Remember folks: "Europe is stronger when Britain leads". Said no one in "Europe" ever. 🤣 bsky.app/profile/best...

Effective tax rate paid by Jeff Bezos from 2014 to 2018: 0.98% Effective 2025 federal tax rate paid by Amazon: 1.4% Typical tax rate paid by the average American: 14.5% Just thought I should point that out.

"When Britain leads" in Europe???? You can only "lead" a group if (a) you're in it and (b) the other group members trust you enough to "follow" your lead. Neither of which is currently true. The rest of Europe MIGHT let us join in with some of what THEY'RE doing, but that's all.

More waffling of Europe needing Britain to "lead". You can't make this stuff up. They always need to "lead" because they are "world beating" and "world leading".

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Well said that man.

"My IQ is 145" asks me to explain how "there could be a plan before negotiations took place". 🤣 This is mister Bean, Frank Spencer, Benny Hill and others in one person. 🤣

"How could there be a plan before negotiations took place" says the Brexitard with a self-professed IQ of 145 🤣

Wow. I met a Brexitard with an IQ of 145 who is superior. We are in Trump territory here. 🤣

They "think" nominal value determines how "strong" a currency is. 🤣 Apparently the British Pound that lost a third of its value against the euro since its start, and brought the UK higher inflation and made British people pay higher interest rates is "stronger" than the euro. 🤣

They are so "clever" they "think" "the pound is the 5th strongest currency in the world". 🤣

Unfortunately a reality check that will be ignored by many The obsession with the idea that we must get a special deal with tailor made exceptions is just another example of Brexitism Until we can accept that we are not a special case we will continue to be stuck going round and round in circles

It’s always about how much money they have and how important they are. It’s always condescending towards others as they know everything better. It’s never about a better Europe, it’s always about compromises to suit them. Sick to the back teeth with that arrogant entitlement.

The case for having the UK in the Union has not been made in the UK, and even less so in Europe. The UK membership would entail trade offs and costs for the EU and MS. The UK seems unable to acknowledge them and make a coherent proposal appealing to Europe to counterbalance these costs. 1/

The UK doesn’t even qualify for membership without such a change. Not that the UK would be an attractive candidate anyway unless they fundamentally change including their attitude towards their neighbours. The sense of entitlement/exceptionalism has to go and the UK hasn’t even begun that process.

Trustworthy Brexit Britain once more showing many of its citizens are not interested in European integration, only in the same old transactional arrogance.

Asking the UK to follow the club rules is not "making it difficult". As a nation we need to decide if the economic benefits are worth it for the sharing of sovereignty that is required. If the majority decide to continue to be worse off, they need to stop whingeing about the consequences.

"there might be some discussions on previous opt-outs," oh my aching sides

Almost seventy years since the Treaty of Rome was signed. Still the British intellectuals "think" the EEC was a "free trade area". Still crying about the war. Still blaming the French. Plus ça change, plus ça reste la même chose.

The EU should also not allow a Eurosceptic UK that wants exceptions for everything back in.

Just seen people arguing that the EU *needs* the UK to rejoin (and Iceland and Norway to join) for security and budget net-contributor reasons. Seriously, lads, this is laughable. Rampant 2016-style exceptionalism, and a(nother) total misunderstanding of how the EU works. Laughable.

the EU is like the RC Church, always in need of reform. But the Brit media-commentariat elite interpret that as meaning changes should be made to suit the UK

Oh dear! Britain would have to pay its fair share should it rejoin, pay "even more". It would have to join one of the EU's finest achievements, Schengen, which is "borderless" apparently.

Of course he means a "special visa for BRITISH homeowners" because the British are so spesjul that they deserve better treatment than citizens from more deserving countries like Albania or Peru that didn't spend decades undermining the European project from within. Disgusting arrogance.

a SPECIAL relationship, of course. with many exemptions, and special advantages, and bending of the rules. where the UK gets all of the advantages of membership, but none of the obligations. because they're so SPECIAL !!!

This is year 10 of attempting to gain a 'special relationship' with the EU while wishing to show no commitment to EU institutions, values or even the citizens of member states. This is the same policy as Farage, May, Johnson and Starmer.

They are too stupid to understand that Schengen can't function if every country just does as it pleases, disregarding the rules everyone agreed on. That is how dumb the underminers of European unity are. Five year old children can understand what is too complex for these geniuses to grasp.

Somewhere there is a village missing it's idiot.

It pretends to be pro-EU, but it talks like a Brexshiter, quacks like a Brexshiter. "It's Brussels fault (sic)" is the language of the Brexshiters, of the underminers of European Unity who only ever blame Brussels and who can't even spell properly in the only language they somewhat manage.

Just when you think you can't laugh harder this one comes along. 🤣 The consequences of Brexshit that the British voted for in droves in their infinite wisdom is... "Brussels fault (sic)".

Luyendijk: “Als Rusland ophoudt met vechten is de oorlog voorbij. Als Oekraïne ophoudt met vechten is Oekraïne voorbij.” Zo is het.

"Franco-German dominance" in the EU. Someone please explain to me how France and Germany get the necessary votes for that? And that's before vetoes or qualified majority voting kick in, protecting smaller members. Typical British way of thinking the EU is like the UK that is run by England alone.

Ten years after the Brexit vote. And some in the UK think Norway is an ‘associate member’ of the EU. Hopeless

Let's ask an expert. Mister @stevepeers.bsky.social, would an "associate membership" of the UK in the EU be possible, and would it be without altering the EU's treaties?

Another Brexitard who got EXACTLY what he voted for but pretends he didn’t. And then accuses others of ‘reacting emotionally ‘😂

Angela Rayner was dragged through every front page for weeks... HMRC's verdict: NOT deliberate. NOT even careless. Farage pockets £5 million and chooses not to declare it So where's the wall-to-wall coverage? Tell me this isn't a rigged game.

This is an oddly narcissistic reading of events. Most pro-Europeans are not “rejecting advances” out of heartbreak. We're are simply exhausted by you spending years demanding, defending and minimising Brexit, then acting shocked by its entirely predictable consequences.

Brits talking about themselves to other Brits. That was the case 10 years ago during the Brexit non-debate. Little has changed.

Article 50. "3. The Treaties shall cease to apply to the State in question from the date of entry into force of the withdrawal agreement [...]" "The British electorate has never voted to leave the treaties". Are they dumb, dishonest or both?

It's becoming utterly comical. "The British electorate has never voted to leave the treaties" when they voted to leave the European Union. These people are such an embarrassment to themselves and their country. It's hard to keep a straight face, it's hard not to laugh at the stupidity and ignorance.

We asked for hope, you gave us hate. We asked for change, you gave us red lines We asked for compassion, you gave us Shabana Mahmood.

But for us Europeans and the EU, meanwhile, we have largely moved on. Britain is the one still standing outside the club staring through the window insisting the membership benefits should continue because it now finds third-country status less exhilarating than promised.

Bandiera azzurra, la vogliamo? Sì! 🇪🇺 Happy Europe's Day #9May

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Cartoon in Belgian newspaper De Standaard. The words are "Donkey", "Stone", "Brits" and allude to a Dutch expression that says "Even a donkey doesn't bump into the same stone twice", which is roughly the same as "once bitten twice shy" in English.

In 1950, a generation made a promise. 76 years later, we are still keeping it.⁣ In the skies, at sea, online. In negotiating rooms and conflict zones. Because rights and values do not defend themselves. And we are not watching from the sidelines.⁣ Happy Europe Day. 🇪🇺 @eudiplomacy.bsky.social

Nigel Farage had one big mission in his political career: to drag the UK out of the EU. 10 years on since the referendum, why doesn't he celebrate all the amazing Brexit achievements and opportunities? Why does nobody ever ask him how exactly Brexit improved the daily life of people across the UK?

…back in but not to strengthen the EU only to save themselves and undermine what we have build in the process.

They are desperate, we are not. They left, we didn’t throw them out. The EU functions better now without the UK. Nonmembers don’t get opt outs from the acquis. It is disheartening that we still have to explain the basics. To put it plainly the exceptionalists are not pro EU…they might want

Another one @nialloconghaile.bsky.social @kresten2.bsky.social . Apparently we have to "agree to some controls" on migration in order to welcome Britain back to the EU. Controls that already exist BTW. But apparently the EU needs to change what it is to suit Britain. Plus ça change....