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EU fan, recycling, green solutions, still Learning Gàidhlig,
Prog & EM fan: King Crimson, Yes, Peter Hammill, David Sylvian, ELP, Joy Division, Peter Hook
EU fan, recycling, green solutions, still Learning Gàidhlig,
Prog & EM fan: King Crimson, Yes, Peter Hammill, David Sylvian, ELP, Joy Division, Peter Hook
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Says the bloke from a party that has been using anti-immigration rhetoric, doesn't really want a Youth Mobility Scheme, doesn't really want Erasmus and doesn't want Freedom of Movement.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Says the bloke from a party that has been using anti-immigration rhetoric, doesn't really want a Youth Mobility Scheme, doesn't really want Erasmus and doesn't want Freedom of Movement.
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UK politics is SO dull at the moment.
1. Labour mess up
2. Labour cultists attack anyone who points that out
3. Labour's poll numbers drop
4. Labour cultists attack anyone who points that out
5. Labour remains utterly stuck on Brexit
6. Labour cultists attack anyone who points that out
7. Go to 1
1. Labour mess up
2. Labour cultists attack anyone who points that out
3. Labour's poll numbers drop
4. Labour cultists attack anyone who points that out
5. Labour remains utterly stuck on Brexit
6. Labour cultists attack anyone who points that out
7. Go to 1
November 11, 2025 at 10:18 AM
UK politics is SO dull at the moment.
1. Labour mess up
2. Labour cultists attack anyone who points that out
3. Labour's poll numbers drop
4. Labour cultists attack anyone who points that out
5. Labour remains utterly stuck on Brexit
6. Labour cultists attack anyone who points that out
7. Go to 1
1. Labour mess up
2. Labour cultists attack anyone who points that out
3. Labour's poll numbers drop
4. Labour cultists attack anyone who points that out
5. Labour remains utterly stuck on Brexit
6. Labour cultists attack anyone who points that out
7. Go to 1
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Very accurate. The lack of realism and pathological need for special treatment is killing the UK
November 11, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Very accurate. The lack of realism and pathological need for special treatment is killing the UK
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never going to be a long term solution
So we are again locked in a position where we refuse to accept reality and expect to achieve the unachievable
So we are again locked in a position where we refuse to accept reality and expect to achieve the unachievable
November 11, 2025 at 9:56 AM
never going to be a long term solution
So we are again locked in a position where we refuse to accept reality and expect to achieve the unachievable
So we are again locked in a position where we refuse to accept reality and expect to achieve the unachievable
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The problem is that the current UKG needs the same thing the 2016/18 version needed
Access to the SM and CU without fully reciprocating the four freedoms especially the movement of people
The 2019 UKG pretended full access wasn’t needed in order to get the drama over and done with but that was
Access to the SM and CU without fully reciprocating the four freedoms especially the movement of people
The 2019 UKG pretended full access wasn’t needed in order to get the drama over and done with but that was
November 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The problem is that the current UKG needs the same thing the 2016/18 version needed
Access to the SM and CU without fully reciprocating the four freedoms especially the movement of people
The 2019 UKG pretended full access wasn’t needed in order to get the drama over and done with but that was
Access to the SM and CU without fully reciprocating the four freedoms especially the movement of people
The 2019 UKG pretended full access wasn’t needed in order to get the drama over and done with but that was
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Clearly you didn't read what I said. I said we can't and shouldn't drop talks, that's the wrong thing to do, as much as anything else because we want the UK strategically to start working with us again.
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November 11, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Clearly you didn't read what I said. I said we can't and shouldn't drop talks, that's the wrong thing to do, as much as anything else because we want the UK strategically to start working with us again.
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I'll say this, David, I have a lot of respect for you, but I do feel you take a national line when sometimes you should reflect more on Europe's redlines, esp. unity and freedom of action.
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November 11, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I'll say this, David, I have a lot of respect for you, but I do feel you take a national line when sometimes you should reflect more on Europe's redlines, esp. unity and freedom of action.
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The UK has to get serious. European fundamentals won't change, and indeed are being retreneched against these threats.
But Bxl has to be patient, not suspend talks, and give UKG time to get its house in order and reconcile itself to the consequences of Brexit and its reset requests.
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But Bxl has to be patient, not suspend talks, and give UKG time to get its house in order and reconcile itself to the consequences of Brexit and its reset requests.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:59 AM
The UK has to get serious. European fundamentals won't change, and indeed are being retreneched against these threats.
But Bxl has to be patient, not suspend talks, and give UKG time to get its house in order and reconcile itself to the consequences of Brexit and its reset requests.
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But Bxl has to be patient, not suspend talks, and give UKG time to get its house in order and reconcile itself to the consequences of Brexit and its reset requests.
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But there is also the reality that the Russia crisis and the crisis of Western democracy are real. We need a response. And that would be better with the UK in the tent I whatever form is possible.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:59 AM
But there is also the reality that the Russia crisis and the crisis of Western democracy are real. We need a response. And that would be better with the UK in the tent I whatever form is possible.
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There are two ways to see this, and neither is pretty.
Firstly, the sense is that UKG is trying to exploit the Russia crisis to gain trade advantages with Europe.
That is crashing to a halt, not least because the UK is desperate to join common European defence.
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Firstly, the sense is that UKG is trying to exploit the Russia crisis to gain trade advantages with Europe.
That is crashing to a halt, not least because the UK is desperate to join common European defence.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:59 AM
There are two ways to see this, and neither is pretty.
Firstly, the sense is that UKG is trying to exploit the Russia crisis to gain trade advantages with Europe.
That is crashing to a halt, not least because the UK is desperate to join common European defence.
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Firstly, the sense is that UKG is trying to exploit the Russia crisis to gain trade advantages with Europe.
That is crashing to a halt, not least because the UK is desperate to join common European defence.
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Europe is fed up with UKG's compulsive need to pick around and seek a special status. That wasted much of the year so far, which has costs for UKG in terms of changing course (it would have been easier to drop the redlines or accept the status of third country then, rather than a "special status"
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November 11, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Europe is fed up with UKG's compulsive need to pick around and seek a special status. That wasted much of the year so far, which has costs for UKG in terms of changing course (it would have been easier to drop the redlines or accept the status of third country then, rather than a "special status"
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That brings up a real risk: what if UKG isn't in a position politically to make the push necessary to keep things on track? What if it doesn't care? Some of this reset looks like a façade to be seen to be doing something, to keep pro-Europeans happy, while not upsetting the Brexit status quo.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
That brings up a real risk: what if UKG isn't in a position politically to make the push necessary to keep things on track? What if it doesn't care? Some of this reset looks like a façade to be seen to be doing something, to keep pro-Europeans happy, while not upsetting the Brexit status quo.
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And that stems from a lack of honesty with the electorate pre-election. They should have got a mandate at that point for whatever change was needed for the UK
But it is also a reflection of the delusion in Westminster about what Brexit means and what the UK's situation and place in the world is
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But it is also a reflection of the delusion in Westminster about what Brexit means and what the UK's situation and place in the world is
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November 11, 2025 at 7:59 AM
And that stems from a lack of honesty with the electorate pre-election. They should have got a mandate at that point for whatever change was needed for the UK
But it is also a reflection of the delusion in Westminster about what Brexit means and what the UK's situation and place in the world is
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But it is also a reflection of the delusion in Westminster about what Brexit means and what the UK's situation and place in the world is
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I have no recent insight particularly, but that description of UKG chicanery and trying to leverage what had been agreed chimes loudly with earlier in the year.
Keep an eye. Not saying 🇪🇺 will walk, but expect suspension unless the UK gets its house in order
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Keep an eye. Not saying 🇪🇺 will walk, but expect suspension unless the UK gets its house in order
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I have to say, this is earlier than I had expected. But if the UK wants to benefit from being inside the SM, it has to contribute.
As for wanting to pay half as much as others for Erasmus, where do they get off?
The Uk chose Brexit. Stop asking others to pay their way.
#ExtrawurstGroßbritannien
As for wanting to pay half as much as others for Erasmus, where do they get off?
The Uk chose Brexit. Stop asking others to pay their way.
#ExtrawurstGroßbritannien
EU demands UK pay into budget as part of relationship ‘reset’
November 11, 2025 at 7:58 AM
I have no recent insight particularly, but that description of UKG chicanery and trying to leverage what had been agreed chimes loudly with earlier in the year.
Keep an eye. Not saying 🇪🇺 will walk, but expect suspension unless the UK gets its house in order
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Keep an eye. Not saying 🇪🇺 will walk, but expect suspension unless the UK gets its house in order
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BBC Scotland, the most biased TV organisation in history. Liars! Week in week out!
How many thousands of people see the false figures and how many see the corrections or even notice them, BBC doesn't care as the damage to the SNP govt is done.
#BiasedBroadcastingCorporation
#StatePropagandaBBC
#BiasedBroadcastingCorporation
#StatePropagandaBBC
Davie reigns nut in Scotland:-
BBC Scotland has had to issue yet another correction after giving out false figures relating to drug deaths. We've lost count of the corrections and apologies the BBC has had to make after broadcasting false claims. The falsehoods always negatively impact the SNP.
BBC Scotland has had to issue yet another correction after giving out false figures relating to drug deaths. We've lost count of the corrections and apologies the BBC has had to make after broadcasting false claims. The falsehoods always negatively impact the SNP.
November 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
BBC Scotland, the most biased TV organisation in history. Liars! Week in week out!
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What are we waiting for?
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
What are we waiting for?
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Not one British nationalist politician raised their hand to say the BBC was scandalously bias at the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.
The British establishment including the BBC came together to overcome the threat.
The British establishment including the BBC came together to overcome the threat.
November 10, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Not one British nationalist politician raised their hand to say the BBC was scandalously bias at the 2014 Scottish independence referendum.
The British establishment including the BBC came together to overcome the threat.
The British establishment including the BBC came together to overcome the threat.
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Davie reigns nut in Scotland:-
BBC Scotland has had to issue yet another correction after giving out false figures relating to drug deaths. We've lost count of the corrections and apologies the BBC has had to make after broadcasting false claims. The falsehoods always negatively impact the SNP.
BBC Scotland has had to issue yet another correction after giving out false figures relating to drug deaths. We've lost count of the corrections and apologies the BBC has had to make after broadcasting false claims. The falsehoods always negatively impact the SNP.
November 10, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Davie reigns nut in Scotland:-
BBC Scotland has had to issue yet another correction after giving out false figures relating to drug deaths. We've lost count of the corrections and apologies the BBC has had to make after broadcasting false claims. The falsehoods always negatively impact the SNP.
BBC Scotland has had to issue yet another correction after giving out false figures relating to drug deaths. We've lost count of the corrections and apologies the BBC has had to make after broadcasting false claims. The falsehoods always negatively impact the SNP.
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It's the kind of completely inaccurate and unrealistic presentation that really erodes the credibility of the UK, unfortunately.
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
It's the kind of completely inaccurate and unrealistic presentation that really erodes the credibility of the UK, unfortunately.
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Indeed, yet, as you say, there is no understanding. Starmer keeps trotting out the line at PMQs, and Reeves does the same.
It's infuriating.
It's infuriating.
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Indeed, yet, as you say, there is no understanding. Starmer keeps trotting out the line at PMQs, and Reeves does the same.
It's infuriating.
It's infuriating.
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Andy, the govt’s line is very misleading. There IS no SPS deal, only an informal agreement to try to reach one. (And such a long, complicated deal it will take 2 or 3 years at least even if all goes well.) Same for the other topics. There are no enforceable deals; it’s all still to be negotiated.
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Andy, the govt’s line is very misleading. There IS no SPS deal, only an informal agreement to try to reach one. (And such a long, complicated deal it will take 2 or 3 years at least even if all goes well.) Same for the other topics. There are no enforceable deals; it’s all still to be negotiated.
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Wouldn’t be surprising. The EU just doesn’t have time for repetitive negotiating sessions in which the UK still maintains it has some special status halfway between third country and member state that entitles it to a special deal. This approach was tested to destruction in the Brexit negotiations.
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Wouldn’t be surprising. The EU just doesn’t have time for repetitive negotiating sessions in which the UK still maintains it has some special status halfway between third country and member state that entitles it to a special deal. This approach was tested to destruction in the Brexit negotiations.
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The danger is that negotiations don't chunter on. We're close to action being taken on the Bxl side to suspend some parts
November 10, 2025 at 10:23 AM
The danger is that negotiations don't chunter on. We're close to action being taken on the Bxl side to suspend some parts
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Negotiations on the outstanding issues will chunter on, but the main EU takeaway is likely to be that the UK is still as exceptionalist as ever, and is unlikely to be a suitable partner for any closer structural relationship any time soon.
November 10, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Negotiations on the outstanding issues will chunter on, but the main EU takeaway is likely to be that the UK is still as exceptionalist as ever, and is unlikely to be a suitable partner for any closer structural relationship any time soon.
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But the geopolitics have changed and EU unity is now a key focus as they ramp up major defence spending, so attempts to ‘pick off’ some MS are very ill conceived. (This is particularly inept as the UK badly needs to access some of that EU defence money.)
November 10, 2025 at 9:47 AM
But the geopolitics have changed and EU unity is now a key focus as they ramp up major defence spending, so attempts to ‘pick off’ some MS are very ill conceived. (This is particularly inept as the UK badly needs to access some of that EU defence money.)