Peter Knee

Greetings from my soap box. All views forged in the crucible of Brexit. Open-minded welcome. If you are down a rabbit hole move on. Dyslexiclefthander.

[Peter Knee @KneePeter]

How apt he called it X
Now it’s primarily for sex
And bigotry and misogyny and terror.
The universal symbol for an Error
How apt he called it X.
So it’s time to let our Twitter die
And reach up into the bright BlueSky.

@peterknee.bsky.social
@haikutsunami.bsky.social

[Peter Knee @KneePeter]

@Labourlieagain @peterjukes Brexit is the ruling classe

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

Blimey. This petition is now is now at almost 98,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 today and have that debate

https://t.co/v8ucb8koEo

[Andrew Hesselden @andrewhesselden]

55% of people support EU membership.
Just 33% opposed.

1 in 5 people (21%) who voted to leave in 2016 have changed their minds, and would now vote to rejoin.

Green voters 84% back rejoin
Labour 80%
Lib Dem 74%
Conservative 28%
Reform 11%

https://t.co/n3GEuprpWB

[🐟Dame Rainbow Warrior #TeamStarmer 🇪🇺 @SandraDunn1955]

@RichardGCorbett https://t.co/4UlUoptLgL

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Correlation is not causation but facts are facts.

@thenerve_news has also established that Harbourne has poured an extraordinary £30m into British politics! In just 6 years.

This is a story not just about Farage, but Johnson too.
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[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

🚀 The petition just passed 83,000.

Sign & share.

https://t.co/GOVLNDxfdX

[Ted Smith 🇪🇺 @TedUrchin]

Freedom of movement.
Do you remember that?
The time when we could all choose to live and work in the EU as easily in Berlin as Brighton, Paris or Plymouth, Madrid as Manchester, Lisbon or London.
The old and the stupid stole this from us, and particularly from the young of the nation.
I will never ever forgive them.
#RejoinEU

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🚨 BBC News: Farage: “I bought the £1.4m house with my I’m a Celeb money.”

Corporate accounts show the fee was still in the company after the purchase.

Same week he’s under inquiry for the £5m Thai crypto Brexit bung.

The stories keep changing but the smell doesn’t.

[Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #NAFO #FBPE @nickreeves9876]

The '1945' Union flag is a reminder to Farage and Traitor Tommy and their deluded supporters that the UK and our allies crushed fascism in 1945.

We must not allow the far-right to own such a powerful symbol as the Union flag or St. George's cross. They have no right to any claim to patriotism. Their leaders are traitors and venal grifters serving Putin and other foreign enemies of our democracy. Scapegoating migrants, asylum seekers and other minorities is not patriotism. It is a distraction from the real problems facing this country and the hard work and careful thought needed to overcome them.

The far-right don't expect us to call ourselves patriots. But that is what we are. We care about our country and its people and we reject the bogus unpatriotic politics of hate and fear.

To the far-right we say - Get your dirty fascist hands off the British people's flag.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Wes Streeting, "Leaving the European Union was a catastrophic mistake"

"The Vote Leave campaign deluded itself into thinking the UK could forge a global free trade nirvana as if we still had the East India company at our disposal"

"They were totally blind to the zero sum world the extreme right were creating, a dog eat dog world of dictators and oligarchs, where middle powers going it alone is a fantasy"

"It's left us less wealthy, less powerful, and less in control than at any point before the industrial revolution"

"We can no longer afford to be silent about it, we must remake the argument"

"In 2026 the British people increasingly see that in a dangerous world we must club together. Both to rebuild our economy and trade and to improve our defence against the shared threats of Russian aggression and the retreat of America first"

"The biggest economic opportunity we have is on our doorstep"

"We need a new special relationship with the EU"

"Because Britain's future lies within Europe, and one day, back in the European Union"

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Let's do it.

@GaryLineker for BBC Director General.

RT if you agree.

[Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy]

Basically, “at the heart of Europe” can only mean full membership of the EU…

…and that’s what the majority now want - so Starmer needs to set out the roadmap.

https://t.co/Y3IFLA2jGo

[stellacreasy @stellacreasy]

The prime minister is right. We need to get back to the heart of Europe.

That will never happen whilst the red lines remain on the single market, the customs union and freedom of movement.

They need to go now and be seen to go now otherwise it’s a waste of time.

https://t.co/I2DCdIVsDm

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

The British media is doing everything it can to make this mendacious, corrupt, incompetent, lazy, security risk the PM. Ask yourselves why? Why do they want that so badly, who benefits? It's not going to be the British people.

Follow the money, always follow the money.

[Liberal Democrats @LibDems]

We all know the best way to deliver the economic growth that this country desperately needs: a closer relationship with Europe. Yet the PM's reset plan is far too unambitious.

Leading Labour leadership contenders, including Andy Burnham, Angela Rayner and Wes Streeting, should put the country first and commit to fixing our broken relationship with Europe if they enter Number 10.

[Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #NAFO #FBPE @nickreeves9876]

The X algorithm is suppressing this post on Reform UK's offshore funding. It's popular with 112 reposts but it has only been allowed 987 views.

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

If Labour is going to spend the next few months arguing about who should be PM, they should at least agree on one thing: these damaging red lines on Europe have to go.

A customs union is vital to grow our economy and to tackle the cost-of-living crisis.

[Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #NAFO #FBPE @nickreeves9876]

Please repost if you want the full restoration of our EU Freedom of Movement, which was stolen from us by the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history.

This is the debate that we have to win if the UK is to rejoin the Single Market or the EU. In 2016 the Remain campaign did not defend our Freedom of Movement because its spineless leaders were frightened of the right-wing press. Our freedom was robbed from us without a debate.

The wave of migration from Eastern Europe is a thing of the past. Thanks to EU membership, Eastern European countries have greatly reduced the economic gap with the UK. The immigration hysteria of 2016 was a panic about a migration surge that was predictably soon going to end, but the wretched Remain leadership failed to make that point. Indeed, given its leadership, it is remarkable that Remain got as much as 48%

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA INSIDER TOLD PARLIAMENT THE BREXIT DATA SCANDAL WAS BIGGER THAN ANYONE ADMITTED

Cambridge Analytica's own Director of Business Development, Brittany Kaiser @OwnYourDataNow, walked into Parliament in 2018 and blew the whole thing open. She told MPs the number of people whose Facebook data had been harvested was almost certainly far higher than the 87 million Facebook had admitted. Far higher. She said privacy had become a myth and that citizens' data was being scraped, resold and modelled as standard practice.

Then on New Year's Day 2020, while most people were sleeping off a hangover, Kaiser released a second tranche of internal documents. These ones covered Cambridge Analytica's operations across Brazil, Kenya and Malaysia.

They confirmed what many suspected about Brexit, that Leave EU @LeaveEUOfficial, bankrolled by Arron Banks @Arron_banks, had been pitched the same psychographic voter-targeting machine used in the Trump campaign. Work was done. An invoice existed. The money moved through UKIP rather than Cambridge Analytica directly, which was a neat trick given Arron Banks had publicly insisted there was never a paid contract.

Steve Bannon, who was vice president of Cambridge Analytica at the time, introduced Banks to the firm's CEO Alexander Nix in late 2015. The introduction led to meetings that Banks later described to Parliament as just "two or three" in number. The emails told a different story.

The Electoral Commission fined Leave EU for multiple offences including an incomplete spending return. The Information Commissioner's Office @ICOnews fined Leave EU and Eldon Insurance, Banks's company, £120,000 for misusing people's data for political campaigning. The National Crime Agency investigated Banks over the source of £8 million in Brexit funding and then dropped it without charges in 2019.

Netflix made a documentary about it. Parliament held inquiries. Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla at The Guardian @guardian kept the pressure on for years. Kaiser wrote a book.

Nobody went to prison. Banks stood as a Reform UK candidate in 2025. The institutions held their inquiries, wrote their reports, issued their fines, and then got on with their lives.

Your data built the targeting machine. Your vote was the product. The people who built it are fine.

Sources: @guardian / @BBCNews / @Channel4News / Parliament DCMS Committee / Netflix The Great Hack / openDemocracy

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Dear Reform-voting ladies…

Do you know you’re voting for a party that wants to:

❌ Scrap the Equality Act - your legal protection against workplace discrimination & unequal pay

❌ Kill the Online Safety Act - the law protecting you from revenge porn

❌ Vote AGAINST the bill to stop workplace sexual harassment

❌ Stack the party with anti-abortion politicians - some opposing termination even in cases of rape

❌ Push “pro-family” policies that put women back in the home

I guess the question is…

Do you hate immigrants more than you love your rights?