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Good thread from Chris on Iceland's relationship with EU and what a referendum on membership may mean for the future of the EEA Agreement and by extension EFTA. UK missed an opportunity by deciding to forge its own path than adopting an existing arrangement. It left Government in a weaker position.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

If Brexity folks start crying crocodile tears about the people of Gibraltar, note that a) the Gibraltar first minister supports this deal b) Brexity people sure as hell didn't care how Gibraltar voted in the 2016 Brexit referendum

submitted 5 days ago • 52 comments

For the love of God could someone please explain the difference between smuggling and trafficking to Labour MPs, especially Ministers, including the Chancellor

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

All sad, and true. But now wrapped in a political inertia bubble of Labour’s making. We’ll just get slowly poorer, and the bet is no-one will ever really work out why. And we’ll keep saying “growth” often enough to make it so. Onwards.

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

Walk on fare for two from London to York at 4pm on a Monday: £345*. "Demand pricing helps smooth overcrowding and gives us all a better railway!" Peak trains:

submitted 14 days ago • 33 comments

"You have every right to be angry about small boat crossings." Starmer's rabble-rousing on Twitter again, and getting a lot of attention. This tweet has been seen over a million times! And the genuinely angry people don't need or care for him giving them permission to be... x.com/keir_starmer...

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

Why temporary EFTA membership is the UK’s quickest and best route back to the single market and rejoining the EU | Cleisthenes' Disciple northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/fas...

submitted 16 days ago • 9 comments

PM Keir Starmer’s “unilateral” decision, following the UK/EU Summit last week, to change post-Brexit customs rules “makes a mockery” of the “huge amount of time & effort” by hauliers & their clients to comply with Brexit border regulations over the past 9 years

submitted 22 days ago • 17 comments

🔴Bearly Newsworthy: Brexiteers Wanted Sovereignty. This Is What It Looks Like No-one’s stolen our fish. No laws were imposed by Brussels. This is what happens when a grown-up Government tries to fix the mess the last one left behind, writes @bearlypolitics.co.uk

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

The Barnier escalator is hopefully consigned to history.

submitted 26 days ago • 12 comments

Brilliant piece of work by Sky News today

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Listening to Brexiters is to see a group of people who haven't changed as the world/country around them has.That's Starmer's gamble. Then as now, they continue not to reckon with a simple truth: we still need the EU more than they need us. New from me goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/brexiters-...

submitted 27 days ago • 65 comments

Yep. And for those arguing g Johnson secured a majority in an election in which he stood for a certain vision of Brexit, Starmer secured a bigger one arguing for a ‘reset’

submitted 29 days ago • 10 comments

At today’s @bafta.org TV awards it would be great to hear some acknowledgment of the crisis from presenters and winners. The past year has seen thousands of people out of work and forced to leave the industry to survive. Amidst the glamour, please support those struggling.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

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 37 days ago • 62 comments

It will always remain a mystery to me, why he hasn't done that yet. (I obv know.. etc. But still.)

submitted 44 days ago • 12 comments

🚨🚨 #brexit's disastrous impact on the #NHS led to 1485 extra deaths per year, according to a new academic study, particularly due to qualified EU nurses leaving and being replaced by more unskilled staff. #brexitshambles www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

submitted 46 days ago • 12 comments

Labour likely to take a total drubbing in today’s election & it’s fully deserved. The lesson I fear they’ll fail to learn is: You cannot win on anti-migrant hatred. The right wing press will never tell their voters you have done enough. And meanwhile, of course, you lose all the rest of us #r4today

submitted 46 days ago • 131 comments