Looking forward to seeing many new and familiar faces at the #VolgGA this weekend in #bratislava! ...Check out my 3 posts in the run-up: https://t.co/hf6nsudgya
Macron: “Our objective is not to be vassals of two hegemonic powers, the US or China”
It’s time for Europe to build a third bloc.
A bloc that includes countries that share a desire for peace, cooperation, trade, and the generation of prosperity.
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“They say it’s about security.”
But power without unity leaves Europe exposed.
From Greenland to Venezuela,
either Europe decides together —
or others will decide for us.
🇪🇺 Federal Europe. Decide. Act. Protect.
Europe is not perfect. We know it. We say it first.
We want a Europe that is more efficient, more sovereign, more autonomous. Faster in taking decisions, closer to citizens, with a stronger Parliament and real democratic power. We criticise Europe because we want it to work better.
But there is a big “but”.
This Europe we often talk down delivers remarkable results. Safer societies, longer lives, stronger social protection, lower emissions, better work-life balance.
The data in this visual are real. And they remind us of something we too often forget: Europe is stronger than we think. If we started more often from our strengths, fixing our flaws would be easier.
Long live Europe 🇪🇺
"Why should there not be a European group which could give a sense of enlarged patriotism and common citizenship to the distracted peoples of this turbulent and mighty continent?"
- Winston Churchill calling for a European Federation
"Europe is a Giant that acts like a Mouse" says MEP Reinier van Lanschot
Delivering an "Alternative state of the Union" where Europe becomes a united superpower! 🇪🇺
BREAKING: Australia has passed a Bill that will limit the total spending on a party by billionaires like Elon Musk to Just $50,000
This will ban billionaires from single-handedly buying Elections in Australia.
BREAKING: Tens of thousands have flooded the streets of Lithuania, protesting their government’s growing alignment with Vladimir Putin.
People are risking everything to reject authoritarianism in real time.
This is what democratic resistance actually looks like.
John Major effectively calls Labour and the Conservatives cowards over Brexit - must watch
"In an act of collective folly, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union"
"Across the world our enemies celebrated and our friends despaired"
"We left the EU on a minority vote of 37% of the electorate"
"After a referendum campaign that was PACKED with misinformation and misjudgement"
"It left our country poorer, weaker, and divorced from the richest free trade market that history has ever seen"
"National interest brushed aside by false hopes and promises, that even a cabinet dominated by front line Brexit enthusiasts was unable to deliver"
"The promises they made, given the opportunity, they were unable to meet"
"The gains from Brexit that were promised so confidently, can not be seen to be illusionary"
"While the forecast damage of leaving the European Union has become only too apparent"
"The nation saw project fear become project reality"
"It's no consolation that the majority of the public now overwhelmingly recognises that it was misled"
"In their moment of triumph, Brexiters predicted other countries would follow their lead and leave the European Union"
"None have"
"All saw only too clearly that Brexit was packed with disadvantages"
"Far from others leaving the European Union, 9 further nations wish to join the EU"
"Which is an apt comment on how the world saw Britain's decision to leave"
"The United Kingdom once revelled as a leading member of the European Union with half a billion citizens, and the undoubted first ally of the United States, the world's most eminent superpower"
"Today we know we are neither and so does the world"
"As we plan for the future we must see ourselves as we now are"
"And what we are is 70 million people in a world of 9,000 million"
"The UK has a proud history, a wealth of talent, a role in the world that continues to be significant"
"So we have much to offer any partner"
"Our national assets could make the European Union stronger and better equipped to face the uncertain future that now lingers in front of us"
"Our collective future demands a Europe that conducts itself as an economic superpower alongside America and China"
"The alternative is to be ever subordinate to the economic whim of America and China - I have no appetite for that"
"I know the shortcomings of the European Union, I lived with them for many painful years"
"But in a dangerous, uncertain world, with two unpredictable superpowers"
"I believe the UK's future is safer and more economically secure, inside a powerful block of neighbour nations, than outside"
"There are many barriers to a return to full membership of Europe that will be difficult to overcome"
"That said, there are areas we can make a start"
"And looking forward the plain truth is, the European Union is too important for the United Kingdom to not be part of its decision making process"
"The polls tells us that well over a half of the British electorate now believe it was a mistake to leave the EU"
"And less than 1/3 support having done so"
"Amongst the young, support for Brexit falls as low as 13%"
"That is why it is so disappointing that both government and opposition are so wretchedly timid in their policy ambitions"
"Both Labour and Tories are terrified of a residual Brexit vote"
"They don't seek to change the minds of those who favour Brexit, by talking about the advantages we have lost and might be able to regain"
"They simply hide in a hole and do nothing"
"Our economic and political interests, that's not abstract, that's your living standards"
"Our economic and political interests could not be clearer, but short term party political calculations is given priority over the national interest"
"Brexit is a flop"
"It is losing our country £100 billion, not million, £100 billion every year, as well as the tax revenue that would deliver"
"Just think about that, every year, every year, the loss of European trade is damaging our finances"
"The loss is made greater by some decisions the present Labour government have taken, and that is one reason why we are facing a painful and difficult budget"
"Economists agree there will be a cumulative loss to the economy of £311 billion by 2035"
"Together with 3 million fewer jobs, and a fall in trade levels with the EU"
"As of now its a matter of fact, not conjecture"
"Many SMEs have simply been defeated by post Brexit bureaucracy and simply find it no longer profitable to trade with Europe"
"It is baffling, baffling, that at a basic minimum labour are not now looking at how to negotiate away such frustrations created by bureaucracy"
"New trade deals supposed to cover lost European trade have not done so"
"Some are positively damaging, ask the farmers if you disbelieve me"
"The much promised mega trade deal swapping American trade with lost European trade promised so frequently and so confidently has never happened, and it shows no sigh of doing so in the future"
"We have lost, probably forever, the unique and advantageous deals we had gained in the 1980s and 1990s and I do not believe they cannot be regained"
"Without them a full return to the EU is unlikely until a younger generation, pro European politicians come to power, and the Brexiter voice again retreats to the fringes of debate"
Ken Clarke, "It's wrong to mix up sexual abuse against women with the immigration crisis" #BBCQT
*Look at Danny Kruger's face, not impression b Clarke pointing out the two are different*
"I'm proud to live in a society which is multicultural, multiethnic, and compared to most other countries we are quite harmonious, tolerant, we've managed it"
"London is a very successful city in that respect, long may it remain so"
"But we do have an immigration problem, it goes back to the Boris Johnson wave"
"It goes back to the points based visa system, which at one point increased our population by a million people a year coming here for jobs with their families. Exacerbated by those coming over on small boats"
Brexit ending freedom of movement let to the 1 million legal immigrants a year
Brexit ended freedom of movement with the EU replacing it with a points based system
This issue was created by Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson and both of them campaigning to take the UK out of the EU with Brexit
The problem with the EU? If everyone is in charge, no one is. No one is responsible. They always turn to Washington to hold their hand. Federalize! It's time for a directly elected President of Europe. Someone with the gravitas to enact the collective will of European citizens
Europe's destiny is to be the Global North 🇪🇺
After decades of conflict, eventually the European Civilisation will unite. And we will be the strongest force in the universe.
We're Europe, second to NONE!