Jas Hardwick

Politically homeless, pro democracy and looking forward to a brave new world.

[Jas Hardwick @RealJasperH]

@GeorgeChest0n Wonder if anyone's been stupid enough to put a bet on it this time 🙂

[Jas Hardwick @RealJasperH]

So, more chaos caused by an air traffic control glitch. This time it's a "connectivity issue". Now an outage in the US. Massive coincidence. I think we can all read between the lines...

[Jas Hardwick @RealJasperH]

Is it appropriate for the Prime Minister to be making heartfelt statements like this with a cartoon social media avatar?

[Jas Hardwick @RealJasperH]

You'd have thought the Speaker would have something to say about this. He normally hates it when any Government attempts to avoid scrutiny...

[Kemi Badenoch @KemiBadenoch]

In an unprecedented move, Labour have scrapped the Conservative vote to force Andy Burnham to come to Parliament to answer questions when he becomes PM on Monday.

Labour are running scared because they know the honeymoon will be over the minute he has to tell us his plans.

[Christopher Hope📝 @christopherhope]

Prime Minister to be Andy Burnham is taking over the running of the country on Monday 20 July and will receive no scrutiny by Parliament until Tuesday 1 September - 51 days. More at @GBNEWS.

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

Did the Swiss demand that we accept their court as superior to ours? Did they insist on a share of our fishing grounds? Do they set regulations in part of our territory? Do we have to pay them for the right to sell them stuff?
No?
See how easy it is?

[Gully Foyle #UKTrade @TerraOrBust]

Isn't it amazing how all these things can be achieved without needing to give Switzerland control over the UKs laws, borders and money.

[Britain Unbound @BritainUnbound]

Say it with us everyone.

BREXIT BENEFIT.

[Jas Hardwick @RealJasperH]

By the end of last week the demonisation of Farage and Reform in the media and among the liberal left had reached fever pitch. Just saying.

[Jas Hardwick @RealJasperH]

@piersmorgan @yuilly12 You're right, yet we're shut down as usual and told not to speculate.

[Julian Jessop @julianHjessop]

I don't really care about the latest IMF forecasts, but for those who do... 😉

"Brexit Britain" is projected to be the fastest growing major (G7) economy in Europe in both 2026 and 2027, as she was in 2025... 👇

[Britain Unbound @BritainUnbound]

Can someone please remind the incoming Prime Minister, that their "buy British" procurement plan would not be possible within the EU at all, and so is a benefit of Brexit that we can contemplate such a thing?

As if he thinks it necessary, then Brexit was necessary.

[Britain Unbound @BritainUnbound]

The upcoming speech from Andy Burnham, trailed in the press to include a wish to further devolve powers from Westminster, is quite a large contradiction from his other reported wish to rejoin the EU - where power would be centralised in Brussels.

https://t.co/1Eym13t8Ao

[Jas Hardwick @RealJasperH]

@DogPaxman @DanielJHannan Very true. Then those same people wonder why trust in politics now is so low

[Vodka & Seledka 🇬🇧 @seledka_vodka]

In 2016 I voted Remain. Straightforward self-interest: my life ran on the EU freedom of movement and freedom to work. The person pouring my coffee or fitting my bathroom didn't need to sound like me, and if anything I'd take Polish builders over white British ones fifty times over - better work, cheaper price, none of the fleecing.

Despite which, if that referendum came round again in 2026, I'd vote Leave.

Not because I've turned on continental Europe. The opposite. I want trade deals, military cooperation, AI and cybersecurity partnerships, counter-terrorism coordination - maximum cooperation with the European Union as an organisation and with European Union member states as countries. Britain is a small state in an age of intensified global competition; we need alliances, and a divided Europe squabbling internally is exactly what Russia and China want.

None of this requires EU membership.

What leaving the European Union is meant to deliver - what it COULD deliver - is the capacity to govern as a fully sovereign nation. That is where we've failed, catastrophically. Brexit wasn't the disaster. The Conservative governments since 2016 were the disaster. Too busy with internal scandals and parliamentary pantomime to do anything beyond the bare logistics of extraction. No plan to compensate for lost trade efficiency, no plan to actually USE the sovereignty we'd recovered.

It’s simple. A decade in a space leaves an astronaut’s muscles atrophied; stepping out doesn't fix it, exercise does. Our sovereign decision-making atrophied inside the European Union, and after Brexit we never bothered rebuilding it. We just stood in the airlock complaining that walking was difficult.

So I'd vote Leave now because the problem was never the destination. It was that we refused to walk once we arrived.

[Jas Hardwick @RealJasperH]

Interesting to read the meltdown from rejoiners. They've convinced themselves that leavers are dying off and a new referendum would be a slam dunk, but the fact is that many remain voters have changed their minds!

[Sky News @SkyNews]

“I also voted to remain, but if we had a referendum today, I wouldn’t.”

Former chancellor @Jeremy_Hunt reflects on Brexit and says he’d vote differently now.

➡️ https://t.co/dE5Gq3tUN7

📺 Sky 501 and YouTube

[Jas Hardwick @RealJasperH]

@BellaWallerstei Andy Burnham can only claim to be the Prime Minister of Makerfield unless there is a leadership election

[Jas Hardwick @RealJasperH]

I'm afraid Andy Burnham can only claim to be the Prime Minister of Makerfield unless there is a leadership election

[Jas Hardwick @RealJasperH]

@Steven_Swinford Andy Burnham can only claim to be the Prime Minister of Makerfield unless there is a leadership election

[Britain Unbound @BritainUnbound]

I'm not sure a more damaging event could have happened this week for the Rejoin movement, than a march organised over a year in advance having only 1500 people turn up.

You could advertise a car boot a week in advance and get more than 1500 people to turn up.