Boris Johnson’s humiliation by Ed Miliband was the culmination of a lifetime of lies about the EU | @tompeck https://t.co/YntkSjzfbA
— The Independent (@Independent) September 15, 2020
Still can’t quite believe what we're witnessing. This is nothing to do with views on Brexit – it’s about who we are as a country – about the rule of law – about the most basic principles of liberal democracy https://t.co/syAdLEtxPV
— Caroline Lucas (@CarolineLucas) September 14, 2020
When will it finally sink in that illegal behaviour is not a bug of this government. It’s a feature.
— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) September 14, 2020
It is *literally* how it won Brexit. Which is *literally* how it came to power. Our failure to confront that will keep coming back to bite us on the arse. https://t.co/t4fdhL93i4
Our dysfunctional system reduces us to spectators at the theatre for five long years. It might be entertaining, but that's all it is. We have scarcely any means of affecting the decisions the government makes, even if almost all of us opposed them.
— George Monbiot (@GeorgeMonbiot) September 15, 2020
Robert Shrimsley: As long as Brexit’s ultimate state is not settled it can be reopened. If Boris Johnson cannot secure a trade deal, he risks gifting an economic and political strategy to his opponents https://t.co/fRmYrSIOj2
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) September 15, 2020
“The Brexiteers promised something that they cannot deliver.”
— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) September 14, 2020
European Parliament Vice-President @katarinabarley says Brexiteers are “trying to blame the EU” as they cannot “deliver a Brexit that doesn’t change anything, doesn’t cost anything and is easily done”#Newsnight pic.twitter.com/ZNa1MK4Wao
Long live the Yorkshire Post.
— Etienne 🏳🌈 (@Etienne_Sheff) September 15, 2020
"PM wins bid to override his own bill" https://t.co/mMZt9J5lI5
This is objectively remarkable. A Prime Minister is invited to justify his own bogus claims, already widely parroted by client journalists & morally bankrupt MPs, but knows that he can’t. The calculation here is that looking cowardly is preferable to looking corrupt… https://t.co/z1fHgprllC
— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) September 14, 2020
Brilliant from @Ed_Miliband
— Tom London (@TomLondon6) September 14, 2020
Johnson is a disgrace. The worst PM ever, who only defies political gravity because he is held up by Murdoch and the rest https://t.co/YR19e7ZVIU
The reason @Ed_Miliband rattled the Tories y'day? He spoke to a narrative: Johnson is a lazy amateur who doesn't give a sh*t. As parents scramble for tests that don't exist, that has to be Labour's message … but you can't duck Brexit..1/ https://t.co/3DSQCdg7tS
— Paul Mason (@paulmasonnews) September 15, 2020
This stuff will happen deal or no deal. We aren’t ready to be a third country.
— Julie Owen Moylan (@JulieOwenMoylan) September 15, 2020
Unfinished IT systems and lorry queues: what leaked Brexit document reveals | Global | The Guardian https://t.co/bfATRoReMe
And there's Gibraltar and Brexit as well https://t.co/Q49HVNBHtm
— David Phinnemore (@DPhinnemore) September 14, 2020
NI is being used as a convenient pawn in these negotiations as well as being a barrier to a clean brexit and the DUP has once again fallen for the UK Govt spin, hook, line and sinker. Can see this ending in what would previously been unthinkable. A UI with UK funding transition.
— Alex Magill (@nornirishfella) September 15, 2020
"Warns."
— MorpheusNI (@MorpheusNI) September 14, 2020
Adorable. https://t.co/gJ1nqOnq7x
and, unsurprisingly…
Reuters Exclusive: The EU is set to delay a decision on allowing City of London clearing houses to continue clearing euro transactions for EU-based clients due to concern over Britain's plan to breach its Brexit divorce settlement, a derivatives industry source said. @reutersHuwJ
— Guy Faulconbridge (@GuyReuters) September 14, 2020
Three reasons why the City doesn’t care about Brexit deadlockhttps://t.co/4sqOaOuxJJ
— Financial News (@FinancialNews) September 15, 2020
Ah, Brexit, the gift that keeps on giving…even while the govt talks of fish, stste aid and breaking international lawhttps://t.co/gxHQ204mug
— Danny Barrs (@DanielBarrs2) September 15, 2020
Meanwhile
'Rule of six' chaos as Tories allow grouse hunting – but families can't meet up https://t.co/2CW5zbdRPD
— NIPSA (@nipsa) September 15, 2020
BBC News – Coronavirus: GPs prepare for a cold and flu season like no other https://t.co/3Zm3GfOWcn From @LouiseMCullen
— Marie-Louise Connolly – Wash Your Hands (@mlchealth) September 15, 2020
Just WTF Does Boris Johnson Think He’s Doing? On Covid AND On Brexit?
— Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) September 15, 2020
Here's the latest WaughZone https://t.co/NYwQiJG1AZ
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WORLDWIDE
Dr. Fauci: “We need to hunker down and get through this fall and winter, because it’s not going to be easy.” https://t.co/rCvzt1LFAg
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 15, 2020
Breaking News: Astronomers have found a potential sign of life in the clouds of Venus, a planet long overlooked in the search for extraterrestrial life.https://t.co/UmA0cWxX6M
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 14, 2020
It takes tremendous hubris to look at what Facebook is doing to countries around the world and assume it can't happen here.https://t.co/nf6qs1IbnN
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) September 15, 2020
Russian paramedics' accounts challenge Moscow's explanation for Navalny's coma – sources https://t.co/9nPThrx25C
— Gregory Koblentz (@gregkoblentz) September 14, 2020
Oil could see another demand shock, adding to the 'extraordinary' destruction this year https://t.co/MyYHhkQgXN
— CNBC (@CNBC) September 15, 2020
There is no reason to assume, as Trump and Pompeo seem to, that U.S. personnel are about to be hauled off to The Hague—or, in the unlikely event that they do end up in the dock, that they would fail to receive a fair trial. @PostOpinions https://t.co/HmtAotwiqd
— Max Boot (@MaxBoot) September 14, 2020
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THE VENAL IDIOCRACY THAT IS TRUMPWORLD
"Republicans — not just Donald Trump, but his whole party — are acting as if there’s no tomorrow. Or, more precisely, they’re acting as if there’s no next year," writes @PaulKrugman. https://t.co/HQDwZ8141o
— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) September 15, 2020
Roughly two-thirds of the country think Pres. Trump acted too slowly in responding to the coronavirus outbreak, per new @ABC News/Ipsos poll. https://t.co/svCauHYJJZ
— ABC News (@ABC) September 15, 2020
"It'll start getting cooler," Pres. Trump claims as California's Sec. for National Resources Wade Crawfoot calls on him to work with the state to combat the effects of climate change.
— ABC News (@ABC) September 15, 2020
"I wish science agreed with you," Crawfoot replies. https://t.co/LsN9nnmzRf pic.twitter.com/FX44z7uP1Y
‘I'm on stage so I'm very far away’: Trump says he's not afraid of contracting coronavirus at his rallies – but doesn't mention crowds of supportershttps://t.co/ZQhyPvAnpS
— The Independent (@Independent) September 15, 2020
Profoundly misunderstanding the word "venial" (while repeating it for emphasis!) is really the least of the problems here, I know, but I admit that's the part that I can't get unstuck from my craw.
— Rachel Maddow MSNBC (@maddow) September 14, 2020
This government is genuinely insane. Genuinely nuts.https://t.co/pF1XsIfXZV
Nobody has ever spent a *billion* dollars to go down 10 points.
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) September 14, 2020
Don, you got conned. pic.twitter.com/fr2ltxFHU1
The president appeared to mistake a 2016 endorsement from a Florida veterans group for the bestowing of an award. https://t.co/gpsmGN0BKB
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) September 15, 2020
Not only is that a MiG-29, but the guy on the right seems to be carrying an AK, and the one on the left appears to be a Mandalorian… https://t.co/tWK9zmFGKF
— David Andress (@ProfDaveAndress) September 15, 2020
Trump and Republicans are trying to set something up. Pay attention.#RepublicansAreTraitors pic.twitter.com/sGbDePLtH8
— It's going to get ugly. (@bongo_xxx) September 15, 2020
JFC…
Ivana Trump: Ivanka could "definitely" be first female president https://t.co/9dh0h4Uzos pic.twitter.com/XCPfyt3vTc
— The Hill (@thehill) September 15, 2020
The Overnight Note 