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Ask Brexiters if they would prefer to live in nation that is in a single market, custom union & common travel area (Schengen) with other nations?
When they give you the guaranteed, indignant flat 'no'..
Ask them why then are they still living in the UK & when are they leaving.
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Exactly. Leave a customs union means you resurrect customs borders. The UK did so with 28 others. Leave a single market of regulations means you resurrect regulatory borders. The UK did so with 31 others. Thus adding both of these to those the UK already has with *all* the world's countries...
Customs & regulatory borders between different customs & different regulated territories are the hardest of "frictions" & barriers to trade & growth.
All Brexits were thus always going to fuck over & shrink the UK economy
For goodness sake, stop the claptrap !
It wasn't the "botched Brexit deal" which "put up frictions and barriers" - it was Brexit itself !
It's like leaving a gym, then complaining you've "botched" no longer being a member because you can't use the apparatus !
@EmmaforWycombe
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💔 Brexit broke my heart, it still makes me cry 😭 often.
I have felt incredibly sad and at times frightened about Brexit impact.
For me, Europe was never principally about GDP, trade deals or regulations. Europe is about peace; countries that spent centuries fighting one another deciding that their futures were safer intertwined.
And it is about protecting our shared European culture, our democracy and our security.
And so many of the things I feared in 2016 have since happened. War has returned to Europe. Putin’s killing machine continues its assault on Ukraine. And Trump’s America has itself gone to war with Iran while its relationship with Europe is fractious.
Do we continue looking across the Atlantic and hoping America will always guarantee our security and defend our interests? Or do we recognise the simple reality of our geography?
We are European. Europe isn’t perfect, nothing is. But European unity was never based upon the proposition that European countries would be perfect, it was built upon the knowledge of what can happen when Europe is divided.
The lesson of Suez wasn’t that Britain needed America more. Britain, France and our European neighbours need each other.
Britain’s future and Europe’s future are inseparable. 🇬🇧🇪🇺
🇬🇧 🇫🇷 Did Britain learn the wrong lesson from Suez?
Seventy years ago, the Suez crisis brutally exposed the reality that Britain 🇬🇧 and France 🇫🇷 could no longer act as great powers alone.
But Britain and France drew very different lessons from the humiliation.
Britain turned towards America and France turned towards Europe.
🇩🇪 German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer told the French PM:
“France and England will never be powers comparable to the US and the Soviet Union. Nor will Germany. There remains to them only one way of playing a decisive role in the world; that is to unite to make Europe.”
And then came the devastating observation: “England is not ripe for it.”
Seventy years later, that question has returned. Meanwhile Trump has transformed the transatlantic relationship and Putin’s war has transformed European security.
Ukraine 🇺🇦 has demonstrated why Europe needs the ability to defend itself and Brexit has left Britain outside the European institutions where many of the decisions affecting our own continent are made.
@andyburnham now wants Britain to have a new conversation about Europe and it cannot just be about trade.
It is about security, defence, economic resilience and whether Britain has more influence acting with its European neighbours or perpetually trying to be America’s junior partner.
Perhaps the lesson of Suez wasn’t that Britain needed America more and in fact it was that Britain, France and their European neighbours needed each other.
Seventy years later, it really is time to exorcise the ghost of Suez. Britain’s future and Europe’s future are inseparable. 🇬🇧🇪🇺
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One of the most poignant images from All Saints’ Day in London.
At the Polish Air Force Memorial in Northolt, 8-year-old Antek joins hundreds of Poles in paying tribute to the Polish airmen who sacrificed their lives ‘for your freedom and ours’. Their bravery and sacrifice will never be forgotten!
The commemoration was organised by Polskie Dywizjony Lotnicze, and British Poles was the media patron of the event.
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Today is All Souls' Day, or Lá na Marbh, but long before the church made the 2nd of November a Catholic holiday the Gaelic world marked Samhain, when the veil between the living and the dead was thin. Christianity did its thing and 1st became All Saints, the 2nd became All Souls, and the old Pagan and very human instinct to honour and welcome the deceased found a home in the parish.
In traditional Irish households, fires were banked and left burning so the returning souls could warm themselves. Chairs were left by the hearth. Some families, like me own, set out food and a bowl of water to quench the visiting ancestors and left the door on the latch. It's a beautiful and poignant way to feel them close to you, especially ones you've lost that year. These were your own people, home for one night.
The whole of November became the month of the Holy Souls. Families handed names to the priest for the "dead list" and heard them read out at Mass, a litany of grandparents, infants, and neighbours lost to famine, fever, and more often than not British related violence.
In Dublin, when Daniel O'Connell opened Glasnevin in 1832, it was a Catholic cemetery where Catholics could finally bury their dead with their own rites after Emancipation. Every November since in cemeteries across the country, people who mightnt visit normally have walked those paths with flowers and the odd bottle or can, tending graves.
For anyone who's suffered bereavement, especially this year as our own family painfully has, my heart sincerely goes out to you. May you feel their arms around you today. May the memory of their lives bring you comfort, and may the knowledge that they carry on in Paradise awaiting a reunion bring you some peace in this imperfect world. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a n-anamacha.
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Not sure which European states have Patriots, but any that can be sent to Ukraine should be sent. Now. Not years from now.
Overnight alone, our energy infrastructure came under Russian attack in four regions: Dnipro, Vinnytsia, Zhytomyr, and Khmelnytskyi. Substations, transformers, and power lines that supply electricity to our people’s homes were targeted. Repair crews are working everywhere. As of now, hundreds of thousands of families remain without power.
Massive Russian attacks on Ukraine’s other critical infrastructure are also continuing unabated. This past week Russia has launched 1,940 attack drones, more than 1,580 guided aerial bombs, and 44 missiles of various types against Ukraine, including 36 ballistic missiles. The intensity of the strikes is extremely high, and the Russians are trying to take maximum advantage of the shortage of ballistic missile interceptors.
Every day, we communicate our need for Patriot missiles to America, Europe, and other partners who can help. And this month, the United States and European countries made new decisions on additional packages for Ukraine. But these deliveries cannot take years. Russia is destroying infrastructure and killing our people right now, and it is betting on ballistic missiles this winter. Accordingly, decisions on air defense must also be implemented now. I thank everyone who supports the defense of Ukrainian skies.
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🇬🇧 🇫🇷 Did Britain learn the wrong lesson from Suez?
Seventy years ago, the Suez crisis brutally exposed the reality that Britain 🇬🇧 and France 🇫🇷 could no longer act as great powers alone.
But Britain and France drew very different lessons from the humiliation.
Britain turned towards America and France turned towards Europe.
🇩🇪 German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer told the French PM:
“France and England will never be powers comparable to the US and the Soviet Union. Nor will Germany. There remains to them only one way of playing a decisive role in the world; that is to unite to make Europe.”
And then came the devastating observation: “England is not ripe for it.”
Seventy years later, that question has returned. Meanwhile Trump has transformed the transatlantic relationship and Putin’s war has transformed European security.
Ukraine 🇺🇦 has demonstrated why Europe needs the ability to defend itself and Brexit has left Britain outside the European institutions where many of the decisions affecting our own continent are made.
@andyburnham now wants Britain to have a new conversation about Europe and it cannot just be about trade.
It is about security, defence, economic resilience and whether Britain has more influence acting with its European neighbours or perpetually trying to be America’s junior partner.
Perhaps the lesson of Suez wasn’t that Britain needed America more and in fact it was that Britain, France and their European neighbours needed each other.
Seventy years later, it really is time to exorcise the ghost of Suez. Britain’s future and Europe’s future are inseparable. 🇬🇧🇪🇺
You completely fail to mention how this all started with PiS refusing to recognise Constitutional Tribunal judges elected under the PO government and putting their own people on the Tribunal. The current government, with the support of the EU is trying to unscramble the mess.
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Brexiter on BBC #PoliticsLive "I want us to have our own laws, govern ourselves, not be dictated to by an unelected European Parliament"
My view:
That claim sounds less like an informed account of how the EU worked and more like populist rhetoric repeated without checking the facts.
The European Parliament was directly elected by voters—including UK voters while Britain was a member.
Most EU laws were proposed by the Commission, then debated, amended and agreed by the elected Parliament and the Council of national government ministers.
The Commission could not simply dictate laws on its own.
British ministers sat in the Council and took part in those decisions; British MEPs represented voters in Parliament.
The UK could be outvoted in some areas, but that is shared decision-making—not rule by an unelected parliament.
And the Commission itself was accountable to elected institutions: Parliament had to approve the College of Commissioners.
You can argue that pooling sovereignty was a bad deal, or point to a specific EU law you opposed.
But “we were dictated to by an unelected European Parliament” is not a factual description of the process.
It replaces the real debate with a slogan.
And this explains the need for education and information so individuals such as this gentleman can make informed decisions based on accurate information, and not populist, divisive rhetoric.
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The Age of AI will necessitate the introduction of a universal basic income in all countries. Bring on the UBI!
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Look at all the crap being said about Poland and the EU. There isn’t a coup. There is a constitutional dispute that started with PiS trying, and succeeding, to stack the court years ago. Look at who is saying it. Mad MAGA loons, Russian politicians, corrupt PiS liars.
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Will Coleshill is mixed race. His original name was CongoRay Salamat.
If this person thinks black men are 'third world savages' that doesn't bode well at all.
Myself & @WillColeshill have just been attacked by third world savage Congolese migrants in Paris.
It started because we were documenting the demographic replacement in France.
They went to attack our female friend and we stepped in to defend her.
This is why we need Remigration
📽️: @LukeWSchmidt
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Today, on All Saints’ Day, hundreds of Poles in the UK gathered to light more than 1,000 candles at the Polish Air Force Memorial in Northolt, west London, honouring our heroes.
The commemorative event “Light a Candle for Polish Airmen” honoured the Polish airmen who fought and died defending British skies during WWII. Over 18,000 Polish personnel served in RAF squadrons, more than 2,000 lost their lives.
The commemoration was organised by Polskie Dywizjony Lotnicze, and British Poles was the media patron of the event.
Pod pewnymi względami Philips to historia sukcesu. W przeciwieństwie do wielu dużych europejskich firm elektronicznych, które były powszechnie znane – takich jak Grundig, Telefunken, Ferguson czy inne – Philips zdołał w samą porę przejść wewnętrzną przemianę.
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FYI - It's a great charity & this donation isn't some sort of poke in the eye. Action for Children supports all children, including refugees. Thank you.
From their website:
Just donated what I would have won for my chosen charity @actnforchildren ❤️ ❤️ amazing cause 😘🙏🏽
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Ryan Bridge has been detained and placed under house arrest in Somalia. His mate Billy Allison from Raise the Colours is on trial for murder. Ay Audits and his mates are banged up in France. Tommy Robinson has been found guilty. Joey Barton and Danny Tommo are on remand. James English is on bail awaiting sentencing, and Russell Brand is on trial.
What a year for the far right.
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It's that time of year when we remind everyone that Halloween celebrations originated in Ireland in the festival of Samhain 👻🎃
It dates back over 2,000 years & marked the end of summer & the beginning of winter
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Man travels overseas to advocate for remigration & complains about 'foreign savages' chasing him out.
Chouette
Today, I could have died at the hands of masked foreign savages.
One foreigner recognised me and shouted ‘FASCISTE’, and hundreds of masked thugs chased me down as they were being kettled by the French police.
God willing, I outran them and escaped.
This will be the norm in Britain if we don’t get a grip on migration.
Footage coming soon.