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European and internationalist. Rejoin EU Trade. Pro NHS and Pay Rises. On http://mastodon.scot and 🧵s 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇪🇺 💙 #NHSBlueHeart #FBPE

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Elsewhere55 #FBPE @elsewhere55.bsky.social · Jun 24

It’s #DanielHannanDay
‘What Britain looks like after Brexit’
Hannan, elevated to a the House of Lords for his role in achieving #Brexit sets out his vision for Brexit Britain. Well it’s been good for him.
www.reaction.life/p/britain-lo...

t’s 24 June, 2025, and Britain is marking its annual Independence Day celebration. As the fireworks stream through the summer sky, still not quite dark, we wonder why it took us so long to leave. The years that followed the 2016 referendum didn’t just reinvigorate our economy, our democracy and our liberty. They improved relations with our neighbours.

The United Kingdom is now the region’s foremost knowledge-based economy. We lead the world in biotech, law, education, the audio-visual sector, financial services and software. New industries, from 3D printing to driverless cars, have sprung up around the country. Older industries, too, have revived as energy prices have fallen back to global levels: steel, cement, paper, plastics and ceramics producers have become competitive again.

The EU, meanwhile, continues to turn inwards, clinging to its dream of political amalgamation as the euro and migration crises worsen. Its population is ageing, its share of world GDP shrinking and its peoples protesting. “We have the most comprehensive workers’ rights in the world”, complains Jean-Claude Juncker, who has recently begun in his second term as President of the European Federation, “but we have fewer and fewer workers”.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 23h

Christina McAnea, "Reform UK's Muhammad Yusuf concentrated on but didn't give any detail on public finances, saying they'd get it back under control"

"Then they've come up against the reality of local government doesn't have any extra money and there's nothing to cut"

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 23h

Laura Kuenssberg, "Zack Polanski, the new Green leader, making a big impression"

Just not big enough to be inviting on as often as Reform UK are

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 22h

2023: Rishi Sunak, "Elon, thanks for being here. We are very excited to have you"

2025: Elon Musk, "Civil war in Britain is inevitable"

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 3d

Compare and contrast.
Absentee MP -v- his constituency.
Greedy grifting spiv -v- most deprived English neighbourhood.
He really couldn’t give a shit.
He feeds off the inequality and anger to line his own pockets. He doesn’t want solutions because the problems are his income stream.
(iPaper & BBC)

Jaywick named most deprived area - again

A seaside neighbourhood in Essex, part of the parliamentary constituency represented by Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, has once again been named the most deprived in England.
The latest official data showed that an area of the coastal village of Jaywick, close to the town of Clac-ton-on-Sea in the local authority of Tendring, has been classed the most deprived neighbourhood for the fourth time.
Areas of Blackpool again make up most of the rest of the top 10, along with new appearances for neighbour-hoods in Hastings and Rotherham.

Yesterday's data, published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG), presented relative levels of deprivation in areas or neighbourhoods of England in 2025.
The data highlighted "the scale of the challenge" but does not "reflect the progress made since 2019 or the strength of the people who call Jay-wick Sands home"
, the Tendring
District Council website said.
MHCLG said Middlesbrough, Birmingham, Hartlepool, Kingston upon Hull and Manchester had the highest proportions of neighbour-hoods among the most deprived in England.

Farage earns more than £1m a year for non-MP work
GETTY IMAGES - photo of the grifter
Damian Grammaticas >
Political correspondent
17 August 2024
Nigel Farage has revealed he is earning well over a £1m a year from work he does outside parliament, in addition to his job as an MP.
It is thought his outside income is significantly higher than that of any other member of parliament.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 2d

Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.

Minority representation on TV causes outrage

There has been widespread support for prominent Reform MP
Sarah Pochin after she complained about the over-representation of minorities on television.
Said one angry viewer, "She's right. Every time you turn on the telly there's another Reform MP being interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg."
She added, "I respect their way of life and their strange customs, but Reform MPs comprise only 0.7 percent of the House of Commons. Yet Nigel Farage is on Question Time more than Fiona Bruce."
"I'm not prejudiced. Some of my best friends are swivel-eyed loons, but enough is enough.
There are too many people with angry red faces on television.”

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

The world is not X or Spectator parties. Reform and Tory politicians seem to think brazen racism is their meal ticket. In a country that’s far more tolerant and decent than they are, that needs to be an election-losing strategy. It’s up to us to make sure of it.
www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-racism...

The Racism
Premium
Far from being a disadvantage, hostility to people from different races and cultures has now become an active requirement for career advancement on the right of British politics
ADAM BIENKOV

For these reasons I still believe that if both Reform and the Conservatives go into the next general election as parties in complete opposition to the modern, diverse face of Britain as we know it, then it is an election they are likely to lose. While racism and hate crime is on the rise, Britain is still not a majority racist For these reasons I still believe that if both Reform and the Conservatives go into the next general election as parties in complete opposition to the modern, diverse face of Britain as we know it, then it is an election they are likely to lose. While racism and hate crime is on the rise, Britain is still not a majority racist country and there is an electoral disadvantage to portraying your political party as being on the wrong side of that divide.
The fact that seven out of ten ethnic minority voters and a plurality of voters overall, see Reform as being a 'racist party' demonstrates the gap between how things are seen in Westminster and how these
things are seen in the world outside. and there is an electoral disadvantage to portraying your political party as being on the wrong side of that divide.
The fact that seven out of ten ethnic minority voters and a plurality of voters overall, see Reform as being a 'racist party' demonstrates the gap between how things are seen in Westminster and how these
things are seen in the world outside.

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care

Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers

www.theguardian.com

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 17h

Let's just take a moment to reflect on the self-sacrifice and hope this person embodies - not the evil, hateful monsters thirsting for violence.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 4h

Farage is due to make a speech today about his new economic policy.. (having been laughed out of the room with his last one)…
Let’s just take a quick look at his ideological track record…
And then put all his ideas straight into the shredder.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Productivity
'The money machine is misfiring': City blames Brexit for UK's £20Bn productivity headache
Poor output since the leave vote has landed Rachel Reeves with a bigger-than-forecast budget spending gap

However, experts say it is increasingly clear that Brexit has played a significant role, exacerbating the post-2008 slump by hitting sectors with EU ties, and as the political turmoil led businesses to put investments on ice.
Erecting tougher trade barriers with the UK's largest partner is expected to cut Britain's long-term productivity by about 4% relative to a remain scenario. The OBR could update this estimate at the 26 November budget.
Business investment has flatlined since the Brexit referendum

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

Two British nationals have been arrested in relation to last night’s stabbing attack on a train at Huntingdon. Police say there’s nothing to suggest it was terror-related.

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The i Paper @theipaper.com · 1d

Breaking news: The two men arrested after multiple people were stabbed on a train have been confirmed as British nationals by police

Follow live updates: trib.al/wuedtjT

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victoria1921.bsky.social @victoria1921.bsky.social · 1d

And there's this:
I knew Gill and Farage and the rest of the UKIP crew in the European Parliament

They were crooks and shysters to a man

They repeated Putin talking points and appeared on Russia Today

UKIP then and Reform now are both a threat to our democracy

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill

How did a former Mormon bishop end up pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament?

www.theguardian.com

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Lord Dom B @lorddom.bsky.social · 1d

“We need to restore the public finances,” says Zia Yussuf on #BBCLauraK in yet another TV appearance for Reform, whose leader dedicated much of his career to taking the UK out of the EU and leaving us £40 billion a year worse off than we would otherwise have been.

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Former Belgian prime minister Guy Verhofstadt on Scottish independence and the UK in Europe

‘Scotland’s place is in Europe’: Guy Verhofstadt on Brexit and the way back to the EU

www.thenational.scot

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Morten Morland @mortenmorland.bsky.social · 1d

Sunday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 4d

3 things Starmer could do instead of camps in old barracks that would actually WORK👇

1. Create safe, regulated routes to apply for asylum in the UK

2. Let asylum seekers WORK & support themselves

3. Fast track status for people from obviously unsafe countries
metro.co.uk/2025/10/29/k...

Keir Starmer tries to look tough - and exposes himself as a coward

The government's immigration policy is in desperate need of a bold change in direction.

metro.co.uk

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Mark McGeoghegan @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social · 1d

I keep seeing/hearing versions of the claim that immigration is now in the top three issues for Scots (that specifically from The Scotsman's politics podcast).

The most recent Scottish issue polling was done in the summer, by Ipsos, and immigration wasn't in the top ten.

Where is this coming from?

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Elsewhere55 #FBPE @elsewhere55.bsky.social · 1d

Putting Asylum Seekers into barracks is political not practical. Put the extra cost into faster processing.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Quelling public disquiet is worth extra cost of barracks asylum housing, says No 10

Government defends prospect of paying more for barracks, saying people ‘don’t want asylum seekers in hotels’

www.theguardian.com

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Edwin Hayward @edwinhayward.com · 1d

A Labour MP adopts the language of Musk and Trump.

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Elsewhere55 #FBPE @elsewhere55.bsky.social · 1d

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‘Scotland’s place is in Europe’: Guy Verhofstadt on Brexit and the way back to the EU
www.thenational.scot/news/2558905...

‘Scotland’s place is in Europe’: Guy Verhofstadt on Brexit and the way back to the EU

‘OUR aim during the Brexit negotiations was always, given the outcome of the referendum, to try to find a moderate solution to implement the vote,…

www.thenational.scot

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: In less than two weeks, a small convoy will set off to travel 1000 miles from Scotland and north Northumberland to Ukraine with much-needed aid

Scottish volunteers to travel 1000 miles to deliver aid to Ukraine

www.thenational.scot

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

Trump says he's instructing the Department of Defense to prepare for military action against Nigeria

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Talking-up Scotland @talking-upscotland.bsky.social · 2d

talkingupscotlandtwo.com/2025/11/01/n...

NHS Scotland performance likely to be even further ahead as five examples of cover-up and distortion by NHS England managers is revealed

stewartb making this comment below, yesterday, reminded of how previously, he, I and others have revealed the trickery used by NHS England, operating in a Tory/competitive/managerialist culture, co…

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 2d

Lisa Nandy. Steve Reed. Rachel Reeves. Top Labour ministers are lying daily – so why is Keir Starmer doing nothing but shrug his shoulders? Hamish Morrison asks ✍️

Read the full piece: www.thenational.scot/news/2...

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 2d

Tomorrow's front page 📰

FM refuses to bow to Alexander

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