Berkshire for Europe

🚨Now on 86,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 90,000 tonight!

If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!

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New poll shows 75% favour joining single market to lower taxes Of British adults who feel Brexit has been harmful to the UK, over 75% favour the UK joining the Single Market and Customs Union as a way to lower the tax burden and boost money for public services.

New polling from European Movement UK shows that three quarters of people who see the economic damage of Brexit now back joining the Single Market and Customs Union to cut taxes and rebuild public services. The public knows the route to recovery, even if the Government refuses to face it.

Baby steps won’t fix Brexit or the Budget There is a way to get back a much bigger slice of the money Brexit has cost us. By getting the UK back into the EU single market.

Brexit is the reason today’s Budget squeezes families, yet the government is still shuffling towards solutions that demand real urgency. We need far bolder steps back towards the single market if we want future budgets that lift people up rather than drain them.

The Chancellor explicitly references the negative legacy of Brexit on the UK economy - so why is her govt so opposed to taking steps like joining the customs union or single market with all the economic benefits these would bring? #Budget2025

Turns out that Brexit isn’t working for the Royal Family…

Reform UK are going to announce a policy where all EU citizens will be stripped of all benefits and double the NHS surcharge

They will be given 3 months notice. If the EU refuses to accept these terms, there will be a ‘trade retaliation’ with the EU?

Race to the bottom in the sewage of racism.

Russia used a network of 150,000 Twitter accounts to meddle in Brexit Russian-based Twitter accounts focused their attention on the Brexit referendum in the days leading up to the vote, data scientists have concluded.

“Over 150,000 Twitter accounts based in Russia tweeted about Brexit during the referendum, an investigation found..Britain "knows" what Russia is doing” but Tories were bankrolled by Russian money & compromised.
www.businessinsider.com/russia-used-...

Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain’s woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in its roof | Jonathan Freedland The autumn budget will mop up some damage, but the true source of the economic crisis is clear. The government should now fix it – tragically, it won’t, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

More politicians and pundits need to say the Emperor has no clothes. Until governments of whatever stripe admit that Brexit is making us poorer than we would have been and depriving us of sorely needed money for public goods, they’ll remain stuck in denial.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The Confidence Trick That Put Boris Johnson Into Power Is Now Being Used on Nigel Farage The same people who convinced the British public to back a catastrophic Boris Johnson premiership are now pulling the same trick again with Nigel Farage

The right wing elite are ruthless in protecting their own and getting what they want.
They wanted Johnson. (And what a disaster that was for us).
Now they want Farage. (Would be an off the scale catastrophe for the country).
Time we woke up to the betrayal.

www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-confid...

Zack Polanski: ‘People will have to find some other way to hurt me’ | The Observer

"You can agree or disagree with him, but Polanski does not pretend to be something he is not.

He is unusually willing for a politician to give a straight answer to questions.

Does he want to rejoin the EU? “Yes."

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I can't believe nobody thinks Farage is an enemy of the state after Gill sentencing.

Together with Boris Johnson, I am pretty sure that the Russians have a firm grip on UK politics.

Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain’s woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in its roof | Jonathan Freedland The autumn budget will mop up some damage, but the true source of the economic crisis is clear. The government should now fix it – tragically, it won’t, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

“Brexit was a waste of money that, now more than ever, we simply cannot afford.”

The political refusal to admit how badly they screwed us over with Brexit keeps us trapped in inevitable, snowballing failure. We can’t let them dodge this reality forever.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

John Major, "Our links to Europe and America may be loser now than once they were and that is a loss"

"The loss of trade with Europe alone costs us £100 billion of lost trade every year"

"That's a tax yield of £40 billion"

"How useful would that have been in recent months to the Chancellor?"

Can't help but feel those responsible for Brexit should not, for example, be riding high in the polls with a new party...

'GDP reduced by 8%' - Nine-year study reveals how Brexit decimated UK economy Can't help but feel those responsible for Brexit should not, for example, be riding high in the polls with a new party...

‘GDP reduced by 8%’ – Nine-year study reveals how Brexit decimated UK economy

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/bre...

Minority representation on TV causes outrage There has been widespread support for prominent Reform MP Sarah Pochin after she complained about the over-representation of minorities on television. Said one angry viewer, "She's right. Every time you turn on the telly there's another Reform MP being interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg." She added, "I respect their way of life and their strange customs, but Reform MPs comprise only 0.7 percent of the House of Commons. Yet Nigel Farage is on Question Time more than Fiona Bruce." "I'm not prejudiced. Some of my best friends are swivel-eyed loons, but enough is enough. There are too many people with angry red faces on television.”

Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.

‘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 & Paris are all doing better than they were..at London’s expense..City companies moved almost £1tn between them ~10% of the entire UK banking system – to financial hubs across the EU.”
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill How did a former Mormon bishop end up pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament?

It's no wonder that Nigel Farage tried to pretend he didn't know Nathan Gill well, though obviously he did.

The bribes Gill took are just the tip of an iceberg of Russian influence, and Brexit fitted the Kremlin agenda of dividing Europe all too well.

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

#farage #Brexit #ECHR

Trade’s contribution to UK GDP ‘stagnated’ since Brexit, warns WTO Export of goods are languishing at 17% below pre-Covid levels

“In its first formal review of UK trade policy since Brexit, the WTO found that UK trade performance had weakened since the 2008 financial crisis, with Brexit named among the chief causes of a marked slump in goods trade since 2018”

God, failure is tedious…

www.ft.com/content/8f4d...

#reform #farage #brexit

‘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...

This letter from Jas Olak, Vice Chair of Leeds for Europe, appeared in The Yorkshire Post on 31 October 2025. Ms Olak notes the Governor of the Bank of England has confirmed Brexit has had a negative impact on the UK economy.

The Bank of England Governor must choose his words carefully but even he’s concluded ‘ #Brexit impacts UK growth’, says Vice Chair @jazz072.bsky.social in a @yorkshirepost.co.uk letter: “Mr Bailey can’t says it but I can: Government must negotiate better #SingleMarket access.” #RejoinEU

Due, in part, to "a maddening failure of communication by No. 10", you may not be at all aware of much of this government activity and legislation.

Ownership of the Press and who's controlling media output (🅱🅱🅲 🙄) should become an urgent matter for government.

“The chancellor and governor put the issue of Brexit back on the table. Neither had a solution to the slow-growth trap in which we find ourselves.”
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You cannot “sort Brexit out”…the only thing you can do with Brexit is consign it to history.
#RejoinEU

YouTube video by Femi - F Politics! Brexit humiliates Tories AND Reform!! - Question Time with Nadine Dorries

Watching Brexit HUMILIATE the Tories AND Reform was fucking delicious!!! 😍🤣😝😍😍

Nadine Dorries and Harriett Baldwin couldn't name ANY Brexit benefits after 10 years!!!!
#bbcqt

Yes Brexit has weakened the economy, but here are other reasons it's struggling The Chancellor has claimed that Britain's economic woes have been "compounded" by Brexit - but is that the case? Rachel Reeves will deliver her Budget in November (Photo: Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty Images) Eleanor Langford Political Reporter 20th October 2025 2:04 PM Chancellor Rachel Reeves has linked the UK's slow growth and rising taxes to the long-term effects of Brexit, arguing that the way Britain left the European Union has made the economy smaller and productivity weaker.

So, is Brexit to blame? Most major studies - including those by the OBR, the Constitution Society and Cambridge Econometrics - agree that Brexit has made the UK economy smaller and weaker than it would otherwise have been, mainly because of lower trade and investment. The estimated loss, between 4 and 5 per cent of GDP, is widely accepted by official and independent forecasts. But these studies also show that Brexit is not the only cause of Britain's economic problems. Weak productivity, years of underinvestment, global shocks and an ageing population have all added to the slowdown. Verdict: Evidence from official and independent sources supports the claim that Brexit has weakened the UK economy. But it is one of several factors holding back growth - not the only one. EXPLORE MORE ON THE TOPICS IN THIS STORY Politics Eleanor Langford

Have to say, it’s no comfort AT ALL surveying the Brexit wreckage knowing there are other (lesser) reasons for the damage.
Just makes Brexit all the more irresponsible and idiotic. Along with the stubborn refusal to properly fix it.
It’s all so tediously stupid.

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STRIPPED TEES: How Britain’s flagship ‘levelling up’ project turned into a scandalous giveaway. Read the eight-page special report in the new Private Eye, out now.

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FT graph showing massive UK public support for the opinion that it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…