Meanwhile, in the US. It just takes your breath away. *50 years* in prison for protesting. Don't imagine for one moment that we are immune to this. Already, the legislative framework is in place in the UK to enable such convictions - before we get a Trumplike PM. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

🟡 Print Edition Brexit: Ten Long Years of Bitterness By Chris Grey The A decade after the EU Referendum, British politics remains fundamentally poisoned by a project that… Read the full story below.

1/ What breaks my mind is thinking that any policy would ever satisfy the far-right. First, we were told that having a referendum on EU membership would make the far-right disappear. Then we were informed that if we simply “implemented Brexit”, that would solve the problem.

It's a decade since Brexit, so a decade since I left the UK, after having lived there for about 20 years Putting my rights to the vote was enough of a red line for me to scarper but, given the British tendency to vote for radical change, I expected the outcome Haven't returned since, even to visit

One astounding fact post Brexit: 16,400 UK firms stopped exporting to the EU between 2019 and 2023. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Remember when Brexit was supposed to unleash British enterprise from the shackles of EU bureaucracy? The Guardian checks in with small businesses ten years later, who describe the reality of endless customs forms, export blocks, and supply chain chaos as a "total, utter nightmare." Grand job. 🫠📋👇

Whilst the media commemorates 10 years since Brexit, it’s worth recalling that one of the principal causes of Brexit was the abject failure of the media to call out the lies and the liars.

"The Festival of Brexit!" Cartoon by Banxcartoons on the other place in 2018

From today's @financialtimes.com #starmer #resignation

I have more to say… Not just a goddam waste of time but also resources, influence, security, opportunity, patience… Brexit has firehosed our country’s politics, economy and sanity with bullshit for 10yrs. And on it goes. Ruining our politics, making us tedious and idiotic. I am very much not a fan.

🚨🚨Excellent debunking of 13 famous #brexit promises by @guardianheather.bsky.social on the 10 years anniversary of the momentous #referendum . 🧵 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

As we celebrate ten years since the UK voted to leave the EU, it's worth just reminding ourselves of the many benefits of Brexit, as clearly articulated by those who voted for it.

The 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote is a good time to remember the man who negotiated the biggest act of self-harm in our history, selling out farming & fishing, erecting huge barriers to trade and making everyone worse off, just because he fancied a bash at being PM.

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

On the 10th anniversary of the Brexit referendum, let us check in on how it's going...

Wednesday marks 10 years to the day since Cameron resigned to let Brexit usher in a new era of stable self governance. Since then we've burned through: 5 more prime ministers 8 chancellors 8 home secretaries 9 foreign secretaries 10 education secretaries 10 defence secretaries Masterful work.

‘Canaries in the coalmine of populism’: an oral history of the Brexit campaign, told by those with a front row seat

Three columnists debate the legacy of Brexit, and spoiler alert: it’s still an absolute mess. Ten years of data, yet Westminster is still trying to pretend it wasn't a historic mistake. 📉🫖👇

We have two words for you Nigel, and they aren’t “au revoir”.

“If Brexit is a disaster I will go and live abroad.” Nigel Farage, LBC Radio, 29 March 2017

Nice one @libdems.org.uk 👍

‘Absolute nightmare’: Brexit bellwether constituencies revisited 10 years on

Ben Jennings on the 10th anniversary of Brexit – cartoon

​Polling shows two-thirds of Europe wants the UK to rejoin, and a clear majority of Brits are ready to bring back free movement. Turns out the only people still pretending that leaving was a roaring success are the politicians who built their entire careers on the script. 📉🫖 #Brexit #RejoinEU

The tragedy of Ebbw Vale is a warning text in populism. The town received the highest level of EU funding in Wales, yet felt so left behind by Westminster that 62% voted Leave. A decade on, the UK funding shortfall is glaring, and the economic regret is palpable. 📉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #Brexit #Wales

Brexit “quietly fetters access to the €18tn continental economy that lies on the UK's doorstep.” “Each year we are outside the EU is another year in which we are poorer than we need to be” Absolutely not the actions of a country that has got its shit together. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

The Farage effect. A losers’ charter. Everything gets worse and costs more when prejudice is turned into policy. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

UK could keep special pre-Brexit terms if it rejoined EU, Michel Barnier says

In many small ways, and mostly for the worse

“Brexit caused 12% depression in UK exports, most of which (10%) is due to leaving single market. A decade on from the referendum, they have found that services sector exports to the EU are 7% lower than they would have been if the UK had remained in the EU, and goods exports are 16% lower.”

‘Brexit was a con, and those who sold it are guilty of a heinous crime’ – Michael Heseltine www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/rev...

A whole 12% of voters think Brexit has been a success. And just 25% of Leave voters. Sigh.

The sheer Etonian arrogance to assume everything will work itself out because their entire lives thus far had set them up to believe so. Johnson and Cameron both have a lot to answer for. Neither of them ever will though.

Boris Johnson: "We didn't have a plan for what to do next because we didn't think it was our job to have a plan." And we are all paying the price for that folly.

Brexit ‘sabotage’ has cost Britain up to £30bn every year. Brexit was secured by lies. None of the promised economic benefits delivered. Gave us higher business costs. Farage still peddling the same lies. UK's future is with Europe. Must rejoin the EU.

From the Archives: Refukker Farage often blames the Tories for 'doing the wrong Brexit'. Whereas Farage has always been clear that he wanted a Norwegian, sorry, WTO, sorry, Swiss, sorry, Canadian style deal...

There are going to be a lot of these '10th anniversary of the referendum' pieces in the next few weeks - my own will be in the next @bylinetimes.bsky.social - but this by @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social sets a very high bar: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

From today’s @financialtimes.com #labourparty #brexit

Surely there is no more silly a take than the UK should stop talking to itself if it wants to get closer to the EU.

Brexit increasingly resembles a form of necropolitics through which the will of the living is outweighed by the will of the dead

So finally we know what “Brexit benefit” actually means.. A £5million payment to Farage. Our country is now deeply divided, poorer, unhappier, less influential, less secure, less welcoming and less democratic… But Farage is a multimillionaire. What a fucking disgrace.

Harborne gave the Brexit Party £6 million in 2019 and was mentioned in the Panama Papers but luckily the UK has the memory of a goldfish... so nobody talks about that

Why exactly would a Thailand-based economic migrant secretly give Nigel Farage £5 million as a 'reward' for delivering Brexit? I won't get to ask either of them this question but every single journalist & broadcaster granted access could...

Lisa Nandy: “I don't think anyone in this country wants to reopen the Brexit debate.” The Country:

❌ Farage's only policy achievement has sent Britain tumbling towards isolation, economic turmoil, and division. We can never let the British people forget.

I feel much more anger towards the British pundits & politicians who failed to understand the depravity & derangement of Donald Trump than I do the ones who failed to understand the idiocy of Brexit. But it doesn’t really matter because they’re exactly the same bloody people.

Brexit: So much work. So much time. So many resources. So much red tape. And yet so little progress. In fact, just relentless loss, risk and failure. It’s so mind-numbingly tedious. And no one who did this damage is ever held to account. But god they make a fuss about fixing it.

Finnish President Alexander Stubb, "Brexit was a colossal mistake" "I'm too diplomatic to express exactly what I think about those who promoted Brexit" "It's not only like shooting yourself in the foot" "It's like amputating your leg without a medical reason for doing it"

Left: Jacob Rees-Mogg to Steve Bray, "Brexit is marvellous.. We've saved billions" Right: "Brexit costing UK up to £90bn in lost tax revenue a year"