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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 4m

It should be remembered that Tice is an absolute moron, and has no idea what is included in the Withdrawal Agreement and even less idea of what payments are due, or why they are necessary

His entire political career is based on outrage, division and baseless claims and slogans

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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 24m

But then we’d need to employ lots more Border guards and spend lots of money installing better infrastructure

Much simpler to let most travellers use egates with no questions asked and then complain about other countries that actually do it properly

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Julien Hoez @julienhoez.eu · 27m

If it's too easy going to the UK, and you don't want it to be that easy, then make it harder.

Just stop whining about the consequences of your actions, which we told you would happen when you stupidly voted for Brexit because "Savranti init" ffs, I'm so bored of your shit ignorant writing

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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 1h

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch 😩

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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 1h

about what he needed to take with him the next time he traveled, and he thought my answer of exactly what you took the last time was entirely incorrect

EES goes live at Western Docks for Coach passengers at 17:00 on Sunday

Hopefully it all goes smoothly

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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 1h

but maybe you (and many other journalists) should try to control the headlines put above your content

I have seen and had many “chats” on here and elsewhere about this subject and very often your name crops up as the “source”. This chap says he is a regular Eurostar user but was totally confused

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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 1h

Unfortunately the majority don’t actually read the entire articles, but the lurid clickbait headlines are seen and circulated widely on SM along with “according to SC …..” nonsense and because of your standing people believe it….I realise you cannot control how this stuff is disseminated or shared

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©️garethaethwy 2024 @garethaethwy.bsky.social · 14h

Well there’s an understatement and a half…
And that’s putting it mildly…

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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 14h

Not a good man

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ER 🇪🇺 @er2023.bsky.social · 12h

German carmakers will come to the rescue of all those British second-home-owners in Europe.
Any time now ⌛
😂

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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 1h

He was just a random passer by who just happened to end up in the picture

Nigel has never heard of him, seen him, spoken to him and certainly has no knowledge of anything to do with Russia, he barely even knows how to find it on a map

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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 1h

They don’t want to upset Nige or his supporters

They’re hoping if they keep a low profile it all might turn out to be a bad dream

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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 2h

And apparently the answer to this is more Farage, but this time with a large majority and a licence to complete the destruction of 🇬🇧 that he started a decade ago

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Keith Taylor @mrkeithtaylor.bsky.social · 2h

It's utterly insane that Farage has more influence than ever over British politics when he's the face of its most disastrous decision in recent history. He shouldn't be able to appear in public without being pelted with rotten fruit.

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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 2h

would have been relocated to the English Channel and Ireland would have been made a colony of the Isle of Man

Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 2h

If Brexit had been done “properly” by a courageous and strong warrior all imports from Europe and elsewhere would be absolutely free, we would be exporting stuff to Jupiter, every pure blood Englishman could buy a 6 bed villa in Sotogrande for £1.27 and live there for ever tax free, and Gibraltar…

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Chris Hunter @chrisdhunter.bsky.social · 12h

This, absolutely this. So much cr*p written by Brexit apologists along the lines of ‘but the UK wasn’t in Schengen’ as if that means UK citz were always delayed at the Schengen border thus passport stamps aren’t much of an inconvenience.

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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 2h

More Farage Brexit success.

Jaysus.

David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 20h

Between 2019 and 2024 in real terms EU exports grew by 11%.

UK exports also grew. By 0.89%.

That's the total. Goods exports were lower in real terms in 2024 than in 2014.

Centre for European Reform @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social · 1d

@antonspisak.bsky.social of the @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social, a think-tank, observes that, after Brexit took effect at the end of 2020, Britain’s goods exports have grown less than those of any other economy in the G7 club of rich countries.

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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 12h

“grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.”

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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 12h

Every EU citizen entering the Schengen Zone from outside it has to go through passport control

A Spanish citizen flying from Dublin to Madrid has to, just like an Irish citizen, exactly the same “bother”

Non EU citizens have much more stringent checks and passport stamps and in future EES & ETIAS

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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 13h

Yes, he’s right it was a choice but definitely not one made by Johnson

The WA was all but agreed other than the NI situation, so the only thing he was responsible for was the protocol that he had no intention of honouring

May set the red lines that all subsequent Governments have followed

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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 14h

I think that’s a misunderstanding of what happened

Theresa May set out the red lines 9 years ago in her speech to the Tory Conference in 2016

From then on a hard Brexit was inevitable unless they were voted out of power (guess what, they weren’t)

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Éamann Mac Donnchada @almagroschool.bsky.social · 15h

yes indeed but Calder's, or his editor's, language suggests that BJ's brexit deal made Brits third country nationals rather than it being an intrinsic part of Brexit, indeed it's core purpose

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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 14h

And it had nothing to do with Johnson anyway

The May Government decided on imposing the red lines and Brexit means Brexit nonsense

From that point it was inevitable that we left the EU & EEA entirely

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Mark Purchase @markpurch.bsky.social · 15h

There was no automatic option to remain as part of the EEA or EFTA

We could have asked, but there was not guarantee the request would have been accepted

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