Michael 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 SDP

Brexit was a mistake, and it’s time for the UK to rejoin the EU

Pedro Sánchez on The Rest Is Politics podcast: “I would definitely like to have the UK back on board in the EU. I think societies can make mistakes, but they can also correct those mistakes.” I'm loving these signals. The hope for a future together is still alive 🇪🇺🇬🇧

With Rachel Reeves telling The Economist she wants closer alignment with the EU, our most recent data found 54% of Britons support rejoining the EU, and 62% support a closer relationship short of rejoining Results link in replies

Oh, would you look at that another chart that falsely intentionally excludes foreign military sales, which as the department of State classifies is literally military assistance over $13 billion in the past year sold to Ukraine, but you don't count that in the chart. Over 3,000 air-launched cruise missiles have been provided to Ukraine by the United States In the last year but your chart doesn't show that and nor does it show that the Europeans have purchased more Russian energy than Total aid that they have given to Ukraine.

And here's headline GDP on the same basis (similar points apply)... 🤔

Too many are too polite to say this. But mass ritual prayer in public places is an act of domination. The adhan - which declares there is no god but allah and Muhammad is his messenger - is, when called in a public place, a declaration of domination. Perform these rituals in mosques if you wish. But they are not welcome in our public places and shared institutions. And given their explicit repudiation of Christianity they certainly do not belong in our churches and cathedrals. I am not suggesting everybody at Trafalgar Square last night is an Islamist. But the domination of public places is straight from the Islamist playbook. Trafalgar Square belongs to all of us. It is a national memorial to our independence and our salvation. Last night was not like a televised football match or a St Patrick’s Day celebration. It was an act of domination and therefore division. It shouldn’t happen again.