lots of chatter in britain about a re-join. Quick reminder to brits that the EU is very very different today, to what it was in 2016 when you voted to leave. Thank you for your attention in this matter. 👇

Fun fact: the british helped design the new EES checks in 2014 when they were a member of the EU. The glorious irony is the majority of people caught up in the queues are now british people! Nobody expected them to be so stupid they would vote for brexit and become Non EU nationals!

Crazy electoral system!

Brexit was a whole nation being conned by the fucking Captain Planet villains.

the irony is not lost on Europeans. The French joke that the English are pumping so much untreated poo into the channel, migrants will be able to walk over soon. brexit britain has become, quite literally, the arsehole of Europe. Hastings, England 👇

One of the most popular british blogs on brexit is Chris Greys "brexit" blog. Going for 10+ years, it's well written but as a European outsider looking in, the underlying logic is utterly bonkers and ironically, provides an insight into why the UK is still in a massive mess. quick 🧵

A thing of absolute beauty. Ex-Tory, Charles Tannock, who warned that brexit would be a massive mistake finds himself on GB "news" (the UKs version of Americas Fox "News") declaring all his predictions about brexit have come though The presenters' face is priceless.

@elenaadaal.bsky.social this might interest. A new motion just entered into the NI Assembly: "Re-join the EU with Ireland".

Some of this saw his coming from a distance. It still surprises to actually see it happening.

Northern Ireland says Hi! The leader of the SDLP just entered a new motion at the NI Assembly in Belfast: "Rejoin the EU with Ireland".

I hear the French are calling it "Half Speed 2".

a new motion is being put forward today at the NI Assembly in Belfast: "Re-join the EU with Ireland". This is seismic and means an end of the UK.

"In NI, we have very little means of controlling politics in Britain but we do have a clear way back into the EU. Via a new Ireland, in Europe." - @otoolematthew.bsky.social MLA and member of the SDLP party in Northern Ireland.

Very concise and informative thread here on the current conditions of the UK Union vis a vis Brexit and the Good Friday Agreement. And an illustration of the wisdom of the old proverb, to be very careful what you wish for.

Polls in NI reached a tipping point last week Mick. It's a thing. 👇

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@gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social is completely correct. Even many of my customers on the Protestant heartland on the Shankill say that not only is reunification inevitable it’s desirable. They see how much better off the South are and want some of that reflected in their own lives.

When the real history of the last few years comes to be investigated, I think many will be surprised at how deliberate and strategic those Summer 2024 riots were - and how effective at taking out a very new govt's legs from under it. Planned and simply looking for a trigger event, would be my guess.

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morning Alex & Naomi. Something for the @quietriotpod.bsky.social podcast? @sturdyalex.bsky.social ¦ @pimlicat.bsky.social

One of the biggest mistakes by the government was to tolerate and pander to this group. Far right extremist thugs posing as patriots, who should have been clamped down on from day one www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Who is going to tell the brexity types shouting at hotels or putting up british flags everywhere they are going to need a new flag soon...because of their brexit?

Really important thread folks... As always, empires never see their collapse coming, it's often started by someone for the completly opposite reason and no-one can stop it. The irony of this would be hilarious.

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The biggest amount of pomp & ceremony which depicts everything that is wrong & out of date in this despotic regime. #AbolishTheMonarchy #DownWithTheCrown #WestminsterIsBroken #DissolveTheUnequalBritishUnion politicsuk.com/news/kings-s...

Absurd. Obnoxious, pampered, nonce loving twat wearing a stoopid fuggen hat and calling himself King. They even paint his little microphone gold, special gold royal microphone, because he’s special. You can’t have special people in a democracy, that’s not what democracy is. #NotMyKing

Later today, King Charles will travel in a gilded carriage to read a speech on "economic fairness" while sitting on a golden throne. He remains the only person exempt from the 40% inheritance tax on his private billions and immune to over 160 laws the rest of us must follow.

who goes to a newspaper and agrees to declare to everyone how they are dodging tax around Europe?

are britons aware that this will be the funny bit at the end of the news, right across Europe tonight? "And finally....on brexit island....the king formally opens parliament as if it's 1899".

I think trump loves this nonsense, all the gold, pomp, pageantry and deference. It belongs in the 19th century, alongside curtseying & raw sewage in rivers.

After the Coutts affair, Farage nearly doubled his shareholdings in GB News parent company 1. No other presenter has such a stake 2. No political leader in the UK (I know of) owns so many shares in a media company 3. No Ofcom regulated media company supports just one political party

I am among 6 new commissioners appointed to the Equality and Human Rights Commission. I look forward to contributing to the board's strategic role overseeing the EHRC's work to enforce equality laws + protect human rights, and to helping to renew its relationships www.gov.uk/government/n...

Everyone is rightly interested in Harborne’s monetary support for Nigel Farage. But GB News provides him with an annualised salary of over a million pounds a year, 500,000 shares and unaccounted for millions in terms of free political advertising for Farage’s Party

This is great news. I wonder when the English will realise that Farage is Englands Orbán.

Listen to this little edit of Zia Yusuf that I put together and tell me how RefUK are different to 'traditional politicians".

Fintan spotted it a few years ago. When asked in 2011 about identity, the vast majority in England chose "English", instead of "English & British" or "British". He explains in the first few mins of this missive. Clip should start at 00:46.

@elenaadaal.bsky.social ¦ @pimlicat.bsky.social ¦ @sturdyalex.bsky.social ¦ @vivamjm.bsky.social These results today across England were not unexpected by some outsiders looking in 👇 TL;DR: "we're witnessing the end of the UK union - the English want to be English again".

I think this is an important read for the UK.

"we're witnessing the end of the UK Union: the english want to be english again".

Fintan O Toole's missive in todays Irish Times is well worth a read, I hope it gets licensed to english newspapers. He discusses the buyers remorse over brexit: yet the rise in support for farage. quick 🧵 www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

“You could level the same accusation at most UK watchdogs, which seem to be mostly ‘watch’ and not very ‘dog’. They just quietly observe everything happening, but rarely bark and never bite." @pimlicat.bsky.social

Northern Ireland is super close to collapse, folks. And as a reminder, NI leaving to re-join Ireland brings an end to the "United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland", to use the full title with brexit playing a starring role. Quick🧵 on why NI is collapsing and next steps. 1/8

Morning. Poll question: If a Referendum were held tomorrow on a United Ireland in the EU, how would you vote? Ireland: 59% Yes. Northern Ireland: 63% Yes.

Might be time to watch again Chariots of Fire as a reminder of the traditional English anti-semitism which I personally could never distinguish from its left-wing variant.

Polanski accuses Times of ‘scraping the barrel’ over his claim to be charity spokesperson – UK politics live

Sky News correctly identifies the problem with our current electoral system in an era of multiparty politics. Do we really want to elect our representatives on 15% of the vote? We need a fair, proportional system. news.sky.com/video/share-...

“Farage is rarely pictured without a pint in his hand. But in his case it is presented as something that makes him ordinary, blokey, closer to voters. A sort of testament to his 'realness'. While, in Rayner's case, it is evidence that she is unreliable, dangerous, and - worst of all - unladylike.”

An update on British euroscepticism. Morning.

"The time for half-measures and managed decline is over. It is time to talk about EU membership. The progressive majority in this country has not forgotten what was taken from it in 2016. The question is whether our political leaders will finally start representing it." #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

America Is Officially an Empire in Decline Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/o...