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At its most fundamental, our European Movement is a peace movement. To mark Europe Day this year, the @europeanmovement.co.uk has commissioned a film called “Flags in the Wind”. Please join us at our screening. Wednesday 14th May at 7.30pm Details below. www.europeanmovement.co.uk/paulthornber...

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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 1 day ago • 102 comments

Why trying to out-Farage Farage is just never going to work for Labour. The most hardline, anti-migrant set of policies from any UK Government in recent years and the Daily Mail still portrays it as a betrayal

submitted 1 day ago • 99 comments

We can’t keep taking key workers from other countries to work in a sector we don’t pay or value enough. We need to pay better, train more. The latter takes time & resources. There needs to be a plan for this, rather than an attention seeking, Reform parroting headline.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Another week. Another ‘crackdown’ on immigration. Because Brexit exploded it. It created labour shortages and ended our shared EU arrangements. Then all the far right uglies went to town whipping up anti-immigrant sentiment for power. Until govts are honest about this, they will continue to fail.

submitted 2 days ago • 34 comments

The claim by Yvette Cooper that there is a link between immigration and higher levels of inactivity (related to sickness and disability) has absolutely no basis in evidence or data. Just retrofitting the evidence to the policy...

submitted 2 days ago • 83 comments

Badenoch will have to define 'Brexit' first. Brexiters dumped its original meaning – British exit from EU membership – long ago, but have never put a new definition in its place.

submitted 3 days ago • 63 comments

BREAKING: “We will be closing the care worker visa for overseas recruitment” - Home Secretary Yvette Cooper Don’t we have a desperate shortage of care workers?

submitted 2 days ago • 646 comments

I wish I believed these issues had been thought through. But it shows every sign of half-arsed-flappy-hands-Westminster-headline-panic thoughtlessness.

submitted 2 days ago • 43 comments

The government’s abject surrender in the immigration conversation will not necessarily lose them votes. But it won’t win any either because a) for good or for ill, the small boats are the really emotive issue & b) people who simply resent immigrants will always favour Farage. He’s one of their own.

submitted 2 days ago • 286 comments

Not sure I can think of a more perfect comeuppance for Farage, the Tories and their dismal Brexit, than Trump’s America propelling us into a far better, safer and more prosperous deal with the EU. It would be laugh-out-loud funny. Please make it so. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-trump-...

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

“Reform candidates… posted anti-Muslim hate, pushed far-right conspiracies…praising extremists like Tommy Robinson…” But Janice Turner (Times) claims Reform is surging because the ‘lanyard class’ calls them stupid and racist. I knew it had to be our fault.. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 44 comments

Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins

submitted 5 days ago • 577 comments

Every aspect which is so far being publicised, a standard tactic by politicians prior to formerly launching anything, of Labour's immigration white paper continues to demonstrate this government's lack of knowledge about immigration in general, and knee jerk policies. 1/ www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

It's a shame that international student numbers will be cut, because only 2% of voters want their post-study work limited and they bring £37bn to the country. But Britain has gone mad and willingly chosen poverty, so there it is, nothing to be done. www.russellgroup.ac.uk/news/new-pol...

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Navarro doesn't understand the deal they signed. The text reads: "The United Kingdom and the United States affirm that imported food and agricultural goods must comply with the importing country’s sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) standards and other mutually agreed standards."

submitted 4 days ago • 134 comments

“Starmer earned a goodwill dividend by virtue of not being a Tory but he overestimates the leverage that gives him as an architect of future relations when his successor could feasibly be Farage” Making the case for better terms with the EU has to start in the UK www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 4 days ago • 40 comments

Not much point having power if you use it to further the agenda of your opponents… The Brexit mindset is a dull-witted and dangerous dead end. Beyond time to make the case for a more grown up, prosperous and cooperative relationship with our European neighbours. (Letter, Times)

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

My take on today’s UK-US trade deal. The UK is a small weak country. It does what small weak countries do, which is to escape the bully, to pay the Dane-geld. Standing up for the multilateral rules-based trading system will have to be left for others.

submitted 5 days ago • 47 comments

If only Britain were part of some larger bloc that could negotiate on more equal terms with Trump rather than be the first to surrender to his shakedown…

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

With two 'deals' done on trade this week, our latest Chart of the Week looks at the value of the UK's trade with three of its partners. In terms of sheer volume, getting a third deal with the EU could make the biggest difference... Read more: buff.ly/VUT050m

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Britain hasn’t agreed a trade deal with the US – it’s ended a hostage negotiation | Gaby Hinsliff

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

Of course, these trade deals with Australia, NZ, Japan, India and whatever it is with the US… are not ‘Brexit benefits’. They’re ‘Brexit damage limitation’ or ‘Brexit desperation’. Tiny percentage points of growth battling the enormous cost of huffing out of our huge and prosperous local EU market.

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments

BBC Economics Dep Ed Dharshini David: "The average tariff on British goods to the US has tripled compared to a few months ago while goods coming the other way have been cut by two thirds... So when we talk about winners and losers, it's pretty clear who got the upper hand here."

submitted 5 days ago • 25 comments

One of the strangest ironies of the last ten years has been watching Britain immersing itself as deeply as ever in memories of WW2 while proudly turning its back on the project that emerged from it.

submitted 5 days ago • 25 comments

“The fact that the Trump administration is moving so quickly… to eliminate all kinds of norms, defying laws, changing existing laws to enable theft and corruption should really alarm us because this is very often what precedes a broader crackdown on civil society” www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

this is very awkward for Kemi Badenoch

submitted 6 days ago • 51 comments

He’s right. Journalists should also be pointing this out.

submitted 6 days ago • 68 comments

Immigration is not the problem it’s now widely believed to be. Brexit is much more of a problem than it’s reported to be. So how can govt achieve growth, fix public svcs and deal with the cost of living if fear of Reform means it won’t be honest with us about these 2 elephants in the room? It can’t.

submitted 8 days ago • 114 comments

Crucial point by Sophia Gaston to Commons C'tee: "The existence of a 'Brexit betrayals' narrative" has a "profoundly depressive" impact on how gov't is approaching the UK/EU relationship. And that is "problematic" because it does not even reflect public opinion, but "coerced by media opinion." ~AA

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

FUN FACT: Since 2019, Nigel Farage's Reform has taken more than £2.3 MILLION from oil and gas interests - making up an astonishing 92% of the party's donations. Reform are NOT for ordinary people. They're in the pockets of the big oil lobby.

submitted 7 days ago • 55 comments

Brexiter Steve ‘hard man’ Baker says Labour’s trade deal with India is great news, “furthering free trade in the national interest outside the EU” But Steve doesn’t say that a customs union deal with the EU would be 20 times bigger. Or, of course, what Tory EU-phobia has already cost us.

submitted 6 days ago • 41 comments

The most corrupt US administration in history.

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

Hey British media, It’s no surprise that if you give Farage the run of the place, he’ll start winning. Time to do your actual jobs and start interrogating him on his Brexit shitshow, his funding, his Trumpiness, his idiotic manifesto, his real plans for the NHS… instead of drumrolling him into No.10

submitted 9 days ago • 450 comments

The proposal that your unhappiness can be cured by blaming a minority and treating them cruelly is made afresh to each new generation. It has never worked but that never seems to stop people falling for it.

submitted 12 days ago • 24 comments

The nasty little knot of far right ugliness that is Andrea Jenkyns (now Mayor of Lincolnshire) says it’s ‘no more soft touch Britain’. How lovely. Voters have basically handed her a loud dog whistle and told her to kick the people and policies they don’t like or understand. Failure is inevitable.

submitted 11 days ago • 166 comments

We are at the point in history where Germany is having to lecture the US on the need to fight fascism.

submitted 11 days ago • 348 comments

“This is the nature of nationalist populism, whether it wears a red cap in Michigan or a turquoise rosette in Runcorn. It is expert at turning grievance, division and nostalgia into votes. But when it comes to governing, it will always fail.” Latest column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 11 days ago • 16 comments

Farage and Reform whip up people’s prejudices, then offer to get rid of what they hate.Their power feeds off ignorance and hatred. They make people angrier about the stuff they fear, then promise to fix it. Of course they won’t. But they know who to tell you to blame when they fail. (Letters, Times)

submitted 10 days ago • 63 comments

Essentially all research and expert assessments show that this does not work. It will not counter Farage, but literally push votes towards Reform. It genuinely is impossible to overstate how profoundly stupid and strategically illiterate this decision is. You cannot out-Reform Reform.

submitted 10 days ago • 71 comments

How can Labour defeat a man whose biggest idea has been an abject failure; who endorsed the Truss Budget; and who has supported one of the most toxic political figures the western world has seen for decades? It's a real puzzle.

submitted 10 days ago • 20 comments

weapons-grade morons

submitted 10 days ago • 141 comments

Remember this one. In five years, or ten, or twenty. When we're a weird, dirty, backward nation that still sets fire to stuff, and places like China and India start to ask us why.

submitted 10 days ago • 141 comments

'Don't you dare try to invest in our area or create jobs'. Just imagine this lot in charge of the country

submitted 9 days ago • 421 comments

Poilievre loses his seat. Dutton loses his seat. Who’s to say that Farage & Reform wouldn’t lose seats at the next election if you take on the arguments?

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

We may have reached peak Farage, argues Toynbee. Who knows. But 2 things are sure: copying Farage’s easy answers & his ongoing record of disastrous campaigns will move us in the wrong direction. FPTP doesn’t work. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

Labour's base-punching strategy reminds of the Seinfeld episode where George is so obsessed with making Jerry's girlfriend like him (she clearly hates him) that he neglects his own girlfriend (who does like him) and she leaves him

submitted 11 days ago • 62 comments