Nick

Arsenal fan. Cake connoisseur. Pro-EU. Jacksonville Jaguars. Waiting patiently for a London Monarchs NFL franchise.

[Nick @nickonthedrums]

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@Tom_J_Morgan The earlier they learn that Dominic Cummings is a cockwomble the better!

[Nick @nickonthedrums]

Wait wait wait, so Dominic Cummings is analysing tweets which mention COVID or Coronavirus to gauge public opinion?!

Okay, let me kick this off...

COVID. Coronavirus. Dominic Cummings is a cockwomble.
https://t.co/nrbRTrkDVJ

[Nick @nickonthedrums]

"This framework places undue power in the hands of unaccountable human rights lawyers who do not have our country's best interests at heart."

Finally, a Tory MP admitting that they don't see <checks notes> *Human Rights* as being compatible with "our country's best interests"...

[Nick @nickonthedrums]

@Celestron This was my first (well, the best of my first evening's attempts anyway!). Taken using a NexYZ smartphone adaptor on a 130EQ.

[Hugh Grant @HackedOffHugh]

God in Heaven https://t.co/bueCJXWhwm

[Nick @nickonthedrums]

@DannyAFC91 @AFCAMDEN @GiantGooner This is a week old (and only tracks up to 17th April) but shows the impact pretty clearly.

[Nick @nickonthedrums]

So this seems to be Boris's plan: Achieve herd immunity by slowly allowing 80% of people to get infected. UK population = 66m. 80% = 52m. Spread over a year that's 1m per week. 5% require critical care = 50k PER WEEK. Here's the kicker... No. of critical care beds in UK? 4,048.

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

Just going to leave this here...

The role of foreign propaganda in both the Referendum and Trump’s election exposed the dark new world we live in.

We had analogue regulators in a digital age.

...yet one party doesn’t want anything to change
https://t.co/ZscfeYKpi3

[David Lammy @DavidLammy]

Is this who we are now. Anna has lived in Britain since she was 18 months old, but has been denied citizenship due to "insufficient evidence."

[Nick @nickonthedrums]

@DPJHodges Well... At least in the South West Labour campaigned for a Peoples Vote "with Remain on the ballot". So it's not THAT much of a stretch...

[Marc Morris @Longshanks1307]

So I just re-watched the classic Simpsons episode ‘Bart Gets An Elephant’. It is 25 years old, but a parable for our times. [thread]

Bart wins a radio station phone-in and is given a binary choice: $10,000 in cash or a full grown African elephant.

Bart chooses the elephant.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

We’re down at @Nigel_Farage’s Brexit Party launch now encouraging people to check out his new website and join the revolution.

[Adrian Yalland @AdrianYalland]

On the evening of 23rd June 2016, I was in London watching history unfold. About 10pm I called an old freind @eurorealist in Brussels at a "celebration" he was attending. We agreed Leave had won - just - and the sensible thing was to now find a brexit vision which worked for all.

[Steve Analyst @EmporersNewC]

Hello Mr Morgan,

I’ve just seen this tweet. I don’t know if you were out of the country at the time, but let me respectfully explain why this isn’t a fair reflection of what the referendum was about, and therefore what people "voted for"....

[Nick @nickonthedrums]

Corbyn now in a tricky pickle. Either reject Theresa May's offer for a compromise approach and be painted as the villain that caused a no deal exit, or co-operate and lose Labour remainers. Could a confirmatory referendum on a compromise deal be his way to keep everyone onside?

[Faisal Islam @faisalislam]

British Social Attitudes Survey author Prof John Curtice: its results, corroborated by polls “is enough to raise doubts about whether, two and half years after the original ballot, leaving the EU necessarily continues to represent the view of a majority of the British public”

[Nick @nickonthedrums]

Wouldn't it be wonderful if the indicative vote options were all introduced to Parliament with some leading 'sponsors'. eg "Full Membership of the Single Market, as championed by Dan Hannan" or "Hold a 2nd Referendum, as proposed by Jacob Rees Mogg"... Lovely stuff! #PeoplesVote