Chart showing estimated fall in GDP per person resulting from Brexit (based on different specifications in a synthetic control model): UK, Q1-2026 to Q2-2025

Brexit has likely done more economic damage than feared.

Recent evidence suggests the economic cost of Brexit may be approaching twice the 4% impact assumed by the OBR.

The Chancellor has signalled a shift in approach to EU trade, but the effect will depend on how far the govt goes on alignement.

Successive governments have failed to learn lessons of Grenfell Tragedy The conditions that facilitated the tragedy remain unchecked

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?

"The concerns about Palantir are such that a New York Hospital has terminated the company’s services"
This is very telling imo

"A rational and independent examination of the facts tells us that, with alternatives available—even UK ones—the case to terminate the Palantir contract is resounding," writes @kamranabbasi.bsky.social in this Editor's Choice
www.bmj.com/content/393/...

Farage will surely be furious when he finds out he offered to work with Mandelson on a UK / US trade deal...

Know who you are dealing with….

@lizjarvis.bsky.social

Uncle Fartage will take care of you, just vote for Reframe Ltd and you'll never have to worry about anything again...apart from your health, your pocket and your life!

Woman stranded in Dusseldorf after return UK flight blocked over Home Office admin error Liza Tobay, who lives in UK, was told her settled status had been ‘red flagged’ after trying to make a connecting flight from Munich to Edinburgh

Day 2267 of #Brexit: ‘A German woman has been separated from her two-year-old daughter in Edinburgh after a Home Office mistake left her stranded in Dusseldorf earlier this week.’ www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

McVey made her claims “in an opinion piece in the Express and on X”
Enough said.
Radicalised bullshit masquerading as fact, in order to stir up a bit of anti-Khan Islamophobia, to scare people into voting for rightwing liars.
These dismal people are such a threat to our democracy and wellbeing.

Thats called a techno fascist coup. Starmer is treasonous.

When will unions stand up for the rights of working people? If they arent protecting you, remove and replace the leadership asap.

The fascist Starmer regime must go now.

@unison.org.uk @tuc.org.uk @unitetheunion.bsky.social @rmtunion.bsky.social @andreaegangs.bsky.social @unitesharon.bsky.social

Moment Nigel Farage henchmen manhandle disabled OAP in parking row Henchmen working for the divisive Reform leader were seen on camera manhandling a retired engineer who was trying to park in a disabled spot to drop off his wife in Shetland

Farage thugs manhandle man with pacemaker after he objects to the Reform leader's chauffeur parking in disabled bay that he needs to use.

Lovely People.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Nine European airports where Brits face huge queues and missed flights THE new EES travel requirement is causing chaos at many European airports from three hour-long queues to missed flights. From Portugal to Spain and Poland, here’s where Brits have been held u…

I did warn everybody "Brexit will get worse before it gets worse" behind your still descending Gammon Curtain..
& That I'd avoid visiting any country in Schengen zone (now inc Gib too) until back end of this year
& That people should "invest in Pontins" 🤪 www.thesun.co.uk/travel/38810...

UK signs deal to rejoin EU's Erasmus student exchange program More than 100,000 students are expected to benefit in the scheme's first year alone, according to the British government

🥳 More on the good news yesterday that the UK and EU had signed a deal to re-enter Erasmus+.

✅ A huge win for our youngsters, universities and our position as a world leading powerhouse of research.

The Guardian story is here. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Last year the PM promised Brits could “sail through” EU e-gates but families are still stuck in long queues - a clear sign of Brexit’s impact and the government’s failure to fix it.

Will he apologise, and say when this will change?

@eddavey.libdems.org.uk

Accountability for control and clean up of abandoned Oil Wells in Alberta is NON Existent. the UCP allow Oil Companies to walk away.
#oil #OilCompany #ableg #abpoli #pollution

This👇 is very important & is a clear example of the huge influence the Austrian Nazi FPÖ party have on European politics

The ruling Austrian coalition have sent 3 election observers to Hungary

The FPÖ have sent NINE!🤬

The FPÖ's Dr Barbara Kolm👇 is the head of the EU arm of the Heritage Foundation

Freedom of Movement wasn’t about politics.

It was about being able to say:
“I’m going to spend some time in Spain”
…without spreadsheets, visas, or counting days.

We didn’t just leave the EU.

We left ease behind.

Emperor penguin, Antarctic fur seal now listed as endangered in updated IUCN Red List The status of several threatened species has been downgraded to endangered, and climate change is to blame, the International Union for Conservation of Nature said.

The status of several threatened species has been updated, and climate change is to blame, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
abcnews.com/US/emperor-p...

France is switching from Microsoft to Linux

"We must become less reliant on American tools and regain control of our digital destiny. We can no longer accept that our data, our infrastructure, our strategic decisions depend on solutions whose rules, pricing, evolution, and risks we do not control."

The biggest myth about Brexit?

That ending Freedom of Movement only affected a small minority.

In reality:
It removed options from everyone.

Even if you never used them.

Ancient cedar groves in Oregon are estimated to be between 600 to 1,000 years old. The BLM plans to cut down these trees. We have until MONDAY to voice our support to save them. 🌲 Contact
Elizabeth Burghard - Email
BLM_OR_Revision_Scoping@blm.gov
Contact 1 Phone
(503) 808-6056

Mapped: The Reform-Orbán Network “Viktor Orbán is the strongest leader in Europe and the EU’s biggest nightmare.” These were the words posted on Twitter by Reform UK leader Nigel Farage about the prime minister of Hungary in April 20...

“It’s deeply shocking that Reform has developed such close ties with Orbán’s regime, an authoritarian govt with an appalling record of rolling back democracy and civic rights”

Where ‘deeply shocking’ = entirely on brand.
Hungary shows us we must never give them power.
www.desmog.com/2026/04/08/m...

Tories would reinstate two-child benefit cap to fund defence, says Badenoch Conservative leader promises biggest peacetime rearmament effort in UK history if her party is re-elected

Tories would reinstate two-child benefit cap to fund defence, says Badenoch.

Making children suffer to fund defence.

Tories cut defence spending when in office.

Silence on redistribution, cutting corporate welfare, taxing the rich; can tax dividends & capital gains at the same rate as wages.

Oreo Maker Linked to Ongoing Deforestation and Human Rights Abuses Mondelēz International who make Oreos keep sourcing palm oil from suppliers linked to violence and deforestation. Their RSPO certification is pure greenwash!

Oreo’s “sustainable” #palmoil is a #greenwashing myth—deforestation and human rights abuses continue in #Mondelēz’s supply chain. Demand real change! #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife #HumanRights 🌴☠️🚫 @palmoildetect.bsky.social palmoildetectives.com/2026/02/04/o...

Reform Ltd aim to fix broken Britain

Britain broken by
- 14 year rule of Tories welcomed into Reform
- Brexit economic disaster, which Farage led
- Truss economics, called by Farage "best Conservative budget since 1986"

Fix it? Reform'll smash it!
www.facebook.com/mikefshaw/po...
info Mike F Shaw

Two sad photos An orangutan tries to fight off a bulldozer as it destroys the rainforest, the orangutan's home, to make way for a palm oil plantation. luontokato palmuöljy

An orangutan tries to fight off a bulldozer as it destroys the rainforest, the orangutan's home, to make way for a palm oil plantation.

Richard Tice is trying to spin this.

He’s broken the law. It’s simple.

And he’s done so in an unpatriotic act of offshoring too.