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William Humphrey @williamhumphrey.bsky.social · 1d

Precisely, also too many here fell for the 'we are better then the rest' bollox...whereas in fact, we are miles behind. Any one in any doubt should go visit the EU and see for themselves.

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 4h

Interesting change…

European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 4h

For the first time in years, senior Labour figures are saying it plainly.

Wes Streeting: “I’m glad that Brexit is a problem whose name we now dare speak.”
Keir Starmer: “They lied to this country, unleashed chaos, and walked away after Brexit.”

The silence is breaking. The damage is undeniable.

Starmer and Streeting break silence on Brexit’s damage

We're the UK's largest pro-European movement. Our goal is to reverse the calamity of Brexit and restore relations with our European neighbours.

www.europeanmovement.co.uk

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Tomas Hirst @tomashirstecon.bsky.social · 12h

Ahhhh (endless screaming). Where do they think *council* tax revenues go? Seems like an argument for raising council tax in the south east so they can enjoy much better local public services www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Labour MPs call on Rachel Reeves to scrap council tax

Exclusive: 13 mainly northern MPs say a new system should better account for higher house prices in south-east

www.theguardian.com

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James Porter @porterjames.bsky.social · 43m

In my moments of tepid hope I think I see a definite move away from Brexit. However it will just be a slim pickings for pro Europeans. “Stick with us, we’re playing the long game”. Well, I’m 80, so I want a short game. So will they look to join the SM and the CU and sod the manifesto? Hmmm.

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Mr Pecksniff's Diary @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social · 2h

Who knows? The intrigue lies in how they explain their new dismissal of Brexit without changing their whole political strategy.

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 6h

Letter to the editor:

If Germany stripped British residents of healthcare, the UK would be outraged.

So why tolerate such proposals here?

From Camilla Cucinotta

Letter to the editor: A civilised society does not withhold care based on citizenship

Letter to the editor

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Mr Pecksniff's Diary @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social · 3h

Change of attitude…

European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 4h

For the first time in years, senior Labour figures are saying it plainly.

Wes Streeting: “I’m glad that Brexit is a problem whose name we now dare speak.”
Keir Starmer: “They lied to this country, unleashed chaos, and walked away after Brexit.”

The silence is breaking. The damage is undeniable.

Starmer and Streeting break silence on Brexit’s damage

We're the UK's largest pro-European movement. Our goal is to reverse the calamity of Brexit and restore relations with our European neighbours.

www.europeanmovement.co.uk

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Mr Pecksniff's Diary @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social · 3h

This is an excellent idea, agreed. It would free the argument of its baser claims, establish a means of actually studying facts, and also give the government a way out of the absurd position they have painted themselves into.

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Mr Pecksniff's Diary @pecksniffsdiary.bsky.social · 7h

Well now... I recall Streeting saying, since he's been a minister, that Brexit is dead and buried and it's not worth talking about.

Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 13h

I’m glad we can now talk about Brexit damage, says Wes Streeting

The Prime Minister is gearing up to blame Nigel Farage and Brexit for Britain’s expected downturn in productivity at the November Budget

It’s about time

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

I’m glad we can now talk about Brexit damage, says Wes Streeting

The prime minister is gearing up to blame Nigel Farage and Brexit for Britain’s expected downturn in productivity at the November Budget

www.independent.co.uk

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 13h

I’m glad we can now talk about Brexit damage, says Wes Streeting

The Prime Minister is gearing up to blame Nigel Farage and Brexit for Britain’s expected downturn in productivity at the November Budget

It’s about time

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

I’m glad we can now talk about Brexit damage, says Wes Streeting

The prime minister is gearing up to blame Nigel Farage and Brexit for Britain’s expected downturn in productivity at the November Budget

www.independent.co.uk

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 1d

In today’s letter to the editor, a reader warns that proposals to deny welfare to EU citizens with Settled Status are not only morally wrong – they’re legally indefensible.

From Camilla Cucinotta

Letter to the editor: A civilised society does not withhold care based on citizenship

Letter to the editor

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · 1d

The UK voted to make itself poorer by voting for Brexit.

Poland remained an EU member.

That's it, really.

BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 1d

Poland is nearly as rich as the UK. How has it caught up so fast?
www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Poland is nearly as rich as the UK. How has it caught up so fast?

When it comes to investment, particularly in its regions, perhaps Britain is the country that needs to keep up

www.thetimes.com

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scousin.bsky.social @scousin.bsky.social · 1d

woop! go east anglia bylines. 🐸🤘

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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 1d

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Rupert Lowe on Nathan Gill, former Reform leader in Wales, who has pleaded guilty to taking bribes from pro-Russian proxies:

"I had absolutely no idea. I was new to the European Parliament, Nathan had been there for years alongside Farage - they were very close."

Shots fired. ~AA

Rupert Lowe MP
@RupertLowe10
I have received A LOT of questions about Nathan Gill, having sat as a Brexit Party MEP alongside him in Brussels and Strasbourg. He was also the Reform leader in Wales. For those who don’t know, he has pleaded guilty to taking pro-Russian bribes over a number of months.

Obviously, I had absolutely no idea. I was new to the European Parliament, Nathan had been there for years alongside Farage - they were very close. He was the head of the delegation of our MEPs, so with the whip ran the day-to-day affairs of our grouping and organised activity in Brussels/Strasbourg. He was one of just two MEPs from the previous term Farage allowed to stand again.

He seemed particularly interested in Russian/Ukrainian developments which I found peculiar. There was one event, right at the beginning of our term, which he asked me and other MEPs to attend. Due to his position in the grouping, I agreed. It had a very pro-Russian slant, with individuals who claimed to be close to Putin there. For obvious reasons, I did not attend another such event.

I thought his obsession with that part of the world was strange, but given his years in the Parliament and position in the party, I didn’t think there was more to it. Other MEPs also found it unusual, but we just got on with job.

So to journalists asking, there is my response.

It is disgraceful behaviour, treasonous behaviour.

I am ashamed to have ever sat alongside him.
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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 1d

How will the new 50-metre pylons change your view? These pylons are much bigger than in the past.

Detailed visualisations are out, showing exactly how this massive project will dominate the Essex landscape.

Take a look ⤵️

Piers Meyler reports

Visual impact of new Essex pylons is modelled

Visual simulations reveal how new 50-metre pylons could reshape Essex’s countryside – and spark growing local resistance

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 1d

New outlets like East Anglia Bylines show another way, writes Peter Thurlow: no allegiance; no favours; no need to kiss the ring.

Journalism can still fight back.

How deference becomes client journalism in plain sight

We have come through a period of often shameful journalism, bending the knee to Downing Street. Can our journalism recover?

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Robert Parsonage steps down as Cornwall Council leader of Reform UK. days after deputy leader quit the party to sit as an independent.

And another one gone, and another one gone, another one bites the dust, yeah. ~AA

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Cornwall Council Reform UK group leader stands down from role

Rob Parsonage has stepped down from his role in charge of the Reform UK group on the authority.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 1d

The Shoreline Management Plan sets out which of Norfolk's coastal communities will be defended and which will be surrendered to the sea. Few realise what that really means.

Read how the residents of Hemsby are starting to find out ⤵️

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @owensennitt.bsky.social

Norfolk’s vanishing coast and the limits of protection

Norfolk’s crumbling coastline exposes the human cost of climate change – and the painful limits of what councils can do

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Lucy @hi-lucy.bsky.social · 1d

Reform thought they had managed to bury this, but you managed to bring it back into the public scrutiny.

#green #greenparty #keirstarmer #zackpolanski #ukpolitics #satire #comedy

YouTube video by mrcodydahler

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Kerry = Antifa = Anti-Fascist @kerry10.bsky.social · 1d

Fraudulent Farage is untouchable.

We have to make sure every story is aired about that charlatan. Everything from marching with the National Front, to Russian connections to more dodgy dealings and strange earnings.

He needs to be demolished before the locals and general election.

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Kev De Faoite @kevjusdorange.bsky.social · 1d

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 1d

Reform UK want to take public spending down to 35% of GDP — that’s a £275 billion cut, the equivalent of shutting down the NHS.

The Green Party knows the only way to rebuild our communities is by investing in our public services, not running them down and flogging them off to the private sector.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

Nigel Farage has finally admitted to it.

But now there's lots more questions especially considering Rupert Lowes intervention....

leftfootforward.org/2025/10/nige...

Nigel Farage finally admits to knowing Nathan Gill after senior Reform figure repeatedly claimed he didn’t

Farage has admitted he knew Gill for 'a very long time' but claims he didn't know anything about his pro-Russia activities...

leftfootforward.org

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Barry Howard 🔶 @barryhow2c.bsky.social · 1d

Farage’s Reform has ditched it’s undeliverable tax promises, which would have benefited the rich and even dumped the one tax promise that would help the less well off.
“These tax changes, aside from increasing the income tax personal allowance to £20,000, are skewed towards benefitting the rich.”

Left Foot Forward @left-foot-forward.bsky.social · 1d

Farage is set to ditch his £90 billion in tax cuts

leftfootforward.org/2025/10/refo...

Reform to u-turn on £90 billion tax cuts

‘Nigel Farage has finally admitted what everyone already knew: Reform’s economic plans are built on sand.’

leftfootforward.org

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