David Gauke

David Gauke @DavidGauke

@Sime0nStylites I hope you’re right. I’ve always been more pessimistic. Not sure BJ will risk losing the support of the hard Brexiteers. And I think he has a very simplistic view of sovereignty. — PolitiTweet.org

David Gauke @DavidGauke

@Sime0nStylites Yes. But it reveals a mindset. — PolitiTweet.org

David Gauke @DavidGauke

“The EU has been irrelevant in ensuring peace in Europe.” “From 1 January we must deploy Royal Navy gunboats against the French.” — PolitiTweet.org

David Gauke @DavidGauke

RT @Tobias_Ellwood: Irresponsible. Global threats increasing, Navy overstretched. Here we are squaring up to a NATO ally as beneath the sa… — PolitiTweet.org

David Gauke @DavidGauke

@elashton For cod’s sake. — PolitiTweet.org

David Gauke @DavidGauke

For goodness sake. https://t.co/JC9o6Q5Qzd — PolitiTweet.org

David Gauke @DavidGauke

One of the many reasons for hoping that there is a deal is that we won’t have to listen to quite so much xenophobic hysteria about the iniquities of the Europeans and how unreasonable they are in not giving us what we want. — PolitiTweet.org

David Gauke @DavidGauke

@DPJHodges God, I hope not! — PolitiTweet.org

David Gauke @DavidGauke

RT @willieckerslike: @DPJHodges @DavidGauke Ummm... https://t.co/x0shTvClQ0 — PolitiTweet.org

David Gauke @DavidGauke

@DPJHodges True, although there was some effort to muddy the waters by the PM (there are worse examples). Politicians' briefing notes have a Q&A sections. Suspect it read something like: Q Will you get a trade deal? A We already have a deal. [IF PRESSED] We will get a trade deal. — PolitiTweet.org

David Gauke @DavidGauke

Asked during the General Election campaign about getting a trade deal by the end of 2020, Boris Johnson immediately answers 'we already have a deal'. When pressed further on the risk of not agreeing an FTA he says 'the possibility to which you allude to simply will not happen.' — PolitiTweet.org

David Gauke @DavidGauke

RT @v_j_freeman: 7 out of UK’s top 10 trading partners are in the EU. None of Australia’s top 10 is in the EU. That’s why they can “survive… — PolitiTweet.org

David Gauke @DavidGauke

RT @ProfTimBale: Nice fact courtesy of @GWhittell (my emphais) EU-Australian trade in 2019 was worth about eighty billion euros. EU-UK trad… — PolitiTweet.org

David Gauke @DavidGauke

RT @geoffwilton2: @DavidGauke My house may burn down, so I'm setting fire to it now to ensure it never happens in the future. Getting brex… — PolitiTweet.org

David Gauke @DavidGauke

@CaptainBeaky4 Give it a few more days. https://t.co/wYAaaZEOHf — PolitiTweet.org

David Gauke @DavidGauke

RT @GavinBarwell: Forget the spin about an Australian style relationship: no deal means going from the closest trading relationship in the… — PolitiTweet.org

David Gauke @DavidGauke

RT @GavinBarwell: In case my former colleagues missed it, some advice from former Australian PM @TurnbullMalcolm https://t.co/G2Jn5jp4NT — PolitiTweet.org

David Gauke @DavidGauke

RT @DavidHenigUK: As promised, a little story. Of how the EU ask of the UK on the level playing field is indeed new, how that came about, a… — PolitiTweet.org

David Gauke @DavidGauke

RT @PickardJE: Malcolm Turnbull, former PM of Australia, on Question Time last night : “Australia’s relationship with the EU is not one f… — PolitiTweet.org

David Gauke @DavidGauke

Quite. — PolitiTweet.org

David Gauke @DavidGauke

It might be possible for there to be worse circumstances for us to choose to have tariffs & quotas on UK/EU trade. But I cannot imagine what those circumstances might be. — PolitiTweet.org

David Gauke @DavidGauke

RT @DavidGauke: The Govt position is that it’s intolerable to enter into an agreement where there’s a possibility that, at some point in fu… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @GeorgeWParker: Exactly — PolitiTweet.org

David Gauke @DavidGauke

Tariffs on trade with EU from 1 January 2021 because of no deal = ‘Australian style deal’ and ‘we will prosper mightily’. Tariffs on trade with EU because at some hypothetical point in the future we choose not to maintain broad regulatory alignment = ‘punishment beating’. — PolitiTweet.org

David Gauke @DavidGauke

RT @BestForBritain: David Gauke on @SkyNews: "There is a trade-off between regulatory autonomy and market access. And with market access co… — PolitiTweet.org

David Gauke @DavidGauke

RT @Joe_Mayes: I asked Boris Johnson a year ago what he'd say to any voters annoyed in 2020 when Brexit continues to dominate headlines. We… — PolitiTweet.org

David Gauke @DavidGauke

@ProfTimBale Yes. I think one of the consequences of a referendum is that once you've committed one way, it's very hard to change your mind - regardless of what happens subsequently (although some members of the Cabinet have managed it in the opposite direction). — PolitiTweet.org

David Gauke @DavidGauke

This is a very good description of how one can go from being a fully-fledged Eurosceptic to regretting our departure from the EU. (And presumably much harder to do if you reached that conclusion only after the 2016 referendum.) — PolitiTweet.org

David Gauke @DavidGauke

RT @JulianBKing: Replying to comments: if this is being carefully choreographed between UK & EU, then all I’d say is that’d show a degree m… — PolitiTweet.org

David Gauke @DavidGauke

RT @TomMcTague: Yes. Diverge *how* remains almost entirely unanswered. https://t.co/sJqSiSm2qE — PolitiTweet.org