“Reeves has been ratcheting up the rhetoric on closer EU relations which she described as the “biggest prize” in trade”
If only we’d acknowledged this BEFORE we threw it away in a fit of arrogant prejudice. Getting back in the room is far harder than flouncing off
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💥 Professor Vernon Bogdanor writes for @financialtimes.com:
"An electoral system should do two things: ensure that the majority rules and that significant minorities are adequately represented.
First Past the Post achieves neither."
So, Johnson, Farage, Badenoch, the Telegraph… howl about the UK being “an irrelevance on the world stage”.
Remind me again who decided to isolate us with a strategically and economically idiotic Brexit, relying on a trade deal with the US to save us from exactly the kind of weakness they now bemoan.
This is amazing.
www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com
Zack Polanski, "Keir Starmer is never going to appease the right by slowly moving to the right"
"They just get worse and they drag the government with them"
"I wouldn't be bothered except they're the government of this country and they're dragging us all down with them"
Further proof of the end of two-party politics. We need an electoral system that recognises this.
#UK: We've sent a letter to Yvette Cooper expressing deep concern that funding for the BBC World Service is due to run out at the end of March.
We urge the government to confirm a long-term funding arrangement to ensure their vital work continues ⬇️
www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/02/the-...
Political people love to debate who the worst modern PM in modern times was but it's unquestionably Cameron.
10 years ago this week he gambled the prosperity and fragile unity of the UK on a referendum on an issue that most people didn't even understand to placate back benchers and fucked us all.
#UKLabour Govt missing chance to come clean about suspected Russia attack on 2016 #Brexit vote - says Chair @leedsblue67.bsky.social in @yorkshirepost.co.uk letter.
That's despite review into foreign influence in #UKPolitics due next month after #ReformUK Moscow bribes scandal.
#CleanUpPolitics
Why would you pig-headedly ignore the voice of the next generation? Why would you saddle them with debt, shrink the job market and limit their opportunities? It runs counter to everything politics and society should want for them. For all of us. They’re the future.
www.itv.com/news/2026-02...
Backing Rejoin would turn the next election into the second Brexit referendum Sir Keir always wanted. It’s the logical step that might give him his best chance of winning.
NEW: A page from Bondi's burn book. This is a list of the searches by Rep Jayapal of the unredacted Epstein files. That means the DOJ grabbed her search terms from the computers they set up for members of congress to view the Epstein files to use as ammunition. The photo is from Reuters.
First Past the Post can no longer deliver real mandates - only chaos. 60% of Brits want it scrapped.
Yet the Representation of the People Bill won’t even touch our voting system, which leaves millions unrepresented.
Tell Keir Starmer to change this.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...
NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from J6 yelling 'kill them!' at cops. His name is Jared Wise.
BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned
NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
Enough is enough. The House of Lords is a rolling scandal - sign @electoralreform.bsky.social's call to demand change. It takes 30 seconds.
action.electoral-reform.org.uk/page/186062/...
Precisely on point 🎯
"The U.K. needs to have an explicit reckoning with the abysmal failure the Brexit project has been/
"For the U.K. to finally move on, it must choose not to live in lies — especially the ones that fuelled Brexit."
Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."
💸 Brexit is predicted to have cost the UK economy a staggering 6-8% according to the latest study.
💰 That is equivalent to £180bn - £240bn A YEAR!
📉 And that has left HMRC about £90 billion shorter a year.
🪖 150% greater than the UK's defence budget.
By the time Starmer is replaced this summer, we'll have had two wasted years, in which a country crying out for transformation instead got more of the same, or even worse where environmental legislation is concerned, and a high possibility of Farage running the next government.
Thanks Keir.
"The end of the UK’s membership in the EU Single Market made trade between UK and EU more cumbersome and expensive. UK workers lost the automatic right to work in EU and vice versa. Brexit also ended fiscal transfers that supported UK agriculture, regional development, and research."
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
Full EU membership should be put to the public at the next election. It's time to return home.
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The EU, India trade deal represents 25% of the global GDP and one-third of global trade. It will increase trade to about $200 billion by 2030. This dwarfs the previously announced UK, India trade deal. #Brexit
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Clear impartial analysis. Well worth 1 minute 46 of your time.
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The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
Carney:
"In a time of rising populism and ethnic nationalism, Canada can show how diversity is a strength, not a weakness... Canada can't solve all the world's problems. But we can show that another way is possible. That the arc of history isn't destined to be warped toward authoritarianism".
🇪🇺 Closer alignment with the EU will protect jobs, deepen strategic defensive capability, and help both parties stand up to the Trump White House...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/18/trump-greenland-britain-europe
A rejoin referendum would also be the way to nullify Farage, stop him endlessly playing the 2016 card. There is a government petition. Sign and share. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Reform with a majority of MPs on less than 30% of the vote! You may hope that tactical voting etc will stop it happening but are we really prepared to take the risk? Wouldn’t you prefer seats to match votes? It’s time for electoral reform #PR
