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Clash City Rocker

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1. This sounds familiar to us Americans

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Tue Oct 6, 2020, 08:59 AM

Oct 2020

“There are striking parallels between the way this government has handled Covid-19 and its approach to the Brexit negotiations. In both cases, reality has taken second place to public relations, with the recurrent consequence that unwelcome decisions have been taken too late. The communication of these eventual decisions has then been overlain by contradictory and undermining rhetoric from Ministers and their press retainers.”

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Brexit: The worst is yet to come [View all] Celerity Oct 2020 OP

This sounds familiar to us Americans Clash City Rocker Oct 2020 #1

Both our governments have been hijacked by bluffers and chancers. Denzil_DC Oct 2020 #2