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alaintwigger.bsky.social
I miss the screaming "EU ON BRINK OF COLLAPSE" headlines, there used to be at least one a day in Brexit press.
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"Ignore the prophets of doom. Brexit will be good for Britain" by Simon Jenkins.
Article no longer available on the Guardian archives as it is more than nine years old.
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I'll always remember an episode of Look North when the reporter asked a Grimsby fisherman why he was so confident Brexit would be a "sea of opportunities", reply.. "I would trust Boris with my life". He's never been heard of since.
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To be wholly fair it's a bit ambiguous here as well, the flu jab is free and the COVID jab is free on request apparently, I'll know on Tuesday. But £90 really.
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£90? How do they justify that? Here in France it is free for vulnerable people, diabetics, the immunosuppressed the over 65s and for the rest it's between 7 and ten euros. Surely, it's in all our interests that as many people as possible get vaccinated.
God help us when the next pandemic hits.
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Gestures vaguely at 2025 , we're all that sheep now.
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Yesterday, the US Ambassador in Oslo sought assurance that I would be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Sadly, the US has received no such assurance from the Nobel committee.
It is my solemn duty to inform you that we are now at war with Norway.
alaintwigger.bsky.social
Surely this is not real, but then again it's not the looniest thing I've seen this year.
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I'll bet most of the candidates are hiding under a table muttering 'please don't pick me, please not me'.
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In a world of toadies and sycophants, at least the Nobel committee can hold their heads up. The test of the world seems to have totally capitulated.
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He probably thinks Norway is a Democrat state.
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Beaten by a Venezuelan woman! I'm sure he'll take the news with calm and good grace.
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Surely a man of peace will accept the decision of the independent Noble committee with good grace and congratulate the winner. Trump, on the other hand.
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He's using the military to invade US cities, sumeraly executing people in international waters, pressured Ukraine to capitulate whilst kowtowing to Putin and threatened to invade NATO allies, on the other hand Netanyahou might stop bombing what's left of Gaza, so, swings and roundabouts I suppose.
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"no provision for expulsion"...yet. Anyway, all Orban cares about is the money that flows from the EU is greater than the money that flows from the Kremlin and Kremlin money looks like it's drying up.
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Yes and when we leave the ECHR there will be no problem with NI because we have alternative arrangements and Malthouse Compromises, both A and B, so there!
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I would think it's highly likely if Farage's MAGA(UK) ever gets into power. Everything he says and does is copied from his orange hero.
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Rudyard Kipling
"We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost!".