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It appears I'm at no.14 on one of Amazon's "Hot New Releases" charts. Beating someone called Chris Ryan. Never heard of him 😉
Someone called Tom Clancy is above me. Never heard of him either 😉
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📊 The 2016 Brexit electorate no longer exists.
Peter Kellner has updated the sums using YouGov and ONS data.
Since 2016:
🔹 Around 3.8m Leave voters have died, against 2.1m Remain voters.
🔹 Around 7m new voters have reached voting age, overwhelmingly pro-European.
🔹 Around 5m voters have changed their minds 👉roughly three-quarters of them moving from Leave to Rejoin.
His estimate of how Britain would vote now:
🇪🇺 REJOIN: 20.0m 👉 63%
🇬🇧 STAY OUT: 11.8m 👉 37%
A majority of almost 9 million.
Brexit happened. Britain has lived with it for a decade.
But democracy does not freeze the electorate in 2016 forever.
The question is what Britain wants now not what it indicated in 2016.
📊 The Brexit majority hasn’t just slipped 👉it’s vanished. Completely.
This chart from Peter Kellner/YouGov shows:
• 5 million 2016 voters have died
• New young voters back Rejoin by 5:1
• 29% of Leave voters now want to rejoin
• Net result: Rejoin 19.8m vs Stay Out 11.7m
➡️ An 8 MILLION majority for Rejoin.
Britain is now a pro-EU country.
The only people keeping Brexit alive are politicians who benefit from the damage.
See community note
The idea that a sitting government can rewrite laws retrospectively to make it easier to stay in office is the stuff of banana republics.
It’s one thing to investigate donations to a political party which may have broken existing laws. This is not that.
theguardian.com/politics/202…
Gerald Hornsby - the Efficient Novelist 🇺🇦 retweeted
NEW: Westminster Voting Intention
LAB 27% (+1)
RFM 24% (-2)
CON 19% (+1)
GRN 10% (=)
LD 9% (-1)
RB 3% (+1)
SNP 2% (-1)
PC 1% (=)
OTH 4% (=)
F/w 26-28 August 2026. Changes vs 18/08/2026
Gerald Hornsby - the Efficient Novelist 🇺🇦 retweeted
Your Daily reminder that there is nothing patriotic about GB News.
Owned by Australians.
Based in the Dubai tax haven.
Managed by New Zealanders.
The only British bit is the fools watching it, getting rage-baited into thinking they’re defending the country while the people running the whole operation don’t even live here, don’t pay tax here, and aren’t from here.
It’s not a news channel. It’s a foreign-funded outrage machine that discovered British nationalism is a lucrative product and decided to package it for the terminally online.
You think you’re sticking it to the elite… you’re the product.
Gerald Hornsby - the Efficient Novelist 🇺🇦 retweeted
Stirring the pot could cause trouble. I'm not stirring the pot to cause trouble. I just very much hope stirring the pot doesn't cause trouble.
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And now it all makes sense.
Farage has been trying to block Bank of England cryptocurrency plan that could be costly for Christopher Harborne despite saying Harborne wanted nothing for the undeclared £5m gift he gave Farage.
Gerald Hornsby - the Efficient Novelist 🇺🇦 retweeted
EXCL: Nigel Farage has been trying to block Bank of England cryptocurrency plan that could be costly for billionaire bankrolling his party.
Reform UK leader has said Christopher Harborne wants nothing in exchange for millions donated to party and undeclared £5m personal gift to Farage revealed by Guardian.
But Farage used private meeting at Bank to urge governor to drop plans for state-run alternative to digital currency that has made his Thailand-based benefactor one of richest people in world.
Cracking tale from @tomburgis
theguardian.com/politics/202…
Gerald Hornsby - the Efficient Novelist 🇺🇦 retweeted
Polite reminder. Trump & Brexit are not 2 different things. They are the same thing. Same companies. Same data. Same Facebook. Same Russians. Same Cambridge Analytica. Same Robert Mercer. Same Steve Bannon. Same Breitbart. Same Alexander Nix. Same Donald Trump. Same Nigel Farage.
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Nothing screams ‘two tier Britain’ more than a multi millionaire, dog whistling, far right, cosplaying politician being interviewed live on Sky from his high end, executive, chauffeur driven €200,000 Mercedes Maybach…
Zia Yusuf dodges @cathynewman's question over whether the Reform leader's call amounted to incitement.
Nigel Farage called for "pure cold rage" in the wake of Henry Nowak's death
#henrynowak
Gerald Hornsby - the Efficient Novelist 🇺🇦 retweeted
I want Nigel Farage charged for inciting violence.
Gerald Hornsby - the Efficient Novelist 🇺🇦 retweeted
This isn't true. Ofgem made it clear "This increase is a result of higher wholesale gas prices caused by the ongoing conflict in the Middle East". More drilling in the North Sea would be good for our economy, but it would make little difference to prices... 1/2
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Current summary of right wing UK politics:
Conservatives - We've suddenly remembered lots of things we accidentally forgot to do during our 14 YEARS in government that we would definitely do straight away this time, promise
Reform - The Conservatives who messed the country up for 14 years were worried you wouldn't vote for them again so have made another party and are hoping you won't notice it's full of the people who messed up the country for 14 years
UKIP - We still think it's 1998
Restore - Led by a bore in need of a golf club. Been chucked out of Reform for being racist? We're the party for you!