THREAD on how the parties will vote on the EU-UK TCA today: Will they simply ‘go gentle into that good night’? Or will they instead ‘rage, rage against the dying of the light’? https://t.co/dDtxi57AyT 1/

For the vast majority of the @Conservatives MPs (most of whom, remember, have either always been or have become Brexiteers), sheer bloody relief, along with a natural inclination to toe the party line and support their leader, will prove a powerful painkiller. 2/

It will inure them to those parts of the deal that have involved more compromise than ideally they would have liked – so much so, perhaps, that they will deny, even to themselves, that any such compromises have even taken place at all. 3/

It’s also important to note that the party in the media – the collection of leader writers and the columnists who write for Tory-supporting newspapers – seems to have made up its mind that Johnson has pulled off a miracle. 4/

Moreover, @ConHome's snap survey suggests getting on for two-thirds of grassroots Tories approve – not to be sniffed at when fear of one’s constituency association has often decided which way Conservative MPs have jumped on the European issue. 5/

*Thread** The evasion of police accountability is supported by @OIPRD_BDIEP . An independent civilian oversight that manages and oversees all complaints about police in Ont. It currently does not have the full capacity to investigate all complaints internally & majority of the 1/

complaints are refereed back to the police service to investigate their own members. For example: If you want to file a complaint against an Ottawa Police officer with legitimate concerns of misconduct. OPS cannot investigate until you file a complaint with @OIPRD_BDIEP 2/

who screens in the complaint and transfers the file to OPS Professional Standards to investigate their own members. Dead end. OIPRD continues to gatekeep and protects police officers by screening out complaints as ‘’not in the public interest’’ to investigate. Again dead end 3/

In 2017 review of police oversight, Justice Michael Tulloch recommended that the OIPRD should investigate all public complaints to "help foster public trust in not only the complaints system, but policing more generally." 4/

He also recommended that ''OIPRD should have the power to lay disciplinary charges against officers'' instead of directing the police chief to do so. Even if the chief held power & discretion, the chief is limited under the PSA to exercise it. 5/

It’s really hard to gauge what’s happening on the ground, with no internet service aka other people’s perspectives. You only have your own. Here’s my firsthand account of what happened at the Capitol building last night.

First of all, I’m realizing now my perspective re: Antifa’s involvement was incomplete bc by the time I got to the Capitol, it had already been stormed.

I was farther back in the “storming”. The people around me were angry patriots. Antifa infiltrators must’ve been ahead bc when I got up there the windows were already broken. I stayed behind bc I heard about the woman who was shot and the people who had “adopted” me as part of

their group bc I was alone didn’t want to be near the tear gas (we got separated and I was tear gassed anyway at least 3 times).

Last night and this morning I had been really upset that “our” patriotic actions were being described as “rioting” and other patriots were distancing themselves from it, calling us Antifa.