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She is far from alone in parroting that spin. The Grauniad had a very similar take.Comment
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Laura Kuennsberg has just retweeted this to her million followers
[URL]https://twitter.com/tommctague/status/1181498955491885056?s=21[/URL]
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It's not an unreasonable point. It's always been more or less implicit in the EU's position. It's a fundamental issue of Brexit that the economic justification is based on not being in the Customs Union and that it's not currently reconcilable with the GFA or maintaining peace in Northern Ireland. And both sides need to be arguing on that basis. I have issues with Kuenssberg being Cummings stenographer, but McTague's point is a reasonable one to amplify.Comment
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Fintan o'Toole makes the same point in today's Guardian in fact. https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...der-technologyComment
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https://twitter.com/zatapatique/status/1181506772177174528?s=20
Except these are positions the UK has signed off on three times already.Comment
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Yes, (and I read the Number 10 briefings today with utter despair) but the fact that it's taken British political discourse two years to realise this obvious point doesn't stop it being a reasonable point. I think the Brexiters have only just realised that the EU won't allow a technological fudge.Comment
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I totally agree that the UK government consistently ripping up agreed positions is something they need to be challenged robustly on, and something they haven't been.Comment
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Stupid fuckers, the UK agreed to this in 1998. Just how ignorant are these people. The binding international legal agreement to ensure that nothing would change northern ireland's constitutional status is 21 years old. It's stupidity like this that is going to get the Uk publicly "Curb stomped".Originally posted by Nefertiti2 View PostLast edited by The Awesome Berbaslug!!!; 08-10-2019, 10:34.Comment
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It's the utter lack of scrutiny by Kuennsberg and the rest that is so shaming- and so shameless,
Daniel Sandford taking a bit of a battering though at least he's ready to engage/
It's not whatt the Brexiteers realise- they;ve known this for ages.. it's what the country has been encouraged to believe
https://twitter.com/PaulbernalUK/status/1181506459391217669?s=20
https://twitter.com/gregianjohnson/status/1181513177063989249?s=20
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Chief political correspondent vs politics editor
[URL]https://twitter.com/eurohumph/status/1181538211845300227?s=21[/URL]
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The Guardian:
At the Downing Street lobby briefing the prime minister’s spokesman refused to comment on where the “Number 10 source” quotes came from regarding Boris Johnson’s call with the German chancellor, Angela Merkel. (See 10.34am.) But the spokesman did not disown the quotes, or dispute their accuracy.
The spokesman said the call involved a “frank exchange” on the progress of the Brexit talks. He said:The purpose of the call was to discuss the progress that has been made in the talks so far. I would describe it as a frank exchange. The prime minister set out that the UK had made what we believe to be a significant offer but if we are to make future progress then the EU will need to compromise itself.
The spokesman also said the talks were now at a “critical point”.
What is not clear yet to journalists is whether No 10 is just being more circumspect in public for normal, diplomatic reasons (governments are almost always more polite about each other in public than in private) or whether there is an actual split within No 10 itself, with the briefing to the BBC and Sky this morning came from one Downing Street faction more eager to see the Brexit talks collapse than other parts of the government machine.
There is way too much of this going on, it is happening on every major story - needs to be an end to unattributed quotes and "No 10 sources say", particularly when it is getting parroted out verbatim.Comment
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They've now produced a graphic version
[URL="https://twitter.com/pmdfoster/status/1181542541583273985?s=21"]https://twitter.com/pmdfoster/status/1181542541583273985[/URL]
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Jesus fucking wept. This country.Comment
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Sorry, but that's got to be fake news, right? I mean, I know they think it, but surely they wouldn't officially say it?Comment
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No, checked their account for that very reason, and it's legit.Originally posted by pebblethefish View PostComment
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It's Aaron Banks and his merry crew and they dodged every attempt to stop them so far.Comment
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They've followed it with "two world wars and one world cup"
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Even Piers Morgan has condemned the Tweet, albeit somewhat hypocritically in light of his Euro 96 behaviour.Comment
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Damn, that's annoying. If I'm on the same side as Piers Morgan, I've got to check where I'm standing.Comment
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Times Journalist finds Kuennsberg lying for Johnson
shes not a lawyer
[URL]https://twitter.com/raphael_hogarth/status/1182027243805118465?s=21[/URL]
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She isn't lying.
She is simply transcribing,
And I struggle to see how anyone takes her seriously at this point.Comment
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