If he believes this then he should be arguing against cutting benefits and spending on services. Fairly obviously.

Increasingly, the question is becoming how democracies across Europe can navigate and endure the security threat from our west - from America turning for now into a Trumpian Rogue Superpower - as well as from Putin's Russia to the east. With the hope - but not yet an expectation - that both can pass

Sharing with the heaviest of hearts 😔🇺🇦

As we show in our paper, there is a clear EEA/single market shaped wall keeping the UK out from EU defence industrial instruments.

Looking forward, that means either the UK rejoins the single market, the EU rewrites its third country rules or both settle on a special status.

Would I prefer to live in a world where we don‘t need to spend a penny on Defence? Yes. Do I think I live in such a world? No.
There is a dictator in the Kremlin attacking the Post-war security order in all of Europe, and the US President just blew up the Western Alliance.

Russian state TV on the new world order: "Now everything is being decided inside a big triangle: Russia, China & the US. Within this, the new construction of the world will come to fruition. The EU as a united political force no longer exists..." ['News of the Week', Russia-1]

It’s hard to see how the transatlantic alliance can be resuscitated after this. A pity our government seems to be clinging to the hope that Trump’s America can be managed. I think there’s a real opportunity opening up for the Lib Dems to become a “hard edged” pro European party.

If you don’t want history to be re-written please share this video widely - because the only way to stop that happening is to constantly call this boll**** out with the actual facts

Five years on, Brexit has only brought division, lost opportunities, and economic harm. It's time to rebuild our relationship with Europe.

Join us: www.europeanmovement.co.uk/join2025-offer

Libraries are an investment. Not an expense

I supported this protest and am completely delighted that the new UK government will not be going ahead with plans to destroy paper wills and records. They’re the lifeblood of historical research.

I'm all for paying MPs more e.g. double what they get now, but beyond that, other factors then need sorting out.... like FPTP and the entire UK media culture.

🚨🚨 "It’s time for the UK to be brave in talks with the EU". Hard agree with @pmdfoster.bsky.social' analysis here of the state of play with the EU-UK reset. The absence of priority and urgency on UK (and EU side) here is striking. 🧵
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All the while Reeves is making things worse by taking bribes to deregulate the banks (where she could have raised a lot more money than from Farmers).

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Politics has to be about care www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/12... Democracy is under threat around the world from the politics of hate peddled by the far-right. In political terms, the opposite of hate is care, and the problem is that care’s gone missing in the mainstream political narrative.

Could the BBC news please stop talking about Gregg Wallace? There is a lot of important stuff going on in the world. Thank you.

If you oppose NHS privatisation, please could you repost this and follow me? I need to know who to follow next (it’ll be you!) 🌟🌟🌟

editorial from @bmj.com and paper: Poor staff retention is associated with higher patient mortality. Have said it before & I’ll say it again. If you don’t care for the carers, they cannot care for their patients.
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