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UK businesses have been hit by a “staggering” £7.7bn Brexit red tape bill to trade with the EU in just 4 years. Brexit paperwork has been blamed in part for a huge fall in trade with the EU..M&S had to rent a warehouse just to store documents.” #RejoinEU independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…
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Just come off the phone with a friend who works at the European Commission. Off the record he says things with the UK are moving, "very quickly" to ensure all is in place for the press announcement at EU-UK summit in Brussels on the 20th of November. His words,
"Brexit is done"
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🇬🇧🇪🇺 The burial of Brexit is accelerating.
Ten days before the summit, the UK-EU are moving beyond integration.
Youth mobility, freer food trade, linked carbon markets
Britain may even rejoin Europe’s electricity market.
The reset will add £17bn to the UK economy.
The EU will offer a path to full membership, with flexibility over the pound.
That would make victory in a referendum almost certain.
Brexit’s architects are about to watch their disaster be buried.
renaissanceeurope.org/insigh…
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They're not thinking straight... #RejoinEU – at Burton upon Trent, England
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Well, it has been a rather good few weeks, has it not?
Danny Tommo behind bars, AY Audits deported from France, Andrew Tate in custody, Russell Brand starting a very different chapter of his life behind bars, and Tommy Robinson facing sentencing on 16 November.
Meanwhile, Nigel Farage and his merry band at Reform seem to have a few things to worry about themselves. The coming decision could make for a very uncomfortable Christmas.
And, perhaps most refreshing of all, a few weeks with rather less far-right nonsense, fewer riots, less manufactured outrage and a little more peace and quiet across the country.
Britain has felt noticeably calmer lately. Who would have thought?
Not wishing to tempt fate, but Christmas really does seem to have come early this year. What a lovely change.
Funny how much more peaceful life feels when the usual suspects are not constantly making headlines.
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This is the Ashcroft polling that Reform are in meltdown about
Would be tragic if it were shared widely
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Since 2016, Brexit has cost the Plymouth council area an estimated £212 million a year in lost economic output. See the figures for Plymouth Sutton and Devonport: eu.bestforbritain.org/consti…
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Britain paid around £8 billion a year in net EU contributions.
The OBR estimates Brexit will leave our economy 4% smaller in the long run. That's equivalent to roughly £116 billion a year in today's GDP.
We spent years arguing about the cost of staying. What about the cost of leaving?
ALT Infographic comparing historical annual UK net EU budget contributions with modelled long-run GDP differences from Brexit, including the OBR 4% estimate.
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James Cleverly’s claim that the UK couldn’t cut VAT because we were in the EU is wrong.
In 2008, while the UK was an EU member, the government cut standard VAT from 17.5% to 15%.
And in July 2020, during the Brexit transition period, the government cut VAT to 5% on certain hospitality and tourism services. EU rules allowed reduced rates on eligible services.
Covid and the war in Ukraine make Brexit’s precise economic impact harder to isolate. They don’t make it impossible to estimate: the OBR still forecasts that the UK’s post-Brexit trading relationship will reduce long-run productivity by 4% compared with staying in the EU.
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Brexiter on BBC #PoliticsLive "I want us to have our own laws, govern ourselves, not be dictated to by an unelected European Parliament"
My view:
That claim sounds less like an informed account of how the EU worked and more like populist rhetoric repeated without checking the facts.
The European Parliament was directly elected by voters—including UK voters while Britain was a member.
Most EU laws were proposed by the Commission, then debated, amended and agreed by the elected Parliament and the Council of national government ministers.
The Commission could not simply dictate laws on its own.
British ministers sat in the Council and took part in those decisions; British MEPs represented voters in Parliament.
The UK could be outvoted in some areas, but that is shared decision-making—not rule by an unelected parliament.
And the Commission itself was accountable to elected institutions: Parliament had to approve the College of Commissioners.
You can argue that pooling sovereignty was a bad deal, or point to a specific EU law you opposed.
But “we were dictated to by an unelected European Parliament” is not a factual description of the process.
It replaces the real debate with a slogan.
And this explains the need for education and information so individuals such as this gentleman can make informed decisions based on accurate information, and not populist, divisive rhetoric.
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That’s
65% Join the European Union
35% Stay out
When you remove don’t know, wouldn’t vote etc.
Commentators of course will charge (and fairly) that this may change a lot depending on clarifications and conditions of joining…
However, there’s no doubting that the country is shifting hugely in mood around our relationship with our European family- and there’s a large majority which doesn’t like the Brexit box that we are in.
New from @Ipsos_in_the_UK
How would you vote if there was a referendum on the UK applying to join the EU?
Should apply to join 56%
Should stay out 30%
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Support for rejoining EU grows after Burnham opened door to UK’s return
Exclusive: Major new poll is a boost for prime minister’s call for the UK to get closer to the European Union
independent.co.uk/news/uk/po…
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Within the next 24 hours you will see narratives from right wing assets pushing in support for the PiS, they will share fakes and try to incite disorder in Poland, do not let them.
Hostile foreign networks are organising; stay calm & stay informed, you're stronger.
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Tight camera angles can be used to create the illusion of a larger crowd—the difference between a narrative of dozens of protesters, hundreds, and thousands. Fill the frame with people and hide the crowd’s edges, and a small gathering can look massive. The tighter the shot and the bigger the claim, the more reason to question whether it’s bullshit or not.
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Account: Chad Caton (@ImFiredUp2).
Type: Coup framing, misleading wording, and omission of context. It turns a dispute over court leadership into an alleged attempt to overthrow Poland’s government.
Based in: United States.
Target: Poland, Donald Tusk and his government, portrayed as illegitimate aggressors.
Lie: “Tusk’s attempt to overthrow the government” is unsupported. Tusk already heads Poland’s government. The officials suspended were the Constitutional Tribunal’s president and vice president—not Poland’s national president. Describing the judge as “never having been sworn in” also omits that she took an oath at parliament.
Purpose: Apparently to generate alarm and rally support for Nawrocki by presenting his political opponents as staging a coup.
Reality: Judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska issued a suspension of the tribunal’s leadership, and Nawrocki interrupted his trip to return. The suspension’s validity is contested; it did not remove Nawrocki from office or overthrow the government. Korwin-Piotrowska took an oath in parliament on April 9, without Nawrocki present. The disagreement concerns whether that oath was legally valid, not whether an oath ceremony happened.
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