Sidney #FBPE #REJOIN

Retired British pro European, based in Portugal but love travelling. Hate racism and fascism. Hope my grandchildren inherit a kinder, more caring world.

[Sidney #FBPE #REJOIN @grinolety]

If this country needs to get out of the shit its in just tax globally like America...

[Sidney #FBPE #REJOIN @grinolety]

The worst game of football I have ever watched Chelsea v Arsenal and to think they were at home too!

[Sidney #FBPE #REJOIN @grinolety]

I suppose everyone has forgotten the past 14 years of the Tory scum, people have very short memories!

[Claire Luby 💙 #FBPE #GTTO #FBPA @ClaireLuby5]

Don't you just adore the MP for Clacton who hates the EU but is happy to take a £73k a year pension from them; pays tax in Belgium not the UK; applied for a German passport after Brexit and wants to exit the ECHR which will take away human rights for all UK citizens.
What a guy!

[Sidney #FBPE #REJOIN @grinolety]

@TheRealJamieKay The next generation in Gaza will all be Hamas,and who's to blame them with the atrocities that are happening,the young are being fed by these and America and Britain are to blame.

[Sidney #FBPE #REJOIN @grinolety]

@TheRealJamieKay How can they feed them there isn't any food, probably feed themselves on scraps to keep their fighting spirits alive.

[Sidney #FBPE #REJOIN @grinolety]

@johnredwood Norway is rich because of its oil. However it is in the EEA (single market) and enjoys the benefit of being in the EU Schengen (open borders) area as does Switzerland. Iceland went bankrupt in the noughties and only recovered after being bailed out by the IMF. Have you forgotten?

[Robert Peston @Peston]

I dodged the snow by going with the PM to Rio, for the annual summit of the G20 leaders of the world’s most powerful nations

Although the sun was blazing, there was a chill, and not just because Putin is apparently threatening to nuke us now that we have followed Biden’s lead and allowed Kiev to fire our Storm Shadow missiles on to Russian soil.

It felt like an end, a sad one, to 25 years of consensus that global problems - global threats to our peace, prosperity and security - are best solved through dialogue and cooperation between leaders of east and west, north and south.

From combatting climate change, to cutting the cost of trade, to curbing the spread of novel viruses, to warding off financial meltdowns and limiting migration, it’s common sense that global solutions are more effective than national ones - because C02, money, microbes and desperate people are no respecters of national borders.

Common sense buried by two G20 leaders, neither of whom were in Rio.

One is Putin, who has shown contempt for the international rule of law, and stayed away presumably to minimise the risk he might be arrested for war crimes.

Keir Starmer inadvertently shone a light on how Putin has cleaved the world. The UK PM urged nations to double down - his words - on support for Ukraine, but the G20’s communique was an insipid call for peace and didn’t even call out Putin’s nuclear threats.

The other leader who has made the G20 seem like a pointless exercise in virtue signalling is the new geriatric on the block, Trump - who torched the G20 even before setting foot in the White House again.

All Trump’s core beliefs are antithetical to G20 nostrums. He despises free trade, he wants to loosen restrictions on Wall Street and crypto, he is a climate change denier, his approach to migration is to round up migrants and throw them out, his choice to be health secretary hates vaccines.

The soon-to-be-leader of the world’s most powerful nation is the living embodiment of the tragedy of our age - namely the divergence between politics and the growing risks to our way of life.

Voters want nationalists like Trump to be in charge. But his national solutions won’t even protect and enrich Americans, let alone the rest of us, from heatwaves, plagues and market crashes.

Globalisation was not harnessed enough and too many communities were hurt by it. But a return to raw nationalism will wreak serious harm to many more vulnerable people.

[Sidney #FBPE #REJOIN @grinolety]

Time to rejoin the customs union!,our GDP has declined enough..

[LORIAGNE GLAUCOMA! NOT SHOUTING! @Loriagne2]

What a BLOODY mess this country is in!!!!! Radio on, labour are crap,tabloids,labour are crap,news,labour are crap!!!! Its SHOVED down our throats! NOT A FUCKING WHISPER REF ACTUALLY WHO I.S. CRAP. WHO MADE THE BLOODY MESS. THIS WILL NOT END WELL. KEEP GOING LABOUR.

[Sidney #FBPE #REJOIN @grinolety]

@TheRealJamieKay Absolutely hate the stuff never eaten it for 20 years now!

[LORIAGNE GLAUCOMA! NOT SHOUTING! @Loriagne2]

Make NO mistake,UK Tories are using TRUMPS playbook, and have been for years. NOT until every bloody Tory is removed from board of directors inside BBC will this media circus of lies,misinformation,gaslighting stop. SACK THE BASTARDS,ALONG WITH KUESSENBERG,BRUCE.

[Jim Pickard 🐋 @PickardJE]

London mayor @SadiqKhan has issued a statement on the US election:

“I know that many Londoners will be anxious about the outcome of the US Presidential election. Many will be fearful about what it will mean for democracy and for women’s rights, or how the result impacts the situation in the Middle East or the fate of Ukraine. Others will be worried about the future of NATO or tackling the climate crisis.

"London is - and will always be - for everyone. We will always be pro-women, pro-diversity, pro-climate and pro-human rights.

"London is a place where we’re proud of our diversity, proud of the contribution of all our communities and proud of our spirit of unity. These are some of the values that will continue to bind us together as Londoners."

"The lesson of today is that progress is not inevitable. But asserting our progressive values is more important than ever - re-committing to building a world where racism and hatred is rejected, the fundamental rights of women and girls are upheld, and where we continue to tackle the crisis of climate change head on."

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Alastair Campbell, "This is one of the most extraordinary election victories and comebacks in an election in history" @campbellclaret

"What did Donald Trump get right? He managed tp speak to and for the anger that people feel about the state of their lives, the state of their country"

"I think he weaponised it in the usual way, no least helped by Elon Musk"

"Not least the way he campaigned.. Which a lot of people find distasteful and unpleasant.. Full of lies, racism and misogyny and so forth"

"The Democrats have to look deep to see how they managed to lose this"

"Trump has combined populism, polarisation, post truth politics, in a way that has made a lot of people motivated by it, comfortable with it, and feeling that he offers them something the other side doesn't"

"This is going to affect politics right across the world.. How do you deliver the kind of lives and progress people want in their lives, but at the same time you don't want to do that kind of politics"

[Jake 🔶 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @RobJaco69382197]

@implausibleblog @campbellclaret Massive implications for Britain. We have never confronted, as we should have, what happens when the USA goes full isolationist. Our decision to leave the EU now looks disastrous, our defence spending entirely inadequate and we have our own populism problems too.

[Jo Whitehead 🕷 @Jo_WhiteheadUK]

@implausibleblog @campbellclaret At what point do we admit that most people just don't want democracy. And they don't care about anyone other than themselves & what they want, even if it is to make themselves and society poorer?

[Deborah Meaden 🇺🇦 @DeborahMeaden]

Only it isn’t a Circus… it’s a fragile World Politically and environmentally and the Clown is in… only he is not a Clown he is a dangerous anti-democratic, amoral demagogue quite apart from being a convicted felon. Humans need to be better.

[Sidney #FBPE #REJOIN @grinolety]

@DeborahMeaden
Bees too!

[Sidney #FBPE #REJOIN @grinolety]

Although I like the idea of PR we'd be giving Farage more seats.... unthinkable!

[GET PR DONE! ⭕️⚫️🟣🟢🔴🟠 @getprdone]

Starmer waxing lyrical about #FPTP one day and then exploiting it to put Farage into office the next…. #CrisisOfDemocracy