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Brexit is quest for the Holy Grail: a shining promise of total sovereignty, booming trade, freedom from Europe’s regulations. But like the Holy Grail, Brexit’s promised treasures never existed. Labour promises a ‘better Brexit’ — a new miracle deal 🦄 of better deals with Europe and USA. 1/2

submitted 7 hours ago • 5 comments

Frighteningly true 👇

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

We are fully committed to maintaining the mistake; whatever happens we promise you, without reservation, that we will not remedy it and will never give you back your rights and freedoms. Please vote for us.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

European MPs urge an end to "the policy of appeasement"& call for a united stance against Russia's terrorist regime. In a joint statement, the Chairs of 7 Foreign Affairs Committees said: "We must not repeat the mistakes of Munich in 1938.Negotiating with the war criminal Putin is evidently futile;

submitted 1 day ago • 94 comments

Just forget appeasing these monsters. We must return to Europe and stop kidding ourselves we can have it all. We did that before and ended up with less than nothing. British politicians who support Trump betray Ukraine, betray us all. (Letter, Times)

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

I will just ask you a question you really should have asked yourself. Why would the rich people want you to be rich? Then there is less money for them.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Labour are pleasing no one. Their stupid red lines on Europe, their constant appeasement of those who voted for Brexit (red wall) and the lurch to try and keep up with the vileness of Reform UK The country wants a clear choice not three different varieties of bigots & idiots

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

These are all things the US could do unilaterally: recognition of territories, commitment not to admit Ukraine to NATO, sanctions lifting, and economic normalisation. Zelensky isn't the barrier. Huge implications for Europe if US moves this forward unilaterally

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

LBC Caller CHALLENGES Brexiteer Ferrari youtu.be/JlxH7wce91I

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Newly qualified GPs are retraining as bus drivers due to a shocking lack of jobs. Meanwhile, patients are waiting weeks for GP appointments. @wesstreeting how is this happening during an NHS crisis? What a disgraceful waste of talent. The system is failing doctors and patients!

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Really worrying that Keir Starmer wouldn't commit to a vote in Parliament on a Trump trade deal when I asked him just now. If the government really thinks it's a good deal for Britain, what are they so afraid of?

submitted 4 days ago • 38 comments

Mindblowingly awful, given the historial precedent of associating particular ethnicities with particular types of wrongdoing. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

submitted 5 days ago • 52 comments

You can delude yourself that Labour have over four years to turn things around before the next GE. But make no mistake. If Starmer signs a hasty bad deal with the USA that prevents Britain from getting closer to the EU again, it's OVER. No ifs or buts. Then it becomes a waiting game until the end.

submitted 6 days ago • 32 comments

I’m sure every country in the world realises this. I just wish Starmer hadn’t made the same mistake with Trump that May did, which was inviting him before he had settled into his reign of destruction. We don’t want him. I’m sure King Charlie doesn’t either.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Brexiters wail that any reset with the EU is a ‘Brexit betrayal’ as if that shitshow is hallowed turf. They’d also have you believe a US deal matters more. When the best we could hope for with Trump is not very much, let’s not risk progress with the EU for them. iandunt.substack.com/p/the-battle...

submitted 8 days ago • 17 comments

Stop crawling to the orange dictator, UK, have some self respect. We all hate him here. Stop grovelling.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Trump suggests UK state visit set for September. A felon, dictator, liar, violator of treaties and court judgements, opponent of civil liberties, threat to global peace with delusions of extending US borders rewarded with state visit. Shameful. Mass demonstrations are certain.

submitted 9 days ago • 187 comments

Bannon the latest in the “Britain doesn’t manufacture anything” brigade. It’s a lazy trope you hear repeated in the media a lot. In fact the UK remains the 8th or 9th biggest manufacturer in the world. 10% of our GDP with some of the most advanced manufacturing anywhere.

submitted 10 days ago • 81 comments

Sir Keir are you watching? More Tories want to trade with the EU rather than US. Even 23% of Deform voters do.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Palantir (Wes Streeting's partner of choice for your private medical data) is helping Donald Trump draw up a list of targets for deportation. Are you still relaxed about it holding your medical data? www.404media.co/ice-just-pai...

submitted 11 days ago • 39 comments

I’ve been accused of being a conspiracy theorist because I insist that the BBC had everything to do with the rise of Farage & his Reform party. This chart just focussing on BBC Question Time (2010-2020) shows there was bias towards the platforming of anti-EU MEPS especially Farage. I rest my case.

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments

British Steel crisis shows folly of privatisation and foreign ownership. Lack of investment. Jingye, closely linked with Chinese govt, planned to end UK steel making; process Chinese steel; make UK reliant on Chinese imports. So much UK infrastructure is foreign owned and vulnerable.

submitted 12 days ago • 21 comments

I wish the Labour govt would just openly admit that UK economic interests are better served by realignment with Europe, rather than timidly rolling out smaller initiatives in the hope no one will notice.

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments

Blocking MPs from voting on a US trade deal would be straight out of Trump's anti-democratic playbook. Labour MPs should make clear to the PM they won't let him sell out our NHS, undercut farmers or weaken protection for children online. He must give Parliament a vote.

submitted 12 days ago • 41 comments

Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0...

submitted 13 days ago • 870 comments

pretty crazy watching the american president on live tv in the oval office planning the construction of concentration camps in a foreign country to house americans

submitted 13 days ago • 585 comments

Fascism is happening in front of your eyes. You can call it that or not - I don't give a fuck - but that is what it is.

submitted 13 days ago • 36 comments

No Mr Trump. Russia started the war.

submitted 13 days ago • 61 comments

Trump has now out and out blamed Ukraine for the war. At what point does Starmer finally admit that sucking up to someone this amoral is a losing horse, and resume a more neutral diplomatic stance, shorn of all the "special relationship" nonsense?

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

As I watch Starmer tear up Labour's prospects by attacking people in poverty, abusing those who care about the living world and appeasing the ultra-rich, I feel the same sense of dislocation as I did before the Iraq War. Anyone can see the disaster coming, except, apparently, the government.

submitted 13 days ago • 172 comments

A private equity firm just bought £1.6 BILLION worth of the NHS. It will make bigger profits by hiking rents for hospitals and NHS facilities. Previous govts privatized the estate. That means less money for frontline healthcare. NHS already drained by PFI and private contractors.

submitted 13 days ago • 35 comments

Wes Streeting is gutting the NHS of its ability to survive by destroying the management on which it is dependent to deliver the healthcare we need. This is not austerity. This is madness, Elon Musk style, and if he succeeds, there will be no NHS left to save. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/04...

submitted 13 days ago • 9 comments

Just spent day reading about the collapse of the British car industry. The lack of vision, the managerial incompetence, the strategic insularity, the complacent reliance on ‘world-class’ marques, the constant short-termism, bad labour relations. And I thought: yup, there go our universities too.

submitted 47 days ago • 32 comments

Stick with this thread, it’s a perfect example of how the likes of Reform Ltd and the Daily Mail target your subconscious prejudices and amplify them for their own nefarious purposes. 👇

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Britain must rethink its alliances. Trump’s tariffs threaten global recession, and his erratic policies harm UK interests. Closer ties with the EU offer stability and growth. Time to face facts. The US under Trump is not a reliable ally. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 14 days ago • 7 comments

Because you have two homes?

submitted 14 days ago • 419 comments

'Pull your socks up Prime Minister! Abandon the timidity - it's time to soften Brexit.' It's time someone told those who were 'completely wrong' about leaving the EU to 'shut up and sit down', says @mrjamesob.bsky.social with urgency, in light of Trump's tariffs and market instability.

submitted 16 days ago • 32 comments

Paul Nowak, "President Trump has shown himself to be an unreliable partner, regardless of what agreement you strike" "It's also about resetting our relationship with our largest trading partner which is the European Union" "The Conservative's Brexit deal has cost us 4-5% of GDP"

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

I’m going to coin a law - call it Maugham’s First Law - and it is that nothing Wes Streeting ever says turns out to be true. 🧵

submitted 16 days ago • 28 comments

UK Parliament recalled tomorrow for emergency debate on the future of British Steel. Must be permanent nationalisation, not temporary where public purse nurses the company and it is then sold to private sector. Need industrial strategy: Can't rescue steel/others without controlling energy costs.

submitted 16 days ago • 22 comments

The UK car industry contributes £22bn to the economy and employs c 35k people. Universities contribute £265bn and employ nearly 400k, over 10x as much. Yet he seems ok to let that sector implode.

submitted 18 days ago • 29 comments

Here’s Donald Trump’s Education Secretary Linda McMahon telling her audience that school children will be taught how to use A One from a young age Somebody please god tell her that it’s called AI 🤦‍♂️

submitted 16 days ago • 78 comments

If i had had any role in sending an innocent man to prison in El Salvador ( or anywhere) i would spend every moment trying to bring him back to his home & freedom- for as long as it took. I feel all of us would do that. Only a sociopath would do otherwise

submitted 16 days ago • 195 comments

Yes this Labour govt is financially incentivising NHS hospitals (with huge deficits) to cut patient care & game waiting lists. No-one can possibly pretend that giving unlimited financial bonuses to hospitals to remove patients from lists isn't fraught with risk. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 17 days ago • 13 comments

furious at how perfect this column is, wish I could be happy for Duncan but unfortunately I'm simply seething at how good he is

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

We could have been a huge part of this had we still been an EU member. Instead, we'll no doubt have to watch Labour scrabble around for a £50 note to buy a bigger abacus, while claiming it will give Britain global AI hegemony. ("See those beads FLY!") www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments