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This is nothing, compared to what will come. I don't recall him being very vocal when the thugs were out in the last couple of months. Yes, this is a good step, but it requires much more to really convince many (potential) EU supporting voters that AB will stay the course.
Indeed and the rational forces need to be prepared this time. I'm still not convinced whether AB has the mettle to confront the inevitable right wing backlash - he's been pretty passive, imo, as far as the thug/blackshirt demos are concerned.
It's good that @andyburnham had the spine to be openly pro joining the EU, a feat that the master appeaser Starmer was incapable of. That said, the UK needs to stop this obsession with divisiveness. It's cowardly and plays into right wing narratives.
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Some review 🤣🤣
Bank Job by Liz Truss: zero-star review
Liz Truss’s new book is the most deranged thing I’ve ever read
Like an alcoholic who cannot admit they have a drinking problem, the former PM is convinced that everyone else is to blame for her failures
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This is why Britain eventually has to confront the obvious.
You cannot solve a structural growth crisis with an endless cycle of tax rises and spending restraint while deliberately keeping barriers between yourself and your largest market.
The OBR still estimates Brexit leaves UK productivity around 4% lower in the long run.
British goods exports have badly underperformed our competitors since the TCA came into force.
So yes, fix planning.
Fix energy.
Invest in infrastructure.
Support industry and farming.
But the biggest structural growth reform sitting in front of Britain is the one Westminster still struggles to say out loud:
📢 reintegrate with Europe.
Single Market.
Customs Union.
And ultimately, if Britain wants its full influence back, EU membership.
You cannot budget your way around geography.
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I find it amazing that the UK, an island off mainland europe, managed to build up car manufacturing to the point where it rivalled Germany in 2016.
That was pretty good going for the UK.
Then the Brexit vote hit and killed it.
The decline of the British car industry came in two Brexit stages.
1. Uncertainty post-referendum weakened the industry
2. Trade arrangements that replaced EU membership did lasting damage.
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We are the worst governed and most exploitative country in Europe.
theguardian.com/business/202… Some of Europe’s highest energy costs expected in Britain this winter
No abusive, sick culture has ever been capable of sanctioning itself, so this would fall under the WGAF category.
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If Jewish pupils are feeling upset when they see a Palestinian badge, the correct response is not to erase Palestine from schools--it's to educate those kids that a genocide is taking place and the correct moral position is to oppose it. Anything less is a dereliction of duty.
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The collapse in violent crime over three decades has been one of the most striking developments of my lifetime.
News is about what’s going wrong, and rightly so. But the bigger picture also matters
From today’s figures:-
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The new crime survey is out - the "Lawless Britain" picture in full
- Violence at lowest since records began in 1981
- Corroborated by hospital figures for knife wounds
- Robbery: record low
- Overall crime 78% below 1995 peak.
- Shoplifting up
More:-
comment.press/lawless
Such a "special"relationship!
theguardian.com/uk-news/2026… US military failed to notify UK police of drink-driving allegation against airman based in England
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Former bricklayer here. Most working class people (like most middle-class people) are disgusted by the comments coming from Reform UK figures caught on camera by ITV.
Bigoted privately educated multimillionaire far-right wanker Nigel Farage doesn't give a solitary shit about working class people. Nor does bigoted privately educated multimillionaire far-right wanker Rupert Lowe.
Posh-boy millionaire Nigel Farage’s latest excuse is that most working-class men are racist and misogynistic, sniff women’s chairs, would sexually assault female colleagues and make disgusting remarks about their own daughters, such as: “Fuck me, if she was my daughter, it would still be bath night on a Thursday. I’ll wash you properly this time.”
The white working-class friends I grew up with, from primary and secondary school to college and university, are not nonces or bigots.
Farage doesn’t get to smear an entire class of people to excuse the disgusting behaviour of Reform councillors and activists.
Your last paragraph is meaningless and fact neutral word salad. People of European heritage don't have any objective right to colonise other people's land and treat those people as second class citizens.