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🇪🇺🇬🇧 It is closer than ever
The EU will offer flexibility on Schengen and the pound if Britain returns.
Removing those two obstacles would bring support for rejoining close to 65%.
In November, the EU will put these proposals to Burnham
Labour leads on 32%, with its pro-European position helping drive that support.
Rejoining the EU must be in Labour’s manifesto at the next British general election.
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🚨Jason Wilcox and Omar Berrada’s MASTERCLASS planing at Manchester United:
• Spending £70m on a player who was being benched by 40-year-old James Milner last season and call him biggest signing of the summer while he is still a project.
• Spending £50m on a physically weak Chelsea substitute.
• Signing a slow, unathletic 29-year-old Tielemans just because he had a release clause.
• Going into the season WITHOUT a fit striker.
• Handing the managerial job to someone completely out of his depth — [With all respect to Carrick as player]
• Failing to replace our absolutely AWFUL left-back and right-back options.
• Bringing Marcus Rashford back.
This wasn’t bad luck. This was SHOCKING squad planning and INCOMPETENCE at the highest level.
#MUFC
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Given the PM has said this is a time for honest discussions, might we please consider how much Brexit has contributed to this £49bn black hole?
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Every United fan needs to call this out.
Sure, Bruno isn’t playing great right now. Doesn’t mean they got to rewrite history.
Every single player in the team loves Bruno. Just ask them. He takes interest in the youth team. Mentors young players, friends with senior players. We have seen numerous examples of this. People still don’t know how much he does behind the scenes for this club.
Put some respect to his name. Call that toxic Carragher out.
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Brexit has been catastrophic. It's time to rejoin the EU.
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🚨 @LBC caller, Steve, campaigned for Brexit bc he believed EU workers were stealing British jobs.
“I was wrong, and I'll, I put my hand up to that.”
He also admits that Remain campaign told the truth.
The truth is that our birthrate has been in decline for decades and we need immigration to support the large ageing population.
Britain needs immigration.
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👏 Peter Kellner hit the nail on the Brexit head:
“Brexiters will continue to say we were right to leave the EU. But only if they include the dead, exclude the young and ignore buyers’ remorse can they still claim to have democracy on their side.”
🥳 The pro-EU majority continues to grow and deepen.
7m new voters have reached voting age since 2016 and oppose Brexit by about 5:1.
Allowing for turnout, Peter Kellner estimates 3.5m new pro-EU voters versus 700,000 new pro-Brexit voters.
Even if nobody from 2016 had changed their mind, that demographic shift alone would now produce roughly a 55–45 majority for EU membership.
Then add switching: around 5m voters have changed their minds, and roughly three-quarters of them moved from Leave to Rejoin.
Put together, Kellner arrives at:
🇪🇺 Rejoin 63%
🇬🇧 Stay out 37%
A majority of almost 9 million.
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In 2016 the Conservative Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said,
"The only country that would like us to leave the EU is Russia"
In 2026 the former Head of MI6 Sir John Sawers said,
"Russia was very keen that the Leave campaign should succeed and that Britain should leave the European Union. Because that would marginalise Britain as a global player and weaken Europe in general"
"That's the strategic opportunity the Russians spotted, and the leaders of the Leave campaign fell into it"
My view:
The warning was there before the referendum: Moscow had a clear interest in Britain breaking with Europe. A decade later, a former head of MI6 has explained why — a divided Europe and a Britain pushed to the margins would serve Russia’s strategic interests.
It does show that the Kremlin saw Brexit as an opportunity to weaken both Britain and the European Union, and was keen for Leave to win.
The damage was predictable: less British influence in Europe, more friction between allies and a weaker collective response to Russian aggression.
Brexit handed Moscow the kind of division it wanted.
The leaders of Leave may have believed they were restoring Britain’s power. In reality, they pursued a course that played directly into Russia’s hands, and the country is still living with the consequences: weaker, worse off, with escalated societal tensions.
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No amount of support for Russia can end the war, because Russia is the criminal aggressor. A modicum of support for Ukraine could, however, end the war, by making it impossible for Russia to continue. This should not be a hard choice.
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🚨 Goldman Sachs has put numbers on Brexit choices.
Current Brexit deal: +0.3% GDP
Customs union: +1%
Single Market: up to +5%
Full EU membership: up to +6%
And Goldman estimates the UK economy is already around 6% smaller than its counterfactual path since the 2016 referendum.
Non wonder the debate is changing. The further Britain moves back towards Europe, the larger the potential economic dividend.
Brexit was sold as a growth strategy, but now 10 years later, the growth strategy is undoing Brexit asap.
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Players demoralised by lack of investment and the horrible atmosphere amongst workers and staff at OT, Carrington created by 'Best In Class' - Carrington xitter.gq/UtdJournalist/status/2…
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It looks like Putin told Trump that Ukraine was causing high gas prices, a lie that is convenient for Trump. Obviously it’s Trump’s war in Iran that is the issue. But Trump can’t accept that.
So now Trump wants to give Putin a lot of money for Russian diesel, which won’t do anything to markets and won’t even help him in the midterms, though I bet Putin told him it would.
But since Russia and Iran are allies, the shift in US policy and any US taxpayer money that Trump gives Putin will help both the Russian war on Ukraine as well as the regime in Iran. Trump got his pocket picked as usual but the money is ours and the deeper price is the visible shift of US policy to support Russia’s war of aggression.
In other words, Trump makes the world more dangerous by extending two wars and gets nothing in return, not even for himself (unless there was a side deal, which can’t be ruled out).
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Zelenskyy: "When our strikes reached Yandex data centers, it suddenly became little easier to breathe on many social media platforms. Many people noticed it.
There was less hate, less division, fewer provocations because there were fewer bots. It's pretty clear where those bots were coming from.
If they disappeared when Yandex went offline, this proves once again that Europe is not the source of the problems."
The big problem is that Russia figured out how modern society consumes information a decade ago, but the West hasn't.
There are millions of bots commenting and posting Russian propaganda. There are paid influencers spreading it, with Russian bots supporting their content.
There is a gigantic machine operating to radicalize and influence Western societies, and there is not enough defense in place.
It doesn't just influence elections, it sows discord, engulfs societies in culture wars, radicalizes teenagers, and shapes political decisions when elected officials fail to read the room.
That needs to change. And fast.
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When Ukraine destroys Russian data centers, hoards of aggressive right-wing bots disappear, and Twitter becomes much friendlier. Isn’t that interesting? So much of our politics is driven by the internet, and so much of the internet is driven by Russians who want to hurt us. Shouldn’t we do something about that, given that we know it?
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🚨 Former MI6 chief Sir Richard Moore says he is “very confident” Russia would have interfered in the Brexit debate and would be surprised if there had been no Russian activity.
This really matters bc Farage is still insisting there was no interference at all.
The argument now isn’t whether Russia has a history of manipulating divisive Western political issues, the former head of MI6 says that is exactly what they do.
The unanswered question is what they did in 2016, who knew about it, and why Britain never properly investigated it.
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So this is obviously the official pushback to the line on Russian interference & it’s the same nonsense that Boris Johnson spouted: ‘no successful interference’ is utterly meaningless. There’s never been any investigation & no definition of what ‘success’ means.
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🔥 At last, a Prime Minister prepared to identify the architect of Britain’s lost decade.
@andyburnham says Nigel Farage bears significant responsibility for ten years of division and drift and he is right.
Farage promised Brexit would deliver economic freedom and control of our borders. Instead, it weakened growth, erected barriers with our largest market and destroyed the European cooperation Britain relied upon to manage migration.
Farage now says reopening the Brexit debate is a gift to him. Good. Let him defend the damage.
This time, he cannot campaign against an imaginary future. He must answer for the country Brexit actually created.
Andy Burnham says he holds Nigel Farage 'significantly responsible' for UK's miserable decade
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