This is what a former US President (and former General), Eisenhower, said about war, showing some wisdom that is still sadly lacking in the current incumbent
(h/t @adamtooze.bsky.social ):
🔴Crypto Donations Now Accepted by Three UK Parties as Concerns Grow Over Foreign Interference Threat
Reform UK and the far-right Homeland Party are now both accepting cryptocurrency donations, as calls grow for Labour to use its elections bill to secure our democracy
bylinetimes.com/2026/03/11/c...
European Movement UK has launched a petition calling for the UK to join the EU single market. Six years outside our largest trading partner has meant more barriers, more costs and lost growth for British businesses. It is time to repair the damage. Sign the petition and demand a reset with Europe. Sign the petition.
Today, European Movement UK have launched our petition calling for the UK to join the single market. Europe is the largest trading bloc in the world, and joining the single market would remove barriers to trade, support growth of British businesses and strengthen cooperation with Europe.
Today, The Business and Trade Committee questioned Trade Minister Chris Bryant MP on whether Britain can afford to continue 'straddling the Channel and the Atlantic'. The answer is clear, we have the largest trading bloc in the world on our doorstep: it's time to rejoin the single market.
UK takes the plunge: following EU standards & rules to attenuate the costs & red tape caused by Brexit. But so far only on agri-food standards.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Commons Foreign Affairs Cmttee publishes litany of Brexit problems & asks why there is:
- "no sense of urgency" in the Reset of relations with EU
- a "lack of a strategic approach"
- and calls on govt to "clarify if it is reconsidering its red lines"
committees.parliament.uk/publications/5…
The right-wing used to go bonkers about the UK negotiating common EU consumer protection rules.
Now they believe Britain shld join any US military operation “regardless of our own interests, our own views or our own democratic processes”.
They want “total subservience to American decision-making”
No rubber stamp from Europe, as Macron, Starmer and Sánchez resist Trump’s demands to back his war.
www.politico.eu/article/dona...
Commons Foreign Affairs Cmttee publishes litany of Brexit problems & asks why there is:
- "no sense of urgency" in the Reset of relations with EU
- a "lack of a strategic approach"
- and calls on govt to "clarify if it is reconsidering its red lines"
committees.parliament.uk/publications/5…
Trump expects Britain (and other European countries) to blindly follow each of his rash decisions. But Starmer is right not to do so when:
- the UK was not consulted beforehand
- the professed aims constantly change
- there is no exit strategy
- it breaks international law
For years, food prices have been anything but stable. Wars and trade disruptions, from Ukraine to tensions involving Iran, are straining global supply chains. Just five companies dominate much of the global food trade and continue posting record profits as countries stockpile and consumers pay more.
Interesting that the total vote for Labour, Greens and LibDems in the Gorton & Denton by-election was 68% - just as it was in 2024
So, Labour is haemorrhaging votes to the centre and left, not to the right
UK and EU agree to cooperate on tackling multinationals and monopolies
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
The problems of wanting to have the benefits when you've walked out of the club...
www.politico.eu/article/made...
We must stop pretending that Brexit was just a domestic choice.
It was a successful Russian hybrid operation designed to shatter Western cooperation.
This betrayal has left both the UK and the EU more vulnerable to aggression.
Those who still defend it are idiots or traitors
This is something I had wanted to write for ages, but 10 years on from the Brexit vote made the most sense.
What would Britain still inside the EU look like? Incredibly powerful, is the answer.
www.thenewworld.co.uk/luke-mcgee-t...
Revealed: 80% of Reform’s funding comes from Tory donors
www.thenerve.news/p/reform-fun...
Over 80% of 16 to 24-year-olds would vote to rejoin the EU, ITV poll finds
Why would you pig-headedly ignore the voice of the next generation? Why would you saddle them with debt, shrink the job market and limit their opportunities? It runs counter to everything politics and society should want for them. For all of us. They’re the future.
www.itv.com/news/2026-02...
Farage - grifting multimillionaire and highest earning MP
Tice - family money multimillionaire
Yusuf - multimillionaire
Jenrick - millionaire
Zahawi - multimillionaire
But they want to cut the National Minimum Wage down from £12.21 per hour. (It goes up 50p in April.)
God, they’re hideous.
New data shows #Brexit has lowered UK GDP by 6-8% in 10 years. Investment down 18%, employment down 4%.
It's even worse than economists had predicted pre-referendum, because they thought there would be a bounce-back long term.
"Economists were roughly right on the magnitude of the impact, but...
It’s not just that a large majority want Britain to rejoin the EU, it’s the fact that the majority steadily continues to grow…
People who voted LEAVE in the 2016 referendum on Brexit have the right to say:
“this is not what I was told, it’s not what we were promised, and it’s damn well not what I voted for”
Brexit was sold on lies
A democracy that cannot change its mind is no longer a democracy
🇬🇧🇪🇺
An interesting Danish take on Europe and the European Union 🇪🇺, well worth a read:
www.europeanfuture.eu/work/where-d...
“We are not the Britain of the Brexit years anymore”
Prime minister Keir Starmer 👏
When we refer to the Liberal Democrats, we generally shorten it to “LibDems”.
So why don’t we do likewise with ReformUK and refer to them as REFUK?
It would have the added benefit of succinctly conveying what they stands for!
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Estimates of the economic costs of Brexit continue to grow. Now showing UK economy between 6 and 8 percent smaller than it would have been. That in turn means £60bn lost tax revenue every year. Think what a difference that would have made to tax & spend decisions …
Jim Ratcliffe, himself a migrant to Monaco to avoid paying his fair share of UK tax, and who supported Brexit which has so damaged the British economy, is yet another millionaire oligarch backing the far right to further line his pockets
BREAKING: Rachel Reeves insists Labour can win political argument for closer relationship with EU, calling it “biggest prize” for UK economic growth 👏
Hard to believe that none of the Reform MPs turned up for the debate on Russian interference in our politics. Maybe they were visiting their former Kremlin talking points Welsh leader Nathan Gill in prison? Or en route to their next BBC interview to act as commentators on why Starmer should go?
Sadiq Khan: My ultimate goal is to reverse Brexit
www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
