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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 2d

If they do this, they’ll need a convincing answer to the obvious question some will ask: ‘why don’t we rejoin?’ Keir Starmer’s plan to blame Nigel Farage for budget tax rises

www.thetimes.com/article/8875...

Keir Starmer’s plan to blame Nigel Farage for budget tax rises

With Reform UK threatening the end of two-party politics, both Labour and the Tories are fighting to stay relevant as conference season comes to an end

www.thetimes.com

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 4d

"15 years ago, Polish workers came here to find opportunity. Now Poland is growing twice as fast as we are," says Kemi Badenoch.

Any ideas what may have happened in the interim?

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 4d

Once again, the Telegraph seems shocked that the EU is acting like… the EU.

This is exactly what sovereignty looks like when you’re on the outside.

Ruthless EU has just taught Starmer a painful lesson
Steel tariff threats are a reminder of how Brussels really feels towards post-Brexit Britain

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Brexite: you either love it or (inceasingly) hate it @brexite.bsky.social · 7d

One from my archives

War of the Worlds style movie poster entitled “Brexit Do Die” starring Boris Johnson

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 10d

“Farage “broke Britain" with Brexit and is now, outrageously, capitalising on the vast damage he caused”

Article argues there’s no need to mention Reform’s racism as the Brexit shitshow is failure enough.
But that had its roots in racism too. So let’s do both.
app.independent.co.uk/edition/uk.c...

Yet it's a potentially fruitful line of argument.
Many of the UK's current problems stem from something most of us would prefer not to dwell on - Brexit. Depressed investment, low productivity, stagnant economic growth and living standards, the strain on the public finances and thus public services, food prices, the "Boriswave" of more than 2 million (legal) immigrants, increased red tape and border hassles for businesses, farmers and travellers... all can be traced back, to a greater or lesser extent, to 2016 and the EU Referendum. And who, as he reminds us again now, spent 30 years of his life campaigning for Britain to leave the EU? Farage.
It is he, Farage, who 'broke Britain' with Brexit and is now capitalising on the vast damage he caused

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Brexite: you either love it or (inceasingly) hate it @brexite.bsky.social · 11d

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 11d

“I would gently point out to Nigel Farage that before we left the EU we had a returns agreement with every country in the EU. He told the country it would make no difference if we left. He was wrong about that. These are Farage boats in many senses coming across the channel” 👏

PM Keir Starmer

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Brexite: you either love it or (inceasingly) hate it @brexite.bsky.social · 22d

Sir James Dyson says Brexit was worth it – even if it’s made people poorer.

Those nifty little personal guillotines could come in handy …

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 23d

There is another country. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog discussing the thuggery, sanctimony and hypocrisy of the last fortnight, and how Starmer should lead in articulating an alternative version of patriotism to that of the far-right: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/09/ther...

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 24d

The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration on.ft.com/46p3BPl

The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration

It’s not hard to see how so many came to worry about the issue. But the data isn’t there

on.ft.com

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 27d

The Brits who beat Brexit: Gibraltar celebrates its return to Europe - originally in the Washington Post.

“The treaty as it is now is something we all dreamed of and prayed for.” ~AA

www.postguam.com/news/world/t...

The Brits who beat Brexit: Gibraltar celebrates its return to Europe

GIBRALTAR - Nine years after the U.K. voted to leave the European Union, over Gibraltar’s stringent objections, Gibraltarians have become the Brits who beat Brexit after all.

www.postguam.com

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Kerry = Antifa = Anti-Fascist @kerry10.bsky.social · 29d

Rip off Britain, about to get much much worse if fraudulent fascist Farage gets into power.

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Brexite: you either love it or (inceasingly) hate it @brexite.bsky.social · 29d

“Brexit was not an abstract shift. It was not esoteric. It was not a vague change. It has translated into measurable harm, counted in vacancies, waiting times, drug shortages, and most painfully, avoidable deaths.”

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · Sep 9

Forget about GDP graphs, trade coefficients and happy fish.

Brexit’s damage to the NHS shows up in your GP queue, your A&E wait and your local care home in devastating, measurable impacts.

From Promises to Collapse: The Measurable Damage Brexit Caused the NHS

Staffing Gaps, Medicine Shortages, and Avoidable Harm- the Everyday Reality of a Broken Promise.

www.bearlypolitics.co.uk

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Stephen Farrow @stephenfarrow.bsky.social · Sep 11

That’s right, Duolingo, twist the knife.

(Am I still furious those rights were stripped from UK citizens in order to appease a gaggle of racist halfwits? Yes, absolutely. And that isn’t going to change until freedom of movement is restored here.)

Duolingo German question.

Translate this sentence

[picture of Zari, a Duolingo character - a teenage girl wearing pink trousers, a blue top, and a pink hijab]

"Wir sind EU-Bürger und brauchen den Pass nicht."

Answer:

We're EU citizens and don't need a passport.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Sep 4

Can we just skip straight to the Jacob Rees-Mogg and Liz Truss defections and get it over with

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Alan Stanley @ackersstan.bsky.social · Aug 30

Excellent from @writesbright.bsky.social

If you don’t subscribe yet I recommend him! Great analysis and scrutiny and news that you won’t read elsewhere.

open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...

Brexiteers hate the world they created

A rant...

open.substack.com

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · Aug 30

Of course the Queen was Remain. You don’t sustain a hereditary monarchy by randomly pulling pins out of grenades for the lols at the urging of a cluster of snake oil chancers.

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Brexite: you either love it or (inceasingly) hate it @brexite.bsky.social · Aug 30

How many shopping days till Kristallnacht?

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · Aug 26

2025: Nigel Farage, "Our proposals will save tens of billions"

2016: Nigel Farage, "Brexit will save us £10 billion a year"

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Richard Corbett @richardcorbett.bsky.social · Aug 8

England’s swimming waters five times more likely to be polluted than waters in the EU, research finds.
Brexit fans will no doubt hail this “benefit” of no longer having to follow the EU clean water standards…
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

England’s swimming waters five times more likely to be polluted than in EU, research finds

Experts warn country is in danger of becoming ‘dirty man of Europe’ as it falls to bottom of bathing water leaderboard

www.theguardian.com

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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · Jul 5

Is this the kernel of the problem? Is it the unwillingness to acknowledge that Europe is a legitimate world actor. At this point, it's a hang-up

And is that reflex rejection what is actually stopping the UK moving towards Europe?

The history is interesting.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · Jul 5

Left: Mailonline reporter points out that Labour have a £40 billion black hole in the public finances

Right: By sheer coincidence, Brexit costs the UK £40 billion a year in lost tax because we are outside the EU Single Market

Labour's 'make Brexit work' is literally making the UK poorer

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · Jul 2

Since 2016, Brexit debates have centred on trade, fishing, immigration, agriculture, with creative industries largely overlooked

From musicians to theatre companies, Brexit has brought shared challenges: reduced funding, restricted movement of people & objects, weakened access to EU networks

How UK creative industries are navigating Brexit alone - UK in a changing Europe

Kirsty Warner and Hussein Kassim explore the impact of Brexit on the UK creative industries.

ukandeu.ac.uk

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · Jun 27

If Brexit were given the attention its damage deserved, it would be on everyone's lips and at the top of the news agenda.

It's only because politicians are too cowardly to draw the connections between Brexit and all the problems facing Britain that it's off the radar as a key issue (THE key issue).

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · Jun 27

I don't want to hear "we can't afford it" one more time from Labour.

Not while they continue to reinforce their Brexit red lines.

The amount of money being left on the table by not seeking to rejoin the EU is eye-watering.

The tax lost to Brexit would have paid for everything Labour needed.

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