Nikolas Lane

European Parliament civil servant 1991-2024. Secretariat to EP Brexit Coordinator and Brexit Steering Group (2016-2020). All views my own.

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@Baddiel I’m English and live in Spain (Barcelona) and I can tell you that many Spanish commentators were totally nonplussed that Mainoo never played.

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@Dan1763 @ShippersUnbound @edwinhayward Right on the chronology. And by which time a lot of Leavers would be dead and Poland would be richer than the UK.

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@AEHALL1983 @GavinBarwell I forget, but when is the Polish economy going to overtake the UK economy?

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@danielmgmoylan @simonmedhurst When did Hungary have to repeat a vote?

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@BrigidLaffan @eoinyk @NewtonEmerson @IrishTimes Absolutely right. As someone who was close to the action, the whole process was a triumph of Irish diplomacy both at the political and administrative level.

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@yuanyi_z @Steven_Strauss Yes. And when it comes to the Danes, I think they should agree to sell Greenland for a controlling stake in all of Trump’s companies.

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@sabaone I use this app https://t.co/jDFnYfjdX0

[Barça Worldwide @BarcaWorldwide]

🗣️ Eric Garcia: "It's an incredible victory. Starting to lose upsets the plans. The team's mentality was incredible."

[Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot]

EXC - The former president of the supreme court who ruled on the most high-profile assisted dying cases has declared his support for the law change.

MPs backing the bill say they believe they have the numbers for Friday’s historic vote to pass.

https://t.co/d1mJn3LtXg

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Saw this last night at the Teatre Goya. Lolita Flores was magnificent in a reworking of the great House of Bernarda Alba.

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Diary https://t.co/HRI0ExeezI

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@SpinningHugo Agree. Missed David Dimbleby.

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@DavidGHFrost 57 million plus people in the UK could equally move to London. Many did. That's why things had to change.

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Deluded by a Common Language https://t.co/7c8BNq9PaO

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Lord Anderson of Ipswich (Crossbench), "We are in the end game now"

"The benefits of the Rwanda bill remain to be seen"

"It's costs will be measured not only in money but in principles debased"

"Disregard for our international committmments"

"Avoiding statutory protections for the vulnerable"

"And the removal of judicial scrutiny over the core issue over the safety of Rwanda"

"We are concerned over the safety of Rwanda both in the present and in the future. This bill is honest about neither"

(At 6-45) "The Rwanda bill is a legal fiction that makes the law look like an ass, and those who make it, asses"

[Steve Analyst @EmporersNewC]

One thing has been made clear by Brexit. Almost all of the fears of the people who argued against a referendum in the 1970s have all come to pass. 🧵

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@CharlesTannock Pretty much certain that PP + Vox government is now out of the question

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@lewis_goodall But in the popular vote PSOE out polling PP. Unbelievable.