Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺

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Brexit was sold as Britain “taking back control”.

Instead the country weakened its economic power and economic power determines who owns what.

Which is how one of Britain’s most pro-Brexit newspapers ends up owned by a German media group.

Irony doesn’t get much better.

UK newspapers' positions on Brexit | University of Oxford One month before the EU referendum vote, the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University has released interim findings on the stance being taken by newspapers.

The real Brexit story isn’t just politics.

It’s media power.

For 30 years parts of British press helped create the Brexit narrative.

Now the consequences of that narrative are reshaping the very institutions that promoted it.

History has a long memory.

www.ox.ac.uk/news/2016-05...

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A newspaper that helped create the Brexit worldview now has readers who don’t want that worldview challenged.

And that may be the biggest culture clash of all.

Because sooner or later Britain still has to have an honest conversation about Brexit.

So the paper that helped sell Brexit’s promise of sovereignty…

is now owned by a German company whose CEO opposed Brexit.

History has a wicked sense of humour.

How Brexit and Boris Broke Britain The next prime minister will struggle to repair the country’s standing.

Thirty years later that narrative helped deliver Brexit.

And Brexit weakened Britain economically.

Which is precisely how major British institutions end up being bought by foreign media conglomerates.

www.foreignaffairs.com/united-kingd...

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One of key architects of Euroscepticism, Boris Johnson, worked at Telegraph as Brussels correspondent.

He built his reputation writing colourful stories about EU rules that made Brussels look ridiculous but sold papers and fuelled decades of Euroscepticism.

They became political folklore.

For decades The Telegraph was one of the loudest cheerleaders for Brexit.

Sovereignty.
Take back control.
Escape European influence.

Now it’s owned by a German publisher.

You really couldn’t make it up.

🧵 This has to be the funniest Brexit moment yet.

The Brexit-loving brigade spluttering into their cornflakes as they discover The Telegraph has been sold to a German media company.

The irony is spectacular.

First protests erupt in Gibraltar over post-Brexit treaty By Maeve Gorman and Rachel Gore AS the dust starts to settle on Gibraltar’s long-awaited post-Brexit treaty, protestors gathered in the territory’s main

🆘 First protests in Gibraltar over the post-Brexit treaty.

Gib voted 96% to remain in EU.

Brexit forced Gib into negotiations where Spain and the EU now hold the leverage over its border and economy.

Another place dealing with consequences it never voted for.
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🆘 Significant moment.

If Europe no longer fully trusts the US security guarantee, the global order is shifting.

Macron floating a European 🇪🇺 nuclear umbrella signals strain in the transatlantic alliance.

In that world, Britain’s security and economic future lies closer alignment with Europe.

🆘 Expert Trita Parsi, senior analyst on US-Iran diplomacy, says a stronger deal than even the Obama-era agreement was within reach before the conflict escalated and could have been a diplomatic win for Trump if pursued.

Trump could have taken the win.

He chose escalation.
#IranWar

🍷 Wine up 40%.

Why? Brexit of course

🆙 More tax.
⬆️ More paperwork.
🆙 More import costs.

We used to trade wine with Europe with no friction.

Now every bottle crosses a customs system.

🔥 Costs add up. You pay.

🚨 Kevin Maguire on GMB is right to raise Libya.

We removed Gaddafi, a brutal dictator, but unleashed chaos, a failed state, refugee flows across the Med, and terror blowback including Manchester.

Regime change sounds simple. The aftermath never is.

#IranWar #Iran

encounters involving ICE agents, and cracked down on protests is not in a strong position to claim moral high ground for foreign intervention.

✅ Kevin Maguire is right.

🔥 If you argue that America is intervening in #Iran to uphold human rights and oppose brutality abroad, you need to reckon with how its own agencies behave at home.

Kevin points out that a President who has expanded ICE enforcement, presided over deadly

Energy markets. Migration flows. Supply chains. This will hit London faster than Washington.

In what world do you cling to Brexit red lines while the Gulf ignites and petrol risks surging?

Britain is exposed to energy shocks.We either strengthen our position with Europe or face this alone.

🚨 “Regime change” might sound decisive.

But if petrol hits pre-pandemic highs, ordinary people pay the price not presidents.

Strong-arm politics has real economic consequences.

Europe sits far closer to the economic fallout of a Gulf war than America does.
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#IranWar #Iran #TrumpEpsteinFiles

🔥 Trump’s military gamble in Iran is backfiring, Iran is now firing on U.S. bases across Middle East.

When great-power force replaces diplomacy, the risk of escalation becomes real.

This raises profound questions about our strategic alignments, defence priorities, and the limits of military power.

“The biggest one is the one which has affected Canada, Australia, Denmark now and it's the one that comes up in focus groups, which is Donald Trump, and there is a risk that Reform UK's association with US President ends up dragging them down bc Brits might want change, they don't want that change.”

Smart question from Matt Chlorley: is Reform topping out?

Luke Tryl says they’ve certainly hit a plateau in polls and face headwinds.

Brits may want change but not MAGA-style politics.

If Reform has a ceiling, why is Labour still chasing it?
#Newsnight

Brexit Britain’s truckers bear the brunt of new EU border controls For many British drivers who rely on frictionless travel to do their jobs, the new checks could spell disaster.

Brexit wasn’t a one-off rupture.
It was a choice to swap a seat at the captain’s table for a life raft beside the ship.

Now EU border controls tighten and truckers, farmers, exporters and shoppers pay the price.

We punished ourselves and chose
third-country decline.
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I left the LibDems bc the minority of Brexit people steer the ship.

And take Farage with him.

So many still can’t see that he’s an imposter.

🆘 A governing party–aligned think tank paying US PR firm to dig into journalists reporting on its funding is deeply troubling.

If politics investigating reporters instead of answering questions - problematic

“Don’t worry we’re investigating it” is laughable as networks are so closely intertwined.

⏰ This is what US 🇺🇸 interference in Europe looks like:

👿 Orbán says Hungary’s main threat is not Russia 🇷🇺 but the EU.

And fresh from Munich, Marco Rubio heads to Budapest.

Hungary 🇭🇺 votes in April.

If you want to understand the pressure being applied inside Europe right now, essential viewing👇

54% of all voters support rejoining

But the result translates to 61% among those expressing a view

Not unlawful. But, says Phillips: “naive and foolish… at worst greedy and duplicitous.”

The real question: who else shares the blame for elevating him?

“This is the end for Peter Mandelson.”

A friend of 50 years delivers the verdict on #Mandelson

Mandelson admits Epstein loaned his husband $10,000 while he was a senior cabinet minister, and that Epstein lobbied him on policy.
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#TrevorPhilips #EpsteinFiles #Epstein

Nothing is ever simple. Most farmers have spent thousands of pounds this last year and hours getting advice.

But hopefully the looming court case will prove the slight of govt hand in next few weeks.