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Holger Hestermeyer
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- I actually teach WTO law and found this tweet hilarious.I travelled to WTO in Geneva to see if any legal impediments exist to a WTO Art24, 5b solution to our Brexit deadlock - there are not. We can still leave with No Deal & frictionless trade on 31 Oct. It’s the best solution for UK-Ireland-EU. @BorisJohnson Let’s do it.
- I confess I did not and will not pay for this “premium content”. But to make this clear: Dear Telegraph, you have just published a headline claiming that a disease killing thousands of EU and UK citizens “strengthens” a hand.
- I work in the UK. I work for the UK. I’m a Kraut.
- Curious detail: This was a UK choice, not an EU one. Other EU member states made it a requirement for their Parliament to agree. In the UK, the decision was taken to allow the government to override treaty scrutiny /1Parliament had no chance to vote down trade deals we did not like when the EU did them for us.
- To make this clear: writing that a foreign negotiator infected the Prime Minister as revenge, without evidence, with an argument that makes no sense on its own terms and ignoring the PM saying he shook hands with covid patients is something at the level of Julius Streicher
- Just when I wrote about established narratives there’s another one here. So a short thread.
- How on earth did a part of the public discussion of BLM change from “how can we resolve structural discrimination of racial minorities“ to Churchill, Germans and WWII?
- There has been a lot of irritation by Brexit party MEPs that their new workplace provides them with computers and staff. Quite apart from this being the case for UK MPs as well, the alternative is a system in which only rich people can afford to be representatives. An oligarchy.I think I might watch this on my shiny new iPad I was given by the European Parliament for no very obvious reason. We need to leave the corrupt gravy train, as we were promised we would.
- What is truly astonishing then is this: The Prime Minister signed a treaty that he is convinced threatens to break up the country. He whipped and threatened MPs to approve that treaty. He advertised his action as a stunning success.New law will stop EU ‘breaking up our country’, Johnson tells MPs on.ft.com/3ioVlEH
- Replying to @hhesterm
- I can only say to my friends: the UK is a country with tremendous capacity, great experts, incredible competence. The problem is the politics.
- This is historically wrong. Britain maintained in force the navigation acts (until 1849), cutting the US off from trade to its traditional partners - Britain and its colonies. /1After 1782, Great Britain recognised the reality of American independence and focused on agreeing strong trading ties with the new state - much to its own benefit. The EU, sadly, has been unable to make an equivalent psychological adjustment. telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/10/1…
- I just had to read a racist tweet against the VP-elect by a prominent politician. So a reminder of what the kids of immigrants do: The vaccine news today? The company behind it is BioNTech. From Mainz. The founders? Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci. Both kids of immigrants.
