Doug Waterson 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇪🇺
@dougwaterson.bsky.social
Canadian/British/European. Experts can and often do make the world better. Jingoistic populism can jog on.
Well, sheeeeeeeeeit 😔
December 31, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Well, sheeeeeeeeeit 😔
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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
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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.
I honestly don’t know what Starmer’s game plan is here, politically. This will win over precisely zero future Reform voters, and will only suppress the progressive voters he needs.
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I got British citizenship via the five-year route. Labour’s new 10-year rule will cause untold pain | Nesrine Malik
Starmer claims to want integration. Yet denying people safety, belonging and the right to vote for a decade amounts to the exact opposite, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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June 2, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I honestly don’t know what Starmer’s game plan is here, politically. This will win over precisely zero future Reform voters, and will only suppress the progressive voters he needs.
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Sometimes I really miss the early 2000s when it was possible to feel wide eyed and optimistic about the democratizing power of the internet.
February 12, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Sometimes I really miss the early 2000s when it was possible to feel wide eyed and optimistic about the democratizing power of the internet.
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Badenoch really is a fucking star isn't she. Her first policy after months as leader and it 1) directly contradict her own stated values.2) raises all sorts of practical nightmares and 3) is morally reprehensible. Full marks.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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Badenoch: claiming benefits should bar foreign workers from settling in UK
Tory leader wants Labour immigration bill to include 10-year period before eligibility for state aid and granting of indefinite leave
www.theguardian.com
February 6, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Badenoch really is a fucking star isn't she. Her first policy after months as leader and it 1) directly contradict her own stated values.2) raises all sorts of practical nightmares and 3) is morally reprehensible. Full marks.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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February 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Absolutely this from Ed Davey 👏
January 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Absolutely this from Ed Davey 👏