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It's not a good thing if companies of any sort - manufacturing, services or anybody else - are thinking of leaving. This really highlights the uncertainty surrounding the government's conduct of these negotiations.
If mainstream politicians and journalists start to behave like Twitter trolls and conspiracy theorists then democracy is in danger.
I do think we need to respect each other motives and treat each other's views with courtesy. If we don't we risk feeding an atmosphere of increasing hatred which at the most horrible extremes led to an event like the killing of Jo Cox ...
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Emmanuel Macron has tweeted some very similar footage.
i Bruxelles pour relancer l'Europe sur trois piliers : uniti(C), souveraineti(C) et di(C)mocratie. #EUCO pic.twitter.com/cxngpbWq2g
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