Colin Brazier

Nothing can bring back lost trade except rejoining the customs union and the single market, he adds.

...Services – Britain’s biggest export category – are severely restricted by the time limit. Take Rolls-Royce: it doesn’t just sell engines, but services planes, too, sending engineers back and forth across the English Channel all the time, says @johnspringford.bsky.social.

Greta Thunberg among activists detained as Israel intercepts Gaza flotilla South Africa and Turkey have criticised the incident in international waters. Israel says those on board are safe.

In other news Netanyahu orders an act of piracy on the open seas to prevent aid reaching Gaza.

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🤣🤣 I misread that as a cider attack 🤣

RIP the brilliant actress Patricia Routledge 🙁

So Nigel Fartage is complaining about what the PM said. He needs to seriously reign in his councillors because this little rant is disgusting

There are four Scots on the Gaza flotilla – so why is our media ignoring it? THERE are four Scottish citizens taking part in the Global Sumud Flotilla, but you wouldn't be able to tell by looking at Scotland's front pages.

There are four Scots on the Flotilla. We are in touch with them all, as well as their families - as they expect Israel to intercept the boats tonight.

Video feed from the boat just went down as I typed this

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Dual gauging of main lines would be much much cheaper.

Good. It causes earthquakes

Labour pledges permanent ban on fracking Energy Secretary Ed Miliband promised to go further than the current pause, brought in amid safety concerns and public opposition. Reform Party leaders want to reintroduce fracking as a way to boost t...

Ed Miliband has vowed to "ban fracking" for good, as he drew yet another dividing line with Reform during his speech at the Labour Party conference

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Baroness Mohan just complained about an “establishment cover up”after a court judgement against her.
She really hasn’t a clue. How on earth do self entitled people like her get anywhere near being in Government? Good advert for abolishing the unelected House of Lords in its present form though

Zak Bond, Campaign Manager at Clean Cities: “[This] proves that bold action on dirty air delivers real results. This is a crucial milestone towards reaching WHO guidelines as soon as possible."

"London has leapfrogged other UK cities which still have illegal levels of air pollution."

Scrapped Greater Manchester Clean Air Zone signs removal begins Work starts to take down the signs at the cost of about £600,000, paid for by the government.

Greater Manchester ditching its Clean Air Zone is looking more short-sighted by the day
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Columnist of the year ? Good grief !

Indeed. And one thing most of the media miss is that TfL routes use a huge fleet of electric and hybrid buses.

Some good news.

London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces.

The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

Nigel Farage doesn’t think the Prime Minister should have free speech in this country. But he’ll tell foreigners that yours is somehow under threat from the Prime Minister. He’s a whiny little liar. Always has been. Always will be.

Genuinely baffled by Keir Starmer's refusal to describe Nigel Farage as a racist.

The evidence for this is overwhelming. The founder of UKIP, Alan Sked, quit the party because of Farage's racism.

The far right won't be defeated unless we are honest about what it is.

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Keir Starmer calls Reform migrant policy 'racist' and 'immoral' The prime minister said he needed

"It's completely different to say we're going start removing people who are lawfully here.

"They are our neighbours, people who work in our economy, part of who we are. It will rip this country apart."

Quite. Also applies to Tory policy - and potentially Labour.

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From Hitler Youth right the way through to the Gestapo Fürhage would have been right there, shoulder to shoulder with Adolf - just swap the UK's non white population with Germany's pre WW2 Jews, it's a carbon copy #Farage #ReformUK #Racism #Deportation

Stickers and bits of paper can easily get lost of stolen. But I don’t understand why anyone is using stickers nowadays. Surely people with such status could easily be given a code or similar ? Are we really relying on stickers in the 21st century ?

Hmm lots of things Government does aren’t in the manifesto.
By the way, does anyone apart from Tv journalists and politicians actually read those things ?🤣

I’ve decided no such thing. I like the idea of ID cards in themselves.
I just think it’s a huge mistake linking ID the introduction of ID cards directly to immigration. And evidence shows that none of the other so called fixes have worked so far.

So we already have digital ID after all then. As I said , ID cards are useful but the mistake is linking it to immigration, although it is highly amusing that the far right seem opposed to the idea in that context

Maybe not but I’ve certainly had problems. And it’s more proving your address than anything else since passports don’t contain that information. And in any case we already have a lot of stuff like Power of Attorney requiring you to go on Government Gateway so what’s the difference ?

It will make no difference.Digital passports were also supposed to “control our borders” as was Brexit. What makes anyone think this will make any difference to illegal activity? Except maybe more crime as you can guarantee some fake ones will appear for sale on the internet a week after launch day

The real mistake was linking the two.
ID cards are very useful and much better than “choose two documents from the list” to prove your address which include archaic things like council rent books , paper phone bills and non digital bank statements which virtually no one has any more.

Unfortunately we do. There’s a hell of a lot of things which need proof of ID nowadays.
I don’t have a driving licence and am not the bill payer.
Proving my ID and address for a simple thing like telling the Post Office Id like my mail redirected was virtually impossible