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Denis MacShane
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My book "Brexit, No Exit How (in the End) Britain Won't Leave Europe" Buy now from IB Tauris. Picture © by Fabien Clairefond - All Rights Reserved,
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Denis MacShane
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Finished my meets in Brxls and would like to use @Eurostar lounge in Gare du Midi but some jobsworth says I have to hang around station for 90 minutes. Merci @EurostarUK
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Yes I The BBC slightly simplistic guide to state aid. But what both Corbyn and from FT Greg Clark are proposing is something different. EC not keen on wholescale destruction of communities. twitter.com/markseddon1962…
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Yes I’m in Brxls where it’s thought she may attend June 20 Council. To say Adieu and tell them if you thought I was bad wait to you deal w my successor twitter.com/georgewparker/…
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Where? What polling station? twitter.com/thatginamiller…
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David L was Douglas Hurd’s SPAD. Of course the BJ generation of Europhobes hate him. Currently in Baylermont and idea PM BJ can get anything else out of EU is laughable. So it’s either No Deal crash for economy or #brexeternity of negos during which time we stay In twitter.com/mij_europe/sta…
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Denis MacShane
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BJ can unite us. Three decades of lies, clowning, vile anti-BAME “jokes”, insults of most partners and allies. Bonne chance. You’d be much better and sooner new generation of Tory MPs take over the better not 1990s crowd twitter.com/johnnymerceruk…
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Denis MacShane
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Lead headline in new @POLITICOEurope today “Populists Stumble as EU Election Looms”. At last. Idea of populist rightist take over of EP always exaggerated. @CER_Grant @markhleonard @BrunoBrussels @benjmueller @BBCkatyaadler @BBCMarkMardell @jonhenley
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In NYT @benjmueller has great read on EP vote saying Farage to win “first place finish” just as he did in 2014 and then failed to win single seat in 2015 and 2017 HoC elections. In fortnight EP élection forgotten as #brexeternity rolls on and on and on
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Denis MacShane
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Wish folk with big back packs would carry them by hand in trains rather than swinging them into faces pic.twitter.com/H7j1E9rYPU
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Good @Simon_Nixon col on next ECB president in @thetimes . But he doesn’t tell us who Draghi’s successor should be. Come on Simon. Leave fence sitting to Jezza
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Quite a lot stood down but you’re right if as seems likely big defection of Lab voters to LD/Greens over Lab Shad cab weak confused handling of Brexit over last 9 months. But can’t say often enough EP election is protest vote. UKIP won no seats GE2015 or 2017 despite EP2014 win twitter.com/mickfealty/sta…
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Denis MacShane
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Yes all Labour MEPs likely to be elected pro EU and Cons like @CharlesTannock. In fact compared to 2014 number of anti Brexit UK MEPs likely to increase but when numbers are in Monday I would not over interpret them in any direction twitter.com/durathor69/sta…
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Yes it’s silly to lump them in as single entity. I see PiS as national clericalist but Wolfgang Munchau calls AfD with flag waving anti Muslim hate marches thru poor areas a “Nazi” party and non-left friends in Berlin agree. Salvini hostility to Pope Francis something else twitter.com/brunobrussels/…
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Chez nous EP elections always been mainly protest vote not about EU. Let’s count Brexit and UKIP votes. UK has always had solid 30% anti EU establishment vote bit like anti-system vote for PCF/PCI 1945-1980. EP vote in UK is sui generis and wrong IMO to read too much into it twitter.com/fabianzuleeg/s…
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On that basis anyone critical of aspects of how EU run can be counted. PiS Development minister calls for bigger EU budget. I don’t downplay changes in EP composition just line that far right taking over which is fashionable in London circles @FabianZuleeg twitter.com/brunobrussels/…
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Excellent @BrunoBrussels @olivermoody11 EP coverage in @thetimes shows 107 seats going to Brxls critical parties though none calling to quit EU or €. Is 107 out of 751 MEPs really triumph for rightist populism? @anandMenon1 @Mij_Europe @PoliticoRyan @alexebarker @BBCkatyaadler
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Latest Europe Elects poll says Farage to get 28 MEPs. 1979 Tories won 60 MEP. In 1994 Labour won 62. Farage has to get 52% of vote to say he incarnates Brexit. EPP and S&D will lose duopoly but new parties - ALDE, Greens, left, SNP, Cats all pro EU @FabianZuleeg @BrunoBrussels
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Labour says poor result in EP vote no prob as “EP elections have always been about protest votes” writes @dansabbagh in Gdn. True but never before a protest vote against main opposition party after years of harsh bad gov by Cons @wyattd
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Denis MacShane
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In FT @JamesBlitz writes of 120,000 Tory party members. In Gdn @Freedland says “an estimated 100,000 party members.” Does anyone have accurate figure, also their age, how long in party? Given they decide next PM I think we deserve to know @danielrhamilton @NSoames @PickardJE
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Just seen Liam Fox at Eurostar St Pancras. Fleeing the insanity of his own party to ask for asylum in Europe?
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