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"They wanted Singapore on the Thames. They got Argentina on the Channel." Mark Carney on Brexit A Scot who retains EU citizenship. Voted Yes 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and Remain 🇪🇺. Ice hockey. Road cycling. Philosophy. Nature conservation. Rewilding. Comics. Union rep.

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Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · Jun 12

England voted leave, England got leave.

Wales voted leave, Wales got leave.

N Ireland voted remain, N Ireland got special deal.

Gibraltar voted remain, Gibraltar got special deal.

Scotland voted remain, Scotland got shafted.

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Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 7h

real democratic deficiency: Scots voted to remain in the EU

Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 7h

Her and her family have spaffed the lot. Throw them in jail.

Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 8h

The EU is entirely in control of the membership application process. One day English exceptionalists will fully understand this. Nobody is holding their breaths.

Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 8h

Ho ho.

The EU won’t be touching Idiot Island with a bargepole, at least until the 2040s. Probably significantly further away than that.

Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 8h

Neither France nor Germany can offer any ”special deals” for any applicants or prospective applicants.

Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 9h

No, it is only a sub-sample. But decent sample size, and YG are the only pollsters to correctly weigh geographical sub-samples.

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Pete @petetheref.bsky.social · 11h

There is something utterly sickening about the Labour Government decrying #Brexit but refusing to do whatever is necessary to get us back in Europe.
So here's the thing. Labour gets this Parliament to sort it out or Scotland will be applying to rejoin as a separate entity.
We reject Reform's Nazism!

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Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 11h

With London voting in May, the Greens move up to second place:

Labour 29% (-14)
Greens 19% (+9)
Conservatives 17% (-4)
Liberal Democrats 16% (+5)
Refash 13% (+4)
others 6% (-1)

(YouGov 13-14 October; usual caveats apply to sub-samples; +/- change from GE2024)

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Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 11h

Westminster voting intention:
Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
SNP 35%
Lab 19%
Ref 17%
LD 12%
Con 10%
Grn 6%
oth 1%

Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Ref 30%
PC 27%
Con 19%
Lab 15%
LD 5%
Grn 3%
oth 3%

England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Ref 28%
Lab 20%
Con 18%
LD 17%
Grn 14%
oth 3%

(YouGov 13-14 October; usual caveats apply to sub-samples)

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Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 17h

If and when Trump invades Greenland, London will back Washington. Brussels will back Copenhagen.
England is fundamentally untrustworthy.

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Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 17h

More reliable than England.
Just think about that for a moment.

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Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 17h

The EU is primarily a peace and security organisation. The economic benefits are secondary.
Friends help each other.
The EU knows that fundamentally the English are selfish.

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Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 17h

Achieving Liz Truss/Prince Andrew levels of approval is not savvy.

Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 20h

Yes, that’s how most normal people think.
Apparently the English are exceptional. (But only in their own minds.)

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Dutchscientist (the real one) @dutchscientist.bsky.social · 20h

bsky.app/profile/nial...
And yes, tourist visa and planning to work. And then thinking they should believe him when he "offered" not to work then and just have a holiday.

Good on the Australian Border Force.

Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 21h

Exceptionalists sharpening their pencils to have a go at Australia for not letting Britons work on a tourist visa.

"This used to be part of the Empire, you know"

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www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

‘Big John’ Fisher’s Australian takeaway: get the right visa next time

British social media star sent back by border force after apparently arriving on tourist paperwork but with several appearances scheduled

www.theguardian.com

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Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 20h

England abjectly failed to resist Russian disinformation on Brexit.

Serbia is waaaay ahead in the process compared to Idiot Island.

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Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 20h

EU membership is an opportunity, only available to reliable partners.
So, England can forget it.
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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 20h

The EU membership offer is an opportunity.

It is the promise of peace, prosperity, solidarity.

Together, we overcame the 2022 energy crisis.

Today, the EU will continue to help keep Serbia safe during the winter.

This is what it means to be a reliable partner.

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Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 23h

That long silence is the biggest error in Labour’s modern history. They will pay dearly for it.

Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 23h

Make Brexit Work?

Bollocks.

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Iain @8letters.co.uk · 6d

More to the point where do you find time to work back in the UK if you are living (but not illegally working) in the EU for 8 months?
The UK by the way is also not one country.

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Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 1d

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Cassandra 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺🌐 @troybairn.bsky.social · 1d

”We hold all the cards”, they said.

Europe laughed.

Jim'll Paint It @sirpaintalot.bsky.social · Jul 9

France can keep it. We have our own now.

Originally requested by Neil Meaton

An illustration in the style of the bayeux tapestry showing people enjoying a British night out. Instead of knights there are hoards of drunk revellers, a woman tumbles out of a taxi, a man wears a traffic cone on his head, kebabs are ordered and drugs are dealt behind police on horseback. There is fighting and vomiting also. The borders are embroidered with details such as a seagull eating some chips and a used condom. There are latin phrases such as 'Im tam ebrus est' and 'Allium Condimentum'

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Nula Suchet @nulasuchet.bsky.social · 1d

Brexit !

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Bobbie @bobbierobs.bsky.social · 1d

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Re today's show - #Brexit - I can assure you the #LibDems are NOT talking about it - not even internally.

Another subject they're not talking

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