Ian Stevens 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪

Mainly politics. Retweet does not necessarily mean approval.

[Ian Stevens 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @IanStev91]

@hodge_stick It was peaceful in the sense that nobody cared to take on the Dutch soldiers with guns occupying London but the compilers of the citizenship test are unlikely to want to frame their question around the Glorious Revolution as a successful foreign invasion.

[Ian Stevens 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @IanStev91]

@EchoesofEmpire_ Carry on up the Khyber

[Ian Stevens 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @IanStev91]

@albymarch_alan If this is the banner of the arms attributed to Uther Pendragon in a source of 1450 it long predates the modern flag of Wales in spite of the striking resemblance.

[Ian Stevens 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @IanStev91]

@stugoo17 @KemiBadenoch @jreynoldsMP @KarlTurnerMP I'd be interested to know if this is really Reynolds' "personal number" in the sense most of us would understand the description or simply a non-official number shared with a range of political and media contacts.

[Ian Stevens 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @IanStev91]

@MeathGuerilla Finland suffered an unprovoked invasion by Stalin, fought back with an alliance of convenience with Hitler, lost a large slice of territory to the USSR and had decades of enforced neutrality after the war. Whatever view you take of Ireland in WW2 the situations aren't comparable.

[Ian Stevens 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @IanStev91]

@SamCoatesSky @JohnRentoul Perhaps one day someone in the ranks of British journalism will be bothered to learn the difference between Ranked Choice voting and Proportional Representation. I'm assuming some of them know the difference between a banana and a turnip.

[Ian Stevens 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @IanStev91]

@GavinBarwell Difficult to see how any Tory leader in touch with reality could look at Lib Dem majorities in both halves of Surrey without being appalled. Surrey county council was completely dominated by the Tories for decades. It was part of their heartland.

[Ian Stevens 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @IanStev91]

@GavinBarwell It appears your leader is working for the Lib Dems and is determined to lose as many Tory seats in the Home Counties as possible.

[Ian Stevens 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @IanStev91]

@ross_baglin "Should of" is simply a local pronunciation of "should've", common in some places. Though not the standard pronunciation it is perfectly grammatical. Of course writing it as "should of" is incorrect unless by intention to show how someone actually speaks.

[Ian Stevens 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @IanStev91]

@OliverKamm @DAaronovitch @WestminsterWAG I taught in schools where everyone pronounced it "of" and sometimes wrote it as they spoke it. They weren't making a grammatical error, simply using local pronunciation. No different from many other local speech variants which for some reason don't attract the same fury.

[Ian Stevens 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @IanStev91]

@OzgeKatip @yuanyi_z All they have to do is apply for a British passport. Many carry both passports. It's really a relic of the fact that parliament
never got round to consolidating the two citizenship.

[Ian Stevens 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @IanStev91]

@OzgeKatip @yuanyi_z Almost everyone who has BOTC as their primary citizenship also has the right to British citizenship.

[Ian Stevens 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @IanStev91]

@JasonGr84873444 @si_rubinstein @NickCohen4 They did

[Ian Stevens 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @IanStev91]

@BBCIsleofMan For citizenship purposes the Crown Dependencies are treated as part of the UK. Manx people are full British citizens, Manx passports are British passports. Although such passports are issued by the IoM government they don't represent a separate Manx citizenship.

[Ian Stevens 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @IanStev91]

@ClarkeMicah @GeorgeT43375501 A completely inappropriate line of questioning. Confuse the witness, accuse her (wrongly) of telling lies then draw conclusions the exchange couldn't support. Goss should have stopped it.

[Ian Stevens 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @IanStev91]

@VeraBaird None of which is a good reason to curtail jury trials. Frankly you should be focusing your attention on the perceived conflict of interest at the CCRC which ought never to have been allowed to happen and risks serious reputational damage.

[Ian Stevens 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @IanStev91]

@antmiddleton If he really is a soldier he'll be up on a charge.

[Ian Stevens 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @IanStev91]

@DAaronovitch Rather like someone saying that they weren't bullied at school so that must mean no one else was.

[Ian Stevens 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @IanStev91]

@DAaronovitch I don't really see how someone's recollection that they didn't see Farage being racist can outweigh other people's recollections that he was.