You’re celebrating spending 4.5 years & £200 billion of our taxpayers money on getting a far worse deal than we had in the EU -along with trashing our international reputation & stealing our rights & freedoms?
— PauleFoster🇪🇺🐟#FBPE #WeToldYou 3.5% (@FaBPaule) December 24, 2020
Just how thick are you Doris?#ToryIncompetence #ToryLiars pic.twitter.com/TSVnxewfMX
New: the U.K. is claiming victory over the EU in the Brexit talks. Let's take a closer look… 1/ https://t.co/VWZRQ3hM6I
— Joe Mayes (@Joe_Mayes) December 24, 2020
Some thoughts on the deal and the end of the formal Brexit process
— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) December 24, 2020
Not the details which are still to come but where it leaves British politics and the economy after 4.5 long, extraordinary and volatile years.
This EU document summarizing what we have lost in Boris Johnson’s trade deal is breathtaking. Factor in getting to this point will have cost the country upwards of £200bn & every one of us will be made poorer, all involved, including the PM, would be sacked anywhere else pic.twitter.com/LXQkBmDMH2
— Peter Stefanovic (@PeterStefanovi2) December 24, 2020
Cartesian clarity.
— Tim O'Connor (@timoconnorbl) December 24, 2020
Well done on getting a Brexit Deal over the line @BorisJohnson – this £350,000,000 a WEEK for the NHS couldn’t have come at a better time – can’t wait to see it 🙏
— Dave Jones 🏴🏳️🌈 (@WelshGasDoc) December 24, 2020
Here's our quick guide to the key terms of the Brexit deal, including:
— Bloomberg Brexit (@Brexit) December 24, 2020
🚛 Trade
💷 Financial services
⛹️ Level playing field
🐟 Fishing
🛃 Customs
✈️ Transport
🚜 Agriculture
🧮 Taxation
🔋 Energy https://t.co/gDGYOEsD9u
A deal that means:
— Paul Johnson (@paul__johnson) December 24, 2020
-Trade more difficult
-More rules, red tape, cost
-End Freedom of Movement
-Nothing on services – 80% of economy
-Data uncertain
-And travel, insurance, pets problems
And that’s a triumph?#Brexit
After more than four years of campaigning, voting, debating, and negotiating over Britain’s departure from the European Union, the elusive trade agreement was nearly derailed by an eleventh-hour dispute over … fishing https://t.co/BRlMo5B5Dx
— The New York Review of Books (@nybooks) December 24, 2020
A Brexit deal stitched together at the eleventh hour the night before Christmas will come as a relief to many, but it is no cause for celebration
— Caroline Lucas (@CarolineLucas) December 24, 2020
Let's remember the benefits Boris Johnson promised we'd have outside the EU, and what we're actually getting#BrexitReality pic.twitter.com/Iy5czJ28fh
Boris Johnson gets the deal both sides wanted to achieve
— Jon Jones (@JonJonesSnr) December 24, 2020
– Laura Kuenssberg
And the BBC wonder why so many complain about her perceived bias
Looks like I'm going to have to leave the Labour Party again. Starmer is going to whip the party to vote for the deal. Just abstain man – like Iraq was to Blair you'll be tainted with this forever.
— Mike Harding #RejoinEU (@HardingMike) December 24, 2020
Abstain and explain @Keir_Starmer @UKLabour 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 https://t.co/XCUQ4GqHrE
— Jordan (@gordahaus) December 24, 2020
Starmer has fallen straight into the Tory trap of focusing mainly on the deal being better than a no-deal, when he should be focusing on the awfulness of the deal compared with EU membership. That would be holding the Tories to account.
— Nick Reeves 3.5% #FBPE (@nickreeves9876) December 24, 2020
Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal may not end his party’s feud with Europe. Here's why https://t.co/j0VFRdljVA
— Bloomberg (@business) December 24, 2020
…And I get the kids on Boxing Day pic.twitter.com/mN8YMfXPpv
— Bands FC (@_Bands_FC) December 24, 2020
To all the Brexitologists who have challenged, illuminated and informed in a torrid infoscape over the past 5 yrs, here’s to taking back control of our lives. Have a peaceful break y’all…
— Tony Connelly (@tconnellyRTE) December 24, 2020
It’s done now. No point discussing it any more. But fuck, were we stupid. pic.twitter.com/xiMgX6neVq
— Michael Moran (@TheMichaelMoran) December 24, 2020
Staff at UK coronavirus testing lab hit by outbreak of the disease https://t.co/PlBEgsKMVJ
— The Guardian (@guardian) December 24, 2020
Hey! Is everyone looking forward to sleeping in their own beds for a change? Nah, me neither. Millions of us who relish our families' unique attempts at Christmas hospitality are really missing it right now. #duvetknowitschristmas [preamble 1/9]
— Rhodri Marsden (@rhodri) December 24, 2020
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THE INSANITY CONTINUES
This is the critical story today, from @byHeatherLong & @rachsieg
— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) December 24, 2020
Families on brink of eviction, hunger describe nightmare Christmas as $900 billion relief bill hangs in limbohttps://t.co/uOdV0s1J6H
Pence Should Remove Trump From Office on Sunday https://t.co/2esvybs5Yw via @intelligencer
— Cheri Jacobus (@CheriJacobus) December 24, 2020
As Trump leaves office, 50% of Americans see him as a 'failed' president https://t.co/n7h3zSFw4n pic.twitter.com/RzRz89KXFN
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) December 24, 2020
“Trump’s rhetoric might be hyperbole. Things might be more complicated than he can fathom. His fantasies of dominion run contrary to the law. But this is an exceptional moment, and homilies about legal precedent are a distraction from the danger we face.” https://t.co/VlTktuh4YQ
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) December 24, 2020
The idea that Trump “saved” Mitch McConnell from losing re-election is laughable. https://t.co/TrMO4MaUJU
— Andrew Desiderio (@AndrewDesiderio) December 24, 2020
Trump's 'drunken buffoonery' on pardons conceals a potential quid pro quo — and federal crimes: Ex-prosecutorhttps://t.co/35eb6HJ2AH
— Raw Story (@RawStory) December 24, 2020
NEWS: Trump has instructed his top political advisers to begin monitoring potential 2022 GOP primary targets, as he lashes out at fellow Republicans whom he deems disloyal. https://t.co/ak3Uisl9Qu
— Alex Isenstadt (@politicoalex) December 24, 2020
We’ve been literally begging people not to travel this holiday season and the leader of our pandemic response is skiing in Vail. I love to ski. Know why I’m not skiing right now? Because we’re in the middle of a fucking pandemic. How heartless. What a dereliction of duty. https://t.co/mu3yNcRiJy
— Jonathan Reiner (@JReinerMD) December 24, 2020
“We’re in a very very difficult situation right now. People are just not paying attention to public health guidelines, and the evidence for that is in the number of people traveling for the Christmas holiday” https://t.co/HytjtAsrEN
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) December 24, 2020
It has been a banner year for terrible WSJ opinion pieces, but this is really something. pic.twitter.com/5qh0ecw88S
— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) December 24, 2020
Happy one year anniversary, @RudyGiuliani, who got drunk on Bloody Marys during our @NYMag interview at the Mark Hotel and said, among many other things, “My attitude about my legacy is: Fuck it.” https://t.co/UegDf2yXbB
— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) December 24, 2020
The Overnight Note 