Terry Reintke MEP, "Does the EU want the UK back?" "Abso-f*cking-lutely" "We want you back in the European Union"

Makerfield is - of course - hugely important, and perhaps Nigel Farage may be encouraged to fade away & spend more time with his £5 million "personal security" £££ & other donations - but today's biggest news is this: the real cost of Brexit to all of us. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Nightmare for a friend of mine in London. Please share.

Could France's attack rival Brazil 1970 and Brazil 2002? Me @financialtimes.com featuring Ousmane Dembélé's wakeup man, Mbappé promising to defend (big if true), the mystery about whether Olise speaks French (or anything else) + Mbappé being mean about Cherki. Free to read as.ft.com/r/ef5004f1-4...

One part of U.K. is enjoying a Brexit boost 10 years after vote - The Japan Times share.google/gvQ2t1cuqQxc...

This strikes me as one way of explaining why our party political electoral system doesn’t work: www.facebook.com/share/r/1D3T...

Tomorrow’s Independent front page:

⚫ Mort du peintre David Hockney : le Britannique, chantre d’une peinture figurative virtuose, immédiate et sensuelle, lorgnant un pop art empreint de gigantisme, est mort à 88 ans. ➡️ https://l.liberation.fr/KjC

Stories like this about acts of heroism by people who are not white never go viral www.thesun.co.uk/news/3937252...

Anaka Women's Collective are raising funds to support people who have been attacked, displaced and traumatised in racist attacks in Belfast Every penny raised will go to transport, emergency accommodation and urgent supplies for families, and to sustain helper networks for future emergency response

We economists have done the maths: ‘growth’ is a doomed strategy – there is a better way | Olivier De Schutter and others

Seems misleading, @benjudah.bsky.social ? How could UK be in Schengen if Ireland isn’t? On the euro, I understand the UK doesn’t fulfill the criteria and then it would still have to opt to adopt it (other EU countries have not adopted it even though they fulfill the criteria?)?

💥 97,500!💥 This Rejoin petition is so close to completion. Let’s tip it over the 100,000 mark to force the government to respond. Given the party in power now realises they need the pro-EU base - are they really going to refuse a debate in parliament on this? Let’s find out! Sign and share!

This is an unforgivably stupid situation. It is an astonishing own goal to try and drive student numbers down to move an immigration number that in turn is totally ignored by the anti-immigrant head bangers.

Petition: Apply to Rejoin the EU as soon as possible to increase growth in the UK We believe Brexit's not working. 10 years after the Brexit vote, let's apply to rejoin the EU, reverse the damage, increase tax revenues and restore opportunities in the UK petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

The Rejoin petition jumped from 70K to 75K yesterday. It needs to hit 100K by June 8th when the petition closes in order to get a debate in Parliament. The 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote is June 23rd.

Sign sign sign! #RejoinEU

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Truth-teller:

It just feels like even the BBC lobby correspondents have bathed in the elixir of absolute power. Though, to be fair, Keir Starmer has not yet embraced the challenge.

Vote vote vote: in Live Times poll in the Times today. Should Britain rejoin the EU? • Result: 75% Yes / 25% No www.thetimes.com/article/a831...

Have to say, particularly liked @mattchorley.bsky.social ‘s line of questioning with Zia Yusuf yesterday on whether Mr Farage had accepted any more money from elsewhere (yes/no/don’t know): very well crafted question.

It's Europe Day! Today, we celebrate all that Europe stands for. And we celebrate all of us, the citizens of Europe. Because all together, we are Europe. Happy Europe Day!

This 👇

Brexit has been an incontrovertible success (for at least one person).

Apart from the question of the illegality of this threat, it may well please Reform supporters who appear to relish hurting other Brits, but it fundamentally misreads the national character that reacts obstinately to being threatened.

Maybe Cuba should just preemptively grant citizenship to all the children of South Americans deported by Trump? 🤷🏽

Bleachers cover The Waterboys’ Whole of the Moon youtu.be/RWRJTU50LGA?...

Iranian defies odds to defeat Trump.

For the love of God, could the "common sense" brigade PLEASE develop some actual COMMON SENSE?! No, the NHS has not ordered staff not to use the term "it's raining cats and dogs" for fear of either upsetting or offending anyone... Please engage your brains for a minute🙏 🧵1/15

To whose benefit?

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee. What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18

Given the venal nature of the current US regime, how much are its individual members, the president in particular, making out of its support for various foreign governments?

Will Iran be the US what the Ancient Athenian Democracy’s expedition against Syracuse was to it? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Indeed. If you add a profit motive or just extra bureaucracy, both of which would be introduced by an insurance-based system, those are costs that would take money away from paying for medical care. 1/

“We could be Norway!”

Reform UK really do inspire community action in the most unexpected ways.

“A light unto the gentiles..”

The Jewish News, which I am proud to work for as Deputy Editor, has published an editorial on this week's Iftar prayers in Trafalgar Square www.jewishnews.co.uk/voice-of-the...

This is cold, hard logic, not laced with with bigoted promises or easy, misdirecting solutions. Has my country got what it takes to unshackle itself from the chains of benighted prejudice and embrace a future with hope?

@markemuk.bsky.social with an interesting piece on the geopolitics of Brexit. The dogs in the street knew it was a geopolitical mistake even before Putin, Donbas, Trump, Iran, Venezuela and so forth. 1 www.europeanmovement.co.uk/trump_war_mu...

This is good: youtube.com/watch?v=F1MA...

Oh boy! What a headline... Ask yourself: "What am I being asked to believe?" "Who am I being told to blame?" Take a few seconds to imagine what the Daily Mail (And Telegraph, GB News and Express) WANT you to think is going on. Let's see what's ACTUALLY happening...🧵 1/21

@fotoole.bsky.social - who is on here and well worth a follow...by quite a distance, one of the best brexit commentators - articulates what you describe very well.

#QuestionTime last night. I was heartened by the wide applause given by the audience to @georgemonbiot.bsky.social but finally realise how deluded we are as a nation about the UK’s relative power in the world with the multiple incredulities about the lack of UK naval power. 1/

@sophyridge.bsky.social it would have been good to see you challenge the migration minister repeating the anti-migrant line that refugees must seek asylum in the first safe country they enter, which isn’t what international treaties say.

The Greens win Gorton and Denton, a white market trader from Essex delivers a heartfelt inclusive poem about England on BGT and then this. Have people finally rumbled the faux-patriotic, whiny shit-stirrers of Reform UK Limited and their racist fellow travellers?

Gorton and Denton made history last night. Reform lost. And Farage couldn’t accept it. Here’s what happened, why it matters, and what we do next.