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Moody’s Microblog Daily Digest 170115 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.nl/2017/01/170115.html yesterday’s tweets as a single page

 IFLA, EIFL and EBLIDA call on EU Member States to Deliver on Marrakesh Treaty Ratification - http://www.ifla.org/node/11120 shame on #germany

Japan criticised after whale slaughtered in Australian waters - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/16/frydenberg-criticises-japan-after-whale-slaughtered-in-australian-waters shame on #japan

No 10 welcomes Trump's pledge for a speedy UK-US trade deal - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/16/no-10-welcomes-donald-trumps-pledge-for-a-speedy-uk-us-trade-deal NB: will mean hormone beef, chlorine chicken in UK

Sinn Féin ​refusal to replace McGuinness set to trigger Northern Ireland elections - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/16/sinn-fein-refusal-mcguinness-power-sharing-collapse-northern-ireland potentially big for #brexit

Swedish minister 'shocked' by xenophobia to Swedes in UK - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/16/ann-linde-swedish-minister-xenophobia-swedes-uk-brexit #WellDoneBrexiters, you've made us the racist thugs of EU

UK trade deal with Trump? careful what you wish for - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/16/a-uk-trade-deal-with-trump-be-careful-what-you-wish-for "instantly shatter #Brexiters’ dream of ‘taking back control"

UK cosying up to Trump over Middle East peace process - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jan/16/uk-cosying-up-to-trump-over-middle-east-peace-process-say-eu-ministers IOW "taking back control" actually means grovelling to US

it's increasingly clear #brexit means UK becomes America's poodle once more, and that's putting it politely...

May: "I want us to be a secure, prosperous, tolerant country" - that's why even Swedes now live in fear in UK - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/16/ann-linde-swedish-minister-xenophobia-swedes-uk-brexit