Dr Marcus Dromgoole (((JJSALMO)) #NAFO Sam Hartford Niall Ó Conghaile 🇪🇺 garethaethwy 🟩🟥★ 🇪🇺🇺🇦 🟨 Liz Webster x.com/redhistorian/s…

This is too delicious for words.

Richard Tice can't legally challenge the application of VAT to private school fees because of...

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Brexit!

Yes. Leaving the EU sabotaged the one appeal route he could otherwise resort to, leaving him paddleless up the proverbial creek.

Not the first instance of UK companies following EU legislation post-Brexit, even though they're not legally obliged to.

Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧/🇨🇾 For me it's a small but inevitable sign that we will be rejoining sooner or later. I noticed the change of lids happening in the last month, then read this week, that it was a new EU directive. I predict towards the end of Labour's 2nd term, just in time for my retirement 😁.

GylesNaMopaleen👌🏻☘️ Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧/🇨🇾 In my own sphere of expertise, new vehicles sold in the UK were technically illegal for a while this year as updated 'EU6' emissions regulations had come into effect, whilst the UK still had the prior carried over version. Latest version has now been quietly adopted into UK law.

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The brexity UKCA product mark was ditched in favour of sticking to EU rules now means GB has to adhere to EU rules without any elected representatives and have to ask an EU member state to create a new product standard for them.

As acts of self harm go, that's incredible.

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I visit London often and remember 2012. A wonderful time to visit. Olympics year. So upbeat, positive & welcoming. The entire country was buzzing.

The demise since has been so dramatic, it's as if by design. Someone is laughing. Somewhere. And it's not brexiters.

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W Whitbread Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧/🇨🇾 Phil The Sheep - same on bsk social Eoin @Eoini3s.bsky.social Robin Turner AdrianTippetts The return on investment for our EU membership was 10 to 1. Your ability to display ignorance is truly astonishing.

Eoin @Eoini3s.bsky.social W Whitbread Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧/🇨🇾 Robin Turner AdrianTippetts It's so bloody moronic, it's astounding that us leaving a customs and regulatory area and then border checks then needing to be implemented both ways is somehow a 'punishment'
It's literally a core Leave slogan 'take back control'
How can these idiots function in the real world?

Kai W Whitbread All anyone need do is use simple logic. Or are these Brexidiots suggesting world should follow UK's lead in resurrecting highest of trading barriers/making trade with neighbours harder in favour of trying to make more sales in more distant markets where not removed same barriers?

So we are supposed to believe he has dropped all his Close Protection Officers, all his Party aids and is travelling alone without secure comms or security on the overnight sleeper?

What a load of performative nonsense.

Another example of the political etiquette and so-called “balance” that is killing our democracy.
Can’t call a liar a liar.
Can’t call a racist a racist.

Can’t name the very flaw or deviation, machination or manipulation that allows their rot to spread.

Tories trumpeting that their Brexit Britain has higher growth than US, France, Italy etc

Turns out that's only true if you skew a very narrow reading for a couple of months. Over a whole year, UK growth was much lower than 👆

👏BBC More or Less for debunking the figures👇

Liz Truss was once (briefly) Prime Minister. This is who she is.

That this is what passes as holding politicians to account during an election campaign is a damning indictment on the state of journalism in UK 2024. And just the latest example of Tory client media at play…

If given the power I'd have the UK regaining its position of one of the three leading nations in the EU, have it join Schengen & the Euro..
& lock up all the Brexiters (Johnson, Gove, Cummings, Littlewood, Farage, Rees-Mogg, Braverman, Leadsom etc) for treason:
Who's with me? 😬

AdrianTippetts Michael M. 🇨🇭🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮🇬🇧/🇨🇾 I mean this is where you live
x.com/ProfBillMcGuir…

Yep. Tried to warn of this many times too. Leaving EU *internal* market means UK made 27 new *external markets* (not just 1) to sit alongside all other external markets. Trade inside EU has FoM & duty free circ of goods but members interpret directives individually for outsiders

From a friend
'& there, in a nutshell is why Starmer has taken the position he has. It's about getting over the line with huge majority. He hasn't given the Tories any ammo, & any they've already got they have been shooting themselves in the nuts with' news.sky.com/story/labour-e…