Has Labour woken up? New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog analysing how Starmer’s Labour seems to be taking a firmer line with Reform and Brexitism, rattling Farage, but many ambiguities and contradictions remain: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/has-...

"I'm here to talk about what others won’t. To tell the truth about what makes our country great and what makes it not so great. While others thrive on creating scapegoats, I am here to tell you a different story." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

‘Polling commissioned by POLITICO shows the government’s agri-food deal agreed in principle with Brussels is popular with Remainers and Leavers alike — even when they're told it means following EU rules. ‘Nearly two-thirds (63 per cent) of voters back the deal…

In shocking: "most people want to eat competitively priced, good quality fresh food and don't care where it comes from or what Nigel Farage thinks" news.

Makes me nostalgic for the ‘Which rules are you most looking forwards to losing?’ days…

Not a serious person. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform UK backs down on newspaper ban after legal threat

Regulatory sovereignty was always an exaggerated benefit of Brexit because of the trade implications, and relatively unpopular given the belief that Conservatives and Farage wanted it to mean widespread weakening of protections.

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Just read a piece railing against... "the post-pandemic fetishisation of happiness". W T A F

Brexit shitshow latest: “The poll adds to the mounting pile of evidence that….dogma about regulatory alignment has always been more of an elite obsession” People want lower bills and less hassle and don’t care about Farage’s ego or agreeing with EU rules. Who knew? www.politico.eu/article/uk-w...

Polling commissioned by POLITICO shows wide public support for Labour’s EU reset www.politico.eu/article/uk-w...

Protests have been organised through TikTok, Telegram and Insta. They’re protesting corruption and contested elections, high youth unemployment and water shortages and power cuts. Half the population is under 18.

The Gen Z revolt continues to spread. After the Nepalese government was overthrown, we’re now in the seventh day of protest in Madagascar. 22 killed, more than a 100 injured. Gen Z here were inspired by what happened in Nepal and similarly in Kenya.

Maybe Putin has realised that a degree of caution may be warranted.

His tone has certainly changed. There was talk last night of a government plane leaving Moscow for DC. Obviously we had France storming the Russian shadow tanker which launched the drones over Denmark and arresting two people.

Putin says he will no longer launch drones in Denmark.

The Venezuelan Army's Air Defense Command has deployed its S-125 Pechora-2M surface-to-air missile systems in advance of any US action.

Trump says the US is now in “armed conflict” with cartels in the Caribbean.

its weird that the president brags about inflicting pain on american citizens and cities right?

Everyone agrees violence and hate must stop after the Manchester attack. So will the Media stop smearing Palestine supporters as terrorists and stop portraying all immigrants as dangerous criminals?

GOP Last Week: "We control everything." Today: "The shutdown was out of our control."

Calling Reform racist isn’t slander. It’s maths. 20 incidents. 18 months. 1 Farage in a permanent huff.

Sadiq Khan, "At this time of year when Jewish people across the world are commemorating Yom Kippur, it's incredibly worrying, that we've seen this awful attack on a synagogue in Manchester" "People should be allowed to go about and practice their faith knowing they are going to be safe"

“Jewish people in that Manchester synagogue are not responsible for Israeli foreign policy - likewise Muslims going to a mosque are not responsible for what some crazy jihadist might do." "I 𝘸𝘪𝘴𝘩 we could separate the two things.”

That speech was simply appalling. Glad veterans in Congress are speaking out.

It's good to be on a platform where people express normal human empathy and dismay at the horrific synagogue attack rather than on one where they weaponise it for their grubby, divisive purposes and try to turn a tragedy into an opportunity

Whilst Trump trashes renewables, Solar becomes main source of electricity in the EU for first time. The renewable energy source accounted for 22% of the electricity generated in the EU, overtaking nuclear energy, which produced 21.6% of the electricity. www.independent.co.uk/tech/solar-p...

Kemi Badenoch saying “the last time I checked, Northern Ireland did vote to leave” is so on-brand it hurts. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Once again, her insistence that she *never* makes gaffes makes every gaffe she makes much, much worse than it would otherwise have been… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

July 24, 2024

I love this. The purest essence of Kemi - incredibly wrong, bizarrely belligerent about it, and also wrong in a way where you just go “have you considered reading anything other than your Twitter feed?”

We all know why Nigel Farage is accusing Labour of inciting violence against him while cutting his security. Because if he didn’t, people might remember to ask him who paid for his house in Clacton and why he hangs around with people who take bribes from Russians.

Some of us were talking about both subjects before it was cool.

Oh, that’s a good one.

Andy Burnham, "We always will stand together" "And we will never let acts that are designed to cause hatred, division, violence, to succeed" "That's our message tonight: do not let them succeed"

Richard Tice has made up a fake quote from the PM to claim he incited violence against his political opponents. It was not sufficiently challenged in the Sky News interview that he did not say it, because the interviewer didn't have the text. Ofcom should rule uk.news.yahoo.com/no-keir-star...

Hate seeks to divide us. But hope endures when we stand together. Our solidarity is with the Jewish community today. #britainstandstogether

From her lifetime of pioneering work with chimpanzees to her tireless advocacy for the environment... Jane Goodall was a one-of-a-kind treasure to the world! I was lucky enough to be able to thank her personally when our paths crossed not long ago. Thanks again, Ms. Goodall. You will be missed. ♥️

We've had fuckups in the White House before, but never a president who seemed so deliberately intent on being a fuckup. It's been said before, but if these people were actual agents of an enemy power seeking to divide, dismantle and destroy the USA they wouldn't be doing anything different.

Starmer on the “Farage boats”, Rachel Reeves on the economic benefits of youth mobility… Are the Labour leadership starting to poke their heads out of their shells and dare to see a pro-EU pathway as a route both to fixing our woes and also attacking Farage’s Achilles’ heel? Let’s hope so.

The US is going to bailout Argentina with your tariff money. Let that sink in

Reports that former Syrian dictator and mass murderer Bashar al-Assad has been hospitalised after a poisoning assassination attempt. Presumably Putin has already drained all his cash.

Should have been in quotes then. And described as inaccurate, or a pile of stinking bullshit ‘in newspaper parlance’.

About time consequences were faced for the PPE scandal… But why only Michelle Mone? £15b worth of contracts were flagged with a corruption risk So where’s the rest of them? And what about the Tory ministers who greenlit that institutionally corrupt VIP lane?

In the late 1980s Radio 1 was massively over-represented by Kershaws despite Kershaws making up just 0.05% of the broadcasting industry. 100% of them turned out to be very problematic indeed.