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✅ Layla Moran 🔶🕊️ exposes Brexit problem when she says: “There’s no picking and choosing with the single market.” She’s right and Starmer knows it. Which is why he keeps retreating to: sector-by-sector alignment, sovereign decisions, youth mobility not freedom of movement All of which avoid the central truth:...

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⭐ 🤩 OMG Starmer has publicly admitted the Brexit deal is damaging the UK 🇬🇧 economy 🤩 Today Starmer moved beyond making brexit work to: “We must all confront the reality that the Brexit deal we have significantly hurt our economy.” That is a major ideological breach 👉beginning of Labour’s forced pivot. 🔴 Stella Creasy didn’t just agree she escalated it. This is the biggest shift from a Labour MP since 2016. •the May “reset” isn’t enough •the damage is happening now •16,000 businesses have already stopped trading with the EU •we need immediate action within 18 months •we must reduce rules-of-origin friction •we must get better access to the single market •and the TCA renegotiation window in 2026 is a once-in-a-generation chance She’s not talking about vague “alignment”. She’s talking about structural re-entry mechanisms.

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Brexit was won by the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history. Here is one of them. The "Will of the People" was used to suppress democracy after the Brexit Referendum. Lord Sumption giving the Reith Lectures addressed the Brexiters' claim that Brexit is the will of the people. He said - "This is the authentic language of totalitarianism. It is the lowest point to which a political community can sink short of actual violence." This is not about percentages. It doesn't matter what percentage voted for Brexit. It is about a referendum being used to attack the fundamental democratic right to oppose, and to promote the totalitarian division of society into the people and its enemies, the subversives and saboteurs. In the period following the referendum the so-called "Will of the People" was used to create a climate of intimidation that silenced almost all political & media opponents of Brexit. During that period Britain was not functioning as a democracy, and we are still living with its effects, pro-European politicians are still cowed by the Brexit "Will of the People". In a democracy there is government and opposition, majority and minority, competing parties and dissenting voices. There is no totalitarian unity of the "Will of the People" which makes all opponents into the enemies of the people. Where the right to oppose ends, democracy dies, and that is exactly exactly why dictators like Hitler loved referendums.

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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.

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Unity is good, but truth is better. And sometimes, truth divides. Why does this happen so much more on the right than on the left? Because the left is seeking to destroy - the church, the family, the West - and destruction requires little agreement. Use whatever tool you want, however you want. Just take it down. But, on the right, we’re seeking to build something. And when you’re building something, you have to agree on a lot. What are you building? What materials should you use? Which tools? And, most importantly, what’s our foundation? As Christians, we hold that the foundation of any flourishing civilization is that we were created in the image of a God whose power transcends the government’s. He alone is the giver of rights and the determinant of right and wrong. We can’t compromise on that, because without that truth, nothing else in conservatism holds together. Our job isn’t to compromise on our foundation for the sake of “unity.” It’s to do everything we can to pull people over to our side—to what’s good, right, and true.

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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"
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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"

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Michael Foot was right. “We didn’t fight for the vote to give it away.” That was the whole point of #Brexit. Not fantasy. Not nostalgia. Not flag-waving theatre for careerists in Union Jack cufflinks. It was about sovereignty. Democracy. The basic right of the British people to hire and fire those who make their laws. That was all Brexit had to achieve. The rest was down to Parliament. Down to government. Down to the political class who spent years pretending to “respect the result” while doing everything possible to blunt it, bury it, sabotage it, or turn it into another managerial stitch-up. So when #Starmer now dresses up closer EU alignment as some grand rescue mission, let’s be honest about what is really happening. He is not fixing Brexit. He is exposing the failure of the politicians who never wanted to carry it out in the first place. His latest speech pledged to put Britain back at the “heart of Europe”, while Downing Street still claims the red lines on rejoining the single market and customs union remain in place. That is not leadership. That is triangulation with a Brussels postcode. Brexit did not fail because ordinary people voted wrong. It failing because the same political class that hollowed out our towns, sold off our industries, crushed our unions, privatised our utilities, and shipped power upwards and outwards was suddenly asked to return power downwards to the people. And they hated it. The people voted to take back democratic control. The shower of parliamentarians handed us delay, deflection, bad faith, managed decline, and then blamed the voters for the wreckage. That is the oldest Westminster trick in the book: fail the people, then accuse the people of failure. Michael Foot understood what Starmer never will. Democracy is not an ornament. It is not something to be admired in speeches and surrendered in treaties. It belongs to the people, or it belongs to nobody. We did not fight for the vote to give it away. And we certainly did not fight for it so Keir Starmer could hand it back wrapped in a focus-grouped bow that told him it will win back support. Here is the hard truth Starmer needs to face: he never had that support in the first place. He became Prime Minister by default, carried into Downing Street on the wreckage of a collapsed Tory Party, not on a great wave of public belief. There was no national love affair with Starmerism. No working-class uprising for managerial politics. No mass demand for grey men with donor-class instincts to tell the country what it really voted for. He mistook Tory collapse for Labour consent. And now he wants to mistake that thin mandate for permission to unpick Brexit by stealth. #JustResign

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Laura Kuenssberg skewers Rishi Sunak on the economic damage of Brexit Laura Kuenssberg, "The long term political choices the UK has made, including leaving the EU, has made it more difficulty for our economy" "Your old bosses at Goldman Sachs say plainly: in the long-term, Brexit has meant that the UK is notably under performing compared to other economies" Rishi Sunak, "We had a referendum.. The British people made a choice.. I was proud to support Brexit.. It's the right thing for our country" Laura Kuenssberg, "Goldman Sachs, the OBR say that trade will be much slower in the long term because we've left the EU" "Do you accept, as one of your own ministers Kevin Hollinrake said this week, that leaving the EU has made things more difficult for many businesses" Rishi Sunak, "Of course, when you leave the EU Single Market and the Customs Union, that is going to change our trading relationship" Laura Kuenssberg, "Making trade more difficult" Rishi Sunak, "Of course that changes your trading relationship.. We have now overtaken France, Japan and the Netherlands to become the 4th largest export economy in the world" For anyone confused. We are trading less goods which is making it difficult for British businesses, however we are selling more services Rishi Sunak, "The choice for people is, if they want to reverse that with Labour, that's what they'll get. Keir Starmer is very clear he will want to do a deal with the EU which will mean accepting some form of free movement of people" Yes please Laura Kuenssberg, "We've talked about that and Labour have denied it" "I want to make clear to our viewers that the vast majority of the trade deals were rolled over deals that we already had with the EU.. The US is not interested in a trade deal even though that was one of the big promises of Brexit" Rishi Sunak, "You haven't mentioned that we're the first European nation to join CPTPP" Laura Kuenssberg, "Which is not yet enforced" Rishi Sunak, "It just needs to go through parliament.. That's a big moment.. We are close to a trade deal with India.. I don't think it's right for Labour accepting EU rules we have no say over" Laura Kuenssberg, "I remind you that Labour have denied that.. And our viewers want to hear the party policies of the person sitting in the chair" Rishi Sunak, "There is plenty of evidence, even from your own minister, that the economic reality of Brexit is that the UK standing long term is more challenging than had we stayed in the EU"

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Lewis Goodall, "Farage has Brexit. It is his signature contribution to British political life. He owns it, he is it" "There is now enough public dissatisfaction with Brexit" Victoria Derbyshire, "Nearly half of respondents believe there should be another referendum, a majority think Brexit has not worked" Lewis Goodall, "Labour's biggest problem is not hemorrhaging votes to Reform, it's hemorrhaging votes to the Greens and the LibDems" Poppy Coburn, "It's a no brainer, Labour should campaign to rejoin the European Union" Victoria Derbyshire, "Why would that be a vote winner?" Poppy Coburn, "The people who already left Labour because of Brexit have long since gone, they are not coming back to them, they're never coming back" "Labour need to galvanise the centre left, who at the moment are very dissatisfied by Labour" "They're going towards The Greens and the LibDems" "Going back into the European Union would really upset Nigel Farage, Labour get to paint him as somebody who has already tried and failed, and you get to say this will deal with our growth problems - even though it wont (actually, it will)" "I do know people of my demographic, a little older, who are really dissatisfied with Brexit, because they can see when Britain falls off a cliff 2019/2020, I think mainly because of the pandemic, but it happened the same time as Brexit" "So even though the European Union is suffering, just as much as Britain, if not more so (not quite true). And even though a Customs Union won't give us the growth benefits that is promised (it will)" "A political narrative can be built up that is very powerful" "We don't need a referendum, just go back in - Farage is saying he'll leave the ECHR without a referendum" Lewis Goodall, "The Labour party has the electorate it's got, and it's not the electorate it wants" "It still considers itself as the party of the pit villages, of the South Wales valleys, all these sort of places" "But it's also the party of urban England" Poppy Coburn, "If I could whisper into Keir Starmer's ears I'd say restart the culture wars because you can't win on economics" "Keir Starmer's political career came around by campaigning on rejoining the European Union, he needs to galvanise that base again" "It's the only way he will see off people like Zack Polanski"
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Lewis Goodall, "Farage has Brexit. It is his signature contribution to British political life. He owns it, he is it" "There is now enough public dissatisfaction with Brexit" Victoria Derbyshire, "Nearly half of respondents believe there should be another referendum, a majority think Brexit has not worked" Lewis Goodall, "Labour's biggest problem is not hemorrhaging votes to Reform, it's hemorrhaging votes to the Greens and the LibDems" Poppy Coburn, "It's a no brainer, Labour should campaign to rejoin the European Union" Victoria Derbyshire, "Why would that be a vote winner?" Poppy Coburn, "The people who already left Labour because of Brexit have long since gone, they are not coming back to them, they're never coming back" "Labour need to galvanise the centre left, who at the moment are very dissatisfied by Labour" "They're going towards The Greens and the LibDems" "Going back into the European Union would really upset Nigel Farage, Labour get to paint him as somebody who has already tried and failed, and you get to say this will deal with our growth problems - even though it wont (actually, it will)" "I do know people of my demographic, a little older, who are really dissatisfied with Brexit, because they can see when Britain falls off a cliff 2019/2020, I think mainly because of the pandemic, but it happened the same time as Brexit" "So even though the European Union is suffering, just as much as Britain, if not more so (not quite true). And even though a Customs Union won't give us the growth benefits that is promised (it will)" "A political narrative can be built up that is very powerful" "We don't need a referendum, just go back in - Farage is saying he'll leave the ECHR without a referendum" Lewis Goodall, "The Labour party has the electorate it's got, and it's not the electorate it wants" "It still considers itself as the party of the pit villages, of the South Wales valleys, all these sort of places" "But it's also the party of urban England" Poppy Coburn, "If I could whisper into Keir Starmer's ears I'd say restart the culture wars because you can't win on economics" "Keir Starmer's political career came around by campaigning on rejoining the European Union, he needs to galvanise that base again" "It's the only way he will see off people like Zack Polanski"

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📌 Britain Can’t Rejoin the Customs Union bc Starmer Wants to Keep Donald Trump Happy 👉 Starmer won’t even consider the customs union bc it would “unravel” his trade deal with Trump. Let that sink in. 💥Britain’s economy is flatlining. 💥Exports are dying. 💥Farmers are collapsing under the weight of red tape. 💥Businesses are begging for a customs union. And what is stopping it? Donald Trump. Starmer actually stood in the Commons and said Britain can’t align with Europe bc we must protect concessions given to the US and India on cars and pharmaceuticals. So where does that leave us? 🔻 Stuck outside Europe’s biggest markets 🔻 Trapped in a Brexit tariff regime that helps Trump but hurts Britain 🔻 Watching EU negotiations stall over youth mobility and SPS 🔻 Losing out on major EU defence and industrial programmes 🔻 Still refusing the one fix economists agree on: the customs union This isn’t sovereignty, it is subservience. Britain will eventually rebuild its relationship with Europe. But it won’t happen under a PM who is more worried about upsetting Donald Trump than protecting British jobs.
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📌 Britain Can’t Rejoin the Customs Union bc Starmer Wants to Keep Donald Trump Happy 👉 Starmer won’t even consider the customs union bc it would “unravel” his trade deal with Trump. Let that sink in. 💥Britain’s economy is flatlining. 💥Exports are dying. 💥Farmers are collapsing under the weight of red tape. 💥Businesses are begging for a customs union. And what is stopping it? Donald Trump. Starmer actually stood in the Commons and said Britain can’t align with Europe bc we must protect concessions given to the US and India on cars and pharmaceuticals. So where does that leave us? 🔻 Stuck outside Europe’s biggest markets 🔻 Trapped in a Brexit tariff regime that helps Trump but hurts Britain 🔻 Watching EU negotiations stall over youth mobility and SPS 🔻 Losing out on major EU defence and industrial programmes 🔻 Still refusing the one fix economists agree on: the customs union This isn’t sovereignty, it is subservience. Britain will eventually rebuild its relationship with Europe. But it won’t happen under a PM who is more worried about upsetting Donald Trump than protecting British jobs.

Liz Webster

24,713 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten

John Major effectively calls Labour and the Conservatives cowards over Brexit - must watch "In an act of collective folly, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union" "Across the world our enemies celebrated and our friends despaired" "We left the EU on a minority vote of 37% of the electorate" "After a referendum campaign that was PACKED with misinformation and misjudgement" "It left our country poorer, weaker, and divorced from the richest free trade market that history has ever seen" "National interest brushed aside by false hopes and promises, that even a cabinet dominated by front line Brexit enthusiasts was unable to deliver" "The promises they made, given the opportunity, they were unable to meet" "The gains from Brexit that were promised so confidently, can not be seen to be illusionary" "While the forecast damage of leaving the European Union has become only too apparent" "The nation saw project fear become project reality" "It's no consolation that the majority of the public now overwhelmingly recognises that it was misled" "In their moment of triumph, Brexiters predicted other countries would follow their lead and leave the European Union" "None have" "All saw only too clearly that Brexit was packed with disadvantages" "Far from others leaving the European Union, 9 further nations wish to join the EU" "Which is an apt comment on how the world saw Britain's decision to leave" "The United Kingdom once revelled as a leading member of the European Union with half a billion citizens, and the undoubted first ally of the United States, the world's most eminent superpower" "Today we know we are neither and so does the world" "As we plan for the future we must see ourselves as we now are" "And what we are is 70 million people in a world of 9,000 million" "The UK has a proud history, a wealth of talent, a role in the world that continues to be significant" "So we have much to offer any partner" "Our national assets could make the European Union stronger and better equipped to face the uncertain future that now lingers in front of us" "Our collective future demands a Europe that conducts itself as an economic superpower alongside America and China" "The alternative is to be ever subordinate to the economic whim of America and China - I have no appetite for that" "I know the shortcomings of the European Union, I lived with them for many painful years" "But in a dangerous, uncertain world, with two unpredictable superpowers" "I believe the UK's future is safer and more economically secure, inside a powerful block of neighbour nations, than outside" "There are many barriers to a return to full membership of Europe that will be difficult to overcome" "That said, there are areas we can make a start" "And looking forward the plain truth is, the European Union is too important for the United Kingdom to not be part of its decision making process" "The polls tells us that well over a half of the British electorate now believe it was a mistake to leave the EU" "And less than 1/3 support having done so" "Amongst the young, support for Brexit falls as low as 13%" "That is why it is so disappointing that both government and opposition are so wretchedly timid in their policy ambitions" "Both Labour and Tories are terrified of a residual Brexit vote" "They don't seek to change the minds of those who favour Brexit, by talking about the advantages we have lost and might be able to regain" "They simply hide in a hole and do nothing" "Our economic and political interests, that's not abstract, that's your living standards" "Our economic and political interests could not be clearer, but short term party political calculations is given priority over the national interest" "Brexit is a flop" "It is losing our country £100 billion, not million, £100 billion every year, as well as the tax revenue that would deliver" "Just think about that, every year, every year, the loss of European trade is damaging our finances" "The loss is made greater by some decisions the present Labour government have taken, and that is one reason why we are facing a painful and difficult budget" "Economists agree there will be a cumulative loss to the economy of £311 billion by 2035" "Together with 3 million fewer jobs, and a fall in trade levels with the EU" "As of now its a matter of fact, not conjecture" "Many SMEs have simply been defeated by post Brexit bureaucracy and simply find it no longer profitable to trade with Europe" "It is baffling, baffling, that at a basic minimum labour are not now looking at how to negotiate away such frustrations created by bureaucracy" "New trade deals supposed to cover lost European trade have not done so" "Some are positively damaging, ask the farmers if you disbelieve me" "The much promised mega trade deal swapping American trade with lost European trade promised so frequently and so confidently has never happened, and it shows no sigh of doing so in the future" "We have lost, probably forever, the unique and advantageous deals we had gained in the 1980s and 1990s and I do not believe they cannot be regained" "Without them a full return to the EU is unlikely until a younger generation, pro European politicians come to power, and the Brexiter voice again retreats to the fringes of debate"
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John Major effectively calls Labour and the Conservatives cowards over Brexit - must watch "In an act of collective folly, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union" "Across the world our enemies celebrated and our friends despaired" "We left the EU on a minority vote of 37% of the electorate" "After a referendum campaign that was PACKED with misinformation and misjudgement" "It left our country poorer, weaker, and divorced from the richest free trade market that history has ever seen" "National interest brushed aside by false hopes and promises, that even a cabinet dominated by front line Brexit enthusiasts was unable to deliver" "The promises they made, given the opportunity, they were unable to meet" "The gains from Brexit that were promised so confidently, can not be seen to be illusionary" "While the forecast damage of leaving the European Union has become only too apparent" "The nation saw project fear become project reality" "It's no consolation that the majority of the public now overwhelmingly recognises that it was misled" "In their moment of triumph, Brexiters predicted other countries would follow their lead and leave the European Union" "None have" "All saw only too clearly that Brexit was packed with disadvantages" "Far from others leaving the European Union, 9 further nations wish to join the EU" "Which is an apt comment on how the world saw Britain's decision to leave" "The United Kingdom once revelled as a leading member of the European Union with half a billion citizens, and the undoubted first ally of the United States, the world's most eminent superpower" "Today we know we are neither and so does the world" "As we plan for the future we must see ourselves as we now are" "And what we are is 70 million people in a world of 9,000 million" "The UK has a proud history, a wealth of talent, a role in the world that continues to be significant" "So we have much to offer any partner" "Our national assets could make the European Union stronger and better equipped to face the uncertain future that now lingers in front of us" "Our collective future demands a Europe that conducts itself as an economic superpower alongside America and China" "The alternative is to be ever subordinate to the economic whim of America and China - I have no appetite for that" "I know the shortcomings of the European Union, I lived with them for many painful years" "But in a dangerous, uncertain world, with two unpredictable superpowers" "I believe the UK's future is safer and more economically secure, inside a powerful block of neighbour nations, than outside" "There are many barriers to a return to full membership of Europe that will be difficult to overcome" "That said, there are areas we can make a start" "And looking forward the plain truth is, the European Union is too important for the United Kingdom to not be part of its decision making process" "The polls tells us that well over a half of the British electorate now believe it was a mistake to leave the EU" "And less than 1/3 support having done so" "Amongst the young, support for Brexit falls as low as 13%" "That is why it is so disappointing that both government and opposition are so wretchedly timid in their policy ambitions" "Both Labour and Tories are terrified of a residual Brexit vote" "They don't seek to change the minds of those who favour Brexit, by talking about the advantages we have lost and might be able to regain" "They simply hide in a hole and do nothing" "Our economic and political interests, that's not abstract, that's your living standards" "Our economic and political interests could not be clearer, but short term party political calculations is given priority over the national interest" "Brexit is a flop" "It is losing our country £100 billion, not million, £100 billion every year, as well as the tax revenue that would deliver" "Just think about that, every year, every year, the loss of European trade is damaging our finances" "The loss is made greater by some decisions the present Labour government have taken, and that is one reason why we are facing a painful and difficult budget" "Economists agree there will be a cumulative loss to the economy of £311 billion by 2035" "Together with 3 million fewer jobs, and a fall in trade levels with the EU" "As of now its a matter of fact, not conjecture" "Many SMEs have simply been defeated by post Brexit bureaucracy and simply find it no longer profitable to trade with Europe" "It is baffling, baffling, that at a basic minimum labour are not now looking at how to negotiate away such frustrations created by bureaucracy" "New trade deals supposed to cover lost European trade have not done so" "Some are positively damaging, ask the farmers if you disbelieve me" "The much promised mega trade deal swapping American trade with lost European trade promised so frequently and so confidently has never happened, and it shows no sigh of doing so in the future" "We have lost, probably forever, the unique and advantageous deals we had gained in the 1980s and 1990s and I do not believe they cannot be regained" "Without them a full return to the EU is unlikely until a younger generation, pro European politicians come to power, and the Brexiter voice again retreats to the fringes of debate"

Farrukh

123,210 Aufrufe • vor 8 Monaten

Left: Rachel Johnson who broke covid rules to play tennis repeats Boris Johnson's lie that we had a faster vaccine roll out because of Brexit Right: Dr June Raine explains that the UK was under EU laws at the time, it had nothing to do with Brexit. In fact Hungary, Poland and Slovakia had separate programs in addition to the EU program Rachel Johnson then criticises Brexit repeatedly before saying she's proud of her brother Boris Johnson for delivering Brexit 🤷‍♂️ "A lot of those who did vote to leave.. Have gone to the great Whetherspoons in the sky.. Or the Reform party.. Or are in the House of Lords" "Desmond Swayne saying nobody wants to be part of Europe, the engine is failing. What a c*ck. I mean really, why is Ukraine risking life and limb to be in. the waiting room of room? Why are Georgia and Moldova risking bombs and bullets in order to join the EU?" "The EU is a trading bloc, a security organisation, it was also our oyster, the world was our oyster. We could live, work and travel in any one of those countries" "Brexit saved my marriage, the only benefit of Brexit" "David Cameron never expected to lose the referendum, he expected to win.. Vote Leave never expected to win either" "I"m not speaking against Boris Johnson or my generation at Oxford, they're all friends of mine. I'm proud of my brother.. He got Brexit over the line" "But now the country has got Boris done. We have our blue passports, our pint glasses, but one vote, one referendum cannot bind another" "If we had been in the EU, the UK part of a strong united Europe, think how different the world would be today" "When I was asked to speak tonight.. This was such a no brainer, that I didn't have to write two speeches one in favour, and one against, in order to work out what I've felt. Because I've always felt very strongly that we are better together"
3:09

Left: Rachel Johnson who broke covid rules to play tennis repeats Boris Johnson's lie that we had a faster vaccine roll out because of Brexit Right: Dr June Raine explains that the UK was under EU laws at the time, it had nothing to do with Brexit. In fact Hungary, Poland and Slovakia had separate programs in addition to the EU program Rachel Johnson then criticises Brexit repeatedly before saying she's proud of her brother Boris Johnson for delivering Brexit 🤷‍♂️ "A lot of those who did vote to leave.. Have gone to the great Whetherspoons in the sky.. Or the Reform party.. Or are in the House of Lords" "Desmond Swayne saying nobody wants to be part of Europe, the engine is failing. What a c*ck. I mean really, why is Ukraine risking life and limb to be in. the waiting room of room? Why are Georgia and Moldova risking bombs and bullets in order to join the EU?" "The EU is a trading bloc, a security organisation, it was also our oyster, the world was our oyster. We could live, work and travel in any one of those countries" "Brexit saved my marriage, the only benefit of Brexit" "David Cameron never expected to lose the referendum, he expected to win.. Vote Leave never expected to win either" "I"m not speaking against Boris Johnson or my generation at Oxford, they're all friends of mine. I'm proud of my brother.. He got Brexit over the line" "But now the country has got Boris done. We have our blue passports, our pint glasses, but one vote, one referendum cannot bind another" "If we had been in the EU, the UK part of a strong united Europe, think how different the world would be today" "When I was asked to speak tonight.. This was such a no brainer, that I didn't have to write two speeches one in favour, and one against, in order to work out what I've felt. Because I've always felt very strongly that we are better together"

Farrukh

189,095 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

Nigel Farage, "The main reason this country wisely voted for Brexit in 2016" Heckler, "Because they were lied to" Nigel Farage, "Millions of Labour supporters" Heckler, "Because they were lied to" Nigel Farage, "Is because we wanted to take back control of our borders. So we and we alone can decide who comes and settles in our country" "Does the PM understand that demand today is even more than it was in 2016. We demand, the country demands that you say to the French president" Heckler, "Will you shut up" Nigel Farage, "Will you say to the French president" Heckler, "We were lied to" Nigel Farage, "We will not accept undocumented males across the English channels, and that you are not dictated to by an increasingly arrogant anti-Brexit French" Keir Starmer, "We are fixing the mess we inherited" "We are working with other countries to ensure we take the measures necessary to stop people crossing the channel. These are serious answers to serious problems" "His proposal for ten years, wagging the Tory dog has been to break everything and claim that's how you fix things" "To stick to fingers up at your neighbours, and then expect them to work with us" "And he votes against the borders bill which gives more powers to our law enforcement to deal with securing our borders" "And Mr Speaker, the reason for that is, that he has no interest in fixing the problem, because he wants to milk it and exploit it" "That's the truth about Nigel Farage and the Reform UK party"
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Nigel Farage, "The main reason this country wisely voted for Brexit in 2016" Heckler, "Because they were lied to" Nigel Farage, "Millions of Labour supporters" Heckler, "Because they were lied to" Nigel Farage, "Is because we wanted to take back control of our borders. So we and we alone can decide who comes and settles in our country" "Does the PM understand that demand today is even more than it was in 2016. We demand, the country demands that you say to the French president" Heckler, "Will you shut up" Nigel Farage, "Will you say to the French president" Heckler, "We were lied to" Nigel Farage, "We will not accept undocumented males across the English channels, and that you are not dictated to by an increasingly arrogant anti-Brexit French" Keir Starmer, "We are fixing the mess we inherited" "We are working with other countries to ensure we take the measures necessary to stop people crossing the channel. These are serious answers to serious problems" "His proposal for ten years, wagging the Tory dog has been to break everything and claim that's how you fix things" "To stick to fingers up at your neighbours, and then expect them to work with us" "And he votes against the borders bill which gives more powers to our law enforcement to deal with securing our borders" "And Mr Speaker, the reason for that is, that he has no interest in fixing the problem, because he wants to milk it and exploit it" "That's the truth about Nigel Farage and the Reform UK party"

Farrukh

650,201 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

Left: BBC News, 'We're young - we don't think much about the EU' Right: Young person, Haydn Osborne-Brookes, speaking at the National March for Rejoin, "Us young people want our future back. We want the freedom to travel, work and study across Europe again" #RejoinEU Transcript of full speech, "I remember 2016, when I was only seven, seeing boring old men in suits talk about some far and distant concept, Brexit. But I was all too unaware the effect that Brexit would have on my life and the lives of young people in our country. Politics is failing young people" "We've seen it again and again, year after year. Politicians in there, influencing decisions that seem completely outside of our interests. And Brexit is one of the greatest examples of justice. Anyone born after 1998 had no say in Brexit" "That's almost 20 million people. But we still face the harsh consequences of the UK leaving the eu. We still lost access to schemes across Europe that helped develop and nurture our skills, culture and friendships. We've still lost our freedom to travel, study and work throughout Europe" "And we've still lost a more secure future of cooperation with our European partners. And with the threat of reform and farage on the horizon, a future without these things will seemingly last longer and longer. So it's time that we take back political power into our own hands, because we need to beat reform at the next general election" "And hope must overcome hate. We're here today. We're here today because we believe in a complete reversal of Brexit, a reunification with our European partners" "And we've never needed that more than we do now. Donald Trump has shown just how fragile and futile our so called special relationship with America is. Whilst we rely on them almost entirely for our nuclear deterrent and arms" "With 86% of UK arms, coming from the USA, he threatens to invade our European allies and risk more lives than he's already taken on the international stage. Relying on a country, relying on a country which threatens the sovereignty of our allies" "Now, that's a dangerous position to put our future generations in. But we know the solution. Let's turn back to Europe because we know that we are stronger together. We can work together for a better future for our younger people with Europe" "But I won't stand here and pretend everything's perfect in Europe. It's true that across the continent, the far right has gained a foothold, just like they have here in the UK with Farage. But is that a reason for us to stand aside and watch?" "Is that a reason for us not to work across borders for a fairer future for all? I don't think so. We need to go back into the EU so that our voices are amplified on an international stage, giving us the power to stand up against the far right, Trump and all other threats against us" "Now the government has only taken small minute steps towards Europe. When I was head of campaigns for Young European Movement I was extremely proud that we managed to get a pledge from the government to rejoin Erasmus Plus. But at the end of the day we need radical change for this country and in terms of Europe that radical change is fully rejoining the EU" "So let me make myself absolutely clear. Us young people want our future back. We want the freedom to travel, work and study across Europe again. We want the opportunities brought forward by schemes like Erasmus and Discover EU to open up our futures" "And we want a more secure future with our European partners, not one where we're subject to the whims of Donald Trump in the usa. So let's make some noise and tell Keir Starmer or whoever's going to be in there next week and every single MP sitting in Parliament that we are demanding a second referendum and a full reversal of Brexit now" "Thank you"
4:12

Left: BBC News, 'We're young - we don't think much about the EU' Right: Young person, Haydn Osborne-Brookes, speaking at the National March for Rejoin, "Us young people want our future back. We want the freedom to travel, work and study across Europe again" #RejoinEU Transcript of full speech, "I remember 2016, when I was only seven, seeing boring old men in suits talk about some far and distant concept, Brexit. But I was all too unaware the effect that Brexit would have on my life and the lives of young people in our country. Politics is failing young people" "We've seen it again and again, year after year. Politicians in there, influencing decisions that seem completely outside of our interests. And Brexit is one of the greatest examples of justice. Anyone born after 1998 had no say in Brexit" "That's almost 20 million people. But we still face the harsh consequences of the UK leaving the eu. We still lost access to schemes across Europe that helped develop and nurture our skills, culture and friendships. We've still lost our freedom to travel, study and work throughout Europe" "And we've still lost a more secure future of cooperation with our European partners. And with the threat of reform and farage on the horizon, a future without these things will seemingly last longer and longer. So it's time that we take back political power into our own hands, because we need to beat reform at the next general election" "And hope must overcome hate. We're here today. We're here today because we believe in a complete reversal of Brexit, a reunification with our European partners" "And we've never needed that more than we do now. Donald Trump has shown just how fragile and futile our so called special relationship with America is. Whilst we rely on them almost entirely for our nuclear deterrent and arms" "With 86% of UK arms, coming from the USA, he threatens to invade our European allies and risk more lives than he's already taken on the international stage. Relying on a country, relying on a country which threatens the sovereignty of our allies" "Now, that's a dangerous position to put our future generations in. But we know the solution. Let's turn back to Europe because we know that we are stronger together. We can work together for a better future for our younger people with Europe" "But I won't stand here and pretend everything's perfect in Europe. It's true that across the continent, the far right has gained a foothold, just like they have here in the UK with Farage. But is that a reason for us to stand aside and watch?" "Is that a reason for us not to work across borders for a fairer future for all? I don't think so. We need to go back into the EU so that our voices are amplified on an international stage, giving us the power to stand up against the far right, Trump and all other threats against us" "Now the government has only taken small minute steps towards Europe. When I was head of campaigns for Young European Movement I was extremely proud that we managed to get a pledge from the government to rejoin Erasmus Plus. But at the end of the day we need radical change for this country and in terms of Europe that radical change is fully rejoining the EU" "So let me make myself absolutely clear. Us young people want our future back. We want the freedom to travel, work and study across Europe again. We want the opportunities brought forward by schemes like Erasmus and Discover EU to open up our futures" "And we want a more secure future with our European partners, not one where we're subject to the whims of Donald Trump in the usa. So let's make some noise and tell Keir Starmer or whoever's going to be in there next week and every single MP sitting in Parliament that we are demanding a second referendum and a full reversal of Brexit now" "Thank you"

Farrukh

15,699 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

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.
0:58

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 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

VIDEO | Talking on whether India will stop buying Russian oil as claimed by the US, foreign secretary Vikram Misri says the country is neither dependent on any single source for this, nor intend to be. He says, "You are aware that India is a net importer in the oil and gas sector. We are a developing economy; we have to be conscious about our resource availability. Naturally, when you are dependent to the extent of 80–85% on an imported resource, you have to have concerns about the possibility of inflation driven by energy costs. So, it’s not surprising therefore that our foremost priority is to safeguard the interests of Indian consumers insofar as energy is concerned—to really ensure that they receive adequate energy at the right price and through reliable and secure supplies. And our import policy insofar as energy is concerned is therefore driven entirely by these objectives. Now, you would also have observed that in recent years, the global economy has faced significant uncertainties which have had a major impact on the stability of global energy markets... We are neither dependent on any single source for this, nor do we intend to be. And it is natural for the mix of sources to vary from time to time, depending on objective market conditions. Our approach is to maintain multiple sources of supply and diversify them as appropriate to ensure stability. Therefore, I would say that the more diversified we are in this area, the more secure we are. So far, as actual sourcing of energy is concerned—again, all of you follow this closely, so you know that the actual sourcing is done by oil companies. Oil companies in the public sector, oil companies in the private sector. And they make decisions based on market conditions. They assess availability at any given point in time, they assess risks, they assess costs in this process. And obviously, all of these companies also have their own internal accountability-related processes to look at and certain fiduciary responsibilities in the market..."
5:45

VIDEO | Talking on whether India will stop buying Russian oil as claimed by the US, foreign secretary Vikram Misri says the country is neither dependent on any single source for this, nor intend to be. He says, "You are aware that India is a net importer in the oil and gas sector. We are a developing economy; we have to be conscious about our resource availability. Naturally, when you are dependent to the extent of 80–85% on an imported resource, you have to have concerns about the possibility of inflation driven by energy costs. So, it’s not surprising therefore that our foremost priority is to safeguard the interests of Indian consumers insofar as energy is concerned—to really ensure that they receive adequate energy at the right price and through reliable and secure supplies. And our import policy insofar as energy is concerned is therefore driven entirely by these objectives. Now, you would also have observed that in recent years, the global economy has faced significant uncertainties which have had a major impact on the stability of global energy markets... We are neither dependent on any single source for this, nor do we intend to be. And it is natural for the mix of sources to vary from time to time, depending on objective market conditions. Our approach is to maintain multiple sources of supply and diversify them as appropriate to ensure stability. Therefore, I would say that the more diversified we are in this area, the more secure we are. So far, as actual sourcing of energy is concerned—again, all of you follow this closely, so you know that the actual sourcing is done by oil companies. Oil companies in the public sector, oil companies in the private sector. And they make decisions based on market conditions. They assess availability at any given point in time, they assess risks, they assess costs in this process. And obviously, all of these companies also have their own internal accountability-related processes to look at and certain fiduciary responsibilities in the market..."

Press Trust of India

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Victoria Derbyshire repeatedly asks Ed Davey why the LibDems won't say they're rejoin the EU like the Greens say. His responses are massively disappointing. VD, "Why is it that the Greens are saying they would rejoin the EU and not the Liberal Democrats, who've traditionally been the most pro European party?" ED, "We are very pro European and I've led the debate in Parliament. For example, I was the party leader who talked about having a new customs union between the UK not rejoining fully" "Let me finish one. Well, because we need to be able to do practical things that will help grow our economy now" "And one thing that you need to recognise, uh, when we have these political debates, is we have to work with Europe" "Europe does no longer trust our country, which is incredibly sad" VD, "I don't understand why the Lib Dems are not saying, yeah, we'll rejoin fully" ED, "Well, we are talking about building that trust back so that in the future we have all options on the table" "But at the moment, the trust in Europe, I tell you, after what happened with Brexit, what happened particularly with the Conservatives, there's no trust there anymore" "One has to build that back in the practical, real world. So the Customs Union" VD, "Well, let me just tell you what a recent poll by YouGov and best for Britain suggests, which suggests a majority of people here support rejoining the EU" "Whatever you say about trust, more people here want to rejoin" ED, "And that is really good that people now realize the costs of Brexit, supported by Nigel Farage reform and the Conservatives are very, very high" "It's hurt our economy" VD, "So why not say, yeah, we'll rejoin" ED. "Well, I'm talking about really close relationship with Europe, whether it's on the customs union, whether it's on a youth mobility scheme we are, uh, pushing" VD, "Why not rejoin? Why not offer that to the British people?" ED, "Well, because I don't think that's practical with Europe. Europe at the moment doesn't trust us. You have to rebuild that trust" VD, "Do you ever look at what Zach Polanski has achieved since September when he became leader of the Greens, and wonder if it's time for someone else to take over the Lib Dems?" ED "No, There are parties on the extremes that reform and the Greens who say things that I think are really crazy. That's not my politics. They're very noisy. That's not my politics. My politics is to put forward really sensible ways of improving the lives of, whether it's, ah, really growing our economy through a practical, renewed, close relationship with Europe, whether it's sorting out our NHS through, uh, supporting social care and family carers" "Only the Liberal Democrats keep talking about that, whether it's actually standing up to Trump we're the only party in Parliament who've stood up to Trump and put forward alternative ideas about how we can have our defense relationships, our trading relationships when Trump is pulling away from being a close, uh, ally" VD, "And what did you think of Sir Ed Davey's responses about, rejoining the eu?" Gillian Tett, "I think he's being cautious because he's hoping to attract soft Tories in the future" "I think it's a huge mistake because no one knows what the Liberal Democrats really stand for right now other than being rude about President Trump and they need to distinguish themselves because it's a very crowded field in terms of the number of political parties" "The bitter irony is that many British people are actually centrist" "The Liberal Democrats are arguably the most centrist of all" "But if they don't stand out from the pack, no one will actually go and vote for them in numbers.
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Victoria Derbyshire repeatedly asks Ed Davey why the LibDems won't say they're rejoin the EU like the Greens say. His responses are massively disappointing. VD, "Why is it that the Greens are saying they would rejoin the EU and not the Liberal Democrats, who've traditionally been the most pro European party?" ED, "We are very pro European and I've led the debate in Parliament. For example, I was the party leader who talked about having a new customs union between the UK not rejoining fully" "Let me finish one. Well, because we need to be able to do practical things that will help grow our economy now" "And one thing that you need to recognise, uh, when we have these political debates, is we have to work with Europe" "Europe does no longer trust our country, which is incredibly sad" VD, "I don't understand why the Lib Dems are not saying, yeah, we'll rejoin fully" ED, "Well, we are talking about building that trust back so that in the future we have all options on the table" "But at the moment, the trust in Europe, I tell you, after what happened with Brexit, what happened particularly with the Conservatives, there's no trust there anymore" "One has to build that back in the practical, real world. So the Customs Union" VD, "Well, let me just tell you what a recent poll by YouGov and best for Britain suggests, which suggests a majority of people here support rejoining the EU" "Whatever you say about trust, more people here want to rejoin" ED, "And that is really good that people now realize the costs of Brexit, supported by Nigel Farage reform and the Conservatives are very, very high" "It's hurt our economy" VD, "So why not say, yeah, we'll rejoin" ED. "Well, I'm talking about really close relationship with Europe, whether it's on the customs union, whether it's on a youth mobility scheme we are, uh, pushing" VD, "Why not rejoin? Why not offer that to the British people?" ED, "Well, because I don't think that's practical with Europe. Europe at the moment doesn't trust us. You have to rebuild that trust" VD, "Do you ever look at what Zach Polanski has achieved since September when he became leader of the Greens, and wonder if it's time for someone else to take over the Lib Dems?" ED "No, There are parties on the extremes that reform and the Greens who say things that I think are really crazy. That's not my politics. They're very noisy. That's not my politics. My politics is to put forward really sensible ways of improving the lives of, whether it's, ah, really growing our economy through a practical, renewed, close relationship with Europe, whether it's sorting out our NHS through, uh, supporting social care and family carers" "Only the Liberal Democrats keep talking about that, whether it's actually standing up to Trump we're the only party in Parliament who've stood up to Trump and put forward alternative ideas about how we can have our defense relationships, our trading relationships when Trump is pulling away from being a close, uh, ally" VD, "And what did you think of Sir Ed Davey's responses about, rejoining the eu?" Gillian Tett, "I think he's being cautious because he's hoping to attract soft Tories in the future" "I think it's a huge mistake because no one knows what the Liberal Democrats really stand for right now other than being rude about President Trump and they need to distinguish themselves because it's a very crowded field in terms of the number of political parties" "The bitter irony is that many British people are actually centrist" "The Liberal Democrats are arguably the most centrist of all" "But if they don't stand out from the pack, no one will actually go and vote for them in numbers.

Farrukh

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🚨 THE WAR IN IRAN ISN'T A DISTRACTION: ITS A RESET OF THE GLOBAL POWER MAP WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP AT THE FOREFRONT🚨 Starmer can sign defense papers and talk about Ukraine all he wants, but he has no oil, no gas, and no real leverage. Zelensky knows the game is over. The war in Iran is exposing the truth: the old British-directed proxy war in Ukraine is collapsing in real time. Europe sabotaged its own energy. Britain can’t pay for it. The United States has moved on to bigger things. The new Middle East is being reshaped by sovereign nations — Gulf States, Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan — working with Trump’s America First agenda. They said President Trump had no strategy. The map says otherwise. This is the end of the old world order. A new era of real sovereignty led by President Trump is here. 🇺🇸
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🚨 THE WAR IN IRAN ISN'T A DISTRACTION: ITS A RESET OF THE GLOBAL POWER MAP WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP AT THE FOREFRONT🚨 Starmer can sign defense papers and talk about Ukraine all he wants, but he has no oil, no gas, and no real leverage. Zelensky knows the game is over. The war in Iran is exposing the truth: the old British-directed proxy war in Ukraine is collapsing in real time. Europe sabotaged its own energy. Britain can’t pay for it. The United States has moved on to bigger things. The new Middle East is being reshaped by sovereign nations — Gulf States, Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan — working with Trump’s America First agenda. They said President Trump had no strategy. The map says otherwise. This is the end of the old world order. A new era of real sovereignty led by President Trump is here. 🇺🇸

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Finally, someone is calling out Trump for being a total putin puppet! “I think and I have always thought that the President of the United States is simply an asset of vladimir putin.” - Carlo Calenda, Italian Senator. “I want to tell the people who are listening to us and who are not here today, that Ukraine is Europe. It defends Europe. It defends the last remnants of freedom that there are, which is the European freedom, of Europeans and Ukrainians together. There is no individual freedom without a collective freedom. The battle for Ukraine is a battle for Europe, but it is also a battle for us, to feel that there is a commitment towards something greater than themselves. The guys who go to fight in Ukraine don't do it for themselves. They go there for the freedom of all. I think and I have always thought that the President of the United States is simply an asset of Vladimir Putin. I don't think this will change. I think this will remain. And it is the appointment with history that Europe has. Europe will be born at this moment if it has the strength to fight two enemies, one to the East and one to the West. They both have the same objective: to dismember the European Union, to subjugate it, to make us vassals. If Europe has the strength to constitute its own European NATO to keep putin away and not be harassed by Trump, which Trump has already started to do, well, Europe will be born as a great nation, a great nation that will include Ukraine. If we lose this appointment with history, we will lose everything.” #Italy
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Finally, someone is calling out Trump for being a total putin puppet! “I think and I have always thought that the President of the United States is simply an asset of vladimir putin.” - Carlo Calenda, Italian Senator. “I want to tell the people who are listening to us and who are not here today, that Ukraine is Europe. It defends Europe. It defends the last remnants of freedom that there are, which is the European freedom, of Europeans and Ukrainians together. There is no individual freedom without a collective freedom. The battle for Ukraine is a battle for Europe, but it is also a battle for us, to feel that there is a commitment towards something greater than themselves. The guys who go to fight in Ukraine don't do it for themselves. They go there for the freedom of all. I think and I have always thought that the President of the United States is simply an asset of Vladimir Putin. I don't think this will change. I think this will remain. And it is the appointment with history that Europe has. Europe will be born at this moment if it has the strength to fight two enemies, one to the East and one to the West. They both have the same objective: to dismember the European Union, to subjugate it, to make us vassals. If Europe has the strength to constitute its own European NATO to keep putin away and not be harassed by Trump, which Trump has already started to do, well, Europe will be born as a great nation, a great nation that will include Ukraine. If we lose this appointment with history, we will lose everything.” #Italy

Yasmina

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