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The Prime Minister loves banging on an "Australia style deal", doesn't he. Because it sounds nicer than saying we will have a "Mozambique style deal" or a "Turkmenistan style deal". Because that, actually, is what it is. He's a disingenuous, misleading, dangerous cunt.
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- The House with the Golden Windows
- Fast falling out of love for football.
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Johnson to set up crisis squad D20 to be overseen by Michael Gove in case of issues with Covid-19, Brexit, or extreme weather events
What could possibly go wrong?
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/bre...brexit-6634318
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When Johnson says "No British PM could sign this deal" surely it is within the reach of somebody within the Labour Party to have prepared Sir Keith with "Yes they could, they did, and that British PM was you". I mean, I could see that line coming a mile off and I'm only half engaged with it at the moment.
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Whilst I appreciate the sentiment of this I can't be the only one who thinks, well if they could be commodified, sold and eaten like fish they probably would become "our people".
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I suppose the cheering side of this is that we can assume Rees-Mogg doesn't -yet- have a Soylent Green facility.
https://twitter.com/chakrabortty/status/1336721631373307907?s=20
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It's not bad. It doesn't make the final leap towards the media though, promoting it all as a jolly old game and never examining the claims made because it made good television/clicks.
June 2016 marked the point at which every millionaire rightwing crackpot and Oxford-educated libertarian began arrogating the moral authority of the people for their own hucksterish schemes and quack policies. To do that, they have leaned on the votes for Brexit or Johnson cast by working people in places such as south Wales or north-east Derbyshire. The support of cruise-booking retirees in Hampshire plainly does not cast the same spell.
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Don't remember John harris ever mentioning the cruise-booking retirees in Hampshire. What was telling, too I thought was that Chakrabortty had followed up to ask the lad in newport what he thought now. Can't imagine Harris keeps anyone's phone number
Speaking last weekend, Vaga tells me he has been far too bothered about Covid and Christmas shopping to think about the latest dramas with the EU. He went to Trafalgar Square for the big Brexit booze-up in January but hasn’t followed it much since. “I just assume it’s all going in the right direction – isn’t it?”
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Yeah. agree with Nef, it is a very good piece, even if its conclusion might well have been evident to many of us. And what makes the difference is that this isn't a columnist merely Reckoning; it's the connection with Vaga that gives a column like this, his columns in general, an edge, a further insight, especially as he isn't there for the purposes of mere confirmation bias.
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Thanks wingco
Meanwhile things getting more serious
https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1336777195755360257?s=20
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