@pimlicat.bsky.social and @sturdyalex.bsky.social discuss Best for Britain’s report, “Is it Time to Talk about EU Membership?” - and how, of all people, Donald Trump helped shift the conversation towards rejoining the EU.
Listen to the @quietriotpod.bsky.social episode: https://quietriotpod.com/
Our future lies with Europe. We need closer relations with the EU for our security and our economy.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/starmer-eu-ties-br...
@iandunt.bsky.social on our brand new report 🇪🇺
"Customs union is a distraction. Only full membership offers a compelling vision of Britain's future."
"Rejoining the EU is the cleanest political argument and the strongest economic argument but it has a weakness."
Corporate capture of the state.
The Post Office with help from Fujitsu, accountants, lawyers illegally convicted postmasters for fraud.
£1.5bn+ compensation paid from public purse. Perpetrators paid ZERO.
No one charged/prosecuted for lying in courts. Fujitsu gets govt contracts.
Who governs?
Thames Water infrastructure average age is 79 yrs. 40% of assets are 100+ yrs old.
Water industry average is 56 years.
At current rate, it will take 700+ yrs to renew assets.
Since 1989 industry neglected investment, £88bn+ dividends paid, customers fleeced.
Privatisation isn't the answer.
Ossoff: "How does American politics really work? It's coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out. It's been running on secret money, corporate money, billionaire money ... all of this gave rise to a depraved president who exploits this rot to empower and enrich himself"
So was Angela Rayner.
Richard Tice, you must also resign, by your own standards.
When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”.
Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform
Wes Streeting supports welfare cuts to fund defence.
He lets private equity make billions from outsourcing NHS, social care.
Silence on corporate welfare spending.
Since 2010 HMRC failed to collect £500bn in taxes. Capital gains and dividends taxed at lower rates than wages.
Bereaved family members of Covid victims write to Nigel Farage urging him to sack his Croydon candidate who said COVID was a "staged event" by the US military, with vaccines used to control the population.
Reform has not responded to our story revealing his views
bylinetimes.com/2026/04/15/r...
Posting photos of himself as Jesus, claiming The Pope is "weak on crime" – has Donald Trump finally picked the wrong battle?
He risks losing millions of Catholic voters in the US, just in time for this year's midterm elections...
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/trum...
£64bn is the cost of UK capitulation to pharmaceutical companies and Trump.
Secret deal commits the NHS to pay higher price for new and existing drugs
No debate in parliament.
Govt can tax the rich, cut other services, let people die, start manufacturing drugs and become self-reliant.
AA and BSM charged hidden fees to learner drivers.
80,000 customers fleeced by hidden fees of over £760,000.
AA owns BSM, which is owned by private equity (PE), ordered to pay £4.2m fine.
No exec fined.
Is there anything PE won't do fleece people? Avoid if you can.
Unhinged Trump Posts AI Photo With Jesus—Days After He Was Slammed For Blasphemy.
Claims "God might be playing his Trump card !".
He must have unhinged advisers. What do they tell him?
Has the US ever had a more crazy and dangerous President?
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The future of war is being redefined in front of our very eyes, and by an extraordinary country with an extraordinary leader.
While Ukraine and Zelenskyy innovate, Russia carries on like it's the 1940s.
Tiny country, big impact.
Emily Maitlis and Jon Sopel explain why Viktor Orbán's huge loss in the Hungary elections could affect right-wing populism across Europe – including Reform's chances here in the UK...
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/why-...
ICE agents shot another driver -- on Tues.
He had just asked to call his wife.
They shot him six times. One bullet his jaw.
Now he can't speak and has been mostly unconscious.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...
"This was cobbled together so fast after Donald Trump promised to wipe out a civilisation."
The US said Iran was "on its knees" begging for a ceasefire – but was America the desperate one?
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/how-...
Israel is a rogue state and is deliberately trying to break the ceasefire and use the opportunity to annex part of Lebanon.
Needless to say, the purpose of NATO is not to facilitate the takeover of its members territory by fascists
"Trump is acting more erratically, more insanely than even he ever has before."
"The guy's lost it," says Lewis Goodall.
Donald Trump and MAGA are celebrating a ceasefire in Iran, but should America be more concerned by his mental state?
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/how-...
🚨🚨"Surprise, surprise": The #US has ignored compelling evidence that Russia has been helping Iran to target US bases in the Middle East because it “trusts” #Putin, according to the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr #Zelenskyy. 🧵
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Memories:
In 2016, Obama purchased 32 metric tons of Iran's excess heavy water for $8.6 million to help it stay within its allowed stockpile limits. Not only was that an excellent price, but he didn't have to go to war to get it. Diplomacy and cooperation can do wonders without murdering kids.
Trump’s Iranian ‘civilisation will die’ threat.
How many will he kill and maim? Bitterness will linger for decades. US is diminished.
The man is demented and should be tried for war crimes.
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here", wrote William Shakespeare. Maybe he had Trump in mind.
Private equity controls our lives from the cradle to the grave.
Profiteers from hospitals, nurseries, housing, care homes, undertakers.
Business model - high prices, low staffing/wages, high debt, asset-stripping, tax abuse.
Life commodified & financialised.
Profits for the few, misery for many.
