Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey has urged Sir Keir Starmer to begin talks on a new UK-EU customs union when he meets European leaders in Brussels on Monday Sounds like a plan www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... - ThreadSky

peterstefanovic.bsky.social • 21 days ago

Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey has urged Sir Keir Starmer to begin talks on a new UK-EU customs union when he meets European leaders in Brussels on Monday

Sounds like a plan
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgxz0zjnk4o

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dunc99.bsky.social•21 days ago

The risks to steaming into very close links with Europe now,is that it may well turbo charge Reform, along with Musks £100million.
I predict Starmer will Loudly move closer to more mobility for under 30s after the Local elections in May.
He's not going over to meetings in Europe for the air miles.

fastcarspete.bsky.social•21 days ago

I predict Starmer will do nothing of the sort.

He'll just blunder on, terrified of doing the right thing for fear of upsetting the media.

eagleneedle.bsky.social•21 days ago

Labour thinks trading with an unstable clown and convicted felon in the US is better tha trading with the EU. Musk is trying to bring down the UK government.
Starmer!!

lesleymac.bsky.social•21 days ago

The SNP have been saying it since 2016 but they're a Scottish party so can just shut up. Only English parties views and opinions are valid in this union

johnellison.bsky.social•21 days ago

Starmer is terrified of the MSM, he can't move us closer to Europe, they won't let him

adrianbrightside.bsky.social•21 days ago

On many issues, social care, environment, Elon Musk, and Brexit, Ed Davey and his party seem to be the ones making sense.

alistairblantyre.bsky.social•21 days ago

🤔

buzzingqueenbee.bsky.social•21 days ago

That's correct and has been verified.

buzzingqueenbee.bsky.social•21 days ago

Already debunked that it was Wales, per se, and confirmed that it was the English in Wales voting for Brexit!!!

mls4711.bsky.social•21 days ago

Well done @eddavey.libdems.org.uk, especially/particularly after Yvette Cooper’s performance earlier to-day!

asexypairofspecs.bsky.social•21 days ago

This just a different version of the Conservative party’s failed policy which was, in essence, that the UK would pick and choose the best bits of trade with the EU, but abandon all accountabilities and responsibilities that go with it.

The EU didn’t fall for it then. Won’t fall for it now.

mrpaulb.bsky.social•21 days ago

Sadly, he won't because he and his party are scared of losing votes, which they're already doing because of their policy of trying to keep "everyone" happy, which is just impossible. Ironic, really.

louise100.bsky.social•21 days ago

I do think it’s time for labour voters to email their M.P’ s and leave the party if they keep ignoring us.
Two can play at that game.
I’ll rejoin labour when they show some sense about rejoining E.U.

jacklondonbluesky.bsky.social•21 days ago

The PM hosts the German Chancellor today at Chequers, and is going to an EU bigwig meeting Monday

He is not doing that to enjoy the wine...

Davey is of course able to lobby - and should do - for the UK to go further & faster. But there are real constraints on what HMG can do

jimup60.bsky.social•21 days ago

Davey is making a sensible move with polls showing the public accepting Brexit was a disaster and now want an EU reset.

sujones.bsky.social•21 days ago

He should! But will he?

jane-cc.bsky.social•21 days ago

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700005

althomas-sci.bsky.social•21 days ago

The sooner someone is brave enough to say Brexit was a catastrophe, the better. The USA is a basket case so trading with them will be a nightmare. And guess what, France is only 22 miles away - who knew!!!

jschulster.bsky.social•21 days ago

The EU has A Customs Union. Uk can join it or not. There is no CU with the UK, and never will be!

maldenrosselle.bsky.social•21 days ago

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

George Orwell

dhappy2b.bsky.social•19 days ago

US big tech is officially a global security threat; these mammoth financial vacuums block responsible home grown alternatives. Starting today boycott X and Facebook (https://european-alternatives.eu/categories). Then boycott Amazon, Apple and Google to send Trump a message by choosing a local start up!

yoyoleo.bsky.social•21 days ago

If Labour don't change their stance they'll lose a lot of votes to the Lib Dems at the next election, Brexit has failed, even the most die hard fans know it, if we rejoined they'd just shrug their shoulders and carry on, only Fartage would have something to say, it's time to make him an irrelevance.

neecie.bsky.social•21 days ago

@eddavey.libdems.org.uk is right. We have an out of control convicted felon causing chaos around the 🌍
We have a tin eared #KeirStarmer as PM who thinks he'll get a great deal with this nut-job & his #Project2025 Agenda. I highly doubt that.
Maybe Starmer sold out to lobbyists & Freeports/Cities

catiomiles.bsky.social•21 days ago

For those who don’t follow, please do follow the real leader of the opposition and only sensible leading politician at the moment in Britain.

@eddavey.libdems.org.uk

adamwisent.bsky.social•21 days ago

Thanks to the nasty #Tories regardless of whatever flipflop U-turn man #keir_starmer & #RachelFromAccounts do #BrexshitBritain, will forever remain in perpetual recession until it rejoins the #EuropeanUnion, that much is an absolute guaranteed certainty.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/feb/01/chris-riddell-on-rachel-reeves-burnt-offerings-to-the-golden-calf-of-growth-cartoon

hjl2.bsky.social•21 days ago

Reality talking. I've already switched to Lib Dem from Labour.

thackwallop.bsky.social•21 days ago

I haven’t switched yet, but Ed is talking more sense than all the other party leaders put together.
Despite being a member of the Labour Party, I could well be orange next time.

tezzerrk.bsky.social•21 days ago

With the possible exception of the Greens. Jeremy Corbyn is still talking sense but too few are listening.

uoblibdems.bsky.social•21 days ago

You are very welcome on the orange side 🧡🙏🏻

blahdyblah.bsky.social•21 days ago

Yeah good luck with that with Keith.

taurea-vert.bsky.social•21 days ago

The Lib Dems are the only credible party that are openly pro-EU. Shame they are not the opposition

jumblerates.bsky.social•21 days ago

LibDems and Greens. That can be changed at next election.

We need PR

kiltking1.bsky.social•21 days ago

Can it be..
England has found a man with a brain.?

stevea53.bsky.social•21 days ago

Better urge him to be more open to youth movement initiatives or discussions aren't going anywhere.

stepmu.bsky.social•21 days ago

It's about time England admitted that Brexit is a failed experiment that never needed to take place. I say England because the rest of the UK rejected it.

gingercrone.bsky.social•21 days ago

I agree with you, but Wales voted for Brexit.

stepmu.bsky.social•21 days ago

That's fair. You're correct. My bad.

xxxagelessxxx.bsky.social•21 days ago

Didn't the statistics show that if you removed the "English Origin" vote from Wales (i.e. English people who own properties in Wales & decided to cast their vote there or migrated/retired to Wales), Wales (the Welsh) voted to remain?

Pretty sure remember seeing that highlighted after Brexit 🤔

stepmu.bsky.social•21 days ago

I'm not sure. I would say it's more than possible.

ludlowmortimer.bsky.social•21 days ago

There are a lot of people who claim to be Welsh but are in fact ethnic English. Some kind of reverse snob value?

gingercrone.bsky.social•21 days ago

I'm curious as to how you classify my niece. English parents and born in north east England, but she has lived in Wales since aged 4, schooled there, university there, works there, and pays taxes there. She identifies as Welsh, speaks Welsh & has a Welsh accent.

gingercrone.bsky.social•21 days ago

Yeah, I'm in a northern city that voted remain, but we're all tarred with the anti EU brush up here, so there are many ways to split hairs. Ultimately, we're one small country, made up of 4 smaller nations. And a huge chip on our shoulder.

stepmu.bsky.social•21 days ago

To be fair to you and many like you, the leave vote only won in England by like 2m votes, a lot of English people were sensible. I refer more to it being predominantly English politicians in a predominantly English Westminster vying(lying) for Leave.

azurevista.bsky.social•21 days ago

Liberals are more Tory than Labour. Hence, the choice of a coalition with Cameron rather than Brown. Which led to Brexit. Decades before that, they split the Labour Party, leading to Thatcherism.

Liberals made their bed, now let them lie in it.

I doubt anyone in Labour is listening.

facelesscontent.bsky.social•21 days ago

The UK was the world's 5th largest economy when it was a member of the EU. Today, it has been overtaken by India. It had membership fee concessions, could look after its pound, and benefit from the Schengen agreement.

Today, recession, and the disappointment is growing.

From #Brexit to #Bregret.

drsimoncook.bsky.social•20 days ago

You’d like to think so right? Especially now.

newmuggleton.bsky.social•21 days ago

Rejoining the EU, with Euro AND Schengen. That's a plan!

politicalcompass1.bsky.social•21 days ago

Well it seems Libdems may have turned a corner since getting rid of the tory arse licker that was nick clegg

nirneath.bsky.social•21 days ago

Long overdue. Together, we are stronger.

davedixon4.bsky.social•21 days ago

Starmer’s handlers won’t allow that!

gingercrone.bsky.social•21 days ago

To dream the impossible dream....

anjabe.bsky.social•21 days ago

Chase him, Ed Davey, be our leading activist. Keir Starmer wants to join CU, but is too timid yet, and has to be forced by the voter.

lenny-66.bsky.social•21 days ago

Millions agree with Ed....

orphil73.bsky.social•21 days ago

100% this. But one gets the feeling Starmer will dither because he doesn’t want provide the Brexit rabble with any justification.

blahdyblah.bsky.social•21 days ago

Weird how he's happy enough to be unpopular over his treatment over the poor and vulnerable though isn't it? Can't annoy the racists though!

planetbelfast.bsky.social•21 days ago

@eddavey.libdems.org.uk is absolutely right

Why the Labour Party are digging their heels in on this issue is bizarre

Trump's henchman Musk has been vocal on his animosity towards the Labour Party

The UK is not immune to Trump's trade war

https://bsky.app/profile/walshfreedom.bsky.social/post/3lh6yaszqac2p

aberboy.bsky.social•21 days ago

It's so fucking obvious why does in need saying. I give up.

withabulldogavatar.bsky.social•21 days ago

If by the end of this term Labour has not committed to rejoining the Single Market and/or the Customs Union, I will vote Lib Dems in the next election.

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