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😩 Britain has wasted ten years trying to square the Brexit circle that cannot be squared: how do you remove the barriers while refusing the structures that remove them? Starmer chose the Ming vase strategy with red lines that protected Brexit by making any meaningful reset impossible and leant... heavily into Atlanticism. The red lines of the 2024 mandate stunted the EU reset and Burnham can’t easily escape this. He also needs to keep together a country still scarred by the Leave/Remain divide, while freeing Britain from red lines. This is why the security argument is vital - Russia. Ukraine. Trump. Energy. Food. Defence. Technology. Critical supply chains. Nick Boles’s proposed goods-only arrangement may ultimately be unacceptable cherry-picking to the EU. But domestically it creates political space to ask whether Britain’s security now requires a fundamentally different relationship with Europe. Andy Burnham doesn’t need to fight the next election shouting Single Market, Customs Union, freedom of movement. He needs a manifesto giving him a mandate to negotiate the deepest economic and security relationship with our European allies necessary to protect Britain’s national interest without repeating Starmer’s red lines. Then negotiate. If the electorate endorses that manifesto, Burnham isn’t breaking the previous mandate. He has won a new one. And for the first time since Brexit, Britain could sit down with Europe without tying both hands behind its back before the negotiations even begin. Britain’s chief EU negotiator Hamish Falconer MP says the Burnham government wants a deeper, more ambitious relationship with Europe on trade, services, security and technology. He also says plainly: We are part of Europe. The 2024 Brexit red lines remain … for now. But Falconer is deliberately talking about the art of the possible, while refusing to bind Labour’s next manifesto to those red lines. The world has changed since 2016; Britain can’t change its geography.show more

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Finally, Ed Davey calls for the UK to join the EU Single Market 👏 "We meet at an extraordinary moment. Vladimir Putin is still waging war on our continent. Donald Trump's chaos in the Middle East goes on. And our government, our own government is paralysed by infighting, waiting for Makerfield to release them from their agony." "And yet, despite all that, standing with you here today, I feel hope. And not just about England's chances against Croatia tonight, but hope about our country's future." "Not hope because the path ahead is easy. It isn't. Not hope because everything will magically get better. It won't." "But hope because finally, after ten long, difficult years, I believe we can move on. We can finally fix the Brexit damage, end the Brexit chaos and get our country back on track." "Because the story the media won't tell you, as they fawn over the rise of Farage, as they hang on his every empty press conference, is that the country is with us. We hear it on the doorsteps, we see it in the polls, we feel it in our communities." "People are fed up. They've had enough. Enough of the chaos in government, the queues at ports, the queues at airports, the bills that just keep on going up." "They know the hard truth that most politicians won't admit. The Brexit experiment has failed. And it's failed all of us." "£90 billion a year. That's how much it's costing us all as taxpayers" "£90 billion every year, gone" "That's £250 million every single day. Taken away from our schools, our hospitals, our armed forces. Taken out of everyone's pockets in the form of unfair tax rises." "Not because of a pandemic, not because of a war, not because of some force of nature out of our control, but because of their Brexit experiment. Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and the rest. An experiment that has now consumed a decade of British politics. That has tangled British businesses up in pointless red tape, that has pushed up prices for British families and that has left us all poorer." "Well, not all of us, apparently. Farage says that the five million he got from a crypto billionaire was his reward for Brexit. So when he said 'We'll be better off after Brexit,' it turns out he was using the royal we." "But friends, it's not only the economic and financial impact, as disastrous as those have been. It's the way they have poisoned our relationship with our nearest neighbours and friends, making it harder to work together on all the things we need to. Energy security and climate change, migration and refugees, AI, and above all, defence." "Britain has always been at its best when we stand tall with our European allies, not when we shut ourselves off. Now they promised us global Britain, but they have left us isolated at the worst possible time. Poorer, weaker and more insecure." "Their experiment has failed. We all know it. So it's time to move on." "But what do they say? The ones who caused all this. The people responsible. Farage and the Conservative Party. They say 'Tough.' They say you can't move on. They say you can't question Britain's relationship with Europe now. You can't dare to suggest there might be a better way. Doesn't matter how bad it gets, doesn't matter how much you're struggling. You just have to live with it, they say." "We say 'No.' We say Britain shouldn't have to live with a bad deal they've lumped us with. We say our country deserves far better than that." "Theirs is old thinking. It's 2016 thinking. The world has changed dramatically since then. It's time for us to change too. It's time for us to move on, move forward." "Just look around. Vladimir Putin is bombing schools and hospitals in Ukraine, murdering innocent civilians. He's testing NATO's resolve and setting his sights on the rest of Eastern Europe. He has shown that territorial conquest is not some relic of the distant past. It is happening now on European soil to our friends and our allies who share our values and our way of life." "And Donald Trump, he's torching the world economy for fun with his tariffs and his trade wars and now his actual war with Iran. He's ripping up the rules-based international order that generations of British leaders, American leaders, European leaders, painstakingly built after the Second World War. Trump threatening NATO, emboldening Putin and actively meddling in our democracies." "And then there's China, increasingly using trade supply chains and strategic dependencies as instruments of geopolitical competition." "And to add to all those political changes, there's the billionaire tech barons taking more and more control of our lives and our jobs with their empires of AI and social media, that no one nation can govern on its own." "The assumptions we have lived by for decades, that global trade would keep expanding, that international rules would broadly be respected, that our security would be underwritten by stable alliances. Those assumptions no longer hold. The world has changed more rapidly than at any time since the end of the Cold War. And our politics must change too." "Now we obviously can't turn to those who wrecked it. Farage and the Conservatives. They only want to make things worse. Even now, pushing for Brexit 2.0 with their plans to rip up the European Convention on Human Rights. They would just rerun all the old arguments, forcing Britain to replay the last ten years over and over in a never ending Brexit doom loop." "But nor, I'm afraid, can we look to Labour. Labour who failed to act with anything like the urgency this moment demands. Who don't seem to grasp the scale of the change we need in our relationship with Europe. Labour, who still kept us hemmed in the red lines they set more than five years ago. No single market, no customs union. Red lines they set before Putin invaded Ukraine, before Trump returned to the White House. Red lines that were wrong then and are even more wrong now." "The world has changed and it's time to move on. We cannot be trapped by that old thinking anymore. We have to look to the future. Not back to 2016 but to 2036 and beyond." "And that's why we're all here today, isn't it? Not because we are bitter about the past, but because we believe in a better future. Because we love our country and we know its brightest days still lie ahead." "We're here for our children and our grandchildren because we want them to inherit a country that is growing, that is confident, that is leading, not one that is shrinking, stagnating and standing alone." "That's what drives us. We're here because the world has changed, because the challenges we face to our economy, to our society and to our national defence are real and urgent. And because we believe Britain deserves ambition that matches the scale of this moment." "So what does that ambition look like? Well, first the government needs to drop those old red lines that stop us getting rid of the Conservatives' red tape. Those red lines are holding Britain back. They're hurting the British people and they are playing into the hands of Farage and Reform." "So my message to Andy Burnham, to Wes Streeting, to whoever the next Prime Minister may be, is drop those red lines. Drop them now." "If we do, we can move on from the torpor and timidity that has marked out Labour's approach to Europe so far. We can put an end to the endless talk of a reset that so far seems to just mean saying no more politely than the Conservatives did. And we can get on with properly fixing our relationship with Europe, for our economy, for our security, for our future." "Our party has led that debate for years. Last year, days before Trump took office, we set out plans for the UK to join a new customs union with the EU. And today I want to build on that and go further, much further." "Today we are calling for a new growth and defence partnership with the European Union. A new growth and defence partnership with the European Union. A bold new deal that will make Britain richer, safer and stronger, including a customs union, but also crucially taking Britain back into the single market." "Tearing down the barriers to trade. Ending the mountains of paperwork, the cost, the delays, the queues. Giving our young people the chance to study and work, live and love anywhere in the EU. Undoing the damage of the Johnson Farage Brexit deal that has held our economy back for so long." "Giving British businesses the certainty they need to invest, to hire and to grow. Giving Britain's economy the boost it needs after years of stagnation. Crucially, giving Britain's public finances a growth dividend. Tens of billions of pounds that we would use to cut the cost of living, to fix the NHS and to strengthen our armed forces." "And this new partnership must go beyond trade and growth. In the age of Putin, Xi and Trump, this must be about defence and security too. No country can be prosperous and free if it is not safe." "And Britain can help lead on defence in Europe as we have so decisively in the past. Despite the Conservatives' short-sighted cuts to our armed forces and Labour's chaos over investing in them now, Britain is still one of Europe's foremost military powers. We are a leading intelligence nation, a permanent member of the UN Security Council and the third-biggest contributor to NATO." "We should be using those strengths. We should be at the table, helping to shape Europe's security future, not watching from the sidelines. And Europe wants us at the table. They know they need our leadership on defence." "So let's seize the initiative from a position of strength to form a new partnership that strengthens both Britain's economy and our collective security. That is why our new partnership would be about defence as much as it is about growth." "That means financial cooperation through a new European rearmament bank, alongside securing UK access to the one hundred and fifty billion euro safe programme. It means joint defence procurement, creating jobs in Britain while strengthening our collective capabilities. It means deeper cooperation on intelligence, on cyber security and on protecting critical infrastructure." "It means working together on energy security so that none of us can be held hostage by an authoritarian regime turning off the gas. It means political cooperation through a new European Security Council with a permanent seat for the UK, ensuring that Europe can shoulder greater responsibility for its own security within NATO." "As Trump's actions remind us every day, that we cannot afford to rely so much on the United States. Friends, this is not a choice we can afford to dodge any longer. In the face of Putin's threats and Trump's unpredictability, a new defence pact with Europe, with allies on whom we can depend, allies who share our interests and our values, is frankly the only way to keep Britain safe and defend our values in a dangerous world." "A new defence pact with Europe is not a choice, it is a necessity. So let's get on with it." "That is the ambition we need when it comes to our relationship with Europe. No more tinkering around the edges of a bad deal. No more shackling ourselves to the arguments of the last ten years, but building something new. A partnership fit for the enormous challenges we face today." "A new growth and defence partnership with a new pact for our collective security. Forming a customs union, joining the single market. A new partnership to make us richer, safer and stronger." "I think it's the best hope our country has to stop the chaos and end the crisis. And, my friends, it is the biggest step we could take now back towards membership of the EU." "And there's another big step we need to take too. Defeating Nigel Farage and Reform. We have to stop them from turning our United Kingdom into their version of Trump's America." "And here's the point. Until we do defeat them, many in Europe will not countenance Britain joining." "Let's remember why this matters, why it's so crucial for Britain to be there at the heart of Europe, at the table with our nearest neighbours." "I've been privileged to see it for myself, the power we have when Britain leads in Europe. When Vladimir Putin invaded Crimea in 2014, we recognised then that the way to defeat him would be to get Europe off its dependence on Russian oil and gas, to take away the money that was funding his aggression, to bankrupt the Russian war machine." "So I led Britain's efforts to bring Europe together behind that common cause, and we succeeded. We wrote Europe's energy security strategy. Britain did that, sitting at the table, leading in Europe." "But then, instead of seeing it through, the Conservatives walked away. They gave up Britain's seat at the table. They locked us out of those discussions at the worst possible time." "Just imagine where we could be now if Britain had continued to lead on energy security. Imagine how much weaker Putin would be now. Imagine how much safer Ukraine and the rest of Europe, including Britain, would be now. What a terrible waste. What an indictment of the Conservatives." "And that is why I am so determined to get us back at the table, back at the heart of Europe. Britain leading again." "Now I want to speak for a moment about the bigger picture. Because our ambition is not limited to Europe alone. It's about Britain's place in the world." "The old assumption that trade, security and prosperity could be treated as separate issues no longer holds. Supply chains can be disrupted. Energy can be weaponised. Economic security and national security are now inseparable." "At a time when authoritarian powers are doing so much to undermine our security, democratic nations must work more closely together to enhance it. As Mark Carney said in Davos, middle powers must act together, because if we're not at the table, we're on the menu. He is right." "Fixing our relationship with Europe is the essential foundation, but it's not the ceiling. The UK can be an incredible force for good when it stands tall on the world stage. Our history, our alliances and our relationships across every continent gives us a unique position for us to act as a bridge, not just between Europe and the US but between Europe and the whole wider democratic world." "We are here because we believe that our country and our people thrive when we are open and outward looking. That is Britain at its best. Not a small inward looking island clinging to the wreckage of a failed experiment, but a leader, a convening power, a country that helps shape the international order rather than being buffeted by it." "That is the Britain we can be." "But friends, I want to be honest with you about the task ahead. What we are proposing is bold. It is ambitious. It requires courage, requires leadership. And it will not happen without all of us." "We know the obstacles we face, the arguments ahead, the opponents who would rather replay the last ten years instead of moving on from them. Who will tell us we can't even talk about a new deal with Europe, let alone make one. The politicians who will claim change isn't possible because the status quo works for them. But it doesn't work for anyone else." "So our job is to get out there and show people that change is possible, that it doesn't have to be like this, that there is a way forward. A better future for our country. Leading in Europe once again." "This isn't just because we believe in Europe. It's not just about friendship or shared history, or the fact that a divided Europe has always ended in misery. Fixing it is about us, our country, our future, our hopes and our dreams." "Britain needs a new plan. A plan for growth, for jobs, for defence. A plan to give our children the better future they deserve. A new deal with Europe. The only way to fix the cost of living crisis. The only way to get our country back on track." "So let us stand together. Let us end the chaos. Let us show the world what Britain can be. Not a small island clinging to a failed experiment, but a leader, open, outward looking. At the table, not on the menu." "A Britain that is richer, safer and stronger. That is the future we are fighting for." " Thank you. Thank you very much."

Finally, Ed Davey calls for the UK to join the EU Single Market 👏 "We meet at an extraordinary moment. Vladimir Putin is still waging war on our continent. Donald Trump's chaos in the Middle East goes on. And our government, our own government is paralysed by infighting, waiting for Makerfield to release them from their agony." "And yet, despite all that, standing with you here today, I feel hope. And not just about England's chances against Croatia tonight, but hope about our country's future." "Not hope because the path ahead is easy. It isn't. Not hope because everything will magically get better. It won't." "But hope because finally, after ten long, difficult years, I believe we can move on. We can finally fix the Brexit damage, end the Brexit chaos and get our country back on track." "Because the story the media won't tell you, as they fawn over the rise of Farage, as they hang on his every empty press conference, is that the country is with us. We hear it on the doorsteps, we see it in the polls, we feel it in our communities." "People are fed up. They've had enough. Enough of the chaos in government, the queues at ports, the queues at airports, the bills that just keep on going up." "They know the hard truth that most politicians won't admit. The Brexit experiment has failed. And it's failed all of us." "£90 billion a year. That's how much it's costing us all as taxpayers" "£90 billion every year, gone" "That's £250 million every single day. Taken away from our schools, our hospitals, our armed forces. Taken out of everyone's pockets in the form of unfair tax rises." "Not because of a pandemic, not because of a war, not because of some force of nature out of our control, but because of their Brexit experiment. Boris Johnson, Nigel Farage and the rest. An experiment that has now consumed a decade of British politics. That has tangled British businesses up in pointless red tape, that has pushed up prices for British families and that has left us all poorer." "Well, not all of us, apparently. Farage says that the five million he got from a crypto billionaire was his reward for Brexit. So when he said 'We'll be better off after Brexit,' it turns out he was using the royal we." "But friends, it's not only the economic and financial impact, as disastrous as those have been. It's the way they have poisoned our relationship with our nearest neighbours and friends, making it harder to work together on all the things we need to. Energy security and climate change, migration and refugees, AI, and above all, defence." "Britain has always been at its best when we stand tall with our European allies, not when we shut ourselves off. Now they promised us global Britain, but they have left us isolated at the worst possible time. Poorer, weaker and more insecure." "Their experiment has failed. We all know it. So it's time to move on." "But what do they say? The ones who caused all this. The people responsible. Farage and the Conservative Party. They say 'Tough.' They say you can't move on. They say you can't question Britain's relationship with Europe now. You can't dare to suggest there might be a better way. Doesn't matter how bad it gets, doesn't matter how much you're struggling. You just have to live with it, they say." "We say 'No.' We say Britain shouldn't have to live with a bad deal they've lumped us with. We say our country deserves far better than that." "Theirs is old thinking. It's 2016 thinking. The world has changed dramatically since then. It's time for us to change too. It's time for us to move on, move forward." "Just look around. Vladimir Putin is bombing schools and hospitals in Ukraine, murdering innocent civilians. He's testing NATO's resolve and setting his sights on the rest of Eastern Europe. He has shown that territorial conquest is not some relic of the distant past. It is happening now on European soil to our friends and our allies who share our values and our way of life." "And Donald Trump, he's torching the world economy for fun with his tariffs and his trade wars and now his actual war with Iran. He's ripping up the rules-based international order that generations of British leaders, American leaders, European leaders, painstakingly built after the Second World War. Trump threatening NATO, emboldening Putin and actively meddling in our democracies." "And then there's China, increasingly using trade supply chains and strategic dependencies as instruments of geopolitical competition." "And to add to all those political changes, there's the billionaire tech barons taking more and more control of our lives and our jobs with their empires of AI and social media, that no one nation can govern on its own." "The assumptions we have lived by for decades, that global trade would keep expanding, that international rules would broadly be respected, that our security would be underwritten by stable alliances. Those assumptions no longer hold. The world has changed more rapidly than at any time since the end of the Cold War. And our politics must change too." "Now we obviously can't turn to those who wrecked it. Farage and the Conservatives. They only want to make things worse. Even now, pushing for Brexit 2.0 with their plans to rip up the European Convention on Human Rights. They would just rerun all the old arguments, forcing Britain to replay the last ten years over and over in a never ending Brexit doom loop." "But nor, I'm afraid, can we look to Labour. Labour who failed to act with anything like the urgency this moment demands. Who don't seem to grasp the scale of the change we need in our relationship with Europe. Labour, who still kept us hemmed in the red lines they set more than five years ago. No single market, no customs union. Red lines they set before Putin invaded Ukraine, before Trump returned to the White House. Red lines that were wrong then and are even more wrong now." "The world has changed and it's time to move on. We cannot be trapped by that old thinking anymore. We have to look to the future. Not back to 2016 but to 2036 and beyond." "And that's why we're all here today, isn't it? Not because we are bitter about the past, but because we believe in a better future. Because we love our country and we know its brightest days still lie ahead." "We're here for our children and our grandchildren because we want them to inherit a country that is growing, that is confident, that is leading, not one that is shrinking, stagnating and standing alone." "That's what drives us. We're here because the world has changed, because the challenges we face to our economy, to our society and to our national defence are real and urgent. And because we believe Britain deserves ambition that matches the scale of this moment." "So what does that ambition look like? Well, first the government needs to drop those old red lines that stop us getting rid of the Conservatives' red tape. Those red lines are holding Britain back. They're hurting the British people and they are playing into the hands of Farage and Reform." "So my message to Andy Burnham, to Wes Streeting, to whoever the next Prime Minister may be, is drop those red lines. Drop them now." "If we do, we can move on from the torpor and timidity that has marked out Labour's approach to Europe so far. We can put an end to the endless talk of a reset that so far seems to just mean saying no more politely than the Conservatives did. And we can get on with properly fixing our relationship with Europe, for our economy, for our security, for our future." "Our party has led that debate for years. Last year, days before Trump took office, we set out plans for the UK to join a new customs union with the EU. And today I want to build on that and go further, much further." "Today we are calling for a new growth and defence partnership with the European Union. A new growth and defence partnership with the European Union. A bold new deal that will make Britain richer, safer and stronger, including a customs union, but also crucially taking Britain back into the single market." "Tearing down the barriers to trade. Ending the mountains of paperwork, the cost, the delays, the queues. Giving our young people the chance to study and work, live and love anywhere in the EU. Undoing the damage of the Johnson Farage Brexit deal that has held our economy back for so long." "Giving British businesses the certainty they need to invest, to hire and to grow. Giving Britain's economy the boost it needs after years of stagnation. Crucially, giving Britain's public finances a growth dividend. Tens of billions of pounds that we would use to cut the cost of living, to fix the NHS and to strengthen our armed forces." "And this new partnership must go beyond trade and growth. In the age of Putin, Xi and Trump, this must be about defence and security too. No country can be prosperous and free if it is not safe." "And Britain can help lead on defence in Europe as we have so decisively in the past. Despite the Conservatives' short-sighted cuts to our armed forces and Labour's chaos over investing in them now, Britain is still one of Europe's foremost military powers. We are a leading intelligence nation, a permanent member of the UN Security Council and the third-biggest contributor to NATO." "We should be using those strengths. We should be at the table, helping to shape Europe's security future, not watching from the sidelines. And Europe wants us at the table. They know they need our leadership on defence." "So let's seize the initiative from a position of strength to form a new partnership that strengthens both Britain's economy and our collective security. That is why our new partnership would be about defence as much as it is about growth." "That means financial cooperation through a new European rearmament bank, alongside securing UK access to the one hundred and fifty billion euro safe programme. It means joint defence procurement, creating jobs in Britain while strengthening our collective capabilities. It means deeper cooperation on intelligence, on cyber security and on protecting critical infrastructure." "It means working together on energy security so that none of us can be held hostage by an authoritarian regime turning off the gas. It means political cooperation through a new European Security Council with a permanent seat for the UK, ensuring that Europe can shoulder greater responsibility for its own security within NATO." "As Trump's actions remind us every day, that we cannot afford to rely so much on the United States. Friends, this is not a choice we can afford to dodge any longer. In the face of Putin's threats and Trump's unpredictability, a new defence pact with Europe, with allies on whom we can depend, allies who share our interests and our values, is frankly the only way to keep Britain safe and defend our values in a dangerous world." "A new defence pact with Europe is not a choice, it is a necessity. So let's get on with it." "That is the ambition we need when it comes to our relationship with Europe. No more tinkering around the edges of a bad deal. No more shackling ourselves to the arguments of the last ten years, but building something new. A partnership fit for the enormous challenges we face today." "A new growth and defence partnership with a new pact for our collective security. Forming a customs union, joining the single market. A new partnership to make us richer, safer and stronger." "I think it's the best hope our country has to stop the chaos and end the crisis. And, my friends, it is the biggest step we could take now back towards membership of the EU." "And there's another big step we need to take too. Defeating Nigel Farage and Reform. We have to stop them from turning our United Kingdom into their version of Trump's America." "And here's the point. Until we do defeat them, many in Europe will not countenance Britain joining." "Let's remember why this matters, why it's so crucial for Britain to be there at the heart of Europe, at the table with our nearest neighbours." "I've been privileged to see it for myself, the power we have when Britain leads in Europe. When Vladimir Putin invaded Crimea in 2014, we recognised then that the way to defeat him would be to get Europe off its dependence on Russian oil and gas, to take away the money that was funding his aggression, to bankrupt the Russian war machine." "So I led Britain's efforts to bring Europe together behind that common cause, and we succeeded. We wrote Europe's energy security strategy. Britain did that, sitting at the table, leading in Europe." "But then, instead of seeing it through, the Conservatives walked away. They gave up Britain's seat at the table. They locked us out of those discussions at the worst possible time." "Just imagine where we could be now if Britain had continued to lead on energy security. Imagine how much weaker Putin would be now. Imagine how much safer Ukraine and the rest of Europe, including Britain, would be now. What a terrible waste. What an indictment of the Conservatives." "And that is why I am so determined to get us back at the table, back at the heart of Europe. Britain leading again." "Now I want to speak for a moment about the bigger picture. Because our ambition is not limited to Europe alone. It's about Britain's place in the world." "The old assumption that trade, security and prosperity could be treated as separate issues no longer holds. Supply chains can be disrupted. Energy can be weaponised. Economic security and national security are now inseparable." "At a time when authoritarian powers are doing so much to undermine our security, democratic nations must work more closely together to enhance it. As Mark Carney said in Davos, middle powers must act together, because if we're not at the table, we're on the menu. He is right." "Fixing our relationship with Europe is the essential foundation, but it's not the ceiling. The UK can be an incredible force for good when it stands tall on the world stage. Our history, our alliances and our relationships across every continent gives us a unique position for us to act as a bridge, not just between Europe and the US but between Europe and the whole wider democratic world." "We are here because we believe that our country and our people thrive when we are open and outward looking. That is Britain at its best. Not a small inward looking island clinging to the wreckage of a failed experiment, but a leader, a convening power, a country that helps shape the international order rather than being buffeted by it." "That is the Britain we can be." "But friends, I want to be honest with you about the task ahead. What we are proposing is bold. It is ambitious. It requires courage, requires leadership. And it will not happen without all of us." "We know the obstacles we face, the arguments ahead, the opponents who would rather replay the last ten years instead of moving on from them. Who will tell us we can't even talk about a new deal with Europe, let alone make one. The politicians who will claim change isn't possible because the status quo works for them. But it doesn't work for anyone else." "So our job is to get out there and show people that change is possible, that it doesn't have to be like this, that there is a way forward. A better future for our country. Leading in Europe once again." "This isn't just because we believe in Europe. It's not just about friendship or shared history, or the fact that a divided Europe has always ended in misery. Fixing it is about us, our country, our future, our hopes and our dreams." "Britain needs a new plan. A plan for growth, for jobs, for defence. A plan to give our children the better future they deserve. A new deal with Europe. The only way to fix the cost of living crisis. The only way to get our country back on track." "So let us stand together. Let us end the chaos. Let us show the world what Britain can be. Not a small island clinging to a failed experiment, but a leader, open, outward looking. At the table, not on the menu." "A Britain that is richer, safer and stronger. That is the future we are fighting for." " Thank you. Thank you very much."

Farrukh

10,909 views • 2 months ago

🇬🇧 There was something deeply ironic about the final moments of #BBCLauraK today. 🇬🇧 Britain broke from Europe with Brexit, a rupture with strange historical echoes of Henry VIII’s break with Rome. And today, the Catholic Archbishop of Westminster reminded us of “the value of the human person”. Of humanity. Families. The homeless. Our responsibility to each other. I am not a Catholic, but I went to a convent school until I was 13. I was educated in these values, they are familiar to me and comforting and above all grounding. And now Britain is about to have its first Catholic PM Andy Burnham In the last decade or so, we have lost sight of some of the most basic truths 👉Geography. Humanity. Honesty. Values. 🔥 Brexit taught us to deny our geography. 🔥 Populism taught us to divide people. 🔥 UK decided to live with dishonesty and lost sight of the value of the human person. My hopes now rest on Andy Burnham bringing those values back to government and Britain back to its rightful place in Europe and the world. People first. Place first. Humanity first. This is the change of direction Britain and Europe desperately needs.

🇬🇧 There was something deeply ironic about the final moments of #BBCLauraK today. 🇬🇧 Britain broke from Europe with Brexit, a rupture with strange historical echoes of Henry VIII’s break with Rome. And today, the Catholic Archbishop of Westminster reminded us of “the value of the human person”. Of humanity. Families. The homeless. Our responsibility to each other. I am not a Catholic, but I went to a convent school until I was 13. I was educated in these values, they are familiar to me and comforting and above all grounding. And now Britain is about to have its first Catholic PM Andy Burnham In the last decade or so, we have lost sight of some of the most basic truths 👉Geography. Humanity. Honesty. Values. 🔥 Brexit taught us to deny our geography. 🔥 Populism taught us to divide people. 🔥 UK decided to live with dishonesty and lost sight of the value of the human person. My hopes now rest on Andy Burnham bringing those values back to government and Britain back to its rightful place in Europe and the world. People first. Place first. Humanity first. This is the change of direction Britain and Europe desperately needs.

Liz Webster

265,553 views • 1 month ago

How does the UK rejoin the EU? Have a listen to David Miliband on BBC Radio 4 Today: Anna Foster, "The front page of the Guardian this morning is talking about the government trying to pitch an EU single market for goods, which Brussels seems to not be particularly keen on. What is your position on the government's stance at the moment on Europe and how our ongoing relationship with Europe should look?" David Miliband, "Well, I'm convinced that the security and prosperity of the UK depends on an institutionalized, deep and strong relationship with the rest of Europe. I'm absolutely convinced of that. The Russian invasion of Ukraine shows the way in which that's our number one security threat now." David Miliband, "But, we know our economy has been shrunk by 6 to 8% in the 10 years since Brexit. So there's an economic part of that. So when the government says we want a reset of our relations with Europe, I think that's a good thing. But then when I look that the reset so far is only worth £9 billion by 2040 and I remember that Britain is a 3 trillion pound economy, I'm left saying, no, we need a much higher dosage in our reset." Anna Foster, "How high? I mean, do you advocate for rejoining the EU?" David Miliband, "Well, I'm somewhat bemused by some of the commentary. I want this strong institutional relationship with the European Union. But then I know the deal we had until 2016 is not available now. We're not going to be able to get that deal again." David Miliband, "I also know the European Union is changing profoundly. The big issue for Brussels today is not Britain joining, it's Ukraine joining and Ukraine joining the European Union is going to mean a different institutional set of arrangements inside Europe." David Miliband, "So just to give you an example, they're talking about associate membership for Ukraine, they're talking about different tiers of membership. So the question of what kind of docking are we going to do in with the European Union? It's the re part of rejoin that I think we have to understand." David Miliband, "The world is changing out there." Anna Foster, "So you're not necessarily against the concept, but what you're saying is it would never be the way it was and therefore you don't think it's the right thing." David Miliband, "For that reason, it literally can't be the way that it was. We're not in a position to, I mean, the European Union wouldn't entertain us flipping and flopping. What we have to do is build a national consensus about our position with the European Union. I'm very happy with it as a long term goal." David Miliband, "Think for this Parliament we should be really driving our economic, political and other relations. There's a big debate about defence spending going on. As we know it's affected the aid budget. There's something called the European Defence Mechanism, which is the proposal for a European backed 800 billion euro defence package that would support all European countries inside the European Union and outside." David Miliband, "We should be championing that. That would be us putting in for a mutual security funding arrangement that would help fund our own defence and European defence. Because the truth is our defence is Europe's defence and vice versa."

How does the UK rejoin the EU? Have a listen to David Miliband on BBC Radio 4 Today: Anna Foster, "The front page of the Guardian this morning is talking about the government trying to pitch an EU single market for goods, which Brussels seems to not be particularly keen on. What is your position on the government's stance at the moment on Europe and how our ongoing relationship with Europe should look?" David Miliband, "Well, I'm convinced that the security and prosperity of the UK depends on an institutionalized, deep and strong relationship with the rest of Europe. I'm absolutely convinced of that. The Russian invasion of Ukraine shows the way in which that's our number one security threat now." David Miliband, "But, we know our economy has been shrunk by 6 to 8% in the 10 years since Brexit. So there's an economic part of that. So when the government says we want a reset of our relations with Europe, I think that's a good thing. But then when I look that the reset so far is only worth £9 billion by 2040 and I remember that Britain is a 3 trillion pound economy, I'm left saying, no, we need a much higher dosage in our reset." Anna Foster, "How high? I mean, do you advocate for rejoining the EU?" David Miliband, "Well, I'm somewhat bemused by some of the commentary. I want this strong institutional relationship with the European Union. But then I know the deal we had until 2016 is not available now. We're not going to be able to get that deal again." David Miliband, "I also know the European Union is changing profoundly. The big issue for Brussels today is not Britain joining, it's Ukraine joining and Ukraine joining the European Union is going to mean a different institutional set of arrangements inside Europe." David Miliband, "So just to give you an example, they're talking about associate membership for Ukraine, they're talking about different tiers of membership. So the question of what kind of docking are we going to do in with the European Union? It's the re part of rejoin that I think we have to understand." David Miliband, "The world is changing out there." Anna Foster, "So you're not necessarily against the concept, but what you're saying is it would never be the way it was and therefore you don't think it's the right thing." David Miliband, "For that reason, it literally can't be the way that it was. We're not in a position to, I mean, the European Union wouldn't entertain us flipping and flopping. What we have to do is build a national consensus about our position with the European Union. I'm very happy with it as a long term goal." David Miliband, "Think for this Parliament we should be really driving our economic, political and other relations. There's a big debate about defence spending going on. As we know it's affected the aid budget. There's something called the European Defence Mechanism, which is the proposal for a European backed 800 billion euro defence package that would support all European countries inside the European Union and outside." David Miliband, "We should be championing that. That would be us putting in for a mutual security funding arrangement that would help fund our own defence and European defence. Because the truth is our defence is Europe's defence and vice versa."

Farrukh

23,919 views • 2 months ago

Elon Musk warns that Europe’s stifling bureaucracy is crushing innovation and freedom. While Brexit offered Britain a chance to break free, the UK government has doubled down on regulation—even surpassing the EU in some areas. The result? A nation once known for boldness now risks losing its edge to oppressive red tape and a political class disconnected from its people. Musk argues that the future could be a utopian vision of technology and progress—spaceships, robots, and breakthroughs that rival sci-fi—but only if society fights for it. The window for change is closing. Without a government that prioritizes its citizens and embraces deregulation, civilization risks missing its shot at a Star Trek-like future. The path forward demands courage, urgency, and a return to the spirit that made Britain great. The time to act is now.

Elon Musk warns that Europe’s stifling bureaucracy is crushing innovation and freedom. While Brexit offered Britain a chance to break free, the UK government has doubled down on regulation—even surpassing the EU in some areas. The result? A nation once known for boldness now risks losing its edge to oppressive red tape and a political class disconnected from its people. Musk argues that the future could be a utopian vision of technology and progress—spaceships, robots, and breakthroughs that rival sci-fi—but only if society fights for it. The window for change is closing. Without a government that prioritizes its citizens and embraces deregulation, civilization risks missing its shot at a Star Trek-like future. The path forward demands courage, urgency, and a return to the spirit that made Britain great. The time to act is now.

Camus

14,106 views • 9 months ago

🚨 This US 🇺🇸 vote just changed everything 🚨 Britain 🇬🇧 must pay attention. Congress just passed a defence bill that locks US troops into Europe, funds Ukraine for two more years, and reinforces NATO’s eastern flank. Congress just slammed the brakes on Trump. It directly contradicts Trump’s own security strategy, which attacks the EU and flirts with Russia. In plain terms, Congress is saying: you don’t get to dismantle the post-war order on a whim. The US is now split internally. Trump is being actively contained by Congress and the security establishment. ✅ Good news for Europe but also a warning. Trump can’t easily pull troops, so he applies pressure elsewhere: trade, tech, food standards, regulation, investment threats. The tanks stay. The coercion moves elsewhere. And this is where Brexit Britain 🇬🇧 is dangerously exposed. The EU absorbs pressure collectively, with scale and leverage. The UK absorbs it alone. Brexit didn’t restore sovereignty, it removed protection at the worst possible moment. This also exposes the lie at the heart of Starmer’s Trump strategy: “If we keep him sweet, we’ll be safe.” Congress just showed the truth: appeasement isn’t policy - containment is.

🚨 This US 🇺🇸 vote just changed everything 🚨 Britain 🇬🇧 must pay attention. Congress just passed a defence bill that locks US troops into Europe, funds Ukraine for two more years, and reinforces NATO’s eastern flank. Congress just slammed the brakes on Trump. It directly contradicts Trump’s own security strategy, which attacks the EU and flirts with Russia. In plain terms, Congress is saying: you don’t get to dismantle the post-war order on a whim. The US is now split internally. Trump is being actively contained by Congress and the security establishment. ✅ Good news for Europe but also a warning. Trump can’t easily pull troops, so he applies pressure elsewhere: trade, tech, food standards, regulation, investment threats. The tanks stay. The coercion moves elsewhere. And this is where Brexit Britain 🇬🇧 is dangerously exposed. The EU absorbs pressure collectively, with scale and leverage. The UK absorbs it alone. Brexit didn’t restore sovereignty, it removed protection at the worst possible moment. This also exposes the lie at the heart of Starmer’s Trump strategy: “If we keep him sweet, we’ll be safe.” Congress just showed the truth: appeasement isn’t policy - containment is.

Liz Webster

319,311 views • 8 months ago

Interesting piece Tinashe. However Britain’s economic challenges cannot be attributed solely to net zero policies or cultural changes that you referred to as”woke”. Weak productivity growth, underinvestment, housing constraints, an ageing population and, crucially, Brexit have all played significant roles over many years. Brexit introduced new trade barriers with Britain’s largest market, reduced labour mobility and created additional costs for many businesses, all of which have weighed on growth. The contrast with the United States is also more complex than you suggested. America’s dominance in AI and technology is the product of decades of investment, deep capital markets, world class universities and a culture of entrepreneurship that predates Donald Trump. It is difficult to compare Britain’s performance with America’s without acknowledging that Britain chose to leave a major economic bloc while the United States continued to benefit from a vast integrated domestic market. Barack Obama was shocked that Britain made the foolish decision of leaving the EU, and it has contributed to its decline as promised by the then governor of the Bank of England, Markey Carney who is now the Canadian Prime Minister. Concerns about growth, regulation and risk taking that you raised are valid, but cultural debates around universities, gender issues and “wokeness” do not by themselves explain economic performance. Economic growth is driven far more by investment, trade, innovation, skills and productivity than by culture war issues. Your argument that wealthy families are abandoning British universities and that large numbers of Britons are leaving for economic reasons would require substantial evidence. British universities remain among the most sought after in the world, and the UK continues to attract significant numbers of international students despite Brexit. Britain needs faster growth, higher productivity and greater investment. These challenges can’t be explained primarily through net zero policies and cultural change while overlooking the economic consequences of Brexit, which remains one of the most significant structural changes to the British economy in recent decades. Below is former British Prime Minister David Cameron warning British citizens about the dangers of leaving the EU before they made that decision. Many of the warnings he gave before the referendum have since come to pass. That, in my view, does far more to explain Britain’s current economic difficulties than arguments about cultural wokeness. Brexit fundamentally altered Britain’s trading relationship with its largest market, introduced new barriers to trade and labour mobility, and created economic headwinds that continue to be felt today. Any serious discussion about Britain’s economic challenges must grapple with that reality. That said, I enjoyed reading your piece, and thank you for initiating these debates. They help us think more deeply, question our assumptions and dig further into the evidence.

Interesting piece Tinashe. However Britain’s economic challenges cannot be attributed solely to net zero policies or cultural changes that you referred to as”woke”. Weak productivity growth, underinvestment, housing constraints, an ageing population and, crucially, Brexit have all played significant roles over many years. Brexit introduced new trade barriers with Britain’s largest market, reduced labour mobility and created additional costs for many businesses, all of which have weighed on growth. The contrast with the United States is also more complex than you suggested. America’s dominance in AI and technology is the product of decades of investment, deep capital markets, world class universities and a culture of entrepreneurship that predates Donald Trump. It is difficult to compare Britain’s performance with America’s without acknowledging that Britain chose to leave a major economic bloc while the United States continued to benefit from a vast integrated domestic market. Barack Obama was shocked that Britain made the foolish decision of leaving the EU, and it has contributed to its decline as promised by the then governor of the Bank of England, Markey Carney who is now the Canadian Prime Minister. Concerns about growth, regulation and risk taking that you raised are valid, but cultural debates around universities, gender issues and “wokeness” do not by themselves explain economic performance. Economic growth is driven far more by investment, trade, innovation, skills and productivity than by culture war issues. Your argument that wealthy families are abandoning British universities and that large numbers of Britons are leaving for economic reasons would require substantial evidence. British universities remain among the most sought after in the world, and the UK continues to attract significant numbers of international students despite Brexit. Britain needs faster growth, higher productivity and greater investment. These challenges can’t be explained primarily through net zero policies and cultural change while overlooking the economic consequences of Brexit, which remains one of the most significant structural changes to the British economy in recent decades. Below is former British Prime Minister David Cameron warning British citizens about the dangers of leaving the EU before they made that decision. Many of the warnings he gave before the referendum have since come to pass. That, in my view, does far more to explain Britain’s current economic difficulties than arguments about cultural wokeness. Brexit fundamentally altered Britain’s trading relationship with its largest market, introduced new barriers to trade and labour mobility, and created economic headwinds that continue to be felt today. Any serious discussion about Britain’s economic challenges must grapple with that reality. That said, I enjoyed reading your piece, and thank you for initiating these debates. They help us think more deeply, question our assumptions and dig further into the evidence.

Hopewell Chin’ono

32,497 views • 1 month ago

Journalist, "Rejoin the EU or stay out?" Andy Burnham, "I want to rejoin" "I hope in my lifetime, I want to rejoin the European Union" "I believe in the unions of all kinds. The union of the UK. The EU benefitted this country. Trade unions" "People prosper more when they're part of unions" Earlier in the interview... "Then you come to Brexit... During the 80s and 90s, the growth we had through the European Union masked some of structural problems" "But the minute you come to Brexit, then look at the last decade" "Shouldn't we start calling out the disaster that Brexit has been more directly?" "I think we should" "We've been stuck now with sluggish growth, and all of the aspirations now are harder to achieve as a country" "That's Nigel Farage and Brexiters doing, and you have to hold them accountable for that" Pippa Crerar, "Is there a danger of being seen as the same old Labour pushing to rejoin the EU?" Andy Burnham, "I don't think there's a prospect of joining any time soon, but I do think we should be honest with people" "It's not just on the economy and growth. It's immigration" "Immigration has ben weakened as a result of Brexit" "We've replaced short term immigration from the EU with long term immigration from outside the EU" "Call out Nigel Farage and Brexiters" Journalist, "Do you think Nigel Farage is racist?" Andy Burnham, "I don't know him well so I'm not going to say that. But I do see policies that are discriminatory. And that worries me"

Journalist, "Rejoin the EU or stay out?" Andy Burnham, "I want to rejoin" "I hope in my lifetime, I want to rejoin the European Union" "I believe in the unions of all kinds. The union of the UK. The EU benefitted this country. Trade unions" "People prosper more when they're part of unions" Earlier in the interview... "Then you come to Brexit... During the 80s and 90s, the growth we had through the European Union masked some of structural problems" "But the minute you come to Brexit, then look at the last decade" "Shouldn't we start calling out the disaster that Brexit has been more directly?" "I think we should" "We've been stuck now with sluggish growth, and all of the aspirations now are harder to achieve as a country" "That's Nigel Farage and Brexiters doing, and you have to hold them accountable for that" Pippa Crerar, "Is there a danger of being seen as the same old Labour pushing to rejoin the EU?" Andy Burnham, "I don't think there's a prospect of joining any time soon, but I do think we should be honest with people" "It's not just on the economy and growth. It's immigration" "Immigration has ben weakened as a result of Brexit" "We've replaced short term immigration from the EU with long term immigration from outside the EU" "Call out Nigel Farage and Brexiters" Journalist, "Do you think Nigel Farage is racist?" Andy Burnham, "I don't know him well so I'm not going to say that. But I do see policies that are discriminatory. And that worries me"

Farrukh

292,706 views • 10 months ago

Keir Starmer, "On Brexit, the reason I reminded everyone of what Nigel Farage said was because that was the promise he put to the country" "That we'd be stronger, we'd be richer, we'd have lots of money for the NHS, immigration will come down" "It all proved to be false" "Farage is not going back to the country now and saying it was a good thing, you've all benefited" "Farage will talk about almost anything else apart from the consequences of the one thing he delivered for the country, Brexit" "Farage doesn't want to talk about it, and there's a reason for that, it didn't help working people" "It turns out what he said wasn't true" "That's why Farage doesn't want to talk about Brexit" "But we have to talk about it now because we have to address the situation we are in" "We have to give this country a stronger economy, a stronger defence and security arrangement given the world we live in" "That's why I said what I said about being closer to Europe" "And this government being defined by bringing Europe back together and the UK at the heart of Europe"

Keir Starmer, "On Brexit, the reason I reminded everyone of what Nigel Farage said was because that was the promise he put to the country" "That we'd be stronger, we'd be richer, we'd have lots of money for the NHS, immigration will come down" "It all proved to be false" "Farage is not going back to the country now and saying it was a good thing, you've all benefited" "Farage will talk about almost anything else apart from the consequences of the one thing he delivered for the country, Brexit" "Farage doesn't want to talk about it, and there's a reason for that, it didn't help working people" "It turns out what he said wasn't true" "That's why Farage doesn't want to talk about Brexit" "But we have to talk about it now because we have to address the situation we are in" "We have to give this country a stronger economy, a stronger defence and security arrangement given the world we live in" "That's why I said what I said about being closer to Europe" "And this government being defined by bringing Europe back together and the UK at the heart of Europe"

Farrukh

151,685 views • 3 months ago

🇺🇦🇷🇺 "CROSSING PUTIN'S RED LINES WILL LIKELY LEAD TO NUCLEAR WAR" Political scientist Alexander Rahr said the Western media has gotten too comfortable with discounting Putin's repeated warnings about red lines being crossed. He argued that attempts by NATO to cross the red lines of Russia's territorial disputes could end in a nuclear strike. "In my view, the red line is Crimea. If Crimea is attacked, they might launch a nuke. Russia has its weapons. It has all the submarines that are circumventing the United States and Europe. And this is a factor which should not be seen as a simple bluff. 90% of the Western experts are saying Russia's making a bluff with nuclear weapons. I would not care so much about what experts are saying about nuke strikes. I would carefully watch what the generals, and Putin himself, are saying about this." Eurasien Gesellschaft

🇺🇦🇷🇺 "CROSSING PUTIN'S RED LINES WILL LIKELY LEAD TO NUCLEAR WAR" Political scientist Alexander Rahr said the Western media has gotten too comfortable with discounting Putin's repeated warnings about red lines being crossed. He argued that attempts by NATO to cross the red lines of Russia's territorial disputes could end in a nuclear strike. "In my view, the red line is Crimea. If Crimea is attacked, they might launch a nuke. Russia has its weapons. It has all the submarines that are circumventing the United States and Europe. And this is a factor which should not be seen as a simple bluff. 90% of the Western experts are saying Russia's making a bluff with nuclear weapons. I would not care so much about what experts are saying about nuke strikes. I would carefully watch what the generals, and Putin himself, are saying about this." Eurasien Gesellschaft

Mario Nawfal

17,939 views • 8 months ago

The official European response to the Kremlin capitulation plan presented by their proxy Donald J Trump. The EU MUST now seize all Russian frozen assets and use those funds to allow Ukraine to defeat the illegal invasion of their sovereign nation. The time for talking is now over. Now it’s time for action with or without the United States. If you US is withdrawing its support for Ukraine it is by default withdrawing support for its European allies and should therefore withdraw its European presence. It’s not what Europe wants, but the US by its actions is collaborating with an indicted war criminal against the interests of Europe. Europe cannot allow Trump to be the fox guarding the hen house. He is now a threat to European security. 🎥 TikTok -

The official European response to the Kremlin capitulation plan presented by their proxy Donald J Trump. The EU MUST now seize all Russian frozen assets and use those funds to allow Ukraine to defeat the illegal invasion of their sovereign nation. The time for talking is now over. Now it’s time for action with or without the United States. If you US is withdrawing its support for Ukraine it is by default withdrawing support for its European allies and should therefore withdraw its European presence. It’s not what Europe wants, but the US by its actions is collaborating with an indicted war criminal against the interests of Europe. Europe cannot allow Trump to be the fox guarding the hen house. He is now a threat to European security. 🎥 TikTok -

𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰

41,208 views • 8 months ago