Any time people start talking about weakening protections for certain groups I am always reminded of this quote.

It would be very good if the LibDems replace Labour as the dominant centre-left party. Just like it is the case with the Conservatives: nobody needs Labour if it delivers nothing but Reform-lite.

Its always quaint to see the English claim that Scotland has any say in the UK. Scotland voted Remain and got taken out of EU against their will, despite promises to the contrary before the Scottish Independence Referendum.

Eurupeans should connect the dots: They are not welcome in UK.

UK media employs such hopeless cranks... There is a reason why the UK has low growth, high government debt and and underinvestment in public services: If you keep listening to idiots, you get a mess.

🇲🇩🗳️ 🇪🇺 Astonishingly, it's Moldova that proves that a democratic rebound is sustainable, even in the face of massive interference from a malicious superpower. Maia Sandu's PAS needs to improve its delivery of promises, but voters haven't given up on Moldova's European dream. 1/

The UK starts to lose knowledge on EU, gradually becoming another Turkey. (Distant, strange and a regular headache).

UK is not known for being a low cost country, but with 4-person dinners being 110 Euro (instead of 160-200 Euro here) its looking good.

Reform - and the whole Brexit system - is part of the Putin Axis of Evil:

The Chancellor right - the road to uk economic growth goes firmly through Europe and addressing damage Brexit has done to business. The deal we have so far shows the door is open to us to do so- join us in @labour4europe.bsky.social campaigning to do just that www.thetimes.com/article/ea32...

Obviously this is a good thing. Not only for EU students, but also for UK students. Good to not be locked up in UK again. Care should be taken that EU students do not have to pay extra to study in UK.

Beyond time that UK substantially increases its taxes and collective spending. If you want to be a European nation, then act like one.

Indeed: Trump can change his mind at any time, and has no regard for the truth. Therefore: anything he says can mean anything, so nothing has meaning.

Just yesterday we heard that real term disposable income growth in The Netherlands was +2.8% for the second quarter of 2025. Brexit Britain keeps dissapointing. (1/2)

Indeed: the folly of the "one in one out" UK asylum deal with France exposed. France should be ashamed of itself to make such a bad deal with UK. UK is now out of EU, and it has to solve its own problems. The only acceptable deals for EU are those in which UK takes in refugees from EU.

!! Excellent! “Counting U.S.-led buys on the list … the total comes to about €6.8 billion, around 8 percent of Berlin’s plan, with the rest overwhelmingly going to European industry.” www.politico.eu/article/germ...

Good to keep reminding all of the "fantasy policy" the Tories carried out in their end days. The Tories are so incompetent that they deserve to die out.

Indeed - the Israeli government has not made clear what alternative they see for a two-state solution. Surely, if you are rosy-eyed, you can think of a future in which Palestinians and Israeli live side by side in one country, but the grim realistic prospect is another holocaust.

About 1 to 2 years ago I already advised all Europeans in UK to try to relocate to Europe, or in any case have a plan B in case they would be expelled from UK. For sure that still holds.

In the UKs political system you can get an absolute majority with about 30% of the vote. When you have an absolute majority in UK, you have near-absolute power, as Johnson showed. For the EU the main point here is to not become dependent on an unstable partner.

There goes the argument that it is better to continue buying US weapons because Europeans can get them quicker 'of the shelf'

In these talks, several points are important: 1. The UK cannot do without EU, but the reverse holds. This should be reflected in the price UK has to pay to participate. 2. UK is under serious threat from the MAGA/Putin Axis of Evil. The EU should shun any dependency on UK.

The "tragedy of the Tory party leader": How can Badenoch get the racist vote? It is typical to see the Tory party wrestling with that. 😀😀

A new Explainer out from @aoifemod.bsky.social and me detailing the UK's ECHR commitments under the 1998 Agreement in response to recent speculation. It is short, because there is very little to say - the UK's obligations are evident on the B/GFA's plain text: caj.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Just as much a farce as Rwanda was - thought Rwanda was far worse on many levels. The bottom line here is that France should never have accepted this deal. The deal should be terminated. It is not up to the EU to solve the UKs problem. The UK did Brexit and it is now on its own.

Really difficult to understand the Tories. Instead of roundly trashing Kruger, and questioning his loyalty and love of country, we get this drivel. What is wrong with "disloyal traitors cannot harm me because all their words are lying poison aimed at destroying us".

Ed Davey the first to say what Labour should be saying, yet again

Reasons why UK Labour gov. will not achieve growth in short:

If France really thinks that the 1-in-1 out deal with UK is symbolic, they should not have entered into it. Such a deal goes counter to the EU goals and practices regarding refugees, and it should be ditched. Other MS should call upon France to stop all preparations for it.

"Millions of children...living in almost Dickensian levels of poverty". All those well-to-do politicians and pundits with their fact-free musings about UK sovereignity brought Brexit and now this. UK is badly served by its ruling class.

I am concerned about silence of gvt ministers & others to defend basic anti-racism norms in last 6 weeks. They seem muted by their anxious inability to separate legitimate politics from prejudice & hate. Anti-violence norms - civil war is inevitable, so support violence - really should be simpler.

This would be good. UK Labour gov. is too accomodating to the Far Right. Just allowing foreigners like Musk allowing to call for an armed uprising is difficult to understand

Very good that the EU starts to better protect its own haulage industry. When abuse by third countries is curbed, more work, and thus jobs, growth and wealth goes to EU citizens.

Watching the denial of the political right about the far right's danger being so much worse than that of their left opposites / similars does help to understand what happened in Germany in 1933 (when Soviet communism was a genuine threat)

Agree with David here. Liberals and the Left shouldn't get paralysed by panic over milieus that have been around for decades and have been successfully mobilised against before. What is depressing though is the cowardice of a Labour government in the face of a movement that wants to destroy it

UK is uniquely vulnerable to MAGA destruction:

On the good news of yesterday that The Netherlands will shun Eurovision if Israel can take part: AVROTROS notes that the Israeli government has used the event as political instrument, putting in 1 million Euro (for e.g. a Times Square billboard). www.nu.nl/songfestival...

Europe's collective action procurement problem is exemplified by air defense. If I was in a European MOD and given a budget to buy high-end air defense, buying the American PATRIOT is the obvious, least risky choice. Makes perfect sense. But... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Correct, and - as always - with the data to back it up:

The Netherlands will not take part in the Eurovision Songfestival if Israel can take part. (How good be Dutch) www.nu.nl/songfestival...

This dovetails with the news that some UK 'unionists' want to sacrificy NI for leaving the ECHR. If a nation like the UK does not have the will to stay together, separation is for the best.

It is still genuinely baffling that English 'unionists' were willing to sacrifice NI for Brexit and now for something of so little practical importance as the ECHR. I would think that being part of a nation would mean you value all of it, and would try to keep everything together.... (1/2)

I have not read the Russell foundation report on hunger in UK report yet, but here is already the reference and the report link (2 posts down):

Brexit poisons everything it touches:

As far as the Anglo consensus is concerned, Spain's assertive centre-left government has done everything wrong: Keynesian, redistributive, socially open, net-zero-friendly, multilateralist, Trump-sceptical. Yet the governing PSOE just hit 33% in latest CIS poll, above even its 2023 election win.

Interesting new details on the Japanese 'commitment' to invest in the US and give the returns to Trump. Now clear in more detail: this will not last. Nobody will invest that kind of money without a say, or with lower returns. Japan exported $148.4 billion in goods to US in 2023..

This is excellent news. Other nations in Eurovision - Netherlands, Belgium, Germany? - should follow.

True. Taking grandma's and grandpa's and branding them as members of a terrorist organisation makes the UK look like a fool.

Astonishing. PM Truss had to go in 2022 because of panick in the financial world about her budget. This was about as wrong as you can be. And the cheerleaders of that - often literally - are still in business... Endless incompetence is no problem in UK politics.