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#ROAMINGCHARGES
Leaving the EU without a Brexit deal could see mobile roaming charges reintroduced. Under current rules, there are no roaming charges in the EU.
@nealerichmond tweeted: “So the EU succeeded in doing away with roaming charges & now the UK is leaving that very same EU, it is a surprise that Brexit will force the return of these charges? I am shocked!”
@donnyc1975 shared: “I remember up until a few years ago my average phone bill was about 400.00 GBP per month. Thanks to roaming its within my spending plan – thanks Brexit, thanks for making my job that little more difficult.”
@ruskin147 noted: “Roaming charges post no-deal Brexit in the news today. On record, UK operators saying no plans to reintroduce roaming – off record briefing that if continental operators opt to charge more for UK traffic they’ll have to respond.”
#FMQS
Education was the hot topic of this week’s FMQS with the SNP’S record and the introduction of P1 assessments the focus of the opposition’s line of questioning. @Journostephen observed: “That was one of Nicola Sturgeon’s worst FMQS performances in a long time. She had the rhetoric but the opposition had the facts.” @alexmassie tweeted: “Marvellous stuff from Nicola Sturgeon at #fmqs: We have stolen Tory education policies. They may no longer believe in those policies but we do. And how dare they condemn us for that.”
#GORDONBROWN
Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has warned that the world is sleepwalking towards another financial crash after failing to learn the lessons from the 2008 crisis. @larryfroot said: “For all my criticisms of Gordon Brown, he is, at heart, an economist and one with a tremendous degree of insight and skill, demonstrated during the crash of 2008. He never got the praise he deserved for his contribution in keeping cash in the cash machines. So, listen up...” @Adman72 acknowledged: “He’s right. But this is the same Gordon Brown who oversaw the move to extremely light-touch regulation for financial services, used PFI to hide billions of govt debt, and sold the UK’S gold reserves when the gold price was at a historic low.”