{"id":509,"date":"2020-03-26T14:07:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-26T14:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/2020\/03\/26\/incomprehensibly-xenophobic\/"},"modified":"2020-03-26T14:07:28","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T14:07:28","slug":"incomprehensibly-xenophobic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/2020\/03\/26\/incomprehensibly-xenophobic\/","title":{"rendered":"Incomprehensibly xenophobic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So what’s the word for a Brexiteer free market true believer who simply can’t grasp that most people choose life over ideology? Something succinct, like “tankie”, would do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘ [the spokesperson ] dismissed suggestions that it was hard to understand why the government was not participating in the EU-wide procurement scheme for ventilators. Asked why the government was not doing this, he replied: \u201cWe are no longer members of the EU.\u201d In fact, because the UK is in the post-Brexit transition period, the UK would have been able to participate. When it was put to him that people would find it hard to understand this decision, particularly in the light of the fact that the PM has called for international cooperation in the fight against coronavirus, the spokesman said: \u201cI\u2019m not sure that it is.\u201d ‘<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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