Boris Johnson is prepared to challenge the Queen to dismiss him rather than resign, the Sunday Times reported https://t.co/MBMOw2ti8i
— Bloomberg (@business) October 6, 2019
The unelected prime minister is going to ask a 93 year old woman who mostly raises horses and looks at cows to fire him very normal country https://t.co/TZq5R3nfX9
— Matthew Zeitlin (@MattZeitlin) October 6, 2019
“We are not backing down” – Brexit secretary Barclay writes in the Sunday Telegraph, as they splash on suggestions some Cabinet ministers want to send a UK Commissioner to wreck the EU’s workings, and vote against Budget, in an effort to persuade them not to extend… https://t.co/TcMBmzeBQt
— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) October 5, 2019
Johnson's excuse that the crapness of the new UK deal is down to his dog eating the part that actually made sense has not been accepted by the EU, which is placing the blame for no deal squarely on Johnson's shoulders as talks hover on brink of collapse. https://t.co/5aFFHegf5d
— Mandoline Word-Smith #FBPE #LanguageMatters (@Mandoline_Blue) October 5, 2019
The delusion in the Commons this week was the same that we have seen for the last three years, writes @jonlis1 https://t.co/TkHkpw6Ik7
— Prospect Magazine (@prospect_uk) October 6, 2019
New.
-This is the highest Conservative vote share from this pollster since Boris Johnson became PM
-Would be a v big Con majority
-Double digit leads -4th in row- becoming new norm for Cons ?Conservative 38%
Labour 23%
Lib Dem 15%#Brexit Party 12%
Green 4%Opinium Oct 3-4
— Matthew Goodwin (@GoodwinMJ) October 5, 2019
Turns out Johnson is uniting our country after all. Go Ilkley 👏 https://t.co/f5hymhAR3X
— Howard Goodall (@Howard_Goodall) October 6, 2019
Deluded English Brexit exceptionalism in a tweet. pic.twitter.com/n8AmnBs3eX
— Otto English (@Otto_English) October 5, 2019
Brexit is not the will of the people of Scotland. But in Edinburgh yesterday, there was a feeling that Scottish independence might now be the will of the people of Scotland.#AUOBEdinburgh #indyref2 pic.twitter.com/BmaJx2kXKZ
— James Melville (@JamesMelville) October 6, 2019
Tony Blair: Boris Johnson has the same dilemma as Theresa May confronted.
“The present hotchpotch… would undermine the peace [in Northern Ireland] so carefully constructed and kept despite all the challenges for more than two decades”
RT ⬇️ https://t.co/bsvrcNNfme
— Tony Blair Institute (@InstituteGC) October 6, 2019
Philadelphia, Here I Come! For your chlorinated chicken.
— Patrick Kielty (@PatricKielty) October 6, 2019
Hi, Australian trade guy here.
Our country is 14,000km from Europe and overwhelmingly exports iron ore, coal and gold, mostly to Asia.
Unless ya'll have a secret desert full of minerals and a plan to tow yourselves to just under South East Asia, our model won't work for you. https://t.co/SX6qx6K9J5
— Dmitry Grozoubinski (@DmitryOpines) October 4, 2019
Fruit left to rot because the British government has insulted and deterred the EU migrants who are prepared to do the hard work to pick it. What a vain and humiliating waste Brexit is turning out to be.https://t.co/8gCKMo8eEc
— David Lammy (@DavidLammy) October 5, 2019
Don't remember this being in the Yellowhammer document… pic.twitter.com/a73G6XPaMe
— Philip Cowley (@philipjcowley) October 6, 2019
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INCREASINGLY BIZARRO TRUMPWORLD
Trump White House struggles to contain Ukraine fallout in wake of impeachment inquiry https://t.co/YwtRHTrK28 pic.twitter.com/tBai8xMvKn
— The Hill (@thehill) October 6, 2019
Trump told House Republicans that he made his now infamous phone call to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the urging of Energy Secretary Rick Perry — a call Trump claimed he didn't even want to make, Axios reports. https://t.co/HLWPQLAEzB
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 5, 2019
I have to admit that I did not have "blame it the fuck on Rick Perry, of all fucking people" on my Donald Trump Batshittery Bingo card
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) October 6, 2019
So is Sondland Trump’s Gordon Liddy in Ukraine? Holding Ukraine hostage: How the president and his allies, chasing 2020 ammunition, fanned a political storm – The Washington Post https://t.co/87JkAS0tFI
— John Dean (@JohnWDean) October 6, 2019
Amid the White House's push for investigation of former VP Joe Biden's son Hunter, the @AMJoyShow panel takes a look at the way Donald Trump's children and son-in-law have benefited from Trump's time in office. https://t.co/oiQaONye0R
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) October 6, 2019
Never Forget. The Trump family was disallowed from operating ANY charity in the State of New York because they stole from a kids cancer charity. A kids cancer charity. A kids cancer charity. https://t.co/AwwbgWYDzB
— Bruno Amato (@BrunoAmato_1) October 5, 2019
I’d like to point out that at this point in the Nixon/Watergate impeachment public support was 19%.
For Trump, 50+% …we’re only two weeks in! https://t.co/IZXoYJ1eYQ— Tara Setmayer (@TaraSetmayer) October 5, 2019
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WORLD
More extraordinary footage of clashes in Baghdad tonight. At least 93 killed thus far, thousands wounded. Once again sounds of gunfire. pic.twitter.com/4brSvobsVu
— Tobias Schneider (@tobiaschneider) October 5, 2019
And this, from one small Baghdad neighborhood (Bayaa). So much for the curfew. The Iraqi security forces have completely lost controlpic.twitter.com/fGYcfDoHhH
— Liz Sly (@LizSly) October 4, 2019
‘Just Give Us a Country’: Thousands in #Iraq Protest Corruption#BaghdadProtests
— Dhafir Shammery (@DhafirMPICT) October 4, 2019
BREAKING: Saudi TV channel Al-Arabiya says its office in Baghdad is under attack by armed gunmen
— BNO News (@BNONews) October 5, 2019
Opinion: Saudi Arabia's campaign of denial and cover-up in the killing of Jamal Khashoggi would never have gotten off the ground had it not been for the Trump administration's support over the past year, write two former State Department officials. https://t.co/jg2vUmMGhd
— NPR (@NPR) October 6, 2019
Both Trump and Greta Thunberg are on the shortlist for this year's Nobel Peace Prize pic.twitter.com/qennNIkXqz
— Bloomberg TicToc (@tictoc) October 6, 2019
On this day in 1884 — the Circle line opened. pic.twitter.com/5SpCgksGJP
— ianVisits (@ianvisits) October 6, 2019
the media just isn’t gonna let this rest until they get the joker inspired shooting spree they want lmao https://t.co/WfYCh4eL61
— laura lux (@DarthLux) October 5, 2019