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A short thread on whether the honking great bellend @BorisJohnson can reasonably be called “a fascist”… 😖✊🇻🇳🇪🇺 #ToriesOut #BellendusMaximus #CummingsOut #FatbergOfDishonesty 
I have often posted about the creeping fascism ⬇️ in the Cummings/Johnson regime, & attracted much ridicule from unthinking Brexity types. They are keen to avoid inconvenient factual analysis... 😐✊🇻🇳🇪🇺 #StopFascism #ToriesOut
Do I therefore think @BorisJohnson is “a fascist”..? No, he’s too uninterested in ideas to maintain any kind of ideology, even a lunatic one… Moreover, literally his only concern in life is *himself*. 😖
Tote-al Panic
Dom’s prized ‘Vote Leave’ tote went missing last week, totally vanished from its usual peg in the hall. D was beside himself. The way he carried on you would have thought that damn tote was an extra limb…
#VoteLeaveBrokeTheLaw
Dom’s prized ‘Vote Leave’ tote went missing last week, totally vanished from its usual peg in the hall. D was beside himself. The way he carried on you would have thought that damn tote was an extra limb…
#VoteLeaveBrokeTheLaw
‘I’m sure it’s around somewhere,’ I said, looking in the cupboard under the stairs. Montserrat the daily, lip quivering, finally unburdens herself. She borrowed it the other day to carry some cans to the recycling point down the road...
After emptying it, she put it aside and forgot about it. Distracted by worries about her son, the deputy manager of that hotel in Tenerife stricken by the virus. He had to deal with the unrest of various English ‘malhumorado jamóns’ held in quarantine...
Here's @IanCLucas 👊 on @BBCNewsnight re: #Russian interference, laws not having been changed since 2016 and the time having come for @BorisJohnson and @michaelgove to come clean on their role in the 2016 referendum.
VIDEO THREAD (3 Parts)
VIDEO THREAD (3 Parts)
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In 4 years we have had 3 prime ministers and 2 elections.If Johnson gets his way we would have 4 prime ministers and 3 elections. There have been 4 votes on some kind of #Brexit deal - all FAILED to pass /THREAD.
Yet politicians consistently refuse us a #PeoplesVote comparing the type of Brexit they want to impose against the deal we have - EU membership.
3.5 years after the advisory crooked lying cheating referendum, parliament cannot make its mind up on what is an acceptable #brexit for the country. You have taken up enough time and money on this nonsense. #voteleavebrokethelaw
Today is possibly .@theresa_may's last day as PM, if .@BorisJohnson can command a majority (which is in some doubt...)
So it's a great opportunity to look back at some of the *highlights* of Mrs May's premiership in memes👇
So it's a great opportunity to look back at some of the *highlights* of Mrs May's premiership in memes👇
13 JUL 2016: May was appointed as PM and named her Cabinet shortly thereafter, surprising many by giving 3 of the top #Brexit-related jobs to arch-brexiters Boris Johnson, David Davis & Liam Fox. Sheer folly, or genius in making them own what they'd sold? Sadly, the former😢
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5 OCT 2016: With such a narrow result, the country could be forgiven for expecting May to propose a consensual solution, as Norway PM Erna Solberg had done in a similar situation. Most Remainers would've accepted #Norway.
May's #CitizensOfNowhere speech crushed all hope.
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May's #CitizensOfNowhere speech crushed all hope.
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@PeterKGeoghegan & @JennaCorderoy revealed that the ERG members officiously includes (pro-offshore anti-HR/environnment "coincidentially" funded by polluting millionaire) "think tanks' guy in UK govt" (unelected) Singham, &co-chair of the ECR in EU Plmt.
Well here is one more time pushing the myth of "Schrodinger's alternative arrangements for Ireland/Northern Ireland boder".
"Of course it can be open and closed at the same time people! No problem! Backstop means no backstop!"
"Of course it can be open and closed at the same time people! No problem! Backstop means no backstop!"
Please note: You can totally trust what Shanker Singham says...
is massive, shameless bulls***.
is massive, shameless bulls***.
I just read @DExEUgov's response to the petition for a #PeoplesVote. Of course they trashed the idea: 'The British people must be able to trust in its Government both to effect their will, and to deliver the best outcome for them. As the Prime Minister has said: “This is about 1/
more than the decision to leave the EU; it is about whether the public can trust their politicians to put in place the decision they took.” Erm hang on that makes no sense. What decision was that exactly? Just 'leave' with no further meaning? 2/
What sort of govt doesn't want to check that meaning? For that matter what sort of govt implements a non-binding opinion poll as the permanent, non-changing 'will of the people'? Why do they get to interpret that & fix it in stone? The 'will of the people' after all 3/
There is something terribly wrong with a country that’s preparing for shortages in peacetime thanks to something it’s government, Brexiteers and lexiters between them are railroading it into.
All on the basis of a dodgy referendum result based on promises we now know can’t be kept
We know #VoteLeaveBrokeTheLaw yet government have done nothing to pause and examine what that means for the validity of the tiny margin on which we are now turning away from the largest trading bloc in the world
google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theg…
google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theg…
Who funds the IEA, the TPA, the ASI &co?
You know, the RW 'free trade' thick tanks advocating tax havens, "freedom" (no regulations like workers' rights or environmental protection), no welfare (no tax & no free healthcare).
Basically, "Only the wealthier survive" philosophy?
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You know, the RW 'free trade' thick tanks advocating tax havens, "freedom" (no regulations like workers' rights or environmental protection), no welfare (no tax & no free healthcare).
Basically, "Only the wealthier survive" philosophy?
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*Could it be* that it has something to do with defending their funders' interests?
Today, I'm going to tell you the Thick Tanks' Hydra tale.
Featuring Atlas, huge piles of money, tradition, "free speech", useful idiots and a very clear agenda that Brexit/Trump are a part of.
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Today, I'm going to tell you the Thick Tanks' Hydra tale.
Featuring Atlas, huge piles of money, tradition, "free speech", useful idiots and a very clear agenda that Brexit/Trump are a part of.
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Take a seat: It's a long story, with a lot of players, including politicians, pretty ladies squatting your TV, the climate change denial's network, the global fascist movement, Silicon Valley/multiname data-stealing/misusing company & private companies' involved in elections.
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1/ So despite the check-in staff at MCR airport being very entertained by the #BollockstoBrexit stickers on my passport, my case got pulled out at security and I was ordered to remove them because they are "offensive"🤔 (Personally I think #Brexitbis more offensive than bollocks)
2/ I objected pointing out that "bollocks" had been determined not to be offensive in a court of law. The member of staff didn't believe, so I told her to look up the Sex Pistols album "never mind the Bollocks". She told me she "wasn't a sex pistols fan"🙄 completely irrelevant.
3/ I told her there was no legal requirement to remove the stickers and she was impeding on my freedom of speech. She threatened to call airport police to deal with the situation & accused me of wasting security staff time. I told her she was the one making unnecessary demands.
My MP @iainastewart just called me “a disgrace”, in public, for suggesting that #VoteLeaveBrokeTheLaw
Is that how my elected representative should speak to me?
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Is that how my elected representative should speak to me?
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.@iainastewart maintains wrongly that High Court have overturned Electoral Commission and ruled Vote Leave didn’t break law. When actually, “The High Court agreed ... that Vote Leave had broken the law” google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.…
.@iainastewart also maintains, again wrongly, that Chequers plan “solves Irish border” with no need for any infrastructure or checks. Despite EU, Irish Govmnt, WTO, and even DUP saying it doesn’t
From the Electoral Commission Report about #VoteLeaveBrokeTheLaw
4.89. The Commission has shared its evidence in respect of Mr Halsall and Mr Grimes with the Metropolitan Police Service. 1/n
4.89. The Commission has shared its evidence in respect of Mr Halsall and Mr Grimes with the Metropolitan Police Service. 1/n
4.90. The Commission has also shared its investigation files with the Metropolitan Police in relation to whether any persons have committed related offences which lie outside our remit. 2/n
Victims of crime have a right to know whether an investigation is progressing. It is the @cpsuk who have the lead in co-ordination of ‘special crimes’ like electoral crime.
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This thread is to arm fellow European British with essential info about our POSSIBLE future relationship with the WTO and what it would mean for the UK in a no deal situation. Use it to rebut Brexiteer disengenuity and nonsense on the matter - facts matter. /1
#FBPE #WATON #FBR
#FBPE #WATON #FBR
WTO RULES state that you can’t treat other nations more favourably in trade deals. So, the EU be in breach of their own international Treaties to accept the Chequers Accord. This is highly unlikely; they’d have to make these same allowances for more than 50 other countries. /2
Central to WTO rules is, to trade favourably, then a country must have a hard border to control good entering & leaving the country (as ratified by all 164 WTO members). S.10 of the EUWA18 makes this impossible: the UK can’t create a hard border in Ireland (protecting the GFA)./3
From Liz Webster /Atricle 50 Challenge today:
New #brexit legal challenge launched #UKEUchallenge 😊 which builds on achievements of #A50challenge.
1. The Supreme Court ruled in Miller ministers alone can’t make major constitutional changes.
New #brexit legal challenge launched #UKEUchallenge 😊 which builds on achievements of #A50challenge.
1. The Supreme Court ruled in Miller ministers alone can’t make major constitutional changes.
From Liz Webster /Article 50 Challenge today
2. Our sovereign. Parliament has to make decisions by passing Acts which change the law.
3. @A50Challenge started proceedings in Nov 17 as many FOI requests to identify the decision to leave EU returned different answers.
2. Our sovereign. Parliament has to make decisions by passing Acts which change the law.
3. @A50Challenge started proceedings in Nov 17 as many FOI requests to identify the decision to leave EU returned different answers.
From Liz Webster /Atricle 50 Challenge today:
4. HMG in defence said a decision wasn’t needed.
5. On 12/6/18 court permission hearing ruled the PM made the decision to leave
4. HMG in defence said a decision wasn’t needed.
5. On 12/6/18 court permission hearing ruled the PM made the decision to leave
[Ref illegality & corruption THREAD 👇👇]
Been asked to summarise the Susan Wilson (@Suewilson91) v Prime Minister case. This thread gives the basics of the pleadings and relief sought. /1
#UKEUChallenge
#VoteLeaveBrokeTheLaw #FBPE #WATON #FBR @abcpoppins #StopBrexit
Been asked to summarise the Susan Wilson (@Suewilson91) v Prime Minister case. This thread gives the basics of the pleadings and relief sought. /1
#UKEUChallenge
#VoteLeaveBrokeTheLaw #FBPE #WATON #FBR @abcpoppins #StopBrexit
There is a principal issue underlying the case that poses a simple question: is a lawful, free and fair vote one of the constitutional requirements of the UK? It's asked after 2 Electoral Commission (EC) Reports found that illegality & corruption dogged the ref campaign. /2
Let me make this clear. The EC findings were to the criminal standard of proof (beyond reasonable doubt) & serious offences were committed by the designated campaign for leaving the EU (& others), in breach of the statutory framework established by Parliament for the ref. /3
It is crazy how similar the situations are with Trump and Brexit. Particularly the whataboutery.
Here #VoteLeaveBrokeTheLaw, overspending by £449,000, while Remain was fined for a reporting error with they corrected.
But Brexiteers treat those things as the same. In America⬇️
Here #VoteLeaveBrokeTheLaw, overspending by £449,000, while Remain was fined for a reporting error with they corrected.
But Brexiteers treat those things as the same. In America⬇️
Credit @PhillyD
Oh and if your wondering where I learned to talk fast in my videos, I've watched @PhillyD almost every weekday since 2006.
@TomTugendhat @Andrew_Adonis Let's look at the facts:
1. The Ref MPs voted for was advisory
2. Cameron then made it binding in the minds of voters who don't understand the niceties of our constitution, which was shabby & underhand of him, because he created a political imperative to take the Ref advice
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1. The Ref MPs voted for was advisory
2. Cameron then made it binding in the minds of voters who don't understand the niceties of our constitution, which was shabby & underhand of him, because he created a political imperative to take the Ref advice
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@TomTugendhat @Andrew_Adonis 3. Parliament never formally made the decision to leave, but gave Mrs May the power to trigger #Article50 through the shameful A50 Bill (launched before its rubbish White Paper was released), which converted Parliament into an irrelevant rubber stamp in the #Brexit process.
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@TomTugendhat @Andrew_Adonis 4. Under pressure from the Economic Ruin Group (ERG), Mrs May triggered A50 prematurely, without impact assessments and, crucially, without agreement in her party as to what form #Brexit should take, let alone a plan.
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Are you a #Brexiter who voted in good faith for #Brexit, hoping for a better life for you and your family, and don't see why so many people now want a #PeoplesVote? Let's revisit the things #VoteLeaveBrokeTheLaw and @LeaveEUOfficial told you back then. 1/n
Then: "There will be no downside to Brexit - only a considerable upside" (David Davis).
Now, The "benefits" of brexit may take "up to 50 years to appear" (Jacob Rees Mogg), or "never" (Nigel Farage).
Hate austerity? Brexit = constant austerity.
theguardian.com/politics/short…
Now, The "benefits" of brexit may take "up to 50 years to appear" (Jacob Rees Mogg), or "never" (Nigel Farage).
Hate austerity? Brexit = constant austerity.
theguardian.com/politics/short…
Then: "Turkey is joining the EU" (Psst If you don't vote for Brexit, Turks, Syrians and Iraqis will overwhelm our country)"
Now: @michaelgove admits they lied to you about it, and "regrets" this. theguardian.com/politics/2018/…
Now: @michaelgove admits they lied to you about it, and "regrets" this. theguardian.com/politics/2018/…
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Brexit CAN be declared VOID!!!
Here's how 👇
#FBPE #WATON #FBR #StopBrexit #VoteLeaveBrokeTheLaw #PeoplesVote #FinalSay #BlueWave #resist #TheResistance @abcpoppins @acgrayling @Lawyers4EU @LPrivileged @Anna_Soubry @Andrew_Adonis @LordRennard
Brexit CAN be declared VOID!!!
Here's how 👇
#FBPE #WATON #FBR #StopBrexit #VoteLeaveBrokeTheLaw #PeoplesVote #FinalSay #BlueWave #resist #TheResistance @abcpoppins @acgrayling @Lawyers4EU @LPrivileged @Anna_Soubry @Andrew_Adonis @LordRennard
2. A fundamental principle of the common law is that votes can be declared void for substantial irregularity. If irregularity affects the result of an election it is by itself enough to compel the tribunal to declare the election void.
3. The result doesn't need to be affected. Only a ‘substantial departure’ from the rules, or the election being ‘conducted so badly that it was not substantially in accordance with the law’ is needed to void the ballot.
