Brexit changes linked to ‘collapse in confidence’ for UK farmers in food security crisis

“While he did not mention #Brexit by name Mr Bradshaw listed a number of post-Brexit changes including to the subsidy regime and new international trade deals” independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

Tories must face hard truths: Reform-lite wreckers like Braverman are why the public just don’t like us | Justine Greening | The Guardian

“Thursday’s election results show that voters are rejecting the very Reform-inspired agenda it has pursued”

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Rachel Reeves is right: this government is gaslighting us over the economy

Very true

But she avoids at all costs the main answer to the economy’s woes

Rejoining the #SingleMarket and #CustomsUnion

Our dysfunctional politics does us no favours theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Lib Dems to table no confidence motion in Rishi Sunak to force June general election | The Independent

Unlikely to succeed, but it makes a point

It’s well past time to turn the page on the last few disastrous #ToryBrexitBritain years

#GeneralElectionNOW independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

We don't have newspapers, we have manipulation& gaslighting.

Rishi Sunak rides out leadership challenge - but faces 'exhausted and broken' Tory party when Parliament returns | Politics News | Sky News

‘Exhausted and broken’

That just about sums up #ToryBrexitBritain … news.sky.com/story/rishi-su…

MPs turn on Tory HQ after election drubbing

“History tells us that elections are always won from the centre. Shifting further right would be a terrible mistake, appealing only to our core vote”

What does that tell you about their ‘core vote’!?
😳
#GTTO inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

Jeremy Clarkson, patron saint of the Great British bore economist.com/britain/2024/0… from The Economist

“In reality, he voted #Remain . In fact, he once argued for a United States of Europe. If there is a path to rejoining the EU, it runs along the A361 next to Diddly Squat farm”

UK flower industry thrown into chaos by new #Brexit border checks

“You cannot have trucks sat for nine hours missing all of the distribution…It directly costs the industry a huge amount of money. The shelf life of flowers is not very long”

#Brexit Chaos theguardian.com/politics/artic…

After the local election rout, will the panicked Tory herd now stampede over Rishi Sunak?

“Projecting himself as the man to fix the howling mess he inherited has always invited the question: which party created the howling mess in the first place?”

#GTTO theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

In English local elections Labour won where it needed to economist.com/britain/2024/0… from The Economist

Also:

“The Liberal Democrats have won more contests than the governing party”

Begs the question; who will be the official opposition? 🤔

Farmer confidence at lowest in England and Wales since survey began

“This year we’re going to be down to 50% or less of our previous [EU] BPS payments, and this comes at a time where farmer borrowing is increasing”

#BrexitBreaksBritain theguardian.com/business/artic…

“The party could be responsible for toppling some of the biggest Conservative names at the GE, such as…Jeremy Hunt, and the housing secretary, Michael Gove, in Surrey, the justice secretary, Alex Chalk, in Cheltenham and Jacob Rees-Mogg in Somerset”

theguardian.com/politics/artic…

From mayoral elections to Rwanda removals, Sunak won’t let the truth jeopardise his mission | Stewart Lee | The Guardian

“Schrödinger’s Sunak believes that only facts matter, while at the same overseeing the deliberate dissemination of disinformation” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Rishi Sunak rides out leadership challenge - but faces 'exhausted and broken' Tory party when Parliament returns | Politics News | Sky News

‘Exhausted and broken’

That just about sums up #ToryBrexitBritain … news.sky.com/story/rishi-su…

Putting Greens, who got 12%, in with ‘other’ just looks stupid.

Any remotely sensible production team would say ‘12% is quite high, give them a separate bar’.

Underscores ideological biases of bbc. If it’s not driven by a London clique it’s not real.

The points Macron makes in this interview came up in several conversations I’ve had over the last few months - when the same points are made by different knowledgable people, I listen. The consensus appears to be that the chance of NATO being drawn into conflict in Europe with…

MPs turn on Tory HQ after election drubbing

“History tells us that elections are always won from the centre. Shifting further right would be a terrible mistake, appealing only to our core vote”

What does that tell you about their ‘core vote’!?
😳
#GTTO inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

Jeremy Clarkson, patron saint of the Great British bore economist.com/britain/2024/0… from The Economist

“In reality, he voted #Remain . In fact, he once argued for a United States of Europe. If there is a path to rejoining the EU, it runs along the A361 next to Diddly Squat farm”

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