Timetable for Brexit appeals at @UKSupremeCourt this week. Tomorrow: counsel for the two appellants (Gina Miller; Advocate General for Scotland, representing UK government). Wednesday: counsel for respondents (@BorisJohnson and @joannaccherry). Thursday: interveners and replies.
— Joshua Rozenberg (@JoshuaRozenberg) September 16, 2019
Thank you for all the lovely messages of support. I’m on my way to London for the hearing of #Cherrycase tomorrow before UK Supreme Court alongside #Miller2 & #McCord. Here is the link to parties written arguments #Brexit #StopTheCoup https://t.co/YPKFsOapDq
— Joanna Cherry QC MP (@joannaccherry) September 16, 2019
A reminder that the Brexit-related judicial review cases which are taking place at the UK Supreme Court tomorrow, can be viewed live via our website. More information about the case and how to watch is available here: https://t.co/rxKkhkPf1a
— UK Supreme Court (@UKSupremeCourt) September 16, 2019
We’ll see, I suppose…
"The Lib Dems are winning on a scale we have not before."@LibDems leader @JoSwinson says the party is in a "very different situation compared to 10 years ago".
Read more here: https://t.co/CT6Bojmjw4 pic.twitter.com/uFXYxjXvhp
— Sky News (@SkyNews) September 16, 2019
The Lib Dems’ main aim is not stopping Brexit, it’s winning 20 or 30 more seats. If that means dividing the Remain cause, polarising the country over Brexit even further, No Deal happening, and Boris Johnson winning a majority, that’s a price worth taking for them. https://t.co/QDrpzEfvR8
— Owen Jones🌹 (@OwenJones84) September 16, 2019
Meanwhile…
Once again @BorisJohnson refers to papers being shared and a shape of deal but as @JunckerEU said today, no substantive alternatives have been proposed to the existing #Brexit agreement. https://t.co/qAcI5BnVpg
— Sen. Neale Richmond (@nealerichmond) September 16, 2019
"Laughing in his face" would imply he was actually there, you lumpwits. pic.twitter.com/UvDPwU8q2j
— Enough Of That Now (@AndyGilder) September 16, 2019
"Now it's on Mr Johnson"
Luxembourg PM Xavier Bettel says the EU isn't the "bad guy" in the #Brexit process, while standing next to an empty podium after Boris Johnson pulled out of a press conference
[Tap to expand] https://t.co/QjxNOG7SGc pic.twitter.com/jgkrLJQewq
— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) September 16, 2019
What the Luxembourg PM said that you won’t see on the BBC:
“This is a lie. You tried to win votes with lies"
Xavier Bettel slams Boris Johnson’s Brexit campaign.#StopBrexit #Remain
pic.twitter.com/1hjFrEuFBM— Remain Central #FBPE #StopBrexit #Remain (@remain_central) September 16, 2019
It is bollocks, but if that's the assumption in government, it explains the contempt the Johnson administration has shown towards the A.50 process and the Commission.
— Declan Gaffney (@djmgaffneyw4) September 16, 2019
17.4m people voted for Brexit 🇬🇧
Just 597,080 people voted for @Xavier_Bettel 😢
If Luxembourg actually manufactured or exported anything, we’d say boycott it. But they don’t. Lazy, handout-sponging country #LetsGoWTO
— Leave Means Leave (@LeaveMnsLeave) September 16, 2019
The UK pays a rebated EU membership fee of £280 million a week.
According to the Institute of Fiscal Studies, UK membership of the EU single market is worth 4% more in GDP = £1.9 billion a week.
EU membership means a UK net gain of over £1.6 billion a week.
Put that on a bus.
— James Melville (@JamesMelville) September 16, 2019
"I said… 'Boris. You've never been in favour of leaving EU. So why, now there's a better deal, are you in favour of leaving?#Brexit pic.twitter.com/NeWpl7Txdo
— Matty 🇬🇧🇪🇺 (@Doozy_45) September 16, 2019
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WORLD
uh-oh…
Rospotrebnadzor confirmed the explosion and fire at the Vector Virology and Biotechnology Center in Novosibirsk, which houses one of the world's most comprehensive collections of viruses, including Ebola, Marburg, SARS, smallpox, etc. https://t.co/URap3Pl2Rz
— Karol Cummins (@karolcummins) September 16, 2019
The benchmark price internationally for crude soared 15% to $69.02 a barrel on Monday, the largest gain recorded in ***over three decades.*** https://t.co/9MY8lMETnG via @WSJ
— Vivian Salama (@vmsalama) September 16, 2019
JUST IN: American intelligence shows that the attack on a major Saudi oil facility was launched from Iran, 3 people familiar with the intelligence tell @NBCNews. https://t.co/Q4gW6Ag7DF
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 16, 2019
The good news: We have a new National Security Advisor
The bad news: Looks like it’s MBS https://t.co/cjNFKMQbTy— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) September 16, 2019
Asked if he's promised to protect Saudi Arabia, "No I haven't…We have to sit down with the Saudis and work something out," says @POTUS. Says "that was an attack on Saudi Arabia, and that wasn't an attack on us. But we would certainly help them, they've been a great ally." pic.twitter.com/fcehrNRepL
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) September 16, 2019
This seems like a good time to mention that the government of Saudi Arabia owns the entire 45th floor in Trump World Tower pic.twitter.com/9MF4jT1CeY
— Stone 🥶 (@stonecold2050) September 16, 2019
We would not be in this crisis of escalation if Trump didn’t pull out of the Iran Deal. It’s hard to think of a clearer and more predictable failure of a signature foreign policy than Trump’ rejection of something that was working just bc it was Obama’s achievement.
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) September 16, 2019
Just two millionaires taking their private jets to exchange shoes but it’s your use of plastic straws that is killing the world. https://t.co/NS05HI1C0l
— Parker (@panoparker) September 16, 2019
— Cold War Steve (@Coldwar_Steve) September 16, 2019
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TRUMPWORLD
BREAKING: New York attorneys subpoena for eight years of Trump tax returns: report https://t.co/BAj8i6ddE9 pic.twitter.com/ygVhjgMmq8
— The Hill (@thehill) September 16, 2019
Today, Jerry Nadler the man in charge of what Dems call an impeachment probe, says Trump "ought to be impeached," despite previously saying impeachment was 'a maybe.' pic.twitter.com/C4QqJEqYSk
— TheBeat w/Ari Melber (@TheBeatWithAri) September 16, 2019
The idea that Trump would "drain the swamp" is one of the hollowest slogans in American political history. https://t.co/FAk0bnI6w2
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) September 16, 2019
Trump's economic approval rating takes hit in five battleground states https://t.co/MBljsNHIPp pic.twitter.com/SBstsQ26QN
— The Hill (@thehill) September 16, 2019
It’s kind of old hat with this administration, but in the days of yore the White House calling for any reporter to be fired would’ve been a six-alarm first amendment scandal. https://t.co/kF11wuFY4I
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) September 16, 2019
Trump has now awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to someone who designed a Trump golf course (Tiger Woods), and a major customer of a Trump golf course (Rivera). https://t.co/F6MQzJmmYR
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) September 16, 2019
The Overnight Note 