🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Wales has been “hurt hardest” by Brexit amid a “mess” of trade barriers, cultural blockades, and a “fading” Welsh presence in EU relations, Senedd committees have warned. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politics/wales-hurt-hardest-brexit-politician-32826185

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Some graffiti has appeared on the Reform UK office in Caerphilly. Following a by election last week which Reform lost someone has written “now you can fuck off home”. Reform had made immigration a key issue in by election. These pictures are the copyright of Matthew Horwood.

Beth Rigby: "Keir Starmer has changed his top team more than I've had hot dinners." In two years before Starmer we had 3 PMs, 4 Chancellors, 3 Foreign Secretaries, 5 Home Secretaries, 5 Education Secretaries, 5 Cabinet Secretaries, etc. - total 221 ministerial departures. Maybe Beth is on a diet.

"This is insane. Turnout 50%. Up on 41% in 21. Young Plaid organiser telling me of all the texts and DMs from apolitical friends that they’re turning out to stop Reform." www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago. So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year? Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share! 1/

This deserves more attention than it has received. Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working". Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...

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Reform likely to raise Kent council tax after cost-cutting drive falters on.ft.com/4pTvJ62

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Nathan Gill is no fringe politician. He was the leader of the Reform Party and before that UKIP in Wales. A Brexit Party MEP. A friend and ally of Nigel Farage, who in 2016 called him: "terrific," and "as honest as the day is long." This is a MASSIVE story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Proof, if proof were needed, that current climate is the result of organised, sustained disinformation. "Official figures indicate net migration is falling, yet concern among Britons is close to the highest it has been since polling began in 1974." ~AA www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

From Brexit to Brexitism. New post starting the 10th year of my now retitled Brexit & Brexitism Blog, analysing the current politics of Brexit, this summer's confected crisis, and the new terrain of post-Brexit politics. Long read: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/09/from... 1/2

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Nigel Farage was humiliated earlier today by a brilliant Rep. Jamie Raskin who called him a “far-right pro-Putin politician” and a “Donald Trump sycophant and wannabe”. Not sure Nigel will want to come back to the US after that 😂

On Sunday, Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick attended a rally organised by the Homeland Party – described as one of the UK’s largest fascist groups. Jenrick was photographed with Eddy Butler, co-founder of a Nazi terrorist organisation called Combat 18. Jenrick posted that photo himself.

The right-wing press is going mad over votes at 16 ("a naked attempt to twist democracy in Labour’s favour", an "election-rigging move"...) Oddly, they said the same 100 years ago when the voting age for women fell from 30 to 21. Let's revisit the Mail's campaign to"Stop the Flapper Vote Folly"...

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Nine years ago the godfather of Brexit, Lord Daniel Hannan, predicted life in Brexit Britain in June 2025. Roll the tape… (VO by @gavinesler.bsky.social. Part 2 below👇)

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Interesting and insightful profile of Starmer

After the Brexit reset, how about a Brexit review? New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. The reset now needs to be delivered, including an SPS deal. Meanwhile, with the SDR we've had three defence reviews since Brexit, so why not a Brexit review? chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/06/afte...

The Telegraph is now having to publish so many corrections to articles where it attempts to find *any angle whatsoever* to attack net-zero polices that it makes sense to start tracking them here. These are the ones published since Labour won the election. "We are happy to correct the record."

That was the reset that was. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog evaluating the framing and content of the UK-EU reset Summit, political reactions to it, and what it says about Labour's post-Brexit approach to the EU: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/05/that...

Not dealing with Brexitism. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog, including a look at the UK deals with the US & India, a final preview of the UK-EU Summit, and a discussion of Starmer's failure to challenge Brexitism: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/05/not-...

Yes, one of my favourite Brexit clips, though my number 1 is the LBC caller who, with perfect comic timing, reeled in Farage. It still makes me laugh: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW_0...

How's turning the Washington Post into an opinion-free zone and guzzling peach wrinkled ballsack working out for you now, Jeff? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...

Bluebell Wood, Crickhowell. Does what it says on the tin!

Arthur Daley's Brexit. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog, with analysis of what Trump's Tariffs do and don't tell us about Brexit itself, and how the 'choice' they give the UK is to duck and dive whilst the real decisions are made by others: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/04/arth...

The Good Friday Agreement was signed 27 years ago today. It was an act of delicate diplomacy, which delivered peace and security to a part of our country where those qualities had long been absent. Those achievements should never be taken for granted.

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How Trump has reset the Brexit reset. Latest post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. The moral collapse of the US & the US's declaration of economic war both change the meaning of the Brexit reset, but they don't necessarily change it in the same way: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/04/how-...

NEW 🧵 A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far: 1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively. These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.

Surprising to hear that a government formed exclusively of a country’s most stupid people isn’t really working out.

One of the most iconic speedway photos of all time in my opinion. Just pure speedway perfection👌 Happy 71st birthday to Peter Collins #PC

The Brexit reformation. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog looking at some of the key international questions facing the UK, plus a deep dive into the Reform fiasco and what it means for Farage and post-Brexit populism: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-...

We're in London today with a big old bus to tell our Govt this country cannot afford cuts. Instead they should tax us, the super rich. A 2% wealth tax alone could raise up to £460mln a week. @Keir_starmer - invest in a fairer economy. Patriotic Millionaires say Tax Our Wealth

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There is an alternative to Government welfare cuts - a 2% tax on wealth. There is no shortage of money here, we just need a fairer approach to tax - take more from the few not the many.

Andrew Neil now.... and exactly four months ago. A great example of the British Right finally catching up. Their primary objective of 'owning the libs' has hit brutal reality.

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"Some random country that hasn't fought a war in 40 years..." Over 500 dead British and French personnel (more than 1,000 total European fatalities) and c10,000 injured in Afghanistan 2001-2021. The only time Article 5 has been invoked. 'Disrespect' does not reside in lack of a suit, Mr Vance. ~AA

“Why would anyone really want to go backwards?”

This helps. And I bet you it really upsets them. youtu.be/CUpOMSJ1MdU?...