Angela Rayner was dragged through every front page for weeks... HMRC's verdict: NOT deliberate. NOT even careless. Farage pockets £5 million and chooses not to declare it So where's the wall-to-wall coverage? Tell me this isn't a rigged game.

Sir Tim Eicke KC, and former Judge at @coe.int shares that of the 46 member countries of the Council of Europe it is only in the U.K. that there are political parties - two - who have in their manifesto leaving the European Convention on Human Rights.

Indeed, that is a no-go for the EU. Most British still think the EU is only about trade. As long as that perception remains, the British population will always be disappointed.

…Brexit was delivered. Britain got what it demanded: sovereignty, borders, external status and reduced integration. The issue is not that Brexit failed to happen. The issue is that too many people are only now discovering what Brexit actually meant in practice.

If you know, you know!

For “Northern Irish people” it can only mean either A) Irish citizens B) British citizens Again you are shouting at the wind and proving beyond doubt you are a moron unable to accept facts and reality

I'm not a politician, but if I ever take £5 million from a crypto billionaire businessman and start banging on about how great crypto is... please disregard everything I say and start calling me a f-ing wanker. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It is actually rather insulting to suggest that the UK is so infantile that it cannot take responsibility for the consequences of its decision, or that the rest of the world ought to change its ways of operating to avoid hurting the UK's feelings. The UK must operate in the real world.

🇵🇸 🇮🇱 Israeli authorities are systematically depriving people in Gaza of the water they need to live, Doctors Without Borders warned Tuesday, decrying a campaign of "collective punishment" against Palestinians. ➡️ u.afp.com/Saf7

Adopted by Denmark, a Bombed-Out Ukrainian City is Given New Life www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/w...

What’s striking about the UK Brexit debate isn’t just that it’s wrong, it’s that people often know it’s wrong but say it anyway. Claims get debunked, conceded, then recycled because they’re useful. That’s not confusion. It’s a habit of dishonesty that passes for debate.

Wow!

Happy first day of spring youtu.be/yhuMLpdnOjY?...

This from July 2017 was your cue to find how this UK red line would affect you as a non resident in Spain, and what you could to to mitigate your situation. >Apply for residency. >Accept 90/180. >Sell up and relocate. >Ignore it and spend 9 years tediously whinging on SM. www.dw.com/en/brexit-pm...

This year marks the 250th anniversary of US independence from Britain. I'm hoping it will also mark the start of British independence from the US.

Our rights? We voted them away. That's what happened. We're not EU citizens anymore because we voted our citizenship away. It's entirely a British decision. Trying to foist the blame onto the EU just isn't constructive or helpful.

Get a grip. Anyone is "at the whim of the EU” is a really offensive way to frame it. Brexit is a UK choice. After that, the EU27 applying our laws isn’t “doing what we like”, it’s the predictable consequence of the UK opting out of shared rights and rule-making.

It is in times like this that Tom Lehrer comes to mind - and no, it isn’t Poisoning Pidgins in the Park.

I understand the traditional Finnish approach is not to announce but to let you find out when they’re good and ready for to find out they’re around.

Trump is a liar and an idiot

The works of Plato are now being banned at schools in the United States. Tell me again how censorship is a European problem? 🤔

Absolutely. And this is how their sacrifice is rewarded. Trump is too narcissistic to know this, but the Danish will never forget.

"This zone expands and Brits are shut out, through no fault of our own." 😂😂🤣🤣

Where is the evidence that "Spain" wanted any such thing? As opposed to the Spanish equivalent of the mayor of Torbay? The current Schengen arrangements work absolutely fine for British tourists, who are courted by the Spanish tourist board and warmly welcomed every year in their millions.

As for punished? Really, that's your line? Britons are in EES queues by the UK's sovereign choice.

I think you need to ask these loads of people for their source and please could you link it as well because I am sure you'll agree the Acquis seems absolutely clear on this point.

Its not the attachment to their place in the sun that is wrong, it is the interminable daily/weekly whingeing that the EU will not fix their third country personal wish-lists that is *very* wrong. And hugely tiresome in its incessant repetitiveness. Yet you contrive to have sympathy for them....

Fredagsslik

Gotta love Private Eye. Always cuts through the crap.

Looking forward to seeing the EU finally starting to implement EU EES.

Not in the same country at the same point in time in the EU but in the same tax year, when you change your residence from country A to B within the same tax year.

Hey Andy, chum, 90-in-180-days is not a "problem". Not to us. It suits us well. It may be *your* problem though...

What always surprises me is that these people, obv not the lady who posted as she's just referring, happily tell other people they broke the law. Same as my dad's neighbour, 6 mths in Spain and rented out her home in the UK while she was there to fund her life. Sold holiday home in Sp after Brexit.

Well, yeah. Everything he says is true. Foreigners do not have the same privileges and rights as citizens. I don’t know any country where they do. Maybe the UK should tell the US that it should give UK citizens the right to work freely in the US so they can further their careers?

I was British with Spanish residency when it happened and I didn't have to do anything. I filled in a form to allow me to vote in local elections again, and swapped my residency certificate for a TIE as I wanted an ID card. Drivers Licence, healthcare etc were all sorted, when they should have been.

Just reading “Building Europe (Loth, Wilfried 2015)” about the development of what was to become the EU. I must admit that I have never had a special admiration for de Gaulle but some of his thoughts about the need for an independent Europe is paramount. He foresaw that we couldn’t really

Brexit wasn’t abstract, writes The Bear. It stripped out the NHS’s stabilisers – staff, medicines, safety nets – and left us running on fumes. The cost isn’t just GDP points. It’s lives.

Corporate media: •CBS fires Colbert for mocking Trump •ABC fires Terry Moran for slamming Stephen Miller as “world class hater” •MSNBC fires Matt Dowd for saying “hateful thoughts & words leads to hateful actions” •FOX stands by Brian Kilmeade as he calls for Nazi state murder of 600K homeless 1/2

You know what? If you go on a Yaxley-Lennon march and applaud Nazi billionaires calling for the overthrow of the government - yes, I am going to call you far-right and racist.

High Fives to the broadcast and print media that have spent the entire summer legitimising bigotry, xenophobia and racism. They didn’t get the civil war they were hoping for but they have managed to fuck up a fair few lives. Beyond shameful.

Two: despite having left the EU the UK should be able to do the same business in the same way as when it was a member and arrangements must be made to enable this. This is just a refusal to accept the reality that non-members are not entitled to, and will not get, the same privileges as members.

Ærlig talt Politiken, har i drukket af DTs cool aid? Der er da ingen penge der kommer til at flyde ind i USA, det er de amerikanske forbrugere, der kommer til at betale.

That's not me. Please report and block the account you're replying to. Perhaps @andrewhesselden could show these accounts aren't related to him by blocking and reporting it too? bsky.app/profile/nial...

Well tbf the minute I heard ‘citizen of nowhere’ I knew the game was up and UK citizens were going to be left high and dry by their own govt. Still doesn’t change the fact that they had years to sort out their status and they wouldn’t be able to have it both ways.

Absolutely this 👆 Be angry about Brexit. Be angry about the mistake. Fix it. (don't be angry with the Union you want to join)

Yup. There's a huge difference between being angry about losing your rights as a result of the UK's choice (perfectly reasonable, helps energise rejoin) and being angry at the EU and searching for a magic cheat code that will force them to unilaterally restore those rights (utter batshit, dickish)

Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month. See you soon, NYC.

Need inspiration! I want to learn more about the early years of the European Economic Community (you know the guy with the big roundabout Schuman and that crowd). Any good books on the subject??