Kresten
@kresten2.bsky.social
Denmark. Brexit as seen from the EU side of the channel.
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David, I would guess that if the UK decided tomorrow that it wanted to join the EU (there is no such thing as rejoin), then it would take up to ten years for the process to be completed. During the accession negotiations, there could be a change of government in the UK, which was anti-EU.
November 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
David, I would guess that if the UK decided tomorrow that it wanted to join the EU (there is no such thing as rejoin), then it would take up to ten years for the process to be completed. During the accession negotiations, there could be a change of government in the UK, which was anti-EU.
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If you're asking for "the other side to bend any rules for the UK" then you're not interested in joining the EU....... Go cosy up to America or the Pacific & see how far you get there........
November 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
If you're asking for "the other side to bend any rules for the UK" then you're not interested in joining the EU....... Go cosy up to America or the Pacific & see how far you get there........
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Correct on all points. Sadly so many of the former pro EU remain supporters are now devoting their time to sharing these strawmen. I really don't understand it. Demand a return, make the bloody case, persuade people or you are endorsing brexit.
November 28, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Correct on all points. Sadly so many of the former pro EU remain supporters are now devoting their time to sharing these strawmen. I really don't understand it. Demand a return, make the bloody case, persuade people or you are endorsing brexit.
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No hope! Sorry but very cynical, they didn’t manage to understand how the
EU worked in 47 years membership …
EU worked in 47 years membership …
November 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
No hope! Sorry but very cynical, they didn’t manage to understand how the
EU worked in 47 years membership …
EU worked in 47 years membership …
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Neither surprising nor really disappointing, more like 🤦🏻♀️🤷🏼♀️ because of the transactional horse trading and wasted trust. @kresten2.bsky.social
Always an open question if the UK and UK companies were part of Europe's defence base.
I do hope this gets resolved, but let's not forget the point of this programme: to bolster European security
www.ft.com/content/22db...
I do hope this gets resolved, but let's not forget the point of this programme: to bolster European security
www.ft.com/content/22db...
November 28, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Neither surprising nor really disappointing, more like 🤦🏻♀️🤷🏼♀️ because of the transactional horse trading and wasted trust. @kresten2.bsky.social
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Incidentally, it's revealing to read the articles by Reuters and the FT against each other in terms of their impact. The former remains factual and objective with regard to the realignment between 🇪🇺 & 🇬🇧, the latter emphasizes the UK's point of view.
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November 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Incidentally, it's revealing to read the articles by Reuters and the FT against each other in terms of their impact. The former remains factual and objective with regard to the realignment between 🇪🇺 & 🇬🇧, the latter emphasizes the UK's point of view.
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The thing I find bewildering is that there us quite a high degree of uk and various Ms States defence manufacturing integration.
I'm literally 500m from BAe Warton's main gate currently.
The idiots in Whitehall seem deranged
I'm literally 500m from BAe Warton's main gate currently.
The idiots in Whitehall seem deranged
November 28, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The thing I find bewildering is that there us quite a high degree of uk and various Ms States defence manufacturing integration.
I'm literally 500m from BAe Warton's main gate currently.
The idiots in Whitehall seem deranged
I'm literally 500m from BAe Warton's main gate currently.
The idiots in Whitehall seem deranged
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This has been going on for 9 years now." (Eu perspective, www.ft.com/content/22db...)
And, on top of that, a well-mannered dig at Ireland. @nialloconghaile.bsky.social
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And, on top of that, a well-mannered dig at Ireland. @nialloconghaile.bsky.social
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November 28, 2025 at 6:44 PM
This has been going on for 9 years now." (Eu perspective, www.ft.com/content/22db...)
And, on top of that, a well-mannered dig at Ireland. @nialloconghaile.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/real...
And, on top of that, a well-mannered dig at Ireland. @nialloconghaile.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/real...
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That's why the reader comments are worthwhile.
The EU "asks London anything. London asks to join an EU program (Horizon, SAFE, customs union, the list goes on), the EU names it's price, London is shocked it doesn't get it for free and walks away.
The EU "asks London anything. London asks to join an EU program (Horizon, SAFE, customs union, the list goes on), the EU names it's price, London is shocked it doesn't get it for free and walks away.
November 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
That's why the reader comments are worthwhile.
The EU "asks London anything. London asks to join an EU program (Horizon, SAFE, customs union, the list goes on), the EU names it's price, London is shocked it doesn't get it for free and walks away.
The EU "asks London anything. London asks to join an EU program (Horizon, SAFE, customs union, the list goes on), the EU names it's price, London is shocked it doesn't get it for free and walks away.
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Correct.
That is the real elephant in this room: England fails our membership criteria.
That is the real elephant in this room: England fails our membership criteria.
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Correct.
That is the real elephant in this room: England fails our membership criteria.
That is the real elephant in this room: England fails our membership criteria.
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Agreed.
Once they’ve been told these basic facts ten thousand times, over a few decades, the information might begin to seep through their skulls. Maybe.
Once they’ve been told these basic facts ten thousand times, over a few decades, the information might begin to seep through their skulls. Maybe.
November 28, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Agreed.
Once they’ve been told these basic facts ten thousand times, over a few decades, the information might begin to seep through their skulls. Maybe.
Once they’ve been told these basic facts ten thousand times, over a few decades, the information might begin to seep through their skulls. Maybe.
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bbc.com/news/article...
Looks like politely asking to leave isn't an option for Scottish people.
Quelle surprise !.
@billdrees.bsky.social
@andrew.sharpe.scot
@gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social
@misterdac.bsky.social
@nialloconghaile.bsky.social
@kresten2.bsky.social
@sabine34.bsky.social
Looks like politely asking to leave isn't an option for Scottish people.
Quelle surprise !.
@billdrees.bsky.social
@andrew.sharpe.scot
@gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social
@misterdac.bsky.social
@nialloconghaile.bsky.social
@kresten2.bsky.social
@sabine34.bsky.social
No independence referendum if SNP wins majority, Reeves says
The chancellor has refused to support a second vote if the SNP wins a majority of seats in May.
bbc.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Looks like politely asking to leave isn't an option for Scottish people.
Quelle surprise !.
@billdrees.bsky.social
@andrew.sharpe.scot
@gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social
@misterdac.bsky.social
@nialloconghaile.bsky.social
@kresten2.bsky.social
@sabine34.bsky.social
Looks like politely asking to leave isn't an option for Scottish people.
Quelle surprise !.
@billdrees.bsky.social
@andrew.sharpe.scot
@gylesnamopaleen.bsky.social
@misterdac.bsky.social
@nialloconghaile.bsky.social
@kresten2.bsky.social
@sabine34.bsky.social
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PS: And that's of course even before asking whether asylum seekers (another minority group protected by the UN Convention on refugees) are protected by this UKGov's "one in, one out" policy.
November 28, 2025 at 12:39 AM
PS: And that's of course even before asking whether asylum seekers (another minority group protected by the UN Convention on refugees) are protected by this UKGov's "one in, one out" policy.
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b) I, as an EU citizen, am a member of a minority. I do not feel "protected" at the moment, just about/hardly by the present UKGov, let alone by whatever may take over in 2029.
Also you may want to ask any transperson (another minority group) if they feel protected right now by this UKGov.
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Also you may want to ask any transperson (another minority group) if they feel protected right now by this UKGov.
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November 28, 2025 at 12:34 AM
b) I, as an EU citizen, am a member of a minority. I do not feel "protected" at the moment, just about/hardly by the present UKGov, let alone by whatever may take over in 2029.
Also you may want to ask any transperson (another minority group) if they feel protected right now by this UKGov.
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Also you may want to ask any transperson (another minority group) if they feel protected right now by this UKGov.
2/2
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Just Google "EU accession criteria"
eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-con...
I for one will highlight: "guaranteeing human rights and respect for and protection of minorities"
a) How many parties are talking about leaving CoE/ECHR. And omitting to add what, if anything, they would replace it with?
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I for one will highlight: "guaranteeing human rights and respect for and protection of minorities"
a) How many parties are talking about leaving CoE/ECHR. And omitting to add what, if anything, they would replace it with?
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November 28, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Just Google "EU accession criteria"
eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-con...
I for one will highlight: "guaranteeing human rights and respect for and protection of minorities"
a) How many parties are talking about leaving CoE/ECHR. And omitting to add what, if anything, they would replace it with?
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eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-con...
I for one will highlight: "guaranteeing human rights and respect for and protection of minorities"
a) How many parties are talking about leaving CoE/ECHR. And omitting to add what, if anything, they would replace it with?
1/2
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To meet the CC a candidate would need to have a stable and significant majority of voters who understood and wholeheartedly accepted the values and goals of the EU and the obligations of membership. Currently it’s doubtful that the U.K. could meet these criteria.
November 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
To meet the CC a candidate would need to have a stable and significant majority of voters who understood and wholeheartedly accepted the values and goals of the EU and the obligations of membership. Currently it’s doubtful that the U.K. could meet these criteria.
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‘the ability to take on the obligations of membership [including] adherence to the aims of political, economic and monetary union.’
November 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
‘the ability to take on the obligations of membership [including] adherence to the aims of political, economic and monetary union.’
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Under the Copenhagen Criteria a precondition for application to join is that the candidate must have (amongst other things) stable institutions ‘guaranteeing democracy, the rule of law, human rights and respect for and protection of minorities and…
November 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Under the Copenhagen Criteria a precondition for application to join is that the candidate must have (amongst other things) stable institutions ‘guaranteeing democracy, the rule of law, human rights and respect for and protection of minorities and…
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I'm not convinced by this. I think this is a lie joiners have told themselves.
The problems caused by the UK to the euro and taking the side of China or the US in trade disputes were legion.
The issue wasn't sticking the head up; it was destructive behaviour.
That has to change
The problems caused by the UK to the euro and taking the side of China or the US in trade disputes were legion.
The issue wasn't sticking the head up; it was destructive behaviour.
That has to change
November 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I'm not convinced by this. I think this is a lie joiners have told themselves.
The problems caused by the UK to the euro and taking the side of China or the US in trade disputes were legion.
The issue wasn't sticking the head up; it was destructive behaviour.
That has to change
The problems caused by the UK to the euro and taking the side of China or the US in trade disputes were legion.
The issue wasn't sticking the head up; it was destructive behaviour.
That has to change
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The English mindset, encapsulated: a mind-blowing naïve belief that a new government simply erases past commitments. It beggars belief.
November 26, 2025 at 12:44 PM
The English mindset, encapsulated: a mind-blowing naïve belief that a new government simply erases past commitments. It beggars belief.
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Exceptionalism unbound.
November 26, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Exceptionalism unbound.
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Quite Brexity
November 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Quite Brexity
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Oh Andrew, you are surely not suggesting that the country is no longer bound by treaties made by a former government? That would make international relations impossible. A different govt still has to carry out what was agreed by its predecessor.
November 26, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Oh Andrew, you are surely not suggesting that the country is no longer bound by treaties made by a former government? That would make international relations impossible. A different govt still has to carry out what was agreed by its predecessor.
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..the EU did that for UK, and it led to Brexit - every opt-out led to demands for more. What is wrong with just following the rules, and be a normal EU member?
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November 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
..the EU did that for UK, and it led to Brexit - every opt-out led to demands for more. What is wrong with just following the rules, and be a normal EU member?
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It certainly won't be easy to join the EU. But the longer we wait starting the process, the more money we lose. Currently about £90bn a year in lost tax revenues according to the most recent analyses. And that is serious money we simply cannot afford to keep losing.
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November 27, 2025 at 5:14 PM
It certainly won't be easy to join the EU. But the longer we wait starting the process, the more money we lose. Currently about £90bn a year in lost tax revenues according to the most recent analyses. And that is serious money we simply cannot afford to keep losing.
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