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You can't argue with geography. Or common sense. observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Well done Labour Anyone who thought you represented real change now despises you. Anyone who didn’t, still won’t. People who weren’t that convinced but hoped for the best are out of patience. You’ve managed to turn off everyone. Quite the achievement!

Starmer is simultaneously detoxifying Reform and toxifying the Labour Party. I ask again, what is he playing at?

Frantically learning all the wrong lessons. People who want Reform policies will vote Reform. People who want Labour policies ... well, perhaps they'll just have to vote Green. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Hey British media, It’s no surprise that if you give Farage the run of the place, he’ll start winning. Time to do your actual jobs and start interrogating him on his Brexit shitshow, his funding, his Trumpiness, his idiotic manifesto, his real plans for the NHS… instead of drumrolling him into No.10

This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear.

Oh man, somebody get him out of there. He’s crazy.

How about extra 10% tax on all companies and high net worth individuals who donated to Trump and also operate in the UK? Starting with Musk, Bezos, and Zuckerberg?

Busted!!

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

Putin and his enablers are war criminals. Retired General: ""People need to be clear - what the US is trying to do is get Ukraine to capitulate," he says. "To give in to Russia – there is nothing nice about this at all." www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...

Chris Grey's blog - excellent as ever.

Perfectly captured.

"We need closer ties with the EU and now they are letting us know the door is ajar. All we have to do is push it open. And yet we cannot even find the strength to do it” www.theneweuropean.co.uk/why-are-we-s...

Five years on: stuck. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog on how the latest news (the 'wobble', PEM, AI, regulatory capacity, Trump etc.) shows there's still no post-Brexit strategy & perhaps none is possible - but UK is still not ready to admit it: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/01/five...

Brilliant.

I’d take up diy if this is what it’s all about! 👏🏻 IKEA!

“This is the moment for Starmer to re-engage with the EU. On Feb 3 the PM will attend his first informal summit with other 🇪🇺 leaders in Brussels…and yet his approach is marked by a plodding cautiousness” www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

Trump has deployed active military to help round up migrants and put them into detention camps. The military forced us out of our homes at gunpoint in 1942 because we were considered possibly disloyal Americans. They sent us to internment camps for four years. History is repeating. Pay attention.

UK will not accept EU offer to join pan-European customs union 'at present time', minister says Heaven help us www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

The world’s richest man is promoting the far right in Europe. Don’t buy a Tesla . Location: Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjWl...

Pecksniff: Can we really see Musk as the fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse? eastangliabylines.co.uk/pecksniff/pe...

Over 60 German and Austrian universities, the German Federal Court of Justice and multiple top German football clubs have announced that they will be withdrawing from Twitter (X), due to US oligarch Elon Musk's "discussion" (collaboration) with Germany's neo-Nazi party (AfD) Alice Weidl.

Dear God, they really should've sorted this and got rid of her. The problem isn't that she's Brexiter. It's that she's an idiot.

Ultimately we should be much more scared of the slithering, surreptitious evil of Zuckerberg (and those like him) than of the pitifully showy malevolence of the idiot Musk.

I literally can’t believe that we’re hearing the case being made for austerity again. After it destroyed growth, destroyed communities, trashed public services & gave us all this far right backlash to deal with. These smug rich men still saying Reeves should make the case for more cuts🤦‍♀️ #r4today

ABC, NBC & CBS dedicated about 16 minutes of airtime last night to the California wildfires without once mentioning climate change. Since the news failed do it's job, here's a short summary of the role of climate change and wildfire risk: www.noaa.gov/noaa-wildfir...

Well that lasted long. So much for Farage's 'principled' opposition to Tommy Robinson

THREAD: "The 12 Days of Brexit" (With a tip of the hat to the 12 Days of Christmas.) ---- On the first day of Brexit, Leaving sent to me A return to roaming fees. On the second day of Brexit, Leaving sent to me Two Dover delays, And a return to roaming fees.

The row over Kemi Badenoch’s dislike of what Keir Starmer’s spokesman cringingly described as “the Great British institution” of the sandwich is clearly absurd, but it also reveals a lot about why she is continuing to push the Conservative party towards ever greater irrelevance and an assisted death

A majority of Brexit supporters now want to accept free movement in exchange for a return to the single market. Will this finally rid Labour of its Brexit bogeyman? East Anglia Bylines’ acerbic political diarist, Pecksniff, asks this and other thorny questions...

"Gregg Wallace’s ghostwriter says he sexually harassed her" The details in this article of Wallace and his behaviour are shocking tbh. The BBC has received complaints about his behaviour for YEARS but done nothing.... www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Brexit Curse British food exports to EU ‘have fallen £3bn a year since Brexit’. Border checks, lower standards on pesticides, veterinary drugs, animal welfare make UK exports harder. Brexit costing UK economy about £100bn a year. Rejoin EU. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

"A minor paperwork error left 100 French schoolchildren stranded, highlighting Brexit’s costly impact on UK tourism" How utterly frustrating for those kids. 😥

Ban Driven Grouse Shooting wildjustice.org.uk/hen-harriers... Grouse shooting estates are responsible for the illegal persecution of thousands of birds of prey every year. Please sign.

"And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent." Location: Parliament Square, London (sound on) youtu.be/WMwqhdVV5as

Oh come on Labour - so depressing to hear Pat McFadden say UK has no plans for a youth mobility scheme with the EU. We have schemes with NZ, Australia, Canada, Japan, Iceland, Uruguay & more - only reason not to have one with EU is fear of right wing press. Such cowardice @bbclaurak.bsky.social

Kemi Badenoch tells Keir Starmer that "we had a Budget in March this year and tractors were not blockading the streets of Whitehall afterwards." Anyway, here's the 'go slow' protest by farmers that blockaded the streets around Parliament following the Conservative Government's last Budget in March

Post-Brexit Britain’s Trump problem goes much deeper than trade tariffs. Latest post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. The discussion of how the UK might respond to Trump's tariffs is already confused, and anyway misses the bigger challenge they betoken: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2024/11/post...

Depressing and appalling. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Wealth growth since 1970 Average - 8% Top 10% - 85% Top 1% - 320% Top 0.01% - 4000% Billionaires - 32000% Can you see the problem?

This petition needs to go viral and trigger a debate. We've had enough of #brexit and it won't get better until we #RejoinEU. Pls sign and share. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700005

“Labour can no longer hide from the cost of Brexit. Weak growth and a Trump trade war could force the party to change its Europe policy” By David Gauke www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024...

Trust me, I have seen it. It’s fab. www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/smiths...

Starter packs by @seanjones.org - please share so we can reclaim the tolerant and generous legal community we once had on ‘that’ other place.

There is now some hard evidence that X boosted the Trump campaign and suppressed the Harris campaign. What's to stop Musk from doing the same in other countries? www.threads.net/@profsander....

Lord Rickets adds to BoE Governor’s alarm on Brexit - STOP dithering! “I’m picking up from my EU friends that they’ve appreciated new govt’s efforts to warm up the tone and rebuild personal contacts. But they are beginning to be impatient for substance. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...