Maz
@pinkytwin.bsky.social
Twitter abandoned and deleted. Small business owner (trades with EU- yep, stressed somewhat). Crafter. Gamer. Love to travel. Brexit is utter madness! #FBPE No DMs
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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.
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Important not to overlook the fact that this bilge is amplified & disseminated by many prominent - and very real - racists who benefit financially, professionally & politically from the process.
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 2:56 PM
Important not to overlook the fact that this bilge is amplified & disseminated by many prominent - and very real - racists who benefit financially, professionally & politically from the process.
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Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances. A new decade-long Brexit study explains it: a 6–8% hit to GDP – that's £180bn-£240bn a year – means less tax, less investment and less money for everything else.
Brexit made Britain poorer. Much poorer.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Brexit made Britain poorer. Much poorer.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
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 23, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances. A new decade-long Brexit study explains it: a 6–8% hit to GDP – that's £180bn-£240bn a year – means less tax, less investment and less money for everything else.
Brexit made Britain poorer. Much poorer.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
Brexit made Britain poorer. Much poorer.
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
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“Over 150,000 Twitter accounts based in Russia tweeted about Brexit during the referendum, an investigation found..Britain "knows" what Russia is doing” but Tories were bankrolled by Russian money & compromised.
www.businessinsider.com/russia-used-...
www.businessinsider.com/russia-used-...
Russia used a network of 150,000 Twitter accounts to meddle in Brexit
Russian-based Twitter accounts focused their attention on the Brexit referendum in the days leading up to the vote, data scientists have concluded.
www.businessinsider.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:16 PM
“Over 150,000 Twitter accounts based in Russia tweeted about Brexit during the referendum, an investigation found..Britain "knows" what Russia is doing” but Tories were bankrolled by Russian money & compromised.
www.businessinsider.com/russia-used-...
www.businessinsider.com/russia-used-...
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Boris Johnson took four days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system. That’s all you need to know about Boris Johnson.
November 23, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Boris Johnson took four days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system. That’s all you need to know about Boris Johnson.
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Lib Dems to force vote on creating new customs union with EU
Ed Davey’s party believes the move is the best way to ‘turbocharge’ economy, rather than tax rises
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Ed Davey’s party believes the move is the best way to ‘turbocharge’ economy, rather than tax rises
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Lib Dems to force vote on creating new customs union with EU
Ed Davey’s party believes the move is the best way to ‘turbocharge’ economy, rather than tax rises
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Lib Dems to force vote on creating new customs union with EU
Ed Davey’s party believes the move is the best way to ‘turbocharge’ economy, rather than tax rises
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Ed Davey’s party believes the move is the best way to ‘turbocharge’ economy, rather than tax rises
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Again, I recall Michael Gove in Parliament basically saying to one pissed off Tory MP after another: Let’s just shitefest this disastrous drivel over the line and argue about the details later. An argument that appears to have won over basically everyone who matters, who then sold it to the public.
November 21, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Again, I recall Michael Gove in Parliament basically saying to one pissed off Tory MP after another: Let’s just shitefest this disastrous drivel over the line and argue about the details later. An argument that appears to have won over basically everyone who matters, who then sold it to the public.
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Still marvelling how Labour took a standard right wing troll comment of "why don't you put them up in your house", and turned it into policy with their rejigging of the community sponsorship scheme. Basically saying "you want to support asylum seekers, you sort it" for a fairly basic State function
November 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Still marvelling how Labour took a standard right wing troll comment of "why don't you put them up in your house", and turned it into policy with their rejigging of the community sponsorship scheme. Basically saying "you want to support asylum seekers, you sort it" for a fairly basic State function
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Today the former head of Reform in Wales, Nathan Gill, will be sentenced for taking bribes from Russia. Needless to say, I hardly knew him, let alone the wife of the Russian he paid bribes to.
November 21, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Today the former head of Reform in Wales, Nathan Gill, will be sentenced for taking bribes from Russia. Needless to say, I hardly knew him, let alone the wife of the Russian he paid bribes to.
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Anyone know why Nigel Farage and his fellow MEPs voted against plans to tackle Russian propaganda?
Coincidently, it was around the time Nathan Gill was taking bribes from Russia.
www.theguardian.com/world/2019/o...
Coincidently, it was around the time Nathan Gill was taking bribes from Russia.
www.theguardian.com/world/2019/o...
Brexit party MEPs vote against plans to tackle Russian propaganda
Resolution seeking upgrade of EU counter-disinformation unit nevertheless passes easily
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Anyone know why Nigel Farage and his fellow MEPs voted against plans to tackle Russian propaganda?
Coincidently, it was around the time Nathan Gill was taking bribes from Russia.
www.theguardian.com/world/2019/o...
Coincidently, it was around the time Nathan Gill was taking bribes from Russia.
www.theguardian.com/world/2019/o...
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Spot on from Adil Ray 👏
“The connection that she made about being called the P word, and relating that to why she has to tackle migration”
“The feeling is, what she has effectively done, at least it looks like she’s saying the only way we stop racists is by doing the thing they want us to do”
“The connection that she made about being called the P word, and relating that to why she has to tackle migration”
“The feeling is, what she has effectively done, at least it looks like she’s saying the only way we stop racists is by doing the thing they want us to do”
November 21, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Spot on from Adil Ray 👏
“The connection that she made about being called the P word, and relating that to why she has to tackle migration”
“The feeling is, what she has effectively done, at least it looks like she’s saying the only way we stop racists is by doing the thing they want us to do”
“The connection that she made about being called the P word, and relating that to why she has to tackle migration”
“The feeling is, what she has effectively done, at least it looks like she’s saying the only way we stop racists is by doing the thing they want us to do”
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Transparency International on Nathan Gill's bribery sentencing:
It raises a "broader concern about the currently legal practice of politicians accepting outside funding...and the inherent conflict this creates between their duty to serve the public, and the private interests of their funders." 💯
It raises a "broader concern about the currently legal practice of politicians accepting outside funding...and the inherent conflict this creates between their duty to serve the public, and the private interests of their funders." 💯
November 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Transparency International on Nathan Gill's bribery sentencing:
It raises a "broader concern about the currently legal practice of politicians accepting outside funding...and the inherent conflict this creates between their duty to serve the public, and the private interests of their funders." 💯
It raises a "broader concern about the currently legal practice of politicians accepting outside funding...and the inherent conflict this creates between their duty to serve the public, and the private interests of their funders." 💯
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I’ve been in a room with Putin. He calls Ukrainians “Russians with accents.” His real fear isn’t NATO expansion, it’s democracy expansion. It shatters his entire argument for dictatorship at home. Because if Ukrainians embrace freedom, Russians may demand the same.
November 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I’ve been in a room with Putin. He calls Ukrainians “Russians with accents.” His real fear isn’t NATO expansion, it’s democracy expansion. It shatters his entire argument for dictatorship at home. Because if Ukrainians embrace freedom, Russians may demand the same.
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FFS 😡😡😡
"UK pub and hotel group JD Wetherspoon is using Ireland as a springboard for its expansion into mainland Europe to avoid Brexit-induced red tape. The group's founder and chairman Tim Martin was a strong advocate for Brexit."
"UK pub and hotel group JD Wetherspoon is using Ireland as a springboard for its expansion into mainland Europe to avoid Brexit-induced red tape. The group's founder and chairman Tim Martin was a strong advocate for Brexit."
Wetherspoon uses Ireland to skirt Brexit red tape for EU expansion
UK pub and hotel group JD Wetherspoon – whose founder campaigned for the UK to leave the EU – is using Ireland as a springboard for its expansion into mainland Europe to avoid Brexit-induced red tape...
m.independent.ie
November 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM
FFS 😡😡😡
"UK pub and hotel group JD Wetherspoon is using Ireland as a springboard for its expansion into mainland Europe to avoid Brexit-induced red tape. The group's founder and chairman Tim Martin was a strong advocate for Brexit."
"UK pub and hotel group JD Wetherspoon is using Ireland as a springboard for its expansion into mainland Europe to avoid Brexit-induced red tape. The group's founder and chairman Tim Martin was a strong advocate for Brexit."
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Zoe Lyons, "There's such a massive gap now between the rich and poor in this country that if you are genuinely are on lower wages, and inflation is hitting you, it's really bloody hard to survive"
"There are people in this country working full time using food banks, that should never happen"
"There are people in this country working full time using food banks, that should never happen"
November 21, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Zoe Lyons, "There's such a massive gap now between the rich and poor in this country that if you are genuinely are on lower wages, and inflation is hitting you, it's really bloody hard to survive"
"There are people in this country working full time using food banks, that should never happen"
"There are people in this country working full time using food banks, that should never happen"
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Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
November 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Word of the day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet politician whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.
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Traitor #NathanGill sentenced to 10yrs for taking Russian bribes.
“Farage and the Brexit Party voted against stronger EU measures aimed at countering “highly dangerous” Russian disinformation.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2019/o...
“Farage and the Brexit Party voted against stronger EU measures aimed at countering “highly dangerous” Russian disinformation.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2019/o...
Brexit party MEPs vote against plans to tackle Russian propaganda
Resolution seeking upgrade of EU counter-disinformation unit nevertheless passes easily
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Traitor #NathanGill sentenced to 10yrs for taking Russian bribes.
“Farage and the Brexit Party voted against stronger EU measures aimed at countering “highly dangerous” Russian disinformation.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2019/o...
“Farage and the Brexit Party voted against stronger EU measures aimed at countering “highly dangerous” Russian disinformation.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2019/o...
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I know it’s hard to believe but the Covid inquiry apparently says this guy didn’t take his responsibilities as prime minister seriously.
November 20, 2025 at 8:14 PM
I know it’s hard to believe but the Covid inquiry apparently says this guy didn’t take his responsibilities as prime minister seriously.
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Boris Johnson’s lack of leadership over the seriousness of Covid led to the first lockdown being introduced too late, which contributed to the loss of 23,000 lives, the official inquiry into his handling of the pandemic has concluded
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Boris Johnson's lack of leadership blamed for 23,000 Covid deaths
A scathing report by inquiry chair Baroness Hallett also criticises the Department of Health, led by the current Cabinet Secretary Sir Chris Wormald and the then minister Matt Hancock
inews.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Boris Johnson’s lack of leadership over the seriousness of Covid led to the first lockdown being introduced too late, which contributed to the loss of 23,000 lives, the official inquiry into his handling of the pandemic has concluded
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inews.co.uk/news/politic...
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“The report is unequivocal…lives could have been saved…the situation was “little short of calamitous”. If a mandatory lockdown had been imposed a week earlier in March 2020, there would have been about 23,000 fewer deaths, it concluded.”
#ToryCovidCatastrophe
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
#ToryCovidCatastrophe
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‘Chaotic and indecisive’: key findings of report on UK’s Covid response under Tories
Second pandemic report focuses on decision-making, organisation and messaging by senior politicians including Boris Johnson
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:26 PM
“The report is unequivocal…lives could have been saved…the situation was “little short of calamitous”. If a mandatory lockdown had been imposed a week earlier in March 2020, there would have been about 23,000 fewer deaths, it concluded.”
#ToryCovidCatastrophe
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
#ToryCovidCatastrophe
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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The Covid Inquiry finds that if Boris Johnson had called the first lockdown even one week earlier then it could have saved at least 20,000 lives.
Here's a quick reminder of what Johnson was actually doing during those weeks
Here's a quick reminder of what Johnson was actually doing during those weeks
November 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The Covid Inquiry finds that if Boris Johnson had called the first lockdown even one week earlier then it could have saved at least 20,000 lives.
Here's a quick reminder of what Johnson was actually doing during those weeks
Here's a quick reminder of what Johnson was actually doing during those weeks
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Mark Kelly: "He's talked about sending troops into more cities, he's talked about invoking the Insurrection Act. You don't have to go too far back to his 1st administration when he went to his Sec Def & said, 'Can't we just shoot these protesters in the legs.' That is an example of an illegal order"
November 21, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Mark Kelly: "He's talked about sending troops into more cities, he's talked about invoking the Insurrection Act. You don't have to go too far back to his 1st administration when he went to his Sec Def & said, 'Can't we just shoot these protesters in the legs.' That is an example of an illegal order"
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My thoughts are with all who lost loved ones or still struggle with effects of #Covid. Tho we knew it at the time, confirmation of the “toxic & chaotic culture” at heart of Govt; that they did “too little, too late” & that faster action could have saved over 20K lives is still horrifying
‘Chaotic and indecisive’: key findings of report on UK’s Covid response under Tories
Second pandemic report focuses on decision-making, organisation and messaging by senior politicians including Boris Johnson
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
My thoughts are with all who lost loved ones or still struggle with effects of #Covid. Tho we knew it at the time, confirmation of the “toxic & chaotic culture” at heart of Govt; that they did “too little, too late” & that faster action could have saved over 20K lives is still horrifying
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“In a world of rising protectionism, Britain is in danger of being left outside all of the big trade blocks”.
Why is a government beleaguered by economic woes not (yet) of its own making, failing to explain the damaging impacts of Brexit to the public at large?
Why is a government beleaguered by economic woes not (yet) of its own making, failing to explain the damaging impacts of Brexit to the public at large?
Willl Britain’s exceptionalism wreck the reset?
In a world of rising protectionism, Britain is in danger of being left outside all of the big trade blocks
sussexbylines.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
“In a world of rising protectionism, Britain is in danger of being left outside all of the big trade blocks”.
Why is a government beleaguered by economic woes not (yet) of its own making, failing to explain the damaging impacts of Brexit to the public at large?
Why is a government beleaguered by economic woes not (yet) of its own making, failing to explain the damaging impacts of Brexit to the public at large?
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From the CWS ARCHIVES. May 2020. COVID. ‘Let the bodies pile high’ Johnson.
November 20, 2025 at 4:12 PM
From the CWS ARCHIVES. May 2020. COVID. ‘Let the bodies pile high’ Johnson.