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Fine but Starmer too is wrong about Brexit and will remain so while he peddles the myth that it can be made to work within the parameters he needlessly set, keeping us out of the single market or a customs union. He is not the innocent inheritor of the Brexit mess.
www.itv.com/news/2026-02...
www.itv.com/news/2026-02...
February 1, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Fine but Starmer too is wrong about Brexit and will remain so while he peddles the myth that it can be made to work within the parameters he needlessly set, keeping us out of the single market or a customs union. He is not the innocent inheritor of the Brexit mess.
www.itv.com/news/2026-02...
www.itv.com/news/2026-02...
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Indeed. Same obsessive attachment to fiction, same systemic inability to deliver, same misreading of the UK’s place in the world, same parochialism and xenophobia.
Same tired, reheated bullsh*t.
Same tired, reheated bullsh*t.
January 30, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Indeed. Same obsessive attachment to fiction, same systemic inability to deliver, same misreading of the UK’s place in the world, same parochialism and xenophobia.
Same tired, reheated bullsh*t.
Same tired, reheated bullsh*t.
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What would that look like then? The ruinous no-deal peddled by Farage that would be even worse than Johnson’s threadbare arrangement? These continuity Brexiters have spent ten years looking at a turd and convincing themselves it’s gold.
January 31, 2026 at 8:06 AM
What would that look like then? The ruinous no-deal peddled by Farage that would be even worse than Johnson’s threadbare arrangement? These continuity Brexiters have spent ten years looking at a turd and convincing themselves it’s gold.
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From the people who have wanged on about the importance of sovereignty since we left the EU…
January 10, 2026 at 2:54 PM
From the people who have wanged on about the importance of sovereignty since we left the EU…
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“Betrayal of Brexit” is laughable gibberish. It’s like saying “betrayal of illness”. Brexit itself is the betrayal and unpicking it the remedy. Fortunately more of us are waking up to the fact.
January 9, 2026 at 7:09 AM
“Betrayal of Brexit” is laughable gibberish. It’s like saying “betrayal of illness”. Brexit itself is the betrayal and unpicking it the remedy. Fortunately more of us are waking up to the fact.
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A key bit here is Starmer’s continued refusal to countenance free movement of labour. So what we’re really looking at is the same exceptionalist, cherry-picking transactionalism of yore with better manners. The UK never seems to ask what’s in it for the EU.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Starmer says closer ties with EU single market preferable to a customs union
Prime minister gives clearest sign yet that government is seeking to further deepen Britain’s links with Brussels
www.theguardian.com
January 5, 2026 at 9:31 AM
A key bit here is Starmer’s continued refusal to countenance free movement of labour. So what we’re really looking at is the same exceptionalist, cherry-picking transactionalism of yore with better manners. The UK never seems to ask what’s in it for the EU.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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The mirror image of what Farage’s Brexit Party did in 2019 when he stood down candidates in Tory constituencies to help Boris Johnson win. What short memories these people have.
January 3, 2026 at 5:27 PM
The mirror image of what Farage’s Brexit Party did in 2019 when he stood down candidates in Tory constituencies to help Boris Johnson win. What short memories these people have.
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Getting pretty sick of all this unchecked male ego. If we’re serious about a values-based order (as we say we are), isn’t it time for European countries, jointly and individually, to speed up the uncoupling from the USA and accept our future as a continent of democracies lies in our own defence?
January 3, 2026 at 10:41 AM
Getting pretty sick of all this unchecked male ego. If we’re serious about a values-based order (as we say we are), isn’t it time for European countries, jointly and individually, to speed up the uncoupling from the USA and accept our future as a continent of democracies lies in our own defence?
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There we all were thinking that being on our own was what Brexit-loving papers such as The Mail craved.
December 28, 2025 at 11:23 AM
There we all were thinking that being on our own was what Brexit-loving papers such as The Mail craved.
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Oh well, Dyson… you reap what you sow…
You wanted Brexit which has cost us all thousands and right royally screwed the country, bankrupted many small businesses and catapulted us back to queues, red tape and prejudiced isolation.
I don’t think many of us give a flying fuck about your ‘hardship’.
You wanted Brexit which has cost us all thousands and right royally screwed the country, bankrupted many small businesses and catapulted us back to queues, red tape and prejudiced isolation.
I don’t think many of us give a flying fuck about your ‘hardship’.
December 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Oh well, Dyson… you reap what you sow…
You wanted Brexit which has cost us all thousands and right royally screwed the country, bankrupted many small businesses and catapulted us back to queues, red tape and prejudiced isolation.
I don’t think many of us give a flying fuck about your ‘hardship’.
You wanted Brexit which has cost us all thousands and right royally screwed the country, bankrupted many small businesses and catapulted us back to queues, red tape and prejudiced isolation.
I don’t think many of us give a flying fuck about your ‘hardship’.
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Some people do my head in.
This arse is one of them.
Why TF would we care about his business…? Did he care about all the SMEs bankrupted by Brexit? Does he feel any anxiety or shame about just how much that stupid idea has cost our country and many of us personally.
No.
He can absolutely do one.
This arse is one of them.
Why TF would we care about his business…? Did he care about all the SMEs bankrupted by Brexit? Does he feel any anxiety or shame about just how much that stupid idea has cost our country and many of us personally.
No.
He can absolutely do one.
December 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Some people do my head in.
This arse is one of them.
Why TF would we care about his business…? Did he care about all the SMEs bankrupted by Brexit? Does he feel any anxiety or shame about just how much that stupid idea has cost our country and many of us personally.
No.
He can absolutely do one.
This arse is one of them.
Why TF would we care about his business…? Did he care about all the SMEs bankrupted by Brexit? Does he feel any anxiety or shame about just how much that stupid idea has cost our country and many of us personally.
No.
He can absolutely do one.
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A spokesperson for the PM said: "We all have been very open about the need to reset our relationship with the EU, and strengthen [it] while sticking to our red lines for the long term."
So not committed to strengthening the relationship much at all then.
news.sky.com/story/no-10-...
So not committed to strengthening the relationship much at all then.
news.sky.com/story/no-10-...
No 10 'sticking to red lines' on UK-EU customs union after Streeting comments
The health secretary appeared to leave the door open to joining a customs union - in what is being seen as a challenge to the PM.
news.sky.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:06 AM
A spokesperson for the PM said: "We all have been very open about the need to reset our relationship with the EU, and strengthen [it] while sticking to our red lines for the long term."
So not committed to strengthening the relationship much at all then.
news.sky.com/story/no-10-...
So not committed to strengthening the relationship much at all then.
news.sky.com/story/no-10-...
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This image did not appear in the Epstein files, and nobody should share misinformation
December 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
This image did not appear in the Epstein files, and nobody should share misinformation
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A perfectly logical move for a party which claims to support the poor and public services but remains wedded to hard Brexit and the annual £90 billion hit to the Exchequer it’s created. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Rachel Reeves refuses to rule out further tax rises in 2026
The Chancellor increased taxes by £26 billion in November’s Budget
www.independent.co.uk
December 20, 2025 at 12:07 PM
A perfectly logical move for a party which claims to support the poor and public services but remains wedded to hard Brexit and the annual £90 billion hit to the Exchequer it’s created. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
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For all of Farage’s bombast and bravado, Reform is basically just a retirement home for disgraced Tories - and the media should be reporting it as such
Farage’s Tory recycling scheme
And why it will surely backfire...
writesbright.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 11:16 AM
For all of Farage’s bombast and bravado, Reform is basically just a retirement home for disgraced Tories - and the media should be reporting it as such
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Scientists are pleased. Researchers are pleased. Presumably the students, apprentices and other annual beneficiaries will be pleased. So why do the Mail and the Telegraph hate young people and education so much?
December 18, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Scientists are pleased. Researchers are pleased. Presumably the students, apprentices and other annual beneficiaries will be pleased. So why do the Mail and the Telegraph hate young people and education so much?
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To think Brexit Derangement Syndrome was something they used to accuse us of.
December 18, 2025 at 6:25 AM
To think Brexit Derangement Syndrome was something they used to accuse us of.
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The UK has given Trump two state visits (no other country has so far offered even one) and look where it’s got us. Our pre-eminent broadcaster being sued and an overhyped trade deal put on ice. So much for a ‘special relationship’. So much for post-Brexit sovereignty. We’ve seldom looked so supine.
December 16, 2025 at 9:22 AM
The UK has given Trump two state visits (no other country has so far offered even one) and look where it’s got us. Our pre-eminent broadcaster being sued and an overhyped trade deal put on ice. So much for a ‘special relationship’. So much for post-Brexit sovereignty. We’ve seldom looked so supine.
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Some occasionally advise a less forthright, more conciliatory tone on social media but then the Daily Mail, chief agent of the mess it now condemns, prints hypocritical rubbish like this and you wonder what good that would do.
December 13, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Some occasionally advise a less forthright, more conciliatory tone on social media but then the Daily Mail, chief agent of the mess it now condemns, prints hypocritical rubbish like this and you wonder what good that would do.