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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 8h

Seems constant calls for boycotting Spain by angry Daily Mail users over just about everything, incl Brexit rules, isn’t quite working - Spain received a record 22.3 million foreign visitors during July August, confirming another bumper year for tourism industry www.spainenglish.com/2025/10/02/s...

Spain sets new tourism record with 22.3 million foreign visitors in July-August - Spain in English

Spain received a record 22.3 million foreign visitors during July and August, confirming another bumper year for its vital tourism industry, according

www.spainenglish.com

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 8h

"If China starts buying elsewhere, which they are doing now, once they establish those trade routes, it becomes more difficult for them to come back to the U.S. to buy their commodities." ...... Exactly the same thing happened to many British traders after Brexit.

Soybean farmer who backed Trump feels strain of China's boycott amid trade war

With harvest season underway, farmers like Scott Gaffner are worried about what comes next amid a Chinese boycott of American soybeans.

www.cbsnews.com

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 8h

... "Big Broligarch is watching you" ...
#MAGAmeruca

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21h

ICE will reportedly hire contractors to surveil social media platforms 24/7 to target people for deportations.

The information would then be funneled into an existing ICE database built by Palantir (founded by Trump ally Peter Thiel).

"The party of small government,” folks.

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Zach Elsbury @zachelsbury.bsky.social · 8h

Of course the LibDems reach for misinformation in their irrational opposition to ID cards.

Full Fact @fullfact.org · 8h

On social media and their website, the Liberal Democrats have claimed “Keir Starmer says everyone in the UK will be required to have mandatory digital ID”.

But this isn’t the case, and we can’t find any evidence the Prime Minister said it was.

Digital ID won’t be mandatory for ‘everyone in the UK’ – Full Fact

The Liberal Democrats have claimed Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said everyone in the UK will have to have digital ID, but that’s not the case.

fullfact.org

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 7h

❓NHS waiting list in May 2010 when the Conservatives came to power: 2.60 million.

❓NHS waiting list in July 2024 when the Conservatives left power: 7.62 million.

Who's fault is it Kemi?

Source:https://www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-support/nhs-delivery-and-workforce/pressures/nhs-backlog-data-analysis

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Tom Foale @tfoale.bsky.social · 7h

Also, China is rolling out renewables at the rate of 1 1GW nuclear reactor equivalents PER WEEK, at a fraction of the cost. While it has the world’s largest number of nuclear reactors either commissioned, in development or planned, the total is TINY in comparison. The problem is financing risk.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 7h

🚨Winston Churchill at the Hague Congress in 1948:

"In the centre of our movement stands the idea of a Charter of Human Rights, guarded by freedom and sustained by law".

This meeting was crucial in shaping the ECHR.

Maybe it is time to listen to those who faced down fascism.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 7h

£12 billion when you factor in stamp duty.

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 7h

Good to see the Conservative Party committed to keeping the deficit down by *checks notes* spending £2 billion giving tax breaks for private education, creating a massive new deportation force and pledging to maintain pensioner benefits.

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 7h

Ginreeks is a racist. As soon as he's party leader, he'll begin moving towards an electoral pact with RefUK. It's the only thing that can save them now. RefUK has the votes but no election infrastructure. Tories have an election infrastructure but no votes.

Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 1d

Robert Jenrick, who just said he doesn't want to live in a country filled with non-white faces, begins his speech with a series of jokes suggesting that David Lammy is thick

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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 6h

They broke Britain!

Farage, Trump, Brexit… and 50% tariffs on our steel. Workers pay the price while the guilty play the hero.

Has Britain gone mad? 👇
#Brexit #SteelCrisis #Farage

The Great British BETRAYAL: How Farage’s Brexit Sold Out Britain
youtu.be/k7LWcKVNcvg

The Great British BETRAYAL: How Farage’s Brexit Sold Out Britain

YouTube video by Liz Webster #SaveBritishFarming

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 6h

The headline should read: Since 2020, Brits could be banned from the EU due to Brexit removing our status, freedoms, and opportunities as European citizens. Now it will be harder to cheat the 90/180 rule.

Also another example of the UK tabloids hating it when the EU takes 'control' of its borders

Brits could be banned from holiday homes under EU's 90-day rule

The EU has ordered member states to apply the 90/180-day rule 'rigidly', meaning Brits who overstay could be hit with hefty fines of up to £8,700 and even ten-year bans from entering the bloc.

www.dailymail.co.uk

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 5h

Much shorter speech too. Win win.

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Andrew Hesselden @andrewhesselden.bsky.social · 4d

If 🌹 Labour were serious about delivering a meaningful EU-UK reset a then this is a list of ideas they’d be embracing.

Andrew Hesselden @andrewhesselden.bsky.social · May 16

Thread on solving the 90-in-180 day problem 🧵

The solutions to the 90-in-180 day problem are many and varied. Politicians really have **no** excuse for inaction.

Any of the following provide models for solutions or are solutions in themselves…

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 5h

😂👏

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 21h

I know this is uncomfortable to admit, but there is a small area in England's second city where people are just not integrated with the rest of society. Many of them hold views that arguably go against British values.

Yes, we need to talk about the Tory conference in Manchester.

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 4h

Is this what they mean by a Brexit benefit? “Unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism.”

In 2023, EU agreed to ban exports of waste to poorer nations outside a group of mainly rich countries within the OECD for an initial 2.5 years - the UK has no such ambitions in place

UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows

Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is ‘unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism’

www.theguardian.com

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Terry Reintke @terryreintke.bsky.social · 4h

When Ukrainians fight for freedom, they fight for all of us.

One day, I want to see Ukrainian colleagues sitting with us in this chamber.

Building a stronger and more united Europe.

Together.🇺🇦🇪🇺

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 4h

What the ***
"Outside King’s Cross train station, a man is arrested and carried off, literally, into the night by five London Police."
www.thenewworld.co.uk/matt-kelly-a...

Arrested for holding up a copy of The New World. How bloody un-British

This government’s stupid criminalisation of peaceful protestors is a hole they keep on digging

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 4h

🚨 Cal Roscow, campaigns director at Best for Britain:

📊 “Badenoch says the Conservative Party were “brave enough” to take Britain out of the EU. That ‘bravery’ has been rewarded with their lowest ever poll ratings."

https://bit.ly/3VVyA0E

Badenoch should be honest about Brexit damage

Campaigners have criticised Kemi Badenoch for claiming the Conservatives were "brave enough to take Britain out of the European Union".

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 4h

"Having foisted it on the rest of the country, even Conservatives now say Brexit has failed.
All you can say is… thanks!!!!"
www.bestforbritain.org/conservative...

Conservative voters say Brexit has failed and damaged UK economy

The Conservative Party’s flagship policy - Brexit - has been a failure according to people intending to vote for them at the next election.

www.bestforbritain.org

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UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 3h

🇮🇳 Keir Starmer's two-day visit to India begins today 🇮🇳

For analysis of the density of ties between the two countries and the various drivers that might shape relations going forward, take a look at this report with @kingsindiainst.bsky.social 👇

ukandeu.ac.uk/reports/uk-i...

UK-India relations - UK in a changing Europe

This UK in a Changing Europe-King's India Institute report assesses the state of the UK-India relations.

ukandeu.ac.uk

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10h

Barely a squeak from the usual suspects on the free-speech right, of course, but this amounts to the most serious assault on free speech in living memory. We cannot accept a situation where hundreds of non-violent demonstrators are being arrested every weekend.

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 10h

🚨BREAKING: The metropolitan police
arrest a man for carrying a copy of our magazine. This is a threat to both journalism and freedom to protest

Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 17h

Watch | A man was arrested in London for holding up The New World magazine, featuring the "sign of the times" with the words:

"I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10h

It's properly unconscionable that the Home Office has created this situation. It should never have been allowed to happen and once it did happen it should have been immediately reversed.

The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 10h

🚨BREAKING: The metropolitan police
arrest a man for carrying a copy of our magazine. This is a threat to both journalism and freedom to protest

Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 17h

Watch | A man was arrested in London for holding up The New World magazine, featuring the "sign of the times" with the words:

"I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 10h

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 8h

Still I'm sure it'll be fine. It's not like those expectations are based on a completely unproven product with deranged costs and hysterical levels of hype.

FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 8h

BANK OF ENGLAND FPC: RISK OF A SHARP MARKET CORRECTION HAS INCREASED || EQUITY MARKETS ARE PARTICULARLY EXPOSED SHOULD EXPECTATIONS AROUND AI BECOME LESS OPTIMISTIC

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