Rick Ball

Immigration, indecency, and incompetence. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. The ever-more indecent terms of the immigration 'debate' are another failure of Brexit, which links to the ever-more obvious incompetence of Reform in local government: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/immi...

‘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

City blames Brexit for UK’s £20bn productivity headache

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Matt

Stay at the amazing hotel called The Circus…I kid you not 👍

Reagan's approach to the world prominently featured two things:

1) Russian aggression bad, Western democratic alliance good
2) Free trade good, tariffs and other barriers to trade bad

Pretending it's the opposite is the sort of reality inversion only someone who rejects truth itself could buy.

Today's Conservative Party: more extreme on mass deportations & more explicitly ethno-nationalist, illiberal & authoritarian than Enoch Powell in 1968 and his 'rivers of blood' speech. The sad decline of a once great party.

Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump's calling Reagan’s words here “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad:

‘I have it in my blood and brain … I still haven’t been able to shake this nightmare off.’ How voices from a forgotten archive of Nazi horrors are reshaping perceptions of the Holocaust The Ravensbrück archive reveals how being a survivor of the camps did not always entail innocence.

Never forget. Never again.

Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley. Perfection.

Happened quite some time ago…now competing in far right slurry 💩

The data shows Brexit was a massive mistake and badly hurt the economy. We're all paying for it. It was Nigel Farage who sold the lies that it would make life better. How can anyone still listen to him about anything?

Children of Men territory 😱

I worked in a high street bookie’s as a holiday job (good mental arithmetic).

And you saw these people walk in with a few bank notes, and then watch walk out again without them.

Realised it was a racket: a conspiracy against people with little money.

Betfred says all its shops may close if Reeves hikes gambling tax The company's co-founder says it would be forced to close all its sites, putting 7,500 jobs at risk, if gambling taxes go up.

Higher taxes on gambling probably would cost some jobs. But employment has to be weighed against other social costs.

That's why we don't have brothels and ketamine stores on every high street. It was a terrible mistake to let gambling shops become such big employers.
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This echoes Dean Acheson's famous quote back in 1962: “Great Britain has lost an empire and not yet found a role.”
It is sad (for Britain) that this is still true.

Best quote from Brexit? Everyone remembers the Xaciwr Bettel one about opt outs and opt ins, but for me, this one by Danish Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen is more meaningful.

We should post it at the entrance to the EP and put parliaments.

Never forget who you are.

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Katie Lam espouses the idea of Carl Schmitt: a people needs to be homogeneous and where it isn’t that homogeneity must be created. I am at a loss how she can do that...

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

#NoKings Miami!

Nigel Farage’s partner embroiled in Brussels fraud investigation Laure Ferrari’s Eurosceptic group was at the centre of fraud scandal that led to ongoing criminal case

Farage partner involved in fraud investigation
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Follow the money

Where does it lead?

#Farage #Fraudsters #Russia #Corruption #ReformUKPLC

Andrew Bailey, "For the foreseeable future, the impact of Brexit on economic growth in the UK is negative"

"Making an economy less open, restricts growth"

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...

Kinnock is one of the finest proponents of progressive thought in this country and the best prime minister we never had.

"lingering impact" = c.£40bn in lost direct tax revenue EVERY SINGLE YEAR plus incalculable non-£ losses.

#BrexitReality #r4today

Lord of the Rings is too short

Yellowstone? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Nor Leeds 😜