@Ryanair flight FR907 to Cork - we are already 1h30 delayed, now just waiting on the stairs with no plane to board yet. Is this flight going to go or not?
Brexit cost an estimated £90 billion in lost tax revenue in 2025 alone. That money could have eased the tax burden on working people and funded our NHS and public services.
I welcome the Prime Minister’s opening to Europe, but he must go further. Rejoining the single market and a customs union would bring growth and prosperity back to Britain.
With war in Europe and an unpredictable White House, our security also depends on standing with our closest neighbours - cross-border problems need cross-border solutions.
Andrew Griffith: “the G7 is the group of slow growing sclerotic economies, the veteran’s race, with notable exception of the USA. Being the fastest growing in the G7 is like being the tallest dwarf…” #CPC
NEW: Senior Downing Street officials have been reaching out to thinktanks and pollsters as they look to test public support for the UK rejoining the EU.
Aides to Andy Burnham have been talking to EU experts in a range of organisations about how the public would view a promise to rejoin.
Some in No 10 are keen to promise that Labour would at least negotiate over re-entry, something Burnham has previously said he wants to see happen “in his lifetime”.
Others are nervous, however, that making such a promise could revive the flagging political fortunes of Reform UK leader Nigel Farage - @kiranstacey & @lisaocarroll report
https://t.co/iwfKo9Fy8Q
@CER_Grant Presumably if the EU lets us rejoin there would also be significant new conditions, to make a second Brexit harder. Single currency? Article 50 ruled out for a decade?
@tomhfh Yet more historical revisionism. Your “stolen victory” thesis ignores the 80-seat majority explicitly promising to “get Brexit done”. Tories then negotiated and legislated for Brexit. And “little EU law repealed” is frankly a lie when 2,700 instruments have since been revoked.
@Alexie_Ai Not true, sadly. There is no good evidence that deliberately inducing heavy sweating through exercise or sauna substantially accelerates elimination of environmental pollutants.
oh look a lesson from a man who never put a uniform on..just worked at bank. A man who is literally making policy and facts up. A man who cant even get his own party to pick him as an MP ( tell us why please?). When Reform stop taking £5m bungs and start being honest with people then people might take you seriously. No one is saying dont send prisoners back when you can but dont lie to the public you can do it with a magic wand. You guys are getting desperate. After all you recruited Suella!
🚩🚩🚩 Sunday Times: Farage’s path back to power was quietly funded by George Cottrell, a 32-year-old former US prison inmate and crypto operator.
Benefits allegedly included social media staff, bodyguards, and use of a London house near Buckingham Palace.
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Trump had one of his worst mental health episodes yet last night, posting over 55 times in 3 hours. Here is the list:
10:15 PM - Accuses Obama of attempting a coup in 2016
10:15 PM - Says Obama worked with CIA to overthrow Trump
10:15 PM - Reposts tweet saying Obama is a “traitor” and that he should be arrested
10:22 PM - Attacks dominion voting systems for 2020 election saying they switched votes
10:22 PM - Says Fulton County, GA had their 2020 fraud exposed (there was none)
10:23 PM - Accuses Obama of personally making $120 million from Obamacare (wtf?)
10:23 PM - Cites quack lawyer Sidney Powell on the 2020 election
10:24 PM - Posts fake JFK Jr account that says Obama wiretapped Trump Tower
10:27 PM - Demands Senator Mark Kelly resign
10:29 PM - Claims neither Biden nor Harris were in charge of the Biden admin
10:29 PM - Attacks Fulton County, GA again
10:29 PM - Posts Fox News clip of Rep Ro Khanna
10:30 PM - Demands Jack Smith be arrested
10:30 PM - Accuses Obama, Clinton, and Comey of treason
10:39 PM - Reposts a tweet from a MAGA account saying they have secret intel proving Clinton and Obama committed crimes
10:39 PM - Reposts a MAGA tweet saying Hillary Clinton should be sent to Haiti
10:40 PM - Says the DOJ is “working hard” to arrest his enemies for treason
10:40 PM - Reposts a tweet attacking his own DOJ and Todd Blanche for no arrests of political enemies
10:40 PM - Posts a TikTok video of people stealing from a convenience store
10:41 PM - Posts a TikTok of someone taking a Door Dash order
10:41 PM - accuses Obama, John Brennan, and Clinton of sedition and treason again
10:42 PM - Posts a video of a man on CCTV footage knocking over food a waiter was carrying
10:47 PM - Calls Obama the “most DEMONIC FORCE” in American politics
10:47 PM - Posts a tweet from Mike Flynn saying 2020 election wasn’t fair
10:49 PM - Attacks Dominion again claiming they stole the 2020 election (it wasn’t)
10:51 PM - Reposts a fake Charlie Kirk account that claimed Obama blocked Hillary Clinton from being prosecuted
10:53 PM - Claims Obama was part of Hillary Clinton’s emails in some way
11:28 PM - Claims a senior Democrat just testified under oath that Senator Adam Schiff leaked classified information
1:13 AM - Attacks the New York Times for reporting on the reflecting pool
This man is clearly not well.
We are proud of our Scottish heritage, especially on Burns Night.
From our 2000 guide and celebration to today’s traditions - to everyone celebrating Sunday, lang may yer lum reek!
#BurnsNight#Scotland#Heritage
Nicholas Bethell's history of the forced repatriation of 50,000 Cossacks by the British Government in 1944-7, carried out by subterfuge. They were sent back to their deaths in the USSR. Many preferred suicide. By arrangement of Anthony Eden. About as shameful as it gets.
“A man sprouts a tumor and dies-how then can a country live that has sprouted camps and exile?”-Alexander Solzhenitsyn, “Cancer Ward”. The book was first published in 1968, both in Russian & English, by The Bodley Head, translated by Lord Nicholas Bethell #WorldCancerDay
MANY PEOPLE ARE SAYING — AND I AGREE — THAT I, GAVIN C. NEWSOM (AMERICA’S FAVORITE GOVERNOR) DESERVE THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE. WHY? BECAUSE OF THE “MOST INCREDIBLE MAPS IN THE HISTORY OF MAPPING” (EVEN COLUMBUS). THESE MAPS WILL END THE “VERY RIGGED” ELECTIONS, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN (MAGA!!!), RETAKE CONGRESS “FOR THE PEOPLE”, AND SAVE DEMOCRACY. NOBODY ELSE COULD HAVE DONE THIS — CERTAINLY NOT THE “SELF-PROCLAIMED” MASTER DEALMAKER DONALD “TACO” TRUMP (TINY HANDS) WHO MISSED “THE DEADLINE” AND LOST (SAD!). PEACE THROUGH MAPS — NO ONE HAS EVER THOUGHT OF THIS BEFORE. I AM THE “PEACE TIME” GOVERNOR NOW, STOPPING “POLITICAL WARS” BEFORE THEY START. HARMONY, UNITY, EVEN LOVE. THE NOBEL COMMITTEE HAS GIVEN THIS AWARD TO LESSER PEOPLE FOR MUCH LESS. I, GAVIN C. NEWSOM, ACTUALLY EARNED IT. THE WORLD WILL BE SAFER, KINDER, AND FRANKLY MORE “BEAUTIFUL” BECAUSE OF MY MAPS. GIVE GAVIN THE NOBEL, MANY ARE SAYING. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! — GCN
Jeffrey Sachs, the influential economist and Columbia university professor didn’t hold back this week when asked about trumps trade policy.
“Mickey mouse is smarter than him” “ this isn’t strategy it’s a cartoon version of economics”