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Dàibhidh McCann 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹 @davidmccann14.bsky.social · 1h

A bigger problem is the underlying Europhobia which had already infected 🇬🇧 political debate decades earlier.

Dàibhidh McCann 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹 @davidmccann14.bsky.social · 1h

The question is, by how much might 🇷🇺 interference have moved voting intentions? IMO not by much - maybe under 5% - but possibly enough to get Brexit over the line.

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Dàibhidh McCann 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹 @davidmccann14.bsky.social · 22h

It’s what the UK voted for. None of this should be a surprise. 🤷‍♂️

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Dàibhidh McCann 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹 @davidmccann14.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anecdotally, some people are walking around with Gaelic tattoos of “Am faod mi dol dhan taigh beag?”, under the impression that it’s some kind of battle cry…

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Dàibhidh McCann 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹 @davidmccann14.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Seriously though, if this woman truly believes the batshit conspiracy theories that she’s now peddling, then she needs psychiatric help.

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Dàibhidh McCann 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹 @davidmccann14.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yup. The same plagiarising, shoplifting, embezzling “colourful character” so beloved of the Tory Party.

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Dàibhidh McCann 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹 @davidmccann14.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

As a European, it never ceases to amaze me that US citizens put up with this.

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Dàibhidh McCann 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹 @davidmccann14.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Let’s hope she doesn’t want to go down in history as a British Franz von Papen.

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Dàibhidh McCann 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹 @davidmccann14.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

They (UK PMs) all talk the talk, but nothing much seems to change. If they can’t even get an SPS or Youth Mobility deal over the line … 🤷‍♂️

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Dàibhidh McCann 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹 @davidmccann14.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I guess the writers were just phoning it in by the final season. A pity really.

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Dàibhidh McCann 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹 @davidmccann14.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“Don’t they have an immune system??”, as US conservatives would say

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

As well as a Britannia Magic Dome, Tories will build a Halo Array, a Stargate, a Dark Tower, and a Death Star - named respectively Spirit of the Blitz, Maggie's Opening, Boris-Dûr, and Churchill's Clacker - funded by sales of a new wellness smoothie made with carrot, ginger, and poor people's tears.

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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think there’s a misunderstanding of the term “EU Accession negotiations”. Negotiation, in this sense, is primarily over how and by when an applicant will implement or align with each area of EU law (Acquis Communautaire), and then whether they‘ve done that. It’s not over *whether* they will.

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Damir Hadzic @dahadzic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Amazingly, Brits still talk about "negotiations". There are no negotiations to enter the EU. There are only countries found to meet membership conditions, as confirmed by the EC and approved by all MS. Conditions are set in 35 acquis chapters, progress of alignment with monitored by the EC annually.

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Dàibhidh McCann 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹 @davidmccann14.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And then those convicted war criminals got given a state funeral… 🙄

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Dàibhidh McCann 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹 @davidmccann14.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

People forget how xenophobic the UK was in the 1930s and instead pat themselves on the back for the Kindertransports, which were not actually organised by the state at all.

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Dàibhidh McCann 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹 @davidmccann14.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Well, she is pro-Brexit, so I guess that’s fair 🤷‍♂️

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Dàibhidh McCann 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹 @davidmccann14.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“E pluribus pecuniam” ? (My Latin may be letting me down here).

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Dàibhidh McCann 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹 @davidmccann14.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’ve never understood why they’re so popular. They have the skill level of middling buskers at best.

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Dàibhidh McCann 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹 @davidmccann14.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

So is Yusuf the “foreign actor” that Marco Rubio was talking about? 😅

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Dàibhidh McCann 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹 @davidmccann14.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Me no, ma devo passare a tanta pubblicità per prodotti per incontinenza maschile … ho raggiunto l’età 😉

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Dàibhidh McCann 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹 @davidmccann14.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Someone should suggest scrapping the visa waiver then, if it’s such a problem 😉

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Dàibhidh McCann 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹 @davidmccann14.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🇬🇧 dismayed that being outside of 🇪🇺means they’re outside of 🇪🇺. Did I understand that right?

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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

This is a poor take that suggests Owen Jones doesn't know much about Russia in the 1990s, including Russia-US or wider Russia-West relations in the 1990s. By giving only one part of the story, he is repeating the Russian political elite's self-serving line that it was all the West's fault. Long 🧵

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Dàibhidh McCann 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹 @davidmccann14.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Exactly this. If my dog mauled a passerby I couldn’t just say “he went rogue” and go on my way. There would be consequences.

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Dàibhidh McCann 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹 @davidmccann14.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Sure it can. Prosecute OpenAI amd its directors for breaking the law.

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Dàibhidh McCann 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹 @davidmccann14.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is wishful thinking. Better to get into the mindset of the how to be a useful member of the union, not to see what can be squeezed out of the accession process.

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Dàibhidh McCann 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹 @davidmccann14.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That’s not right. Denmark has an opt-out which it got as a member. Big difference.

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Dàibhidh McCann 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹 @davidmccann14.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It’s not really a negotiation though. New members have never been given the kind of concessions that 🇬🇧 exceptionalists seem to expect.

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Dàibhidh McCann 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇹 @davidmccann14.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Isn’t hacking into government systems a crime? In this case, OpenAI is criminally liable.

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