Brendan Donnelly

Former Member of European Parliament.

[Brendan Donnelly @Brendandonn]

National sovereignty in Europe is a hollow shell. The real choice facing European today is a choice between European sovereignty and no sovereignty.

[Brendan Donnelly @Brendandonn]

@EnricoLetta @BrigidLaffan @iespega @DelorsInstitute The whole history of the EU has been a tussle between national and European sovereignty. It has never been clearer that in today’s world that tussle needs to be resolved in favour of European sovereignty. Only Putin, Trump and Xi benefit from today’s European immobilism.

[Brendan Donnelly @Brendandonn]

@EnricoLetta @BrigidLaffan @iespega @DelorsInstitute The whole history of the EU has been a tussle between national and European sovereignty. It has never been clearer that in today’s world that tussle needs to be resolved in favour of European sovereignty. Only Putin, Trump and Xi benefit from today’s European immobilism.

[Brendan Donnelly @Brendandonn]

@EnricoLetta @BrigidLaffan @iespega @DelorsInstitute The whole history of the EU has been a tussle between national and European sovereignty. It has never been clearer that in today’s world that tussle needs to be resolved in favour of European sovereignty. Only Putin, Trump and Xi benefit from today’s European immobilism.

[Brendan Donnelly @Brendandonn]

@APHClarkson @jan_leidecker What were these systemic failures in the EU system? Different commentators would give very different answers to this question and I should be fascinated to know what yours is.

[Brendan Donnelly @Brendandonn]

@Anniepop2027 @UKLabour @LBC @SkyNews If Kemi Badenoch says so, it must be true. It’s not as if she has any interest in presenting the Labour Party in an unfavourable light.

[Brendan Donnelly @Brendandonn]

@electionmapsuk Perhaps he is resigning in order to spend less time with his family.

[Brendan Donnelly @Brendandonn]

@DAPowell1 Burnham’s attitude towards Brexit is like the chain-smoker who knows that smoking will kill him but won’t give up for fear of offending the local tobacconist.

[Brendan Donnelly @Brendandonn]

@DAPowell1 Burnham’s attitude towards Brexit is like the chain-smoker who knows that smoking will kill him but won’t give up for fear of offending the local tobacconist.

[Brendan Donnelly @Brendandonn]

@electionmapsuk Perhaps he is resigning in order to spend less time with his family.

[Brendan Donnelly @Brendandonn]

@Anniepop2027 @UKLabour @LBC @SkyNews If Kemi Badenoch says so, it must be true. It’s not as if she has any interest in presenting the Labour Party in an unfavourable light.

[Brendan Donnelly @Brendandonn]

Criticism of Keir Starmer that otherwise might be justified is inevitably devalued by factual sloppiness in its expression.

[Brendan Donnelly @Brendandonn]

@ShippersUnbound There couldn’t be a clearer example of the half truths that distort our present political discourse.

[Brendan Donnelly @Brendandonn]

@ShippersUnbound There couldn’t be a clearer example of the half truths that distort our present political discourse.

[Brendan Donnelly @Brendandonn]

@ShippersUnbound There couldn’t be a clearer example of the half truths that distort our present political discourse.

[Richard Hewison @RichardHewison]

@electionmapsuk @c22cuk Well, well, well…

…had all summer to announce this, and does it on the very day of Burnham’s first outing in parliament happens 🤣

Ah well! One last desperate attempt to grab headlines! (And it’s worked!)

[Brendan Donnelly @Brendandonn]

If the 12600 votes had gone the other way, we would be inundated by Eurosceptic commentators telling us that tiny Iceland could not conceivably be a model for a permanent member of the UN Security Council like the UK.

[Brendan Donnelly @Brendandonn]

British Eurosceptics must be desperate if they seek to buttress their unpopular cause by pointing to a margin of 12600 voters in a small faraway country of which they know little. It’s a strange view of the UK’s position in the world to suppose that Iceland should be our model.

[Brendan Donnelly @Brendandonn]

British Eurosceptics must be desperate if they seek to buttress their unpopular cause by pointing to a margin of 12600 voters in a small faraway country of which they know little. It’s a strange view of the UK’s position in the world to suppose that Iceland should be our model.

[Brendan Donnelly @Brendandonn]

British Eurosceptics must be desperate if they seek to buttress their unpopular cause by pointing to a margin of 12600 voters in a small faraway country of which they know little. It’s a strange view of the UK’s position in the world to suppose that Iceland should be our model.

[Brendan Donnelly @Brendandonn]

The touching but disconcerting thing is that Burnham probably does genuinely believe he can preserve Starmer’s red lines and take bold European initiatives at the same time. You have to persuade yourself of twaddle in order to persuade others of said twaddle.

[Brendan Donnelly @Brendandonn]

@BrexitBin Brexit injected a strain of madness into British politics. Trying again and again to make Brexit work squarely meets the Einsteinian definition of insanity.

[Brendan Donnelly @Brendandonn]

@BrexitBin Brexit injected a strain of madness into British politics. Trying again and again to make Brexit work squarely meets the Einsteinian definition of insanity.

[Brendan Donnelly @Brendandonn]

@BrexitBin Brexit injected a strain of madness into British politics. Trying again and again to make Brexit work squarely meets the Einsteinian definition of insanity.