I've complained. Heads should roll for this.

An epic, and very-much justified rant. Thanks @explaintrade.com for saving me from Yanis' dribbling lunacy.

They should be looking at how ReFUK were able to send out mailshots during the local election campaign period, but didn't declare them as election expenses.

And the dodgy letter during the Gorton by-election...

Don't forget that everything is intertwined over there. There's a huge overlap with anti-abortion zealots and the apocalyptic death-cultists.

Around 77.3 million people voted for Trump in 2024. Probably 40-50% of them are those religious fanatics.

These people have spent decades laying the groundwork. Some of them were in the Bush II administration. They saw the Iraq invasion as part of the plan.

They're also the main reason Trump was elected.

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There's around 30 million (maybe more) Americans who think like this, and have done for a *long* time.

I read this nearly 2 decades ago:

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If you haven't discovered this yet, you're missing out!

Me too!

I need help!

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The UK Government. Initially under Theresa May, then confirmed by every Government since.

You know the answer.

Originally, Theresa May's government. Then every successive government since.

Neither do I, and I'm English.

Where he's from is totally irrelevant.

The UK decided it didn't want FoM.

That's the cold, hard truth.

That's the paragraph immediately after the one you posted.

You missed this:

All these measures will help to restore the British economy and the prosperity and opportunities of its citizens, and are also essential steps on the road to EU membership, which remains our longer-term objective.

It'll reach a tipping point, then the politicians will jump. We need to keep pushing to reach the tipping point ASAP.

Once there's political will, things will move fairy quickly.

It's up to Government, but they'refar too timid.

For our part, we need to get out and vote for pro-EU parties, and badger our MPs.

The party membership does, as do many MPs. The leadership, however, doesn't. They'd rather have the Tories in power than form a stable governing coalition with other progressive parties.

There are lots of people in the EU who are rightfully sceptical. It's down to the UK to show we can be trusted.

With the right government, we'd get PR in the next Parliament.

If Labour grew a pair, we'd get it done before the next GE.

We *did* state our desire to join the EU. It was in our manifesto.

We're just honest enough to say it won't happen overnight.

PR. We have a progressive majority in the UK, as demonstrated by the vote share in virtually every GE over the last century.

It really wouldn't. It may give them more MPs in the short term, but there's no way they'd end up in a governing coalition.

Under FPTP, however, they could very conceivably win a majority with just 30% of the vote.

Our electoral system could return a sizeable ReFUK majority on 30% of the vote. That's the current reality.

And in that reality, nothing's going to move forward.

You seem to be labouring under the misapprehension that we could bind a future Parliament led by mini-Trump.

We need to lock him out *before* we head to the negotiating table.

Nobody's pretending we can't do it, but there's no point even asking until we've reformed our electoral system.

Do you really think the EU will agree to regulatory alignment when there's a chance that a Farage government with 30% of the vote will undo it?

You seem to want us to lie to the electorate.

Anyone can promise to rejoin the EU straight away, but it's a promise that can't be kept. I know it, you know it, and so does Polanski.