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Change Minds → Change Politics
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GUEST ~AA @SturdyAlex.bsky.social
The German President is in the UK for a state visit. In an address to Parliament, Steinmeier said that Brexit made many things more difficult.
But how do Germans view Brexit? And do they think Germany should follow the UK's example and leave the EU?
But how do Germans view Brexit? And do they think Germany should follow the UK's example and leave the EU?
December 4, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The German President is in the UK for a state visit. In an address to Parliament, Steinmeier said that Brexit made many things more difficult.
But how do Germans view Brexit? And do they think Germany should follow the UK's example and leave the EU?
But how do Germans view Brexit? And do they think Germany should follow the UK's example and leave the EU?
The German President is in the UK for a state visit - the first one in 27 years.
We took to the streets in Germany to ask Germans what the first thing that comes to mind when they think about the UK. 🤔
We took to the streets in Germany to ask Germans what the first thing that comes to mind when they think about the UK. 🤔
December 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The German President is in the UK for a state visit - the first one in 27 years.
We took to the streets in Germany to ask Germans what the first thing that comes to mind when they think about the UK. 🤔
We took to the streets in Germany to ask Germans what the first thing that comes to mind when they think about the UK. 🤔
"Climate change is about justice: because the people most exposed to its harmful consequences are the very people who have done the least to bring those consequences down on us," writes John Ashton.
Read here: https://bestforbritain.substack.com/p/climate-change-the-missing-voice
Read here: https://bestforbritain.substack.com/p/climate-change-the-missing-voice
December 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
"Climate change is about justice: because the people most exposed to its harmful consequences are the very people who have done the least to bring those consequences down on us," writes John Ashton.
Read here: https://bestforbritain.substack.com/p/climate-change-the-missing-voice
Read here: https://bestforbritain.substack.com/p/climate-change-the-missing-voice
With Germany’s president visiting the UK, we asked Germans what they think about Brexit.
👀 "It's just so stupid to cut the branch you're sitting on," one person said.
Here's what else they had to say ⬇️
👀 "It's just so stupid to cut the branch you're sitting on," one person said.
Here's what else they had to say ⬇️
December 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
With Germany’s president visiting the UK, we asked Germans what they think about Brexit.
👀 "It's just so stupid to cut the branch you're sitting on," one person said.
Here's what else they had to say ⬇️
👀 "It's just so stupid to cut the branch you're sitting on," one person said.
Here's what else they had to say ⬇️
Keir Starmer: "Three ex-MPs have gone. That's where their leaks are going... to Reform UK."
"The leader of Reform UK says he wants to merge with the Tories."
"An absolutely unholy alliance of austerity and failure." 💯
"The leader of Reform UK says he wants to merge with the Tories."
"An absolutely unholy alliance of austerity and failure." 💯
December 3, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Keir Starmer: "Three ex-MPs have gone. That's where their leaks are going... to Reform UK."
"The leader of Reform UK says he wants to merge with the Tories."
"An absolutely unholy alliance of austerity and failure." 💯
"The leader of Reform UK says he wants to merge with the Tories."
"An absolutely unholy alliance of austerity and failure." 💯
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk asks the Prime Minister about rejoining the customs union.
December 3, 2025 at 12:32 PM
@eddavey.libdems.org.uk asks the Prime Minister about rejoining the customs union.
These are the numbers we need to remember 🚨
"Three quarters of children in poverty are in working families."
"The two-child benefit cap dragged hundreds of thousands of children into poverty."
No child should grow up in poverty.
"Three quarters of children in poverty are in working families."
"The two-child benefit cap dragged hundreds of thousands of children into poverty."
No child should grow up in poverty.
December 3, 2025 at 12:18 PM
These are the numbers we need to remember 🚨
"Three quarters of children in poverty are in working families."
"The two-child benefit cap dragged hundreds of thousands of children into poverty."
No child should grow up in poverty.
"Three quarters of children in poverty are in working families."
"The two-child benefit cap dragged hundreds of thousands of children into poverty."
No child should grow up in poverty.
Painfully accurate @bjennings90.bsky.social.
December 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Painfully accurate @bjennings90.bsky.social.
👏 Keir Starmer PM: "How Brexit was sold and delivered was wrong. Wild promises were made to the British people and not fulfilled."
"The idea that leaving the EU was the answer to all our cares and concerns has clearly been proved wrong."
"The idea that leaving the EU was the answer to all our cares and concerns has clearly been proved wrong."
December 2, 2025 at 10:31 AM
👏 Keir Starmer PM: "How Brexit was sold and delivered was wrong. Wild promises were made to the British people and not fulfilled."
"The idea that leaving the EU was the answer to all our cares and concerns has clearly been proved wrong."
"The idea that leaving the EU was the answer to all our cares and concerns has clearly been proved wrong."
"An exodus of UK citizens is being driven by tens of thousands of eastern Europeans moving home and taking British partners with them."
Going over there, taking their jobs, etc. ~AA
Going over there, taking their jobs, etc. ~AA
December 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM
"An exodus of UK citizens is being driven by tens of thousands of eastern Europeans moving home and taking British partners with them."
Going over there, taking their jobs, etc. ~AA
Going over there, taking their jobs, etc. ~AA
Head of the OBR gone. ~AA
December 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Head of the OBR gone. ~AA
Choir singing carols. Xmas tree lights on. Jolly cheers.
Jon Craig on Sky: It's huge, more colourful, a better tree than we've seen in recent years. If I were to make a cynical point, I wonder if the PM is thinking whether he'll be switching it on next year.
These people are just exhausting. ~AA
Jon Craig on Sky: It's huge, more colourful, a better tree than we've seen in recent years. If I were to make a cynical point, I wonder if the PM is thinking whether he'll be switching it on next year.
These people are just exhausting. ~AA
December 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Choir singing carols. Xmas tree lights on. Jolly cheers.
Jon Craig on Sky: It's huge, more colourful, a better tree than we've seen in recent years. If I were to make a cynical point, I wonder if the PM is thinking whether he'll be switching it on next year.
These people are just exhausting. ~AA
Jon Craig on Sky: It's huge, more colourful, a better tree than we've seen in recent years. If I were to make a cynical point, I wonder if the PM is thinking whether he'll be switching it on next year.
These people are just exhausting. ~AA
As Jonathan Gullis joins Reform UK, it's only fair to remind people of this.
All forgotten, is it, Dickie? ~AA
All forgotten, is it, Dickie? ~AA
December 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
As Jonathan Gullis joins Reform UK, it's only fair to remind people of this.
All forgotten, is it, Dickie? ~AA
All forgotten, is it, Dickie? ~AA
👏🏽"We must all now confront the reality that the Brexit deal significantly hurt our economy. We have to keep reducing frictions. We have to keep moving towards a closer relationship with the EU. And we have to be grown up about it. To accept that it will require trade-offs."👏🏽
Music to my ears. ~AA
Music to my ears. ~AA
December 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
👏🏽"We must all now confront the reality that the Brexit deal significantly hurt our economy. We have to keep reducing frictions. We have to keep moving towards a closer relationship with the EU. And we have to be grown up about it. To accept that it will require trade-offs."👏🏽
Music to my ears. ~AA
Music to my ears. ~AA
"The PM wanted today to talk about... benefits reform and the UK's relationship with the EU and about regulation, which were interesting in and of themselves, but all of the questions were about the pre-budget process."
A neat summary by Mason - but he led that questioning. ~AA #PoliticsLive
A neat summary by Mason - but he led that questioning. ~AA #PoliticsLive
December 1, 2025 at 12:42 PM
"The PM wanted today to talk about... benefits reform and the UK's relationship with the EU and about regulation, which were interesting in and of themselves, but all of the questions were about the pre-budget process."
A neat summary by Mason - but he led that questioning. ~AA #PoliticsLive
A neat summary by Mason - but he led that questioning. ~AA #PoliticsLive
I love that, while admitting Brexit was a failure, the Telegraph simultaneously warns of a "Labour plot to reverse it". Because "it was never about the economy", you see, but "about sovereignty, immigration and taking back control".
How are those aspects going, Telegraph? ~AA
How are those aspects going, Telegraph? ~AA
December 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I love that, while admitting Brexit was a failure, the Telegraph simultaneously warns of a "Labour plot to reverse it". Because "it was never about the economy", you see, but "about sovereignty, immigration and taking back control".
How are those aspects going, Telegraph? ~AA
How are those aspects going, Telegraph? ~AA
I find it interesting that every single TV political journalist opened with an editorialising comment, while all the newspaper ones just asked questions. I suspect, because the latter know the question won't be in the write-up, while the former are trying to craft a clip that is all about them. ~AA
December 1, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I find it interesting that every single TV political journalist opened with an editorialising comment, while all the newspaper ones just asked questions. I suspect, because the latter know the question won't be in the write-up, while the former are trying to craft a clip that is all about them. ~AA
Pretty striking to see these two pieces, side-by-side, in the Telegraph and Times last week. ~AA #BrexitDisaster
December 1, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Pretty striking to see these two pieces, side-by-side, in the Telegraph and Times last week. ~AA #BrexitDisaster
What actually happened this week?
From the Budget to a potential Ukraine peace deal and the breakdown of talks to join the EU defence fund...
In the Weekend Wire, we explain this week's headlines.
Read here: https://bestforbritain.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips
From the Budget to a potential Ukraine peace deal and the breakdown of talks to join the EU defence fund...
In the Weekend Wire, we explain this week's headlines.
Read here: https://bestforbritain.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips
November 29, 2025 at 11:00 AM
What actually happened this week?
From the Budget to a potential Ukraine peace deal and the breakdown of talks to join the EU defence fund...
In the Weekend Wire, we explain this week's headlines.
Read here: https://bestforbritain.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips
From the Budget to a potential Ukraine peace deal and the breakdown of talks to join the EU defence fund...
In the Weekend Wire, we explain this week's headlines.
Read here: https://bestforbritain.substack.com/?utm_campaign=profile_chips
"What message does it send when the EU can’t even agree to a mutually beneficial partnership with the UK?", writes @pimlicat.bsky.social following talks for UK to join EU defence fund collapsing.
Read here: https://bestforbritain.substack.com/p/europe-must-get-its-act-together
Read here: https://bestforbritain.substack.com/p/europe-must-get-its-act-together
November 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
"What message does it send when the EU can’t even agree to a mutually beneficial partnership with the UK?", writes @pimlicat.bsky.social following talks for UK to join EU defence fund collapsing.
Read here: https://bestforbritain.substack.com/p/europe-must-get-its-act-together
Read here: https://bestforbritain.substack.com/p/europe-must-get-its-act-together
We don't often agree with The Spectator - but this time we do.
November 28, 2025 at 5:16 PM
We don't often agree with The Spectator - but this time we do.
Perhaps a good time to launch an investigation...
November 28, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Perhaps a good time to launch an investigation...
Negotiations over Britain joining the €150 billion fund have failed.
Yet the UK's access to Europe's SAFE defence fund remains vital to deter "the tyrant on our doorstep," says @pimlicat.bsky.social.
Read here: https://bit.ly/4p3vSTz
Yet the UK's access to Europe's SAFE defence fund remains vital to deter "the tyrant on our doorstep," says @pimlicat.bsky.social.
Read here: https://bit.ly/4p3vSTz
November 28, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Negotiations over Britain joining the €150 billion fund have failed.
Yet the UK's access to Europe's SAFE defence fund remains vital to deter "the tyrant on our doorstep," says @pimlicat.bsky.social.
Read here: https://bit.ly/4p3vSTz
Yet the UK's access to Europe's SAFE defence fund remains vital to deter "the tyrant on our doorstep," says @pimlicat.bsky.social.
Read here: https://bit.ly/4p3vSTz
Nigel Farage on Russia Today before the 2014 European Elections talking about the European Union:
"They are fanatical and, and I believe the most dangerous people we've seen in Europe for 70 years."
Make of this what you will.
"They are fanatical and, and I believe the most dangerous people we've seen in Europe for 70 years."
Make of this what you will.
November 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Nigel Farage on Russia Today before the 2014 European Elections talking about the European Union:
"They are fanatical and, and I believe the most dangerous people we've seen in Europe for 70 years."
Make of this what you will.
"They are fanatical and, and I believe the most dangerous people we've seen in Europe for 70 years."
Make of this what you will.