Brexit Bin 🇪🇺🇬🇧🇩🇪🕊🇺🇦 #BrexitHasFailed

Please listen to this exceptional segment from a speech by J.B. Pritzker. It explains everything that's happening now in #MAGAmerica.

@RichardGCorbett @GlasgowEurope But how can we come to a "national consensus" on Brexit when a majority of the public wants to reverse it, 83% of young voters want to reverse it, but our governing politicians refuse to listen to them and insist the issue is closed?

UK needs ‘national consensus’ over rejoining EU, David Miliband says theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

🧵 Here's a link to the EU's full Letta Report 🇪🇺 ...👇 consilium.europa.eu/media/ny3j24sm…

🧵 The Letta Report proposes a 5th Freedom for the Single Market – Free Movement of Knowledge – to facilitate cross border cooperation for the environment, science and economics (presumeably with an EU-based digital environment to cater for the EU's unique language diversity). 👇

🧵 Many mention the Draghi Report when discussing the future of the EU. But the Letta Report from Enrico Letta is actually more relevant and influential in today's EU. The Letta Report is about harmonising 27 systems into 1 to make the EU more resilient against USA and China.

Ein Traum: Merz stellt die Vertrauensfrage (oft genug von Scholz gefordert) und verliert. Günther wird Kanzler und holt Habeck zurück in die Wirtschaftspolitik. Die CDU trennt sich vom Lobbyverein (und lästigem Rattenschwanz) CSU. Söder eröffnet eine Pommesbude.

Wir Bürgerinnen und Bürger haben allen Grund, unser Grundgesetz zu verteidigen. Die Brandmauer muss bleiben. Und die Debatten über eine Minderheitsregierung von CDU und CSU sollten sofort aufhören.

Former Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta: "It’s time for a Declaration of Independence of the European Union. Just as we did with the Euro, today we must do it on Energy, European defense and a common army." Perfectly said. The moment of European independence has arrived. 🇪🇺

@implausibleblog Yes. Though to be honest, I expected more from him. I really don't get their reluctance to say "Brexit has turned out to be a huge mistake and we must reverse it." After 10 years, it's insane!

@BrexitBin That would be my ideal approach too, on the same terms as everyone else But I appreciate the thought that's gone into his answers

How does the UK rejoin the EU? Have a listen to David Miliband on BBC Radio 4 Today: Anna Foster, "The front page of the Guardian this morning is talking about the government trying to pitch an EU single market for goods, which Brussels seems to not be particularly keen on. What is your position on the government's stance at the moment on Europe and how our ongoing relationship with Europe should look?" David Miliband, "Well, I'm convinced that the security and prosperity of the UK depends on an institutionalized, deep and strong relationship with the rest of Europe. I'm absolutely convinced of that. The Russian invasion of Ukraine shows the way in which that's our number one security threat now." David Miliband, "But, we know our economy has been shrunk by 6 to 8% in the 10 years since Brexit. So there's an economic part of that. So when the government says we want a reset of our relations with Europe, I think that's a good thing. But then when I look that the reset so far is only worth £9 billion by 2040 and I remember that Britain is a 3 trillion pound economy, I'm left saying, no, we need a much higher dosage in our reset." Anna Foster, "How high? I mean, do you advocate for rejoining the EU?" David Miliband, "Well, I'm somewhat bemused by some of the commentary. I want this strong institutional relationship with the European Union. But then I know the deal we had until 2016 is not available now. We're not going to be able to get that deal again." David Miliband, "I also know the European Union is changing profoundly. The big issue for Brussels today is not Britain joining, it's Ukraine joining and Ukraine joining the European Union is going to mean a different institutional set of arrangements inside Europe." David Miliband, "So just to give you an example, they're talking about associate membership for Ukraine, they're talking about different tiers of membership. So the question of what kind of docking are we going to do in with the European Union? It's the re part of rejoin that I think we have to understand." David Miliband, "The world is changing out there." Anna Foster, "So you're not necessarily against the concept, but what you're saying is it would never be the way it was and therefore you don't think it's the right thing." David Miliband, "For that reason, it literally can't be the way that it was. We're not in a position to, I mean, the European Union wouldn't entertain us flipping and flopping. What we have to do is build a national consensus about our position with the European Union. I'm very happy with it as a long term goal." David Miliband, "Think for this Parliament we should be really driving our economic, political and other relations. There's a big debate about defence spending going on. As we know it's affected the aid budget. There's something called the European Defence Mechanism, which is the proposal for a European backed 800 billion euro defence package that would support all European countries inside the European Union and outside." David Miliband, "We should be championing that. That would be us putting in for a mutual security funding arrangement that would help fund our own defence and European defence. Because the truth is our defence is Europe's defence and vice versa."

@GaryHall29 @DannyVet Switzerland, Norway and Iceland all participate in the Single Market (with Freedom of Movement) through either bilateral deals or their membership of the EEA. None of them are in the EU.

@BrexitBin @DannyVet The same applies with the single market, that’s reserved for full EU membership as well.

Brexit has cost us billions in lost trade and left us with a stagnant economy. Our amendment to the King's Speech called on the government to start negotiating a new customs union with the EU to cut import costs and help bring prices down for everyone.

Whoever is Prime Minister in the coming months for heaven’s sake try to get David Miliband back into UK politics to be part of your team. His interview on Today programme just now a reminder of how much his voice and his brain are missed.

@GaryHall29 @DannyVet Exactly. So why not talk about Single Market membership and Freedom of Movement? So much better than "a" customs union that puts us on a level with Turkey.

@BrexitBin @DannyVet Non-EU members cannot become full, formal members of the EU Customs Union, as the founding treaties limit full membership strictly to EU member states

So this is how Burnham panders to the far-right. What a disappointment he is.

@FT @MatthewCaddis Not land, assets. Otherwise you hit small farmers instead of billionaires. It's now possible for billionaires to use assets as security to get loans to buy more assets, without ever being taxed on those assets because on paper they're only assets and not income.

Andy Burnham says land in the UK is ‘undertaxed’ ft.trib.al/64bULpI

@illnevercallitx Eine neue Mauer?

Was haben die etablierten Parteien denn für einen Plan für den Osten?

When Junior Doctors are on £16 an hour and MP's are on £46 an hour. And raising the Junior Doctors pay by £4 an hour is unaffordable, even though they just raised MP's pay by £5 an hour. It's hard not to see the lie. RT if Junior Doctors NEED paying.

YES 💯💯💯 #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

#C4News "Zack Polanski is now setting Labour policy" BBC News, "Wes Streeting would like to see a wealth tax on investments.. Equalising the rates of capital gains and income tax" Wes Streeting, "Generate £12 billion revenue" Thanks @ZackPolanski let's see which other Green policies Labour will adopt next 😉