The BBB is in severe problems in the Netherlands, after taking part in the failed Schoof government, and an undemocratic internal leadership battle.
After the next EP elections both MEPs will be gone.
Farage and Badenoch are absolute clowns: startled by the entirely foreseeable series of events they failed to foresee. A demonstration of their total lack of judgement.
Good this was timestamped. The Tories now deny this.
Remarkable.
Since Brexit was pushed with such force, they must have been very convinced that it would be great.
They could now either explain why Brexit is a success to them, or why they were wrong - and what that teaches us.
🚨🚨 Again and again #Ukraine shows that the "Russia is winning the war" narrative is a completely false one deviced by #putin stooges. IRL #ukraine is regaining ground in important territories. /1
UK holds the key to an upgraded UK-EU relation.
For that, a different attitude and approach is required - including more involvement at the political level in UK. The UK Labour gov shows in words and deeds that it is not ready for that.
Interesting.
This signals that the UK wants to maintain relations with EU on a Foreign affairs/diplomatic level. This means very much stay nice but most of all keep the distance.
This fits well with the UK Labour Reset, which is set to flounder after a possible SPS mini-success.
Since Iran has now been attacked twice by US and Israel in the past year, logic dictates that this (the attacks) will continue until Iran can put a stop to it.
What will do that? Only a nuclear shield.
Nothing changes in Brexitland.
A third country still convinced it's part of the negotiaitons like a member state, with the German car-company cavalry still just about to ride over the hill.
[*shrug]
The thread below shows that it is not even clear - to the UK itself - what legislation needs to be updated, let alone how, in what way, and how this can be transparantly checked.
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This thread shows that the EU should be - very - vigilant in checking that the UK has indeed incorporated all EU legislation.
I note that only very recently - 1-2 months ago? - UK managed to finally give EU access to its Protocol/Windsor customs databases - 6 years (!) after Brexit.
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An impressive list - though experts still have to weigh in.
Good that UK is updating its standards to EU levels, especially also for the environment and food quality in UK.
For the EU the benefit is that this will lessen the risk of being undercut by an UK with lower standards.
..All this talk about "Brexit was needed to reduce immigration" was - of course - just falsehoods. It was hostility.
- the Labour government is now conducting an 'experiment' when actual immigration is being reduced below zero. It will be interesting to see the economic damage of that.
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Interesting result: Brexit increased immigration in the UK.
Few points:
- Non-EU immigration was increased by the Tories out of necessity. otherwise the economic shock was too high. This was not an oversight.
- The undercurrent here was a deep hostility towards EU and all Europeans...
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Not sure about that. For once: EFTA works in the basis fine, and both EU and EFTA are reasonably ok with it.
Secondly, the referendum is about starting-up accession negotiation with EU. Not sure Iceland will agree.
Somebody, please ask all these Trump-fluffing British politicians exactly what their policy will be regarding the Iranian refugee crisis they are so desperate to create.
The outrage is that Trump does not seem to care.
In the past, the lives of US soldiers were important to the commander in chief
Genuine questions: could these people be in the pay of the regime? And would that, to use language some of them favour, make them both ‘economic migrants’ *and* ‘welfare scroungers’?
This can be good for Starmer.
He can use this to his political advantage in UK - and he avoids being sucked into a war that cannot end well.
The Tories got about 1% in the GD by-election.
However, that alone is not my point: The Tories have been swallowed up intellectually and morally by Reform, with no own ideas anymore - and Labour is set to follow.
It is great that there is so much trust between Spain/Gibraltar and EU/Gibraltar that this treaty is now agreed.
Its shows that Gibraltar has now chosen to be part of Europe again.
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Even the Customs Union.
Sure Gibraltar will on its own not be able to influence EU policy significantly, but the same goes for UK policy.
Gibraltar voted 96% Remain, but they got steamrolled anyway.
The deal on Gibraltar is just the UK abandoning Gibraltar - more formally this time
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Interesting. Of course the treaty is needed because of Brexit.
Is the treaty lopsided? Yes - it means in practice that Gibraltar becomes part of the EU.
All the talk of sovereignity in the treaty is just a fig leaf for Gibraltar becoming part of Schengen, the Single Market, and..
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…the UK party in absoute power is deluded into thinking it lasts forever.
When you popose other voting systems in UK, you propose to an absolute ruler how he likes to give up power forever.
It won’t happen
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Many in UK recognise the problems with FPTP, but calls for change face an uphill battle:
In the UK power is everything. Any party that did win a GE - now Labour - has tasted the sweet taste of near absolute power.
That feeling must be intoxicating, as it clouds all judgement..
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The Telegraph was so ideological that it became its own joke. Not many wanted to pay for puerile nonsense.
The new owners are afaik interested in getting financial gains - so here is hoping that that means making the Telegraph a bit more 'normal' again.
The draconic measures Labour's Mahmood is now proposing are aimed against all foreigners (not just EU)
Its obviously clear that this is done because a stark dislike of all foreigners.
The 'obligatory' Reform-like falsehoods are a signal here:
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Note that Labour is now more or less part of the Reform block, and likely to be swallowed by it just like the Tories.
The results are indeed still quite good for Reform, but taking Labour as a unique voter block may not hold.
The earlier Plaid Cymru victory in Wales showed that - in the Reform vs anti-Reform battle - Labour got eaten nearly completely by the one party that is best suited to beat Reform.
