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British Rejoiner fantasy land. You are like Brexiters, you have no understanding of the European Union and where it is headed. Thats why Rejoining means no opt outs
Richard Bentall #FBPE @richardbentall.bsky.social@RichardBentall
@Felix_Nuno Pretty sure this is not true. We won't have to join the euro (our opt-out is still in the Maastricht Treaty) or Shengen (it would nullify Ireland's opt-out of that). There aren't swathes of Europeans opposed to our return.
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Believing that rejoining the EU would meaningfully impact living standards is such a high status low information opinion.
You have to wilfully ignore the energy crisis that has tanked the German economy as it has our own.
You have to studiously ignore the French economy's sclerosis as debt piles up and entitlement reform is continually defeated.
You have to obstinately ignore the fact that the key driver of global growth today is avoiding the EU like the plague, as tech firms set up their Europe offices in Brexited London - free from the jurisdiction of the disastrous EU AI Act.
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Most British expats assume that moving abroad removes them from UK Inheritance Tax. That stopped being true on 6 April 2025.
The old domicile-based rules were replaced by a residence-based regime. If you were UK resident for 10 of the past 20 tax years, your worldwide estate stays in the UK IHT net for up to ten years after you leave. Property, investments, pensions, all of it.
A lot of expat estate plans were built around domicile arguments that simply don't apply anymore. Those plans are now out of date by default.
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What a lot of these Rejoin people don't realise, in their paternalistic british arrogance, is that the EU does not want the UK back
Mrs Gee 💚🇵🇸🎒@earthygirl011
If 'Rejoin EU' becomes an issue it'll not only put many working class voters off Labour, but Greens as well if they agree Working class ppl know being in EU was no solution. What we need are *domestic* policies to redistribute wealth, in or out of EU. That should be the focus
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Europe makes it nearly impossible to run a business (I've lived here 10 years).
Taxes go up. Regulations multiply. Every form has a form.
Everyone with talent eventually gets sick of spending half their day dealing with the nonsense instead of building their business and they leave.
Meanwhile China is building autonomous armies.
But sure, let's add another compliance requirement.
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@NickCohen4 Yeah, I think nearly everyone is happy with deporting at least some people who are here legally? Being here legally isn’t a right to live here forever no matter what. Do you disagree?
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If Burnham wins, he’ll treat it as a mandate to do whatever terrible leftist policies he wants (nationwide rent controls, wealth tax, exit tax, ultra-high CGT). This could be quite bad.
If he loses, Rayner or Miliband will become PM instead as obvious second-best choices, wounded and weak from day one and with no claim to a mandate. They are also clearly less electorally appealling. Reform winning in Makerfield therefore seems very desireable, and a lot of economic growth may be at stake.
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@danny__kruger Can I get spares for my equipment from the UK again? No if anything it's got worse. Brexit has failed. Totally.
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The case for Brexit has got stronger not weaker over the last 10 years
🇬🇧UKJ0N🇬🇧@ukJ0N
Danny Kruger takes apart the panel calling for the UK to rejoin the EU. He rightly highlights that the EU’s value to the world economy has halved over the last generation. Better trade deals yes, but rejoining is not the answer. Exactly right. @danny__kruger #ReformUK
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@ArmstrongT97969 My wife is a New Scot. Why is that a problem? She's paid tax for 30 years working in the NHS.
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The SNP want to replace Scots with “New Scots”
That is
People who have no connection to Scotland
Who weren’t born here and who have no allegiance to us
For the SNP. They are the Future
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Scotland should be positive moving forward. We have @Malcolm_Offord and @ReformUKScot fighting our corner. Reform are the only party with a credible plan to improve our lives.
Are they perfect - no
Can they improve lives and communities of Scots- yes.
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The biggest issue with solar panels is they are made with toxic materials that bleed out as the panels rot in land fills.
The EPA Hazmat laws will code them like tires as a form of Hazmat waste.
Expect at point of purchase disposal fees by state & local governments soon.
Electroverse@Electroversenet
Solar looks cheap on paper, but only because of two sneaky accounting tricks. First, the backup system is completely ignored: such as storage, balancing, and the dispatchable power plants waiting behind it. Second, fossil fuel prices are inflated via carbon taxes. In Germany, for example, domestic lignite (a low-grade brown coal) costs just 40 euros per MWh. But after carbon taxes, the cost triples to 120 MWh. Energy economist Lars Schernikau puts German solar at a whopping 10 times the full system cost of domestic lignite - once both the backup and carbon taxes are considered. Renewables are cheap on paper, but in reality are the most expensive source of power.
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@hodge_stick I thought you were paying for Scotland.
Suddenly independence is going to cost you?
Why?
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English people do not have "no skin in the game" when it comes to Scottish independence, as we are all part of the Union and will all be effected negatively by its dissolution.
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@philipmurraylaw I'm delighted. Vet students can visit us. We're at least 5 years ahead of the UK technology wise. Staying backward and poor isn't helping you.
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I’m sure disaffected voters in Gateshead will be delighted it’ll be easier for middle class kids to study in Heidelberg.
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Wasn’t it Gordon Brown that brought about the “Credit Crunch” of 2008?
Didn’t he give Northern Rock a £51b bailout?
Didn’t he then crash the economy, with the loss of 1000’s of jobs?
Asking for a few British friends.
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According to the Observer we’d be 8% richer than Germany and France today had we stayed in the EU. Why?
A newspaper or a comic?
And of course it can’t bring itself to say that the trigger for Brexit was a popular vote. Such disdain.
Sarah Ludford 🇬🇧 🇮🇪🇪🇺 🇺🇦@SarahLudford
“The UK has, for a decade, paid the price for Brexit, a factional fight within the Cons party, a cabinet-level psychodrama that ended up costing us 8% of GDP. The trigger for the Brexit referendum was David Cameron being spooked by the local elections. It didn’t end well.”
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Sarwar pivoted towards being “mare Scoattish” and it didn’t work.
Ditch the Scottish prefix and just be the Labour Party.
Key question for all Nats:
“Is Britain a country?”
Lesley Riddoch@LesleyRiddoch
Anas Sarwar heaps blame on Starmer but hasn’t acted to make Scottish Labour an actual party. It’s registered with Electoral Commission as ‘an Accounting Unit of the UK Labour Party’. How about starting there?
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1958: a British fishmonger had cod, haddock, plaice, sole, herring, mackerel, sprats, kippers, smoked haddock, eels, oysters, mussels, cockles, whelks, brown shrimp, and crab on his slab. All landed within the week. All from British waters.
2026: a British supermarket has tilapia from Vietnam, salmon from a Norwegian feedlot, and a tray of "white fish bites" of unspecified species.
The North Sea is still there. The boats are still in the harbour.
Somewhere between 1958 and now, the fish stopped reaching the customer.
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I would now welcome a military coup……but we’d need an army for that 😁
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The media bias against Labour and Starmer at UK level is absurd.
Yet in Scotland the media treat the SNP with kid gloves. Any preposterous claim is treated seriously not with contempt.
Something is wrong.
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Joking aside we’ve elected to Holyrood a collection of misfits with the ability to do serious damage to our health and our wealth.
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