Political doppelgänger of @BentallProf. Scientists are allowed political opinions, which aren't those of my employer. Now on Bluesky as X is becoming a cesspit.
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Richard Bentall #FBPE @richardbentall.bsky.social retweeted
Not sure which is the funniest about this, the headline, the 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 1 star filled in, or the accompanying photo👇
When you've lost even the batshit @Telegraph 🤡
Richard Bentall #FBPE @richardbentall.bsky.social retweeted
Simon Heffer reviewing Liz Truss’s new book for the Torygraph: “Of all the books I have ever reviewed that purported to offer a serious thesis, this is without question the most deranged. If you are seeking a Christmas present for someone you really don’t like, give them a copy.”
Richard Bentall #FBPE @richardbentall.bsky.social retweeted
Reply guys / bots / red wallers, the world isn't 2016 any more, the UK isn't getting special deals from the EU, US, or China, and that's 75% of UK trade.
Geography and reality mean we have to deal with the EU. Andy Burnham gets that.
Richard Bentall #FBPE @richardbentall.bsky.social retweeted
Vučić was a more gracious loser today.
Predictably, Flávio Bolsonaro refuses to concede and asks for the runoff to be annulled. Four years ago, his father did not concede either after losing his reelection bid
www1.folha.uol.com.br/poder/…
Richard Bentall #FBPE @richardbentall.bsky.social retweeted
Two heartening election results in which far right candidates unexpectedly defeated in Brazil and Serbia. Now come the two really big ones in Israel, then US mid-terms.
Richard Bentall #FBPE @richardbentall.bsky.social retweeted
The rewriting of 2016 needs challenging.
❌ The referendum ballot did NOT ask: “Should Britain end freedom of movement?”
It asked whether Britain should remain in or leave the EU.
Nothing about leaving the Single Market.
Nothing about the customs union.
Nothing about ending free movement.
And during the referendum prominent Brexit campaigners openly cited Norway and Switzerland as models for Britain outside the EU.
🇳🇴 Norway is in the Single Market and accepts free movement.
The Leave coalition contained several completely different versions of Brexit. The public was never asked to choose between them.
So it is simply not accurate to retrospectively turn 17.4 million Leave votes into 17.4 million votes specifically against free movement.
That interpretation came afterwards.
And if Britain is now deciding what relationship it wants with Europe, voters are perfectly entitled to decide again with the actual choices made explicit.
Richard Bentall #FBPE @richardbentall.bsky.social retweeted
You’re confusing nominal export values with real trade performance. Commons Library figures show EU goods exports were 14% below 2019 levels in 2025. Services grew, but rising total 💰 exports don’t disprove Brexit hits. The key question is what we’d have exported without Brexit.
Richard Bentall #FBPE @richardbentall.bsky.social retweeted
🚨 EXPLAIN THIS! Northern Ireland kept access to the EU goods market.
Since 2019:
🇪🇺 Northern Ireland: +12.7%
🇬🇧 UK: +6.3%
Almost DOUBLE the economic growth.
If leaving the EU was supposed to make us richer, why is Northern Ireland showing the Sunlit uplands are in the EU? 🇪🇺
Richard Bentall #FBPE @richardbentall.bsky.social retweeted
Johnson was never fit to be anywhere near a government never mind a Prime Minister - ,
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More to come this week, but "red wall" Labour MPs need to be aware that the PM is raising freedom of movement because it is intimately linked with the future of UK manufacturing. theguardian.com/politics/202…
Richard Bentall #FBPE @richardbentall.bsky.social retweeted
The EU fee was about £12.6bn a year, whereas the estimated Brexit loss of output is now roughly £170bn–£230bn a year, with an associated loss of tax revenue of roughly £65bn–£85bn a year. That makes the fee equivalent to only about 5–7% of the estimated annual GDP loss. #BrexSHIT
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Vivek just released a new ad with Acton’s estranged mother that cut out the part where she claimed Acton lied about living in a tent after proof came out that she did live in a tent, so basically the bitter old hag is now just saying Acton lied at 12 about being sexually abused.
Richard Bentall #FBPE @richardbentall.bsky.social retweeted
If Labour manages to reach and sustain a lead of +10 I think we are firmly in early election territory.
Richard Bentall #FBPE @richardbentall.bsky.social retweeted
BREAKING: Donald Trump is reportedly pissed because his lawyers just explained to him how pardoning all his staffers means they can no longer plead the 5th to protect him when Democrats subpoena them next year.
Richard Bentall #FBPE @richardbentall.bsky.social retweeted
450 million currently have the right to settle in Amsterdam.
But don’t.
The full 69.5 million population of the UK plus the full 5.5 million population of Ireland currently have the right to work and settle in Brighton.
But don’t.
Reform are being very silly, again.
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