Steve Peers
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Professor of EU Law & Human Rights Law, @rhul_law . Latest book: EU Justice and Home Affairs Law, 5th ed (OUP), published Oct 2023. Usual disclaimers.
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On the Rwanda policy and the UK/Ireland dispute over responsibility for asylum seekers, by
@CRGMurray
and me
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You spelled "victims" wrong.
How accusers' testimony brought Ghislaine Maxwell down
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This you?
The thing I find astonishing about some of the so-called progressive left is the hatred, intolerance and contempt they display to people who just have a different view.
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*does not apply to student nurses
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Trashing British ties with the EU to sign a trade deal with a failing state led by a demented violent racist. Hard Brexit becomes an ever more squalid, bankrupt doctrine with every passing day.
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It's now definitive that Vote Leave broke election spending law. They dropped the case on Friday afternoon in the hope that no one would notice. Retweet if you want to confound that hope.
BREAKING:
Vote Leave has dropped its appeal against the Electoral Commission, the elections watchdog has announced
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A genuinely terrible appointment. I worked with her on a inquiry to secure EU citizens' rights, and she then voted against the results of the inquiry. Untrustworthy and untalented.
Suella Braverman MP
@SuellaBraverman
has been appointed Attorney General
@attorneygeneral
. She will attend Cabinet.
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The National Trust is the second most trusted institution in the country; your party is the *least* trusted institution.
The National Trust regrettably dislikes our nation.
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Again, these aren't new EU rules. They are existing rules for non-EU citizens if their country has not signed up to free movement. The Mail campaigned for years for the UK to become one of these countries. It simply lacks the integrity to take responsibility for the consequences.
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Truly terrible appointment - one of the cruellest and most dishonest people in public life
The Rt Hon Suella Braverman KC MP
@SuellaBraverman
has been appointed Secretary of State for the Home Department
@UKHomeOffice
.
#Reshuffle
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The BBC has been community noted
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But you still voted for it, you charlatan.
This is a farce. I should think we will be back to remote voting before we are all much older.
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People banned from travelling more than 15 minutes. "Blanket" 20mph speed limits. Meat taxes. Fake gay refugees. Jews terrified of Sadiq Khan.
The Conservative party has simply become addicted to lying. It lacks the competence or integrity to make an honest appeal to voters.
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You have tabled a bill that would significantly curtail the right to protest. You have zero credibility here.
Some of the footage circulating online from the vigil in Clapham is upsetting. I have asked the Metropolitan Police for a full report on what happened.
My thoughts remain with Sarah’s family and friends at this terrible time.
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RIP Saskia. Many people would have loved you 💔
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"I did not have a party. But if I did have a party, then I followed all the guidance."
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"We could prove our innocence, but all the data has been destroyed"
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You wanted
@mrjamesob
fired, you work for a Prime Minister who discussed beating a journalist up, and you have retweeted doctored videos.
Our democracy relies on press freedom. Good journalism exposes wrongdoing and injustice, it scrutinises people in power and it champions truth.
Every single day journalists are called upon to be fearless and fair. Today, we give thanks to them all.
#WorldPressFreedomDay
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The biggest liar in the history of the UK.
We’ve got the deal. It’s oven ready. Vote Conservative tomorrow to get Brexit done 🇬🇧
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You literally voted for a bill allowing for huge restrictions on protest in the UK.
🇨🇦What is happening right now in Canada is appalling.
🗽It seems civilisation will have to learn, once again, that the main purpose of democracy and the rule of law is to enable the public peacefully to restrain political power.
💡More:
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If it comes home, you will prosecute anyone who facilitates its entry
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North Korea called, it wants its journalists back
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When Boris Johnson discussed the prospect of beating up a journalist, Carrie Johnson was two years old.
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Your party literally did exactly that
An important response from Julian Jessop.
As the next election approaches, we will see self-proclaimed “fact-checkers” pop up to undermine any good news about the UK economy.
Rigorous analysis, as shown here, is vital for separating fact from fiction.
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I've delivered a letter to Gareth Southgate demanding to be added to the England team, a letter to the Nobel Committee demanding the Nobel Prize for literature, and a letter to the BBC demanding the news budget be spent on producing daily episodes of Doctor Who instead
Leader of the Brexit Party Nigel Farage has delivered a letter to Prime Minister Theresa May demanding his party is involved in the Government's Brexit negotiations
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The Sun records £68m loss amid falling sales and hacking damages
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There is no "EU Human Rights Act".
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Indeed. Melville blocked me after I pointed out that he was passing off a photo of Moscow in 1990 as a protest in Paris in 2021.
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The Transport Secretary is indeed lying. International law does not require asylum seekers to apply in the "first safe country".
Today Grant Shapps lied about the 27 people who drowned in the Channel by falsely accusing them of breaking international law.
Hi
@grantshapps
. Your words in the wake of this tragedy are an immoral disgrace.
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It was a leaders' debate, not a parents' evening.
‘It was tremendously naïve on behalf of the broadcaster’
@StanleyPJohnson
The Conservative Party is embroiled in a row with Channel 4 over its decision to "empty chair" Boris Johnson during its election debate.
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And there it is. Having whined (misleadingly) that Parliament did not get a vote on free trade agreements negotiated by the EU, John Redwood just voted against Parliament getting a vote on FTAs negotiated by the *UK government*:
Contemptible hypocrisy.
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There's always a tweet
Seedy lists of party apparatchiks appointed by power hungry party leaders & insulated from any democratic pressure for 15 yrs? No thanks.
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I don't use the term lightly, but this is the language of fascism
Suella Braverman, in the House of Commons to address the petrol attack on an immigration centre y'day, tells the chamber Britain facing "an invasion of our southern coast" by asylum seekers, which prompts uproar in chamber.
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You wanted to leave and to end free movement. You won on both points. Therefore passports are stamped. This takes longer than not stamping passports. Therefore this delay is a consequence of your actions. Accept some responsibility for that for once.
Oh dear. When the French decide not to staff their borders adequately, it’s the fault of the British people for voting not to be ruled by the EU. It’s a weird way to join the dots, but hey ho, that’s Remoaner logic for you 🤪
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A blatant falsehood. The corporation tax deal is from the OECD, not the EU.
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The new Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Education
@MandOCLP
@DailyMirror
@guardian
Andrea Jenkyns MP greeting the crowds at Downing Street today at 12:20pm. Gave everyone the finger…
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So here's my collection of Braverman's low points
1/ this nonsense claim about EU contributions
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Fisheries committee meetings you attended: 🐟
Fisheries committee meetings you didn't attend: 🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟
We sold out fisheries when we joined the EEC and we’re selling them out now as we leave.
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"Awarded a Damehood for political and public services"
I am deeply honoured to have been awarded a Damehood (DBE) for public and political services, having been nominated by our Nation's greatest Prime Minister since Margaret Thatcher, the Rt Hon.
@BorisJohnson
, it was an honour to serve in his Government as a Minister & a Whip 🇬🇧
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Johnson starts with a false claim that Cummings had "no alternative". Overlooks his wife's family and other support in London.
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The first claim is demonstrably a lie, as Farage was in Tulsa two weeks ago today. The second claim implicitly misstates the quarantine law in England: there's no "negative test" exception from the obligation to self-isolate for two weeks -
To all those screaming and shouting about me going to the pub.... I have been back from the USA for 2 weeks and I have been tested — the result was negative. Sorry to disappoint you. Cheers!
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Chris Grayling on Brexit is every bit as bad as you thought it would be
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Is this a good moment to remember that Henry Hoovers are made in the UK by
@GMB_union
workers?
Yes. Yes it is.
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Cummings said it was vital that he got back to work in London. But one of the first things he did was to amend his 2019 blog post to make it look as if he had predicted the virus in advance.
MORE: info on Way Bank machine internet archive corroborated by info on actual blog sitemap -hat tip
@martbrow
@exactlyaron
and
@jonwilliams80
edit that added “coronavirus” quote made “2020-04-14 T20:55:20”
So same day he returned to work, after Durham
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The BBC objected to this honesty about Trump's racist comments by
@BBCNaga
- so I'm retweeting them in support of her journalistic integrity
"I've been told as a woman of colour to 'go home'..."
@BBCNaga
shares her experience as we discuss the reaction to comments made by President Trump.
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You literally endorsed booing them.
I am disgusted that
@England
players who have given so much for our country this summer have been subject to vile racist abuse on social media.
It has no place in our country and I back the police to hold those responsible accountable.
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Again the Prime Minister falsely claims that a "foreign court" is the issue - in fact it was the UK Supreme Court that found the Rwanda policy unlawful
"Parliament will sit there tonight and vote no matter how late it goes," Rishi Sunak says
The PM adds "no foreign court will stop us getting flights off"
Follow live
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This you?
What a speech by the Prime Minister. I’ve sat through a fair few PM conference speeches now, that was something else.
No messing around, decision after decision to improve our long term future. Courage too - which is why I am proud of my boss today
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Good lord man. You literally advocated and voted for this treaty and called for *shutting down debate* on it, and now you quote a reference to it as "imposed"? You utter, utter charlatan.
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Last night Andrew Neil organised repeated pile ons of his abusive followers against me, for pointing out that the numbers in this study are wrong.
This morning, the author of the study significantly revised the numbers.
Author of study which projected UK deaths could come in under 6000 says modelling overtaken by reality; 20k-30k is much more likely if the measures being taken are effective in flattening curve. (So 5700 figure should be dropped entirely by commentators)
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The UK chose to leave the EU and free movement. Brexiters wanted to treat EU citizens in the UK the same as non-EU citizens; therefore UK citizens in the EU are treated like other non-EU citizens. FFS grow up and stop whining about the consequences of your actions.
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EU citizens can't come to the UK purely to claim benefits. Try telling the truth for once.
Leak or not this is good news. People should not have automatic right to come to UK and claim benefits.
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Mate, you voted to restrict the right to protest. Sit down.
"Freedom is not simply the right of intellectuals to circulate their merchandise. It is, above all, the right of ordinary people to find elbow room for themselves and a refuge from the rampaging presumptions of their 'betters'." p383
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With the Conservatives, you know where our money goes.
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The real problem with cannabis and cocaine use is that it's a gateway to major abuse of election spending law.
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Last week your party's MPs legislated to remove the government's obligation to negotiate family reunion for child asylum seekers.
Your words are hollow. Sit down.
As long as I am Prime Minister, I will never allow this country to forget what happened 75 years ago. I will do all I can to see that we continue to learn the lessons of the past.
#HolocaustRemembranceDay
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No, Telegraph, this remains the consequence of the Brexit which you advocated
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Today, Remainers are responsible for *spins wheel* the consequences of a US Presidential election.
Next week: Remainers found responsible for late buses, Muzak and Maradona's handball
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There's always a tweet
Josephine sets a great example to us all by postponing her birthday party until we have sent coronavirus packing.
Together we can beat this. In the meantime let's all wish her happy birthday (twice) whilst washing our hands.
#BeLikeJosephine
#StayHomeSaveLives
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I *very* rarely swear on here. But these people have lost their fucking minds.
EXC: ⛑🚨🚑🚨🚑
Dept of Health wanted U.K. to pitch to remain part of EU pandemic ‘EWRS’ early warning system after
#brexit
- but Number Ten said “no” to preserve ‘red lines’.
My latest
#coronavirus
#coronavirusUK
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The state of this. "How dare a footballer criticise the Home Secretary, fire him."
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Dan Hodges on the BBC, mouth so full of government boot that he is barely able to speak
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I could not dig: I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among
Mine angry and defrauded young?
Rudyard Kipling
Observer/C4 story utterly ludicrous,
#VoteLeave
won fair & square - and legally. We are leaving the EU in a year and going global
#TakeBackControl
#GlobalBritain
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Dude, this is *your* leader. Sit down.
Iain Duncan Smith brands Keir Starmer's John Lewis wallpaper visit 'ludicrous stunt'
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@legalclaret
@paulpowlesland
Yes, because authoritarianism should be constantly challenged
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Fatuous. The UK could always decide on its policy towards non-EU migration.
We’re ending free movement to open Britain up to the world.
It will ensure people can come to our country based on what they have to offer, not where they come from.
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5/ Lord Frost very, very falsely states that the Northern Ireland protocol was 'imposed on us'. In fact, the UK govt presented it as a negotiating victory, campaigned on it as an 'oven ready deal', and Parliament voted on it.
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He's not "violent", you dishonest authoritarian.
Steve Bray has spent six years screaming abuse through a loudhailer at me and many others as often as he saw us for the ‘crime’ of trying to fulfil the democratic decision of the UK to leave the EU. This action by the police to stop his violent protest is very welcome 👏👏👏
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You condemned people as "citizens of nowhere" and "queue jumpers" when you thought it served your political interests to be divisive. You cannot, with any credibility, ask people to unite behind you.
"New Year is a time to look ahead. 2019 can be the year we put our differences aside and move forward together." – PM
@Theresa_May
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The criticism of Neil is not just about political bias; it's about the childish unprofessionalism of unpleasant tweets like this.
Poor wee Femi. Is he still howling in the wind? I muted him weeks ago to block out the din. So much more peaceful.
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Brexit party MEP: why listen to you, what do you know about economics
@MollyMEP
: actually I am an economics professor
“I think Mr Rowland stands corrected”
I have never seen such a flop of a blue card in the EP. Poor
@RowlandBrexitSE
, that one hurt.
💚
@MollyMEP
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Your party took £10 million from a man who thinks that an MP should be shot
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Nah, the seat was 60% Leave and the bookies thought you had it in the bag. Farage showed up to gloat and then legged it into the night. You know full well it's not a great result for you. If voters are really gagging for no deal you would have won it. They aren't.
A remarkable result for our 8 week old party. If we can come so close in our 201st target seat, no seat is safe. We're very proud of
@MikeGreeneTBP
& our supporters who worked so hard. Thanks to the people of Peterborough who voted for us - we promise you that we're here to stay!
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I had the misfortune to work with you on a proposal for unilateral guarantees for
@The3Million
- which you pretended to support but then voted against. You are utterly unprincipled: a personification of why so many people are disgusted with politicians.
It is with deep regret and after reflection that I have had to tender my resignation today as a Brexit Minister. Thank you for the opportunity. I look forward to working to support Brexit from the Backbenches. This has not been an easy decision.
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The public in each constituency decided to vote tactically. And it's not the role of the Attorney General to engage in this sort of hyperpartisanship.
Suella Braverman(Attorney General) - "It's disappointing to see that there's actually a dishonest electoral pact between the LibDems & Labour, & that's more worrying"
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I very rarely make comparisons to Nazis, but calling groups of people "vermin" was a standard dehumanizing Nazi technique. This law breaking outfit is becoming ever more extreme and disturbing.
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The EU made a reciprocal offer weeks ago. Surely you know that. Can't you stop lying for one day? You shame this country.
Fair and serious offer from UK to EU nationals - let's hope it reassures and let's hope it is reciprocated
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Fact check: the UK Supreme Court is not a "foreign court"
Tetchy Rich boy stamps his big boots.
'I won't let a foreign court stop us from getting flights off and this deterrent working.'
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By "sprung by law firms" Mr Cole means to say "the Home Office was acting illegally".
Not so much speaking truth to power here - more like grovelling to it.
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This is the party that Arron Banks has been bigging up
NZ Deputy PM's party loses all their seats and ends the career of Winston Peters.
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Imagine, if you can, the decent, principled speech that Johnson *could* have given.
"The UK has left the EU, but we will work together tirelessly to help the brave people of Ukraine. And Leave and Remain voters can equally get behind this vital alliance."
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Remarkable that the new Home Secretary previously blocked her local police federation.
As a matter of record
@patel4witham
still blocks Essex Police Federation for having the temerity to point out that
#CutsHaveConsequences
. Makes her claims and boasts on
#Police
numbers today on behalf of Boris Johnson very hollow
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Resorting to bullying & intimidation is not the type of the leadership or behaviour anyone should sanction or endorse. In an era where political conviction is ridiculed for the comfort of conformity & compliance, its a shame such little respect is shown to the views of others.
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