Former MI6 chief, Sir Alex Younger gives some Brexit truths.
“Putin would’ve been absolutely delighted by our decision (to leave the EU) and so would Xi.”
“Particularly since I've left office and I've travelled around Europe, I'm profoundly depressed.
“Just nobody mentions the UK. We've made ourselves irrelevant. And this is extraordinary. The beginning part of this century, we were the dominant force. France has effectively eclipsed us and you just don't hear a discussion of us.”
“I think Brexit has Brexit has marginalised us. It was kind of intended to do exactly that.”
Don’t bother learning anything for yourself, someone else will do it for you.
And in the meantime we will all constantly do our part to make everything in life as easy as possible, aka comfortable & fake.
“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”
C.S. Lewis.
Prof Sir John Curtice explains why the Brexit voters that @UKLabour has “re-captured” since 2019…
…are not actually Brexit supporters anymore.
Labour’s voting base all over the country is now more pro-EU, whether @Keir_Starmer likes it or not.
Scotland's Hate Crime Act comes into effect today. Women gain no additional protections, of course, but well-known trans activist Beth Douglas, darling of prominent Scottish politicians, falls within a protected category. Phew! 1/11
Sweden getting closer to NATO remind us that it was the alliance that provoked this war by doing 2 russophobic things.
1. Being seen as a better option than Russia is to our neighbours.
2. Actually being a better option than Russia is to our neighbours.