Mart Murphy

Corkonian, Irish, European. UK resident, grappling with the insanity of Brexit 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇪🇪🇺

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

And it’s been a total disaster.
Thanks. 👍

[Mart Murphy @martmurphy22]

Daniel Lambert sums it up:
“Britain is only going to move on when it starts realising it’s one little cog in a whole load of cogs that make up the EU, that make up global geopolitics, and the UK on its own, not being a cog anywhere, is really unwise,” https://t.co/RpIa5FZxrW

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

Brexit was sold as taking back control of our borders and boosting the economy.

Non-EU migration surged after free movement ended. EU net migration turned negative. More Brits leaving.

Same story on growth: UK GDP per capita has lagged the world, US and even EU since the vote. Stanford estimates a permanent 6-8% hit.

Brexit didn’t deliver the promised renaissance. It delivered slower growth and different (not lower) migration.

The data is clear: we got the opposite of what was promised.

[Socialist Opera Singer @OperaSocialist]

The reason why the UK is on its arse is not because of Keir Starmer.
A big reason is that too many people believed some bollocks on a bus 10 years ago.

[John Slinger MP @JohnSlinger]

A man of dignity in an age of indignity.

Thank you @Keir_Starmer for your service to our country.

You didn’t deserve this.

[Ali T. @Ali3Mctavish]

I am no Starmer fan, but he must be the most unfairly treated PM in history. The billionaire owned press set their sights on him the moment he won the General Election and will now do the same with Burnham.

[Adam Schwarz @AdamJSchwarz]

He was still a better prime minister than any of this lot.

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🚨 The Times Business Pages: The UK has lost £74 billion in goods exports since Brexit.

Key sectors like cars, pharmaceuticals and advanced manufacturing have been hit hardest.
Exporters say the new trade barriers have made things significantly harder.

British food exports are down 22% (£4 billion)

Food is one of Brexit’s biggest losers: more red tape, lost EU markets, and cheaper imports undercutting our farmers.

Ten years on, the data continues to show a clear net loss, not the global trading powerhouse we were promised.

[JBL @johninsouthfla]

The BBC may have forgotten Farage's £5m grift, but if you remember it, please repost! Thanks.

[Gordon Brown @GordonBrown]

Keir Starmer’s place in history is assured. We owe Keir a debt of gratitude for taking Labour from its worst electoral defeat in 2019, bringing Labour back into government with a huge majority in 2024 and then guiding Britain through difficult times nationally and globally.

[Sam @SamCKx]

A democratically elected British Prime Minister has been driven from office by a relentless campaign of propaganda and misinformation; funded, amplified and perpetuated by foreign billionaires and elites whose interests bear zero resemblance to those of ordinary working people.

A noble gesture from an emotional Keir Starmer, entirely consistent with his conduct in office.

A truly sad day for British democracy.

His full resignation speech:

[Brendan Cox @MrBrendanCox]

10 years ago my wife, the mum of our kids & the MP for Batley&Spen was killed by a far right extremist.

At anniversaries I try to be optimistic about the future. But not this time. In the ten years since she was killed we have gone backwards & I fear our democracy is now at risk

[Covie @covie_93]

He's giving Iran $25 billion to reopen the Strait of Hormuz that was opened for free before the war.

Art of the Deal!

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Nobody wants a city on Mars. Nobody wants AI in every app. Nobody wants a robot butler. Nobody wants data centers everywhere. Nobody wants flying cars or humanoid robots. We want clean water, we want bees to survive, and we want a habitable planet.

[Trevor McArdle @McardleTrevor]

Reform is a Limited Company

Farage owns 53%

It was formed in 2019 to push for a “no-deal Brexit”

It wants to reintroduce the Liz Truss budget

It wants to privatise the NHS

& invest in fossil fuels

Close the BBC

& break International law

It’s a scam

Please retweet widely

[Enezator @Enezator]

Recorded in March 2025 and meant to be released only after her passing, this is Jane Goodall's final message to the world 🥹❤️

[David__Osland @David__Osland]

Fortunately, Britain has a Bermuda-registered mass circulation newspaper owned by a French-domiciled billionaire, a television station owned by a Dubai hedge fund and a political party backed by a Thailand-based crypto tycoon to remind us of the importance of patriotism

[Manus Carlisle @manus_carlisle]

Here is the map of data centres in Ireland - over 130 of them.

Data centres now consume 22% of Ireland’s electricity

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🚨 Ten years after the referendum and the verdict is in:

@dsmitheconomics in The Sunday Times lays out the lost growth advantage.

UK real per capita GDP growth 2016–2025: just 5.4%
Italy: 11.6%
Spain: 11.1%
Eurozone: 10.2%
France: 8.4%

Britain needs to face reality and undo Brexit.

[RS Archer @archer_rs]

Apparently climate change is a myth.