10 years ago, the average Brit was as wealthy as the average German. Now we are about 15% poorer. Its been 6 years, 3 PMs, and countless scandals since the Brexit vote, and still those implicated in Brexit are still blaming anyone but themselves.
Since Johnson became leader in 2019 the largest donor to the Tory party has been Lubov Chernukhin, deputy finance minister in Putin's government. Anyone who knows Russia knows that Johnson elevating Lebedev to the Lords was installing a Kremlin asset. Johnson enabled Putin.
@faisalislam
"How can we respect a man with a degree in economics from Harvard and Doctorate from Oxford, a decade at Goldman Sachs, 5 years as Governor of Bank of Canada, Minister for the G7, and leads the BoE?"
Asked backbencher Rees Mogg who failed to count to 48.
After
@philipjdoyle
Lawrence Fox is not standing to win. He is standing to normalise his extreme right wing backer's views. Starve him of Oxygen. Ignore him. Last time I'll say this.
This is Amelia. She was catatonic when she came to us. She still holds her breath as I walk past. God knows what she had been through. But today she took a treat from my hand and accpeted a head scritch. Doesn't sound much but its huge.
I work as an investor. I can categorically confirm that the NHS is up for sale under this government. I have been to investor presentations where we could have brought significant parts of your healthcare provision.
I live in Itlay. I have not heard one word against British people, on the contrary, only respectful and admiring comments.
They do think Johnson and Brexit a joke, though.
This is possible that saddest moment of an unfortunate career. The disgraced former defence minister and hard Brexit advocate Fox is now claiming a deal done by the EU as a win. A deal we'll lose if we do the hard Brexit he is calling for.
Brexit is for mugs.
BREAKING NEWS: following ongoing UK government effort, Taiwan is preparing to open its market to British pork for the first time. The agreement is expected to be worth more than £50m to 🇬🇧 farmers over the next 5 years
#FreeTradeUK
#FoodisGREAT
@UKinTaiwan
The 'Revoke Article 50' petition Remainers are all getting excited about is being signed by people everywhere from Russia & Saudi Arabia to Papua New Guinea & North Korea...
I thought they were meant to be against foreign interference in our democracy?
Talking to shippers about bringing in goods into the UK from mainland Europe. About half of them are refusing to transport our company's stock after the 16th.
Lawyers: Farage soliciting donations under £500 via US-based PayPal. Over £500 & they have to be declared to Electoral Commission. What is law on this?
Thinking about what Remain stands for. It is deeper than membership of the EU. I've seen a group of people across the whole of society who have coalesced around.
Truth
International bonds
Big society
Science
Equal opportunity
Education
Humanity
Jobs
What else?
I was speaking to a Leave voter who still didn't know this recently. UK Government made a choice not to apply the EU rules which prevent people who aren't contributing financially to the UK staying here longer than 3 months.
People who said, "Project Fear" need to be punished.
Good Friday Agreement: Fucked
Fishing: Fucked
Farming: Fucked
Finance: Fucked
Medical: Fucked
Motors: Fucked
What else?
Why do Leave think that the UK is too weak to export to India from inside the EU? Germany can. France can. Belgium exports more to India than us. Who else is fed up of Leave's victim signalling?
#RemainVoter
Do you believe this man?? Watch this video. He was co-convener of Vote Leave. He received daily briefings. Yet he claims total ignorance. Even in incredible event, he didn’t know, it still happened on his watch. If we had an opposition, they would surely call for him to resign
Can you imagine if an African country held an election and the result was annulled?
Left wingers would be up in arms and so would the West. We would be demanding that the United Nations were sent in.
What is the difference here?
The great problem with this meme is that it's bullshit.
Working class folk voted 50/50 for Remain.
Leave's advantage was in wealthier, home owning pensioners.
I wonder if those trying to ignore the fact that UK has changed its mind about Brexit realise how many angry people there are in Manc Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Dundee, Belfast, Bristol, Cambridge, Oxford, Cardiff, Aberdeen and every other City that voted Remain.
I wonder if those MP’s trying to stop us Leaving the EU on March 29th and ignoring the referendum realise just how angry people are away from Westminster and the London media
@LabourLeave
Lord Adonis is receiving death threats for standing up for UK. RT if you stand against the Brexit Taliban’s attacks on common sense, democracy and UK leaders who’ve the gumption to call Brexit the steaming pile of crap it is.
#FBPE
#StopBrexitSaveBritain
#FinalSay
Those attacking David Lammy and nodding along to Tommy, Batten, Farage are the ones to watch our for. British people will not stand for for fascism. If you aren't anti fascism you're part of the problem.
‘I don’t care how elected they were. So was the far right in Germany.’ Please watch this. Every day the hate politics of the far right is being normalised in Britain. This was phenomenal from
@DavidLammy
👏👏👏
God. Bring back Top Gear.
@JeremyClarkson
on Brexit
"a few coffin-dodgers in Barnsley deciding that they don’t want to live next to a Syrian. Trump is Bad, But Brexit is a Thousand Times Worse"
"If you now try to hold us in against our will, you will be facing Perfidious Albion on speed."
Conservative Brexiteer Mark Francois says the UK "will become a Trojan horse within the EU" if Theresa May is given a Brexit extension.
@chrisrickett
That's Piers Pughe-Morgan's style. When I worked at the Guardian, he was editor of the Mirror. He had no idea that we could see that he was on our message boards for hours trolling Alan Rusbridger. I called him out one day. Totally ran away.
The EU has just signed it's biggest free trade deal with Japan, eliminating almost all tariffs, and covering 33% of the world's economy.
Liam Fox has been talking to the Japanese about how to mothball their UK factories and wipe out British jobs.
Brexit is for mugs.
Excellent visit by select committee to Swiss border to see how political will and co operation and technology makes Swiss/German/French border crossings smooth. Useful info for our enquiry into land border issues NI/ROI
Unfair? Let's remember. Brexit is a Tory vanity project, built to appease authoritarians, won with lies & illegal means, that Tories have doubled down on, despite the bonfire of our economy, jobs, rights, laws & order, and western liberal values.
It’s clear that some
@conservatives
councillors are being unfairly punished by voters because of Brexit delay.
It’s also clear that voters see through Labour’s cynical attempt to face both ways on the issue. They were expecting to win many hundreds of new Clls.
They haven’t.
I sent my brother, who was living in Canada, a snowboard and bindings for Christmas. Put the value of the package at £300. He had to pay nearly that much in customs charges. Every single thing coming from abroad would be like that if we don't get a trade deal.
Jaguar is shuttering because of Brexit. It's hard to lose your livelihood. How many unbrought Christmas presents and missed summer holidays? How many arguments over money? Divorces, depression and loss of purpose. F
@ck
Brexit and the elite who made it.
@BBCNews
A pint too many is getting carried away. You crashed the UK economy, spaffed £60bn of taxpayers hard earned and nearly wiped out British pensions. Never raise your head again.
NEW: Cambridge Analytica employee who worked on Brexit is subpoeaned by Robert Mueller. This is BIG. Brittany Kaiser - who sat next to
@arron_banks
at LeaveEU launch - becomes subject of Mueller inquiry into Trump-Russia collusion 💣🔥🎆
Is anyone else fed up with hearing Jacob's unending whining and threats? The man has no solutions, no mandate for his airy-fairy plans and if we're honest little capability to be more than a backbencher. Pipe down.
I'm with someone who works in the NHS. They are sharing some terrifying facts about the impact of Brexit on an already overstretched
#NHS
.
1. Government have asked drug manufacturers to build a 6 week stockpile. That is costing £1,846,153,846 in England alone.
As the remain parties seem too bogged down in party politics to get their act together, shall we coordinate the Remain vote ourselves? We can pick a candidate in ever area and all get behind their campaign.
If we do abandon the EU I give it 4 years before we are on our way back in without the benefit of the pound and the cracking deal we have now.
I know it's unfashionable to snipe but I look forward to seeing Gammon going apoplectic about using the Euro.
Greedy Brexiteer wager £3bn on the pound plunging this year amid no deal Brexit fears. So they get filthy rich on people's misery. People who will see every part of their lives get more expensive if this happens. Shameful via
@telebusiness
Anyone else fed up of the incessant victim signalling from Leave?
It is relatively simple.
1. Leave promised a better deal.
2. The people gave them a marginal mandate
3. Leave failed to deliver.
4. People feel let down by Leave.
5. We have a
#PeoplesVote
What I will never understand is how anyone supports Brexit. It is awful for defence, law & order, our rights, trade. The only things it increases are illegal immigration, red tape and race hate.
David Davies takes a private jet to Brussels for Brexit. Won’t fly scheduled. There are 426 non-stop flights between London and Brussels per week. That’s an average of 62 per day.
#LeaveGate
#Them
&Us
#RemainersNow
@GaryLineker
I'm from a small village in a semi rural community. FOM meant I met my wife, worked in Sweden, Germany, Italy, Spain, and France. Lived in Paris and Milan. Had kids in Paris and Oxford. Had fun, enjoyed the beauty and didn't even think twice about it.
This is what
#foodbank
figures looked like during April-Sept of this year. This is not right. No one in the UK should need to turn to a
#foodbank
- our benefits system should be anchoring people from being swept into hunger & poverty
#StopUKHunger
>
Want to know how Brexit Red Tape is eroding the UK's tax base? In early January we had a request for samples of our CE marked IVD medical device from the leader of a Spanish regional Government.
I have a friend, let's call him Sam, in London. He is moaning about house prices forcing him out of his native Islington. Down to immigrants he thinks. Sam brought his council property 27 years ago. Rented it. Made a killing.
Over the next weeks you will be asked to compromise. Remember the Overton window now includes Remain. It is the best outcome for the UK, for you and for you kids. Anything else means populist bullshit have pulled our country off course. Double down on Remain.
UK wealth taxes are “some of the highest in the western world” says Institute for Economic Affairs' Darren Grimes on reports of a mansion tax
"The government has been talking a lot about levelling up… this would be Britain levelling down"
#politicslive
Called a traitor, a saboteur, a quisling, coward, metropolitan elite, a remoaner and told "We won. You lost", "Move to the EU", "I hope your wife is raped by immigrants/kids drown", "We've had enough of experts".
Now victim blaming. Take some responsibility & fuck right off.