Brexit Britain in one image.
Brexit Britain in one image.
Mogg to advise Farage on ‘how to govern’. He spent just 3 years in government, 2.5 of which were being a court jester Leader of the House, not exactly a great office of state, then the absurd Minister for Brexit Opportunities, then 49 days at Business. He then lost his seat. 🤦🏻♂️
On the same day in the Telegraph:
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Labour have a comms team? Could've fooled me!
This 👆
This.
A total disgrace of a paper. A total disgrace of a man. I would worry for Jenrick’s daughters too, being brought up by a hate-mongering opportunist, driven mad by Tory failure and now desperate to whip up prejudice, division and social unrest in his vile pursuit of power.
Anyway - happy to chat. I have a long train ride tomorrow so need to get to my pit. cheers.
I accept that Reform right now are leading in the polls. What I struggle to conflate that with is how ~65%+ of leave voters regret that choice (and would accept FM). Most Rfm supporters apparently regret the leave vote. Don't get it.
Of course they didn't. I wanted to get rid of the Tories. Labour was the sensible vote in my area. Labour weren't campaigning on rejoin. Calculated punt. FPTP. Refer to my earlier comment. Who knows what'll happen in 4 years.
Here you go patronizing again. I'm well aware immigration is not just a UK issue. I'm in Italy now as it happens. I hear it. I don't know what axe you're grinding - at some point one party is going to have to dip it's toe into the rejoin CU/SM/EU pool - that is inevitable. That's all I'm saying.
I think "voters" have been bamboozled (Sagan) with a massive red herring in the guise of "immigration". I think Brussels knows that. Bxl can play the long game. UK, on the other hand, has an existential 4-5% hole in it's GDP that can be plugged easily. The bamboozle can only go on so long. I hope.
I hear you. My goodness I hear you. If only it was that simple given our FPTP system. More people voted for remain parties in 2019 aka "the Brexit exection". How did that work out?
Happy for you EU citizen. My EU citizenship was robbed from me. Very very unhappy about that.
I realise it's not a simple "can I join?", "yes". Of course that's not how it works. My point was that, at some point "a" party has to kick that conversation up a notch, IE make meaningful steps to actually joining SM/CU, EU, whatever, whichever.
whatever... you keep beating your little drum... as I said.. we will see.
Oh give over Miss Anonymous. It's a matter of time. You know it and (most) every batshit crazy brexiter knows it. Tick tock. Not saying it'll happen next GE.. but it will.
You don't need to patronize me. Four years is a long time. We will see. My bet is that Farage's army will fizzle out.
This knife-edge Starmer is walking won't last long. It is inevitable we will be back in the EU in some form or fashion before too long. I disagree the voter is ok about Brexit, polls would absolutely dictate otherwise. Which party will lead us back in?
Good, but if you want the UK to rejoin the EU, add your name to this petition bsky.app/profile/jami...
Did someone mention super injunctions… What's the story with Charlotte Kathryn Tranter Owen, Baroness Owen of Alderley Edge?
BREXIT CAUSED THIS. Not one of you mentioned this AAARFGHHRHHRH
No idea!
Worth mentioning also, the UK can't just unilaterally "end" the GFA. The USA and EU would have to agree. Leaving the ECHR is utter fantasy.
Worry not.....archive has it :) archive.ph/mQIec
I've not seen it first hand but I'd be sure the current UC system is flexible enough to handle this. Unless it was written by Fujitsu.
Speaking more broadly though, I'm sure that with the myriad benefits and whatnot that people receive because of this and that, an extra benefit called WFP going to those that need it wouldn't be a stretch.
I'm an IT guy. If the problem is that they're not linked then the answer would simply be then to link them. And yes I realise "simply" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
I too agree with the Gordster and would probably advocate those on the middle tax tier should also not receive WFP. My Q to you though is .. what constraint do you think might this be?
Right there.
Yes, we noticed. You're still here.
All of this...
Well done Labour Anyone who thought you represented real change now despises you. Anyone who didn’t, still won’t. People who weren’t that convinced but hoped for the best are out of patience. You’ve managed to turn off everyone. Quite the achievement!
"England needs to crawl back OUT of its Farage rabbit hole, not dig itself deeper down!" 100%
The whole Brexit business is just a total failure..! Most UK voters now agree..!
I lived in Bermuda for years. We collect rainwater from our roofs and channel it into tanks under the house. Makes you think about how you use water - it really is a precious resource there.
HOW the super rich will impoverish you and your kids
I remember that guy! Baghdad Bob!
Fair enough - my point really is that Brexit is evidently very detrimental to the economy and 'they' just don't talk about it. Why do they seemingly prefer take the political hits they do (WFP, Farmers, PIP etc) when they have the perfect economic boogeyman in the form of Brexit.
It was Bloomberg I think.
I'd love to hear her answer as to why she/govt never mentions the £100+ billion per year 'black hole' Brexit is burning into our economy.
@davidharewood.bsky.social Finally got to reading this. Completed in 5 pints down my local. I laughed, I cried. What a journey - thankyou for sharing.
Geez.. cheery start to the morning!
I'm getting there. I more-or-less get the mechanics of MMT. And yes I know Sterling de-coupled from gold like ~100 years ago and only linked back to gold by proxy due to BW 'til 71... I get all that.. it's the political side of it (like so much else) that does my nut in.
If our govt is indeed "doing" MMT, and I suspect we are, brings me back to my original question. Why do they create so many headaches for themselves?
The narrative the govt/media peddles suggests they have to balance the books like a household or business. We know that under an MMT way of looking at things this isn't true. Are we "doing" MMT now or are we just saying if we had MMT none of this spending stuff would be a problem?
So when you talk of the "MMT view"… it sounds like it's an alternate way of looking at things. That is to say we're doing something this way, but if you look at it that way it's xx.
And taxes are used to control the inflation. Fascinating stuff.
Don't even get me started on Starmer's "red lines" on Brexit. Let me ask you this, then. There must be some cost somewhere in creating £s. Can't have something for nothing. Too good to be true and all that. What's the downside to printing money?
Even if creating £'s is perceived as a bad by some, it's got to be less bad than the media fire that's upon them now?
Thanks - see, I get all that. I just don't understand why the govt doesn't just quietly use this to fix what needs fixing. Why does it seemingly prefer to create the political bonfires of pissing off pensioners, farmers, disabled etc.
I will look at those tomorrow thanks. Will that answer the political aspect though?
Outside the American Embassy in London.... London rocks......✊🏼
MMT tells us we can spend £'s as we need to - why does gov persist with this 'there is no money' schtick when it gains nothing politically?
Why don't they just get on with the good stuff of righting all the wrongs? I'm not saying things like WFA, Farmers IHT, disability payments can't be tweaked, but what Labour are doing is tantamount to political suicide.
Genuine Q Chris. I presume you're talking MMT. If you (& others) understand this. I'm trying to learn about it.. it's kinda making sense from a theoretical POV, what I don't get is why do they make the choices they do?
Hogwash. I submit plenty online. It's easy, takes a minute at most and they pay out in a few days. Arguably the only bit of the train system in this country that actually works!
No argument from me there.
People don't think, that's why.
If that's the case then I find it sad that people can be so fickle. How can people reasonably think any meaningful change could occur in 6 months?
I guess. And maybe Brexit isn't everyone's main issue. Sigh.
On one hand we have Yougov polls that show most people now think Brexit is failing and we should rejoin, yet on the other hand this and other polls show swings to Reform PLC. I don't get it?
I'm slowly ticking them off too. The Barbados one is good. Oddly, I've not been to the Manchester one despite living here!
Makes me so sad.
100%. Could you name one thing that might stem that bleed to LD & Green? @marietidball.bsky.social
Ha! Fair enough!
Why shouldn't she?
It'll be 66001 when I get a bit of time.
Actually staggering that this foghorn of failure should continue to speak in public, let alone consider himself entitled to comment on what Labour may or may not renegotiate on HIS unforgivably dismal, relentlessly crappy Brexit deal. Unless he’s apologising for that, he can stfu forever, frankly.
If it takes 10 years to rejoin the EU, then if we start today, we'll be back in 10 years. But if we wait a decade, it will take 20 years. Except that it won't, because we will have had 10 more years of diverging. So it might take a quarter of a century. Start today please. We owe it to the future.
I can't watch it. The faux histrionics are just toe-curling.
You're right. I was on it earlier this year. Really shows the UK's railway for the absolute farce that it is.
The Tories won’t want to hear this. They accuse Labour of “giving away British assets” over the Chagos Islands and Elgin Marbles – yet they’ve been selling off crown jewels for decades. Here are 8 things the Tories flogged (and the damage it caused):
Unless Labour addresses this sharpish, they'll be as complicit as the Tories. @marietidball.bsky.social I still don't understand Labour's frankly ridiculous position on this. Make it make sense?
There is something at the heart of this story that doesn’t add up, legally speaking. Quick fraud lecture for y’all. 🧵
Used to enjoy an Amstel Light!
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Ugh. Just look at this band of v dismal Tories, grabbing the stage at the farmers’ “rally”. The same people who limited our rights to protest, betrayed farmers with their Brexit lies and then shafted them with their idiotic replacement trade deals. A photo op of pure hypocrisy and bullshit concern.
Yay!
I just don't understand why they refuse to even acknowledge the damage it's doing. If they carry on with this, Labour will be just as culpable for the damage as the Tories.
His mechanisms gone.
JMZ 