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"They wanted Singapore on the Thames. They got Argentina on the Channel." Mark Carney on Brexit A Scot who retains EU citizenship. Voted Yes 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and Remain 🇪🇺. Ice hockey. Road cycling. Philosophy. Nature conservation. Rewilding. Comics. Union rep.

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Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · Jun 12

England voted leave, England got leave.

Wales voted leave, Wales got leave.

N Ireland voted remain, N Ireland got special deal.

Gibraltar voted remain, Gibraltar got special deal.

Scotland voted remain, Scotland got shafted.

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[email protected] @tcsouthbank.bsky.social · 6h

The undecided electorate in Scotland really need to give their head a wobble and look at what is happening in the USA, if they think Fartrage wouldn’t try and do the same thing here,I’ve got a bridge to sell you!Fascism is coming and you be advised to do something about it! The MSM won’t tell u!

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Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 8h

*English exceptionalism

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Uilliam Mac ᚒᚔᚂᚂᚔᚐᚋ @uilliammac.bsky.social · 19h

This is one I meant. Their latest idea (which comes from McSweeney and Streeting via Blue Labour) to appear "tough on welfare" by having a go at people struggling with their mental health and also neurodivergent people can only make this worse.

Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 21h

Starmer making catastrophic error. It is not the far right taking his votes, it is the pro-European parties (Grn+LD+SNP+PC).

Voting intention of GE2024 Labour voters (YG; 5-6 October):

Lab 57%
Grn* 13%
LD* 13%
Ref 7%
Con 4%
SNP* 1%
PC* 1%

Loss to pro-EU* = 28 pp
Loss to far right = 11 pp

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Martin @mardingo.bsky.social · 10h

Shengenfreude

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Ghost Coast. @spectralthrum.myatproto.social · 22h

Do you remember someone, it may have been John Humphreys, who said that Ireland should leave the EU along with the UK, out of solidarity? I think that most of Ireland must have laughed at that.

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Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 11h

Exceptions proving the rule. Entirely built on tactical voting.
Core SCon vote for decades has been low teens, occasionally under 10% (eg now).

Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 14h

Some turkeys do vote for Christmas.

bylinetimes.com/2019/04/08/t...

The Story of Brexit is the Story of Empire: Why Did Asian Immigrants Vote to Leave the EU?

The complicated love-hate relationship of immigrants from former colonies with the British Empire cannot be ignored if lessons are to be learned in post-Brexit Britain, says Hardeep Matharu

bylinetimes.com

Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 14h

Huh?

You’re clearly not familiar with Scottish electoral behaviour and opinion polling.

9% is a fairly typical figure for the SCons, and has been for decades.

Then factor in that it is highly probable that most SCon voters are not actually Scots, and the ”quarter” assertion is laughable.

Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 15h

File under ’Make Brexit Work’.

#LittleEngland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
#MakeBrexitWork 🤮
#LaboursBrexit 🥀
#Starmer 🤡

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 19h

Keir Starmer says the government is in talks with the EU about steel tariffs amid reports that Europe is about to introduce massive 50% tariffs on steel from outside the bloc, including from the UK

www.itv.com/news/2025-10...

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Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 15h

Some turkeys vote for Christmas:

… “ethnic minorities showed a non-negligible level of support for leave, which was twice as high amongst Indians as amongst other minority groups”…

bylinetimes.com/2019/04/08/t...

Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 15h

Why not indeed.
We need to start enforcing the law. These chancers have taken the piss for far too long.

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Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 20h

Combined Lab+Con duopoly vote:

Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 23%
Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 28%
England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 38%

The duopoly is dead.

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etretatelephant.bsky.social @etretatelephant.bsky.social · 1d

It is a combination of insecurity as fearful of looking or being different, a lack of intellectual curiosity and linguistic ineptitude born out a false sense of English exceptionalism. And hence why they become even more English when overseas as they seek comfort in their own.

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Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 21h

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Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 21h

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Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 21h

A quarter of Scots?!
I think not.

Westminster voting intention:
Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
SNP 44%
LD 15%
Lab 14%
Ref 12%
Con 9%
Grn 3%
oth 3%

(YouGov/The Times/Sky News; 5-6 October; usual caveats apply to sub-samples)

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Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 22h

A shame Gordon Brown fucked that particularly nest-egg for the public finances. Deserves Liz Truss status for that one.

Mohamed A. El-Erian @elerianm.bsky.social · 2d

The Financial Times on how the price of gold has "rocketed almost 50% this year, its best performance since 1979, as institutional investors pile in."

@financialtimes.com #economy #markets #gold

Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 22h

The Irish: not morons
The English: morons

That’s why they are treated differently.

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Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 22h

Taking back control is strictly for the English.
Foreigners are there to be controlled.

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Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 22h

Still ’em on an industrial barge, then park it outside a large sewage plant.

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Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 22h

Unfortunately, England’s Florida is now the West Highlands of Scotland. Good luck getting a nice view with all the selfish fuckers blocking it with their motorhomes.

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Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 22h

Not for much longer. Spain, Portugal, Greece etc have finally cottoned on.

Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 22h

They never will. Idiot Island is full of morons.

Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 22h

If they stop referring to themselves as ”ex-pats” and start correctly referring to themselves as immigrants, then that would definitely be a Brexit Bonus.

Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 22h

”We’re not immigrants, we’re expats!” they cried, as the prison officer turned the key in the lock 🤣