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RT @mikebutcher: The Brexit Bill: Here’s the Damage So Far – Bloomberg https://t.co/96jMSfEPBY

@FirstBSA I would dearly love to know what happened to the 22.50 x6 from the bus station tonight. No notice of cancellation or advice. What is your policy in situations like that?

RT @doug_parr: If you're worried #brexit is going badly, please be reassured that the plan to render Earth unfit for civilisation is procee…

Okay, let me get this right Gav, since #brexit will vastly reduce our soft power, we should bring out the guns? Gung ho @GavinWilliamson https://t.co/05p8qcPSTp

Cost of Brexit to UK economy running at £40bn a year.

https://t.co/rTQundVMPs

Chuka confirms suspicions.

https://t.co/jkVXC2t1oo

RT @GeorgeSmid: #EU funding 6 times bigger for East Midlands than Strong Town Fund after #Brexit. From BBC reality check https://t.co/kclTS…

RT @Simon_Nixon: Blimey. Brexit impact on the City worse than anyone thought. Almost £1 trillion of assets already transferred and far more…

On the night of the Brexit referendum the British pound went into free fall, but while many watched with horror, a handful of hedge funds were making staggering profits. This is the story of the Brexit Big Short. https://t.co/bziJIWNtL7

I'd really like to know @LiamFox how much @tradegovuk has spent on the handful of deals negotiated so far, and how much it anticipates we will need to spend on future deals post #Brexit.

RT @j_bettany: I'd really like to know @LiamFox how much @tradegovuk has spent on the handful of deals negotiated so far, and how much it a…

For what it's worth, I predict that May won't get her deal through next week & in the face of crashing out of Europe Parliament will vote to #RevokeArticle50, leaving us more or less where we were after the referendum (only with more information on the table). https://t.co/0RQ0AqZYgL

Faced with a choice between #nodeal and #RevokeArticle50 on April 10th, it seems pretty clear tonight #UKParliament would vote to revoke.

This is DEFINITELY the answer. Get everyone a Royal Yacht. https://t.co/0KgZlRsSwj

Most likely #brexit outcome on April 12th

RT @j_bettany: Most likely #brexit outcome on April 12th

Will someone (publicly) map currency and stock price variations against UK political events in the coming days? You can bet that insiders are making a packet from #Brexit turmoil.

RT @lewis_goodall: Each world leader doubtless has their own routine to get into the spirit of the D-Day commemorations: the US President’s…

A ‘Brexit bonanza’ for UK fishing? That’s a fishy tale with an unhappy ending

https://t.co/pdIqimMGri

A #brexit message from the spirit world! https://t.co/Fv9Tdoo6Hc

"The slowdown in world trade forecast by the WTO today shows that life after Brexit won’t be easy."

https://t.co/B5J8aXsSAl https://t.co/B2hfF46utB

Fracking banned in UK as government makes major U-turn

https://t.co/ksJOnX19ff

RT @davidschneider: Fake promises to get Brexit done
Fake numbers of hospitals being built
Fake NHS stats
Fake promises on schools
Fake Bre…

A model of the way opinions spread reveals how propagandists use the scientific process against itself to secretly influence policy makers.

https://t.co/dnZl94iVHx

Wealthy US donors gave millions to rightwing UK groups –
Revelations raise questions about influence of foreign funding on British politics. https://t.co/tokiNGUXIm

RT @LBC: Sajid Javid "handed out lie after lie" about homelessness, said former homelessness tsar after the Chancellor claimed today it has…

BRISTOL, NORTH SOMERSET AND SOUTH GLOUCESTERSHIRE NHS will lose

-£504,000,000

https://t.co/w2TfnZEkal

Trump just needed an excuse to row back on his commitment to the UK. It always made more sense for the US to start negotiations with EU first. https://t.co/SHZJO7MafX

#Brexit will have soon cost the UK more than all its payments to the EU over the past 47 years put together – https://t.co/I6Y619VgUz

A government which will lie about interference in democracy will lie about anything.

UK ministers will no longer claim 'no successful examples' of Russian interference

https://t.co/xBwkshkgMU

Government appears to be claiming #coronavirusuk policy is evidence-based but declines to share the evidence. What's that about?

North Somerset Coronavirus / Covid-19 Dashboard – Updated with Town & Parish Council Links and Resources for Charity Sector – https://t.co/7r4d9vdhl4 #Covid19 #coronavirus #northsomerset

Universal Credit Application Page – https://t.co/88RGsxmgFl

NHS 111 Online – https://t.co/syHgMcLuxl

#COVID19 #coronavirusuk

RT @j_bettany: Universal Credit Application Page – https://t.co/88RGsxmgFl

NHS 111 Online – https://t.co/syHgMcLuxl

#COVID19 #coronaviru…

RT @Peston: One of the big unanswered questions, asked by many of us for weeks, is why government moved so late to ramp up #COVID19 testing…

If the national App project takes off GDPR might have come along at just the right time. I assume the government can expect a flood of Subject Access Requests when it's all over.

RT @RoshanaMN: So my understanding is that NHS trust debt HASN’T been written off

It has been converted to Public Dividend Capital, which…

"Democracy is never pronounced dead at the scene." https://t.co/LF7OUx98ht

A Who’s Who of polluters, tax dodgers and outsourcing vultures are urging us to #StaySafe and clap for the NHS

https://t.co/nEMMwGogbM

Who'd've thunk it? Private healthcare company fails the #NHS

https://t.co/tUAxiIZgb5

At which point is it going to completely unravel, that insistence the government was following the scientific advice we haven't seen?

Only a month into trade talks with the US. How Boris Johnson dropped his promise to reject America's chlorinated chicken

https://t.co/rKQREjbHto

RT @joncstone: UK government's arms export watchdog has been shut down for six months https://t.co/CNnLugtBMD

Obama Passes Cognitive Test by Reciting the First Fifty Digits of Pi

https://t.co/dS5FCRPkXe

"The simple fact is that by any measures child poverty is rising but instead of tackling the problem the government risks obscuring the issue and misinforming the public." https://t.co/RpJwXNrKjy

RT @simonblackwell: I need to stay in for a parcel.

"… culture-war skirmishes are no longer a sideshow to our politics - they are the politics…" https://t.co/HyOPN4fqPW

RT @GT270913: No 10 and the secretly funded lobby groups intent on undermining democracy | George Monbiot https://t.co/tPnxhtQqId

Is anyone surprised the government can't keep it's word on the international stage?

Rowing back on the withdrawal agreement was pretty predictable. How can we trust anything this government says? How can any other country?

"The way the NHS is constructed in those areas" – That's at least twice that (strangely constructed) expression has been used to describe the #NHS in the South. What does it mean? @BBCr4today

The Founders didn’t prepare for a president who refuses to step down.

https://t.co/Y8LuuBAkvz https://t.co/A2JwyS0Jvz

RT @GeorgeMonbiot: This is massive, and horrific. @NFUtweets is secretly lobbying the government to allow #neonicotinoid pesticides to be r…

RT @BarristerSecret: Any politician of any party who claims that the answer to tackling violence against women is simply a matter of “tough…

One of the things about not being anonymous on Twitter is that (I think) you have to be cautious when talking about your children – but after this week I have to say #thankyouNHS @NHS

Who would you rather funded your political parties?

Hadn't really thought about this till now but I wonder what the impact of the lowered voting age was in Wales?

https://t.co/k3IE0hamTH

RT @AdamBienkov: We hear a lot about the supposed "war on motorists". Here's how it's going. https://t.co/tfw2ycT9dm

"While it could not be conclusively proven that government decisions were shaped by this flow of money, such a reliance on housing-based donations created “a real risk of aggregative corruption”, Transparency International said."

https://t.co/4ReTlTTCtw

Who doesn't think this will just drive up rental prices? Bad idea Keir.

https://t.co/xaAv0homSB

George Eustice can plug abattoir labour shortages, working mothers claim.

https://t.co/VliqO4NDZu

RT @CarolineLucas: Deeply depressing – our attempt to remove the provisions for mandatory Voter ID have been defeated – so Government succe…

Lifting restrictions is a Hail Mary from Boris. I don't think it's going to go very well.

RT @_richardblack: THREAD: Something curious turns up in the gas statistics released this morning by government

RT @ProfTimBale: New housing minister (h/t Playbook) "voted against requiring private landlords to make their homes fit for human habitati…

RT @EndCorruptionUK: 📢@EndCorruptionUK can today reveal that half of the companies in the government’s VIP lane supplied PPE worth £1 billi…

RT @danriversitv: Biden very unequivocal : Putin has made decision to invade Ukraine. When asked how does he know he replied “We have signi…

Useful info about Ukraine's industrial and agriculture output.

https://t.co/YD5SkG5LGh

The UK’s kleptocracy problem https://t.co/MNnbM12wLy

Can't help but wonder what sequence of meetings had to happen to get the #RwandaMigrationPlan on the table. I mean, who approached who in the first place? And what was the quid pro quo?

Getting rid of annual MOTs really helps with cost of living, especially if you're in a 3-car family. And besides, vehicle safety and roadworthiness are totally subjective. As a non-car owner I really appreciate the government tinkering with the probabilities of my demise.

RT @GT270913: Brexit benefit klaxon.

@BBCPM – The cookies aren't going! The government is just intending to stop letting us know what and how many there are, which makes our data footprints more opaque and vulnerable to exploitation.

@MikeWel61647760 All of them? Even if it were true, the civil service implements policy set by government, so I'm not sure you can blame them directly.

@BBCr4today That point made by the estate agent that landlords get the pick means that discrimination legislation is being ignored, essentially because it can't be enforced.

"…a causal link between intellectual humility and the desire to investigate political misinformation…"

https://t.co/2mlrK6njJa

RT @marcusleroux: Earlier this month I did a bit of digging into two offshore businesses linked to Nadhim Zahawi, the Chancellor. One was B…

RT @Feargal_Sharkey: So government's much trumpeted plan to stop water companies dumping sh*t into our river has been quietly shelved. What…

I'm confused about the EU retained laws bill. If loopholes are generally considered a bad thing, what about legal vacuums? It takes years to get stuff on the statute books but from what I can tell this gov is writing off years of legislation before there's anything to replace it. https://t.co/EGythkEoLm

The idea that any government, especially this one, could rewrite so much law in so little time is obviously absurd, and will result in a legal vacuum that threatens rights and protections that have been fought for and won over many decades. https://t.co/p92ipG6OKf

RT @novaramedia: On Oligarchs, Ukraine and how to buy a tube station.

@AyoCaesar Meets @OliverBullough

📺 Watch Now 👇👇

https://t.co/uW6nX…