😆 Freedom of Movement would help.
It'd also help with extra needed "50,000" customs agents & 1000s of customs officers, vets, port health & other regulatory body inspectors ..But if had the return of FoM (& a CU) these would *not* be needed. Go figure 🤔
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There's a new craze in bookshops around the UK...

...namely placing Boris Johnson's new memoir next to other books on lying and/or Brexit damage - or even alongside toilet paper and cat litter...

Enjoy the pics! 👇

Kemi Badenoch tells Keir Starmer that "we had a Budget in March this year and tractors were not blockading the streets of Whitehall afterwards."

Anyway, here's the 'go slow' protest by farmers that blockaded the streets around Parliament following the Conservative Government's last Budget in March

Both in the news today for differing reasons. Michael Sheen who remortgaged his house to fund the Homeless World Cup, Jeremy Clarkson who bought a farm to evade tax.

Jeremy Clarkson, who owes his fame & fortune in large part to the BBC, sneers at the brilliant @vicderbyshire.bsky.social for being ‘classic BBC’ when she uses *his own words* to describe his position.

🧵SALT🧵
It's been snowing in the UK and the road gritters are out in force, begging the question:
Have you ever wondered where that grit actually COMES from?
The answer is more magical, beautiful and fascinating than you probably realised.
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Please spare a thought for James Dyson, the Brexit-voting billionaire who bought up 33,000 acres of farmland to avoid tax then moved his business to Singapore. He's the real victim here.

The protestors want to call it "the tractor tax" because calling it "the inheritance tax protest" would turn off public opinion.

The tractors coming into London today, in fact, pay no road tax, no congestion charge, and no ULEZ.

Exempt from all.

You can literally see the German number plates.

Because Einstein here has used a photo of a GERMAN protest in 2023.

838 people have shared it.

Best news this morning, Scott Mills taking over the morning slot on Radio 2!

Word of this morning is ‘procaffeinate’: to put everything on hold until you’ve had sufficient amounts of coffee.

Swapping terminals at Singapore’s Changi airport - why can’t we have nice things too?

A pre-emptive block is in order. There's no earthly reason why you need to subject yourself to his cesspit outpourings.

So head over to @nigelfarage-mp.bsky.social and slam that Block button. You'll never see him again.

Won't that be a relief?

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.

I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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Goosebump inducingly brilliant article and excellent advice from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social - please read it, digest it and share it.

I heartily tip my hat.

🐻🎩

McFascist burgers all around!

Also, the irony of the incoming Health Secretary who is terrified of vaccines because, well, ingredients, scoffing something that is 100% synthetic and only technically edible is quite the show of just how firm his beliefs must be.

Word of the Day is a true favourite, as some of you will know.

Apricity (17th century) is the warmth of the sun on a winter’s day.