People using the “genocide Joe” hashtag as an excuse for a protest vote should look at #Brexit to see how that turns out
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When will we learn (not us, our political class)?
The EU have rejected a proposed special arrangement on a 'single market' for goods with the UK, suggesting instead the UK should join one of the existing arrangements for non-members.
Once again, our Govt., our negotiators, our political class don't seem to be hearing the message... the UK can no longer expect any special treatment.
We pissed in our chips & seem to be the last people to see this!
#brexit #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/22/uk-pitched-single-market-for-goods-with-eu-as-it-pursues-trade-reintegration
In the run up to Easter Brexiter fury was aimed at the requirement for Marmalade to be renamed if we (re)align UK food labelling regulations with the EU; this would be for the addition of the word 'citrus' in a blow to UK sovereignty.
What, the hysteria ignored was that most brands already do this: 'Orange Marmalade' or 'Seville Orange Marmalade' & that is fine, as the EU allowed (and continues to allow) the word 'citrus' to be replaced by the actual fruit!
TODAY marks the 8 year anniversary of the #Brexit Referendum
TODAY it’s almost routine for politicians to tell blatant lies in order to secure our votes.
TODAY It’s seen as normal that the wealthiest in our society get direct access to government ministers
TODAY most people barely bat an eyelid at the utter bilge that oozes from our disreputable media or the dirty tricks of big tech.
Brexit marked the beginning of this post-truth, post-fairness democracy
This is where we are TODAY
I love the idea there's a debate about whether we/UK should rejoin the EU Customs Union; its the same old entitled nonsense.
Sure we can express an interest or even desire to rejoin, but expressing that in the face of the EU's pretty obvious position that it treats the UK with suspicion & would only welcome the UK back with very serious conditions, is just political stupidity.
If we want to rejoin step one is building back trust & goodwill, something we've not really been doing!
history rhymes. this passage from Dalrymple's history of the East India Company is about Britain in 1599 and the excised word is 'religion', but you could easily be talking about #Brexit today.
![At that time England was a relatively impoverished, largely agricultural country, which had spent almost a century at war with itself over the most divisive subject of the time: [blacked out word]. In the course of this, in what seemed to many of its wisest minds an act of wilful self-harm, the English had unilaterally cut themselves off from the most powerful institution in Europe, so turning themselves in the eyes of many Europeans into something of a pariah nation. As a result, isolated from their baffled neighbours, the English were forced to scour the globe for new markets and commercial openings further afield. This they did with a piratical enthusiasm.](/proxy/post_attachment/1034362/63f0975af2.png "At that time England was a relatively impoverished, largely agricultural country, which had spent almost a century at war with itself over the most divisive subject of the time: [blacked out word]. In the course of this, in what seemed to many of its wisest minds an act of wilful self-harm, the English had unilaterally cut themselves off from the most powerful institution in Europe, so turning themselves in the eyes of many Europeans into something of a pariah nation. As a result, isolated from their baffled neighbours, the English were forced to scour the globe for new markets and commercial openings further afield. This they did with a piratical enthusiasm.")
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So far Brexit looks to have cost the UK between 4-6% GDP per capita, with the negative impact continuing to compound as GDP growth remains weak compared to similar countries.
This chart should be shown each time Nigel Farage tries to make out its been a success (or if not, its not his fault). Brexit was clearly his project, its clearly cost the UK dear (in economic terms) & he should be reminded of this fact continually & publicly
#Brexit #economics
h/t Adam Tooze
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#Brexit was a crime and our Freedom of Movement was stolen by a rogue government. Sign here if you want free movement back.
https://therejoineuparty.com/give-us-our-european-freedom-back/
WTF?
Just in time for local elections. Vote Green.
#VoteGreen #UKPolitics #Brexit
Home Office starts crackdown on EU citizens’ post-Brexit rights to live in UK | Brexit | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/apr/10/home-office-starts-crackdown-on-eu-citizens-post-brexit-rights-to-live-in-uk
Right, I will say this first, get it out of the way...I have no skin in the game that is the Labour leadership election drama - whomever is PM will send NI a has been or a nobody. But watching it from this side of the Irish Sea -
#Streeting dares to say what many in the UK are thinking about the disaster that is #Brexit & rejoining might be an idea.
#Nandy is on the propaganda outlet that is Laura's BBC show yesterday and says his comments are 'odd'
Then the great new but really old hope
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Tutanota/116577868496509025
Zuckerberg admitted creating #Facebook to stalk ivy league women. #Meta takes money from fascist #psyops that spred disinfo about Russia in #Ukraine, parseltongued #Brexit and ended in #genocide in #Myanmar and #Gaza. all the while supporting a fascist revival in USA, led by a #FriendOfEpstein and accused rapist of girls and women.
so #tech journalists should be asking:
how can a company Protect The Children when it makes stalkerware, used by fascists & the CEO supports an accused pedophile.
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Ben Jennings @BJennings90 on the 10th anniversary of #Brexit @Guardian – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
Surprisingly, all those people are finding out #brexit didn't work...
Absolute nightmare’: Brexit bellwether constituencies revisited 10 years on
I am 50 years old, approaching my 51st birthday.
I have lived through the premierships of 13 UK Prime Ministers. Seven of them during the first 41 years of my life.
And five of them in the last ten years.
Tell me again how #Brexit is good for our country.
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨
This week, we're breaking our own rule.
For years, we avoided ‘the B-word’ like the plague. But ten years on, it’s time to talk about it. Why didn't we want to talk about Brexit? Have we made our peace with it? What’s the damage? And could it ever be reversed?
https://www.europeanspodcast.com/all-episodes/ten-years-on-can-we-talk-about-the-b-word
#Independence movements can be sincere and genuine, but also a vector for #fascist #geopolitics to weaken countries
example: #Brexit
Problem is, success breeds arrogance. So when #fascism goes mask off with their intentions, that alone becomes a powerful uniting force, countering #separatist #psyop
example: #Finland + #Sweden joining #NATO
There are other examples:
" #Quebec separatist leader says no independence #referendum until #Trump leaves office"
So, the UK is finding out what it means when other people agree: 'Brexit means Brexit' and having empowered the Home Office to be callous & brutal with EU citizens we haven't a (moral) leg to stand on....
Once again, British entitlement - we can expel people, but how dare you do that to our citizens - comes to its logical conclusion.
We have *really* pissed in our own chips!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/02/swedish-minister-removals-deportations-britons-brexit