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Very hard to reconcile these two YouGov charts. On the one hand, we really dislike Putin, Trump and Brexit. On the other, we may well vote Putin-apologist-Trump-adoring-Brexit-cultists into government. Come on UK. Sort your shit out.

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Catastrophic cost of £40bn to the UK economy from Brexit now effectively confirmed.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

9 years on from the Brexit vote, the verdict is in and predictions correct: 🕳️£40 billion hole in public finances 📉4% hit to UK productivity 📦15% drop in trade 💷 £100bn in tax rises—40% of which Brexit made necessary Happy Brexitversary! 🇬🇧🎉 www.thetimes.com/article/346e...

submitted 5 days ago • 32 comments

Happy “Make yourselves poorer and more isolated” day… £40Bn ongoing hit to economy and 10% inward investment drop confirmed… But hey ho… Who needs economic strength or strategic clout when you have super-special-sovereignty? 9 years on. And stupider every year. www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

submitted 5 days ago • 42 comments

9 years. What an absolute disaster. What a waste.

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🚨🚨 #brexit anniversary: Office of Budget Responsibility predictions of £ 40 bn hit to public finances has proven correct according to research by top economist @johnspringford.bsky.social . www.thetimes.com/article/346e...

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Everywhere in Ukraine, you’ll find places commemorating fallen defenders in different ways. The one I saw in Poltava isn’t as large as in a Kyiv — but it’s still big. Even one lost life is too much. I want the world to see.

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

Just a little reminder in the midst of the debate about budgets, spending reviews, tax, borrowing, and the state of public finances: Brexit costs £40 billion a year in lost tax revenues!

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

app.theneweuropean.co.uk/story/136836...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

😡 "Labour's Planning and Infrastructure Bill will allow developers to circumvent an EU-derived Habitats Directive which protects animals including otters, salmon and dormice. It will also allow potential development of EU-designated special protection areas and sites of special scientific interest."

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

I loved it. Lost Fairy Tales Around 40 Ukrainian children aged 5 to 17 collaborated on this project to create a collection of ‘ancient art’ inspired by European baroque museums. The goal was to fill the gap of similar museum nearby by creating an imaginary exhibition.

submitted 28 days ago • 13 comments

A “mistake” for Starmer to rule out the possibility of the UK rejoining the EU. With public opinion polls indicating a majority of voters would now vote to #RejoinEU, it is perhaps surprising that the Labour govt continues to stick to these so-called “red lines”. sussexbylines.co.uk/world/europe...

submitted 28 days ago • 10 comments

Great to see the UK and EU flags flying alongside each other again. #rejoineu

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

When govts stop panicking and announcing policy to “challenge” Nigel effing Farage, we may stand a chance of fixing the mess that Nigel effing Farage helped to make. Until then, we will stay stuck in this populist dead end, loudly blowing our dog whistle at the world and wondering why nothing works.

submitted 47 days ago • 102 comments

Labour has a whopping great majority and four years left to turn this country around. They should be setting the agenda, not chasing about trying to placate voters of a party with five MPs who will never vote for them anyway. It's not only disappointing... it's embarrassing

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www.theneweuropean.co.uk/dale-vince-f...

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British cancer patients are being denied life-saving drugs and trials of revolutionary treatments are being derailed by the red tape and extra costs brought on by Brexit, a leaked report warns. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

10% baseline tariff with the US, even with a deal… which could be ripped up on some mad whim anyway. Not exactly nailing it, are we? Honest to god. Let’s just ask to join the EU Customs Union and Single Market and stop this desperate country-damaging nonsense.

submitted 78 days ago • 26 comments

So, Le Pen gets banned from running for election because she’s found guilty of embezzlement and her far-right fanclub starts huffing and puffing about whether this is democratic. Err. Yes. If you’re found guilty of corruption, you’re unfit for public office. It doesn’t matter how ‘popular’ you are.

submitted 89 days ago • 285 comments

Fascinating (and damning) that the Times of India is reporting the Brexit truths the UK press won’t. The cost to UK businesses is staggering—but our politicians and media stay silent. Why is foreign press doing their job for them? #BrexitReality timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/the...

submitted 96 days ago • 9 comments

We have now reached the ‘Brexit could actually kill you’ stage of the sunlit uplands.

submitted 98 days ago • 27 comments

24 March! The date parliament will debate rejoining the EU based on @robertmcmaster.bsky.social’s successful petition. Write to your MP here (it’s EASY - you only need to fill in your name and email!!) to encourage them to attend! ✍️ www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-r... #RejoinEU 🇬🇧 ❤️ 🇪🇺

submitted 106 days ago • 3 comments

It's 5 years since WHO first declared Covid a pandemic. We are in year 2 (of many) of the UK Covid Inquiry. We should have been - and could have been - better prepared. But will we prepare better next time? I wrote about some of the issues last year for @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/386/...

submitted 109 days ago • 7 comments

The war, the geopolitical uncertainty and the new arms race started by Putin have left Europe with no choice. Europe must be ready for this race, and Russia will lose it like the Soviet Union 40 years ago. From today, Europe will arm itself more wisely and faster than Russia.

submitted 114 days ago • 72 comments

Read this thread, it's important...

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

‘We call on the United States to uphold the guarantees made alongside Great Britain in the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, which established a direct obligation to defend Ukraine’s territorial integrity in exchange for its relinquishment of nuclear weapons’. www.reuters.com/world/polish...

submitted 116 days ago • 3 comments

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

submitted 118 days ago • 2057 comments

Please share. 🙏🏻

submitted 118 days ago • 228 comments

Slava Ukraini.

submitted 119 days ago • 120 comments

Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine

submitted 119 days ago • 1185 comments

Thank you! Thank you for joining rallies or meetings in support of Ukraine. Thank you for showing support despite all the difficulties you might face. We are all responsible for what our descendants will read in their history books. I (who is not the girl in the photo) will be offline tomorrow. 😘

submitted 123 days ago • 18 comments

Yup.

submitted 123 days ago • 64 comments

“In a continent losing the security we relied on all our lives, trade disputes become trivial, Brexit an irrelevance. Merz is calling for Europe to come together in foreign, trade & security policy. Starmer ought to seize the chance and abandon fears of Brexiters” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 123 days ago • 107 comments

Kemi Badenoch's spokesman repeatedly refuses to condemn Donald Trump's Gaza plan, or repeat the Conservative party's previous support for a two state solution. Pushed to say whether Palestinians should have a right to return to their homes, he refused to do so bylinetimes.com/2025/02/05/k...

submitted 143 days ago • 58 comments

Should Starmer rely more on the EU or Trump? Please vote in the Independent daily poll. Link here >> compass.pressekompass.net/compasses/in...

submitted 143 days ago • 1 comment

Politics isn't working. It's time to call time on the broken culture in Westminster and have a fresh start with a fair voting system. Add your name to @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to #MakeSeatsMatchVotes action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/3782/pe...

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Michael Heseltine says Brexiteers sold Britain a “pack of lies” and called for the UK to rejoin the EU. He said the UK should be “at the heart of Europe” and that returning to the bloc would be “in the best interests of a generation of young British people”. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

submitted 151 days ago • 53 comments

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

submitted 152 days ago • 1086 comments

💥 Nearly one in two respondents say the EU should be the government’s top priority when it comes to trade. Results from our new megapoll of nearly 15,000 people with @YouGov.co.uk 👇

submitted 152 days ago • 3 comments

Every constituency in Britain favours trade with EU over US, new poll suggests The poll saw just 21 per cent of people say the US should be the UK’s priority over the EU www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

submitted 152 days ago • 59 comments

"Best for Britain commissioned a massive new MRP poll which has revealed that every constituency in Britain thinks the Government should prioritise trade with the EU over the USA and other countries" www.bestforbritain.org/january_2025...

submitted 153 days ago • 10 comments

Morning from Kyiv! It was a calm night and I slept perfectly (oh my, I needed it). I already had a #warcoffee A packed day is ahead, but at least I have enough energy to do it. Letter, history lecture 💃 Today's Ukrainian art: Mykhailo Guida (born in 1955), After the ball

submitted 153 days ago • 31 comments