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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 4h

For the first time, the EU will directly fund Ukraine’s military. Brussels has allocated €6 billion in non-repayable aid for the Armed Forces, MP Serhiy Soboliev said. Previously, EU assistance was directed mainly toward social programs such as salaries for teachers, doctors, and pension support.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 3h

Lord Heseltine, "The number of people aged below 50 who think it was right for us to leave the European Union, is less than 20%

"The latest polls tells us 56% now believe it was mistake to leave the European Union"

Hands up if you are one of the 56% 🙋‍♂️

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 14h

Make no mistake.

The recent incursions in our skies are part of a pattern of growing threats.

It’s time to call it by its name.
This is hybrid warfare.

Europe must get the capacity to respond and protect our skies.

Work has begun.

→ link.europa.eu/4Fxrqr

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 10h

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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Cambridge for Europe @cambsforeurope.bsky.social · 8h

@europeanmovement.co.uk @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social @grassrootsforeurope.org @leedseurope.bsky.social @oxfordforeurope.bsky.social @nickreeves.bsky.social

RazomWeStand 🇺🇦 @razomwestand.bsky.social · 8h

UK-owned and -insured ships have carried £45 billion of Russian #LNG since 2022, fueling Russia’s war budget. The UK supports #Ukraine, but must do more to turn words into action.

If you live in the UK, sign this petition to ban UK shipping and insurance of Russian LNG.

bit.ly/SignPetitionUk

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RazomWeStand 🇺🇦 @razomwestand.bsky.social · 8h

UK-owned and -insured ships have carried £45 billion of Russian #LNG since 2022, fueling Russia’s war budget. The UK supports #Ukraine, but must do more to turn words into action.

If you live in the UK, sign this petition to ban UK shipping and insurance of Russian LNG.

bit.ly/SignPetitionUk

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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 9h

The numbers are clear. Most Britons now believe leaving Europe was a mistake. The next generation knows our future lies in cooperation, not isolation.

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Simon Pegg @simonpegg.bsky.social · 11h

Kemi Badenoch: "Poland are experiencing more economic growth than the UK!"

also Kemi Badenoch: "We are the party that took us (the country) out of the European Union!"

a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed

media.tenor.com

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 1d

Orban and Farage – Putin's pet toad with his pet frog.

Farage says they are fighting for the nation state. Indeed, they are, they are fighting for Russia.

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Cambridge for Europe @cambsforeurope.bsky.social · 14h

You do amphibians a grave disservice.

Cambridge for Europe @cambsforeurope.bsky.social · 15h

Polish PM Donald Tusk is 💯 correct. North Stream 2 was a grave geopolitical mistake, as Poland and the Baltic states warned for decades.

Europe must never again be dependent on Russian gas, and must hasten the transition away from fossil fuels that fund autocracy and destroy our environment.

X post by Polish PM Donald Tusk saying "The problem with North Stream 2 is not that it was blown up. The problem is that it was built."

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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Cambridge for Europe @cambsforeurope.bsky.social · 1d

Should there be any remaining doubt as to what the Brexit project, and now the proposal that the UK leaves the ECHR, is all about, this must surely remove it.

Here we have Richard Tice MP, deputy leader of Reform, advocating the autocratic and horribly unequal UAE as a model for the UK to follow.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

The UAE is an authoritarian autocracy, a petro-state with no income tax for citizens, to bribe them for the lack of democratic voice or free speech

It is 85% migrant, a segregated society with a ban on integration in principle and practice, few rights, equal opportunities, nor voice for incomers

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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 1d

On average, every 4 years, the ECHR stops the UK removing 1 foreign person.

They want you to demand we leave the ECHR because of this.

I've being saying "told you so" about Brexit for a decade. Don't let them do it to you again. Please listen this time.....

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Shoaib M Khan @shoaibmkhan.bsky.social · 1d

"Human rights, as a political and moral value system, is losing ground. One fears a hurricane of horrors might be brewing. It may be a tropical storm at present, but rapid intensification into Category 4 or 5 is by no means unlikely": Robert Spano, ex-president of the European Court of Human Rights.

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Chris Smith @ledredman.bsky.social · 1d

This is why they want to scrap the ECHR. The UAE economy runs on millions of indentured migrant workers who have no human rights.

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 1d

We must emulate the United Arab Emirates, apparently.

Where to even start...?

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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 1d

Excellent analysis by @laurathornton.bsky.social of the heartbreaking slide of Georgia back into Russia’s orbit, defying its citizens’ wishes for democracy and freedom www.justsecurity.org/122040/georg...

After Another Sham Election in Georgia, the Country’s Citizens Persist

Georgians will fight for their democracy. The ruling party is now one more paranoid, insecure dictatorship that knows its days are numbered.

www.justsecurity.org

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Cambridge for Europe @cambsforeurope.bsky.social · 1d

Being outside the European Single Market didn't make economic sense for the UK at the best of times, and these are clearly very far from being the best of times.

Today it's steel, tomorrow ...

It's time to put the mistake of Brexit behind us and rejoin!

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

EU plan to match Trump steel tariffs spurs ‘existential threat’ to UK steel industry

Alarm sounds over plan in Brussels to double import tariff to 50% with four-fifths of UK exports heading to Europe

www.theguardian.com

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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 2d

Dominic Grieve is right. Leaving the European Convention on Human Rights would be a reckless act of self-harm, breaking security ties, breaching international law, and weakening Britain’s standing while doing nothing to solve the problems this government pretends to fix.

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Leeds for Europe @leedseurope.bsky.social · 1d

Now Starmer and local MP & Chancellor Rachel Reeves admit #BrexitReality 👏, will they now go further & undo the #BrexitShambles? This #Labour loyalist in @yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk hopes so. Wants #Labour to "challenge toxic #Farage & #Reform agenda - including #Brexit". #RejoinEU Time #Labour led?

This letter appeared in the Yorkshire Evening Post on 7 October 2025. A supporter of the Labour Party is hoping it will do more to undo damage caused by Brexit, now its senior leadership is more willing to acknowledge the damage it is causing.

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 1d

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

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Cambridge for Europe @cambsforeurope.bsky.social · 1d

Starmer is talking about "British values" again.

Ironically, he's doing this just as the closest thing we have to a codification of British values - the European Convention on Human Rights - is under attack from the Tories and Farage, and even undermined by Starmer’s own Government.

BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 3d

What has the ECHR ever done for us?

Quite a lot actually, and we wrote it too.

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European Movement West London #FBPE #FBPR #RejoinEU @em-westlondon.bsky.social · 2d

Gary Neville blames #Brexit for its “devastating effect” on the country, and said the “messaging” of division is becoming “extremely dangerous”.

He says we must stop promoting “all these idiots that are out there spreading hate …and become a team again”

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Gary Neville says he took down union flag being ‘used in a negative fashion’

Footballer turned developer questions spate of flag raisings and says ‘we’re all being turned on each other’

www.theguardian.com

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 2d

Tax authorities examine finances of key Nigel Farage ally, convicted fraudster 'posh' George Cottrell. Cottrell is an expert in criminal money-laundering.

Here's Cottrell with Farage and getting a friendly hand on the shoulder from Russian asset Nathan Gill. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Publika.ge @publikage.bsky.social · 2d

1/ The Council of Europe’s Safety of Journalists Platform issued an alert over assaults and threats against Publika and Formula TV journalists by court ushers.

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