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Lee Rotherham
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Lee Rotherham
@DrBrexit
Historian, linguist, author. Good governance campaigner. Veteran Westminster/ Brussels adviser and think tanker. Dir Special Projects, Vote Leave.
London, England Katılım Eylül 2016
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This is totally pathetic. A cowardly attempt to smudge out our great history through fear of offending some lobby. On a par with the Eurozone putting inoffensive bridges on their banknotes.
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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Forgive me, but I do not think this is a good thing.
James Heale@JAHeale
Britain now has as many political leaders who worked at McDonalds (Badenoch & Polanski) as went to Oxbridge (Starmer & Davey) via @TimesDiary
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The best piece I’ve seen today is by my friend @Ameer_Kotecha who is very bravely quitting the Foreign Office.
He lays out his reasons below.
We need a total overhaul of the @FCDOGovUK.
“Foreign Office fails to put Britain first. That’s why I’ve quit” 🔗 ⬇️
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The point about the 2011 Defence cuts (forced by Brown's massive deficit) was that there was an express pledge made that the significant loss of capabilities would only be temporary.
That pledge was broken.
Times Radio@TimesRadio
“Just admit that there was a huge fall in defence spending while you were foreign secretry.” “We did build two aircraft carriers…” “You inherited these from Gordon Brown.” @Afneil debates @WilliamJHague on The Tories’ defence record.
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Grandstand view for a great event, including a brief chat to ask about his subtly historic "maitres chez nous" line.
Pierre Poilievre@PierrePoilievre
Making Canada stronger at home to have more leverage abroad requires us to deepen old friendships. I spoke with British parliamentarians and business leaders tonight about the immense opportunity of a new partnership with the UK, New Zealand, and Australia for closer ties on trade and security to boost growth, create jobs, and strengthen the leverage of our countries.
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And now I've just found this with Simon and P chatting. Hammered into the ground with the mace of poignancy.
Mark Wallace@wallaceme
Touching to see my dear friend Simon Richards @simplysimontfa recognised with a much-deserved and well-considered obituary in tomorrow’s @thetimes. He never courted attention or coverage for himself, but he more than earned such appreciation. thetimes.com/uk/obituaries/…
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@crankynotions It took JS a long time to learn the modern lessons from Bordelaise court subservience (ECHR, Lux).
The core element though was fighting on the other's turf, chevauchees and freebooting ruining French tax bases. Garrisoning/ ceasefire destroyed the gains.
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It's amazing that England was ever able to stand toe-to-toe with France, given the latter had about 5x England's population and wealth.
But England was a more unified state, and France a typical medieval patchwork.
I suspect this influenced Sumption's constitutional views.
Resolute Reader@resolutereader
Slightly over five years after I read volume one and 4231 pages later, I've finally finished the last book in Jonathan Sumption's monumental history of the Hundred Years War.
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I've just been overruled on a punctuation point. Apparently if you're quoting an incomplete sentence, it ends inverted comma full stop; if complete full stop inverted comma. Did everyone know this apart from me?
He said it was 'quite mad'.
He said 'It was quite mad.'
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@NiallStanage We shouldn't refer to "Senators" then, by that logic.
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If you’re in the media outside the UK, there’s no need to use the honorifics of the British “nobility” system.
He’s Peter Mandelson.
“Lord.” 🙄
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Incredible graphic. The Vice-Chamberlain of the Household should start doing one when they’re held hostage at Buckingham Palace during the King’s Speech
Rep. Mike Thompson@RepThompson
I’ve been selected as a designated survivor for tomorrow’s State of the Union, so I won’t be there in person, but I’ll be watching. Americans deserve accountability for the militarization of ICE, terrorization of our communities and killing of American citizens.
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My most profound, heartfelt condolences to family and friends. Simon was a great man.
Freedom Association - see tfa.net@tfa4freedom
We are very sorry to have to report the sad, sad news of the death of former Director of @TFA4Freedom Simon Richards. Dubbed 'the nicest man in British politics' he was a friend to all and a great promoter of sound causes. We'll be writing to members on this shortly. Photograph below shows him outside the gates of 10 Downing Street on the post-Referendum morning of 24th June 2016 with @RoryBroomfield
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Thank you for the 27 Valentine's Days, dearest Philippa.
I so desperately wish we could have seen 28, and more.
Dear friends, cherish and embrace the time.
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The BIOT Surrender Treaty is as watertight as a bath sponge.
It is an embarrassment.
Bin it. And arraign Hermer.
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If it is an AU issue, the operational safeguards in Article 3 of the deal don’t apply. (assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/682f25af…)
The AU is not a state party so is not bound by this obligation; Article 4 even undermines it.
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The problems go much further than this.
Consider the African Union Non-Aggression and Common Defence Pact 2005.
Mauritius is not a signatory. The UK deal supposedly says Mauritius can't sign.
But what happens if/when they then do?
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Genevieve Holl-Allen@genevieve_holl
🚨 Mauritius has confirmed Diego Garcia military bas will be banned from storing nuclear weapons if Chagos deal goes ahead Paul Berenger, the Mauritius Deputy PM, said the African Nuclear weapon-free zone treaty will affect the base telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…
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