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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 18h

Interesting change…

European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 18h

For the first time in years, senior Labour figures are saying it plainly.

Wes Streeting: “I’m glad that Brexit is a problem whose name we now dare speak.”
Keir Starmer: “They lied to this country, unleashed chaos, and walked away after Brexit.”

The silence is breaking. The damage is undeniable.

Starmer and Streeting break silence on Brexit’s damage

We're the UK's largest pro-European movement. Our goal is to reverse the calamity of Brexit and restore relations with our European neighbours.

www.europeanmovement.co.uk

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 15h

❓ Protecting women and girls?

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/news/reform-councillor-suspended-amid-misconduct-allegations-from-331118/

Reform councillor suspended amid investigation into ‘lewd remarks’

A Reform UK councillor has been suspended amid an investigation into allegations of misconduct following a complaint by “several women”.

www.kentonline.co.uk

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Judi Rayner @judirayner.bsky.social · 18h

It's an absolute banger 👏👏

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 23h

The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.

I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?

Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.

join.greenparty.org.uk

Polanski is talking nonsense about wealth taxes.

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Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · 1d

The UK voted to make itself poorer by voting for Brexit.

Poland remained an EU member.

That's it, really.

BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 1d

Poland is nearly as rich as the UK. How has it caught up so fast?
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Poland is nearly as rich as the UK. How has it caught up so fast?

When it comes to investment, particularly in its regions, perhaps Britain is the country that needs to keep up

www.thetimes.com

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 1d

SPOILER ALERT: Reform lied again.

Reform UK abandoning manifesto pledge of £90bn in tax cuts, deputy leader admits

Richard Tice says party will concentrate on cutting civil service and scrapping net zero once in government

www.theguardian.com

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 2d

In case you missed it ...
We never had a ref to leave the Single Market. So we wouldn't need one to rejoin it. You can be in the Single Market without being in the EU. Leaving the Single Market was therefore a POLITICAL decision made by a previous government. Later governments are not bound by it.

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Claire #FBPE ☘️ 🍉 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🐝 🦮🇮🇪🇧🇪 💙💚 @fbpech.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
He needs to be tried in court and imprisoned. But that only happens to us: the little people.

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

www.theguardian.com

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 1d

BREAKING NEWS

In a move that has shocked absolutely no one with basic arithmetic skills, populist right wing party trying to win votes with fantasy economics traipses around in fetching hair shirt after all their policies are found to be economic fantasy.

Reform UK
Reform UK abandoning manifesto pledge of £90bn in tax cuts, deputy leader admits
Richard Tice says party will concentrate on cutting civil service and scrapping net zero once in government

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 1d

Nathan Gill will be sentenced on 21st November for 8 charges of taking Russian Bribes.

It’s essential that the European Parliament carries out an investigation in to UKIP, Brexit Party and Reform UK and their connection to Russia.

Investigation now!

#InvestigateReformUK #ReformRussianBribes

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Simon Gosden @simongosden.bsky.social · 1d

www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/t...

Tommy Robinson told police ‘not a chance bruv’ when asked for mobile pin. He had more than £13,000 and 1,900 euros in cash with him, told officers he was driving his silver Bentley to Benidorm for a couple of days when he was stopped. As you do!

Tommy Robinson told police ‘not a chance bruv’ when asked for mobile pin, court told

Tommy Robinson, 42, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, is standing trial after being charged under the terrorism act

www.standard.co.uk

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Gerry Bolton @gerryb.bsky.social · 1d

Without any sense of iron he still publishes as if an expert

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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 1d

Let's make sure everyone knows about the activities that senior Reform members have gotten up to.

These are not people we can trust to run out country.

Make sure people never forget!

(Originally posted by the Labour Party on Instagram)

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Tony Dexter @timbleman.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ve been exposed as a complete liar and Russian asset.”

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Shortbreadfairy©️ @shortbreadfairy.bsky.social · 2d

Good morning

Anyone or Party not prepared to reverse the harm caused by Brexit isn't fit to be in charge of a fecking poodle, let alone an economy.

Brexit, sold by morons, voted for by morons and maintained by morons 🙄

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 2d

In case you missed it ...
Barnier has said many times over the years that the door is always open for us to rejoin the EU. We'd lose the rebate we used to have, of course. But anything would be better than continuing our isolation and decline with Brexit.

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(Wee G ) Wake Up Scotland @chaillich.bsky.social · 2d

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mimij9.bsky.social @mimij9.bsky.social · 2d

Dear people of the U.K. (ostensibly England and Wales)

Until you realise this country is fucked because of 14 years of terrible mismanagement in every way by the Tories….

You will end up with Reform U.K. Ltd (Tories on crack) running this country.

And you think it’s bad now?!

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 3d

UK travellers should expect "four-hour queues" as new EU border system comes into force. Brexit really is the gift that keeps giving

www.itv.com/news/2025-10...

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 4d

Every benefit cut is a cut to a high street, a care worker, a council service.

You can’t “balance the books” by burning the foundations.

That’s how you hollow out a nation.

Prof Richard Murphy reports

What happens when £47 billion disappears from Britain’s economy?

Tory Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride wants to take £47 billion out of the UK economy. That isn't prudence. It's managed decline

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Lady Bee Middlemast-Neal @mistyswoman.bsky.social · 4d

Douglas Adams: "It is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it".

BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 4d

No surprise from the man who sold his country down the river just to become PM - a corrupt, useless, self serving lying one at that

Johnson secretly lobbied the UAE for a billion-dollar private venture, amid plans to use an influential contact & senior contacts in the Saudi gov he met as PM

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

www.theguardian.com

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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 3d

I agree is looks like a major shift - or to put it another way, at last a recognition of reality.

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 4d

This strikes me as a pretty major Brexit shift from Starmer.

Perhaps the beginning of 'Brexit is sh1t and has caused real economic damage'.

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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 3d

The death of truth and accuracy in the mainstream media

Politicians and the media are distorting the truth; how can we avoid being duped?
@garygilligan.bsky.social

The death of truth and accuracy in the mainstream media

Politicians and the media are distorting the truth; how can we avoid being duped?

centralbylines.co.uk

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 4d

The empty horror of Robert Jenrick iandunt.substack.com/p/the-empty-...

The empty horror of Robert Jenrick

We deserve a better class of villain. Or at least a more memorable one.

iandunt.substack.com

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 5d

Zack Polanski,
"How do you expect people to integrate when you've taken away their services?"

"We need to make sure that all politicians are speaking about migration in a positive sense"

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