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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 1h

A fascinating piece. The first dinghy - 2 years after we voted for Brexit.
Boats now carry 100+ migrants, with numbers increasing as the EU clamps down (at last) on unlawful migration.

Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 1h

How migrant crisis grew from small boats to bigger, deadlier crossings

www.thetimes.com/article/9ede...

How migrant crisis grew from small boats to bigger, deadlier crossings

Emergency call logs to French aid workers lay bare the risks taken every day by those trying to reach Britain. We chart the chaos in the Channel

www.thetimes.com

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 1h

Looking forward to the BBC asking Richard (man-made climate change is 'absolute garbage') Tice, MP for the towns, about this....

"Boston and Skegness in Lincolnshire [is] projected to have about 90% of homes at risk from river and coastal flooding by 2050 – the highest proportion in the country."

Millions more homes in Great Britain at risk of flooding, investigation finds

Every constituency projected to be at greater risk, with many areas likely to be uninsurable

www.theguardian.com

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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 1h

The pushy Netanyahus were mocked. ‘Bibi’ will have been embarrassed.

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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 1h

Scripted sycophancy in Knesset was laid on thick, then Trump spoke
A good read, well-observed.

www.thetimes.com/article/1c93...

Scripted sycophancy in Knesset was laid on thick, then Trump spoke

The speaker and Binyamin Netanyahu heaped praise on the ‘giant of Jewish history’ but the US president has a knack of saying what he thinks

www.thetimes.com

Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 12h

Farage will say anything - anything - to win votes & stay close to Trump’s USA.

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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 12h

Yet another thing to worry about
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 12h

Same pic. Unlike mortals Jenkins doesn’t seem to age.

Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 13h

He is far from alone.
Do you know how many people I know, journalists, thinktankers, civil servants, politicians, who always excel at explaining to you why what is currently happening was always bound to happen, from which they conclude that it should happen?

Feelingantsy 🇬🇧🇩🇪. Maker of Puns @feelingantsy.bsky.social · 13h

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 13h

He is far from alone.
Do you know how many people I know, journalists, thinktankers, civil servants, politicians, who always excel at explaining to you why what is currently happening was always bound to happen, from which they conclude that it should happen?

Feelingantsy 🇬🇧🇩🇪. Maker of Puns @feelingantsy.bsky.social · 13h

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UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 18h

"One thing is clear: in stark contrast to the late 2010s, party conferences are not the place to go for really vigorous debates about the UK’s future relationship with Europe."

@jillongovt.bsky.social argues that UK-EU relations is a dividing line in UK party politics

ukandeu.ac.uk/uk-eu-relati...

Relations with Europe are becoming more of a dividing line for the mainstream parties - UK in a changing Europe

In the wake of party conference season, Jill Rutter reflects on how much attention was paid to the UK's relationship with the EU at the Liberal Democrat, Labour Party, Conservative Party, Green Party ...

ukandeu.ac.uk

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 22h

This deserves more attention than it has received.

Gove: "we were too anxious as a government to secure those deals in order to show that Brexit was working".

Exactly as so many of us warned at the time, and as the government denied at the time.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/country-and-...

Michael Gove admits that post-Brexit trade deals were bad for farmers

Michael Gove has admitted for the first time that the Australia and New Zealand trade deals negotiated by the former Tory government did not protect Britain’s farmers.

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk

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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 20h

Revealing of Netanyahu's agenda that he claimed just now that under Trump the USA had recognised Israel's right to 'Judea and Samaria the ancestral home of the Jews' (aka the West Bank). This is not in fact true (as far as we know). The USA does *not recognise this or the Settlers' aims.

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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 21h

The Speaker of the Knesset can’t stop speaking. Toe-curling.

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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 1d

Returned from the Hamas death tunnels. These Israelis survived the Hamas killers. Amazing that they are alive. This is Trump’s day, he’s a peacemaker & now is his time to make peace.
We should support him on this to the hilt.

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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 1d

What is so irritating about Tice’s whingy spin is that he’s appealing to Welsh voters via those expat Brexit voters in Spain & France whose concerns are a million miles away from 2nd home owners’. And REF is on 30%. Fgs. We blasted the EU for its porous borders, it’s dealing with it, Mr Tice.

Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 1d

This is simply the EU enforcing its existing border controls by means of a new system, not a "threat to throw out second home owners". Again Brexiters believe that the UK should have border controls as regards the EU, but not the other way around.

Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 3d

Entirely unsurprising that the Holiday Villa 'Ndrangheta have found politcal allies at last in the shape of Reform UK.

Reform really do hypocrisy very well.

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H/T @goodclimate.bsky.social & @rolandmcs.bsky.social

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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 1d

‘We will spook them’.

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 1d

Its' a desk reject.

🫧 Spark Elation 🫧 @tyranny.sparklenoise.com · 2d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

“a supply chain attack”

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 1d

This is simply the EU enforcing its existing border controls by means of a new system, not a "threat to throw out second home owners". Again Brexiters believe that the UK should have border controls as regards the EU, but not the other way around.

Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 3d

Entirely unsurprising that the Holiday Villa 'Ndrangheta have found politcal allies at last in the shape of Reform UK.

Reform really do hypocrisy very well.

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H/T @goodclimate.bsky.social & @rolandmcs.bsky.social

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 1d

'Nigel Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

'Farage could never be trusted to run Britain after getting Brexit so wrong'

No Brexit champion, particularly Nigel Farage, is worthy of high office after proving so conclusively wrong on such a seismic issue, says Mirror Associate Editor Kevin Maguire

www.mirror.co.uk

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 1d

Given how many members the Tories are said (anecdotally mind) to be losing, this could well be three times their total. Happy to have them contradict me by releasing their figures, of course!

Reform UK membership soars to 260,000 as party goes from 'strength to strength'

REFORM UK now has more than 260,000 paid-up members, the party revealed last night. Deputy Leader Richard Tice hailed the achievement, saying Nigel Farage’s movement has gone “from strength to stre…

www.thesun.co.uk

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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 1d

This is not acceptable. Women & girls must not be discriminated against.
Our UK, our UK rules.

Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly so. It’s time to hold him to account.

Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 2d

Farage never entered No.10 but his politics did.

From Cameron to Starmer, every leader since 2015 has copied his playbook.

Britain didn’t take back control.
It handed it to corporate power.

How Farage Won Without Ever Becoming Prime Minister
youtu.be/xywxTSeUk6g

How Farage Won Without Ever Becoming Prime Minister

YouTube video by Liz Webster #SaveBritishFarming

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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 1d

And Spain’s economy is booming - 2.6% for ‘25.

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

In the UK we have Keir -island of strangers- Starmer, whose government is driving right wing anti immigrant and asylum seeker policies

In Spain, Pedro Sánchez is not only celebrating diversity, they're embracing and speaking positively about immigrants

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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 2d

We don’t make the UK a ‘harder target’ for Chinese espionage by abandoning a trial which would test the allegations of espionage in court.

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Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 2d

Sir Keir is totally wrong to say the previous Tory govt failed to identify China as a national security threat. See its response to the 2023 Intelligence & Security Cmtee’s China Report

Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 2d

Even the USA does not own the freehold of its new embassy in London & didn’t own the freehold of its old one either (simply the leasehold). Why has China been treated differently from all other ‘sending nations’?

Anthony Glees @anthonyglees.bsky.social · 2d

I discussed the extremely serious national security implications of this fiasco on Times Radio last night & LBC this morning. Glad to point out that China has bought Royal Mint Court to build a (massive) embassy. It’s the *only foreign state to *own the *freehold of its UK embassy. Extraordinary.

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