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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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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 5h
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 · 5h
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 · 5h
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 · 7h
“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 · 6h
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 · 7h
Sunday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...
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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 3d
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 · 22h
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 · 6h
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 · 19h
A Labour MP adopts the language of Musk and Trump.
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Elsewhere55 #FBPE @elsewhere55.bsky.social · 9h
This 👇🏻 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺

‘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 · 23h
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 · 19h
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 · 1d
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…
talkingupscotlandtwo.com
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 1d
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 · 1d
Tomorrow's front page 📰

FM refuses to bow to Alexander
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 1d
EXCLUSIVE: Not one single Scottish Labour MP or MSP pushed the UK Government to get a better deal for Scotch whisky in the months after the trade agreement with the US was announced
Scottish Labour MPs and MSPs stayed silent on US whisky tariffs, FOI reveals
www.thenational.scot
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 1d
NEW: John Swinney will meet with the US ambassador on Saturday, just 24 hours after Scottish Secretary Douglas Alexander attacked the SNP leader’s involvement in trade talks with the Trump administration
John Swinney to talk whisky with US ambassador in defiance of Douglas Alexander
www.thenational.scot
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 1d
The Labour government needs a radical game-changing plan to turn round its dire polling – and re-joining the EU is the only way to do it, the Rejoin EU Party says.
Labour needs game-changing plan to re-join EU to transform dire polling, Rejoin EU Party says - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
The Labour needs a game-changing plan to re-join the EU to improve its dire polling situation, says the Rejoin EU Party.
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Amnesty International UK @amnestyuk.bsky.social · 2d
The European Convention on Human Rights protects every single one of us in the UK.

Some politicians want to tear up these protections to distract us from the real problems affecting our daily lives.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d
Dominic Cummings pushed for Covid tech contracts to be handed to a company run by a Trump-supporting billionaire after holding a secret meeting with him alongside Boris Johnson.

Officials were lobbied to ignore official procedures and bypass ministers in order to get the contracts signed
Dominic Cummings Lobbied Officials to Hand 'Test and Trace' Contracts to Palantir After Secret Meeting With Peter Thiel
Exclusive: Boris Johnson's senior advisor pushed for Covid contracts to be handed to companies run by Trump-supporting tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Larry Ellison
bylinetimes.com
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Peter Kay @theonlypeterkay.bsky.social · 1d
Dumb for the people - cunning for his boss. Where is justice? “Now new emails released to Byline Times, following a freedom of information request, reveal the true extent of Dominic Cummings’ subsequent involvement in lobbying senior officials to hand over huge Covid contracts to Thiel’s company”
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Eddie Burfi @eddieburfi.bsky.social · 2d
My goodness Matt Goodwin comes across as an obnoxious hateful one-trick pony. Glad much of the #bbcqt audience saw through his schtick and agree.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 1d
Destruction equipment at the White House today.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 7d
Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?
Reform’s Sarah Pochin forced to apologise after claiming adverts 'full of black people' drive her 'mad’ | LBC
The Runcorn and Helsby MP was responding to a viewer live on air who complained about the demographics of advertising.
www.lbc.co.uk
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