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From Sunday, Brexit will deliver a big highly visible slap in the face. Hopefully that will bring it deservedly back into the news.

New poll shows: Potential Conservative voters are now more than twice as likely to consider Brexit a failure rather than a success.

@pimlicat.bsky.social: “The British public, including the Conservatives’ voters - recognise that Brexit has been a calamity for our economy.”

https://bit.ly/3WxPUsO

Well, this is telling.

The picture of Farage with the T shirt from Gill’s briber’s wife, taken the day Gill appears her Pro Russian TV channel, is taken in Gill’s office

What happens when £47 billion disappears from Britain’s economy? Tory Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride wants to take £47 billion out of the UK economy. That isn't prudence. It's managed decline

The poorest people spend every penny they get. Cut their income, and you cut spending in every local economy.

The Tory plan to cut £47 billion out of government budgets is £47 billion less in everyone’s pockets | Prof Richard Murphy

@richardjmurphy.bsky.social - with thanks

Farage insists ex-Reform UK Wales leader convicted of bribery is ‘bad apple’ Farage said he was shocked by Nathan Gill’s admissions relating to pro-Russia statements

Anyone notice Nigel Farage seems to know a lot of "bad apples"?

Farage insists ex-Reform UK Wales leader convicted of bribery is ‘bad apple’

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I’ve been conducting a poll and my results reflect the majority view of people in this country and not the rancid views of some dubious middle aged wimpy white gits who think the world owes them a fvcking living.

100% of people polled said will you stop fvcking polling every day.

We all know Brexit’s to blame for the crisis facing UK steel – it’s time for politicians to be honest and reverse it | Simon Jenkins With British industry faltering, the excuse that the public wants this is risible. Parliament must force Starmer to act, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

"The need is urgent for some coalition of politicians to take the lead and state baldly that Brexit was an error."

"The public is clearly ready to see Brexit reversed. There cannot be a single industry that would oppose it. The need is for leadership."

https://bit.ly/42Btcnf

What a mad world. 93% of the US stock market is owned by just 10% of the population. And they’re not just collecting wealth beyond the dreams of avarice - they’re collecting power, owning media, social media, buying politicians and policy.

buff.ly/87x6thv

Possibly Marco Rubio for bigging her up! If Trump is aware of that, liddle Marco is in the shit... bigly! 😂

Photo showing Jane Goodall (died 1st Oct 2025) bowing her head towards the outstretched hand of a chimpanzee. The background is deliberately blurred to ensure focus on the hand reaching towards Jane's forehead. It is almost touching and is having to do so through strands of Jane's blonde hair that is falling forwards over her dipped head. Jane is smiling

Bit late I know but I have only just come across this photo of Jane Goodall who left us last week

Captures the essence of the lady and her work I feel

Photo is by Michael 'Nick' Nicholls, taken in Brazzaville in 1990 using a 35mm camera

RIP Jane ❤️

And won by a woman. That's surely gonna hurt! 😀

I was just about to write the same thing!

All those years of raping, racism, ripping off, only to escape the long arm of the law time and time again, he deserves many many lifetime sentences.

He is fundamentally evil to the core of his very being.

Death would be final and may be best in the long run, but I would give anything to see him slung in jail, for the rest of his life, the ultimate humiliation, but as that will most likely never happen, then death it is!

Trump/Miller need a war for the next stage of their takeover.

Added to "the rest is politics" podcast I listened to yesterday that America may be planning régime change in Venezuela.

This will spur intense anger by Trump against Venezuela and he will want retribution and revenge for the slight.

Nobel peace prize 2025 live: María Corina Machado wins for work promoting democratic rights in Venezuela US president had been conducting campaign to influence prize committee

The narcissist's wound just got deeper, wider and longer.

We all know Brexit’s to blame for the crisis facing UK steel – it’s time for politicians to be honest and reverse it | Simon Jenkins With British industry faltering, the excuse that the public wants this is risible. Parliament must force Starmer to act, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

👏 Simon Jenkins gives first major mainstream call for parliamentary leadership to reverse Brexit, not just reset it.

🇪🇺Steel collapse immediate trigger: 80% 🇬🇧 steel 👉EU, now face 50% tariffs - terminal.

🇬🇧 The cause: thank you Brexit

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🇪🇺 Brexit reset: tokenistic pockets of sanity that do nothing to fix systemic barriers.

🇬🇧 Chemical exports ⤵️35-40%, goods exports ⤵️ 27%

🇪🇺 61% Brexit as failure; only 13% success.

🇬🇧 We need cross-party forum to begin formal re-association with the EU and to prepare political ground for reentry.

EU refuses to bow to Trump demands to tear up business rules Brussels has signaled it won’t yield to U.S. pressure to ignite a bonfire of green regulations as part of their trade deal, a top official tells diplomats.

The EU has signaled it won't give in to pressure from Washington to tear up its green rules in order to firm up a deal on tariffs, the bloc’s top trade official has told member countries.

‘Frankly, the deception of Brexit has exposed Britain as a lonely person sitting outside the conference table.’

Lord #Heseltine: one of last true statesmen reminding us what Europe built - peace, power, and purpose. Only Europe gives us strength to stand our ground against global powers.
#Heseltine

SHOCK POLL: NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW IN an amazing poll conducted by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like. However, 99 percent of journalists agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

Who benefits from the abolition of stamp duty land tax?

The first answer: people buying very expensive homes. Average saving for someone buying a £10m+ home is £1.7m. Average saving for someone buying a £250k-£500k home is £5k.

Labour too often seem to consider it a success if no-one notices their interviews. The insurgent parties only consider it a success if people do. The former just no longer cuts it in the attention economy.

When referring to people who are anti-Trump, don't fall into the trap of calling them "Antifa."

That is a loaded, mangled word. Call them what they are, "anti-fascists."

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

What appears to be happening here is that MAGA can’t find any actual antifa people to abuse and threaten so they’re going after an academic who studies anti fascist movements. MAGA are evil and also incredibly thick. People study things without being those things!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Why isn’t that in the article, ffs?
The man is toxic. A constant threat to our wellbeing. He does real harm every day and we cannot have him in power. Media *must* start scrutinising him properly. Not let him promote his hideous agenda, unchecked, with people having no real clue what he’s up to.

The people behind Farage are the same as those who own our media I fear…

Hence the free ride

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leader

What the hell does Farage thinks he’s doing, going off to America *again* to maliciously slag off British teachers at some private Christian college, while offering to peddle their courses over here?
What a repulsive, grubby little traitor.

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