RejoinEU #FBPE

Apparently one UK company made roughly £14.3 million per day or about £600000 an hour over the last 3 years after paying tax.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Conservative Jeremy Hunt criticises Labour for having a million NEETs, even though 872,000 of them were already NEETs under a Conservative government.

He then argues against EU freedom of movement because Europeans will come to Britain and take jobs, conveniently ignoring that some of those NEETs could go to other European countries to find employment themselves.

Freedom of movement works both ways.

The Conservatives spent 14 years failing to provide sufficient opportunities for young people, then stripped them of the automatic right to live and work across 27 EU countries.

Now Hunt complains about youth unemployment while opposing something that could expand their employment opportunities.

His argument also relies on the economically illiterate assumption that there is a fixed number of jobs and that every European worker employed in Britain means one fewer job for a British worker.

Workers contribute to economic growth, create demand, pay taxes and help businesses expand.

Hunt was Chancellor. He understand this.

Instead, he's recycling the same tired anti-immigration arguments that helped deliver Brexit, while refusing to acknowledge the economic and social damage caused by his own party.

You cannot spend 14 years failing Britain's young people, restrict their opportunities across Europe, and then pretend the resulting crisis is entirely somebody else's responsibility.

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

Brexit has been catastrophic. It's time to rejoin the EU.

https://t.co/fFfJnxqQ84

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Reform UK's Suella Braverman claims massive taxpayer-funded water bill at home equal to 18 baths a day

Claims to have used 1,504 litres of water daily at £1.2m four-bedroom pad.

Reform have promised benefit cuts for the disabled, old, sick, poor.
https://t.co/HKz7utZaev

[Cat Hobbs @CatHobbs]

As long as we have water privatisation, the system will never "work in our interests"

The government should take water into public ownership (normal in 9/10 of world)

5 DAYS TO GO - @andyburnham say NO to Thames Water's creditors, say NO to bill hikes

https://t.co/yfopKCmjLD

[Britain People @Britain_People]

🔴@Helen_Whately, Shadow Secretary of State for Work & Pensions, has claimed £2 MILLION expenses in 10 years.

£300,000 relates to her own travel and accommodation - yet she only lives 50 miles from London.

Her boss, @KemiBadenoch has 3 children, claims £2.7K per month to rent a 6 bed farmhouse & tried to claim expenses for a family holiday.

The country can't afford these @Conservatives.

- @Heccles94

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

Patriots one and all 🤣🤣🤣

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Tice keeps his money in Jersey while Zahawi dodges taxes by using a trust fund in Gibraltar. And Reform UK presents itself as a patriotic party.

[Kernow Q @KernowQ]

Idiot Philp is too stupid to understand that Thatcher sold it off!!
He is laughing stock... except it is no laughing matter.

[Anna Soubry 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇦🇪🇺🖤🤍 @Anna_Soubry]

Get back in the #EU, scrap the House of Lords and change the voting system

I agree
@campbellclaret #Today @BBCr4today

[Paul Nowak @nowak_paul]

Asking banks who’ve enjoyed windfall profits to pay a fairer share of tax, to bring down the energy bills of households and business, is the right thing to do.

[Britain People @Britain_People]

🔴'Right-wingers who lecture the rest of us about our lack of patriotism.'

- @David__Osland

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Stop using names like Storm Austen or Storm Boelo. Let's call them Storm Exxon and Storm Shell, just to remind us who's to blame.

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Reform UK just got fined £2,187 for 4 breaches of electoral law.

They could pay that fine 32, 914 times with there recent £72,000,000 donation.

See the problem here?

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

The historical irony is extraordinary.

MI5 spent decades watching Harold Wilson and Aneurin Bevan for supposed Soviet influence and found no evidence that either was a Soviet agent.

Fast-forward to today and Russian influence in British politics is no longer theoretical.

Parliament’s own Intelligence and Security Committee described Russian influence in Britain as the new normal, including Putin-linked elites gaining political access through wealth and donations.

And a former Reform UK Wales leader has now actually been jailed for taking bribes to push pro-Russian messages.

We spent the Cold War suspecting people who weren’t Russian agents.

🆘 Perhaps we should pay rather more attention when the evidence is actually sitting in front of us.

[Mr Ethical 🚩 @nw_nicholas]

"So, Mr Farage, you wish to purchase a £1.4m house. As your solicitor I have a duty to comply with anti-money laundering legislation. May I know the source of your funds?"
"Yes, a friend in Thailand has just gifted me £5m"

[Thomas Standfield @TStandfield1789]

And another one!
Another Tory hypocrite bleats about the state of the UK's defences.
After remaining silent when the Tory government she was in devastated Britain's armed forces.
@michelledonelan @KemiBadenoch @Conservatives @jcartlidgemp @griffitha @alexburghart

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Over 500,000 people marched in France last weekend. The vast majority were unmasked and white. They were protesting against the cost of living and poor public services. Don't fall for the rightwing spin.

[Cat Hobbs @CatHobbs]

Nearly 20,000 people have signed this petition in just a few days 🎉🥳✊

6 DAYS TO GO until Thames Water creditors meet to approve yet ANOTHER bailout

@andyburnham said in June that public ownership is "what should happen" for Thames Water

Step in, now

https://t.co/aVROspQejT

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Brexit voter in Makerfield tells Beth Rigby,

"Everything seemed better when we were in the European Union. Boris Johnson just convinced everyone that we would be so much better off, didn't he"

Another says he didn't make the right choice to vote for Brexit because Brexit ended,

"The freedom of movement, the freedom of travel"

My view:

Johnson helped sell Brexit as a painless route to prosperity, then chose a version that put new barriers between British firms and their biggest nearby market. When the trade-offs became unavoidable, he blamed others rather than own the consequences.

Farage helped turn grievance into a political movement, but campaigning for a rupture is easier than taking responsibility for its aftermath. He could claim victory, leave others to manage the fallout and return whenever there was another grievance to exploit.

That is the populist trick: make a complicated choice sound effortless, dismiss anyone describing the costs as an enemy, then blame someone else when those costs arrive.

The people who believed the promises deserve honesty now. The politicians who made them owe the country an accounting.

And if Brexit voters in Makerfield have changed their minds, they are far from alone.

YouGov’s latest polling found 59% support for rejoining the EU, against 32% opposed.

With Britain needing stronger growth and more opportunities, the case for restoring closer ties—and the freedom to live, work and study across Europe—is stronger than ever.

#RejoinEU

[dave lawrence 🐟🐟🐠 @dave43law]

Arrest him first

Covid-bereaved families demand Matt Hancock is stripped of Privy Council role after damning care home report https://t.co/g1QuLpX42u