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Using information, education and agitation to expose the shills & charlatans who stole our rights, freedoms and protections in 2016. Multi-contributors. #BrexitScam
Rachel Reeves: “We are freezing Russian assets and let me be clear I don’t actually mean the honorable member for Clacton.”
November 26, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Rachel Reeves: “We are freezing Russian assets and let me be clear I don’t actually mean the honorable member for Clacton.”
The devastating truth Brexiters can’t face and why Michael Bloomberg called it the single stupidest thing any country has ever done- it’s costing the UK £90bn in lost tax revenue a year and the average Briton is now worse off by between £2,700 and £3,700.
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Brexit costing UK up to £90bn in lost tax revenue , new analysis shows
Exclusive: Britons also up to £3,700 worse off, leading to calls for the Labour government to improve relations with the EU
www.independent.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
The devastating truth Brexiters can’t face and why Michael Bloomberg called it the single stupidest thing any country has ever done- it’s costing the UK £90bn in lost tax revenue a year and the average Briton is now worse off by between £2,700 and £3,700.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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Just like Trump has his lunatic RFK jr, Reform has Danny Kruger : As a Christian I don’t judge people but “the Left are the enemy”, “parasite”, “malignant growth”, “gnostic”, a “false faith”, a “lethal threat”. And it went downhill from there… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘America is British’. Heaven is ‘a socialist state’. David Attenborough is ‘anti-human’ – the startling theories of Reform MP Danny Kruger
He was a Conservative party big-hitter who wrote speeches for David Cameron and worked with Boris Johnson before he suddenly jumped ship. He talks family, flags and why Nigel Farage is ‘top dog’
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Just like Trump has his lunatic RFK jr, Reform has Danny Kruger : As a Christian I don’t judge people but “the Left are the enemy”, “parasite”, “malignant growth”, “gnostic”, a “false faith”, a “lethal threat”. And it went downhill from there… www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK pub and hotel group JD Wetherspoon – whose founder campaigned for the UK to leave the EU – is using Ireland as a springboard for its expansion into mainland Europe to avoid Brexit-induced red tape, www.independent.ie/business/wet...
Wetherspoon uses Ireland to skirt Brexit red tape for EU expansion
UK pub and hotel group JD Wetherspoon – whose founder campaigned for the UK to leave the EU – is using Ireland as a springboard for its expansion into mainland Europe to avoid Brexit-induced red tape...
www.independent.ie
November 21, 2025 at 7:59 PM
UK pub and hotel group JD Wetherspoon – whose founder campaigned for the UK to leave the EU – is using Ireland as a springboard for its expansion into mainland Europe to avoid Brexit-induced red tape, www.independent.ie/business/wet...
Why are UK asylum claims rising while falling in EU nations? Russia and other hostile states are manipulating population flows to destabilise Western democracies and we mustn’t forget the role of Brexit and Farage – the great admirer of Vladimir Putin. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
These are Farage's boats – we must not let him off the hook
We must bring Brexit into the equation
www.newstatesman.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Why are UK asylum claims rising while falling in EU nations? Russia and other hostile states are manipulating population flows to destabilise Western democracies and we mustn’t forget the role of Brexit and Farage – the great admirer of Vladimir Putin. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Trump flattery will get you nowhere. Fawning after the US president is not only humiliating — it doesn’t work!
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Trump flattery will get you nowhere
Fawning after the US president is not only humiliating — it doesn’t work
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November 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Trump flattery will get you nowhere. Fawning after the US president is not only humiliating — it doesn’t work!
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According to the National Bureau for Economic Research, Brexit has had negative impact and was the catalyst for the UK’s economic downfall with GDP falling by 8%, investment down by 12% and employment down 4% from where they should all be since 2016. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bre...
'GDP reduced by 8%' - Nine-year study reveals how Brexit decimated UK economy
Can't help but feel those responsible for Brexit should not, for example, be riding high in the polls with a new party...
www.thelondoneconomic.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:03 AM
According to the National Bureau for Economic Research, Brexit has had negative impact and was the catalyst for the UK’s economic downfall with GDP falling by 8%, investment down by 12% and employment down 4% from where they should all be since 2016. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bre...
Labour instructs MPs to vote down a planning bill amendment restricting removal of protected animals such as dormice, badgers, hedgehogs & rare habitats such as wetlands and ancient woodlands from new rules allowing developers to sidestep environmental laws. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Housing secretary tells Labour MPs to vote down planning bill amendment
Amendment restricts protection for animals to allow faster house building
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Labour instructs MPs to vote down a planning bill amendment restricting removal of protected animals such as dormice, badgers, hedgehogs & rare habitats such as wetlands and ancient woodlands from new rules allowing developers to sidestep environmental laws. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Trump, a historically litigious figure, has been involved in over 4,000 legal cases and filed over 2,000 lawsuits as a plaintiff who uses litigation as a key business and political strategy. His success rate is relatively low, around 25%. uk.news.yahoo.com/lawrence-o-d...
Lawrence O’Donnell Explains Why Trump Is The ‘Most Ridiculous Litigant’ In U.S. Political History - Yahoo News UK
The president accused the New York Times of publishing articles and a book “to inflict maximum electoral damage” ahead of the 2024 election.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Trump, a historically litigious figure, has been involved in over 4,000 legal cases and filed over 2,000 lawsuits as a plaintiff who uses litigation as a key business and political strategy. His success rate is relatively low, around 25%. uk.news.yahoo.com/lawrence-o-d...
The Gill–Voloshyn saga exposes how Russia courted allies across British politics. Ex-Ukip MEPs in Farage’s Brussels bloc even spoke up for Moscow — and Gill, seen by colleagues as Farage’s right-hand man, was central to it all. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill
How did a former Mormon bishop end up pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament?
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The Gill–Voloshyn saga exposes how Russia courted allies across British politics. Ex-Ukip MEPs in Farage’s Brussels bloc even spoke up for Moscow — and Gill, seen by colleagues as Farage’s right-hand man, was central to it all. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
“The impact of Brexit for the City of London is clear. Frankfurt, Madrid, Milan and Paris are all doing better than they were. It has been at London’s expense. There is no question about that.” www.theguardian.com/business/202...
‘The money machine is misfiring’: City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache
Poor output since the leave vote has landed Rachel Reeves with a bigger-than-forecast budget spending gap
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 10:45 PM
“The impact of Brexit for the City of London is clear. Frankfurt, Madrid, Milan and Paris are all doing better than they were. It has been at London’s expense. There is no question about that.” www.theguardian.com/business/202...
"Millions of Dutch people have turned a page; they've said goodbye to a politics of negativity" and populist bollocks.
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Dutch centrist liberals under Jetten head for shock election win, exit poll says
Rob Jetten's D66 party celebrates, two years after his party languished in fifth place in the last vote.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 1:57 AM
"Millions of Dutch people have turned a page; they've said goodbye to a politics of negativity" and populist bollocks.
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“We just defeated Nigel Farage’s bill in parliament to tear up people’s rights and withdraw from the ECHR. Farage wants to do away with the Britain Churchill built and turn it into a version of Trump’s America. We stopped him” Ed Davey…
October 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
“We just defeated Nigel Farage’s bill in parliament to tear up people’s rights and withdraw from the ECHR. Farage wants to do away with the Britain Churchill built and turn it into a version of Trump’s America. We stopped him” Ed Davey…
Standing there in Trigger’s suit, with no shame whatsoever, the charlatan who fucked the country through lies, misinformation and illegal money, uses parliamentary privilege to continue those lies and attempt to fuck the country for a second time.
October 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Standing there in Trigger’s suit, with no shame whatsoever, the charlatan who fucked the country through lies, misinformation and illegal money, uses parliamentary privilege to continue those lies and attempt to fuck the country for a second time.
Farage - accused of making his career by pandering to Trump and damaging this country’s interests - like when he led the campaign for Brexit with his conservative friends - fails in his bid to tear up laws which protect ordinary Brits from abuses of power. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Nigel Farage loses major vote as he's accused of 'making career by damaging UK'
Nigel Farage's call for the UK to leave the European Convention for Human Rights (ECHR) was voted down by MPs, with Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey branding it "un-British"
www.mirror.co.uk
October 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Farage - accused of making his career by pandering to Trump and damaging this country’s interests - like when he led the campaign for Brexit with his conservative friends - fails in his bid to tear up laws which protect ordinary Brits from abuses of power. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
“WTO found that UK trade performance had weakened since the 2008 financial crisis, with Brexit named among the chief causes of a marked slump in goods trade since 2018.” www.ft.com/content/8f4d...
Trade’s contribution to UK GDP ‘stagnated’ since Brexit, warns WTO
Export of goods are languishing at 17% below pre-Covid levels
www.ft.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:18 AM
“WTO found that UK trade performance had weakened since the 2008 financial crisis, with Brexit named among the chief causes of a marked slump in goods trade since 2018.” www.ft.com/content/8f4d...
Populists wreck economies — GDP ends up 10% lower when their “anti-establishment” shtick meets reality. Like Trump, Яeform promise British jobs and reindustrialisation but are funded by millionaires after tax cuts and deregulation — Thatcherism on steroids. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Do populists always crash the economy?
Argentina is counting the cost of its turn to Javier Milei. Politicians from Donald Trump to Giorgia Meloni and Nigel Farage will be closely watching what happens next
www.theguardian.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Populists wreck economies — GDP ends up 10% lower when their “anti-establishment” shtick meets reality. Like Trump, Яeform promise British jobs and reindustrialisation but are funded by millionaires after tax cuts and deregulation — Thatcherism on steroids. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Could Farage’s interest in Crypto be linked to his favourite aide’s alleged laundering of cryptocurrency to fund a Montenegrin political party? 😉
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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‘He’s one of the few politicians who likes crypto’: my day with the UK tech bros hosting Nigel Farage
The Reform UK leader is courting the crypto community in the hope it could become a campaign funding base
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Could Farage’s interest in Crypto be linked to his favourite aide’s alleged laundering of cryptocurrency to fund a Montenegrin political party? 😉
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Moscow Nigel's theatrical flounce out of PMQ's to sit in the public gallery with his Brexit fluffer, Arron Banks, in protest of not being called by the Speaker, ridiculed after is was revealed that records show he hadn't asked for a question in 3 months.
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Farage's 'PMQs strike' mocked as he hasn't asked for extra questions in months
MPs are allowed to put their name into a ballot for extra questions at PMQs. The last time Nigel Farage's name was put into the 'shuffle' was in July
www.mirror.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Moscow Nigel's theatrical flounce out of PMQ's to sit in the public gallery with his Brexit fluffer, Arron Banks, in protest of not being called by the Speaker, ridiculed after is was revealed that records show he hadn't asked for a question in 3 months.
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Russian intelligence services linked to people-smuggling gangs facilitating illegal migration into Europe which is “an instrument for hostile regimes to destabilise the European Union and the United Kingdom”. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
Russian spies ‘linked to people-smuggling gangs destabilising Europe’
Bulgaria’s interior minister also claims that certain left-wing groups are in contact with people smugglers
www.independent.co.uk
October 23, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Russian intelligence services linked to people-smuggling gangs facilitating illegal migration into Europe which is “an instrument for hostile regimes to destabilise the European Union and the United Kingdom”. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
BREAKING: Three men aged 44–48 have been arrested in London on suspicion of assisting a foreign intelligence service linked to Russia. Counter-terrorism officers are leading the investigation, with multiple addresses in west and central London searched. www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-...
www.reuters.com
October 23, 2025 at 11:45 AM
BREAKING: Three men aged 44–48 have been arrested in London on suspicion of assisting a foreign intelligence service linked to Russia. Counter-terrorism officers are leading the investigation, with multiple addresses in west and central London searched. www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-...
Visiting PM tears into Farage and Braverman: “You left the EU to stop the boats — now you’ve got Brexit boats. You left for more investment — now you’ve got less. You left for more happiness — now you’re depressed. Britain is paying the price for Brexit.” www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Visiting PM says UK paying price for Brexit with dig at Nigel Farage 'theatrics'
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama referenced 'Brexit boats' and said leaving the EU had made Britons more depressed as he took a veiled swipe at Nigel Farage
www.mirror.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Visiting PM tears into Farage and Braverman: “You left the EU to stop the boats — now you’ve got Brexit boats. You left for more investment — now you’ve got less. You left for more happiness — now you’re depressed. Britain is paying the price for Brexit.” www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
People who are drawn to Nigel Farage because they have lost faith in the system, especially when it comes to immigration control, don’t recognise Reform and the Tories as sibling parties. | Rafael Behr www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Nothing else has worked – so Starmer and Reeves are finally telling the truth about Brexit | Rafael Behr
It is the right way to go, but taking the long way round to such an obvious point has cost Labour precious time and credibility, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:02 AM
People who are drawn to Nigel Farage because they have lost faith in the system, especially when it comes to immigration control, don’t recognise Reform and the Tories as sibling parties. | Rafael Behr www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Яeform UK claim more paid subscribers than Labour has members amid £400,000 VAT underpayment probe, Russian spy problem, ongoing constituency home finance mystery and continuing local council mayhem. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Does Reform already have more members than Labour?
The figure has become one of Labour’s most closely guarded secrets
www.newstatesman.com
October 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Яeform UK claim more paid subscribers than Labour has members amid £400,000 VAT underpayment probe, Russian spy problem, ongoing constituency home finance mystery and continuing local council mayhem. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
At least the French have a sense of propriety, “Former president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has entered a prison in Paris after a court sentenced him to 5 years for criminal conspiracy over a scheme to obtain election campaign funds from Libyan dictator Gaddafi. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Nicolas Sarkozy enters prison to begin five-year sentence over criminal conspiracy
Former president organised stage-managed departure from his Paris home before becaming first French postwar leader to be jailed Europe live – latest updates
www.theguardian.com
October 21, 2025 at 10:34 AM
At least the French have a sense of propriety, “Former president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has entered a prison in Paris after a court sentenced him to 5 years for criminal conspiracy over a scheme to obtain election campaign funds from Libyan dictator Gaddafi. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...