Ten years after the Brexit vote, the bill is brutal. Britain has paid for Nigel Farage’s lie with two million fewer jobs, £27bn in lost trade, an economy up to 8% smaller and costs estimated at £90bn every year. 1/2

AMAZING: Protesters are now tearing down barricades at a beach in southern Albania, saying that the land belongs to the people and not to oligarchs like Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. Share everywhere to show your support! substack.com/@rawstory/no...

After ten years of the Conservatives’ Brexit experiment, the British public have had enough. Nigel Farage pocketed a £5 million ‘reward’ for the damage he’s caused, while the rest of us are paying for it dearly. It’s time to end the chaos and fix our broken relationship with Europe.

Ten years ago today the whole country and its future were sacrificed on the altar of Boris Johnson’s ego, David Cameron’s stupidity and Nigel Farage’s prejudice. A decade thrown away and a nation left angrier and poorer. Thanks, you absoute pricks.

Nigel Farage pocketed a £5 million Brexit reward. When he promised we would be better off, he clearly only meant himself. 10 years on, it's time to end the chaos and fix our broken relationship with Europe, starting by joining the single market.

It's the 10th anniversary of the dumbest moment in modern British history so let's celebrate some of the idiots who made it happen. First up ... Jacob Rees-Mogg and his promise of cheap food and wine... In fact food prices have increased some 12% as a direct result of Brexit (LSE) 1/5

Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey has unveiled a billboard campaign across the UK to mark the 10th anniversary of the Brexit referendum today. The billboards call out Reform leader Nigel Farage’s £5 million "reward for campaigning for Brexit, whilst people across the country feel the pinch."

Great framing. Farage is a grifter.

Anyone would think these heat waves have just come along from much of media coverage. But they were predicted. A long time ago now. And nobody acted. #AgeOfStupid

10 years on, the very same politicians who caused the Brexit mess say nobody can dare try to fix it. We say enough. It's time for a bold new deal with Europe to make Britain safer, richer and stronger. Watch our new film here ⬇️ youtu.be/ihdhBLT6YYM

Exactly 10 years since the Brexit vote, the verdict is in.

David Frost accuses Starmer of not thinking hard enough. Give me strength… www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Elon Musk spent $290 million getting Trump elected. During this midterm cycle, he's spent $85 million. In total, that’s 0.0375% of his $1 trillion net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.

We simply need to rejoin with all the normal rules of the club. We’re losing £100 billion pounds a year because of Brexit, according to Bloomberg.

From hedgehogs and bats to butterflies and newts, the UK’s wildlife is disappearing fast – and our government is letting it happen. I’ve just signed @friends-earth.bsky.social’s petition calling for urgent action. Add your name: action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/tel...

It has now been 10 weeks and three days since Nigel Farage last turned up to vote in the House of Commons

My latest for Bloomberg: "We are about to see the Great Clean Energy Acceleration 2.0 – a discontinuity in energy markets as profound as the oil shocks of the 1970s, and one that could bring forward the peak in fossil fuel use and emissions to this side of 2030." about.bnef.com/insights/cle...

The new EHRC Code of Practice is not fit for purpose. It does not provide clear guidance or do enough to protect everyone from discrimination, and it is not compatible with longstanding British values. @EdDavey.LibDems.org.uk and @MarieCGoldman.bsky.social have written to Bridget Phillipson. ⬇️

Ed Davey and I have written to the Minister for Women & Equalities, asking her to withdraw the EHRC Code of Practice. The Government have repeatedly assured trans people that they have protection from discrimination, yet this guidance does the opposite, breaking decades of precedent.

The 1970s, when a temperature of 23C saw front page stories of "sizzling" Britain.

Britain’s politics has changed, but our voting system hasn’t. I’m asking my MP to support an independent National Commission on Electoral Reform so we can build a voting system fit for modern Britain. Join me. actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...

3. There is no real policy on energy here. Which reflects the failure to recognise the real pressure on bills is twofold. Our - reliance on hydrocarbons - need for investment in energy generation/distribution (in part because of a criminal lack of investment in 2010s & 2000s)

When we need broad public consent for the green transition, and should be able to allay concerns that corporate power is using it as an excuse to get what it wants, Starmer’s team treats it as a holy war against the landscape-loving infidel. Beating us into submission on behalf of power.

For whose benefit? They’ve told us. Rachel Reeves said she hatched her assault on nature protections over a “smoked salmon and scrambled eggs breakfast” with corporate executives. Starmer told us he wanted to kick down the planning rules as the result of his “conversations with leading CEOs”.

This agenda is justified, yet again, with violent and hate-filled language. Starmer and Reeves boast about “tearing down”, “kicking down” and “ripping up” our rights to object, and label people who care about their neighbourhoods and about nature as “blockers”, “zealots” and “time-wasting nimbys”.

Instead it has instinctively gone straight for the throat, further curtailing our democratic rights, further restricting public participation and centralising decision-making. More freedom for corporations and billionaires, less for the citizen. Much like its assaults on the right to protest.

It makes no attempt to win people over, to persuade, to build consensus. Where are the public information videos and emergency briefings on climate breakdown, like the emergency briefings on Covid-19? What happened to the Green Prosperity Plan, which was going to transform our lives? Ditched.

First past the post is contributing to disillusionment with politics. It risks an unrepresentative, populist government elected by perhaps 30% of people who vote. The Representation of the People Bill is an opportunity for the Government to introduce proportional representation.

- Subsidising consumption in the face of a supply shock - reducing incentives to drive less/switch to EVs - using up limited fiscal space to help better-off drivers rather than the most vulnerable. Hard to think of a worse policy right now.

“We object to working on Palantir's FDP – it is not & never was, the right choice for the Health Service. NHS must not renew Palantir's contract & we will fight internally to make that happen”… “There is a better way & we are willing to build it ourselves” 👏👏👏 www.opendemocracy.net/nhs-england-...

MPs tonight have a chance to back our amendment, restore a strong trading relationship with Europe and turbo-charge our economy. It's time for a UK-EU customs union.

Labours leadership wannabes should drop their red-lines over a closer relationship with Europe and back our plan, beginning with a UK-EU customs union to turbocharge our economy. Tonight's vote on our amendment is the perfect chance.

Tonight, Labour MPs face a simple choice on our King’s Speech amendment for a UK-EU Customs Union: vote to cut bills, boost trade and strengthen our security, or choose to continue the Brexit mayhem.

Starmer is smart enough to know that the FPTP isn't fit for purpose, he said so himself when in opposition. But he's obviously too timid to do anything about it, held hostage by MPs who put career and party before country. electoral-reform.org.uk/keir-starmer...

📺 WATCH: Today at #PMQs @ollyglover.bsky.social asked Keir Starmer about the UK's broken voting system. "Does the Prime Minister still have full confidence in the First Past the Post system to deliver strong and stable government?" "Yes I do," responded our 6th Prime Minister in 10 years 👀

You can't usually shut Farage up. Something going on?

Britain’s voting system is broken. 70 MPs are backing an amendment to finally review it. But to make an impact, we need many more. I’ve urged my MP to support it with this tool. Can you contact yours too? actionnetwork.org/letters/ask-...

Farage "I can't be bought" Also Farage -

Liberal Democrats will always fight for Proportional Representation, to make sure politics works for everyone. We may have every councillor on some councils, but we don't have every vote. Everyone's voice deserves to be heard and represented.

🔥 Westminster's First Past the Post system is broken and unfair. 🌹 Today, 66 Labour MPs have signed an amendment, led by @alexsobel.co.uk, to mend it. 👇 Let’s make sure the “Representation or the People Bill” does what it says on the tin. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This isn’t a fringe position - Starmer’s own advisers urged him to embrace a customs union. In December, thirteen Labour MPs broke their whip to vote for one. The economic argument was settled long ago and what is missing in No10 is the nerve to act on it. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Analysis by the House of Commons Library, commissioned by my Lib Dem colleagues, found that a more ambitious deal with the EU - even within Starmer’s straitjacket - could generate at least £25bn a year for the public finances. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

⚡ The biggest breakthrough in clean energy might not be solar panels or wind turbines...it’s batteries. For years, critics argued renewables could never replace “baseload” power because the sun sets and the wind slows. But new battery economics are changing the equation fast.

♻️☀️ Researchers have found a way to upcycle silicon from old solar panels into reusable catalysts for clean chemistry. The breakthrough could help tackle growing solar waste while supporting pharmaceuticals and fine chemical production 🔬⚡ A strong step toward a truly circular solar economy 🌍

A progressive majority can be invisible. If we stay divided, an extremist minority wins on a fraction of the vote. We’re joining @compassoffice.bsky.social to demand strategic cooperation. Let’s act like a majority. Sign the letter: forwarddemocracy.com/neighbourhood

Sexual abuse of Palestinians should force a reckoning for the British government. Article by Anne-Marie Simpson, Chair of Lib Dem Friends of Palestine @ldfpalestine.bsky.social @libdems.org.uk www.declassifieduk.org/sexual-abuse...

On Brexit Deputy PM David Lammy says “Farage said it would bring down immigration, it hasn’t it’s got worse, Farage said we would be better off, we’re much much poorer, everyone across the country realises that, there were promises made and we should hold their feet to the fire” 👏