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Richard James
1 year
For goodness sake Rishi. If we were able to stop Nazi Germany from invading the UK, surely we can keep out a few thousand illegal migrants. Deploy the Royal Navy and be done with it. No further excuses.. ⁦ @Conservatives
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Boris Johnson To Pull Out Of Huawei 5G Contract Due To CCP Misinformation. The right move, UK security must not be compromised again..
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Not satisfied with his multi-million pound income, which we all pay for, Gary Lineker doesn’t want to pay tax. HMRC is seeking £3,621,735.90 in income tax and £1,313,755.38 in national insurance contributions from Lineker for work he performed for BBC..
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Dominic Grieve and Philip Hammond booed at Brexit event. Richly deserved, many believe they should be put on trial for treason..
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Varadkar says Britain must have a second Brexit vote. Who does he think he is, how dare he tell the UK what to do. Varadkar is largely responsible for the absence of a sensible deal that allows the UK to leave. He should be held to account for #NoDeal
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Boris Johnson is considering shutting down parliament for two weeks to force through a no-deal Brexit. Good, remainers have no problem using Parliamentary procedure to sabotage Brexit, time for brexiteers to get tough and deliver the Brexit we voted for..
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Nigel Farage has refused to appear on the BBC again after being treated like a “war criminal”. He said “I think their behaviour has been disgusting at every level”. He’s right, sadly the #BBC is not impartial and no longer deserves our financial support..
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4 years
(Reuters) - The British government said it will introduce a bill into parliament on Wednesday for legislation to end automatic rights for European Union vessels to fish in UK waters. Out of the CFP, as promised..
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5 years
Germany Has Told Britain Its Food Producers Might Not Bother Exporting To It After A No-Deal Brexit. That’s fine, they can stop exporting their cars to us too. We’ll buy British from now on..
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I regret installing my £25k heat pump - I spend £20 a day and am still freezing - “All I think about is how cold I am going to be and how much money this heat pump is using. What’s the point of having one if it’s not keeping my house warm.”
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5 years
Once again we are witnessing French duplicity. If Macron decides to blockade French ports or impose delays after Brexit, we should boycott all French goods. The rest of the world wants to invest in Brexit Britain, our nearest neighbour wants to harm us..
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This is ridiculous. They entered the country illegally, they should be sent back to France whence they came. If I tried to enter France illegally I would be sent back to the UK. Time for this nonsense to end, stop them entering UK waters - deploy the Navy.
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BORIS JOHNSON has refused to bow to pressure to extend the transition period. A senior source in Downing Street has insisted that there is "no movement" on the date the transition period ends which was set in law with the Withdrawal Agreement Bill. Good..
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POLISH Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, condemned the EU for its response to the coronavirus pandemic, stating the union has not contributed "a single cent yet" to fight the outbreak. The EU is more interested in ‘open borders’ than human lives..
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France demands UK aligns with EU rules forever in return for Brexit trade deal. That’s completely unacceptable, there’s no point in leaving the EU only to align under EU rules. If the EU won’t agree then I guess it’s #CleanBreakBrexit
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5 years
The overwhelming majority of British people are pro European @guyverhofstadt , our forebears fought & died to save it. it’s the unelected & unaccountable EU we detest. You claim to believe in democracy yet promote a UK political party that doesn’t.. #Disgraceful
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Guy Verhofstadt
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Pleasure to meet with @JoSwinson in Brussels. The @LibDems truly are Britain's pro - European party!
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China must not be allowed to 'rewrite history' on COVID-19. This pandemic originated in China, was entirely preventable and was made far worse by Chinese Government dishonesty and (lack of) action. China must be held to account for #Coronavirus
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In 2018 the UK made a net contribution to the EU of £9bn and England paid Scotland £10.3bn under the Barnett Formula. Who pray is going to subsidise Scotland in future if it chooses to leave the UK, joins the Euro and erects a hard border with England?
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COMMONS Speaker John Bercow has again been accused of failing to fulfil his duty to remain non-partisan, after hitting out at Boris Johnson’s move to prorogue Parliament. Bercow is not fit to fill the office of Speaker..
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Sterling has now gained 5.5% against the Euro since the UK left the Single Market with almost 8% GDP growth, the fastest rate ever, and near full employment. Not what Remoaners predicted..
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FRANCE has warned it is prepared to ignore Boris Johnson's deadline to conclude a trade agreement with Brussels and drag out negotiations beyond December 2020. Fine, then we can get what we voted for #CleanBreakBrexit
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Downing street says no new Brexit talks until EU drops backstop. It’s a simple, clear request and will establish whether the EU want a deal or just want to screw the UK. If the backstop remains we know the answer..
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9 months
Why is it that EU citizens can visit the UK for up to 6 months without a visa while Brits can only visit the EU for max 90 days in any 180-day period? Is this a different interpretation of the same agreement or is Brussels Just being vindictive?
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Marine Le Pen is now in striking distance of beating Macron at the next election. Following Britain’s lead, France could be the next country to leave the EU..
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5 years
Leaving the EU: ✅ Out of the customs union ✅ Out of the single market ✅ Out of ECJ jurisdiction ✅ Out of Common Agricultural Policy ✅ Out of Common Fisheries Policy ✅ Control of our borders ✅ An independent trade policy All can be delivered by the default option.. #WTO
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Rishi Sunak: New Chancellor of the Exchequer claims 'we don't need a trade deal with the EU'. He’s right, there’s a wide world out there and most of it does want trade deals with the U.K. Great to have a Chancellor who really believes in Brexit Britain..
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The EU wants to keep the UK under EU control. If the EU won't agree a full trade deal by 31 December we should just walk away. The whole point of Brexit is to break clean from EU rules and regulations and sign global FTAs. Boris must get tough..
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Norway elections: Norway on collision course with EU over vow to ditch EEA membership. Another European country wants OUT of the Single Market and Customs Union..
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Gina Miller says she wants to protect the sovereignty of parliament and avert a shutdown to force through a no-deal Brexit. No she doesn’t, she just wants to prevent democracy running its course. We voted to leave the EU, with or without a deal..
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The Government cannot refuse Royal Assent, but it can hold out until after prorogation next week, at which point all bills without royal consent are scrapped. Go for it @BorisJohnson far better than dying in a ditch. The people are with you..
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3 years
Marine Le Pen victory in France risks 'dagger in the heart' for Europe. With support for Le Pen surging in the polls, French markets are starting to panic and the EU is looking on with worry. #Frexit
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3 years
Or what?
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Amber Rudd warns ‘numbers are there’ to topple new Tory government pushing ahead with no-deal Brexit. Fine, if she wants to force a general election and lose her seat, crack on. @brexitparty_uk will remove every MP who won’t support WTO exit on 31 October
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. @LBC I’m a civil servant and mighty fed up by those civil servants who continue to use Covid as an excuse not to work. The work shy should either return to work or be sacked. Productivity has dropped massively and it is almost impossible to get through on the phone. Get a grip..
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Foreigners on UK benefits leaps 41% in 5 years with over 400k now handed payouts. This nonsense has got to stop..
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Primary school children will now be taught "all genders" can have periods in a bid to be more inclusive to transgender children, a council has revealed. Complete and utter madness..
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ANNOYING Anti-Brexit ‘Loser’ BANNED Over Constant Harassment. Perhaps he will now get a job - village idiot springs to mind..
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5 years
Go for it @BorisJohnson the decision on whether to leave the E.U. rests with the Government not Parliament. We had a referendum and you promised to leave by 31 Oct - do or die. 17.4 million people will be right behind you..
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1 year
European Parliament's former vice president Eva Kaili spends Christmas in jail. So dishonest as well as undemocratic and unaccountable. Thank goodness we left when we did..
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Richard James
4 years
Sir Philip Rutnam was on a package of almost £195,000, more than PM. 'The British people will be appalled to learn that not only are the establishment trying to frustrate what the people want, but they are being paid quite so much for the privilege.'
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Lawyer, Robin Tilbrook, believes the U.K. already left the EU on March 29, and he is fighting a long legal battle to try to prove it. For the original and legally-binding “Exit Date” to be postponed, the law should have been changed by an act of Parliament
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2 years
A new BBC board member has mocked Brexit, called Boris Johnson a buffoon and criticised Conservative Party policies as “repugnant”. Muriel Gray, a former presenter of the Eighties Channel 4 music show has all the left-wing credentials to join the BBC board
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2 years
FRANCE, Germany and Italy side-stepped an arms embargo to sell weapons to Vladimir Putin that are being used to slaughter Ukrainians. On a day of shame for the EU, it emerged ten member states sold hundreds of millions of pounds of military kit to Russia..
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2 years
REMAINER Femi Oluwole has slammed the UK's political system following Liz Truss's appointment to Prime Minister and King Charles III becoming Sovereign after the Queen's death. If ⁦ @Femi_Sorry ⁩ dislikes this country so much he is always free to leave
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George Soros, the billionaire financier, who holds Hungarian and US citizenship, is under investigation for funneling nearly 3.4 million dollars into a campaign solely aimed at taking down Boris Johnson. Something @Femi_Sorry failed to tell us #Disgraceful
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4 years
About time. Why should foreigners get free Heath care on the NHS. It’s one thing providing A&E cover but beyond that all visitors should pay. NHS care can run into tens of thousands of pounds so charge foreigners the full cost of care, or use insurance..
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11 months
Poland will take the European Union to court within days to stop the EU preventing the sale of fossil fuel cars across the bloc from 2035, the country's climate minister Anna Moskwa said on Monday..
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You can’t even ask someone where their forebears come from without being accused of racism. Appalling treatment of an old lady who has given so much to our Late Majesty. We should be proud to talk about our ancestry..
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3 years
Hungary and Poland issue joint statement; the EU is becoming "a tool of radical forces" that want to erase national identity and replace it with "a European Superstate." They want their traditional values to be protected. Brussels is flummoxed..
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Liz Truss accused of using Article 16 threat to bolster position with Brexiteers. Good on her, the majority voted to leave the EU, all of it. We did not vote to separate Northern Ireland from GB..
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Germany is today imposing border controls - in direct contravention of the EU's Schengen Agreement - an acknowledgement surely that the 17.4m Brits who voted for Brexit were absolutely right..
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5 years
Brexiteers need to see this, something our media have been unwilling to show us, German statement on Brexit - YouTube
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4 years
How low will Remoaners stoop in their attempt to reverse #Brexit . We have drafted a free trade deal, all the EU has to do is accept it and we are free to spend our money in the way that we choose. The EU dictatorship must end.. #NoExtension
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The EU is pursuing a similar goal to Hitler in trying to create a powerful superstate, Boris Johnson says. He warns that while bureaucrats in Brussels are using “different methods” from the Nazi dictator, they share the aim of forced unification..
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BREXITEER Kate Hoey predicts that Nigel Farage’s newly formed Brexit party will do “extremely” well in a general election because of the outrage felt across the country. How true..
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This is how the EU deals with asylum seekers. Yet it is content to see France break EU law (Dublin Regulation) & allow migrants to depart for the UK using human traffickers, in breach of International Law.Time to hold France to account ⁦ @pritipatel
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So let me get this clear. A Tory MP, ⁦ @Tobias_Ellwood ⁩ who voted for Remain, but who promised to respect the will of the British people, has now changed his mind. He wants to stab us in the back & rejoin the Single Market. How predictable & unhelpful
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GERMANY has given the EU a major warning that the bloc is headed for a damning recession in the next 24 months, sparking fears the euro is on the brink of crumbling - and the EU itself..
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Of course the EU will offer the U.K. an indefinite extension, they want our money. When will we finally accept that no-deal is by far the best deal. Time to walk - do or die - ⁦ @BorisJohnson
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The European Commission called on Tuesday for EU countries to contribute even more cash to the bloc's shared coffers through a new dedicated revenue stream calculated on the profit base of companies operating in each. Thank goodness we left when we did..
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Two former heads of British immigration agencies have said that British boats should patrol French territorial waters in the English Channel and return illegal aliens to France before they get anywhere near Great Britain..
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France joins other European countries in pulling out of treaty protecting energy investments. So EU countries can pull out of treaties thereby breaking International Law but woe betide the UK doing so over the NIP. Duplicitous bunch..
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BREXIT Britain has secured a huge win after London retained its crown as Europe's leading financial centre, beating rivals Frankfurt, Paris, Madrid and Amsterdam. The UK capital ranks only behind New York, according to the Global Financial Centres Index..
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The reality: Germany sent 23 mobile oxygen generators, France expressed “readiness” to do something & the others made a token contribution. Meanwhile the UK rushed 140 ventilators and 495 oxygen generators to Delhi, with additional aid coming..
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Ursula von der Leyen
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India 🇮🇳 needs our support and solidarity. I’m very grateful to France, Italy, Austria, Finland and Ireland for sending oxygen, medical equipment such as ventilators and COVID medication under our 🇪🇺 Civil Protection Mechanism. We are in this together.
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Philip Hammond on collision course with local Conservative members over Brexit stance. Hammond is facing a backlash from local party members over his attempts to block no-deal, with insiders indicating he could soon face a confidence vote. Not before time.
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I’m a Conservative Party member & stood by them in the local elections. I’ve just received my Conservative EU election pamphlet which blames those who stood by our Manifesto Commitment to leave the Customs Union & ‘no-deal is better than a bad deal’ for the mess. @brexitparty_uk
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It’s all over. The phoney war is finished. The three miserable years of Theresa May’s pseudo consensus, defeatism, splitting the middle, duplicity, capitulation & surrender is over. Boris is serious, if the EU don’t want a new deal then WTO it is, 31 Oct..
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THE EU has clashed with the UK over fisheries - and it was revealed during Brexit talks that France President Emmanuel Macron was "speechless with rage" when he discovered his country's fishermen would lose access to #BritishWaters . It’s all in the name..
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We voted to leave the EU. We didn’t vote for a deal, we didn’t vote for a delay, we didn’t vote to pay a King’s ransom, we didn’t vote for a withdrawal agreement, we didn’t vote for a backstop, we didn’t vote for an implementation period. We voted to leave the EU, just do it..
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ANNA SOUBRY let slip John Bercow’s apparent involvement in a Remainer plot against the government, causing backlash against the Change UK MP. ‘Collusion’ to undermine & frustrate the will of the British people..
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EU citizens in the UK will reportedly have to produce documentation to prove their right to access free healthcare under the NHS after a no-deal Brexit. Good, about time, they should always have been doing this..
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4 years
The Coronavirus Could Destroy the EU. Brussels was already in crisis, it refused reform, lost the UK as a direct consequence, wants to punish rather than help. It has displayed total incompetence in response to pandemic. #BeyondReform @vonderleyen
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Boris Johnson is making the biggest blunder of his political career by dismissing Nigel Farage’s offer of a Non-Aggression Pact with the Brexit party..
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If the EU is incapable of conducting Brexit negotiations, we should simply offer our deal and be ready to walk away. No extension, no more EU rules, no more payments.. #CleanBreakBrexit
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Just how many economies does Christine Lagarde have to ruin before the penny finally drops? The woman who bequeathed to France a ruinous budget deficit & presided over the policies that inflicted the worst recession ever recorded on Greece, never learns..
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The British Government has told Brussels that the Royal Navy will be sent in to protect UK waters from EU fishing vessels. We’ve left the EU and without agreement, there will be no access to EU fishermen. International Law applies..
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11 months
So let’s get this straight. the UK has outperformed all forecasts, it does not have the slowest growth in the G7, it is not in recession and London is outperforming all other European cities. Meanwhile Germany, Ireland and the Eurozone are in recession..
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Boris Johnson’s bid to keep power and deliver Brexit on October 31 has been boosted after it emerged a series of opposition MPs may back him. Anti-EU Labour MP Kate Hoey became the first to publicly declare she will oppose Corbyn’s bid to oust Boris..
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5 years
So let me get this straight. The losers of the Referendum have now lost their case for a second Referendum in Parliament but because they lost by less than other unacceptable options they are the real winners. How low can these losers get..
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Anna Soubry 🖤🤍🇺🇦 🇪🇺 🇬🇧
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With @peoplesvote_uk topping the poll on 268 the only way forward is to put any settled deal (Customs Union) back to the people for a confirmatory vote with #Remain on the ballot paper.
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Brussels has warned Boris Johnson not to try and rip up Theresa May’s deal – or there will not be a deal. Haven’t they got it yet, that’s what Boris and a growing majority in the U.K. now expect.. #WTOBrexit
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ANTI-BREXIT Tory MP Dominic Grieve will face a deselection vote next month, after furious local Conservative activists gathered enough signatures to force the vote. Good for ⁦⁦ @BeaconsfieldCCA ⁩ democracy must be defended..
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Australian trade minister says the UK & Australia could sign a new trade deal just weeks after Brexit. What, that can’t be right, Remainers said it would take decades!
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Boris Johnson was right then and he’s right now over an EU Empire (Reich): The EU wants a superstate, just as Hitler did..
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70 Labour MPs including Yvette Cooper and Hilary Benn face deselection before next election..
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There is only one reason why the EU agreed to an extension of Article 50: they are desperate to prevent a clean Brexit on WTO terms, where the UK can thrive free of the EU manacles. May’s deal has not improved, it is still unacceptable. A managed No-Deal remains the best option..
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Charles Michel
5 years
EU27 responds to UK requests in a positive spirit and: 👉 agrees to Art. 50 extension until 22 May if Withdrawal Agreement approved next week 👉 if not agreed next week then extension until 12 April 👉 approves ‘Strasbourg Agreement’ 👉 continues no-deal preparations
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O dear @Anna_Soubry , you really are an enemy of the British people. Your party achieved not a single MEP in the EU elections, most of your MPs have deserted you (can’t think why) & we’ll see how few people vote for you at the general election, which you are seeking to prevent..
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This is more than fake news. It is yet more chilling evidence of the depths to which @BorisJohnson & co will sink; any tin pot dictator would be proud of him.
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The UK may not be obliged to comply with European court injunctions blocking deportation flights to Rwanda, says a report by one of Britain’s top constitutional experts. Good, the sooner we start Rwanda flights, the sooner these illegal crossings stop..
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4 years
BBC licence fee ‘set to be scrapped & replaced with subscription service’ Senior aides to No10 insisted they were “not bluffing” about changing the way the corporation is funded, sources told The Sunday Times. At last, the BBC no longer deserves our money
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Jo Swinson heckled as she brings 'stop Brexit' message to Watford. The non democrat message to ignore the views of 17.4m Brits did not go down well..
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Britain must consider trade-offs in EU talks, chief executive says. Or what? We will be forced to leave under #WTO ! Yes please, that’ll do nicely..
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