Staggering!🤦‍♀️ To suggest the UK red lines, (clearly *the* self harming agent that perpetuates an interminable Brexit coma of denial & delusion) are "normal" *should* be a blatant parody statement. They were initiated in the May>crook Johnson era for goodness sake!🤦‍♀️

Brexit reduced the UK’s GDP by between 6% and 8%. That is MASSIVE. #ProjectFear #wetoldyouso www.nber.org/papers/w3445...

Brexit is not a past event, unless you are looking solely at that sordid 2016 Referendum or even the end of the transition period on 31/12/2020. This, for the UK, IS the era of #BrexitReality aka #NationalFailure. Every Briton is living it. Its scars run deep. #RejoinEU bsky.app/profile/otto...

I don't think that is an issue. You could even integrate the UK fully into the Single Market with guillotine clauses if London messes around without it affecting much if Farage wins. It's only a problem if the UK is a full member, which is why it shouldn't be one

Many either backing the UK or bashing the UK on Anglosphere social media won't get their heads around the UK is not top of the EU agenda. That means that there is a lot of space for messy internal EU horsetrading to get out of hand, but also that the UK has to work harder to sustain EU interest

"I have the feeling the “Reset” will achieve very little" Absolutely nothing that anyone will notice.......

Weathervane Keith trying stay sat on the fucking fence whilst trying to pretend that the wind of public opinion isn’t gathering to blow him off. Fucker should be in agony with all the splinters in his jacksy now

It’s that definition of madness-repeatedly doing the same thing with the expectation that the outcome will be different

I don't honestly see how even an SPS agreement is possible because there are a load of SI's that have gone through the UK parliament to lower standards on things I thought would be important to an SPS agreement. 🤷‍♂️

This is a key point that UK (and a lot of Joiners) don't get. They treat the EU like a sovereign country open to deals and big concessions. They do not appreciate it is an entity of laws and rules partly expressed via carefully constructed MS agreements. Hence the "UK is a special case" fallacy.

Everyone in Brussels is fluent in English, well-read and well-informed. They *know* what London’s game is and see their silly tricks a mile off. The UK is in for an absolute spanking until it grows up and stares harsh reality in the eye.

As I’ve said before, the Labour govt seems to think nice words and feelz after Tory arrogance will do the job. It fails to see that quitting the EU’s supranational structures exposes it to the cut and thrust of international relations, where leverage and power imbalances are ruthlessly deployed.

I have said along that the so-called re-set was a mugging off exercise to be 'seen' to be according to the manifesto intention to 'make Brexit work'. With no intention whatsoever of stopping the disingenuous & time-wasting cherry picking. It is clear the EU are quite aware of that themselves.

For someone suggesting that the thread is an "anti UK the EU is always right", your comment sounds awfully like the default anglo position of "the French are always out to get us". Apparently only the UK is allowed to look after its own interests. 😉

The whole thread 🧵 is great. This part is spot on. 🎯

They continue to think that if they ask for the same things that May demanded but without the threats and associated hubris somehow they will be successful Bring back Monsieur Barnier, he had a good way with words to explain the reality

That's so spot on Niall. The GE campaign was so dishonest: both Tories & Labour & Libdems to a lesser extent didn't want to talk about EU/Brexit or black holes in the budget & the media was complicit. The SNP mentioned both non stop but we're cut off in the tv debates clearly to help out Labour.

Good thread Niall!

Labour was dishonest also about the need to raise taxes. However they have broken than election pledge. But on Europe? Nope. I have the feeling the “Reset” will achieve very little.

The problem is that the current UKG needs the same thing the 2016/18 version needed Access to the SM and CU without fully reciprocating the four freedoms especially the movement of people The 2019 UKG pretended full access wasn’t needed in order to get the drama over and done with but that was

When UK says it want's value for money now, and didn't get it as a member before Brexit, then the question is why do all other members stay? Not only did UK get VFM but also special carve outs in multiple agreements. This special treatment for UK is frankly tiresome, old and embarrassing.

Key point on the EU-UK Reset talks: The UK has deliberately chosen not to build popular support for the "Reset". This means that its heart is not in it. The slightest wind blows this off-track. In that case, we as EU should accept that UK is not ready yet, end the Reset, and try again later.

I have no recent insight particularly, but that description of UKG chicanery and trying to leverage what had been agreed chimes loudly with earlier in the year. Keep an eye. Not saying 🇪🇺 will walk, but expect suspension unless the UK gets its house in order A 🧵

Online violence against women, for want of a better word, is being perpetrated by fascists, Nazis, religious fundamentalists and incels. It will destroy the quality of our government and democracy., which depends on getting pluralist voices into decision-making. 1

Scotland didn’t choose Brexit they were dragged out by Westminster Your point stands though

For information, I wrote to Caroline Lucas (former UK MP) Who did you write to? 1

Good video from Caroline Lucas. This is how campaigners should work, showing the value of community. 1

The EU is a world leader in trade. In 2024, it was the: 🥇 largest trader in services 🥈 second largest trader in goods 🥇 largest investor in other countries More facts and figures 👉 link.europa.eu/yDpDVd

So, this is a problem, certainly, but it's not entirely within @europeanmovement.co.uk 's control. So some leeway there. But it's not the main problem. 1

<<Gratuitously shares image of locally sourced - paella de verduras>> Everything KM0 and the lemons and herbs from the garden. C'mon Britain, join the EU and you could eat like this every day too! ;)

EU should ask UK for a 250% the rate of normal Erasmus contribution as a counteroffer.

Don't want to be rich like those dastardly Catholics across the channel! Poverty brings you closer to God! 😉😉😉

Is the answer they are going to raise taxes, and never dropping the May-Johnson red lines because what British businesses now need is stability, and dropping the red lines would bring back uncertainty for businesses again.

50 percent off for British students, trainees, and doctoral candidates to participate in the Erasmus program? #Erasmus+ is one of the most valuable achievements of the EU and is definitely not a bargain in a clearance sale.

May-Johnson-Starmer-Henig red lines.

Wouldn’t be surprising. The EU just doesn’t have time for repetitive negotiating sessions in which the UK still maintains it has some special status halfway between third country and member state that entitles it to a special deal. This approach was tested to destruction in the Brexit negotiations.

Well, its not as though we've not repeatedly hammered on about this, but there are none so blind as those that will not see... The people wanted magic unicorn cake and by god HMG is going to try to give them magic unicorn cake (aka blaming foreigners & 5th columnists when they inevitably fail).

I expect the “we’ve had enough of experts” responses will soon be out in force The “red lines” always were nonsensical and self defeating Having an open mind and being open to debate and possibly changing your mind if circumstances change is what a sensible Government would do

Let me also add that anything resulting in the UK showing a true “mea culpa” at the doorsteps of Brussels is rooted in the EU continuing the EU’s no nonsense hardline approach towards slackening the strong hand on the UK’s Brexit. The rules must 100% remain the 💯% the rules. No special benefits! 🤷🏻‍♂️

Wow. Just wow. We can safely say that leaving Europe is very bad for your economic health. So what are UKG doing about it, and why is the answer not dropping the May-Johnson redlines?

I think it's also that the type of men the far right or religious extemism attract want to have someone they can ill-treat when they're getting shat on by the men further up the pole. They want women to be in that subservient role

It takes some entitlement to make the focus of accession, open borders, freedom, and ending tyranny the fact his holidays have been reduced to 89 days. He spends his time attacking Schengen and blaming it for Brexit outcomes.

We need to fix the problem of online violence against women as a society to protect our democracy But for today, why not write to a woman in public life - media, science, sport, academia, but esp. politics - and tell her you appreciate her work. The article 👇

Indeed, it is something I think we had understood - there were no positive images of pro-Europeanism in the UK media - but had not considered that actually there were loads of genuine pro-Europeans.

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

Brexit made many British people realise they were and are European. They felt robbed of their identity, of their community. No one in the media or mainstream politics ever considered these people. They were robbed of a voice too.

That video about how and why Brits value the EU gives me goosebumps. And yeah, if you can't support Europe for the freedom to travel, to explore, for peace and stability and prosperity... ...then do it for the food. 😋

It's why I not only closed my website in 2022, but google delisted it as well. Exhaustion at running it single-handedly for 14 hour minimum days without a break for ~16 years was bad enough, the abuse and esp its violence was far worse ... 99% from Brexiters and anti-medicine nuts.

On all other topics there were only vague promises to talk further, pushing all the real, difficult negotiations into the future. That future is now arriving and people are watching to see if the dynamic has changed. Apparently it hasn’t and the UK is still looking for special treatment.

Sigh. The meeting in May is fundamentally misunderstood in the UK press. Its purpose was to show that, after a decade of rudeness and unreliability, the UK was now prepared play nicely with others again. Consequently it resulted in just one actual agreement, viz extension of fishing quotas.