Economy shrinks by a further 0.1% Brexit has cut UK trade by up to 15%... Immigration is much higher post Brexit But..the...boats🙄 WAKE UP and smell the roses...or take your kids' future further into the mire. Then explain how poor we all are in 20 years time Apart from the super rich of course - ThreadSky

carolvorderman.bsky.social • 72 days ago

Economy shrinks by a further 0.1%

Brexit has cut UK trade by up to 15%...

Immigration is much higher post Brexit

But..the...boats🙄

WAKE UP and smell the roses...or take your kids' future further into the mire. Then explain how poor we all are in 20 years time

Apart from the super rich of course

Reposted from Peter Stefanovic

‘We’re getting poorer’ says Nigel Farage

In other news the Brexit he championed is on course to cut UK trade by a staggering 15% - a huge reduction in the potential economic performance of the country at a time when every penny counts

youtu.be/jvo1JM6xZqQ?...

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choosearandomname.bsky.social•72 days ago

The UK has been a declining power for more than a century
Does anyone with any sense realistically think it’s going to end?
The billionaires and millionaires are cleaning up while the going’s good.

stuartanthony.bsky.social•72 days ago

The British need to taste the regret.

lukewarm24.bsky.social•72 days ago

@teamlabouruk.bsky.social we know you want closer ties to the SU but why so scared of a real rejoin? We need it!!

crasus.bsky.social•72 days ago

Farage isn't getting poorer

arrowone-01.bsky.social•62 days ago

Labour voters 🙄 don't understand economy

arrowone-01.bsky.social•72 days ago

The sooner Reform and Farage are in power the better

jacg1.bsky.social•72 days ago

For whom?

shewhomustbeobeyed.bsky.social•72 days ago

Only farage et al. They'll never learn

arrowone-01.bsky.social•72 days ago

Good God you are unbelievable, the last two quarters under Labour it has collapsed, under the Tories GDP growth was going one way⬆️. I heard Dan Wooton say you was shown the door on LBC for persistent, misinformation. Sacked again, like on Radio Wales.

gribbsey.bsky.social•72 days ago

So have I got this right.
Nigel Rage takes us out of the European Union at Great financial cost to the nation.
He then shouts about us getting poorer, hoping that the easily duped & non-attentive will vote for him to save us!? Wake up Clacton!

jacg1.bsky.social•72 days ago

…putting them in hotels at taxpayer expense etc. all done deliberately to whip up RW sentiment to destabilise the new govt on behalf of his master, Putin

jacg1.bsky.social•72 days ago

…scupper our legal migration policy by forcing the Tories to shift very right to try to head Reform off. This leads to small boats so Farage can whip up the shit about UK being invaded, fighting age males, rapists etc & the Tories did him a solid by not processing asylum seekers, …

jacg1.bsky.social•72 days ago

He did it to give lower info voters the fig leaf of getting sovereignty back when we never didn’t have it, knowing that EU migrants wouldn’t bother coming here & they would need to be replaced with non-EU, mostly non-white migrants & at the same time,…

skiamakhos.uk•72 days ago

At this rate it won't be long before Farage is saying "Stop the boats" because they're taking the young and the talented *away* from the UK.

didi9876.bsky.social•72 days ago

The BOE has also been far too slow cutting rates. Businesses aren’t hiring atm, they can’t borrow money. Ask a tech worker, it’s the worst job market they’ve ever faced.

romanyflower.bsky.social•72 days ago

He will never take responsibility. He will of course blame the Tories for not producing the Brexit he wanted. They never take responsibility for their actions. Farage can only ever criticise and divide he will never be able to create anything of any value. Therein lies the island nation mentality.

parrfamily.org•71 days ago

Farage and all the gammons who worship him are twats.

peterdavieson.bsky.social•72 days ago

fryern10.bsky.social•72 days ago

Lord Frost made a joke out of peoples plight on Politics Live.
Him and his mates aren’t affected by Brexit but small businesses are!

vmcw1.bsky.social•72 days ago

He’s a hypocrite

chalkwitch.bsky.social•72 days ago

Will someone PURLEESE get rid of Farage and co. I am so concerned those that can are not taking him seriously. He's exploiting real concerns (has no solutions really). The truth needs to reach more people or we will be as per the USA.

jacg1.bsky.social•72 days ago

Plus he’s the hotline for Musk to get a grip in the UK, which is even more worrying

marknewbold.bsky.social•70 days ago

@carolvorderman.bsky.social From Jan 1, I think that you should start and champion a new 2025 petition and campaign for rejoining to remind Starmer that it’s what the majority of people now want

joelcp70.bsky.social•72 days ago

This is exactly why Starmer and his red lines have to go Carol. He's cornered himself with his stupidity on his red lines, now he can't U-turn.

shewhomustbeobeyed.bsky.social•72 days ago

He doesn't want to upset the numpties for some reason. He thinks brexit is dead popular.

zodiacbanana.bsky.social•72 days ago

nickjk.bsky.social•72 days ago

This book is particularly relevant to the super-rich grabbing more money: https://www.thebookbundle.com/products/lab-rats-why-modern-work-makes-people-miserable

johndoe123123.bsky.social•72 days ago

But that's the point.The super rich control the media narrative for low information, poorly educated people. You can't ask people to wake up if their sources are contaminated ! They won't wake up..they don't know they are asleep!

timabob.bsky.social•72 days ago

When Farage says “we’re getting poorer “ I presume that is not yet the Royal “we” given that he’s making a fortune from Brexit!

spanglish51.bsky.social•72 days ago

Immigration rises are due to legal migrants who have flooded in under Tory policies !
EU migrants … nah . Who would want to come here to be insulted ?

tomdollar.bsky.social•71 days ago

There is an upside.
Its, well, you know, stuff, sovereignty, foreigners... so the internet tells me.

vennwood.bsky.social•72 days ago

Sorting our economy out could be much simpler - re-join the single market. Our NHS, Care homes and produce rotting in the fields could be sorted by FOM. Immigration could be brought into control by cutting the number of University courses for foreign students. All these problems came with BREXIT

cpcnw.bsky.social•72 days ago

"If nothing else works, a total unwillingness to look facts in the face will see us through."

mactakeshi.bsky.social•72 days ago

Rejoin EU

rmanocher.bsky.social•72 days ago

Starmer locked himself into a corner by accepting advice from his adviser Claire Ainsley OF BREXIT CENTRAL who told him he needed to regain the red wall.
He ruled out SM and CU and spoke of MAKING BREXIT WORK and making the most of BREXIT OPPORTUNITIES.
No way out for them and now us.
Despair

jacg1.bsky.social•72 days ago

I wouldn’t write it off yet

rmanocher.bsky.social•63 days ago

Hope so

speckledjimreborn.bsky.social•71 days ago

As Kemi Badenough didnt achieve her mission to obtain new trade agreements, perhaps we should bring back Prince Andrew as trade envoy.

Thoughts?

speckledjimreborn.bsky.social•71 days ago

No pass it on, like in chinese whispers, we need to consider how to restore our position as 5th largest economy pre-brexit.

simcrow.bsky.social•72 days ago

#REJOINEU. For God's sake. #REJOINEU

archbishcranmer.bsky.social•72 days ago

Seek help.

simcrow.bsky.social•72 days ago

From God?

kph100.bsky.social•72 days ago

It's the cost of eggs screamed the trump voter, ignoring the class war we've been in for decades. Even when the billionaires have removed the mask this time, people still missed it. Crazy huh

keithspriggs.bsky.social•72 days ago

@carolvorderman.bsky.social I am Irish and since #brexit, I have been burnt too much by having VAT charged twice, #brexit tax amongst others.
I actively avoid buying anything from the UK and buying from Mainland Europe instead.

I feel sorry for individual businesses, but it was a democratic choice

roypounsford.bsky.social•72 days ago

Well Carol

ala8.bsky.social•72 days ago

Brexshit should be called to be fair

mariuskiely.uk•72 days ago

Don't expect Fartage to acknowledge anything except Putin's agenda...

todmanpla.bsky.social•72 days ago

Back into the single market asap, we'll hit our growth targets then.
Brexit was all about causing chaos in the short term for vulture capitalism and global corporates to carve up the UK while stripping our rights, get rid of ECHR and watch them get rid of all your rights

arrowone-01.bsky.social•72 days ago

You will never see the UK back in the single market....

bensmith77.bsky.social•72 days ago

For the love of god can we please stop fucking around and start trying to rejoin he single market and then EU 🙏

truthseeker1973.bsky.social•72 days ago

The bluff Farage and Johnson duped millions of British citizens to vote in favour of Brexit. The two crooks unscrupulously benefited from the deception while the majority are feeling the pinch regardless of their choice. Curse on the liars!

brtnz.bsky.social•72 days ago

Starmer's solution to tax employers will only cause a deeper recession.

jacg1.bsky.social•72 days ago

I can see that with smaller businesses but the bigger ones are happy to pay poverty wages & let the taxpayer subsidise them indirectly through UC claims, pay inordinate dividends & bonuses to shareholders then bleat about having to pay a bit more tax. They’ve been getting away with it for years

countzerorepeat.bsky.social•72 days ago

Brexit has been a great thing for Brexiteers. Farage, Claire Fox, Lord Frost, and all the other dead wood, the taxpayer now has to carry them for life. The majority of UK media bought and paid for not to report this or the disaster Brexit continues to be.

brexitrage.bsky.social•72 days ago

The boats are visible evidence of a manipulation of the Overton window by the far right. Numbers do not support public angst about the issue as I know you know. We must take back control of the window 😀😃
https://brexitrage.com/who-moved-my-overton-window/

brexitrage.bsky.social•72 days ago

Please ask your followers to write letters to MPs, influencers, and the media using our comprehensive cross-party White Paper.

Full fact checked 90 page version and two page Exec Summary available.

Everything people need to do this including template letter via
https://mailchi.mp/ff8b169aa3ec/4ynx9wuyiv-13868170/

choosearandomname.bsky.social•72 days ago

Economic power is moving East the EU can’t save itself let alone the uk
Wow I’m pessimistic today.

brexitrage.bsky.social•72 days ago

Just write some letters. Takes a few minutes max. We've put everything on a plate for you.

peterwelsh68.bsky.social•72 days ago

I remember when Farage got all Banksy with Nat West because they wouldn't let him bank with them.

Luckily his old Penny Farthing bothering mucker Rees Mogg spoke up for him in Parliament as it must have been a priority for his former constituents.

Spellcheck on this trying to get me in trouble!

just-ed-is-fine.bsky.social•72 days ago

Yeah, my heart was bleeding *sob* that Farage *sob* couldn't keep his account open with fucking Coutts *sob*. I really felt how awful it was for *sob* him.

I'd be happy if every institution in the UK unbanked that mother fucker... At least he wouldn't be able to launder his roubles through the UK.

andy-1967.bsky.social•72 days ago

I’m hoping that they’ve kept scrupulous records of all of his financial dealings and transactions, as I’m still hoping he gets arrested and charged with treason.

just-ed-is-fine.bsky.social•72 days ago

One can hope :)

Be interesting what gets kept at the Bank.

They would typically keep 7 years of financial data. Not a regulator lawyer but there is prob some interaction between how long you can keep data before deleting under GDPR etc.

disqualified.bsky.social•69 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/disqualified.bsky.social/post/3lbzsdj36b22q

richardhughson.bsky.social•72 days ago

The wealth inequality situation is out of control. There are only so many hours in the day. No one should be getting paid millions for doing any job however responsible.

m-j-murcott.bsky.social•69 days ago

Recent shrinking of the economy is down to the last budget; Employer National Insurance Contributions and other measures put the brakes on the UK economy reducing the number of new people being hired.

lanceboyle1.bsky.social•72 days ago

Brexit is the biggest disaster ever for this country.

aswain01.bsky.social•68 days ago

Shrill

speckle48.bsky.social•72 days ago

And the continual reinfection of our children will harm them so much. The rising long term sickness figures cannot improve until the government ventilate and filter the air in schools and universities. Rachel Reeves knows this. She berated the Tories when in opposition but now….

actual-intell.bsky.social•72 days ago

You feckin tell em Carol x

miniaci.co.uk•72 days ago

How significant is 0.1% in this context?

aldentay.bsky.social•71 days ago

And when it comes to the state nhs is in today that’s the result of a recruitment ban & pay freeze 14 yrs ago, then the exodus of more staff coz Brexit, raising tuition fees & getting rid of bursaries, so eff off Farage n his private health insurance lies.

emerty73.bsky.social•72 days ago

Carol, you should know better. Tut tut. Fewer whelks, yes, but more design and engineering. Which is better for the environment?

How can the UK move from 7th to 4th if trade is down by 15%

https://www.cityam.com/services-trade-sees-uk-become-worlds-fourth-largest-exporter/

spen01.bsky.social•72 days ago

It all begs the question: if advocates of Brexit lie about the benefits of it in order to secure a result then when those lies are exposed what do we do? Nothing?

jacg1.bsky.social•72 days ago

… paid to play tennis with the blancmange!! Who paid for his fancy holidays after he ‘resigned’? There’s been a lot of ‘nothing to see here’ with Russian money flowing into UK, lax regulations. That’s where we need to look

jacg1.bsky.social•72 days ago

We need the transparency of releasing things like the Russia report, suppressed by Bojo & Farage’s tax returns together with Reform’s accounts. Need to follow the (mostly Russian) money back to source. I mean, aside from Ledbedev peerage & Bojo’s Tuscan partying sans security detail, a Russian ….

bryank1.bsky.social•72 days ago

The GDP figures are so much more complicated than the headline. What's going on with chemicals and pharmaceuticals? There's a story there for someone... This is from the ONS.

adewright.bsky.social•72 days ago

No idea why people keep believing these utter Gobshytes!!

I mean these days you quite literally have the entire knowledge of the world at your fingertips, yet still nonsensical mutterings like these somehow gain traction.

Seriously these dopes fall apart under the slightest scrutiny

Wake Up !

nurseybird.bsky.social•72 days ago

Farage and his mates however, are getting richer

tango-whisky.bsky.social•72 days ago

It's Reeves and her tory-lite policies that's doing it

themabozza.bsky.social•72 days ago

Why is Labour persisting with their Brexit policy?
It makes sense to rejoin the CM, not only economically.
I just don't understand the continually rejection.

ockamsrazor.bsky.social•72 days ago

The boats is the boats. Only 28% of those seeking asylum in the UK arrive by boat yet get 100% of the media coverage.

jacg1.bsky.social•72 days ago

It’s designed by Farage to be that way. Fear & fear of others is what polarises people & leads to the Farage riots & things like that

wolfiem80.bsky.social•72 days ago

One of the many reasons I've left the UK

silver-noodle.bsky.social•72 days ago

My lad's 15, the Tories ripped away a huge landscape of possible future choices from him. I can only hope preparation is going on behind the scenes to put that right. It'll need political cojones like we've never seen before though. I live in hope.

pzkeeper.bsky.social•72 days ago

My hope is dissipating. I really don’t think Starmer is brave enough, possibly even competent to do what’s required.

wovlad.bsky.social•72 days ago

I think he's intelligent enough to know Rejoining is key. However they had a mindset pre the election of do not upset the red wall / labour brexiters. That needs to change and quickly.

pzkeeper.bsky.social•72 days ago

In some respects he's getting a free ride from the media, when he goes on about NO SM/CU, he should be challenged on that and asked WHY NOT. If he comes out with "we had a referendum" or "will of the people" or any other such lip service to the Brexiteers then he's being disingenuous.

silver-noodle.bsky.social•72 days ago

It's only been a few months and I get that something this seismic takes some organising, but I would like to hear more encouraging sounds.

pzkeeper.bsky.social•72 days ago

🎯 Exactly. Their messaging all round is very poor.

jacg1.bsky.social•72 days ago

Have you watched a Different Bias on YouTube? Phil explains some of the behind the headlines stuff going on & there’s more than it appears with the EU 😁

philsbodydouble.bsky.social•72 days ago

The Tories have taken it away, and now Labour are keeping it behind locked doors "forever", they keep vowing over and over. Besides, who could forget Starmer whipping his MPs to vote for the Tories ripping said future choices away totally unnecessary (should have abstained).

1

philsbodydouble.bsky.social•72 days ago

Both are main parties are responsible for this mess, and continuing this mess. It is just that at the moment at least, one is still more responsible than the other.

But history will not be kind to either of them.

2/2

billdewar.bsky.social•72 days ago

Or alternatively, all sensible people in England can relocate to Scotland, vote for Independence and live in a modern free thinking pro European nation that respects its people, and escape the ‘poundshop America’ model that UK governments have embraced since 1979…

louwhit15.bsky.social•72 days ago

Yes please

dibbleysdad.bsky.social•72 days ago

Too rainy, but otherwise a good plan

jancavelle.bsky.social•72 days ago

The one thing you can say Farage is consistently is shameless

thinkitthrough.bsky.social•72 days ago

We need Brentry

leplonge.bsky.social•72 days ago

When it comes to government policy only the super-rich matter.

mondoray.bsky.social•72 days ago

Sounds like one of those “no shit Sherlock” moments

elaines58.bsky.social•72 days ago

Agreed

jonty24.bsky.social•72 days ago

Almost sounds like a tepid bath of managed decline....

robertfingleton.bsky.social•72 days ago

But what about all the trade advantages there are to being outside the EU?!? 😋

jon-elsa.bsky.social•72 days ago

Conventional wisdom would suggest that with the nature of our current economic trajectory & favourable polling over the issue, Labour would want to join the Single Market/Customs Union.
Just think of the benefits of dismantling trade barriers & getting a thumbs up from the country; a win all round!

jacg1.bsky.social•72 days ago

It’ll happen

jamesdankworth.bsky.social•72 days ago

Brexit is the great destroyer.

Labour will be next.

#RejoinEU

littlelegs82.bsky.social•71 days ago

The boats started happening as soon as we left the Dublin III Regulations.

Because the border is the English Channel so all the gangs have to do is push people over the border and we have NO returns policy with the EU. It’s a 100% Brexit problem.

oorwullie.bsky.social•72 days ago

The UK blindly jumped off a cliff with Brexit and we're falling but have yet to hit the rocks, and if Trump starts a trade war, powerless, we are doomed to suffer a recession if epic proportions.

kph100.bsky.social•72 days ago

Farage was the Russian shill link to Trump. Why you think he keeps going there on person.

cpcnw.bsky.social•72 days ago

marksett.bsky.social•72 days ago

Did you order faulty goods and now realise we’re stuck with them.
No refunds given.

greyboy56.bsky.social•72 days ago

Did the people who brought us Brexit actually, for one minute, think that it was going to benefit Joe public or did they know all along that it was just going to be a money spinner for the mega rich in UK society.
Crispin Odey making £220m betting on the UK economy collapse after we left says it all

arrowone-01.bsky.social•72 days ago

What's it to do with Brexit? The economy was going up, under the Tories after a huge crash after covid. Are you one of these stupid labour voters ?

greyboy56.bsky.social•72 days ago

What's stupid about labour voters?

arrowone-01.bsky.social•72 days ago

See, you do not even realise what you have done

greyboy56.bsky.social•72 days ago

And what have I done.
Enlighten me

arrowone-01.bsky.social•72 days ago

You remind me of Pike or Rodney.... you stupid boy

jacg1.bsky.social•72 days ago

I think you hit the nail on the bread in the 2nd half of your post. Brexit was pushed by feckless idiots like Bojo & grifter opportunists like Farage & disaster capitalists like Oddy & Rees-Mogg.
There was nothing more to it than that - no benefits to the UK at all

jacg1.bsky.social•72 days ago

The head, not bread! …. Although….🤔😁

greyboy56.bsky.social•72 days ago

Let's not even talk about bread, it's used to make woke sandwiches

jacg1.bsky.social•72 days ago

Yes, especially extrawoke chicken ones & the ultrawoke tuna mayo.

archbishcranmer.bsky.social•72 days ago

You really are the most deluded clown on the entire circuit.

peteblaze.bsky.social•72 days ago

Stands back In amazed surprise.

wendynowak.bsky.social•72 days ago

Sick of empty shelves/sky high prices?
Delays in obtaining your essential meds?
Has your business gone bust?
Stuck in a queue at the port/airport?
Blame Brexit!
We need to #RejoinEU pronto!
Why not sign/share this petition? There's no harm in it! https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700005

frenchbill.bsky.social•72 days ago

Yesterday on politics live , David Frost was talking a lot about the boats, should I be scared ? Apparently , would you believe it, they are the cause of all our troubles!

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