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Rejoiner 🇪🇺 , Proud Weegie, Proud Scot, Proud Brit. Runner 🏃‍♂️, passion for Rugby 🏉 and walking in the Highlands and Lake District.
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It’s not a bad view 🤣👍 #Keswick just now

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

“We are at a crossroads in history. This is not a moment for more talk. It’s time to act, time to step up and lead” Prime minister Keir Starmer 👏

Leaders of the free world stand united in London The United States is not among them

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Hopeless. Nothing like enough. These are little kiddie figures. It should be funded by borrowing, not spending cuts. And those cuts should not be based on trying to make us as meanspirited and irresponsible a country as possible. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c4...

No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

Good Morning all well we’ve hit the ground running 3 fantastic reviews in just a few days this is why we love what we do thank you 🧡👍 #shoplocal #lakedistrict #wainwrights

The most unpatriotic members of any society are the far right. They will always align with foreign interests against the interests of their own nations. They will always undermine national institutions and national values in pursuit of their own interests. When they pose as patriots, they lie.

Happy Monday lovely phone family. How was your weekend? Hope you did something nice even if you were working or caring 🫂 Today is National #RandomActsOfKindness day, so if you have a chance to do something for someone else, it's a good day to take it 🥰 Have a fabulous day and #HaveCourageAndBeKind ❤️

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz (@zezvaz.bsky.social):

'Ukraine has bought Europe time by standing as its first line of defence. Enough of that time has already been squandered through refusal to recognise the danger. History may never forgive the current generation of European leaders if their procrastination continues' www.ft.com/content/f268...

Good morning to this man, and this man only #bbcqt

We didn't vote for Reform lite. We don't want Reform lite. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Brexit making the headlines.

Worth a watch.. youtu.be/kTVYZXmF--o?...

Perfectly captured.

Must watch interview. Ed Davey calls for a customs union with the EU to grow the UK economy And Laura Kuenssberg ends up making the case for why the UK should be in a customs union with the EU, without realising it 🤷‍♂️ This is a gold standard interview by @eddavey.libdems.org.uk 👏 Part 1 of 7

Neil Kinnock, a patron of @europeanmovement.co.uk says that Starmer needs to end his “cycle of hesitation” on European collaboration.

Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves claim to be looking everywhere for opportunities for growth but are ignoring the solution right under their noses. A new UK-EU Customs Union would turbocharge our economy, tearing down the trade barriers holding British businesses back.

Absolutely spot on from Rory Stewart

The most surreal and maddening feature of the campaign was that everyone agreed that high prices were the main issue but the guy explicitly, consistently running on a platform of raising everyone’s prices won voters most concerned about high prices. We hammered this time and time again and yet.

Saturday morning Touch Rugby!! The light is returning and the better weather

Five years on, few Britons think Brexit has been good for anything % saying Brexit has had a positive impact on... Control the UK has over its laws: 31% UK's ability to respond to COVID-19: 23% UK's level of international trade: 11% NHS: 6% Full list in chart 👇 yougov.co.uk/politics/art...

##BrexitReality ##BrexitBrokeBritain

He is a monster.

The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years on

Absolutely delighted to receive the Scoop of the Year award at the Political Podcast Awards for News Agents for our story on Paul Marshall, the would-be Telegraph buyer in 2024.

With Trump threatening trade wars, we should be rebuilding ties with our European neighbours, tear down trade barriers and cutting red tape hurting British businesses. 
So why won’t the Prime Minister look at a UK-EU Customs Union, to turbocharge our economy? https://youtu.be/raPrXj-VbXw?si=oT7TE…

It started with conspiracy and propaganda then evolved into dehumanisation - spreading distrust, fear and disgust about the target. The powerless were given a group to blame, the illusion of power. The techniques used now are the same. It’ll only happen again if people let it. Sadly, they are…

Lord Heseltine, "You've got all the polls indicating clearly now that people know they were hoodwinked, they were deceived. The majority is now in favour of Europe"

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...

Nigel Farage tells me that Elon Musk’s defence of Tommy Robinson is "not problematic at all" and though he was "surprised" that all of the Jan6th criminals were pardoned by Trump, he agrees that "some" are "political prisoners."

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.

#stormeowyn

Incredible from Bishop Budde: "We don't have to go to the highest extremes of contempt when we are in a position of disagreement. I think if we could get that back as a country, we would go a long way in being able to work together to address the many problems that we face." ~AA @maddow.msnbc.com

Fiona Bruce can't believe that Dale Vince has donated to Labour, Greens, LibDems without expecting anything in return Dale Vince then explains how he supports publicly funded elections as that would end the system of donations for favours #BBCQT

Totally..

Trumpers fully support his decision to pardon insurrectionists — just don’t get into the details

Donald Trump has cancelled the $35 a month Insulin cap. Prices are expected to almost instantly go back to $1500 a month. Insulin costs $2 to make.

Just flipping scary sh1t listening to this..

🚨 "Ministers have rejected calls for the UK to move closer to the EU in order to boost economic growth, insisting that Brexit has brought “opportunities” and some benefits for the British economy.” Imagine the shock when they see this

New @therestpolitics.bsky.social main episode … lots on Trump, assessing Gaza ceasefire deal, and why Starmer felt there had to be full independent inquiry into Southport killings alastaircampbell.org/2025/01/363-...