The worst thing is they still don't have a vote now. Settled Status is a perpetual state of taxation without representation for millions of people. How is there not more of an outcry about this?

I, an Australian citizen, moved to London in 2016 and almost the first thing I did was vote in the Brexit referendum. Meanwhile, friends of ours who were EU citizens who had lived in the UK for a decade were unable to vote.

This is impressive. All I asked from Flix was a ticket from London to Calais, which they won't sell 🙄

Ukraine's latest Novorossiysk strikes felt like a message to the US

This is why a closer alignment makes sense as an arrangement for the time being. I think we need to be at the stage where there's roughly speaking a constitutional majority in favour of rejoining, which there probably will be in a decade or so.

A second person familiar with the discussions said Washington's fresh request to the U.K. was less broad than what the U.S. had previously asked for, and was now focused specifically on stopping Iran's retaliation against allies in the gulf. /7

The decision will allow the U.S. to use Britain's bases at Diego Garcia in the Chagos Islands, and RAF Fairford in the U.K., for the purposes approved by Starmer, a person familiar with the discussions who was granted anonymity to talk about the sensitive topic told @politico.eu . /5

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US : "Do not strike Novorossiysk anymore, we have business there !!" UKRAINE : "Yeah sure, stay focused on the mollahs" 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

How many more times do these people need to get hit in the face by the reality before their publishers finally begin noticing?

This isn't the "in a limited and specific way" thing again, is it?

I have questions

“Excited to start my new job in Tbilisi air traffic control, now to pour myself a large coffee, put on my headset, and ease myself into the shift…”

There’s something morally grotesque about reporting the words of a genocidal war criminal as if they were uttered from a genuine place of authority rather than from atop a pile of Ukrainian corpses.

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Is it ok to laugh at people who left the "crime ridden streets" of London for the safety of Dubai?

When living in Stratford I made a point of starting a journey to the continent from Stratford International (albeit that it required a change at St Pancras), to internationalise it.

Iran now bombing everyone and everything must make following through on regime change a bigger priority

Always hoped to catch the flight from Dublin to Lublin. Just because.

He's killed more than 50k Ukrainians in the past 4 years. I wonder if we could get Pol Pot's view on events too.

The thing is, they needed the ethnic minorities for Brexit and strung along of them along in 2016, persuading many of them to vote Leave. Of course, to govern our country you don't need anything like as many votes so they're now throwing those people under the bus.

Nice of the BBC to quote Putin on the death of the Ayatollah. I'm sure the view of a regime that has killed tens of thousands of Ukrainians is really valuable. I look forward to them airing Pol Pot's view on the latest developments too.

Would prefer under this new Gibraltar deal that those flying in to Gibraltar and entering Schengen be processed in a Spanish terminal on Spanish territory in La Linea, as has been discussed before (there could be a direct entry path to Gibraltar for Gibraltarians only).

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!

Yes, it’s hard to comprehend why our lives aren’t as valuable to that crowd as other human lives…

Feels to me like if they don't do enough to topple the regime in Iran they simply further entrench it.

Would prefer under this new Gibraltar deal that those flying in to Gibraltar and entering Schengen be processed in a Spanish terminal on Spanish territory in La Linea, as has been discussed before (there could be a direct entry path to Gibraltar for Gibraltarians only).

Bluesky needs to take a breath. Just as X isn't the country neither is Gorton and Denton. Swapping NATO for third world kleptocracies, abolishing banking and de-growth is going to be a tougher sell down the line.

Feels to me like if they don't do enough to topple the regime in Iran they simply further entrench it.

I think a lot of left-progressive, free Gaza types in the UK are more in hock to fantasies of national power and greatness than those on the right. They imagine that the UK cd "step in" to stop Israel, some even that the IDF depends on UK assistance. That day is long over, lads.

Ahh nothing to see here but Dominic Cummings, spouting pure Putin/Kremlin propaganda, while wishing the death of British citizens. Brexit making more sense now?

The secrecy of the ballot matters Those on X with racalised and radicalised view using anecdotes about family voting do not mean that they want Asian women's autonomy to express their own vote; they mean they don't want Asians to be voters, and need mass deportations bsky.app/profile/did:...

This chancer, on the other hand, screams Brexit

Percy is very foolish but not a Brexiteer

A Green win would hopefully persuade Starmer and co to restrategise away from chasing hard right voters

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Hard to argue

Well, this was* my argument for associate EU citizenship post-Brexit, that a body of citizens is a valuable strategic resource (no one in Brussels saw it that way).

Having worked on diaspora politics for much of my career, I've always found the contrast quite stark between how states like Ireland, Italy or Poland view their diasporas as a valuable strategic resource and how the UK state views the British diaspora too often as an embarrassing nuiscance

Now that us peasants are allowed to see this treaty, here's some thoughts as I read through it. The summary states that there is no effect on sovereignty and 'no direct application of EU law to Gibraltar through the Agreement or enforcement role for the [CJEU] in Gibraltar'

Percy is very foolish but not a Brexiteer

Fair play Jack Lopesti. Former Tory MP. Lost his seat last election. Has since joined Ukrainian army … nice to see him and hear his remarkable story.

Good luck to them and I hope they join. Whatever their choice is, let's respect it. We are all Europeans, in or out of the EU.

A 2 round system would solve all these issues, give everyone a chance in the 1st round to express their first choice, and allow everyone to make an informed choice in the 2nd about who they'd be getting. Easy for everyone to understand and easy to implement.

Why did they do the Telegram thing? Does it tell us about fears Putin has closer to home which actually outweigh concerns about how he is doing in Ukraine?

Had a work colleague who was called up for jury service. We were on hourly paid contracts and the employer wouldn't pay his hours because he couldn't teach them. It ruined him financially.

And a lot of the cod that's around is Russian-caught cod...