Lord 🌑 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇺🇸 (but not Trumpism)

Very pro-EU, year in Poland, courtesy of the erasmus programme. If you dont like the club, change it, help it evolve.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

We believe this war will be over as soon as possible. But Putin plans to stick around much longer. He is building a Russia that looks like North Korea – where children are raised from an early age for war and to die for their leader. So Russia will not stop being dangerous.

And it is our – Ukrainian – strength, our army, our technologies that help guarantee also European security, your security. These security guarantees are not yet reflected – we think – in your budget from 2028 onward.

Let’s get serious about this. Let’s work out exactly how Ukraine’s defense capabilities should be included in that budget.

From an address to the participants of the European Council meeting. (5/5)

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

😱😱😱 And just like that, it’s completely VANISHED from the media.

A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children.

Lets make this viral again 👇

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🤩 Super news for younger people … but I want Freedom of Movement back, not a rationed version of it.

A capped, under-30s mobility scheme is better than what we have now, but it is still Brexit bureaucracy.

Before Brexit, British citizens had the right to live, work and build a life across Europe without being filtered through age limits, quotas and visa negotiations.

Rights are better than schemes.

This is another step back towards Europe but it also reminds us what Brexit took away.

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Republicans are absolutely COOKED in November.

[Mimi 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @FacciniMyriam]

💯!!!!!

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

This shows you vast majority of americans see right through the GOPs bullshit and gaslighting!

[Nancy Sinatra @NancySinatra]

I miss having an actual President in the Oval Office.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

I am grateful for your support for Ukraine. Thank you. We’ve been through a lot together – during these years of full-scale war.

None of us wanted this war, absolutely none of us. But it is us who have to deal with its brutality and all the instability it has caused.

Unity in defense is always built by many standing together. Without a determined European Union capable of making strong decisions Putin would have gone much further by now.

The European Union has not fallen apart. It has not backed down or given in to fear when it came to defending the European way of life. And that mattered just as much as the courage of Ukrainians.

From an address to the participants of the European Council meeting. (1/5)

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

In case you forgot what a U.S. president beloved by the world looks like.

🇺🇸 🇬🇧 Live in Manchester: An Evening with President Barack Obama. The arena holds up to 23,500 people with standing room, and the event was SOLD OUT.

[Raven Cozens-Hardy @RaveCozensHardy]

Russians interfered in the Tory party- 2010-2024- £4.8m donations.
2012 - Russian Federation held a Reception to mark the establishment of the Conservative Friends of Russia
1 month later CEO Vote L -Elliott expenses paid trip to Moscow with spy- Nalobin.
2018-Russia bribes Gill

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Former Head of MI6 Sir John Sawers, "Russia was very keen that the Leave campaign should succeed and that Britain should leave the European Union"

"Because that would marginalise Britain as a global player and weaken Europe in general"

"That's the strategic opportunity the Russians spotted, and the leaders of the Leave campaign fell into it"

My view: Former MI6 chief Sir John Sawers says Russia saw Brexit as a way to weaken Britain and divide Europe, and that the Leave campaign’s leaders walked straight into the opportunity.

So let’s remember who sold it:

VOTE LEAVE

• Boris Johnson — political figurehead
• Michael Gove and Gisela Stuart — campaign committee co-convenors
• Matthew Elliott — chief executive
• Dominic Cummings — campaign director
• Daniel Hannan — leading Brexit advocate
• Priti Patel, Iain Duncan Smith, Chris Grayling, John Whittingdale and Theresa Villiers — senior Conservative campaigners
• David Davis, Liam Fox, Dominic Raab, Steve Baker and Douglas Carswell — prominent Leave campaigners

LEAVE. EU

• Nigel Farage — leading political figure
• Arron Banks — co-chairman and major funder
• Andy Wigmore — communications director

GRASSROOTS OUT / LABOUR LEAVE

• Peter Bone and Tom Pursglove — Grassroots Out co-founders
• Kate Hoey — Grassroots Out co-founder and Labour Leave campaigner
• Graham Stringer, Kelvin Hopkins and Roger Godsiff — Labour Leave campaigners
• Sammy Wilson — prominent DUP Leave campaigner

They promised Brexit would make Britain stronger.

Sawers says Russia saw the opposite opportunity: a Britain marginalised and a Europe weakened.

[Andrew Hesselden @andrewhesselden]

The cruellest cost of Brexit may be the opportunities we'll never know we missed.

The job never applied for.
The business never started.
The relationship never pursued.
The life never lived.

Freedom of Movement gave us choices. Let's win them back.

https://t.co/JpeopIaj36

[Andrew Hesselden @andrewhesselden]

Did ordinary people in the UK vote to leave the EU?

No!

We voted in an advisory referendum.

Not to leave the Single Market.
Not to lose Freedom of Movement.
Not for higher living costs.

Previous UK governments chose Brexit for us

But we can choose to change it.

[The Citizens @allthecitizens]

This week, Burnham admitted Russia interfered with Brexit vote. The first PM to do so.

We’ve been campaigning on this for six years - since our organisation was founded - and will continue to do so.

If you’re trying to make sense of the headlines, start here 👇

https://t.co/Xwq4GV2iYZ

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

One estimate is of a long term hit of 4%. Another says it’s already been 6-8%. By almost every economic and financial measure Brexit has been disastrous for the UK

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🤩 The Brexit debate is moving very fast now.

Bernd Lange, @berndlange chair of the European Parliament’s trade committee and a veteran of the Brexit negotiations, says Britain could move quickly into a *Switzerland plus* relationship with the EU.

In other words, the choice is not simply: Hard Brexit forever or wait years for full re-entry.

There are routes back towards deep economic integration much faster than that.

And once again, the message from Europe is not stay away.

It is: if Britain wants to come closer, the door is open.

[Gina Miller @thatginamiller]

Its not just #Brexit, Russia has been involved in many campaigns to destabilise Europe.

Russian online/political activity re Catalonia independence crisis, in NI, Scotland and others.

PM says it is 'clear' Russia interfered with Brexit vote
https://t.co/g7F6skiCTQ
@BBCNews

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

"Dear diary,
So far this year we have lost every council seat up for election, I scraped a win against a bin, Brexit is dead and our public support have fallen 18 points. On the upside I've got millions in the bank and am about to bugger off to America"

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

Donald Trump is the first and only president in U.S. history with felony convictions. Elect a convict. Expect the crimes.

Repost if you agree 👍

[Lance Glass @LanceGlass1]

@HalfwayPost The truth hurts don’t it Don.

Kind of amazing how out of touch he is. To reach 80 years in this world and to be so willfully clueless. I wouldn’t wish that mentality on an enemy.

He could win a Nobel Peace Prize 🏆 if they gave one for clueless and reckless decision making.