@GeorgeFoulkes Would love to learn what the top 5 specific 'boosts' we would get from joining, & your cost-benefit analysis of membership fee/joining €/ripping up existing FTAs for a start.
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manofsuffolk
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manofsuffolk
@manofsuffolk
Former Fixed Income fund manager, now small business owner, Passionate Brexiteer, Conservative, democrat, strong believer in the UK and my family
Surrey Katılım Ekim 2015
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@JuliaHB1 @Keir_Starmer And he's illiterate. Unity goes over division not decency, and presumably he wouldn't say love over hatred.
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Good grief, this one is going down even worse. The biggest plastic patriot and divisive force in this country is @Keir_Starmer.
Keir Starmer@Keir_Starmer
St George’s flag stands for unity over hatred and decency over division. Those are the values I will always fight for. Some try to hijack our flag to spread hate, I reject their plastic patriotism. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
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@Aronmitala @ChelseaFC And the 100yrs before that...sudden injection of huge amounts of money?
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@HugoGye N. Ireland - prosecution of Army veterans, not terrorists
Climate Change - unimaginable damage to industry & consumers for VERY uncertain 'gains'
Deficit - huge resistance, opposite legacy
AI - regulation maybe, but no real econ gain due to poor energy infrastructure/high costs
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This is a very significant milestone - from Autotrader - New electric cars now cost £42,620 on average, compared with £43,405 for petrol models. plc.autotrader.co.uk/news-views/pre…
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@KonstantinKisin And you just know the far-left Labour MPs will actually think this is a good thing, soaking the rich/middle classes/anyone who pays tax, so they can redistribute to the poor...er....bribe voters.
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@empfindlich1 @Telegraph As you well understand, reset relationship ISN'T the same as becoming a rule taker in areas we don't need to/not in national interest - undermining non-EU agreements, making zero effort to look outward whilst intending closer shackles that set ground for de facto move back in.
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@manofsuffolk @Telegraph It literally says 'we will reset the relationship'.
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🔴 In May 2025, Britain became the first nation in the world to agree a trade deal with the Trump administration.
Now, Donald Trump has threatened to rip it up in one of his strongest attacks on Sir Keir Starmer to date ⤵️
telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/…
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@empfindlich1 @Telegraph Their manifesto is specifically limited. Labour clearly and duplicitously want more, way beyond the manifesto, and is definitively wanting to be a rule-taker to lay the ground for more.
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@manofsuffolk @Telegraph Except the reset with Europe was in Labour's manifesto so it's entirely democratic.
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@kurtmac @Telegraph No real fan of Trump, but I think the US has found that asking nicely gets completely ignored/looked down on. The rush to dismiss him is also a sign of infant mentality. Look beyond his v. undiplomatic language to assess the US's long-term strategy. US strong/China on backfoot.
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@manofsuffolk @Telegraph It doesn't take much to annoy Trump! He has an infant mentality! Just ask the Pope, Canada, Greenland, Spain, Ukraine, & soon to be Hungary!
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@PeterMcCormack @campbellclaret You underestimate Campbell's capacity for spin and lies. He knows there has been no statistically significant hit; he knows it's probably a wash/a bit better, despite all govt's poor efforts, but he simply can't admit it as his schtick will evaporate quicker than his 45-min claim
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This guy is utterly delusional… incredible that the charlatan Johnson put such a clown in charge of such an important negotiation. It will take years to undo the damage done.
Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺@Haggis_UK
Lord Frost: "There's no evidence of any economic shock from brexit at all..." 🤔 #PoliticsLive
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@AnnabelDenham1 Love to see/hear the politician who admits this and starts educating the electorate. It has been a massive cross-party failure of tragic proportions, as the pain required to meaningfully change course is no longer electorally viable. We're done for as a nation.
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Half of British voters now think we are as rich or richer than Australia, Singapore, Germany, Switzerland and the US.
These spectacular levels of delusion have real world effects. They make people think we can afford ever-growing public expenditure and "freebies".
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@minchoi Just a thought - friction requires clarity of thought & execution. Reduced friction will create an explosion of ideas, and surfacing good ones will become much harder. Good ideas & teams without big backing get lost in the noise, reducing risk-taking.
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@Streakyblue1951 @DanielJHannan You really think Sunak called that election with a) the determination to fight tooth and nail to get back in and STOP a Labour government and b) the Tory government (& more importantly ALL its MPs) were willing to do what it takes to stop Labour? They preferred Labour to Reform!
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@manofsuffolk @DanielJHannan What a ridiculous statement. They certainly did not hand over willingly to Labour. It was Reform who knowingly did it by splitting the right wing vote.
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@nfergus Not convinced the military or defence establishment have the mindset, the knowledge, or skills to effectively spend more money. So much wasted already, and the legal establishment leaves them hamstring as well. So sad.
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"We must undertake the biggest peacetime programme of rearmament in our country’s history. To do that, we need the money to pay for it. ... The next Conservative
government would reinstate the two-child benefit cap, three billion pounds, and spend that money on defence. ... We will reallocate £17 billion from Government R&D and Ed Miliband’s disastrous Net Zero projects to create a new Sovereign Defence Fund. ... It is not yet 3%, but it is a start. We will find more savings till we get there."
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Very, very important speech today by @KemiBadenoch at the @LondonDefConf. This is what sets her apart from all the other UK party leaders. "The mirror that [Trump] is holding up to Europe and that we find so uncomfortable to look in is showing us that without the United States, we cannot properly defend ourselves."
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@DanielJHannan All four are struggling with left wing governments & left-wing establishments. None will want free movement, geographically they're far apart, no real geostrategic commonality. Can't see many real benefits.
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@ATRightMovies That's not her best photo but Elizabeth Taylor was stunningly beautiful.
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What single classic film would you recommend to someone who never watched older movies?
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@matthewclifford And at what point will it all founder on the deeply uncompetitive energy market, ridiculously overbearing planning laws, and the catastrophically stupid employment laws and costs?
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