Alan Lewis Chambers #FBPE #RejoinEU

His mother was an immigrant.

His wife is an immigrant.

His grandfather and grandmother were immigrants.

Four of his five offspring are the children of immigrants.

We're the baddies now. Our new Security Strategy shows it. It's a gift to the Kremlin and a middle finger to our erstwhile allies.

"It doesn’t seem to have occurred to the administration that spending the last several months going scorched earth on the rest of the world might make other countries the tiniest bit disinclined to deal with us."

President Trump claims that European countries want him to be our president as well

Is there anyone in the US who actually believes this garbage?

Wes Streeting blaming doctors for the chaos from rising flu cases #C4News

Wes Streeting did not offer covid or flu boosters to everyone who wanted one

Wes Streeting did not care enough to ensure clean indoor air in schools, workplaces, hospitality

Both would have brought down cases significantly

Text of the press release. Full text in the link

EU Member States prohibit return of Russian central bank assets in EU to Russia until Russian hostilities no longer disrupt EU economy www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...

You are right, but more like fleas from a stinking corpse.

I've long suspected that a day will come when all of Trump’s most high-profile supporters desert him like rats off a sinking yacht.

Today, I sense we've edged a little closer to that "abandon ship" moment.

🔥 Excellent from
@mortenmorland.bsky.social

Debunking Benefit 3: The Multiverse Where Britain Randomly Volunteers to Underwrite the EU A benefit built entirely out of counterfactual smoke, time slippage and the UK mysteriously becoming fiscally adventurous for the first time in history.

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Debunking Benefit 3: The Multiverse Where Britain Randomly Volunteers to Underwrite the EU

A benefit built of counterfactual smoke, time slippage and becoming fiscally adventurous for the first time in history.
The Bear
Dec 12, 2025
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/debunking-...

Forgotten Elements of Russia's Non-Linear War — Lawfare, NGOs, and Religion Britain’s new sanctions on Dugin, Rybar and Pravfond map back to Ukraine 2014 – and my fourth book of Trojan Horses, from fake law centres and church processions to troll factories and TV empires

Trojan Horses: Democracy Under Siege
Forgotten Elements of Russia's Non-Linear War — Lawfare, NGOs, and Religion

Britain’s new sanctions on Dugin, Rybar and Pravfond map back to Ukraine 2014.
Peter Jukes
Dec 11, 2025
open.substack.com/pub/pdjukes/...

Here's Farage parroting Russian propaganda lies that could have come straight out of Lavrov's mouth.

Are we really to believe that Nathan Gill, who spouted the same lies, is the only Russian asset in Reform UK?

Nigel Farage's new strategy is to call the childhood victims of his racism liars while lashing out at any journalists who dare to report his actions.

This is just a small taster of how he would act if he ever got any power
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A Brexit survival strategy that shows Starmer’s days are numbered Labour will need a different leader if it pursues a policy of rejoining the EU customs union or single market

This from @robertshrimsley.bsky.social made me laugh

“ In his robust defence of Brexit freedoms, Starmer resembles Alec Guinness’s half-mad colonel in The Bridge on the River Kwai, protecting an edifice he has forgotten was built for the benefit of the other side.”

www.ft.com/content/2d00...

Corporate welfare is out of control.

One example - Drax produces electricity by burning trees, most expensive electricity, UK's biggest single polluter.

In 2024, Drax had £1.06bn operating profit, paid £100m dividend, £300m in share buyback.

Received billions in subsidies for decades. Why?

Revealed: The IEA’s oil and Murdoch money New “groundbreaking investigation” into Tufton Street’s funding...

Sam Bright
Revealed: The IEA’s oil and Murdoch money

New “groundbreaking investigation” into Tufton Street’s funding...
Dec 11, 2025
open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...

Europe's dilemma: Supporting Trump's Ukraine peace plan while hoping he walks away U.S. policy choices are forcing Europe into a strategic moment it long tried to avoid. As Washington sidelines allies, rewrites its National Security Strategy, and negotiates peace proposals for Ukra...

For many in European capitals, the realization is sinking in: Europe may soon need to protect itself in ways it has never had to since World War II.

Experts say the understanding is already there. What's missing is unity — and time.

Trump wants to destabilise European democracy. Where on earth is parliament? | John Crace You’d think MPs would be lining up to decry the US president’s support for far-right nationalists. Instead, only backbenchers and a few junior ministers bothered to turn up

Trump wants to destabilise European democracy. Where on earth is parliament?
John Crace
11 Dec 2025
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

My former hardcore Brexit friend tonight:

Words to the effect

'we need a stronger and more united Europe, and leaving the EU was a massive mistake'

Debunking Benefit 2: Why Keeping 100% of Not-Very-Much Isn’t a Benefit In which a revenue simulation becomes a miracle, context vanishes, and Brexit gets another imaginary dividend.

Need a commute read?

I’ve got you covered with my second debunk of the 75 “Benefits” of Brexit, in which I slap a moustache and a mullet on CBAM to try and make it sexy.

Results are under question.

Second of the 75 debunks, and a good example of how time-consuming it is to unravel these 'Brexit benefit' claims. Heroic stuff from @bearlypolitics.co.uk

Latest Breaking UK and World News & Opinion | LBC Get the very latest UK and world news along with video interviews and analysis - only on LBC. Leading Britain's Conversation.

lbc.co.uk: Leaked documents claim 'US wants to convince four countries to quit EU' in bid to 'Make Europe Great Again'
www.lbc.co.uk/article/trum...

The same document also reveals that Trump wants no European country at the big boys table he calls c5: US, Russia, China, India, Japan. Sorry Telegraph. This isn’t about making Europe great. /1

Economists Judge Brexit Bill to Be Worse Than Ever Just as Politics Is Shifting It’s true the most dismal predictions about Brexit didn’t come true — immediately.

❓The OBR underestimated a predicted 4% dent to the UK’s GDP by as much as half.

📈 Implying a more-than £200 billion ($267 billion) cost to the economy, according to a new paper authored by economists including Nicholas Bloom, Philip Bunn and Paul Mizen.
https://bloom.bg/3Y6IePj

Left: Nigel Farage saying he won't wear a mask as flu cases soar in a flu current flu outbreak overwhelming hospitals and GP practices

Right: That time Nigel Farage chose to wear a mask, and also chose to get a covid vaccine

Nigel Farage warns British last to the party in coronavirus advice to wear facemasks

Nigel Farage believes wearing face masks to stop coronavirus spread "a price worth paying"

Farage says, "I didn't wear them (masks) last time, and I won't wear them this time" and dismisses mask mandates as "rubbish".

Here's Farage in 2020.

Man's a dangerous idiot.

Oldest known evidence of the controlled ignition of fire A 400,000-year-old site excavated in England reveals signs of deliberate fires made using the mineral iron pyrite to produce sparks.

A 400,000-year-old site excavated in England reveals signs of deliberate fires made using the mineral iron pyrite to produce sparks

go.nature.com/4rVSTdi

In the summer I wrote to @Keir Starmer to ask that Reform have some representation in the House of Lords, He didn't give me the courtesy of a response, despite Reform winning the elections in May. This makes me more determined to smash the political establishment than ever

Nothing says "smash the political establishment" quite like begging the Prime Minister to put your mates in the unelected House of Lords.

Yes, it’s really this bad. Trump wants to create a ‘Core 5’ with Putin, leaving Western Europe and Ukraine out in the cold

And cream and brandy butter.

Europe’s plan to fund Ukraine is being blocked by one company — Euroclear About the author: Olena Havrylchyk is a Professor of Economics at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. The proposal to use immobilized Russian assets to finance a “reparation loan” for Ukraine w...

"In the end, this debate is not about financial stability; it is about whether Europe is serious about justice, accountability, and reparations," writes Olena Havrylchyk, Professor of Economics at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, in her recent op-ed.