban waste water, 99% of the UK’s 632 designated beaches have been deemed safe for swimming" That was 9/06/2016 ( @guardian article) 6 years on, what with the UK getting rid of "awful EU red tape" ... this👇
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Holidaymakers are being warned to avoid dozens of beaches around Britain after water companies pumped sewage into the sea at multiple locations along the coaat.
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Here we go again ... The reason no one is "stopping Bratwurst going from Dortmund to Düsseldorf" is because Merkel didn't split up her country by signing an international treaty with no intention of respecting it ...
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This👇seems to have gone viral 😁 Heartwarming to see people in UK still care about hearing the EU side, despite overwhelming spin in Brexit press and from Johnson and ilk 😁
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So I just subtitled exactly, word for word, what Macron said about sovereignty and Johnson - and not the mangled version you might get in the UK media (or from certain UK politicians) 😀
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All Ukrainians have 3 month visa free entry to ALL Schengen area in Europe The UK is this evening 👇 turning back Ukrainians trying to take the Eurostar in Paris to be with actual family members in the UK What has Britain become since it voted for this awful government ?
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Sorry to report that @ukhomeoffice is refusing entry to Ukrainians at Paris Gare du Nord seeking to join family in UK because they don’t have a visa. And not being helped to apply for a visa. If there even is one.
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"Indisciplined" French all wearing masks to protect each other ... métro Franklin Roosevelt, entre lignes 1 et 9 ce soir ..... (with sound)
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Why does this man just lie, and why do people let him lie ? He says at #PMQs that having a free port in (London)Derry "can only be achieved by Brexit" There are 80 of them, yes 80 ! that already exist in the EU. He is lying...
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You couldn't make it up. Johnson having to temporarily leave the Committee he's currently lying to so as to go vote against a bill the whole point of which is to repair the lies he told about his own Brexit deal ... What a stain on British politics he's been
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🇬🇧 We'd like to cherry pick 🇪🇺No 🇬🇧 We'd like to pick cherries 🇪🇺No 🇬🇧We'd like to select cherries 🇪🇺No 🇬🇧 We'd like to extract chosen cherries 🇪🇺No 🇬🇧We'd like to prune off some edible bright red fruit of the genus Prunus grown on morello blossom trees 🇪🇺No
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🇬🇧We want an extension 🇪🇺Really ? 🇬🇧No we don't 🇪🇺What DO you want ? 🇬🇧We don't know 🇪🇺So you're asking us to take the decision because you can't take it yourselves 🇬🇧Yes please !!! 🇪🇺Why ? 🇬🇧Because from now on we want to make our own decisions🤡🤡🤡 🇪🇺**laughs hysterically**
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Brexiteers (and their media 😀) this morning ... 51.8%/48.1% (where not all 🇬🇧 citizens could vote (incl. me) : "the decisive will of the British people" 58.5%/41.5% (where all 🇫🇷 could, including me 😀) : "a defeat for Macron, France divided, questions for the EU etc etc" 🤡
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Evangelical Christians celebrating the US Middle East strike with Trump yesterday "and the TV pundits and anchors will be amazed at how great America is because God is great in America again"... 👇👇 We are big time fucked.
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"Achetez un maximum de produits français. Videz les magasins ! C'est délicieux et - en plus ! vous énerverez Erdogan !" Le satiriste Oliver Welke à la ZDF 🇩🇪 hier soir 😀 (J'ai sous-titré en 🇫🇷 :)
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Quelque chose d'infiniment britannique ... La Reine, 94, sort du confinement pour anoblir le Capitaine Tom Moore, 100, qui a levé £32 millions pour les hôpitaux Je critique souvent mon pays d'origine pour ses dirigeants et choix récents, mais parfois j'en suis très fier aussi
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Fingerprinting - you mean like the US has been doing to 3rd country entrants (including "EVERY Briton") for over 20 years ? but hey let's get outraged because we demanded to be treated like a 3rd country by the EU 👇 So fed up with this constant entitled bollox, 7 years on 👇
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"France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden ... all did faster vaccination than us" 👏 @RhonddaBryant for calling out never-challenged Johnson vaccine roll-out myth. The 1st 3 months UK was quicker (because he nabbed all the jabs) but after that, those countries were quicker #bbcqt
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I totally get why everyone is piling onto Johnson's lies about why he was in a garden I just wish UK media would apply the same surgical knife to the effects of his Brexit, instead of refusing to mention it, and letting the lies about its effects and about the EU go unchallenged
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How's this "taking back control" working for you, Brexiteers ? 🤡
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The UK no longer follows the EU cutting the safe level of BPA (bisphenol A - linked to various health concerns) in food packaging. The safe level of BPA in plastic containers in the UK is now 20 000 TIMES HIGHER than in Europe @BBCPanorama "Getting rid of awful EU red tape" 👇
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Talk about an own goal ! - THIS IS ASTONISHING ! He's actually here 👇making the economic case against Brexit with more passion than I've seen most pro-EU ever do ! You simply couldn't make it up. His deal will quickly come back to haunt him - he makes it so easy ! Listen 👇
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Rishi Sunak - "Northern Ireland is in the unbelievably special position... in the entire world... in having privileged access to the UK home market... but also the European Union single market... nobody else has that... only you guys" in Northern Ireland. 🤦
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Oh this is pure vintage Express ! 😀👇 A British haulier is, we read, "exploiting a loophole in the EU's Brexit demands to keep his drivers on the road" Turns out the "loophole" is - wait for it ! - moving his trucks to the Netherlands and training his drivers in Ireland ! 🤡🤡
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YOU CANNOT COME OUT OF A CUSTOMS UNION AND BLAME EVERYONE ELSE IF THAT CREATES A BORDER - ESPECIALLY - ESPECIALLY !! IF YOU'VE SPENT THE LAST 5 YRS SHOUTING YOU'RE TAKING BACK CONTROL OF YOUR, YEP - BORDERS !!!!! I give up 😀
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UK says it wants to substantially rewrite Northern Ireland Brexit protocol

Blueprint for alternative arrangement published as sources say protocol was flawed at conception

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