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lawrenceg2.bsky.social

🧏‍♂️ Listening with the intent to understand, not simply with the intent to reply.

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Brexiters: We left the EU so that we can strike trade deals of our own. Labour: We've agreed deals with India, the USA, and an improved arrangement with the EU. Brexiters: Traitors! Betrayers! (Even if you don't think much of the actual deals, the Brexiter response remains irrational.)

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Feels almost cruel to point out that all the bollocks about our 10% tariffs being a 'Brexit benefit' lasted for about four days. But here we are...

submitted 42 days ago • 189 comments

www.linkedin.com/pulse/dont-m...

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Broadly as predicted that if you make trade with your nearest market harder there will be a fall in exports. Worth noting that an SPS deal doesn't automatically mean all of these losses are reversed - as there are many different barriers. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 69 days ago • 10 comments

Meta's trying to suppress Sarah Wynn-Williams book because it exposes what an amoral man child Mark Zuckerberg is and how Facebook "doesn't give a fuck" about people. Sarah, who is a friend, knows what she's talking about. She worked at Meta for years. Buy her book! www.amazon.com/Careless-Peo...

submitted 69 days ago • 40 comments

Of course #MAGA supporters knew exactly what they were voting for 😳

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Alan Sugar: "The biggest disaster in my lifetime was us leaving the European Union." "If I was Prime Minister I'd be coming along on bended knee asking to be let back in."

submitted 111 days ago • 50 comments

CPTPP membership is going to be so “amazing” that Rishi Sunak’s government predicted it would grow the economy by a tiny 0.08% (it later emerged that even that may be an overestimate) and that was after 15 years of membership! Contrast 4% loss of GDP due to Brexit youtu.be/FR4m8rop98E?...

submitted 157 days ago • 24 comments

This is a key constituent of fascism & the very essence of ‘Muskism’: promoting bullshit, silencing truth-tellers & calling the whole grift ‘free speech’. Twitter as a rehearsal for the USA.

submitted 177 days ago • 112 comments

This is the best way to get others, esp journalists/politicians to join. It’s not necessarily ideological, it’s practical: a far better social media experience/way more useful for work.

submitted 178 days ago • 14 comments

The liars, of course, have all moved on to new cons & deceptions. The fishing industry can't. A vaguely honest media would be holding Farage & the rest to account for this instead of promoting a meaningless petition... www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymout...

submitted 176 days ago • 348 comments

Post-Brexit Britain’s Trump problem goes much deeper than trade tariffs. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. The discussion of how the UK might respond to Trump's tariffs is already confused, and anyway misses the bigger challenge they betoken: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2024/11/post...

submitted 181 days ago • 22 comments