Physicist and Vision Scientist. Invented the self-refraction approach to correct refractive error. Now developing a new fast cheap optical infection test.
Oxford
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Brexit is finally toast!
Let's wait for the EU to outline its accession terms in November and if acceptable, have a GE based on Brexit, then trigger Article 49!
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Reform UK’s support collapses
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“We are broke as a country” says Reform’s Robert Jenrick who played a leading role in breaking the country via 14 years of Tory mismanagement
#bbclaurak
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Brexit supporters rarely mention (or realise) that by reinstating Freedom of Movement, UK workers have many more opportunities and a much larger market for their skills.
FoM can actually reduce unemployment AND increase skills.
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Burnham is open to discussing a return to Freedom of Movement. British people deserve the freedom to live, work and study across Europe again.
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The US is willing to betray its closest allies in Europe, a market of 450 million people and an economy worth nearly $20 trillion, just to cut shady, corrupt deals with Putin's Russia, an economy roughly the size of Italy's.
What an absolutely insane foreign policy.
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EU Freedom of Movement is NOT an unconditional right under EU law: it is conditional on finding a job or being self-sufficient i.e. not being a burden on taxpayers. Otherwise they have no right to stay.
#BBCLauraK
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A good day for the world.
Serbia rejects Putin.
Brazil rejects Trump.
@potus @SecRubio @KremlinRussia_E @KremlinRussia @mfa_russia @VP
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So pleased to hear Andy Burnham wants to restore our Freedom of Movement, something dear to millions of us, that was stolen away by the dead in the water Brexit.
Imagine not wanting your freedom back and prefer to be the poor man of europe.
Do it Andy!
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🇬🇧🇪🇺 Brexit’s days are numbered.
Burnham will ask the EU about the conditions for rejoining at the summit.
The EU will offer the UK an interim arrangement while accession is negotiated.
Europe’s support the UK’s return, as do over 60% of Britons.
Labour leads with 32%, will win the next election and will put rejoining the EU in its next manifesto.
Burnham will go down as Britain’s best prime minister in decades.
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The EU fee was about £12.6bn a year, whereas the estimated Brexit loss of output is now roughly £170bn–£230bn a year, with an associated loss of tax revenue of roughly £65bn–£85bn a year. That makes the fee equivalent to only about 5–7% of the estimated annual GDP loss. #BrexSHIT
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Sounds like Burnham got close - and then someone with power leaned on him . We have to wonder exactly who , and exactly why .
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The rewriting of 2016 needs challenging.
❌ The referendum ballot did NOT ask: “Should Britain end freedom of movement?”
It asked whether Britain should remain in or leave the EU.
Nothing about leaving the Single Market.
Nothing about the customs union.
Nothing about ending free movement.
And during the referendum prominent Brexit campaigners openly cited Norway and Switzerland as models for Britain outside the EU.
🇳🇴 Norway is in the Single Market and accepts free movement.
The Leave coalition contained several completely different versions of Brexit. The public was never asked to choose between them.
So it is simply not accurate to retrospectively turn 17.4 million Leave votes into 17.4 million votes specifically against free movement.
That interpretation came afterwards.
And if Britain is now deciding what relationship it wants with Europe, voters are perfectly entitled to decide again with the actual choices made explicit.
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Stop using names like Storm Austen or Storm Boelo. Let's call them Storm Exxon and Storm Shell, just to remind us who's to blame.
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You're allowed to believe Britain can rejoin the EU.
Even if politicians say it's unrealistic.
Even if commentators list every obstacle.
Even if campaigners tell you to lower your expectations.
Political change starts with people refusing to accept that change is impossible.
Joshua Silver retweeted
The November 3rd elections are now a referendum on Trump’s decision to join the Axis of Evil with Russia, where the United States is the junior partner.
American voters get to decide: vote Republican if they want to take orders from Putin; vote Democrat if they don’t.
