🇧🇬 Bulgaria and 🇷🇴 Romania to join Schengen 🇺🇦 Ukraine creating a path to join the EU 🇮🇸 Iceland to hold a referendum to join the EU Meanwhile, despite every poll saying that the majority of 🇬🇧 Brits want back into the 🇪🇺 European Union, Labour want to 'make Brexit work' 🤷‍♂️

Andy Burnham, "The big lie of Brexit needs to be exposed" "They promised us it would control immigration, it's done the opposite.. It's weakened control of immigration" "If the Conservatives were so confident with Rwanda till after the planes took off, but they didn't"

“Migrants, illegal or legal, weren’t responsible for austerity. They weren’t responsible for Brexit. They weren’t responsible for Liz Truss’ failure. Because of populist policies in the ‘30s Hitler was elected. If we follow the same blaming of migrants we will go the same way” #bbcqt

Rachel Reeves, "Today I have appointed Tom Hayhoe as our new Covid Counter Fraud Commissioner" "As Chair of an NHS trust during the pandemic, he saw the urgency of getting PPE to NHS staff when they needed it" "He will investigate the billions lost to fraud and underperforming contracts"

2024: Boris Johnson claims he has been campaigning to leave the EU for 20-30 years 2013: Boris Johnson, "I'd vote to stay in the EU Single Market"

British food sales to EU have fallen by almost a fifth since Brexit. The drop-off has meant a £3bn hit to food exports on average in the three years since the end of the Brexit transition period, new report finds I’m sure UK news shows will be all over this.. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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2024: Boris Johnson claims that the UK got the vaccine first because we were outside the EU 2020: The head of the UK regulator the MHRA explains how the UK got the vaccine while still inside the EU, using EU law as we hadn't left the EU at the time

Ian Hislop, "Kemi Badenoch said this meant we had to have an election.. Yet in 2019 she said we govern by elections not petitions" Victoria Coren Mitchell, "How many people need to sign before we rerun the election?" Ian Hislop, "Signing with a bunch of Russian bots isn't the same as voting"

Oh. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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The liars, of course, have all moved on to new cons & deceptions. The fishing industry can't. A vaguely honest media would be holding Farage & the rest to account for this instead of promoting a meaningless petition... www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymout...

Sophy Ridge, "Elon Musk is quite interested in Keir Starmer, he tweets quite a lot about what's going on in the UK" Sam Coates, "Increasingly he has a very political focus in Britain and the Labour government"

Matt Hancock, "Fnerals are places where people gather.. Deeply emotional.. Come together.. That drove the spread of the virus" Inset, photo of the party in CCHQ with music, dancing, singing, platters of food, hosted by Shaun Bailey, who has now been appointed to the House of Lords

It’s happening

I’m sure the Sunday morning politics shows will be all over this but just in case… youtu.be/jvo1JM6xZqQ?...

Colin from Portsmouth on the millionaires threatening to leave the UK youtu.be/vSfkqEBwZ9Q?...

🚨Millions of people in this country are living in poverty, destitution & using food banks. It’s barely getting a mention. I’m joining forces with @bigissue.bsky.social in calling for a POVERTY ZERO LAW - a statutory duty for every gov’t to set POVERTY REDUCTION TARGETS youtu.be/uAr58YqXW7I?...

Tory pair backed ‘rushed and misjudged’ asylum site purchase, watchdog says

NEW: MoJ annual report reveals that Dominic Raab received severance payment of £16,876 when forced to quit as Justice Secretary after he was found to have bullied civil servants. (He had claimed £9k when he was sacked by Truss the year before)

Faisal Islam, "The Governor of the Bank of England is normally rather shy to talk about Brexit, but he will see this as a statement of the economic reality, rather than any sort of political intervention"

ICYMI, BoE governor Andrew Bailey urged ministers to “rebuild relations” with EU at Mansion House dinner, warning Brexit has undermined UK economy. In his role, he took no position on Brexit “per se”, but added: “I do have to point out consequences.” Goods exports, in particular, have struggled.

Kemi Badenoch is her own worst enemy … and a gift for Keir Starmer and Labour | John Crace

Brexit law Joint statement following Thursday's meeting on citizens rights commission.europa.eu/publications...

2024: Nigel Farage is upset at the Chagos islands being handed back to Mauritius, saying it was advisory opinion and "there is no legal reason why we have to do any of this" 2015: Conservative David Lidington confirmed that the Brexit referendum would be 'advisory'

More Than a Million Pallets of Unusable Covid PPE Costing £8 Billion Have So Far Gone up in Smoke – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2024/11/14/m...

Nigel Farage, "Maybe mend some fences between this government and the incoming presidency of Donald Trump" Keir Starmer, "I'm glad to see him make a rare appearance back here in Britain. He's spent so much time in America recently, I half expected to see him on the immigration statistics"

Marine Le Pen: prosecutor recommends jail and 5 year ban from public office in EU embezzlement trial

My thoughts on why Trump won.

Prof Kevin Fong giving the most devastating and moving testimony to the Covid Inquiry of visiting hospital intensive care units at the height of the second wave in late Dec 2020. The unimaginable scale of death, the trauma, the loss of hope. Please watch this 2min clip. youtu.be/FPCztlID3Q0

Rishi Sunak sought to “evade” US securities law goodlawproject.org/revealed-ris...

The Government has finally succeeded in persuading UK news shows all we should be talking about is how to deport more migrants In other news millions are now living in poverty, destitution & using food banks.. https://youtu.be/D4BNXn8mT4Q?si=gg3l100r9jUk9hWi

Rishi Sunak accused of hypocrisy after backing phase-out of fossil fuels at #Cop28 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rishi Sunak claimed he was "following the science" on Covid. We now know that not only wasn't he following the science, but he was actively avoiding it https://bylinetimes.com/2023/11/23/eat-out-help-out-rishi-sunak-covid-inquiry-avoided-the-science/

Jeremy Hunt faces red wall revolt if he delivers ‘a budget for the rich’ www.theguardian.com/money/2023/n...

A damning parliamentary inquiry has revealed hundreds of thousands of children are learning in potentially unsafe buildings https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/nov/19/7000000-pupils-being-taught-in-schools-in-england-that-need-major-refurbishment

Thousands of babies and toddlers falling sick from damp homes in Britain. This Government has so much to answer for https://www.theguardian.com/global/2023/nov/12/thousands-of-babies-and-toddlers-falling-sick-from-damp-homes-in-britain-nhs-doctor-warns

UK ‘in violation of international law’ over poverty levels, says UN envoy Perhaps Home Secretary Suella Braverman could take note https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/nov/05/uk-poverty-levels-simply-not-acceptable-says-un-envoy-olivier-de-schutter

Ministers abandon plan to end pollution rules for England housebuilders https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/oct/20/ministers-abandon-plan-to-end-pollution-rules-for-england-housebuilders

Minister apologises to schools in England for funding error. Administrative mistake means headteachers will get between £45 & £55 less per pupil next year than promised. The incompetence of this Government is mind boggling https://www.ft.com/content/865e0373-8ced-45c8-bfbb-11d07e871ca7

10 months after the pledge made by Rishi Sunak to cut waiting lists the waiting list for planned NHS treatment in England has gone up again to another record high at 7.75 million https://www.bbc.com/news/health-67087906