Dermot O'Brien

@afneil @afneil it’s certainly true that you never publicly declared yourself for Brexit, however your analysis and commentary have been clear that you support Brexit. AI isn’t brilliant but it does include references. Just google ‘did Andrew Neil publicly support Brexit’

You’re a liar. Even when the truth has been presented to you, you still lie. Liars are blocked. Bye.

@tomhfh You could perhaps try doing it more carefully?

Stupid EU bottle cap just spilt orange juice on me. Lots of OJ in the lid, gets you before you can even rip the bastard thing off.

@Wildraar @afneil That’s a wide range, what do you class as ‘modern British history’ and can you list the contenders in your analysis together with your criteria of either what makes ‘worst’ or what makes better? As a proposition/statement it could do with some expansion and a bit of referencing

@afneil The Defence Secretary is the most credible alternative leader but he is very loyal. However we have the worst Chancellor in modern British history. That's a bigger issue.

Fantasy politics from the governing party. We are no longer a serious country. See my extended essay in tomorrow’s Mail.

@jgbgt @Treize_Iste @Adrian_Hilton @NoVATonschools State schools do have to pay VAT actually, all services do, providing education is a service, why should those that can afford, or just choose to, send children to private schools be subsidised by all other taxpayers? It’s the opposite of Marxism it’s greedy capitalism.

@Treize_Iste @Adrian_Hilton @NoVATonschools No. I didn’t. Now I shall complete change my opinion that we should charge tax on education. Or only some education. But instead we should now tax baby formula too at a full rate. Fucking bourgeois

There's something deeply disturbing about the closure of one of the oldest schools in England, which goes back to AD 631, its roll of headmasters to 1114, and numbers Thomas Paine among its former pupils. Our national educational heritage, sacrificed for an ideological tax grab.

@PhilosophyFails @Adrian_Hilton So the options were Oxbridge or technical schools? You say you went to university with other students that you deride & patronise, from my working class, grammar school background I’d say you were pretty lucky to come out unscathed. From your language I assume you’re non British?

I went to university with comprehensive school graduates. Pretty much across the board, they had trouble with spelling, grammar, and putting together a coherent argument. And these were the ones who got to university. Britain used to have the 11-Plus exams (taken at age 11), ANYONE could go to grammar school if they did well in it. Some working-class kids went on to win scholarships to Oxford and Cambridge. Brighter children need to be challenged to bring out the best in them. Students who were not academically inclined went to technical schools, where they learned useful skills instead of sitting at a desk bored out of their minds till 16. That whole system was pretty much scrapped decades ago. Now, Britain has a skilled-labor shortage, and a youth unemployment and delinquency problem.

@LeanneSpurs @campbellclaret I presume you voted for leaving, but it seems it was based on a lack of understanding of how the EU actually works, or how our own government works, or indeed where sovereignty lies. Although many are unhappy I’m relieved that you are happy and feel a sense of success.

@campbellclaret Ahh diddums, most of us will take a few queues over being ruled by unelected beaurocrats in Brussels. Greece and Portugal told the EU to do one over this, too, so I'll give them my tourism instead. Cry harder, war crim.

Brexit - the disaster that keeps on disastering. Thanks Nigel …. Nightmare’ queues and missed flights: a turbulent start to EU entry-exit system | Airline industry | The Guardian theguardian.com/business/2026/…

@LeeAndersonMP_ @SullyDrummer As far as I can see most benefits for people suitable to work are capped, the exceptions being disability, caring. War pensions, and working benefits ( where we pay ‘cos their employer will not pay a living wage) it would be good to know example of £50k benefits couple

@SullyDrummer You really are daft gov.uk/benefit-cap/wh…

Just throwing this one out there as I was asked this question earlier today. A couple both working with a combined income of £50,000 would pay £11,500 a year in income tax and national insurance, Another couple receiving £50,000 in benefits including Universal Credit, Personal Independent Payment, Housing Benefit, Income Support and Child Benefit would pay no income tax or national insurance, keeping the full £50,000. Should the non-working couple on £50,000 a year pay the same amount of income tax and national insurance as the working couple? Please leave a comment below.

@MichelleDewbs I don’t think anyone wants to close private schools, they’re a business & have the freedoms of a business. All that is asked is they pay the same taxes as state schools, parents pay for this as a service, it’s their business, if they close it’s their business plan that’s failed.

I went to a state school. I used to be against private schools. I used to think they were toffs & people who thought they were better than us. Then I matured. I now realise that in the main, the people who send their kids to one are just normal folk who have decided to prioritise best education for their children and often make significant sacrifice to do so. Alongside this, they also help fund the state education system, which they don’t use. Whatever problems state schools face, it certainly isn’t as a result of private schools. If anything, kids going private eases pressure on the state system. The closure of these schools are utterly tragic for the kids affected. The policy attempts to damage the private system are an act of societal self-harm. Anyone who celebrates it, is frankly, a fool. edp24.co.uk/news/26058426.…

@afneil Yes, but to be fair @afneil , renewables are forever - as a source, the infrastructure used to harness it will usually need renewing, as does that to extract oil, so it’s pretty much the same, except with renewables the source will be ready to be tapped for much longer.

You seem to be under the impression renewables are forever. Some of the early offshore wind farms have already been decommissioned and thousands more turbines will be decommissioned in the decade ahead. The North Sea is quite an unforgiving environment and 20 years of turbine life a reasonable assumption. After that they need to be dismantled or refurbished. Both options are expensive.

@TheBritishIntel In a serious country we do know what Buckingham Palace looks like, & that’s not it. Unsure where the evidence is of them being a foreign national? Or maybe I don’t have the desire to be unpatriotic or have the hate chip required to languish in this make believe style bot tweeting

Outside Buckingham Palace. A foreign national is caught pissing right against the walls of the Palace. This short clip is the perfect snapshot of what the UK has become. We are no longer a serious country.

@grenville_child @MichaelRosenYes It is actually Schengen countries that demand this, therefore EU that strictly enforce this, rather than most other countries, and this was implemented as part of Brexit in 2018. Look it up perhaps?

@MichaelRosenYes well if you were stupid enough not to check what travel docs you required before you went, it makes me wonder how the hell you became a professor. Its not just EU nations that require those terms by the way.

Ha! I’ve just been refused entry onto a plane from Stansted to Bologna because my passport issue date is March 2016. The expiry date is August 2026 but the rule is 10 years from issue date. Another Brexit benefit. Apparently. Go home now.

@dinoreardon @MichaelRosenYes That’s not actually true, the new interpretation of issue date taking priority over expiry date in Schengen counties is precisely because of Brexit, initiated in late 2018, still catches people out @MichaelRosenYes has a valid reason for being out of things during early 2020s.

@MichaelRosenYes Brexit has nothing to do with your stupidity. This has been widely publicised for years.

@johnsmith180618 @MichaelRosenYes Except renewal 3 months prior to expiry date was allowed, the interpretation that the issue date takes precedence over expiry date came in after Brexit, I.e after 2016. So your vilification, rudeness and insults might not be as justified as you seem to believe.

@MichaelRosenYes typical remainer blames Brexit for everything. This has been in place for ever, the problem is YOU fucked up & didn’t check you monumental bellend

@MichaelRosenYes Yes @MichaelRosenYes it’s a pain, even though you were renewing a passport from August2016, and allowed to do this at the time, they now count the day it was issued as the term. This interpretation came in after Brexit, prior to this it would have been valid as an ID document.

@RobertJenrick You were in the cabinet when the plan was put together I believe? Are there any cabinet minutes that display your resistance to the deal?

If the Chagos surrender is dead, this is a great victory. One day there should be an inquiry into this shabby saga: the Ministers and officials, under Labour and the Tories, who tried to sell Britain out. Shameful.

@KathyConWom @Ed_Miliband It was Mrs Thatcher who sold off our oil to private companies, we should have kept it like Norway did.

While Ed Miliband kills off North Sea gas, Norway pockets £50bn a year from theirs. Funny how that works. @Ed_Miliband conservativewoman.co.uk/what-norway-ca…

@RealJamesWoods Not actually true, the main Firearms Act of 1920 brought in restrictions and licensing, subsequent acts merely defined those. We also use democracy for our freedoms as we are puzzled how killing your own people brings any freedom, especially poor children in schools.

Our friends, the Brits, went from relinquishing their right to bear arms in 1997 to standing on the edge of the Islamist abyss today. Our Second Amendment is not about the right to go duck hunting, folks. It’s about keeping power in the hands of The People.

@HugoLeLoup75 @afneil She’s 5 or 6, they’re playing with her uncle (the abdicator) & mother, she’s mimicking a salute that’s on all the newsreels as it’s 1933 around the time Adolph Hitler came to power. Everyone in UK was mimicking the salute, her father, mother & whole family exemplary in the war.

A lovely and significant gesture.

@SBarrettBar Well no, the leave referendum was advisory only and there is no constitutional change either way. We have always been a sovereign independent nation whether in or out of the EU. The constitution has never changed.

He can't take us back inside the EU without a Referendum That is constitutionally settled.

@floboflo Sorry, just seen the irony!!

If Keir Starmer goes against the will of the British people and takes us back into Europe then I am done with this country and joining my parents in Spain! Disgusting!!!!