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Captain Europe (retired)

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Retired real life 🇪🇺superhero. Currently on leave from the Brussels machine. Eclectic tweets on public policy, travel, the environment and life in general.

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I can think of someone who both hid from the media in a fridge and was described by one of his ex-girlfriends as being like a ‘bin bag full of custard’ in bed. Custard boy.

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You might say that. I couldn’t possibly comment.

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An authoritative source tells me that this is the case.

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Something something Bertold Brecht dissolve the people and elect a new one.

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‘Tous les chemins mènent à une poubelle.’ Allons, la STIB, je sais que la situation politique en France est difficile, mais pas besoin de se moquer de nos voisins à ce point là…

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‘UBI will discourage working.’

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When you’re really proud of your ears

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Your periodic reminder that ‘MFA Russia’ is an anagram of ‘USSR Mafia’.

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Me: The United States of America is the world’s biggest polluter. Climate change deniers: CO2 is not a pollutant! It’s plant food!

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That’s because you took the job seriously – unlike certain other former MEPs I could mention.

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I suspect that’s a hangover from pre-Maastricht days when it was a part-time parliament. You’re right though – that needs to end.

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Well this is wild! Was looking up the Reform candidate for my constituency and found a website run by another Reform candidate where he’s listed. There’s also a helpful constituency map. Look at the place names towards the bottom. What do you see?

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Similar rules here. If you’re having a business meeting and the organiser offers you reasonable refreshments (coffee, water and biscuits, for example) then that’s allowed. A five-course lunch washed down with a selection of fine wines? Not so much.

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By comparison, European public servants must declare all gifts, and are not allowed to accept them if their value exceeds €65.

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So, IdiotInnen in NRW, die sie heute dringend Stadtfeste und ähnlich Wichtiges machen mussten:

Genau JETZT ist der Zeitpunkt, die Stecker zu ziehen und alle nach Hause zu schicken, bevor die Sachen aus Rheinland-Pfalz kommen und Sie "überrascht" werden.

kachelmannwetter.com/de/regenrada...

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There are people in real life who think they are like that. Such as my ex-friend who is an engineer and thinks he knows more about climate science than climate scientists do. Reminds me of that comedy video ‘Trust me, I’m an engineer.’

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Gotta love McSweeneys. Look up ‘Kafka’s Joke Book’.

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Just had a chat with him. End of this year, apparently.

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As long as I can remember. I hadn’t seen him for a while and was concerned he might already have retired. But no, here he is.

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Which, incidentally, reminds me of the Conservative MP who, at a hustings for the 2010 general election, got his party’s slogan the wrong way round and urged people to ‘go blue, vote Green’.

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Of course if the Conservatives disappear completely from the political landscape, the British Liberals could align with their Belgian counterparts and become blue 🥶

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Tbf the Liberal Democrats briefly went with aqua, but that (or something similar) is now used by Reform so

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‘A swimmer, not a swinger’ should henceforth be inscribed on your business cards.

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Yes, doing OK thanks. Not as prolific on the socials as I once was, but still keeping my hand in. How are you?

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Beware such sites – not all of them are neutral.

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