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Okay:
- Attached bottlecap
- Schengen, expanded to Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria
- The euro joined by Croatia and Bulgaria
- Air passenger rights (older, 2004, newly updated 2025)
- Galileo satellite navigation
- EU-Canada trade deal (CETA)
- EU-Mercosur trade deal
- EU-Japan trade deal
- EU-Singapore trade deal
- EU-Vietnam trade deal
- EU-Indonesia trade deal
- End of roaming charges, extended to 2032
- Price cap on calls and texts to other EU countries
- USB-C common charger
- Geo-blocking ban for online shopping
- Streaming subscriptions that work abroad
- Payment Services Directive (PSD2), no card surcharges and open banking
- Instant payments regulation
- EU Digital Identity Wallet
- eCall automatic crash alert in new cars
- Automatic emergency braking in new cars
- EU-Alert emergency warnings on phones
- Single Digital Gateway for cross-border admin
- No more apostille stamps between member states
- WiFi4EU free public wifi
- DiscoverEU free Interrail passes for 18-year-olds
- Erasmus+ (older, 2014), budget nearly doubled
- European Universities alliances
- European Solidarity Corps
- EU Digital COVID Certificate
- Joint COVID vaccine procurement
- Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority (HERA)
- EU4Health
- Europe's Beating Cancer Plan
- European Health Data Space
- NextGenerationEU joint borrowing
- SURE short-time work loans
- 15% global minimum corporate tax
- European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR 3), euro clearing back in the EU
- Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA)
- European Green Bond Standard
- Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) on defence
- European Defence Fund
- European Peace Facility arms for Ukraine
- EU military training mission for Ukrainian troops
- Act in Support of Ammunition Production (ASAP)
- Strategic Compass and the 5,000-strong rapid deployment capacity
- European Defence Industrial Strategy
- Security Action for Europe (SAFE), €150bn joint defence loans
- ReArm Europe / Readiness 2030
- First ever Commissioner for Defence and Space
- Military mobility funding
- IRIS² sovereign satellite constellation
- EU Space Programme and the EU Agency for the Space Programme
- rescEU shared firefighting fleet
- 5G security toolbox
- Foreign investment screening
- Foreign Subsidies Regulation
- International Procurement Instrument
- Anti-Coercion Instrument
- Dual-use export control regulation
- Temporary protection for Ukrainian refugees
- Candidate status and accession talks for Ukraine and Moldova
- Ukraine Facility
- €90bn joint-borrowing loan to Ukraine
- Sanctions on Russia (older, 2014), big packages from 2022
- Russian banks cut from SWIFT
- Russian oil embargo and oil price cap
- Russian gas import phase-out
- Western Balkans Growth Plan
- Global Gateway
- REPowerEU
- Gas storage regulation
- Joint gas buying through AggregateEU
- Coordinated gas demand cut
- Windfall levy on fossil energy profits
- Electricity market reform
- European Climate Law, net zero by 2050
- Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM)
- Emissions Trading System reform and the Social Climate Fund
- Renewable Energy Directive, 42.5% by 2030
- European Wind Power Package
- European Hydrogen Bank
- Methane regulation
- Nature Restoration Law
- Ambient air quality directive
- Drinking water directive
- Urban wastewater directive, polluter pays
- Critical Raw Materials Act (CRMA)
- Conflict minerals regulation
- European Chips Act
- Net-Zero Industry Act
- Batteries Regulation with battery passport
- European Battery Alliance
- Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEI) on batteries and hydrogen
- EuroHPC supercomputers, including JUPITER
- InvestAI and the AI gigafactories
- Horizon Europe and the European Innovation Council
- Ecodesign regulation, no destroying unsold clothes
- Right to repair
- Ban on products made with forced labour
- Ban on vague greenwashing claims
- General Product Safety Regulation
- Common Agricultural Policy (older, 1962), current version 2023 to 2027
- Unfair trading practices directive protecting farmers
- Geographical indications reform for food, wine and spirits
- EU-China agreement protecting European regional products
- Geographical indications for crafts, like Murano glass and Delft Blue
- Creative Europe (older, 2014), current programme 2021
- Culture Moves Europe grants for artists
- Music Moves Europe
- European Year of Cultural Heritage
- European Capitals of Culture (older, 1985)
- New European Bauhaus
- European Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage
- Ban on importing looted cultural goods
- 30% European content on streaming platforms
- Culture Compass for Europe
- European Media Freedom Act
- Anti-SLAPP directive protecting journalists
- European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO)
- Rule of law conditionality on EU funds
- Annual Rule of Law Report
- Article 7 against Hungary
- Whistleblower protection directive
- European Labour Authority
- Work-life balance directive, paternity leave
- Adequate minimum wages directive
- Pay transparency directive
- Women on boards directive
- Violence against women directive
- European Child Guarantee
- European Accessibility Act
- European Disability Card
- Rail passenger rights (older, 2007), recast 2021
- Trans-European Transport Network (older), revised 2024
- Single Market Emergency Instrument
- EU Inc (proposed)
- Digital euro (in negotiation)
- Next EU budget at close to €2 trillion (proposed)
- European Competitiveness Fund (proposed)
- AgoraEU culture and media programme (proposed)
- Savings and Investments Union (proposed)
- European supervision of big stock exchanges and crypto firms (proposed)
- Scaleup Europe Fund (launching)
- Startup and Scaleup Strategy
- Digital Omnibus simplification (proposed)
- European Business Wallet (proposed)
- European Innovation Act (expected)
- Quantum Act (expected)
- Cloud and AI Development Act (expected)
- Chips Act 2.0 (expected)
- Biotech Act (proposed)
- Advanced Materials Act (expected)
- Industrial Accelerator Act (expected)
- Circular Economy Act (expected)
- Critical Medicines Act (proposed)
- EU Space Act (proposed)
- European Grids Package (proposed)
- 2040 climate target of 90% (in negotiation)
- European Defence Industry Programme (EDIP)
- Defence Readiness Omnibus (proposed)
- Military mobility package (proposed)
- European Drone Defence Initiative and Eastern Flank Watch
- High-speed rail linking European capitals (plan)
- Single cross-border train ticketing (expected)
- EU Customs Authority (in negotiation)
- European Affordable Housing Plan
- Union of Skills and cross-border recognition of qualifications
- EU-India trade deal (in negotiation)
- Montenegro and Albania accession
- Qualified majority voting in foreign policy (under discussion)
Sam Wolf retweeted
Can't see the full @HeracleanVision article in which he included these fake stats.
But this bit is hilarious. He suggests the press only thought Ben Delo was corrupt because he works with crypto.
No - it's coz the dude pled GUILTY to helping MONEY-LAUNDERERS for fuck's sake.🤣
Sam Wolf retweeted
The ULEZ and the electrification of public transport has transformed London from “the Big Smog” to one of the cleanest major cities on the planet.
This has saved thousands of lives.
And to think, the right-wing campaigned vigorously against this.
Sam Wolf retweeted
Tommy Robinson trial day
Russell brand trial ongoing
Danny tommo in prison
Tate brothers in prison
Joey Barton in prison
Winning
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News: The French are rioting over high cost of living and under-resourced high schools.
The rioters: Yes, that's what we are rioting over.
The French government: Yupp, they're rioting over that.
Everyone: Yepp, that's whats happening.
The far right: Da Blacks! Da Muzlims!
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Remember that time Channel 4 went undercover in Momentum, and all they came up with was a possible breach of the Data Protection Act which turned out not to be one?
Or the BBC's relentless attacks and "reporting", including that atrocious Panorama programme?
Or the time the Beeb was investigating Labour in Brighton?
Or the time - that one was hilarious actually - when they thought Labour were going to bomb the 2017 GE and followed Corbyn-loathing MPs about during the campaign then were obliged to make the decision to either trash their programme altogether or show the world how ridiculous those MPs were (thankfully they did the latter, but that programme has disappeared into a deep dark vault never to be seen again now).
All these awful people trying to defend the indefensible, pretending they are the only political party that has ever been targetted in this way, seem to have a complete amnesia about the years 2015-2019 and the media attacks on Corbyn and Labour which they very likely participated in themselves.
Your boys were caught behaving exactly how anyone who has ever met them knows they behave in real life.
We despise them for their 1970's "Carry On, Be Sexist and Racist" behaviour. They are the result of too much time spent in the toilet with a Nuts magazine when they were younger.
Cry more. What goes around comes around.
THE comments made by certain Reform councillors in ITV's expose are horrendous. However, if dozens of undercover reporters spent a year desperately trying to record awful stuff said by people from other political parties, they would be able to find plenty of idiots, racists, misogynists and even extremists. Sad but true.
Sam Wolf retweeted
For those who don't understand statistical inference, let me help out:
If ITV gets meaningful access to 10 Reform representatives and 7 of them turn out to be utter scumbags, Reform can’t reasonably defend itself by saying, ‘There are thousands of representatives and only 7 are bad.’ The relevant figure is 7 out of the 10 representatives ITV actually investigated: 70%. The size of the wider organisation doesn’t change the result of the sample.
Sam Wolf retweeted
Here is the simplest way to understand how the populist politics of the likes of Reform and Restore work:
Imagine 200 people are waiting for NHS treatment. One is an illegal migrant.
You convince the other 199 that the reason they cannot get better access to the NHS is that one person.
Suddenly, you don’t need to propose policies addressing decades of underinvestment, workforce shortages, capacity problems and inefficiencies. You just announce a policy to deport that one migrant and present it as the solution.
Now apply the same logic to crime.
Constantly highlight crimes involving migrants until people start to believe that migrants are responsible for crime generally. Then, when people ask how you will solve crime, the answer is simple: deport the migrants.
Housing? Blame migrants.
Public services? Blame migrants.
Pressure on infrastructure? Blame migrants.
The appeal is obvious. Complex problems that require complicated, expensive and sometimes uncomfortable solutions are reduced to a single identifiable group that can be blamed.
But then you add another part to the strategy.
You relentlessly attack the government that is actually trying to deal with those underlying problems.
First, you claim they are doing nothing about migration, even when the available statistics show that migration & asylum numbers are falling.
When that same government makes difficult decisions to address the wider structural problems, such as raising taxes to fund public services, you present those decisions as an attack on ordinary British people.
So you create a perfect political trap.
Blame the migrant for the problem.
Blame the government for not removing the migrant.
Blame the government again when it takes the difficult decisions necessary to address the real underlying issues.
By the time the population have voted you into power, it's too late for them to realise you didn't actually have any viable policies. You now have all the power and you can start delivering on all the promises you made to your wealthy donors, and those who voted you in are left scratching their heads, wondering why everything got even worse.
Sam Wolf retweeted
Boris Johnson's grandparents were Turkish, French, German and Russian/American Jewish, you "Muppet".
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Sam Wolf retweeted
Another dumb brainwashed American idiot. Per capita, the US knife homicide rate is about 0.46 to 0.50 per 100,000 people, against roughly 0.29 in England and Wales, so Americans are around 1.6 to 1.7 times more likely to be killed with a knife. The US firearm homicide rate in 2024 was about 4.5 per 100,000 (15,364 deaths, per Johns Hopkins analysis of CDC data), against roughly 0.05 per 100,000 in England and Wales (32 firearm homicides in the year ending March 2025), making Americans around 90 times more likely to be shot dead.
Sam Wolf retweeted
1. Correct—the 1951 Convention does not require claims in the first safe country. Article 31 shields from penalties for irregular entry if coming directly from threat, but “directly” is interpreted flexibly; safe-third-country rules are national policy choices.
2. Yes, Brexit ended UK Eurodac access, restricting prior-claim data.
3. Asylum cannot be claimed from overseas. Limited resettlement and sponsorship schemes exist (UKRS reopened 2026) but are capped and selective, not open routes for all.
4. Agreed: enforceable borders and human-rights obligations can coexist.
Sam Wolf retweeted
We'll have a full analysis of the Conservatives' proposed inheritance tax cuts tomorrow. But, for now, three charts.
1. Who would benefit from the cuts?
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Matt Goodwin demanded to be fact-checked live on air when he claimed the UK spent "£100 million PER YEAR on family planning and condoms in Pakistan".
He then 'corrected' himself to £74.3 million, saying it was based on a "major news story from October 2025"
He was, of course, still wrong...
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ALT Screenshot of LBC tweet: How much has the UK actually spent on condoms in Pakistan? Henry Riley is sceptical about Matt Goodwin's numbers so the reform politician calls himself to be fact-checked live on air.
Sam Wolf retweeted
As one of the leaders of BeLeave, who illegally overspent money during the EU Referendum Campaign for Cummings and Johnson, Tom Harwood’s take on Brexit is like asking Ronnie Biggs to give an impartial history of the Great Train Robbery
The original sin of Brexit was not allowing Vote Leave to own the project after victory.
In wrestling power from the people who won the referendum, insane internal machinations within the Parliamentary Conservative Party prevented those who campaigned for the outcome from delivering that outcome.
From the start the whole project was decapitated.
And so here we are now, ten years on, having repealed precious little EU law, pursuing no supply side reform, indeed still building a £125m bat tunnel in order that HS2 abide by the retained EU Habitats Directive.
For the best part of a decade the political class stole the victory from the people.
And now they have the temerity to say their own failure is actually the fault of the people for wanting an independent country.
Sam Wolf retweeted
If you are contemplating comparing the listing of a 15 minute magistrates court first appearance with a full blown crown court murder trial with KCs and likely HC judge then don’t. You will only make yourself look as silly as this person has.
