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Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · 9h

A good place to start is every politician who ever made an appearance on Russia Today. These were paid for, generously.

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 10h

A new ally for those looking for Russians and Russian money in pro-Brexit politics.

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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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Grumpy Brian🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇪🇺 @brian770.bsky.social · 1d

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Sue Wilson MBE @suewilson91.bsky.social · 3d

This is a major shift in Labour comms. It seems Brexit will be blamed for the budget.
But naming the issue is not enough. They now need to name the solution or be left behind parties that will.

Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 4d

This strikes me as a pretty major Brexit shift from Starmer.

Perhaps the beginning of 'Brexit is sh1t and has caused real economic damage'.

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Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · 4d

Trump is the main cause of the EU's tariffs on steel, but it's Brexit that made it possible for those tariffs to hit the UK.

No Brexit, no EU tariffs – on steel or anything else.

We all know Brexit’s to blame for the crisis facing UK steel – it’s time for politicians to be honest and reverse it | Simon Jenkins

With British industry faltering, the excuse that the public wants this is risible. Parliament must force Starmer to act, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

www.theguardian.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d

Patriots don't peddle for Putin.

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

Farage's top aide in furious BBC Question Time clash over Russian bribe MEP

Reform UK's Zia Yusuf clashed with Green Party leader Zack Polanski on BBC Question Time over the conviction of ex-Reform Welsh leader Nathan Gill, who took Russian bribes

www.mirror.co.uk

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Ben Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 5d

If a news organisation is making -200% margin after five years, it is not a commercial operation and should be assumed to have a different purpose.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 5d

The channel lost £33 million to communicate its content to a large audience
www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/g...

GB News suffers huge loss despite doubling revenue and growing audience

The TV channel, whose well-known presenters include Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, fell to a pre-tax loss of £33.4m in the year to 31 May, 2024

www.business-live.co.uk

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Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · 5d

Brexit was sold as a way to save fishing.

The truth is that, after Brexit, the entire British fishing industry is slowly disappearing.

“Another 10 years, I don’t think there will be boats out.”

‘We don’t want to be a toy town’: has Brexit sunk this historic UK fishing fleet?

Struggling fishers in Hastings say the industry is dying after a deal giving away access to its waters made a tough job impossible

www.theguardian.com

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 8d

David is slightly unfair. There is a clear difference here.

Conservatives and Reform plan to forcibly expel large numbers of people who are legal, permanent residents of migrant origin. The BNP proposal is voluntary.

David Herdson @davidherdson.bsky.social · 8d

This below is from the 2005 BNP manifesto.

Spot the difference with current Tory and Reform policy.

(p14 news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp... )

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SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 8d

What on earth has happened to the Tories? This wouldn't have been acceptable in 1965 let alone 2025.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on short visit

www.theguardian.com

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Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · 8d

There's a lot here but this is the most important sentence:

"In 2017 he was jailed for eight months in the US after pleading guilty to wire fraud, after he offered money laundering services on the dark web"

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Tax authorities examine finances of key Nigel Farage ally

Exclusive: HMRC conducts scoping exercise into Reform UK backer ‘Posh George’ Cottrell’s income from business and wealth

www.theguardian.com

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Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · 15d

"I’m going to be honest. I’m going to say I want to rejoin. I hope, in my lifetime, I see this country rejoining the European Union."
- Andy Burnham

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Andy Burnham calls for UK to rejoin EU within his lifetime and rejects claim he is fiscally irresponsible – UK politics live

Mayor of Greater Manchester says he would have to be ‘wrenched’ out of city and says he wants UK to rejoin EU

www.theguardian.com

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Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · 17d

Political debate has become dangerously divorced from economic reality on this issue.

The pressure to keep migration down from the likes of Reform is causing economic stagnation – and disaffection that they then feed off, in a vicious cycle.

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Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · 17d

In economic statistics terms, this isn't even a debate.

Despite the far-right idea that migration is always a 'drain on resources', the simple fact is that when migration goes into the OBR equations, it means an increase in economic growth.

It's also a big part of why Brexit pushed GDP down by 4%.

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Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · 17d

Despite the endless nonsense we hear every day about migration, the truth is that migration BOOSTS the economy.

And it's one of the only levers the government has left to pull.

In fact, an EU youth scheme would mean just a fraction of the benefits we used to get from EU freedom of movement.

Rachel Reeves pushes for EU youth migration scheme ahead of Budget

The chancellor calls for an 'ambitious' deal as she looks to boost growth ahead of the 26 November Budget.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · 18d

Politicians may avoid mentioning it – but the people know what's up.

"When Labour voters were asked why they believed things were getting worse, they overwhelmingly cited Brexit, with 69 per cent naming the decision to leave the European Union as the main reason behind the country’s problems."

Britain is going backwards under Starmer, Labour voters say

Disappointing figures come on the eve of a crucial Labour Party Conference

inews.co.uk

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Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · 24d

"Sooner or later, we’re going to have to say if we really want sustained economic growth, we have to be part of a body of the single market with our nearest neighbours"
- Neil Kinnock

Kinnock tells Starmer to consider rejoining the EU to tackle small boats crisis

Lord Kinnock says he understands it would not be easy but ‘if we really want sustained economic growth, we have to be part of a body of the single market with our nearest neighbours’

www.independent.co.uk

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Matthew Stadlen @matthewstadlen.bsky.social · Sep 14

Everyone on the right, left and centre of British politics should utterly condemn these dangerous words from Elon Musk

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Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · Sep 14

Actually anti-Trump protests usually get quite a lot of media coverage! Unlike many others

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Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · Sep 14

How do we answer yesterday's far right march?

Here's one idea:

There will be a massive "Trump Not Welcome" demonstration this Wed, the first full day of his UK state visit.

Stay European is supporting the Europe bloc on the demonstration (Bloc G), meet W1B 1NR.

stoptrump.org.uk/protest

Trump Not Welcome | 17 September 2025

Stop Trump Coalition

stoptrump.org.uk

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · Sep 14

🚨 Yesterday we saw Britain’s largest ever far-right protest with police estimating 110,000 people in attendance for Tommy Robinson's “Unite the Kingdom” rally.

Read our analysis of the day with all the details of just how extreme it really was.

hopenothate.org.uk/2025/09/13/b...

Britain’s Biggest Far-Right Protest: More than 100,000 attend Tommy Robinson’s Unite The Kingdom Rally – HOPE not hate

Today saw Britain’s largest ever far-right protest with police estimating 110,000 people in attendance for the “Unite the Kingdom” rally. Organised by Stephen Lennon —...

hopenothate.org.uk

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Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · Sep 8

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · Sep 7

The only country to have left the ECHR in this century is Russia... and they were expelled.

Is that really the example you want Britain to follow?

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Stay European #RejoinEU 🇪🇺 #FBPE @stayeuropean.bsky.social · Sep 7

Too many thought that the whole issue of Brexit was just about the EU.

But Brexit, and with it the rise of Farage, was the start of a far right project to turn back the clock in Britain.

Now we see the slide into 1970s-style racism.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I thought I was growing up in a racially tolerant Britain. I now realise I was wrong | Rohan Sathyamoorthy

I’ve experienced more racism in the past year than the rest of my life put together – the only answer is for young people to stand up to the far right, says writer Rohan Sathyamoorthy

www.theguardian.com

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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · Sep 7

Reform Leader quizzed over ‘his’ constituency house owned by his girlfriend. He said he misspoke when he said ‘I’ve bought a house’ in Clacton. Should have said ‘we’. Though if that was true second home rate would still have applied! It seems it is only hers though, hence not

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