Brussels WhatsApp is alive with the sound of people coming up with alternatives to "flextension". You can all stop now. It's a combination of short and long which means it's a SCHLONG EXTENSION.
Adam Fleming
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Adam Fleming
@adamfleming
Author. Presenter of BBC’s daily Newscast on BBC Sounds, Antisocial on Radio 4 and Boris on both. Ex-Brussels/Newsround/Westminster
London, England
Joined July 2008
- What being ambushed with a cake really looks like @adamfleming @johnprescott @reporterboy @edwardchivers
00:00 - Why extend the #Brexit talks when the Brexit talks are over, asks @MichelBarnier hitting the nail on the head.
- Thanks for all the kind messages about this. I'll be doing politics in the mornings and #BBCNewscast in the afternoons. And both are such an honour, seriously.Delighted to announce @adamfleming is appointed BBC's Chief Political Correspondent. Welcome back to Millbank! @BBCPolitics
- EU sources are ruling out a special summit or the reopening of the Withdrawal Agreement in the strongest terms this evening.
- I hate to be flippant but is the PM proposing a replacement to the backstop involving alternative arrangements, which if they don’t materialise in time will require... a backstop?Boris Johnson writes to Donald Tusk - calls for abolition of the backstop again - says UK would accept legally binding commitment to no hard border and says hopes EU wd do same, which cd be tricky - calls to introduce alternative arrangements “before the end of the transition”
- Honestly, I haven't said the word snogging this much since I was about 12.
- The EU #Brexit negotiators have published the MOTHER OF ALL SLIDESHOWS explaining the Withdrawal Agreement. ec.europa.eu/commission/sit…
- The PM is gonna need a MASSIVE card when she comes to Brussels tomorrow.
- This is my last week at Westminster for a while because I’m going to do other stuff for a few months including #BBCNewscast. Thanks for all the constructive feedback of my political coverage on this platform.
- Jean-Claude Juncker has not spoken to Theresa May and the Brexit deal on the table is the only one, says European Commission. Wow, what a tweet with which to begin 2019. 💥💥💥
- EU27 diplomats have received a note from @MichelBarnier saying that @BorisJohnson’s demand to eliminate the backstop is unacceptable, that his speech today was “combative” and that the UK’s increased preps for No Deal are designed to crack unity of the EU.
- EXCITING! The Duke of Cambridge will be on #BBCNewscast on Thursday to talk about @EarthshotPrize and @COP26. (And of course there’s a quiz.) bbc.com/mediacentre/20…
