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So, what just broke?
His Éminence Grise, in customary hair-shirt attire, walked out of the front door of @10DowningStreet, inviting paperrazification, with his festering Hard-Brexit in a cardboard box, threatening a blog.
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His Éminence Grise, in customary hair-shirt attire, walked out of the front door of @10DowningStreet, inviting paperrazification, with his festering Hard-Brexit in a cardboard box, threatening a blog.
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The blogs have always been blinkered. Focussed certainly, but blinkered, promoting an anti-establishment, ‘break it to remake it’, creed.
That creed, having wreaked its havoc, on the verge of success, with the Commons emasculated and Constitution crumbling, came face to face
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That creed, having wreaked its havoc, on the verge of success, with the Commons emasculated and Constitution crumbling, came face to face
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... with the House of Lords which, in spite of stacking, didn’t buckle.
In throwing back the ill-considered Internal Market Bill, the Lords’ gambit exposed Cummings’ position.
The Constitution has held but so has The Treaty.
Cummings has nowhere to go but Johnson does.
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In throwing back the ill-considered Internal Market Bill, the Lords’ gambit exposed Cummings’ position.
The Constitution has held but so has The Treaty.
Cummings has nowhere to go but Johnson does.
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With Cummings gone a new landscape opens up for Johnson.
A future hosting @COP26, a future at the top table, accompanying the King on jaunts to Paris and Berlin promoting multilateral pan-European Green Economy Enterprise & 80 years of Peace in Europe.
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A future hosting @COP26, a future at the top table, accompanying the King on jaunts to Paris and Berlin promoting multilateral pan-European Green Economy Enterprise & 80 years of Peace in Europe.
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I get Carrie’d away.
An obstacle exists.
How to pivot from from toughing out Cummings’ Blame-the-EU, Hard-Brexit, ploy to Brexit-in-Name-Only?
It comes down to fish.
Here’s why; fishing rights are the only transactional item on the agenda & transactions can be dressed up.
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An obstacle exists.
How to pivot from from toughing out Cummings’ Blame-the-EU, Hard-Brexit, ploy to Brexit-in-Name-Only?
It comes down to fish.
Here’s why; fishing rights are the only transactional item on the agenda & transactions can be dressed up.
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Fish will headline a victorious Soft-Brexit FTA dressed up as a Hard-Brexit FTA.
The Soft-Brexit FTA will align a de facto British Internal Market with the EU Internal Market (with Northern Ireland & Gibraltar soft-zones).
Our playing fields will be aligned with a ...
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The Soft-Brexit FTA will align a de facto British Internal Market with the EU Internal Market (with Northern Ireland & Gibraltar soft-zones).
Our playing fields will be aligned with a ...
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... pan-EU automatic, hydraulic, self-levelling mechanism and a new independent UK/EU FTA Court of Justice will arise in the grounds of the Peace Palace in The Hague.
I patiently await the commission @BorisJohnson but this time, please don’t muck it up.
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I patiently await the commission @BorisJohnson but this time, please don’t muck it up.
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As if by magic? https://twitter.com/davidghfrost/status/1327924800292052992
