Mike Meade, The Riviera Reporter
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Mike Meade, The Riviera Reporter
@rivrepmike.bsky.social
Journalist, writer, photographer, bilingual, almost tri-lingual, internationalist, EU remainer, LibDem supporter, tri-national citizenships Canadian French British, woke, liberal, progressive.
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Pete Hegseth is a barely functional alcoholic sex abuser but he can run the military because he will stop drinking if he is confirmed. Wow.
December 5, 2024 at 12:30 PM
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"... and the fact that I've destroyed your future by refusing to restore your right to live, work, study, set-up business and retire across 30+ other countries on our continent. You're stuck in the crumbling UK, love – whether you like it or not."
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
December 3, 2024 at 8:52 AM
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Keir Starmer...
OK, that was a good speech. You seem to address the main problems the country has, and that the EU were blamed for, which led to Brexit.

Let's be clear, NOTHING in your plans couldn't be done if we were in the EU. If we #RejoinEU, there's more money for the plan.
December 5, 2024 at 12:07 PM
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Brexit is a lose-lose situation for everyone! ... "Despite Brexit, the EU accounted for 52% of UK imports last year. Trade in EU goods exports to the UK have nonetheless fallen by approximately 15% since 2021. EU imports from the UK are down by 22% over the same period of time."
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
How are post-Brexit Trade Rules Affecting EU-UK Supply Chains?
post-Brexit Trade Rules equate to non-tariff barriers as UK exports fall more than imports. advice from customs expert
www.logisticsbusiness.com
December 3, 2024 at 5:25 PM
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"One by one, the premises of Britain’s 2016 decision [for Brexit] are crumbling. Britain cannot thrive alone and in the cold. It’s not ideology or idealism, but hard-headed, practical common sense to say our place is in Europe – and to say so now."
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Brexit makes no sense in a world dominated by Trump. Britain’s place is back in the EU | Jonathan Freedland
From defence to trade, the incoming US president is upending the old order – and standing apart from our neighbours leaves us dangerously exposed, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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"There isn't anybody in the British food industry who won't say Brexit is the biggest impairment to our export sales. It’s been absolutely horrendous. The EU went from being the easiest market in the world to get our food into to quite literally the most difficult.”
#RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
UK’s exports to EU lose billions after Brexit
Britains exports to the EU are taking a hit worth billions of pounds following Brexit and layers of complex border check bureaucracy on food trade
euroweeklynews.com
December 5, 2024 at 10:26 AM
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When you spent billions and destroyed your brand to recreate 1930's Germany and got 1780's France instead.
December 5, 2024 at 1:12 PM
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The Brexit Curse

British food exports to EU ‘have fallen £3bn a year since Brexit’.

Border checks, lower standards on pesticides, veterinary drugs, animal welfare make UK exports harder.

Brexit costing UK economy about £100bn a year.

Rejoin EU.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
British food exports to EU ‘have fallen £3bn a year since Brexit’
Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy report finds trade flows have shown no signs of returning to previous levels
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2024 at 8:00 AM
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Just heard on the radio that Mohammed has overtaken Noah as the most popular name in Britain for a baby boy.

Somewhere out there a gammon will have also heard this, he’ll probably be too enraged and confused to adequately shag his flag.

Thoughts and prayers.
December 5, 2024 at 12:55 PM
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Voters have been "betrayed" after being persuaded that Brexit would bring down immigration.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Tories used Brexit as a ‘one-nation open borders experiment’, claims Starmer
The prime minister spelt out the betrayal of Brexit voters by the Tories after new figures revealed immigration reached a record high of more than 900,000 in 2023
www.independent.co.uk
November 29, 2024 at 7:27 AM
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NHS bosses who silence whistleblowers face sack under government plans👏

www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
NHS bosses who silence whistleblowers face sack under government plans
Ministers to launch public consultation on regulating managers in effort to end ‘culture of cover-up’ in NHS
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2024 at 9:57 PM
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All class. Can't wait to see him in red.
#F1 #Mercedes #LH44
November 24, 2024 at 10:53 PM
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Romanian ultranationalist Călin Georgescu is on track to make it to the final round of presidential elections alongside current Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, according to tonight’s provisional results, with more than 80 percent of ballots counted.
Romania election stunner: Unexpected hard-right candidate now set to reach presidential runoff
Ultranationalist Călin Georgescu is on track to join center-left PM Marcel Ciolacu in final battle for the presidency.
www.politico.eu
November 24, 2024 at 10:06 PM
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Is there any criticism about Bluesky they can make which isn't doubly true about their crown jewel bastion of free speech Truth Social?
November 24, 2024 at 2:39 PM
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The criticism from X-creters about Bluesky as an "echo chamber" are funny.

1. They exist in echo chambers and won the election

2. People agree about facts in many areas, how rockets are made, whether you need gasoline or water in your gas tank to make your car go. Sometimes, it's just reality.
November 24, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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Labour's transport policy taking inspiration from precisely the right places

www.thetimes.com/uk/transport...
Dijon-style trams could finally rid UK cities of the traffic jam
Louise Haigh, the transport secretary, is looking to France for inspiration as she heads to Leeds to unveil her strategy to get Britain moving
www.thetimes.com
November 24, 2024 at 7:44 AM
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"Stronger ties with the single market is the only way to stop the president-elect from having the last laugh".
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Without the EU, the joke is on us if Trump gets his tariffs | William Keegan
Stronger ties with the single market is the only way to stop the president-elect from having the last laugh
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2024 at 1:00 PM