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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 9d

It’s beyond laughable (if I could laugh I’d cry) that only 11% see Brexit as a success.

📊 62% now say Brexit is a failure. Only 1 in 5 call it a success. Even Tory voters are split, Reform voters can’t agree either.

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/how...

Support for Brexit drops to laughable low - with just 11% seeing it as a success

Ah well, at least our passports are blue again. Unfortunately, not many Brits are feeling buoyed by our supposed 'Brexit benefits'.

www.thelondoneconomic.com

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 8d

Another big company leaves London for New York.

Brexit stripped the City of its EU advantage, now the London Stock Exchange is in decline while Wall Street thrives.

Once the gateway to Europe, London is losing listings, capital and credibility. Britain is paying the price.

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Berkshire for Europe @berkshireforeurope.bsky.social · 11d

Berkshire for Europe is proud to stand with the @wearethemu.bsky.social in their campaign to Fix EU Touring post-Brexit

🎼Creativity should flow freely across borders 🎶

✈️ Touring should not be a bureaucratic maze 🚧

#BehindEveryMusician #FixEUTouring #LetMusicMove

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Berkshire for Europe @berkshireforeurope.bsky.social · 11d

Berkshire for Europe is proud to stand with the @wearethemu.bsky.social in their campaign to Fix EU Touring post-Brexit

🎼Creativity should flow freely across borders 🎶

✈️ Touring should not be a bureaucratic maze 🚧

#BehindEveryMusician #FixEUTouring #LetMusicMove

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14d

🔴 BREAKING: Chancellor believes allowing young people to live and work across Britain and the EU would boost the economy and reduce the need for tax rises in the budget.

https://www.bestforbritain.org/uk_outlines_ambitious_yms

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Neal Curtis @nihilcurtis.bsky.social · 14d

Kier Starmer effectively endorses Reform, telling UK voters you are justified in voting for a far-right anti-immigration party. 🫩

Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 14d

The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.

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Kresten @kresten2.bsky.social · 15d

It is not a crackdown. It is simply applying rules that the UK was in favour of when they were still an EU member.

It is also not something targeting UK tourists but all 3rd country citizens.

The UK chose to become a 3rd country. Nothing to do with France.

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Ian Moody @ianmoody.bsky.social · 15d

What France’s crackdown on British tourists means for you: How to navigate new post-Brexit border demands. UK visitors to France must have medical insurance and cash worth half of national minimum wage.
www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-...

What France’s crackdown on British tourists means for you and new post-Brexit demands

Exclusive: UK visitors to France must have medical insurance and cash worth half of national minimum wage

www.independent.co.uk

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 18d

For 56 minutes Sky News and BBC News interrupted everything else and carried a Reform UK feed live, uninterrupted, unchallenged. The stream spluttered, froze, pixelated - dozens of times - still they stuck with it. FOR ONE HOUR.

This is an editorial choice. No other party gets this coverage. ~AA

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Sir Basil @sirbasil.bsky.social · 19d

If you voted Brexit, stop moaning about tax increases

If you voted Brexit, stop moaning about "illegal" immigration

If you voted Brexit, stop moaning about appeasing the States

If you voted Brexit, stop moaning your grandchildren can't get a job

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18d

Cravenly obeying the US on a batshit crypto hallucination, because Brexit made us desperate.

Reuters @reuters.com · 18d

UK and US to smooth capital markets access and crypto cooperation reut.rs/4nitRlP

UK and US to smooth capital markets access and crypto cooperation

The governments of Britain and the United States will set up a body to reduce red tape for firms seeking to access capital markets on both sides of the Atlantic and improve cooperation on crypto assets, Britain's finance ministry said on Monday.

reut.rs

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 20d

I think he means Brexit was worth it even though it made OTHER people poorer. Twat.

Headline says 'Sir James Dyson says brexit was worth it, even if it's made people poorer'

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 18d

Ed Davey, "Nigel Farage helped cause the small boat problems, because before Brexit we had 27 return agreements with the EU"

- maybe call them Brexit boats?

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Chatham House @chathamhouse.org · 21d

The size of the European Union combined with its proximity to the UK and the uncertainties around US economic policy mean that the EU is a better longer-term bet for the UK.

The UK must guard against new risks to financial stability coming from the US

Financial services are critical to future UK productivity and growth, but regulators should be wary of deepening cooperation with US counterparts that could expose the UK to greater risk.

www.chathamhouse.org

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Lucy Loves Science @lucylovesscience.bsky.social · 24d

🗓️ Today
🕕 6pm
🏰 Windsor

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 25d

We were promised £350m a week for the NHS, writes the Bear. We got a staff exodus, patients stuck on trolleys and drug shortages.

Not a single Brexit promise kept.

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @bearlypolitics.co.uk

From promises to collapse: The measurable damage Brexit caused the NHS

Staffing gaps, medicine shortages and avoidable harm – the everyday reality of a broken Brexit promise

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Berkshire for Europe @berkshireforeurope.bsky.social · 25d

Inching closer… Almost 10 years after the controversial withdrawal of the UK from the European Union, Gibraltar once again joined the European Union..

#RejoinEU #BetterTogether 🇬🇧 ❤️ 🇪🇺

www.travelandtourworld.com/news/article...

Gibraltar Celebrates Its Return to Europe, Reopening Travel and Trade Opportunities for Tourists and Residents in the UK and Spain, Here’s What You Need to Know - Travel And Tour World

Gibraltar celebrates its return to Europe, reopening travel and trade with the UK and Spain, offering new opportunities for residents and tourists.

www.travelandtourworld.com

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Brendan May @brendanmay.bsky.social · 25d

Brexit Britain in one image.

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National Rejoin March @marchforrejoin.co.uk · 26d

National #RejoinMarch IV has been POSTPONED until JUNE 2026!

It will now coincide with the 10th anniversary of the referendum! And we will put #RejoinEU on the agenda!

Read full statement! 👇

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Stop Trump Coalition @ukstoptrump.bsky.social · 26d

Yesterday, the largest far-right protest in UK history marched through London, led by racist Tommy Robinson.

Today, we say: They don’t speak for us — and they won’t have the last word.

This Wednesday we come together against Trump and for a better future. Do everything to be there.

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Nick Moyes (Peat free) @nickmoyes.bsky.social · 27d

Amazed and absolutely wonderful to see a sea of blue EU flags at the #LastNightOfTheProms tonight.

#Proms2025

a blue background with a circle of yellow stars

Alt: a blue background with a circle of yellow stars

media.tenor.com

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ShropshireGreenMan @shropshiregreenman.bsky.social · 27d

Astonishing display of EU flags at the Last Night of the Proms, tonight. Made me feel proud to be European. 🇪🇺

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Leeds for Europe @leedseurope.bsky.social · 28d

“Logistics is a backbone of the UK economy. Every sector—from retail to manufacturing—relies on the timely movement of goods. Strict enforcement of the 90/180 rule could choke UK-EU trade, threatening supply chain resilience, food security, and export potential.”

Business Voice: Southampton haulier urges EU driver rule rethink

Operational disruption: drivers exceeding the 90-day limit will be barred from re-entry, affecting delivery schedules.

www.dailyecho.co.uk

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Leeds for Europe @leedseurope.bsky.social · 29d

“A Department for Education (DfE) tender advertised in August invited bids for an 18-month contract worth up to £24 million to administer the scheme, marking the clearest indication yet that the government is preparing to re-enter the EU’s flagship exchange program.”

UK Might Soon Rejoin Erasmus+

The UK prepares to rejoin Erasmus+ as talks with EU progress. Learn how this could reshape study, work, and youth mobility opportunities.

etias.com

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Berkshire for Europe @berkshireforeurope.bsky.social · 29d

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