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Nick Tyrone

@NicholasTyrone

Creator of "This Week in Brexitland". Author of several books. Not big on Brexit.

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Vital takeaways from this morning's Covid Inquiry:

1. There was a gap in the COBRA meetings at a crucial juncture because....it was half term
2. Everyone was distracted by the soap opera in No 10 at the time
3. Covid wasn't taken seriously by Johnson until it was too late

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The highlight of British politics this week will be Dominic Cummings giving evidence to the Covid Inquiry. Given the depth of his inside knowledge, his dislike of Boris Johnson and his general disposition, we are likely to hear some mind-blowing stuff. None of it good for Sunak.

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It’s funny that the Tories set up north London as a sort of woke Mordor, a land representing everything they didn’t want to be - and then decided that what they did want to be was like the residents of Uxbridge, which is a suburb of……north London.

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Sunak’s plan to “double down”’on anti-green policies in the King’s Speech, if that’s what he does indeed end up doing, will backfire on him. He won’t gain any more of the UKIP vote he craves and will simply alienate even more centrists voters.

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The sides are so deeply entrenched that having a reasonable discussion about what is happening in Gaza is nearly impossible. Part of the problem is the large number of 'facts' that are stated by one side or the other that are either untrue or misleading. Let's debunk a few.

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Want to understand why the EU and Australia didn’t agree a trade deal, while the UK and Aus did? The EU felt the terms on the table left the continent’s farmers unduly exposed. The UK government was, shall we say, somewhat less concerned about the same issue for British farmers.

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When we have the next EU referendum, sometime between 2028 and 2035, it needs to be done on a 50-50 basis given the 2016 referendum was done that way. The groundwork for this needs to be established now given the latter day '60% threshold' argument.

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If the next election ends up being fought on the current boundaries instead of new ones that would be at least slightly more favourable to the Tories, simply because of government incompetence, that will be worth a chuckle.

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🚨 || The Government appears to have missed the deadline for submitting the new Parliamentary Boundaries Order to a meeting of the Privy Council.

The 4 month period to do so, which followed the reports being laid before parliament, ended yesterday.

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Among the very best commentary I’ve seen on this. Agree with pretty much all of it. Saddened by the rarity of statements like these, which you’d think would be something anyone could say.

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Horrible story. These are people who served the UK, helping keep British soldiers alive. The least we can do is put a roof over their heads.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/o…

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Chris Daw clearly visibly shocked to find that people with him at a pro-Palestine March do not, in fact, care equally about innocents of either side being murdered.

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It's a genuine question: how is the country going to hang on with this zombie government in charge for a whole other year?

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Sunak is apparently thinking of holding the general election on Halloween next year. Yes, Halloween. Why does everything he does come off as something that would have been rejected for a Thick Of It script for being too ludicrous?

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I am pro-Palestinian. Some might be surprised by this due to my recent advocacy on X for Israel, but you shouldn’t be.

I am anti-terrorist, not anti-Palestinian. It is not inconsistent to be pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian. And my pro-Palestinian viewpoint is not a new one. My…

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Thank goodness Jeremy Corbyn never became prime minister of this country. As bad as Johnson was, and he may well have been the worst PM ever, with only Truss and Sunak as competition, Corbyn would have been even worse.

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I get the feeling that no one in the Middle-East is anxiously waiting for the UK to decide on calling for a ceasefire or a humanitarian pause

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Mustn't grumble. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog discusses public attitudes to Brexit and how fatigue, Brexiter blackmail and voter irresponsibility mean that dissatisfaction with the open secret of Brexit's failure has met this very British response: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2023/10/mustnt…

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Except that Starmer hasn’t given into any of these figures, sticking to his principles on the subject. Which is impressively strong of him, at least if he can keep it up.

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