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"They wanted Singapore on the Thames. They got Argentina on the Channel."
Mark Carney on Brexit
A Scot who retains EU citizenship.
Voted Yes 🏴 and Remain 🇪🇺.
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Mark Carney on Brexit
A Scot who retains EU citizenship.
Voted Yes 🏴 and Remain 🇪🇺.
Ice hockey. Road cycling. Philosophy. Nature conservation. Rewilding. Comics. Union rep.
’Make Brexit Work’ being a classic of the genre.
November 14, 2025 at 7:40 AM
’Make Brexit Work’ being a classic of the genre.
This is a large part of the explanation as to why young Scots and Welsh people support independence.
The UK is failing on a very fundamental level, and Labour has no plan, just a slogan:
The UK is failing on a very fundamental level, and Labour has no plan, just a slogan:
November 13, 2025 at 6:15 AM
This is a large part of the explanation as to why young Scots and Welsh people support independence.
The UK is failing on a very fundamental level, and Labour has no plan, just a slogan:
The UK is failing on a very fundamental level, and Labour has no plan, just a slogan:
Labour solution to the Brexit ungovernability:
November 13, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Labour solution to the Brexit ungovernability:
Make Brexit Work was always an empty slogan, never a serious policy.
November 13, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Make Brexit Work was always an empty slogan, never a serious policy.
And yet still Starmer keeps his red lines:
November 10, 2025 at 9:43 AM
And yet still Starmer keeps his red lines:
Starmer delivers on his pledge to Make Brexit Work:
November 10, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Starmer delivers on his pledge to Make Brexit Work:
Correct.
Starmer’s red lines:
Starmer’s red lines:
November 9, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Correct.
Starmer’s red lines:
Starmer’s red lines:
Starmer has a plan.
November 9, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Starmer has a plan.
Make Brexit Work is a confidence trick. Wales and Scotland are about to bring the fraudsters to justice.
November 9, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Make Brexit Work is a confidence trick. Wales and Scotland are about to bring the fraudsters to justice.
Making Brexit Work. A masterstroke.
November 9, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Making Brexit Work. A masterstroke.
Labour are hopeless. The media smells their weakness and feasts on it. That is their job. They are ruthless predators. Labour are doing a good impersonation of Bambi.
November 9, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Labour are hopeless. The media smells their weakness and feasts on it. That is their job. They are ruthless predators. Labour are doing a good impersonation of Bambi.
Labour aren’t even trying to undo it. They are exacerbating the problems with ”Make Brexit Work”. Here’s a clue: it can’t.
November 9, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Labour aren’t even trying to undo it. They are exacerbating the problems with ”Make Brexit Work”. Here’s a clue: it can’t.
An obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind: ’catchfart’.
#OptionalIdentityMark
#AnasSarwar
#KeirStarmer
#OptionalIdentityMark
#AnasSarwar
#KeirStarmer
November 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
An obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind: ’catchfart’.
#OptionalIdentityMark
#AnasSarwar
#KeirStarmer
#OptionalIdentityMark
#AnasSarwar
#KeirStarmer
This is Labour’s game on Brexit: red lines that consign GB to the same isolationist club as Belarus and Russia:
November 2, 2025 at 1:18 PM
This is Labour’s game on Brexit: red lines that consign GB to the same isolationist club as Belarus and Russia:
The English electorate largely fooled themselves. Our sympathy should be very limited.
What they really wanted was to hurt their ancient enemies on the continent and what they patronisingly refer to as the ”Celtic Fringe” (Ireland, Scotland and Wales). That didn’t work out as they intended.
What they really wanted was to hurt their ancient enemies on the continent and what they patronisingly refer to as the ”Celtic Fringe” (Ireland, Scotland and Wales). That didn’t work out as they intended.
November 2, 2025 at 10:03 AM
The English electorate largely fooled themselves. Our sympathy should be very limited.
What they really wanted was to hurt their ancient enemies on the continent and what they patronisingly refer to as the ”Celtic Fringe” (Ireland, Scotland and Wales). That didn’t work out as they intended.
What they really wanted was to hurt their ancient enemies on the continent and what they patronisingly refer to as the ”Celtic Fringe” (Ireland, Scotland and Wales). That didn’t work out as they intended.
Cavendish is a whiner. Like his chums.
November 1, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Cavendish is a whiner. Like his chums.
I’ll not be holding my breath.
Economic decline is inevitable as long as Starmer and Reeves keep their red lines:
Economic decline is inevitable as long as Starmer and Reeves keep their red lines:
October 31, 2025 at 8:56 AM
I’ll not be holding my breath.
Economic decline is inevitable as long as Starmer and Reeves keep their red lines:
Economic decline is inevitable as long as Starmer and Reeves keep their red lines:
Labour’s suicide:
October 30, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Labour’s suicide:
*… with Belarusians and Russians…
October 30, 2025 at 3:07 AM
*… with Belarusians and Russians…
Plaid Cymru has supplanted Labour as the main party among younger adults in Wales, while Reform has ousted the Tories among older generations
October 25, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Plaid Cymru has supplanted Labour as the main party among younger adults in Wales, while Reform has ousted the Tories among older generations
Starmer’s red lines condemn GB to isolation and are going to cripple the Labour Party.
October 25, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Starmer’s red lines condemn GB to isolation and are going to cripple the Labour Party.
Labour’s red lines condemn GB to the dunce’s corner with Belarus and Russia.
October 22, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Labour’s red lines condemn GB to the dunce’s corner with Belarus and Russia.