Tom Hempenstall
thommo48.bsky.social
Tom Hempenstall
@thommo48.bsky.social
Retired executive, now active grandfather
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Left: Rachel Reeves is celebrating £125 million a year in extra trade with China

Right: Your reminder that Brexit has cost the UK £13.5 billion in trade

To make up for the lost UK-EU trade, Labour needs to find 108 similarly updated trade deals
January 11, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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Yup.
January 5, 2025 at 5:51 AM
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What chutzpah! Farage has the gall to complain “We are getting poorer” without a scintilla of shame that Brexit has played a key role in our impoverishment @bbclaurak.bsky.social
January 5, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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For many, many years, the Icelandic population were against joining the EU.

Now that has flipped over, thanks mailing to Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

And their new government has just announced a referendum on EU accession talks.

Read more here —> open.substack.com/pub/mikegals...
December 28, 2024 at 10:02 AM
It is why I have stopped watching BBCQT. It is no longer a forum for open debate; now it’s just misinformation with no challenge by the chair.
“My 2023 open letter to the BBC about Question Time, read by more than 300,000 people in 144 countries, was widely reported in the media. It even informed questions posed to the BBC’s director general Tim Davie at a parliamentary select committee.”
The media’s dangerous embrace of Farage: a critical look at BBC’s Question Time
The BBC’s platforming of Nigel Farage on Question Time promotes divisive and misleading rhetoric, distorting the debate on immigration
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
December 13, 2024 at 1:17 PM
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“54% of Britons who voted leave, including 59% of voters in “red wall seats”, said in exchange for single market access they would now accept full free movement for EU and UK citizens to travel, live and work across borders.”
Majority of Brexit voters ‘would accept free movement’ to access single market
Europe-wide polling finds UK and EU leaders now out of step with public opinion and pursue ‘ambitious reset’
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2024 at 6:52 AM
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Centaur’s Swag Mukerji steps down as CEO. Replaced by Martin Rowland as Executive Chair in least surprising news of 2024 www.investegate.co.uk/announcement...
Directorate Change | Company Announcement | Investegate
Comprehensive details of regulatory and non regulatory announcements from FTSE 100, 250, AIM and techMARK quoted companies
www.investegate.co.uk
December 12, 2024 at 7:38 AM
It just goes to show that immigration is not as damaging as many would have us believe.
December 8, 2024 at 10:05 AM
Just arrived here from « the other place ». What a difference - civilised, friendly and welcoming.
November 15, 2024 at 8:31 AM