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A reminder of my new blog post on Brexit reminders
Brexit reminders. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. Brexit may not be in the headlines, but many current news stories carry reminders of it, including the Hallett Inquiry report, the Gill scandal, the Budget & the latest net migration figures: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/brex...
November 29, 2025 at 10:20 AM
A reminder of my new blog post on Brexit reminders
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EU doesnt need to do anything, it holds all the cards. Its the UK that needs to pull the finger out and act, this is a problem entirely of its making.
November 28, 2025 at 1:22 PM
EU doesnt need to do anything, it holds all the cards. Its the UK that needs to pull the finger out and act, this is a problem entirely of its making.
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Brexit reminders. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. Brexit may not be in the headlines, but many current news stories carry reminders of it, including the Hallett Inquiry report, the Gill scandal, the Budget & the latest net migration figures: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/brex...
November 28, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Brexit reminders. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. Brexit may not be in the headlines, but many current news stories carry reminders of it, including the Hallett Inquiry report, the Gill scandal, the Budget & the latest net migration figures: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/brex...
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Almost as if those people you keep trying to satisfy on immigration will never be satisfied, while the parties you are competing with won't react to the outcomes you deliver in good faith, and the unsatisfied voters listen to and trust them more than they trust you. Who could have predicted this?
YOU WANTED NET IMMIGRATION TO COME DOWN! THIS IS WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE!
November 27, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Almost as if those people you keep trying to satisfy on immigration will never be satisfied, while the parties you are competing with won't react to the outcomes you deliver in good faith, and the unsatisfied voters listen to and trust them more than they trust you. Who could have predicted this?
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NEW
When is an order an ‘unlawful command’?
And why has Trump reacted so furiously to six members of Congress correctly stating the law?
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
(In which I go and look at the actual law and guidance in US and also UK.)
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
When is an order an ‘unlawful command’?
And why has Trump reacted so furiously to six members of Congress correctly stating the law?
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
(In which I go and look at the actual law and guidance in US and also UK.)
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
November 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
NEW
When is an order an ‘unlawful command’?
And why has Trump reacted so furiously to six members of Congress correctly stating the law?
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
(In which I go and look at the actual law and guidance in US and also UK.)
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
When is an order an ‘unlawful command’?
And why has Trump reacted so furiously to six members of Congress correctly stating the law?
By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
(In which I go and look at the actual law and guidance in US and also UK.)
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...
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Remember when Brexiters were reduced to pretending that pint bottles of champagne represented a major win?
November 27, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Remember when Brexiters were reduced to pretending that pint bottles of champagne represented a major win?
Dear Cloudflare… when you say that I “may be a robot”… you are wrong 100% of the time.
Admittedly actual robots will not care, but all actual humans are liable to take offence.
Admittedly actual robots will not care, but all actual humans are liable to take offence.
November 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Dear Cloudflare… when you say that I “may be a robot”… you are wrong 100% of the time.
Admittedly actual robots will not care, but all actual humans are liable to take offence.
Admittedly actual robots will not care, but all actual humans are liable to take offence.
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When you hear what Rachel Reeves has in store in the Budget, remember that there were ALWAYS other choices.
Labour have deliberately and consciously chosen to ignore the fact that Brexit is draining up to £90 billion a year from the UK economy.
That's a gap no amount of taxation can fill.
Labour have deliberately and consciously chosen to ignore the fact that Brexit is draining up to £90 billion a year from the UK economy.
That's a gap no amount of taxation can fill.
November 26, 2025 at 10:50 AM
When you hear what Rachel Reeves has in store in the Budget, remember that there were ALWAYS other choices.
Labour have deliberately and consciously chosen to ignore the fact that Brexit is draining up to £90 billion a year from the UK economy.
That's a gap no amount of taxation can fill.
Labour have deliberately and consciously chosen to ignore the fact that Brexit is draining up to £90 billion a year from the UK economy.
That's a gap no amount of taxation can fill.
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🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right
Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 6:49 AM
🔥 Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
A new decade-long Brexit study quantifies it:
A 6–8% hit to GDP
That's £180bn-£240bn a year
It means less tax revenue and so less money for everything.
Brexit made Britain MUCH poorer.
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Will the UK ever recover from leaving the EU?
November 25, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Will the UK ever recover from leaving the EU?
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Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
The Economic Impact of Brexit
Other
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November 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
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If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
November 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?
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Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
November 23, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.
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In this article, Prof. Catherine Barnard and Fiona Costello examine Farage’s proposal to scrap welfare benefits for EU nationals living in the UK. They explain the rights of EU citizens under the EU Settlement Scheme and the numbers currently accessing benefits. ukandeu.ac.uk/reform-and-t...
Reform’s appetite to put the Brexit deal back in the oven - UK in a changing Europe
Catherine Barnard and Fiona Costello examine Nigel Farage's proposal to scrap welfare benefit access for EU nationals living in the UK.
ukandeu.ac.uk
November 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
In this article, Prof. Catherine Barnard and Fiona Costello examine Farage’s proposal to scrap welfare benefits for EU nationals living in the UK. They explain the rights of EU citizens under the EU Settlement Scheme and the numbers currently accessing benefits. ukandeu.ac.uk/reform-and-t...
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Jonathan Freedland finally says it:
Britain is drowning bc there’s a Brexit-shaped hole in the roof and Labour refuses to fix it.
Reeves can juggle taxes but nothing improves until we face the truth.
We’re poorer bc of Brexit. We stay poor if Labour protects it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Britain is drowning bc there’s a Brexit-shaped hole in the roof and Labour refuses to fix it.
Reeves can juggle taxes but nothing improves until we face the truth.
We’re poorer bc of Brexit. We stay poor if Labour protects it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rachel Reeves is studiously ignoring the cause of Britain’s woes: the Brexit-shaped hole in its roof | Jonathan Freedland
The autumn budget will mop up some damage, but the true source of the economic crisis is clear. The government should now fix it – tragically, it won’t, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Jonathan Freedland finally says it:
Britain is drowning bc there’s a Brexit-shaped hole in the roof and Labour refuses to fix it.
Reeves can juggle taxes but nothing improves until we face the truth.
We’re poorer bc of Brexit. We stay poor if Labour protects it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Britain is drowning bc there’s a Brexit-shaped hole in the roof and Labour refuses to fix it.
Reeves can juggle taxes but nothing improves until we face the truth.
We’re poorer bc of Brexit. We stay poor if Labour protects it.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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£40bn for public services anyone?
Or would we all rather pay this in higher taxes to satisfy the far-right nutters?
#StopTheBrexitTax
Or would we all rather pay this in higher taxes to satisfy the far-right nutters?
#StopTheBrexitTax
John Major, "Our links to Europe and America may be loser now than once they were and that is a loss"
"The loss of trade with Europe alone costs us £100 billion of lost trade every year"
"That's a tax yield of £40 billion"
"How useful would that have been in recent months to the Chancellor?"
"The loss of trade with Europe alone costs us £100 billion of lost trade every year"
"That's a tax yield of £40 billion"
"How useful would that have been in recent months to the Chancellor?"
November 20, 2025 at 6:44 AM
£40bn for public services anyone?
Or would we all rather pay this in higher taxes to satisfy the far-right nutters?
#StopTheBrexitTax
Or would we all rather pay this in higher taxes to satisfy the far-right nutters?
#StopTheBrexitTax
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The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
November 19, 2025 at 12:12 PM
The real BBC bias story, narrated by Anna Ford
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If the price of our open internal borders and unity means that non-Europeans have to respect our laws, including 90/180, well so be it.
The people affected here will be those illegally overstaying by running two or more passports, using "soft airports" or otherwise working hacking the system.
The people affected here will be those illegally overstaying by running two or more passports, using "soft airports" or otherwise working hacking the system.
Text book example of how misinformation is directed against European unity.
The overall goal is to put the consequences of Brexit on Europe, engender bad feeling, and cripple any join efforts.
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The overall goal is to put the consequences of Brexit on Europe, engender bad feeling, and cripple any join efforts.
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November 19, 2025 at 8:01 AM
If the price of our open internal borders and unity means that non-Europeans have to respect our laws, including 90/180, well so be it.
The people affected here will be those illegally overstaying by running two or more passports, using "soft airports" or otherwise working hacking the system.
The people affected here will be those illegally overstaying by running two or more passports, using "soft airports" or otherwise working hacking the system.
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I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge.
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge.
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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At some point we have to stop pretending that Labour’s constant rightward drift is “grown-up politics” and call it out for what it is - governing by flinch.
And if pointing this out gets me into trouble - then trouble can pull up a chair.
And if pointing this out gets me into trouble - then trouble can pull up a chair.
An Island of Strangers, Led by a Party of Strangers
A Labour government with a historic majority has somehow decided the best way to beat the far right is to imitate its homework. Badly.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 9:45 AM
At some point we have to stop pretending that Labour’s constant rightward drift is “grown-up politics” and call it out for what it is - governing by flinch.
And if pointing this out gets me into trouble - then trouble can pull up a chair.
And if pointing this out gets me into trouble - then trouble can pull up a chair.
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New essay out today by me and @acjsissons.bsky.social - ‘Getting Britain out of the hole: a plan for the economy’. You can read the whole thing here getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
A chart mega-thread follows 🧵
A chart mega-thread follows 🧵
Getting Britain out of the hole
A plan for the UK economy
getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
November 17, 2025 at 8:00 AM
New essay out today by me and @acjsissons.bsky.social - ‘Getting Britain out of the hole: a plan for the economy’. You can read the whole thing here getting-out-of-the-hole.uk
A chart mega-thread follows 🧵
A chart mega-thread follows 🧵
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My granddad was a refugee, my wife, our close friends and those of our kids are either immigrants or the children of immigrants.
Do ministers ever think about the message their rhetoric on "handouts" and "golden tickets" for migrants sends about whether this is a government for people like us?
Do ministers ever think about the message their rhetoric on "handouts" and "golden tickets" for migrants sends about whether this is a government for people like us?
November 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
My granddad was a refugee, my wife, our close friends and those of our kids are either immigrants or the children of immigrants.
Do ministers ever think about the message their rhetoric on "handouts" and "golden tickets" for migrants sends about whether this is a government for people like us?
Do ministers ever think about the message their rhetoric on "handouts" and "golden tickets" for migrants sends about whether this is a government for people like us?