Nick Reid

@Shinsei1967

Former London & Tokyo-based Japanese fund manager. Now tweeting from Edinburgh on politics, economics, history, food and day-to-day life in the New Town.

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  1. 2 hours ago

    History graduates claiming Brexit is like battles (Crecy, Agincourt) in a war we lost are probably the worst arguments.

    “Most of the people making the worst arguments in the Brexit campaign had done PPE at Oxford.”
  2. 2 hours ago

    Though very difficult to find anyone with an economic degree making fact-based pro-Brexit arguments.

    “Most of the people making the worst arguments in the Brexit campaign had done PPE at Oxford.”
    1 retweet 2 likes
  3. 5 hours ago

    We also survived the Black Death but the difference is that Brexit is entirely self-inflicted.

    I voted Remain but these apocalyptic white flags of surrender are so spineless. We survived 2 World Wars, I'm sure we can survive Brexit.
    1 reply
  4. 8 hours ago

    But the Bavarian Prosecco makers !

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    22 hours ago

    Freda Kahlo wearing her Theresa May bracelet.

    72 replies 3,087 retweets 7,205 likes
  6. 19 hours ago

    That is only true if "no deal" means maintaining the status quo (which isn't the case with a Brexit no deal).

    'No deal is better than a bad deal' is not just a Leaver's slogan, but a basic principle of all competent negotiation.
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    23 hours ago

    Alex Salmond tells Catalonia that there is no reason why they can't use the pound after declaring UDI.

    49 replies 138 retweets 263 likes
  8. Oct 6

    Though Spectator editorial line is that high employment rate is sign of UK’s superior economic performance compared to our European peers.

    The flip side to UK's high employment levels.
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  9. Oct 6

    20% of people have practically zero knowledge of current affairs and are just guessing.

    Replying to @sundersays
    12% think Leadsom is a Remainer and 8% think same of Rees-Mogg. Who are these people?!
    1 like
  10. Oct 5

    No house, however small, should be without a few gilded window frames.

    2 replies 1 retweet 3 likes
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    Oct 5
    Replying to

    'Productivity isn't everything. But in the long run, it's almost everything.'

    9 retweets 6 likes
  12. Oct 5

    Red-trousered New Towners clearly all Cardinals in mufti.

    Every Thursday morning, the New Town elects a new pope.
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  13. Oct 5

    UK car sales fall 9.3%.

    1 reply 1 retweet 1 like
  14. Oct 5

    Brexiteer free markets - if enough people get electrocuted by a kettle the manufacturer will eventually go bust.

    1 reply 1 retweet
  15. Oct 3

    Only top ten country in Daniel Hannan’s much vaunted Anglosphere is the UK at number nine.

    In per capita terms 7 of the top 10 Nobel Prize Winners by country are EU members.
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  16. Oct 3

    In per capita terms 7 of the top 10 Nobel Prize Winners by country are EU members.

    Nobel Prize winners by country of birth. US: 260 UK: 84 Germany: 61 France: 51 Sweden: 29 Japan: 24 Canada: 18 Netherlands: 18 Italy: 17 Russia: 17 Switzerland: 16 Austria: 14
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  17. Oct 3

    FT is paper of record: vast majority of business organisations, economists, trade partners and UK companies all think Brexit is negative.

    Replying to @DenisMacShane
    Oh please do one Denis. The FT is a paper of record and should act accordingly. On Brexit it hasn't.
    1 reply 3 likes
  18. Oct 3

    “It’s Gallipoli, it’s Saratoga, it’s Ishandlwana, it’s the Fall of Singapore.” “Don’t forget the Charge of the Light Brigade.” “Absolutely!”

    1:44
    . extolls the benefits of Brexit at one of the busiest fringe meetings of the ' conference.
    1 reply 2 retweets 2 likes
  19. Oct 3

    Small state/low tax/deregulation Brexit Tories squabbling with sensible centrists let in nationalising Socialists. The irony.....

    ..and a fiery piece from - on the sense of a country slowly slipping towards a socialist disaster
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  20. Oct 3

    So reminiscent of Scottish indyref where Scots Nats referred to Scotland as a colony of the English Empire like pre-1776 America or India.

    Replying to @IanDunt
    He literally said Agincourt. He compared Brexit with Agincourt. You can't help these people.
    1 reply 2 retweets 3 likes

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