#Brexit

Best for Britain

BestForBritain

We’re deeply concerned about the government’s plans to cut workers’ rights enshrined in EU law, including the 48-hour working week. A thread. 1/ Everything you need to know is in

Shaun Lawson

shaunjlawson

Aw, the poor wee snowflakes. If someone's on the right when they're young, there's probably something really wrong with them. Because it suggests they have no heart. That's why right

David Thackeray

d_thackeray

Thread: My new @OUPAcademic book Age of Promises: Electoral Promises in Twentieth Century Britain, written with @RichardToye is being published next month (despite the title it considers British political culture

Ewald Engelen

ewaldeng

some quotes from this brilliant, debunding piece by perry anderson on brexit...https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n02/perry-anderson/the-breakaway The European Union, as it has come to take shape, speaks continuously of democracy and the r

Robert Saunders

redhistorian

The UK is sleepwalking towards a truly dangerous constitutional crisis, in which we no longer agree on how we make democratic decisions or on what constitutes a valid referendum. Its

Paddy Docherty 3.5%

paddydocherty

Peaceful revolution in the UK: some personal thoughts on the need for #SystemChange and the potential for making it happen. [thread] #ToryCorruption #ToryTraitors #resist #revolt #remove #JohnsonMustGo In the wake

Will Carpenter

Mr_W_Carpenter

General Election 2019 retrospective."Polls predicting a Conservative majority have been called into question as pictures suggest the general election could be swung by a ‘youthquake’."Bless https://www.google.com/amp/s/metro.c

Contented Independent

ContentedIndie

Russia broke into multiple government agencies. They've been carrying out assassinations. They need to be confronted. Not with sanctions, but with action. Give Moscow a blackout for a month. And

Sunder Katwala

sundersays

This Julian Coman Observer piece calls on the English left to engage with English identity, which I welcome as it is overdue. But a foundational premise of the piece -

Nick Davies

NJ_Davies

The govt has published its new procurement green paper, setting out proposals for post-Brexit procurement in the UK.A short thread with a few thoughts... 1) Getting procurement right is incredibly

Paddy Docherty 3.5%

paddydocherty

A thread about the power of protest, the meaning of 3.5%, and why the corrupt Cummings/Johnson cabal must be removed from No 10… #3Point5Percent #resist #ToriesOut Three weeks ago,

George Monbiot

GeorgeMonbiot

The mysterious, relentless rise of members of the fake left/extreme right RCP network, at least one of whose outlets has been funded by Charles Koch, continues.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/15/dismay-over-adviser-chosen-set-up-

George Peretz QC

GeorgePeretzQC

Not great but certainly interesting.https://twitter.com/goodwinmj/status/1276995866453331977 One aspect struck me, hard: accountability is systematically seen as a nuisance and obstacle (side swipes at Public Accounts Committee, select comm

Latitude Law - Activist Lawyers Since 2007

LatitudeLaw

As you may have seen, on 10 Dec the Home Office quietly published a new Statement of Changes to the Immigration Rules. This isn't big news (the rules are amended

Psyber Attack

PsyberAttack

Just ended a 7 day Twitter ban, and this time it was so strict that my timeline and notifications weren't updating Apparently I'm now in the last chance saloon...so if

Faisal Islam

faisalislam

Different type of vaccine being developed at Scottish factory of a French company - an “inactivated whole virus” - UK task force secured 60m dose preorder in July for €470m

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