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Love Europe. Hate Brexit. Optimist. #FBPE #Rejoin #StopTheCull #BanHunting #NotMyKing
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Apparently this sign is actually up in London.

37% of the electorate voted for Brexit, which was equivalent to 26.5% of the total UK population at the time. The UK was ruined by this minority.

There is an alternative to Government welfare cuts - a 2% tax on wealth. There is no shortage of money here, we just need a fairer approach to tax - take more from the few not the many.

We’re no mugs

Reform is imploding, with serious allegations against Rupert Lowe, emotional denials, possible hatchet jobs from team Farage and highly undignified infighting. Meanwhile, I’m just sitting here LAUGHING MY ARSE OFF.

Two judges have forced the US government to reinstate two senior federal officials fired by President Trump, one saying: "An American President is not a king” 👏 www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

Mirage-2000 jets shooting down Russian cruise missiles during a Russian attack today! Thank you, France, for making our skies safer! 🇫🇷🇺🇦

Donald Trump has said Russia has "all the cards" in negotiations to end the war with Ukraine He should know, he’s handed them to them news.sky.com/story/trump-...

Farage is a preening, self-regarding little prince of a man and not a serious politician, and he's also got an ego the size of Buster Gonads balls. Of course, everything he leads eventually collapses into petty disarray and animosity. This is 2025, not 1546.

NEW: Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe reported to police by party over alleged threats of physical violence against party chair Zia Yusaf - and has also been accused of bullying staff. He denies claims, which come just 24 hours after he called Nigel Farage the “messianic” leader of a protest party.

A conservative French news magazine brightening up the Paris news stands … hard to overstate the damage Trump is doing to his and USA’s reputation among allies (sic)

Tory peer introduced PPE firm to government after Cameron text, Covid inquiry hears

Mark Carney, the front-runner to become Canada's new prime minister, is a two-time central banker and crisis fighter who may soon face his biggest challenge of all: steering Canada through Donald Trump's tariffs reut.rs/41LyzA3

"We asked one hundred people to name a TV personality who is extremely poor" "Alexander Armstrong?" "YES, you've found a pointless answer!"

As Musk was busy blowing up Space X rockets, Europe's new rocket Ariane 6 successfully carried out its first commercial mission, placing a French military satellite into orbit and confirming the continent's independent access to space and further cutting reliance on US systems. #StandWithUkraine

If only there was some way of knowing why Musk is pushing for elections and “regime change” in Ukraine… but not Russia..

How the rich get richer... 1) Announce tariffs. Stock market drops. 2) Billionaires buy lots of stock. 3) Immediately roll back tariffs. Stock market rebounds. See the pattern, now? #TrumpEconmics🤑🤪😱

I’m in. 🙂👍

Calls for boycotting US products spread in Northern Europe - 👍 www.lemonde.fr/en/internati...

Remarkable intervention from the Ukrainian ambassador to London saying that Trump and Putin are together “destroying” the world order “Because we see, it’s not just the axis of evil and Russia trying to revise the world order – but the US is finally destroying this order."

#Rejoin #EU More urgent than ever in light of #Trump’s behaviour towards #Ukraine. #Starmer’s recent statesmanship stands us in good stead for rejoining on good terms. #UK must seize this moment.

🚨 State of HATE 2025 is out today. The most in-depth report on the far right in Britain. What’s happening, what’s next, and how we fight back. 🔗 hopenothate.org.uk/state-of-hat...

The multimillionaire owner of the Spectator has met some of the most senior figures from Britain’s right-leaning media to discuss a plan to fund a new generation of journalists, the Guardian understands. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

Very moving…🇨🇦

Why the need to keep punishing people for poor political decisions? Time - particularly now - to correct those decisions, remove ruinous red lines and breathe life into the economy again. There is no mandate *at all* to continue with Austerity in order to protect Brexit. www.bbc.com/news/article...

@dalevince.com

@dalevince.com is onto something here. Why is #UKLabour so against it? Tax wealth not income, rich not poor.

Brilliant!

Etymology of the day: ‘book’ comes from an ancient root shared by ‘beech’, a wood that people used for engraving inscriptions. ‘Paper’ comes from ‘papyrus’, and ‘volume’ is from the Latin for a ‘roll’ of parchment. Happy World Book Day.

What more proof is needed that Trump-US doesn’t care about #Ukraine or the rest of Europe? #Russia can act with impunity. #EU meeting this week without UK.The wind is blowing and we have nowhere to hide.But after Lancaster House meeting EU is very positively disposed towards us.TIME TO #REJOIN.

I love Canada

The US has paused intelligence sharing with Ukraine, the White House National Security Adviser has said today, adding that the administration was reviewing all aspects of its intelligence relationship with the country Absolutely appalling www.bbc.com/news/article...

Trump and musk plan to fire 83,000 from the department of veterans affairs. Remember all those times the GOP said we couldn’t care for refugees because we needed to take care of our veterans first? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The good folk from @everyonehateselon.bsky.social have done it again 👏👏

Thank you to The Grauniad for quoting Blue Sky rather than X

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

There is a best and worst case for what is motivating Trump's strategy on Russia and Ukraine. I've thought about them for this piece. But in a sense it's immaterial- either way Zelensky is being set up for an impossible choice: surrender or blame. Writing from me. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

Almost nothing "good news-like" going on at the moment... apart from this ... from Florida's Attorney General

Seen yesterday on a public bus in Heidelberg, Germany.