Alex

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I admit I counted all 54 😂

This might be one of the best remakes I’ve ever heard.

‘The money machine is misfiring’: City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache Poor output since the leave vote has landed Rachel Reeves with a bigger-than-forecast budget spending gap

"... the impact of Brexit for the City of London is clear. 'Frankfurt, Madrid, Milan and Paris are all doing better than they were. It has been at London’s expense. There is no question about that.'” www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Yup.

Tomorrow Nigel Farage is proposing a bill to take the UK out of the ECHR. Not content with messing up our future with Brexit, he’s at it again.

Don’t let him get away with it. Ask your MP to join us in @labour4europe.bsky.social saying not this time Nigel.

(If I were writing British politics as an episode of The West Wing, I'd have Starmer activate the "Hail Mary" option of saying he'll rejoin the EU in a second term. Re-polarise the electorate along Brexit lines and hope the shifts in demographics/material reality force a winning coalition.)

The possibility of a rupture where younger, richer voters baulk at transferring ever more income to people who also oppose them on immigration and cultural issues could mean the breakdown of the pattern where well to do liberals support left parties against their economic interests.

This is a very niche thing I have experienced!

Today, nine years since its launch, my (now fortnightly) Brexit & Brexitism Blog (as it's now called) had its 11 millionth visit. Many thanks to all who have visited, or who read posts via the email feed, and to those who have helped promote it. chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com

Whenever politicians push anti-immigration policies they should be made to repeat the definition of "reciprocity".

The levels of exceptionalist ideology it takes to think that targeting people from other countries doesn't risk biting you hard when those countries respond is pretty astounding.

Just a ridiculous joke of a country proclaiming it's "going for growth" and spending every waking moment instead focussed on vindictive cruelty to migrants.

What a waste of everyone's time.

Screenshot from BBC: Rachel Reeves blames Brexit deal for long-term damage to economy. Rachel Reeves made the comment about the 2020 deal at a key meeting of the world's leading finance ministers and central bankers.

Then fix it.

If any Labour MPs are reading (go on, you know you want to), as someone trying to hire six new Oxford professors in AI / experiments / big data / all the stuff you say you want, I would really appreciate knowing if new hires can, you know, stay in the country they move to... current policy is chaos

Yes but Brexiteer Bailey still clinging on to doublespeak “positive partial counterbalance” aka still worse than no Brexit

Excellent post as ever Chris. Still bang my head on the table thinking about the sheer indulgent pportunity cost of the whole sorry process... at least finally being talked about and linked to inevitable tax rises/higher costs / general poorness.

Brexit eruptions. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog looking at Tory madness, Labour’s ‘blame Farage’ strategy, the Brexit impasse and a suggestion of a way forward, and the latest ‘reset’ news. Bonus feature: a feeble new Brexit metaphor: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/brex...

... Indeed, or there is another explanation

So China pressured UK to drop it, UK dropped it by having CPS ask for evidence it didn't need, and which Gov wouldn't give, providing geopolitically convenient fig-leaf?

The ability to discuss Brexit without fear is nothing less than the ability to discuss objective reality inews.co.uk/opinion/labo...

The reasons for the UK’s regionally imbalanced economy, which you’re right is a problem, is nothing to do with the EU though. Actually EU development funds were used to try to address this. See eg Cornwall which has a much worse arrangement outside EU

Very good, now imagine how much greater it might be now, if the UK had not erected massive trading barriers with its largest trading partners! You’re so close!

This seems to show gdp being stagnant since 2016… which rather proves my point.

I see you have deliberately ignored the massively greater economic benefits of being in the EU/single market. Slow sarcastic handclap well earned!

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

“I’m old enough to remember when mainstream British politicians, who should know better, stirred up racial hatred as a path to power. You’re old enough to remember too because it was last Tuesday. And it was Robert Jenrick”

Cathartic anger at flag-flying racism.

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Except taxes and public services and immigration - which voters do claim to prioritise- are directly linked to not being the EU anymore…

Except there was much lower net migration when in the EU …

I like this! “Please vote here for remain out of EU plus higher taxes, or here for the opposite”… then just follow the ‘will of the people’ 😇

Except that politics is already quite upside down… although I agree that I can’t see how they can ride the two horses (leave/remain) that they’ve been kinda trying to ride simultaneously for too long now.

Collectively those would probably be more than £2k 😅