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IF YOU COULD GET RID OF £100 BILLION OF UNNECESSARY COST YOU’D DO IT, WOULDN’T YOU? Of course you would, but not our Keir. He’s sticking with a hard Brexit we can’t afford, but WHY? For some crazy reason he’s more afraid of the shrinking Leave minority than the growing Rejoin majority. Daft!

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Number crunching: Value of reduction in US tariffs for UK companies per year as against EU members v fall in UK exports per year due to Brexit From the new Private Eye, out now.

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A belated recognition that the world’s sixth biggest economy needs a steel-making capability shows what a shambles successive administrations’ policy-making has been.

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Liz Truss is launching her own social media platform. Presumably the site will crash after a few weeks and she will blame the Bank of England.

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Word of the day is ‘bugiard’ (17th century): one who distorts the truth beyond all recognition to fit their own agenda.

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Sadly yes

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“The UK is prepared to retain some regulatory alignment with the European Union and accept supervision of the bloc's court over a deal to cut checks on imports of foods and agricultural products” Good. Our future is with Europe 👏 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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𝗕𝗘𝗔𝗥𝗦 𝗪𝗜𝗡 🎉 Ethan Bamber smashes a maximum to win the game! 🐻#YouBears | #DURvWAR

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Really enjoying these Chinese AI videos taking the piss out of America.

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Man who planned to eat a roadkill baby bear tells the US Cabinet that he's intending to remove fluoride in drinking water based on "new science" that it lowers IQ in children. Fluoride strengthens teeth and reduces cavities by replacing minerals. There is no empirical evidence that it reduces IQ.

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Can’t even make their own MAGAhats

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At a party at a law firm in London and one of the guests I just spoke with said Putin is right for invading Ukraine Then he had the audacity to say that Ukrainians are fascist, so it's not our war Had to excuse myself - utterly surreal

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A psychopath, a con man and a rapist walk into a bar. The barman says "Good evening Mr Trump".

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Senator Adam Schiff is opening an investigation to see if members of Trump’s Administration illegally profited from the volatility of the stock markets Thoughts?

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It's funny how the stupidest people of this year - the "Don't worry about what Trump says, he doesn't mean it" brigade - were also the stupidest people of all the Brexit/Truss/Johnson years. It's not funny how they still occupy almost all of the major roles in the commentariat.

submitted 10 days ago • 78 comments

Heaven help us

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submitted 11 days ago • 136 comments

CNN's Jake Tapper, "Why are you putting tariffs on penguins?" US Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, "I mean come on, whatever. The people that are leading this are serious, intentional, patriotic, the smartest people I've ever worked with"

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Wow! The number of @bsky.app users just passed 34 MILLION! 👏 LETS DO THIS!

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More digging from @russellscott1.bsky.social into COVID contracts, this time debunking No.10 claim during the pandemic that personal emails weren't used to manage gov business + illustrating Matt Hancock's role in contracting process bylinetimes.com/2025/04/03/m...

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Brexiteers are piping up now, claiming Brexit saved us from the same tariff as the EU - but guys, that might be worth 0.4% of our GDP - Brexit cost us 4%…..get real. We need closer ties with the EU, our progressive and very dependable neighbour. The next four years will be a shit show...:)

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Lady in black, "Our water bill is to go up while the Welsh Water CEO has made £800,000 in just one year" "How much longer will politicians allow water companies to pollute our waters and our rivers, prioritising profits of wealthy shareholders?" #BBCQT

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Man with beard, "The EU got 20% tariffs, we got 10%, so I think we did alright there" #BBCQT 10% tariffs equates to a 0.4% hit to our GDP Brexit costs us 4% to our GDP We've been hammered by Brexit, and we've been hammered by Trump's tariffs - that's a lose lose

submitted 14 days ago • 35 comments

Another serious contender for the 'I'm never right' crown. Frost v Hannan; it's a close battle.

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It looks as though Trump saw us shoot ourselves in the foot with Brexit and thought "We should do that, but with a much bigger gun and in both feet"

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$2.2trillion dollars were wiped off international stock markets today. Trump is making Liz Truss look like a fiscal genius.

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Farage happy to sell out farmers and food standards to placate big American poultry... and Trump Note: The USA has almost non existent welfare standards in that sector and that's why they chlorinate the meat.

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Among the places the US is hitting with a 10% tariff is the British Indian Ocean Territory, ie Diego Garcia, which has nothing but a US-British air force base on it.

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'If the media dedicated a fraction of the energy to explaining economic impacts of Brexit, that it's displayed in explaining the potential economic impacts of Trump's tariffs...nobody would be as daft as David.' @mrjamesob.bsky.social sends his first texter of the day to Idiots' Corner.

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