Lord Dom B
@lorddom.bsky.social
Worked for over 30 years in and around the EU institutions. Weary of the Brexit lies politicians still spout. No party affiliation but proud European Movement member. Follow back genuine active #FBPE and pro-EU accounts based in UK and rest of Europe.
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Ordinarily the govt would be using these wretched figures to cudgel Farage (and the Tories) but it can’t because, in two monumental acts of myopic stupidity, Labour backed the deal which has caused the damage (it could have abstained) and then enshrined the worst of it in its own 2024 manifesto.
November 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Ordinarily the govt would be using these wretched figures to cudgel Farage (and the Tories) but it can’t because, in two monumental acts of myopic stupidity, Labour backed the deal which has caused the damage (it could have abstained) and then enshrined the worst of it in its own 2024 manifesto.
After the Brexit referendum, the Tories felt compelled to lie in order to cover up the huge con trick they’d played on the electorate. They normalized dishonesty in government. And now Labour has decided to ape them. Don’t think politics has looked this grim in my lifetime.
November 18, 2025 at 8:57 AM
After the Brexit referendum, the Tories felt compelled to lie in order to cover up the huge con trick they’d played on the electorate. They normalized dishonesty in government. And now Labour has decided to ape them. Don’t think politics has looked this grim in my lifetime.
Labour has started lying about stuff in the way the Conservatives routinely lied. That’s a problem if we’re to have any hope of a healthy discussion about a lot of things and try to stave off, rather than pander to, the worst liars of all, who may form the next government.
November 18, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Labour has started lying about stuff in the way the Conservatives routinely lied. That’s a problem if we’re to have any hope of a healthy discussion about a lot of things and try to stave off, rather than pander to, the worst liars of all, who may form the next government.
Is this what post-Brexit sovereignty and freedom look like? The man who may become the next PM fawning to a foreign bully and denigrating our public-service broadcaster?
November 11, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Is this what post-Brexit sovereignty and freedom look like? The man who may become the next PM fawning to a foreign bully and denigrating our public-service broadcaster?
Love and solidarity this morning to the right-wing rags clutching their pearls about the possibility of tax rises after championing Brexit, which has left the Exchequer £40 billion worse off than it would otherwise have been.
November 5, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Love and solidarity this morning to the right-wing rags clutching their pearls about the possibility of tax rises after championing Brexit, which has left the Exchequer £40 billion worse off than it would otherwise have been.
On the contrary, it’s delivering pretty much on target the things its critics said it would. For which we were called Remoaners or worse. A bigger concern is whom a PM Farage would scapegoat next once he’d recklessly torn up the current deal with the EU and seen British business suffer even more.
November 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM
On the contrary, it’s delivering pretty much on target the things its critics said it would. For which we were called Remoaners or worse. A bigger concern is whom a PM Farage would scapegoat next once he’d recklessly torn up the current deal with the EU and seen British business suffer even more.
The high priests of Brexit were always going to blame its failure on someone else. And it’s odd because Farage wanted us out of the EU on even worse terms than those secured by the Tories, which have already increased costs, delay and red tape, and deprived the Exchequer of £40bn each year.
November 3, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The high priests of Brexit were always going to blame its failure on someone else. And it’s odd because Farage wanted us out of the EU on even worse terms than those secured by the Tories, which have already increased costs, delay and red tape, and deprived the Exchequer of £40bn each year.
Perhaps the bigger problem is with Brexiter ideologues such as Hannan who tried obsessively over years to convince the electorate that leaving the EU, which has impoverished us more, was a smart idea.
November 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Perhaps the bigger problem is with Brexiter ideologues such as Hannan who tried obsessively over years to convince the electorate that leaving the EU, which has impoverished us more, was a smart idea.
Fantastic news. The sweary Reform leader of Kent Council, Linden Kemkaran, has undeclared the climate crisis. What better example of Brexit Britain? When reality defies political promise, when it’s tiresome or scary or imposes tedious sacrifices, let’s deny it exists.
Infantile, petulant idiocy.
Infantile, petulant idiocy.
October 23, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Fantastic news. The sweary Reform leader of Kent Council, Linden Kemkaran, has undeclared the climate crisis. What better example of Brexit Britain? When reality defies political promise, when it’s tiresome or scary or imposes tedious sacrifices, let’s deny it exists.
Infantile, petulant idiocy.
Infantile, petulant idiocy.
Trying to work out if this piece in the Brexit-fetishizing Telegraph is the result of stupidity, cynicism or a near pathological lack of self-awareness.
October 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Trying to work out if this piece in the Brexit-fetishizing Telegraph is the result of stupidity, cynicism or a near pathological lack of self-awareness.
Since the Brexit referendum, the Telegraph has become the Pantomine Dame of confected outrage against the very thing it fought for and continues to uphold. The new Schengen Entry and Exit System isn’t sound border management but a “pointed insult”. Hilarious.
October 12, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Since the Brexit referendum, the Telegraph has become the Pantomine Dame of confected outrage against the very thing it fought for and continues to uphold. The new Schengen Entry and Exit System isn’t sound border management but a “pointed insult”. Hilarious.
While she’s about it, she can get rid of rip-off Maths degrees too. This country’s had enough of experts.
October 9, 2025 at 10:34 AM
While she’s about it, she can get rid of rip-off Maths degrees too. This country’s had enough of experts.
Get down the Co-Op. Deals like this don’t last forever.
October 9, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Get down the Co-Op. Deals like this don’t last forever.
Part 1: Badenoch calls for curb on rip-off degrees such as English.
Part 2: Tory Party misspells Britain on conference merch.
Part 2: Tory Party misspells Britain on conference merch.
October 8, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Part 1: Badenoch calls for curb on rip-off degrees such as English.
Part 2: Tory Party misspells Britain on conference merch.
Part 2: Tory Party misspells Britain on conference merch.
The death wish predates Badenoch (however clueless she is). It was Johnson who began in earnest the Tory shift to the hard right and marginalized sensible moderates. Now, bereft of its centre-right USP, the party is condemned to imitating Farage miserably.
app.independent.co.uk/2025/10/05/2...
app.independent.co.uk/2025/10/05/2...
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The death wish predates Badenoch (however clueless she is). It was Johnson who began in earnest the Tory shift to the hard right and marginalized sensible moderates. Now, bereft of its centre-right USP, the party is condemned to imitating Farage miserably.
app.independent.co.uk/2025/10/05/2...
app.independent.co.uk/2025/10/05/2...
Hard to grasp that this tripe comes from a Labour government. What does Mahmood think immigrants do all day? Has her own family history of immigration to the UK given her no pause for thought about the effect of this sneering “prove yourself” tone on workers keeping frontline services going?
September 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Hard to grasp that this tripe comes from a Labour government. What does Mahmood think immigrants do all day? Has her own family history of immigration to the UK given her no pause for thought about the effect of this sneering “prove yourself” tone on workers keeping frontline services going?
After the Brexit referendum, many pro-Europeans insisted on blaming the con artists, not the conned, even though everyone apparently knew what they were voting for. How does anyone think the party whose leaders wanted us out of the EU without a deal think these charlatans would handle Brexit best?
September 26, 2025 at 2:13 PM
After the Brexit referendum, many pro-Europeans insisted on blaming the con artists, not the conned, even though everyone apparently knew what they were voting for. How does anyone think the party whose leaders wanted us out of the EU without a deal think these charlatans would handle Brexit best?
Rebuild as what? The Conservatives’ problem is that since the 2016 referendum they’ve become ideologically indistinguishable from Reform, with neither the current leader nor her heir apparent seeking to change that. When Johnson got rid of the sensibles in his party, he got rid of the Tories’ USP.
September 19, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Rebuild as what? The Conservatives’ problem is that since the 2016 referendum they’ve become ideologically indistinguishable from Reform, with neither the current leader nor her heir apparent seeking to change that. When Johnson got rid of the sensibles in his party, he got rid of the Tories’ USP.
It wasn’t just the way Starmer patted Trump’s shoulder and beamed about two leaders who “genuinely liked each other”. It was his supplicant portrayal of the UK as America’s eager little brother - good but not quite as good. Surely the most craven,distasteful spiel since the days of Boris Johnson.
September 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
It wasn’t just the way Starmer patted Trump’s shoulder and beamed about two leaders who “genuinely liked each other”. It was his supplicant portrayal of the UK as America’s eager little brother - good but not quite as good. Surely the most craven,distasteful spiel since the days of Boris Johnson.
What it shows is that the far Right knows it can keep dripping its poison into the body politic of this country and a member of a nominally progressive but supine government will say, “Free speech, innit?”
Dismal stuff.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Dismal stuff.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
September 14, 2025 at 10:53 AM
What it shows is that the far Right knows it can keep dripping its poison into the body politic of this country and a member of a nominally progressive but supine government will say, “Free speech, innit?”
Dismal stuff.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Dismal stuff.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Any other Londoners finding it hard to be wholly sympathetic to a union which is paralysing the tube network for most of the working week over pay and conditions but vocally backed Brexit, which is depriving the Exchequer of £40 billion a year every year?
September 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Any other Londoners finding it hard to be wholly sympathetic to a union which is paralysing the tube network for most of the working week over pay and conditions but vocally backed Brexit, which is depriving the Exchequer of £40 billion a year every year?
Unsure how Labour thinks this will win it votes. It merely tells Farage his basic premise is correct and deserves support. The UK is showing similarities with Weimar Germany. Rather than trying to seize control of the narrative, Labour and the Tories are running scared of the far Right.
September 7, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Unsure how Labour thinks this will win it votes. It merely tells Farage his basic premise is correct and deserves support. The UK is showing similarities with Weimar Germany. Rather than trying to seize control of the narrative, Labour and the Tories are running scared of the far Right.