Lisa Burton 🇪🇺
@lisaburton.bsky.social
Pro EU campaigner. Vice Chair @BremaininSpain.com - European Movement UK, Board Director - Contributing writer Bylines Network. Business owner. Immigrant. Passionate about equality & political integrity. Own opinions
Wonderful.
Britain’s students aren’t buying Farage’s fairy tales about Russia. They’re shredding Reform’s spin live on camera. Britain’s future isn’t having it. 🔥🇬🇧 #ukpolitics
November 26, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Wonderful.
Prof Garton Ash renowned historian & political writer
We talk a lot about strategies keeping anti-liberal, nationalist populists out of power. Trump’s daily wielding of a wrecking ball shows that it’s equally important to reinforce your democracy so it can withstand a period of populists in power
We talk a lot about strategies keeping anti-liberal, nationalist populists out of power. Trump’s daily wielding of a wrecking ball shows that it’s equally important to reinforce your democracy so it can withstand a period of populists in power
My guide to populist-proofing your democracy – before it’s too late | Timothy Garton Ash
From public service broadcasting to an independent judiciary, these are the things that we must fight to keep, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Prof Garton Ash renowned historian & political writer
We talk a lot about strategies keeping anti-liberal, nationalist populists out of power. Trump’s daily wielding of a wrecking ball shows that it’s equally important to reinforce your democracy so it can withstand a period of populists in power
We talk a lot about strategies keeping anti-liberal, nationalist populists out of power. Trump’s daily wielding of a wrecking ball shows that it’s equally important to reinforce your democracy so it can withstand a period of populists in power
Seems I raised three far-left extremists 😉
November 25, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Seems I raised three far-left extremists 😉
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Confirming what we knew. Foreign actors destabilising democracy
Users on X seized examples of huge pro-Trump accounts outside the US
Also anti-Trump accounts with misleading locations too, but nothing like the size of followers. How X's new location feature exposed big US politics accounts
Users on X seized examples of huge pro-Trump accounts outside the US
Also anti-Trump accounts with misleading locations too, but nothing like the size of followers. How X's new location feature exposed big US politics accounts
How X's new location feature exposed big US politics accounts
Dozens of pro-Trump accounts are being accused of misleading followers after the social media site began showing user locations.
www.bbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Confirming what we knew. Foreign actors destabilising democracy
Users on X seized examples of huge pro-Trump accounts outside the US
Also anti-Trump accounts with misleading locations too, but nothing like the size of followers. How X's new location feature exposed big US politics accounts
Users on X seized examples of huge pro-Trump accounts outside the US
Also anti-Trump accounts with misleading locations too, but nothing like the size of followers. How X's new location feature exposed big US politics accounts
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What’s more expensive: investing in renewables, or dealing with the £38 trillion annual cost of unchecked climate damage?
Climate change: an expensive myth or a question of survival?
Calls to end decarbonisation efforts threaten to undermine a thriving economic sector and our chance of a safer planet
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 7:49 AM
What’s more expensive: investing in renewables, or dealing with the £38 trillion annual cost of unchecked climate damage?
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Reform-led Lancashire County Council is closing a number of care homes with a direct impact on my constituents.
The consultation on the proposal is still not finalised but I have heard from a number of constituents that family members have been already asked to make arrangements to leave.
The consultation on the proposal is still not finalised but I have heard from a number of constituents that family members have been already asked to make arrangements to leave.
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Reform-led Lancashire County Council is closing a number of care homes with a direct impact on my constituents.
The consultation on the proposal is still not finalised but I have heard from a number of constituents that family members have been already asked to make arrangements to leave.
The consultation on the proposal is still not finalised but I have heard from a number of constituents that family members have been already asked to make arrangements to leave.
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Fun fact, the ONLY people that have ever “banned Christmas” were puritanical Christians who banned it between 1659 to 1681.
November 22, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Fun fact, the ONLY people that have ever “banned Christmas” were puritanical Christians who banned it between 1659 to 1681.
It’s already in full swing 🙄
November 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
It’s already in full swing 🙄
They are so sensitive
Snowflake Farage cried again about MPs making fun of him - a proper idiot with zero sense, offering this country nothing except bloody racism. Dirty man. #ukpolitics
November 19, 2025 at 10:51 AM
They are so sensitive
An awful and all to familiar story
More than 400 women & girls were abused & exploited in Mohamed Al Fayed’s Harrods enterprise. This author is one of them
Patterns of sexual exploitation - range of associates, affiliates & assets from Ritz Paris to private jets, yachts & global residences
More than 400 women & girls were abused & exploited in Mohamed Al Fayed’s Harrods enterprise. This author is one of them
Patterns of sexual exploitation - range of associates, affiliates & assets from Ritz Paris to private jets, yachts & global residences
When power is untouchable: the legal abyss facing Harrods survivors
Survivors of abuse connected to Mohamed Al Fayed’s Harrods empire are discovering what “no one is above the law” really means
sussexbylines.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 4:26 PM
An awful and all to familiar story
More than 400 women & girls were abused & exploited in Mohamed Al Fayed’s Harrods enterprise. This author is one of them
Patterns of sexual exploitation - range of associates, affiliates & assets from Ritz Paris to private jets, yachts & global residences
More than 400 women & girls were abused & exploited in Mohamed Al Fayed’s Harrods enterprise. This author is one of them
Patterns of sexual exploitation - range of associates, affiliates & assets from Ritz Paris to private jets, yachts & global residences
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We're getting there!
We do what we do on a shoestring - and it's enough to stake a flag in the ground alongside the billionaire-owned press.
But we're also growing this new model with your help. Everything that you chip in now is part of that development. Thank you --> chuffed.org/project/byli...
We do what we do on a shoestring - and it's enough to stake a flag in the ground alongside the billionaire-owned press.
But we're also growing this new model with your help. Everything that you chip in now is part of that development. Thank you --> chuffed.org/project/byli...
November 17, 2025 at 11:17 AM
We're getting there!
We do what we do on a shoestring - and it's enough to stake a flag in the ground alongside the billionaire-owned press.
But we're also growing this new model with your help. Everything that you chip in now is part of that development. Thank you --> chuffed.org/project/byli...
We do what we do on a shoestring - and it's enough to stake a flag in the ground alongside the billionaire-owned press.
But we're also growing this new model with your help. Everything that you chip in now is part of that development. Thank you --> chuffed.org/project/byli...
So Donald Trump is now saying that Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files; therefore, we should assume any incriminating references or evidence to him or any other powerful men who kiss his ring have been removed.
November 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
So Donald Trump is now saying that Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files; therefore, we should assume any incriminating references or evidence to him or any other powerful men who kiss his ring have been removed.
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"Yorkshire Water was privatised in 1989 under the Water Act, launched debt-free and promoted as the start of a new, efficient era.
Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt...."
Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt...."
Yorkshire Water: it’s time to end the rip-off
Handing the company back to local people would return both control and value to those who need it most
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM
"Yorkshire Water was privatised in 1989 under the Water Act, launched debt-free and promoted as the start of a new, efficient era.
Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt...."
Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt...."
What a difference.
When they come for one minority, they come for us all. Whether it’s Muslims, Jews, asylum seekers, migrants, the LGBTQI community or women. We must stand in solidarity.
There needs to be zero tolerance for all hate and division
When they come for one minority, they come for us all. Whether it’s Muslims, Jews, asylum seekers, migrants, the LGBTQI community or women. We must stand in solidarity.
There needs to be zero tolerance for all hate and division
Christiane Amanpour, "Antisemitism is a major problem. How do you navigate that?"
Zack Polanski, "I think it is a powerful message to have a Jewish leader and a Muslim deputy leader"
"Antisemitism and Islamophobia are two sides of the same coin"
"And the best response to hatred is solidarity"
Zack Polanski, "I think it is a powerful message to have a Jewish leader and a Muslim deputy leader"
"Antisemitism and Islamophobia are two sides of the same coin"
"And the best response to hatred is solidarity"
November 17, 2025 at 11:20 AM
What a difference.
When they come for one minority, they come for us all. Whether it’s Muslims, Jews, asylum seekers, migrants, the LGBTQI community or women. We must stand in solidarity.
There needs to be zero tolerance for all hate and division
When they come for one minority, they come for us all. Whether it’s Muslims, Jews, asylum seekers, migrants, the LGBTQI community or women. We must stand in solidarity.
There needs to be zero tolerance for all hate and division
We certainly aren’t all like this, but it’s no wonder Brits have a terrible reputation when abroad.
The exceptionalism and ignorance is enraging
The exceptionalism and ignorance is enraging
What an embarrassment!
Literally portraying anti immigrant views in another country
The irony of doing this in Benidorm, Soain. Where the fully-fledged cultural takeover led by British holidayera & immigrants over the last few decades has rendered the town unrecognisable from its previous form
Literally portraying anti immigrant views in another country
The irony of doing this in Benidorm, Soain. Where the fully-fledged cultural takeover led by British holidayera & immigrants over the last few decades has rendered the town unrecognisable from its previous form
Beyond parody! Brits in Benidorm wave anti-immigration banners during parade
Anti-immigration banners, held by Brits, marching through the streets of Benidorm. Who's going to tell them?
www.thelondoneconomic.com
November 17, 2025 at 11:11 AM
We certainly aren’t all like this, but it’s no wonder Brits have a terrible reputation when abroad.
The exceptionalism and ignorance is enraging
The exceptionalism and ignorance is enraging
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He’s right!
Most of the UK’s economic problems since Brexit would have been avoided if it had stayed in the European Single Market and Customs Union and it’s time to move closer to the EU, writes former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt
Most of the UK’s economic problems since Brexit would have been avoided if it had stayed in the European Single Market and Customs Union and it’s time to move closer to the EU, writes former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt
In this new Age of Empires, why UK must choose Europe over isolation
Most of the UK’s economic problems since Brexit would have been avoided if it had stayed in the European Single Market and Customs Union and it’s time to move closer to the EU, writes former Belgian P...
www.scotsman.com
November 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
He’s right!
Most of the UK’s economic problems since Brexit would have been avoided if it had stayed in the European Single Market and Customs Union and it’s time to move closer to the EU, writes former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt
Most of the UK’s economic problems since Brexit would have been avoided if it had stayed in the European Single Market and Customs Union and it’s time to move closer to the EU, writes former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt
I cannot believe UK Labour are floating this. It’s utterly abhorrent. The depths they are willing to sink to is sickening
A centre left, progressive party does not act like this.
They are morphing like the Tories did into something grotesque to appease the unappeasable
A centre left, progressive party does not act like this.
They are morphing like the Tories did into something grotesque to appease the unappeasable
Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.
November 17, 2025 at 11:06 AM
I cannot believe UK Labour are floating this. It’s utterly abhorrent. The depths they are willing to sink to is sickening
A centre left, progressive party does not act like this.
They are morphing like the Tories did into something grotesque to appease the unappeasable
A centre left, progressive party does not act like this.
They are morphing like the Tories did into something grotesque to appease the unappeasable
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No — it’s an anti-Brexit win. ✊
UK scores Brexit win as EU fast-tracks electricity trading talks
The breakthrough comes after days of wrangling in Brussels over the extent to which London might be expected to pay for access to the EU’s single market.
www.politico.eu
November 13, 2025 at 3:29 PM
No — it’s an anti-Brexit win. ✊
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The country's economy has seen slower than expected growth of 0.1%, and Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said there's "more to do to build an economy that works". Perhaps we could start by working more with the EU?
UK economic growth slows to 0.1% in final figures before Budget
Car production fell sharply after the summer's Jaguar Land Rover cyber attack; meanwhile Rachel Reeves says "there's more to do to build an economy that works".
www.bbc.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The country's economy has seen slower than expected growth of 0.1%, and Chancellor Rachel Reeves has said there's "more to do to build an economy that works". Perhaps we could start by working more with the EU?
Brexiters - Project fear they said
We don’t mind being poorer they said
Now they blame migrants and asylum seekers for the mess they made
The ‘Brexit effect’ is only getting worse
We don’t mind being poorer they said
Now they blame migrants and asylum seekers for the mess they made
The ‘Brexit effect’ is only getting worse
November 13, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Brexiters - Project fear they said
We don’t mind being poorer they said
Now they blame migrants and asylum seekers for the mess they made
The ‘Brexit effect’ is only getting worse
We don’t mind being poorer they said
Now they blame migrants and asylum seekers for the mess they made
The ‘Brexit effect’ is only getting worse
We seem engulfed by a kind of hysterical need; an obsession to push every question to its extremes. Nuance has not simply faded; it has been drowned out by a full-throated embrace of “black & white” thinking, often without even the faintest consideration of the bigger picture
@northeastbylines.co.uk
@northeastbylines.co.uk
Fake news: the BBC, Trump and the fight for impartiality
"We should be honest: the BBC will not report on Trump freely now. It won’t need to be told not to"
northeastbylines.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 10:34 AM
We seem engulfed by a kind of hysterical need; an obsession to push every question to its extremes. Nuance has not simply faded; it has been drowned out by a full-throated embrace of “black & white” thinking, often without even the faintest consideration of the bigger picture
@northeastbylines.co.uk
@northeastbylines.co.uk
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Next year, from Sat 23 May to Friday 5 June, the @marchforrejoin.co.uk team are planning the Rejoin Ramble
They will walk 255 miles from London to Brussels & deliver a booklet full of your comments on why we want to rejoin the EU. Get involved
All info below or see @marchforrejoin.co.uk/ramble
They will walk 255 miles from London to Brussels & deliver a booklet full of your comments on why we want to rejoin the EU. Get involved
All info below or see @marchforrejoin.co.uk/ramble
Rejoin Ramble - Bremain in Spain
Bremain in Spain is campaigning for a strong & close relationship with the EU and to protect the rights of British migrants living in Spain.
www.bremaininspain.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Next year, from Sat 23 May to Friday 5 June, the @marchforrejoin.co.uk team are planning the Rejoin Ramble
They will walk 255 miles from London to Brussels & deliver a booklet full of your comments on why we want to rejoin the EU. Get involved
All info below or see @marchforrejoin.co.uk/ramble
They will walk 255 miles from London to Brussels & deliver a booklet full of your comments on why we want to rejoin the EU. Get involved
All info below or see @marchforrejoin.co.uk/ramble
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Our friends at the British Council are celebrating 120 years of the Languages Assistants Programme.
Repost, tell your story, share an old photo or record a video testimonial and post it using hashtag #LanguageAssistant120
🥂🍾 👏
Repost, tell your story, share an old photo or record a video testimonial and post it using hashtag #LanguageAssistant120
🥂🍾 👏
November 11, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Our friends at the British Council are celebrating 120 years of the Languages Assistants Programme.
Repost, tell your story, share an old photo or record a video testimonial and post it using hashtag #LanguageAssistant120
🥂🍾 👏
Repost, tell your story, share an old photo or record a video testimonial and post it using hashtag #LanguageAssistant120
🥂🍾 👏
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The farming sector has been one of the most affected since Brexit. Farmers are experiencing a loss of profit after a drop in subsidies after we left the EU. It’s essential that we work with Europe to save British farming.
November 8, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The farming sector has been one of the most affected since Brexit. Farmers are experiencing a loss of profit after a drop in subsidies after we left the EU. It’s essential that we work with Europe to save British farming.