Petrol panic-buying begins as UK plunges towards Winter of Discontent 2.0 https://t.co/RhaZxzj7Kc pic.twitter.com/6LPhq7flsD
— Daily Mail U.K. (@DailyMailUK) September 24, 2021
Can I commend this Daily Mail article to you?
— Edwin Hayward đŚ đĄ (@uk_domain_names) September 24, 2021
It's not perfect. Not even close. We are talking about the DM, after all.
But it hits all the main talking points of the current crisis, and Brexit makes a number of starring appearances.https://t.co/NHqcFQRp89 pic.twitter.com/yQlzPLJkmi
And so it begins; long petrol station queues across UK as drivers defy govt appeals not to panic buy.
— Dr Mike Galsworthy (@mikegalsworthy) September 24, 2021
This will only make it all worse, of course. And the tabloids will up the alarm further tomorrow morning.https://t.co/ld5EkZYcUo
Maybe EU workers weren't such a burden to Britain after all…
— Guy Verhofstadt (@guyverhofstadt) September 24, 2021
https://t.co/Qj6KiStQP1
Finally. https://t.co/ystrTOq3dq
— Annette Dittert (@annettedittert) September 24, 2021
Is Brexit or Covid to blame for Britainâs supply chain crisis? https://t.co/rEV7tbb24r
— The Guardian (@guardian) September 24, 2021
– meeting of ministers this afternoon will consider an expansion to the seasonal agricultural workers scheme
— Jim Pickard (@PickardJE) September 24, 2021
– this would open up it up for âa few thousand HGV drivers and few thousand food processing workersâ
Come to the UK and save us from a spectacular winter crisis! We will kick you out at the first possible opportunity! https://t.co/W8ArL5IORR
— James Ball (@jamesrbuk) September 24, 2021
That the government is planning to issue new visas to attract people who could legally work here pre-Brexit puts like to this, and shows either:
— James Ball (@jamesrbuk) September 24, 2021
1. Peter Lilley is completely stupid, or
2. He thinks the public is https://t.co/LGFHuIIU5X
If Ed Miliband had been in charge, we'd have a fuel crisis, food shortages, labour shortages AND he'd have personally had a thousand angry monkeys released into every town in Britain. So at least we avoided chaos!
— Danny Wallace (@dannywallace) September 24, 2021
Meanwhile…
NEW: The EU is likely to challenge on legal grounds any move by the UK to trigger Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol, @rtenews understands.
— Tony Connelly (@tconnellyRTE) September 24, 2021
Surely @J_Donaldson_MP could not be asking for there to be more EU workers allowed into NI to help address the shortage in agriculture? Now if he had opposed #Brexit I would understand that. But this is what he and the #DUP wantedâŚ
— Tim McKane (@timmckane) September 24, 2021
Fuel shortages: NI haulage company says protocol takes away âquite a bit of pressureâ https://t.co/R1FBrDD676
— Belfast Telegraph (@BelTel) September 24, 2021
EXCLUSIVE: Jeffrey Donaldson calls on UUP & TUV to join his party in an electoral pact to stop SF in Assembly election. Indicates conscience votes on social issues could become more common in DUP & doesnt rule out attending a gay wedding.https://t.co/BLInGGZWuR
— Suzanne Breen (@SuzyJourno) September 24, 2021
'A sad reflection on outreach of unionists': United Ireland âchampionâ Higgins has set back north-south relations, DUPâs Donaldson claims after centenary row https://t.co/nQTSgD6CoM
— Belfast Telegraph (@BelTel) September 24, 2021
From the man threatening to pull down north-south bodies because he's under pressure from loyalist corner boys?!
— Kevin Meagher (@KevinPMeagher) September 24, 2021
The alacrity with which @J_Donaldson_MP has exploited this issue merely underlines the crisis in the DUP. https://t.co/rO9ETAeGjW
Elsewhere…
NEW: President Biden will not shield fmr. President Trump's records from the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol by invoking executive privilege, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki says. https://t.co/sDo2ggFFAe
— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 24, 2021
GOP-backed Arizona election review confirms Biden 2020 win https://t.co/euvJrbIzrc pic.twitter.com/ggiWCQmaBJ
— The Hill (@thehill) September 24, 2021
DOJ must appoint a special prosecutor to investigate alleged crimes by former President Trump.
— Richard W. Painter (@RWPUSA) September 24, 2021
My op-ed with links to documented crimes during the Trump administration is here;https://t.co/migmWZLdw6
Wow no one could have predicted this https://t.co/3AVqHYcxmz
— Balls & Strikes (@ballsstrikes) September 24, 2021
No, Trump is not going to stop lying about the election.
— S.V. DĂĄte (@svdate) September 24, 2021
For one, there is too much money to be taken from his followers.
Second — well, there doesn't need be a second.
An unprecedented constitutional crisis is already unfolding, writes Bob Kagan: "Most Americans â and all but a handful of politicians â have refused to take this possibility seriously enough to try to prevent it." https://t.co/Nokj0Nbabr
— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) September 24, 2021
And…
Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany is leaving office after 16 years.
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 24, 2021
As Germans head to the polls this weekend, they will face a difficult question: Who can replace her as a leader, for their country and for Europe? Listen to todayâs episode of The Daily.https://t.co/kZIseIHG7x
âShe was more modern than any other. She wasnât a typical Christian Democrat.â Political veteran Wolfgang Nowak tells @AnneMcElvoy about the qualities that made Angela Merkel stand out at the start of her political career, on âThe Economist Asksâ podcast https://t.co/jKU6bhuEor
— The Economist (@TheEconomist) September 24, 2021
Germanyâs electoral oracle struggles to divine the post-Merkel future https://t.co/XNbeXluhmR
— Financial Times (@FT) September 24, 2021
As Angela Merkel steps down as German chancellor, we take a look back at the photos documenting her career https://t.co/Vi1ukUzfss
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) September 24, 2021
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