MPs have overwhelmingly approved the #Brexit trade deal to pave the way for the UK-EU agreement to come into force at 11pm tomorrow https://t.co/tfifMLRICf
— Sky News (@SkyNews) December 30, 2020
#Brexit is far from done – this deal is no ‘game, set and match' https://t.co/AcJAHME4fo
— Geof Walker (@geof24) December 30, 2020
Flagrant lies that @BBCNews should not be reporting as fact. https://t.co/E7gid8Mvw5
— Mike Buckley 🌹 (@mdbuckley) December 30, 2020
#BrexitReality On every major economic point, the EU has got its way.
— Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #PATH #FBPE (@nickreeves9876) December 30, 2020
There are five principal reasons why.
First, we massively overestimated our negotiating strength. It is true we are equally sovereign as the EU, but we are not sovereign equals…https://t.co/VKoEhdODkD
As Parliament prepares to pass Brexit Bill today that is sold as a 'compromise' worth reflecting that 4 yrs ago many Brexiters said wouldn't want to leave single market and customs union.
— Peter Geoghegan @ democracyforsale.substack (@PeterKGeoghegan) December 30, 2020
Frog has really so thoroughly boiled – by ERG, think tanks, etc – that we barely notice now
"For the record, we won, and so did the British people"
— The Telegraph (@Telegraph) December 30, 2020
ERG Chairman Mark Francois joins @christopherhope and Sir @BillCashMP on @chopperspodcast to discuss why Boris Johnson's EU trade deal is a true Brexit and how he'll be celebrating on New Year's Evehttps://t.co/MyPxr2Bi5q pic.twitter.com/AuTqGoSziM
"What I call the 'Battle for Brexit' is now over. We won"
— Bloomberg UK (@BloombergUK) December 30, 2020
Conservative MP Mark Francois tells MPs debating Boris Johnson's EU trade deal that he and fellow Brexiteers can now "lower our spears"https://t.co/YaHL24URec pic.twitter.com/BmMF1tUD1X
There’s only one constant in British history: we argue about Europe. We’re going to be arguing about this deal and how it will impact the future of the Union for years and decades to come.
— Jonathan Lis (@jonlis1) December 30, 2020
If the Tories think this is over, they have another think coming. pic.twitter.com/KI3W6rccCF
Hopefully, @Keir_Starmer and @UKLabour walking through the lobbies with the ERG and the other Brexit wreckers, will mark the end of a shameful episode in which Labour has facilitated the most destructive hard and far-right policy in modern British history.
— Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #PATH #FBPE (@nickreeves9876) December 30, 2020
Three Labour frontbenchers quit after defying Keir Starmer on Brexit deal https://t.co/u9AP1rOHxF
— Guardian news (@guardiannews) December 30, 2020
It is very doubtful, watching today's proceedings, whether the UK can still accurately be described as a "parliamentary democracy". It is, increasingly, an "executive democracy", in which the largest party doesn't just dominate Parlt, but actively removes it from decision-making.
— Robert Saunders (@redhistorian) December 30, 2020
'Drunk on hubris, they rejected May’s proposal to keep the whole of the UK aligned with some European Union rules….Instead, they plotted with Conservative hardliners to replace her with Johnson and they have been rewarded with one betrayal after another" https://t.co/M7ofgGWfG8
— Seán Napier (@Seanofthesouth) December 30, 2020
"GB companies are indicating that they will no longer supply to Northern Ireland”:https://t.co/g9b4ij4vON
— Belfast News Letter (@News_Letter) December 30, 2020
"Brexit has moved Northern Ireland farther from the UK and closer to the Republic. In itself, this will not reunite Ireland, but the leap is getting smaller."https://t.co/mRJ9f74sYY
— Sam McBride (@SJAMcBride) December 30, 2020
Easily the most deranged Brexit tweet, slid in at the last second for the win https://t.co/rIUyKBc9HY
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) December 30, 2020
Personal comment at the end of 2020: Brexit continues to be a travesty, ignoring the lessons from history & reducing the capacity for cooperation precisely when the UK, EU & the rest of the world need it most. I feel for everyone who is caught up in this at no fault of their own
— Fabian Zuleeg (@FabianZuleeg) December 30, 2020
The UK’s medicines regulator has approved the Oxford and AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine. The approval of the new vaccine comes as most areas in the UK were moved up into higher tiers of restriction to try to stem the spread of the virushttps://t.co/e6hkFrNlcu @emahase_ reports
— The BMJ (@bmj_latest) December 30, 2020
Covid-19: Second vaccine approved for use in UK and England's tiers to be reviewed https://t.co/aWcoHMrHwz
— BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews) December 30, 2020
"We have to go into another lockdown."
— Sky News (@SkyNews) December 30, 2020
Former Chief Scientific Adviser Sir David King says he believes a nationwide lockdown is needed with "immediate effect" to stop the spread of the second COVID variant.
Latest on changes to Tiers in England: https://t.co/MWUcG8K28a pic.twitter.com/gLyfmDKCbl
Stop fucking about with tiers. Lock the whole country down, and aim for eradication. Funds for those who can't work from home. Support the arts.
— badly-drawn barbenheimer 🤯 (@soapachu) December 30, 2020
If not, we'll still be here in 12 months' time. Only more fucked, because the economy will be double-hammered by Brexit and COVID.
No point in worrying about tiers and covid when from next week the NHS will start receiving £350m a week, right?
— Antonio Banteras (@MattyGuminski) December 30, 2020
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AMID HEALTH CRISIS, US HEADS INTO CRUCIAL POLITICAL WEEK
Over and over, @realDonaldTrump says we "turned the corner" on #COVID, unfortunately, that corner led to a cliff. https://t.co/XfPyHoHYBB
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) December 30, 2020
We have vaccinated 10-20% of the people we committed to vaccinating.
— Andy Slavitt 🇮🇱 🇺🇦 (@ASlavitt) December 30, 2020
This is absolutely below normal error levels and nothing tells me Trump or team cares enough to fix it. #PromisesNeverKept 2/
Case of highly infectious UK variant of coronavirus identified in California https://t.co/7YT8pSQDva pic.twitter.com/X14oCFQsi0
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 30, 2020
“Eat your Wheaties! The week ahead is likely to bring a topsy-turvy crescendo to one of the weirdest and darkest chapters in Trump’s presidency. His six-week-long fraudulent attempt to overturn an election he lost, may cost Republicans control of the Senate” – @NicolleDWallace pic.twitter.com/g0c99R2nPg
— Deadline White House (@DeadlineWH) December 30, 2020
President Trump golfed at his club in Florida today, as the Senate continues to not pass $2000 relief checks. pic.twitter.com/YWzxZ9psOb
— The Hill (@thehill) December 30, 2020
⚡️ GOP Sen. Josh Hawley vows to challenge the Electoral College results in a last effort to flip Biden’s victory
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) December 30, 2020
Hawley, a key Trump ally, cited Trump's false, repeatedly debunked claim that Biden’s win was helped by mass voter fraud. @C_Sommerfeldthttps://t.co/gZs9lv85Uk
"That, my friends, is the future of the Republican party. Loyalty tests, all the way down…Donald Trump was defeated but the danger has not passed. Stand up to Josh Hawley. Stand up for America."
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) December 30, 2020
— @JVLast https://t.co/XcIiSTTX9I
The intelligence was included in the President's Daily Brief on Dec. 17, and Trump was verbally briefed on the matter by National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien, officials said. https://t.co/6VonFxrXYP
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) December 30, 2020
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has shut the door on President Donald Trump’s push for $2,000 COVID-19 relief checks. The Republican leader says Congress has provided enough pandemic aid. https://t.co/iAIR1IT3BU
— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) December 30, 2020
Farmers stand out among those who got federal aid in 2020. Direct government payments to farmers totaled a record $46 billion.
— NPR (@NPR) December 30, 2020
And based on previous years, it's likely most of the money went to fewer than 100,000 farms.https://t.co/shVjvJrIYf
#Iran is a real danger. So is the possibility that Trump will start a war as a last-ditch effort to destroy the transition and the @JoeBiden
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) December 30, 2020
presidency. https://t.co/HSMQNaj53h
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