Ian Quayle
@ianhquayle.bsky.social
Retired professional electronics engineer. Humanist. Loves: Science, baking, dogs, Asian food, village life, country walks, Herefordshire, playing 5 string banjo. Dislikes: Brexit, Reform UK, Farage, Trump, Musk, X, Rap "music". I block personal abusers.
Excellent cherry picking of statistics. Sorry, not my game.
November 28, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Excellent cherry picking of statistics. Sorry, not my game.
Overall, has Brexit been a disaster or a benefit for UK business and commerce?
November 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Overall, has Brexit been a disaster or a benefit for UK business and commerce?
She said "none attacked Russia". If she defined Russia as country, then you are quite correct.
November 28, 2025 at 12:58 PM
She said "none attacked Russia". If she defined Russia as country, then you are quite correct.
- is in a parlous state, and doing very little to correct the situation, is going nowhere. I can think of several countries where I would expect be welcome, contented and more successful in my career.
November 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
- is in a parlous state, and doing very little to correct the situation, is going nowhere. I can think of several countries where I would expect be welcome, contented and more successful in my career.
If there really is "an exodus of young Britons", who could blame them. If I were a newly qualified young engineer again, I would be off like a shot. A country that is in the thrall of hateful right wing media, shot itself in the foot by abandoning its biggest, closest trading partner -
November 28, 2025 at 12:54 PM
If there really is "an exodus of young Britons", who could blame them. If I were a newly qualified young engineer again, I would be off like a shot. A country that is in the thrall of hateful right wing media, shot itself in the foot by abandoning its biggest, closest trading partner -
Well, he would, wouldn't he. I bet he's not as nice as he looks.
November 28, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Well, he would, wouldn't he. I bet he's not as nice as he looks.
I love politicians with a decent sense of humour and fun.
November 28, 2025 at 10:21 AM
I love politicians with a decent sense of humour and fun.
He didn't say that the UK can just rejoin the EU: no sensible person believes that. But we need to move the political and public mood towards the necessity of starting to build plans to apply to rejoin. Until at least one of the major parties accepts this, it won't happen.
November 28, 2025 at 8:49 AM
He didn't say that the UK can just rejoin the EU: no sensible person believes that. But we need to move the political and public mood towards the necessity of starting to build plans to apply to rejoin. Until at least one of the major parties accepts this, it won't happen.
Not humiliating if there were a proper investigation of how the Referendum result was manipulated, the perpetrators put on trial and convicted. The world would see how a trusting nation was scammed.
November 28, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Not humiliating if there were a proper investigation of how the Referendum result was manipulated, the perpetrators put on trial and convicted. The world would see how a trusting nation was scammed.
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Fix Brexit ?
It's a bit like polishing a turd !
Brexit needs reversing and those responsible confined to the dustbin of history.
It's a bit like polishing a turd !
Brexit needs reversing and those responsible confined to the dustbin of history.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Fix Brexit ?
It's a bit like polishing a turd !
Brexit needs reversing and those responsible confined to the dustbin of history.
It's a bit like polishing a turd !
Brexit needs reversing and those responsible confined to the dustbin of history.
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The UK needs, according to Ms Reeves, access to global markets
Well, Brexit was the biggest deliberate retreat from free trade by any major economy since the War*
Europe provides a common rulebook, tariff schedule, a single currency, and open borders for goods capital, services and people
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Well, Brexit was the biggest deliberate retreat from free trade by any major economy since the War*
Europe provides a common rulebook, tariff schedule, a single currency, and open borders for goods capital, services and people
2
November 28, 2025 at 8:16 AM
The UK needs, according to Ms Reeves, access to global markets
Well, Brexit was the biggest deliberate retreat from free trade by any major economy since the War*
Europe provides a common rulebook, tariff schedule, a single currency, and open borders for goods capital, services and people
2
Well, Brexit was the biggest deliberate retreat from free trade by any major economy since the War*
Europe provides a common rulebook, tariff schedule, a single currency, and open borders for goods capital, services and people
2
Russia was the largest of the fifteen republics in the USSR and German forces advanced to within just a few miles from Moscow.
November 28, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Russia was the largest of the fifteen republics in the USSR and German forces advanced to within just a few miles from Moscow.
You would think she would have known about Operation Barbarossa 1941.
November 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
You would think she would have known about Operation Barbarossa 1941.
Because he is terrified of the rabid right wing media.
November 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Because he is terrified of the rabid right wing media.
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Nigel Farage's Brexit.
November 26, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Nigel Farage's Brexit.
It's an opinion piece from one side of the political spectrum. Were there any articles from the opposite side? I would expect a neutral newspaper to publish a range of views so that readers could make up there own minds. One article does not tell you anything about the overall stance of a newspaper.
November 27, 2025 at 8:50 AM
It's an opinion piece from one side of the political spectrum. Were there any articles from the opposite side? I would expect a neutral newspaper to publish a range of views so that readers could make up there own minds. One article does not tell you anything about the overall stance of a newspaper.
Likewise the Telegraph.
November 27, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Likewise the Telegraph.
Another referendum is a stupid idea. How do you know that another one would not be blighted by lies, foreign interference and dodgy campaign funding, like the last? It would be a huge risk. All we need is for a major party to tell the truth, point the finger of blame, and adopt an EU rejoin policy.
November 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Another referendum is a stupid idea. How do you know that another one would not be blighted by lies, foreign interference and dodgy campaign funding, like the last? It would be a huge risk. All we need is for a major party to tell the truth, point the finger of blame, and adopt an EU rejoin policy.
Why no duty on aviation fuel? Obviously there would need to be international co-operation to introduce this, but that's what COP30 should have come up with.
November 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Why no duty on aviation fuel? Obviously there would need to be international co-operation to introduce this, but that's what COP30 should have come up with.