A thread on useful material explaining what our subsidy control regime currently is.

An introduction with various comments https://t.co/0Pf0B5NP6V
A not entirely complimentary account of where the current government has left us. https://t.co/egfhGX4DcQ
An account of the role of the courts in the current subsidy control regime. https://t.co/piIymdMHCe
An account of what the TCA says about subsidies. https://t.co/htPfPWB2Jy
Where we are on Article 10 of the Ireland/NI Protocol : the joint declaration https://t.co/JMs4PtPPYe
... and the Commission’s approach to it. https://t.co/jdYFWbUWPP
Practical advice for now in the chaos ... https://t.co/FAkogbSDSj
Has the old State aid regime really been killed in the UK? @GoodLawProject says that it hasn’t: see its claim here https://t.co/5wAnr3bic5
(Along lines run here... https://t.co/lCHMYq8S1h)
And suggestions, along lines sympathetic to the current government’s objectives, for the future ... https://t.co/DR57ULOSat
You’ll now have realised the error in the first tweet in the thread. The question isn’t what our subsidy control regime is; it’s what our subsidy control regimes are. For we have two: Article 3 of the TCA and Article 10 of the NIP.
Both subject to radical uncertainties, calling for resolution by the courts.
Those who voted for Brexit on the basis that it would free us from complex and obscure rules limiting government action that left too much to courts and regulators may not feel that that is quite what they expected to happen.

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**Thread on Bravery of Sikhs**
(I am forced to do this due to continuous hounding of Sikh Extremists since yesterday)

Rani Jindan Kaur, wife of Maharaja Ranjit Singh had illegitimate relations with Lal Singh (PM of Ranjit Singh). Along with Lal Singh, she attacked Jammu, burnt - https://t.co/EfjAq59AyI


Hindu villages of Jasrota, caused rebellion in Jammu, attacked Kishtwar.

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Dabistan a contemporary book on Sikh History tells us that Guru Hargobind broke Naina devi Idol Same source describes Guru Hargobind serving a eunuch
YarKhan. (ref was proudly shared by a sikh on twitter)
Gobind Singh followed Bahadur Shah to Deccan to fight for him.


In Zafarnama, Guru Gobind Singh states that the reason he was in conflict with the Hill Rajas was that while they were worshiping idols, while he was an idol-breaker.

And idiot Hindus place him along Maharana, Prithviraj and Shivaji as saviours of Dharma.