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Michael @vivamjm.bsky.social

Have I missed anything? Basically everything is (levelled down) worse, with no equal compensating better elsewhere. UK has *chosen* to be diminished, poorer & more cut off from its continent behind its (still descending) Gammon Curtain Has a country ever been so fucking stupid?

jul 21, 2025, 2:33 pm • 28 6

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David Rearlamp @rearlamp.bsky.social

Yeah, you've missed Arnott's TimTams ... right Boris Johnson? www.johnlewispartnership.media/pressrelease...

jul 23, 2025, 2:04 am • 1 0 • view
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David Rearlamp @rearlamp.bsky.social

Or Aldi "Benton's Aussie Style" biscuits made in the Netherlands and which win a taste test I think. (Not watched it.) m.youtube.com/watch?v=sYPW...

jul 23, 2025, 2:04 am • 1 0 • view
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David Rearlamp @rearlamp.bsky.social

While chocolate bars have suffered shrinkflation, or recipe changes. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-4286...

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jul 23, 2025, 2:04 am • 1 0 • view
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David Rearlamp @rearlamp.bsky.social

Plus reduced chocolate exports (bar to Ireland) "Significant concerns have been expressed by UK’s Food and Drink Federation over a marked drop in exports .. which dropped 15.8% owing to Brexit, post Covid-19 trading complications, war in Ukraine" www.confectioneryproduction.com/news/46539/u....

jul 23, 2025, 2:18 am • 0 0 • view
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TweetJohnnyBoy @tweetjohnnyboy.bsky.social

The thickest nation on the planet.

jul 22, 2025, 8:05 am • 2 1 • view
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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social

Hmm. People are starting to be made aware of the scale and nature of Thatcher's treachery. It's water this week. Big report. 88 recommendations. A worthless exercise. Mug Island has an extensive history of epic self harm.

jul 21, 2025, 2:37 pm • 6 0 • view
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Michael @vivamjm.bsky.social

bsky.app/profile/viva...

jul 22, 2025, 10:58 pm • 2 0 • view
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James Woodfield @jameswoodfield.bsky.social

Disappointing to see that no one seems to have popped up to refute your depressing assessment of our situation! ☹️

jul 22, 2025, 4:57 pm • 3 1 • view
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Kate Byrne @katebyrne.bsky.social

I think the problem is that most people see no difference.

jul 22, 2025, 8:20 pm • 3 0 • view
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Michael @vivamjm.bsky.social

Which is why successive UK governments have not & won't get Brexit fully "done" (on UK border controls) on imports from the EU...although they will need to & more so (the WF) from GB to NI, if they want a SPS agreement from the EU .. ..many more would then notice more so. UK's catch 22.

jul 22, 2025, 9:04 pm • 3 0 • view
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Kate Byrne @katebyrne.bsky.social

Yes I agree. So far, apart from FoM, they have got away with it. It’s strange. At one point I thought the complexity of NI would stop Brexit, but it will mean the full blown effects are inevitable. Maybe some political/constitutional change will then happen

jul 23, 2025, 7:41 am • 2 0 • view
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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social

I think they’re working with Trump to try force the EU to deregulate. See 👇 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

jul 21, 2025, 2:37 pm • 6 3 • view
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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social

Airstrip One redux. A message for who? www.bbc.com/news/uk-engl...

jul 21, 2025, 2:42 pm • 2 0 • view
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Michael @vivamjm.bsky.social

UK already has the ready made, privately owned "Freeports" and SEZs to do so.. (Labour) "nothing to do with us guvnor"

jul 21, 2025, 2:44 pm • 9 2 • view
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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social

It’s a horror story.

jul 21, 2025, 2:57 pm • 7 0 • view
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Nick Webb @nick1webb.bsky.social

With no end in sight. The TCA is unworkable without huge problems fully implementing a hard border UK side. Labour's red lines rule out any solution (ETFA/EEA etc). Surely time to start preparing the ground for a referendum that has the various options clearly explained to allow informed choices.

jul 22, 2025, 8:00 pm • 3 0 • view
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KarenFrancoK @karenfrancok.bsky.social

I don't think so. EU (like Canada, Mexico, Japan and others) does not want to raise the stakes before seeing if T.A.C.O.

jul 21, 2025, 4:03 pm • 1 0 • view
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Richard Dalton @zx23.bsky.social

“Have I missed anything?” Only that one of the leading pushers of Brexit now leads one of if not the it the best polling parties, and poses an existential threat to the Tories.

jul 22, 2025, 12:00 am • 1 0 • view