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Smita Jamdar 
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Head of Education at SHMA, married (Mark), mum (Jay & Kieran), LFC, subscribe Private Eye. Tweets own/RTs not endorsements. โForeignโ she/her
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For the love of god Jacob stop. You and I studied history together. You know what colonialism and slavery actually were. Stop trivialising them in the pursuit of your badly thought out political project.
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And here is Jacob Rees Mogg saying that Mrs May has accepted that the UK will become a โnot a vassal state but a slave stateโ
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Listening to complaints about delays due to extra airport ID checks from a country that wants stronger borders is the MOST BREXIT THING EVER
Outstanding photo/headline juxtaposition
My notifications are full of nasty replies to some poor chap who told me he regretted voting leave. I get why people are angry, but he is not the enemy. We need lots more like him!
I see this comment all the time after marches. Great to know that me and the many other non-white faces I saw marching today are something to be further marginalised for the sake of a political point. Weโre called minorities for a reason. There arenโt that many of us anywhere.
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Impressively large Remain demo outside Parliament. I haven't seen so many white people in one place since the Extinction Rebellion protests...
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What a complete joke we have become, reduced to howls of despair and pathetic little gestures. Jacob Rees Mogg clutching a dead haddock while screeching โBetrayalโ encapsulates the incontinent, impotent rage of Brexit perfectly.
This is my flag because I was born in India ๐ฎ๐ณ
This is my flag because I married into a wonderful Irish family ๐ฎ๐ช
This is my flag because my beautiful boys were born in England ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ and are British ๐ฌ๐ง
This is my flag because I am European
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Mate, I am a lawyer. Iโve not only read negotiation theory, I actually negotiate stuff. The BATNA in this case is to Remain as every sane person can see. The ERG will produce a load of delusional nonsense that makes us look even more ridiculous than we already do.
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Read some negotiation theory: improving your Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement is one of the most basic elements of getting more out of a negotiation. The govt should have spent 2 years on the BATNA. They haven't. ERG doing that valuable work. "Undermine" is 100% wrong.
Is it possible to die of cognitive dissonance?
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Literally everything about this is ridiculous.
I feel overwhelmed by an ever present and ever growing sense of disbelief at just how incompetent our leaders have turned out to be.
Pointless empty symbol of the U.K.โs delusional sense of international victimhood shows off his new passport.
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Totally *the* debate of the autumn is whether me and my family are threats to you all. Not Brexit. Not populism. Not the far right. Not climate change. But brown people. Spoiler:we totally are. I am secretly plotting your downfall by making the odd chapati every now & again. twitter.com/GoodwinMJ/stat
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I donโt care how easy it is. Absolutely appalled that people should have to apply to be able to live in their own homes and communities. Literally makes me feel sick. I will never make my peace with this aspect of Brexit and canโt understand how anyone thinks this is ok.
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EU citizens and their families will need to apply to the EU Settlement Scheme to continue living in the UK after 31 December 2020.
Find out more: gov.uk/settled-status #Brexit
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Matthew Parrish pulling absolutely no punches in todayโs Times thetimes.co.uk/article/tories
Oh my god. Their idea of planning for no-deal was to put up billboards in EU27 telling other countries why it would be a disaster *for them*. There are simply not enough facepalms in the world for this.
Hey Matt, you know I *did* meet some Romanians on the March, only they werenโt cleaners they were professors. Maybe time to update that stereotype bank to make your references a bit more realistic.....
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I am going to say the completely unsayable & sorry if it offends. I am happy to pay more tax for better public services & infrastructure.
The most totally Brexit thing about leaving the EU will be the realisation that we were the cause of most things we didn't like.
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Gove blames CAP for decline in number of bees - though UK only member state to vote against ban on neonicotinoids #CPC17
What a lovely surprise in my taxi this morning! Told the driver I loved his flag and he said โall the best passengers tell me they love this flagโ.
Our politicians seem to have forgotten that the rest of the world can hear them as they rattle sabres for domestic effect.
Reactions to European City of Culture news = UK's EU membership in a nutshell
Don't bother to understand the rules, insist we deserve special treatment & blame the EU for consequences of our own decisions.
Seriously dudes. How culturally tone deaf is this country. Do NOT call it that even in supposed "jest".
Theyโre not โsilencingโ you. They are asking you to listen to the experiences of others. Is that really too much to ask?
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Sad to have just received this letter.
I will not be silenced by @UKLabour MPs who continue to dismiss the contributions of those who don't conform to their view of how ethnic minorities should behave.
The Artist Formerly Known As The Customs Union.
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Government proposes creating a new customs territory after the UK leaves the EU customs territory called โthe customs territory comprising the customs territories of the UK and the EUโ
Can we stop this. This is the dumbest analogy. For nearly three years this country has dragged itself into disarray trying to fulfil the Referendum. How would that work with Remain? For three years they tried to stay in the EU and couldnโt agree how to do it? IT DOESNโT WORK.
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Lionel Shriver: Imagine if Remain had won the referendum, but MPs overturned the result spectator.co.uk/2019/03/imagin
Me, a dissenting voice on Twitter = treasonous lapdog of the EU undermining the Governmentโs position in negotiations & preventing us from getting a good deal
You, a Conservative MP presenting an *actual plan* undermining the Governmentโs position = staunch patriot
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Jacob Rees-Mogg's European Research Group will present an alternative no-deal Brexit plan to MPs before the Conservative Party's annual conference at the end of September on.ft.com/2nAytau
So let me get this straight: when immigrants do it's an attack on our way of life, but when rich white dudes do it, it *is* our way of life?
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A few months ago, Farage warned refugees would grope women but now when Trump does it, it's just "alpha male" normal bit.ly/2d45nZv
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Your regular reminder that ethnic minorities voted overwhelmingly to Remain and are being dragged along against their will. This matters very much to us and trying to dismiss the protests as white, โestablishmentโ affairs in a very real sense further denies our voices.
It is completely inappropriate, in a supposed democracy, for politicians to seek to curtail the rights of individuals and businesses to express their views on a matter of profound public interest. Disgraceful from Hunt. #democracy
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Health Secretary @Jeremy_Hunt says it is completely inappropriate for businesses like @Airbus to make warnings about moving jobs because of Brexit #marr
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When I think of all my EU friends who have made their lives here & contributed so much to this country, I cannot believe what we're doing.
I would be happy paying more tax not to have to see our public services crumbling, which is why I will never vote for you. Keep your tax cuts.
I am sorry but the idea that the reason Hard Brexiteers want to leave the EU is so we can be nice to African countries is bilge on a stick.
As the comments show, the anti- immigration/xenophobia genie is hard to put back in its bottle. Politicians invoke it at their and our peril. twitter.com/jacob_rees_mog
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*clears throat, sotto voce* He's not there to be helpful, Minister.
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Dan Hodges should be thoroughly ashamed of that remark. Heโs literally erasing people like me from his account of events. But he wonโt be. No-one is anymore. Of anything.
Gathering together as the greatest bell ends.
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MPs to gather with heads bowed outside Parliament tomorrow as Big Ben falls silent, reports @singharj 
Liz Truss is the master of the โanti mic dropโ where she thinks sheโs just nailed it and gets that smug expectant look while the audience looks on uncomfortably underwhelmed.
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Liz Truss closes her Tory Conference speech today with the punchy line: โThatโs my job as trade Secretary, selling Britain. And believe me, people are buyingโ
Cut to Eric Pickles, a Conservative himself, clearly not buying this speech at least.
#CPC19
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BREAKING: Country that repeatedly tells foreigners they're not wanted struggles to attract the foreigners it wants
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First sign of Brexit effect? EU applications to early deadline courses at UK unis down 9%, @Cambridge_Uni down 14% timeshighereducation.com/news/eu-applic
In discrimination cases we call this a goddamn comparator.
Unexplained differences in treatment where one person has a protected characteristic and the other doesnโt.
Slam. Dunk.
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Compare these 20 headline and see how differently royal reporters treated Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle
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There are literally no words for how completely unacceptable this is. Imagine getting a letter like this. Imagine the fear you would feel.
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Home Office apologies for sending letters to 100ish EU citizens telling them they're liable for detention & removal. Urges them to bin them
Love how itโs now just casually accepted that *of course* Brexit means additional costs, and less trade, as if thatโs exactly what people voted for and Government is doing us a big favour by mitigating both, instead of representing a complete failure of statecraft.
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A sensible & welcome step to help NI businesses cope with additional costs of GB/NI trade from 1 January @pmdfoster @GeorgeWParker Government to spend ยฃ200m on helping GB goods flow to N Ireland - on.ft.com/33ySVir via @FT
Fascinating how the values divide between Remainers and Brexiteers seems to cut across so many issues. Climate change, Islamaphobia, abortion, capital punishment. So when we feel like we are fighting for the future of our country, we really are. Brexit will just be the start....
For the life of me I do not understand how people can defend this. I donโt care how people voted or how angry they might feel if we ignore their precious vote, no โdemocracyโ grants the right to strip others of existing rights. twitter.com/guitarmoog/sta
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Why does Farage insist on swanning about dressed like Toad of Toad hall?
Nothing says sovereignty, strength and stability than being at the mercy of 27 other parliaments.
Good grief. A (presumably) sensible and intelligent human being wrote this. If Brexit is so fragile it can not withstand scrutiny and criticism, maybe itโs not that great an idea, mate. thetimes.co.uk/article/john-l
Just *how* bad must the answer be that they would all rather engage in this transparent sophistry over such a protracted period of time, rather than just say how it was paid for. The mind boggles.
Hey, Caroline, we migrants are not a commodity and this is an incredibly offensive metaphor. twitter.com/jwsal/status/1
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It looks pretty simple to me. Lab voters vote LD in Guildford; LD vote Lab in Southport. Both get the only seat they were likely to win and the Tories get neither. Or we could just let the Tories have both ๐คท๐ฝโโ๏ธ
My husband and sons will retain free movement rights through their Irish citizenship. I willl lose the ones I traded my Indian citizenship for. I am so angry. If I could leave I would but thanks to Brexit I am stuck on this increasingly less likeable lump of rock.
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"we will end free movement for good" May tells @BBCRadio4 proudly. How many of you, of us, are married to an EU citizen, own a property in an EU country, work, study or live in Europe. It will be reciprocated. The loss of rights is something to fight against. And fight we will.
Remember women, maternity leave means you can never leave the house. If you leave the house, you are expected to turn up for work. Thatโs how maternity leave works, according to Kate Hoey.
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Wow. At least Boris Johnson has charm. In an extraordinarily crowded field, Hoey may just be the most toxic MP in the Commons. Why on earth is she still in the Labour Party? twitter.com/MrSteerpike/stโฆ
Am genuinely baffled as to what (apart from avoiding criticising it) Remainers are supposed to do to make it work? We can hardly replace all the lost trade and opportunities just through the power of positive thought can we.
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Remainers being asked to make Brexit work! 
Brexit was doomed from day one, it was always going to be a disaster
Brexit was doomed from day one, it was always going to be a disasterIf even half true this is damning. They seem so desperate to make themselves look good. Someone on here (possibly โฆโฉ?) observed that the government is treating this like a public relations crisis rather than a public health one. Spot on.
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Think of the most beautiful words the English language has to offer: mellifluous, limerence, ethereal, crepuscular. Then think of Milkshake Duck.
โBritain has, in brief, launched itself on a perilous voyage towards an unknown destination under a captain as obsessed with delivering her version of Brexit as Ahab was with Moby Dick. Has a mature democracy ever inflicted such needless damage on itself?โ
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Martin Wolf: A second Brexit referendum is now essential on.ft.com/2EdSlIz
As long as I live I will never understand how we were allowed to vote to disrupt the lives millions of people (EU in U.K. and U.K. in EU) had perfectly lawfully established in ways like this, most of whom did not have a vote. Makes Brexit forever fundamentally undemocratic to me.
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It now transpires that UK citizens living in France who wish to host their families for holidays post #Brexit will have to apply to their local maire for permission a month in advance, submit a raft of documents proving they can accommodate them and pay a fee. Thanks #Brexiters.
Three paragraphs that sum up the governmentโs complete hypocrisy on free speech in todayโs FT ft.com/content/5cf90b
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We've gone from 'no way I'm showing my hand' to 'I *will* pull this trigger, don't think I won't' without ever actually negotiating anything
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NEW Government prepared to publish 'no deal' Brexit plan to convince Brussels it could walk away from talks - report
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A great Brexit piece. theguardian.com/business/2017/
This is one of those subtle shifts that have happened over the last few years. People openly saying that immigrants should be grateful, not criticise, and generally accept that their views are less valid than those of the โindigenousโ population.
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Yasmin, why donโt you just try to be nice? Maybe appreciate just a little the country and the people you have chosen the live, work and benefit from all of your life. twitter.com/y_alibhai/stat
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If you want two paragraphs to sum up how diminished our "world leadership" will be post-Brexit, here they are:
I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that no-one in Parliament actually understands enough about the EU to know what leaving it means ๐คฆ๐ฝโโ๏ธ
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Corbyn's exact words on #WATO re remaining in the single market post #Brexit. No, me neither
The new Global Britain. So desperate for trade we can't afford to get bogged down with principles, ethics or values.
Hello, Iโm a lawyer. You may know me from my greatest hits including โI donโt handle divorces, actuallyโ, โno, not if I positively know they are guiltyโ and โthe Human Rights Act *didnโt* mean he couldnโt be deported because of his cat, she *was* just making it upโ.
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Hello, I'm an author. You may know me from my greatest hits, including: "No, not like J. K. Rowling", "exposure doesn't pay the bills,", and "I don't know, *have* you heard of me?" twitter.com/MissClaire_75/โฆ
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I am embarrassed to my core to be in any way associated with this pitiful nonsense. Literally everything we have seen since June 2016 shows that if any side is actually preparing for Brexit itโs EU27. And yet here we are with our sodding patronising bloody billboards.
Disappointing from the former Universities Minister. The University facilitated free speech , dealt with the disruption, and supported the event to continue. If anything, it proves your โreformsโ were unnecessary on this point.
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Videos of balaclava-wearing thugs no platforming Jacob Rees-Mogg another repugnant example of threats to freedom of speech on campus - a problem many recently insisted entirely imaginary..
I would love to know whether there is a single, solitary person in the entire country who is even a tiny bit interested in Darren Grimesโ view on working from home.
Props to all those on my TL watching this. I personally would rather suck my brains out of my ear through a bendy straw.
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Coming up on @BBCOne now: a Question Time special - Britain After Brexit - join the debate using #bbcqt
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Seriously, that sort of snide sneering about Remainers betrays the really nasty little world view so many have. To them foreigners canโt be much loved family and friends who enrich lives and make the country a better place but only ever cheap labour. Pathetic. Truly pathetic.
Last one from me. Because the world would genuinely be a better place without it #DontBuyTheSun
Guys, can I please, please ask you to think about coming to the #StopBrexit #PeoplesVote March on Saturday. Even if you believe all hope is lost, we need to show Government how strongly people feel about the direction the country is headed. Please come.
What I particularly liked about this was that he was not afraid to admit he changed his mind, and the reason he changed it was that the price of what he wanted was simply too high. We know from that many others feel this way.
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This is a staggeringly powerful short film from @OborneTweets - who voted Leave - on the consequences for Northern Ireland and why he now regrets his vote. Watch in full.
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I had no idea that our opponent at Waterloo was a highly infectious virus capable of airborne transmission. Clearly what we need now are muskets, bayonets and shakos. Why hasnโt someone thought of this before?
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I love how we've gone from "we must be free to negotiate trade deals" to "TRADE WAR NOW" without actually negotiating anything with anyone.
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Theresa May threatens US withย trade war over Bombardier row telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/2
TBH this doesn't surprise me at all.But it's the total disregard for honesty I can't abide.
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After 4 statements masking truth, Cameron finally admits he held offshore shares in Panama company set up by father. Sold ยฃ30k stake 2010
Universities are taking a lot of flak at the moment, but they really had very little choice once the government refused a financial support package and made the only form of support available to universities (accelerated tuition loan payments) contingent on strong recruitment 1/
In a suffocatingly crowded field, this has to be one of the most batsh*t crazy headlines I have ever seen. Doctors donโt have to follow the โdemocratic mandate (๐คข๐ซ) โ of their patients you ineffably stupid boneheads.
I am old enough to remember when staking your entire political career on doing something by a particular date and then failing to was a resigning matter. #GoodTimes
If you don't believe Brexit is good for the country, please please consider coming to this to keep our voice heard. peoplesmarch4eu.org
Working life for a lawyer in August is basically just reading an endless stream of out of office messages and dreading dealing with a series of under-briefed & slightly resentful stand-ins who just want to tread water till they can hand the matter back to the absent colleague.
I am very fortunate to be in the top 5%. Having checked the Labour tax calculator I would actually be paying a lot more tax. But I donโt mind. Because I am not โat warโ with my fellow countrymen, but glad to invest in making our shared infrastructure/society stronger & fairer ๐๐ฝ
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Whose side are you on in the new class war? itv.com/news/2019-11-2
The Lib Dems ask why this wasn't commissioned a year ago. I ask why it wasn't commissioned before we went to a REFERENDUM BASED ON IT.
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May commissions report to understand role of EU nationals in the UK economy to report in 2018. bloomberg.com/amp/news/artic
Can't someone just take the Telegraph outside and humanely put it out of its misery? Please?
I swear there is no measure large enough to value how confused and clueless the Labour "message" on Brexit is.
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RT if you agree that it's a scandal that the Tories are trying to use citizens of the EU as a bargaining chip. #RTB17
So it turns out the ERG is *not* a crack corps of razor sharp political operators incisively holding the PM to Brexit-y account & the true champions of the nationโs glorious independent future, but a convocation of clowns who canโt count up to 48 without falling over. Who knew?
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Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh. Day 762 and still completely utterly absolutely fuming.
Don't disagree with any of this but why is the official opposition writing letters to papers instead of voting for this in Parliament?
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No govt should willingly give up the best economic option for the UK at this stage without even trying to retain it theguardian.com/politics/2017/
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The sheer arrogance, complacency & lack of self awareness of these people. Of course silly Johnny Foreigner canโt be expected to work out his own position without a billboard from Britain telling him what to think.