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“Some right-wing populists see current anxieties as an opportunity to stoke anger because anger is what’s necessary for their project. After all, people don’t demolish things when htey are positive or optimistic.

“I know this from my time in the UK, where for years the rallying cry of Brexiteers has broken Britain, and their solution to take back control was actually code for tear down your future.”

#brexit

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“Dynamic young European people are lucky as they have the whole of Europe to roam around. We’re confined to this little island.”

#brexit #eu #freedom of movement

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“So when Sunak, in his recent speech claimed that outside the EU “we now have greater freedoms and flexibility than we’ve had in forty years” he was misspeaking. There is no economic opportunity of Brexit and there never was.”

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“How very dare they! Performative cruelty to prop up his flatlining polling. But really he was just overwhelmed with compassion for the little people. He wanted the best for them. Just so long as they ended up nowhere near him.”

#Sunak #rwanda

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Nixon told the Byline Times Podcast that the success of the stock market made London “the financial centre of Europe and the world”, so what is happened now, “is a matter of huge consequence” and has “profound implications for Britain’s future economic model”.

#Brexit #stock market

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“It warned that Brexit had created “further risks … for the UK”. The Nuffield Trust said drug shortages could get worse because the EU’s 27 countries have recently decided to act as a unified bloc to try to minimise the impact of global scarcity, which could leave supplying Britain even less of a priority for drug companies.”

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https://x.com/i_iratus/status/1780668189778616689?s=12

“Next up, Ms Braverman, you advocate for the UK’s withdrawal from the ECHR as a reclamation of "sovereignty" (something I thought we had fully restored with Brexit, but hey ho). Yet, what you're really championing is a march not toward genuine sovereignty but toward a thinly veiled autocracy. True sovereignty flourishes not in isolation from the world but through robust engagement with international norms that reinforce our democratic values.”

#braverman #ECHR

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“Emanuela Reccia has lived in London for almost a decade. She was a teenager when she left her home city of Naples to become a waitress in the UK, bringing her expertise and love of Italian cuisine to the capital.

But the 27-year-old, like thousands of other Italians working in the UK hospitality industry, now feels she has no option but to leave and return to Europe after the latest round of post-Brexit rules.”

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“In the week after the government was accused of blindsiding the British food industry by giving 27 days’ notice that every consignment of items such as camembert, steak, tulips and chives would be subject to fees of up to £145, small retailers such as delis and farm shops have been scrambling to make sure they still have products to sell.

But they say some EU exporters have already decided that they have had enough of British red tape and are either pausing supply operations or have given up completely.”

With the threat of poor harvests this year the UK will be even more dependent on imports than usual.

What a mess.

#brexit #eu #trade #food security #food supplies

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I think this is called voter suppression.

#voter suppression #Tory party

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Our government is keen yet again to help British businesses

#brexit #trade

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““Ministers last week revealed that businesses could be charged up to £145 for each consignment imported through Dover, prompting warnings that this would drive up food prices and disproportionately hurt small businesses.”

Adding to the cost of living.

‘Global’ Britain on the doorstep of its largest export market has to comply with EU regulation.

UK has applied trade barriers to itself.

Why did we do this again?

#brexit #eu #trade

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“After a year when her committee examined projects across Whitehall, the NHS and schools the chair of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, Dame Meg Hillier, lists what she calls a catalogue of “big nasties – essential spending which cannot be put off”.”

#tory government #cuts have consequences #austerity

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#brexit #trade #food safety #food security #Dover #brexit lies

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“One of the many paradoxes of Brexit is the incredible rise in the amount of red tape faced by British industry. Leaving the EU was supposed to reduce bureaucracy. Instead, British firms are now grimly abseiling down mountains of it.”

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#Edwin Hayward #brexit