The Democracy Movement

Brexit restored one of the biggest freedoms of all; the freedom to hold our lawmakers to account. The power of our votes. The ability, peacefully through the ballot box, to remove those who make our laws and induce change. In essence, democracy. #Brexit #democracy

Wait, what? Europe‘s declining economic importance reduces its regulatory influence? I would say Europe‘s grotesque overregulations reduce its economic importance.

@danielmgmoylan Why is Britain cursed with leaders who don't want to govern? It's happening again. Millions voted in 2016 to hand lawmaking back to parliament, achieved in 2020. Now 2026 and Starmer-Reeves are giving it away again.

Surrender Bill.

Facts: the 4% was an average of 13 wildly varying non-OBR studies concluded even before the terms of the Brexit trade deal / TCA were agreed. Lightweight and completely unreliable. The 8% relies on a counterfactual (ie. fantasy) NBER study using dodgy comparator economies, is obviously absurd and is already disproved by real GDP data. No basis for government decisions. So obviously, Rachel Reeves has latched onto it. EU ideology and its proponents will sadly not be swayed by reality.

Very important article by @singharj on the implications of the EU Reset and how it will make food more expensive rather than less. If we follow EU rules we will have to impose checks on food imports from safe and friendly countries to satisfy the EU. inews.co.uk/news/politics/…

Facts: the 4% was an average of 13 wildly varying non-OBR studies concluded even before the terms of the Brexit trade deal / TCA were agreed. Lightweight and completely unreliable. The 8% relies on a counterfactual (ie. fantasy) NBER study using dodgy comparator economies, is obviously absurd and is already disproved by real GDP data. No basis for government decisions. So, obviously, Rachel Reeves has latched onto it. EU ideology and its proponents will sadly not be swayed by reality.

Brexit has likely done more economic damage than feared. Recent evidence suggests the economic cost of Brexit may be approaching twice the 4% impact assumed by the OBR. The Chancellor has signalled a shift in approach to EU trade, but the effect will depend on how far the govt goes on alignement

Brexit has likely done more economic damage than feared. Recent evidence suggests the economic cost of Brexit may be approaching twice the 4% impact assumed by the OBR. The Chancellor has signalled a shift in approach to EU trade, but the effect will depend on how far the govt goes on alignement.

Why is Britain cursed with leaders who don't want to govern? It's happening again. Millions voted in 2016 to hand lawmaking back to parliament, achieved in 2020. Now 2026 and Starmer-Reeves are giving it away again. #Brexit #democracy @afneil @vicderbyshire @IainDale @alexwickham

Punchy commentary here from @IainDale - and he's spot on in rejecting the weird trope that demands Brexit be labelled a 'disaster' >> "Admitting When You're Wrong: Iain reflects on those who call for him to admit he was wrong on Brexit ..." iaindale.substack.com/p/iain-dales-s… #BrexitReality

British troops helping to defend the EU's borders in #Poland, regardless of #Brexit. What thanks do we get from Brussels, @vonderleyen @kajakallas? Demands for £billions to participate in defence procurement. Crass and grasping. share.google/RbvimRnwKr7FmT… @NickTorfaen @MPJohnHealey

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@FT By 'red lines', do you mean the promises Keir Starmer made to voters before the last general election? So fans of remote EU lawmaking also want Starmer to break his election pledges? These people are simply not democrats - and should be called out for it. #Brexit #democracy

Pressure grows on Starmer to drop EU ‘red lines’ ft.trib.al/0GOqdqD

Sadiq Khan's #Brexit intervention has at least usefully exposed the anti-democratic mindset of the EU's hardline backers. Are we a country with democratic values, or not? So when a senior politician suggests binning election promises to then over-ride a referendum vote via a much smaller election mandate, in order to hand lawmaking back to undemocratic EU institutions, it needs to be called out for what it is; not merely a Labour debating point, but an attack on #democracy itself. @kafkaswife @AnnabelDenham1 @afneil @Peston @SophyRidgeSky @vicderbyshire @bbclaurak @IainDale @tomhfh @JuliaHB1

Scathing report on the latest #EUCO summit. To think Remainers once claimed that the EU offered us international influence >> "By the end of the talks, the EU’s leaders reached a sobering conclusion: Europe has little power or inclination to shape events." politico.eu/article/eu-lea…

@TheEconomist Reeves is putting a sword to her party's last election promise not to rejoin the single market. Doing it sector-by-sector isn't such the clever trick she thinks it is. Labour will go into the next election having lost trust, which is usually fatal for any party. #democracy

Rachel Reeves has put to the sword the orthodoxies about Britain’s place in the world. And yet the limits on a push to return to Europe can already be seen economist.com/britain/2026/0…

Just two years after Britain actually left the EU. Witness the Not-Democrats.

Good to see John Curtice note that support for rejoining the EU shrinks when the trade-offs are exposed! Labour's push is more about party politics than the economics, but this could easily backfire too (especially if the EU continues to play hardball). bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@PeterStefanovi2 @MayorofLondon @SadiqKhan @Keir_Starmer You're applauding a profoundly undemocratic statement? Disturbing. You're on the wrong side of democratic principles. But entirely consistent, at least, with wanting an unelected Commission to again be writing our laws.

Wow. @MayorofLondon @SadiqKhan asks @Keir_Starmer to not only “rejoin the EU Customs Union and the Single Market this Parliament”, but also to “fight the next general election with a clear manifesto commitment: a vote for Labour means we would rejoin the European Union”, without a second #Brexit referendum 👏

Labour Red Wall chief Jo White tells me “ow is not the time or the place to be talking about going back into the EU". Following Sadiq Khan's Brexit intervention, she adds “I don’t want to spend the next three years looking at the past".

DM director @StuartCoster has a letter in today's @Telegraph, responding to Rachel Reeves's Brexit comments >> The chancellor's arguments don't add up ... Why don't Keir Starmer & Rachel Reeves want to govern? #Brexit #democracy