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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@edwardlucas A 'good deal', in money terms -but a country which mobilises national pride so much (especially against the Russians) looks silly when it abandons national sovereignty to the Germans. As we used to be reminded, there were 2 armies in the 1939 Brest-Litovsk parade. — PolitiTweet.org

Why not ask the Poles? They tell me that pooling sovereignty is quite a good deal. Remember that the smaller/poorer… https://t.co/PUDddMAl7k

Posted Feb. 16, 2023

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Relueved to@find that the ‘Prevent’ Thought Police have blacklisted some of my books. Anyone know which ones? ‘Can you really be radicalised by Great British Railway Journeys?’ https://t.co/vn1nuRVlIj — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 16, 2023

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@edwardlucas. Why is the EU clearly not an empire? The EU's constituent members have, for the most part, no frontiers, no true currency or economic policy of their own, and are subject to an imperial veto from the ruling power. Ask the Greeks and the Cypriots, especially. — PolitiTweet.org

@Tuttlebees there's a lot of pushing and pulling. But clearly this isn't an empire in any meaningful sense of the term.

Posted Feb. 16, 2023