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Sean Stratton 〓〓💚〓〓
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“It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.” – William Shakespeare
Falmouth, Kernow انضم Ağustos 2017
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The UK has its own exploding graduate and youth unemployment crises.
Starmer must not make it worse with another EU surrender.
Based on British need, anyone can already apply for a:
Student visa
Graduate visa
Skilled Worker visa
Health and Care Worker visa
Scale-up visa
Global Talent visa
High Potential visa
Innovator Founder visa

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@CityAM She’s face a fiscal hole due to Labours insane policies.
Gov borrowing over 5%.
Energy will just be the cherry.
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Reeves faces £20bn fiscal hole as energy crisis drives up costs bit.ly/3Nhyvnu
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Rejoining the EU would cost over £31bn a year - it will bankrupt us, not save us conservativehome.com/2026/03/20/joe…
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So if Reeves’s claim that Brexit cost us 8% of GDP is correct it would mean we’d have grown four times more than Japan/Germany and almost twice France/Italy. Up there with Canada/US. If you believe that I have a bridge to sell you.
In reality, even with Brexit, we were fastest growing European economy in G7. Just a tad more than France (with no Frexit).
Julian Jessop@julianHjessop
And here's headline GDP on the same basis (similar points apply)... 🤔
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@afneil A credible academic paper in 2025 estimated that Brexit reduced the level of UK GDP by around 6–8%. Not an absolute fall in GDP, but a cumulative, gradual shortfall in economic growth compared to what it would have been if the UK had remained in the EU.
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Just add 8% to current UK GDP to make up the Brexit ‘shortfall’, then compare our GDP growth to other major European and G7 economies — and it quickly becomes apparent it’s anything but credible!!
Noel Dowling@noelmarydowling
@afneil A credible academic paper in 2025 estimated that Brexit reduced the level of UK GDP by around 6–8%. Not an absolute fall in GDP, but a cumulative, gradual shortfall in economic growth compared to what it would have been if the UK had remained in the EU.
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One storm. One fallen tree. One field in the Lake District. ✏️
The entire global pencil industry.
There is a field in the Lake District. Nothing remarkable about it. Fell sheep, grey sky, Cumbrian rain.
Until one day a storm came through. It uprooted a tree and underneath the roots was something nobody had ever seen before.
A black substance. Soft, dark, left a mark on everything it touched.
The shepherds didn't know what it was, but they used it to mark their sheep.
That was 1565.
It was the purest deposit of graphite ever found on earth. The only one like it. Ever. 🌍
Word spread fast.
The Crown seized the mine, put armed guards on the fell and flooded it between diggings to keep the price high.
Stealing graphite became a criminal offence.
Punishable by transportation to Australia.
Because this wasn't just for marking sheep.
It was perfect for lining cannonball moulds. It made England's cannonballs rounder. Faster. More deadly. ⚔️
England had a pencil monopoly for nearly a century. Every artist, every cartographer, every engineer in Europe. All of them wanted what was in that one Cumbrian field.
Slowly, workshops appeared in nearby Keswick. Cottage industries. Families cutting graphite into sticks.
Wrapping them in string. Then sheepskin. Then wood.
The pencil was born. ✏️
In a Cumbrian field. Because a storm uprooted a tree.
There is still a pencil factory in Keswick today. On the same site it has always been.
Did you know that?
These islands have thousands of stories the world has forgotten.
We find them. We tell them.
We put them in front of millions.
You help us make that possible.
Be Part Of Us.
Be Proud Of Us. 🏴🇬🇧
proudofus.co.uk
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No real evidence to back this up
The British economy has grown in a similar way to our European peers
The pre Brexit forecasts have largely been debunked
Even trade has continued to grow
Getting closer to the EU might make sense if it was doing better but it's a rapidly declining bloc as even Draghi admits
If people want to grow the British economy they should focus on domestic reform and critical trade relations focused on tech and natural resources
Josh Glancy@joshglancy
Labour's realignment with the EU will be slow, painful and expensive. But they are right to do it anyway, because Brexit isn't working My @thetimes column thetimes.com/comment/column…
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We don’t like to think about lockdown, but it lies behind most of our current problems, including debt, inflation, absenteeism, low productivity, welfarism, the shoplifting epidemic, the conspiracy theories and even the immigration crisis. Paywall down.
telegraph.co.uk/gift/a6fe66439…
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