Rob Howarth

The devastating effects of Brexit continue to build

@ukraineworld.bsky.social

President Zelenskyy to advise Trump that Ukraine must have the nuclear warheads freely given to the USA in 1994 back.

The reason is Trump is not maintaining Ukrainian borders as per the 1994 agreement.

Once in receipt of above Ukraine will negotiate directly with Putin.

🚨 PFI was scrapped for a reason. Yet tomorrow's budget may confirm the revival of private partnerships in the NHS.

The evidence is damning:
💷 Cost taxpayers billions
🏥Hospitals too small with dangerous flaws
⚠️Public left with risk

Here's more on why PFI failed👇
bit.ly/Why-PFI-Aban...

Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...

Please sign this petition for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics.

I don't care if you're left or right, Reform or Corbynite - we can't allow a hostile foreign nation to run riot in our political ecosystem.

Sign and share.

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Brexit has cost each and every one of us £3,700 a year.

But instead of solving the problem, Labour are using Brexit as an excuse to raise your taxes.

My message ahead of the Budget: Stop blaming Brexit and start fixing it!

Brexit: “The most dishonest campaign in our history said it would save us £350m a week, but Brexit actually cost us £250m a day in 2025. That is why we have the highest taxes ever, that is why we have sky-high bills, that is why we have a cost of living crisis” @eddavey.libdems.org.uk

🎥 Dr Julia Patterson lays it out clearly:

£21 BILLION already owed. And now talk of bringing back PFI-style schemes?! 🤯💥

We’re digging for answers. Is this new plan genuinely different — or are we repeating a colossal mistake?

Making Russia pay: the EU’s plan to rebuild Ukraine A proposal to loan Ukraine billions in frozen Russian assets has split members of the EU on the right course of action

No less than €180 billion in frozen Russian assets are dispersed across the European Union.

The EU plan would be to deploy €140 billion (£122bn) of these assets as a zero-interest “reparations loan” to Ukraine, providing Ukraine with urgently needed resources.

East Anglia Bylines headline "New: Boris Johnson's 'Brexit Titanic Success' was half right.". Accompanied by inage of demonstrators carrying an anti-Brexit banner.

Unlike the Titanic, when the UK hit the Brexit iceberg it didn't sink.

Instead, the UK economy continued on at a slower speed, with increasing worries about how to fix the gaping hole in the public finances.

Enough of jury-rigged solutions, we must return to our EU home port for a full refit!

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Brexit costing UK up to £90bn in lost tax revenue , new analysis shows Exclusive: Britons also up to £3,700 worse off, leading to calls for the Labour government to improve relations with the EU

Brexit costing UK up to £90bn in lost tax revenue , new analysis shows.

How much longer can the government ignore the damage & do so little about it?

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer

🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.

A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:

A 6–8% hit to GDP

That's £180bn-£240bn a year

It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.

Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.

Cross-party MPs ramp up calls for government to restore Electoral Commission’s independence "Our democracy is not safe while the Electoral Commission is left so vulnerable."

"MPs are ramping up calls for Labour to repeal Tory-era powers which allow government ministers to set the Electoral Commission’s priorities."

"This comes as Labour prepares to introduce its Elections Bill to Parliament early next year."
leftfootforward.org/2025/11/cros...

In case you missed it ...
Brexiters swore we'd stay in the Single Market and that the EU would let us cherry pick whatever we wanted. If people had known they were lying before the ref, Brexit would have been rejected.
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

Climate charity Possible today released new research on the UK’s private jet sector, revealing that some of the wealthiest travellers in the country pay only a fraction of the rate of tax paid by ordinary passengers — despite taking the most polluting flights. The analysis shows that around 100,000 private jet flights depart UK airports annually, yet many incur minimal or even zero air passenger duty (APD), due to outdated thresholds and loopholes in the tax system. Even after the government’s planned increases to higher-rate APD next year, private jet passengers will still pay only £142 for a short-haul flight or £1,141 for long-haul - a negligible proportion of what can be tens of thousands of pounds per hour spent on chartering private aircraft. The report is calling for a fairer rate of APD, set at 30 times the current rate, levied on all private flights, as well as fuel duty to be imposed on private jet kerosene set at 10 times the rate the motorist pays at the pump. Taken together, this will create a tax rate which is comparable to what an economy passenger pays as a proportion of their ticket cost. This involves introducing a fair APD rate for Domestic and Band A journeys (flights to all destinations less than 2,000 miles from London) for private jet flights of £2,520, an APD of £19,410 for Band B journeys, and £20,190 for Band C journeys. On a flight from London to Geneva (Band A), that would bring the cost of a private jet journey from about £4,500 per passenger (assuming a £9k flight cost shared between two passengers) to £10,061 per passenger. 25% of the ticket cost would be APD, and 30.2% would be fuel duty, giving a total tax rate of 55.3%. By comparison, a lowest-cost economy flight on the same route costs £27, of which 56% is reduced-rate APD (no fuel duty is paid). On a flight from London Luton to Dubai (Band B), the cost of a private jet journey would rise from around £35,000 per passenger (£70k flight cost shared between two passengers) to …

New analysis by non-profit climate group Possible today:

Private jet passengers typically pay less than 1% of the cost of their flights in taxes, compared to 26%-54% paid by economy passengers on standard flights

Loopholes mean private jetters often pay little or no APD, nor fuel duty on kerosene.

New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer

Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.

A new decade-long Brexit study explains it:

a 6–8% hit to GDP – that's £180bn-£240bn a year – means less tax, less investment and less money for everything else.

Brexit made Britain poorer. Much poorer.

Petition: Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy We are concerned about reported efforts from Russia to influence democracy in the US, UK, Europe and elsewhere. We believe we must establish the depth and breadth of possible Russian influence campaig...

AT LAST! This is moving!
2nd most popular petition atm.
Should reach 10,000 signatures today.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Johnson was proved to be away on an ‘extended break’ walking dogs, riding motor cycles and hosting parties instead of being at No 10 making decisions to protect the country during the early stages of the pandemic.

Surely that is a clear dereliction of his duty as PM?

This is how Rachel Reeves could deliver a progressive budget The chancellor has an opportunity to boost the public purpose and deliver redistribution

In 2023/24, UK govt gave £78.2bn tax relief on pension contributions.

32% benefitted 29.2m basic rate (20%) taxpayers.

68% went to higher and additional rate (40% and 45%) tax payers.

Equalizing tax relief at 20% to all, leaves govt £14.5bn spare to alleviate poverty.

So much winning...

"By 2025, the UK economy is 6%–8% smaller than it would have been had we stayed in the EU"

"Business investment is down 12%–18%"

"Fewer tax receipts mean less money for public services, less for investment"

Brexit impact study by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer

“Have they given up? Are they just deciding to build up herd immunity by watching us die? The government has given up, hasn’t it? They are throwing us into the slaughterhouse.”
It’s not hindsight - we knew this at the time @drrachelclarke.com writes:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Boris Johnson took four days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system Files show then PM was walking dog, riding motorbike and hosting guests as pandemic planning stalled in ‘lost month’

Boris Johnson took 4 days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system

Thousands died.

Spent time walking his dog, riding motorcycle, hosting lunches/dinners.

He once said Covid was ‘nature’s way of dealing with old people’, ‘we should let the old people get it’.

Will he be held to account,?

I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer

Powerful piece by @drrachelclarke.com on the COVID inquiry. Those who say it’s easy to be wise in hindsight are being utterly disingenuous. Many of us spoke out at the time, and it’s in the public record.
@independentsage.bsky.social

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Boris Johnson didn't apologise to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, even when she told him in person the lasting impact his comments about her had on her detention in Iran, her husband tells the BBC

23,000 people died because Boris Johnson was too busy walking a dog, riding a motorbike and hosting guests as he took four days off at Chevening, instead of addressing warning signs of the pandemic

Why isn't Boris Johnson in jail?

Covid bereaved call for Boris Johnson to lose ex-PM benefits over inquiry report Campaign group says it will pursue all legal means to ensure personal accountability for ‘grave betrayal’

Covid bereaved families call for all Boris Johnson’s privileges received as a former prime minister including his ministerial pension, his place on the privy council & access to the public duty costs allowance to be withdrawn.

He should also not be made a sir!

#Covidinquiry

Guardian news article with the headline: "Lib Dems to force vote on creating new customs union with EU." The photo shows Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey speaking passionately in the House of Commons.

My message to Rachel Reeves ahead of the Budget: Don’t just blame the Brexit damage, fix it.

I already have a counterproposal:

Russia pulls forces/proxies out of Ukraine—all of it—and removes offensive weapons from regions bordering Ukraine.

Pays for all war damage—and reconstruction.

All Russians engaged in war crimes stand trial.

And Ukraine can join any alliance it damn well pleases.