Simon Bacon 🇪🇺 🌻

Brexiteers now don't contest the multiple downsides of Brexit. Instead they fall back on "recovering democracy", as if losing your seat at the table where 28 democracies worked together and flouncing out into isolation somehow enhances your democracy...

President Trump has called mail-in (postal) voting "cheating" Yet in this week's special election in Florida, in which he had a vote, he voted...by mail. Something he's done at least once before. nytimes.com/2026/03/24/us/…

“The reality is the future is electric” Octopus Energy CEO @g__j says the UK is ‘going to look like a backward country’ if we go ‘back to burning’ rather than taking on cleaner technologies #Peston

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been formally nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2026.👏👏👏

The well known fact that a larger market (the EU single market) has greater bargaining power in trade negotiations than a smaller market (the U.K.).

I’m sorry but what sort of MP turns down a place on Question Time when it’s held in his very own constituency? A failure is who. Clacton you must kick him out. He has used and abused you all.

"Trump, the Mar-a-Lago golfer, is the only bull in the world who walks around with his own china shop. When a clown takes over the Palace, he doesn't become King. It's the Palace that becomes a circus" French senator Claude Malhuret once again nails it. You won't hear a better indictment of Trump and his Gulf war than this. Well worth 5 minutes of your time My English s/t 👇

Can't happen fast enough for me. I want my EU citizenship back!!

Here’s the short version: the claim is not true. There is no BBC rule, no parliamentary rule, and no established convention that bans MPs from appearing on Question Time when the programme is broadcast from their own constituency. Nothing in the House of Commons guidance supports such a restriction, and the BBC has never stated such a rule publicly. The House of Commons Library outlines conventions about MPs visiting or intervening in other MPs’ constituencies, not their own. These conventions relate to courtesy between MPs, not media appearances. These conventions say nothing about TV appearances, and nothing about restrictions within an MP’s own constituency. There is no publicly documented BBC policy that bans MPs from appearing on Question Time in their own constituency. Historically, MPs have appeared on QT when the show is filmed in their constituency. It’s not common—because the panel is usually chosen for political balance, not geography—but it’s absolutely not prohibited. If the BBC did tell an MP this, it would be: • an internal editorial choice • a misunderstanding • or a convenient excuse to avoid saying “we didn’t pick you this week” But it is not a rule. Moreover, as Farage has appeared on #bbcqt more than any other MP, it is doubtful that any of these apply

Then stop helping Russia

Consciously or otherwise, precisely echoing Putin.

I mean, how the hell is this even legal? Was it part of the contract that the seller is entitled to say “screw you and the money you've paid us, we're talking these weapons for ourselves”?

BLIMEY - there will doubtless and rightly be a lot of focus on the limit on overseas donations and the ban on crypto (tick to both) but in some ways might this be the most important paragraph in the Rycroft report on foreign interference in our politics (prompted in part by Russian funding of Farage Party) “Separately, beyond these hostile state threats, I am also cognisant of a potential new threat: an emerging willingness of foreign actors and private citizens, including from allies like the United States, to interfere in, and influence, politics abroad in pursuit of their own agenda.” In other words USA has joined Russia, China, Iran in seeking to subvert our democracy. Time to call them out !!! Perhaps JD Vance could pop in for a chat after his campaign stop in Hungary

NEW: Reform UK have lost their fourth Scottish election candidate in less than a week. It comes just hours after the party lost their third

This is the third major investigation of Hungarian corruption by the same @FT team.

Americans need to know which officials traded stocks before Trump posted about Iran last night.

The EU gets a better trade deal with Australia than Britain did. Of course, the EU negotiates with the clout and leverage of being the world’s largest market. It gets better deals for its members than they’d get negotiating separately. Britain now misses out on that.

Absolute bombshell. Data reveals someone made a massive 580 MILLION dollar trade on oil exactly 15 minutes BEFORE Donald Trump posted his tweet about pausing the Iran war. Someone on the inside just made a life changing fortune. The corruption is blatant.

This is truly insane, and it should be front page news across America.  Denmark secretly deployed soldiers to Greenland prepared to blow up airport runways to stop a U.S. invasion. They brought blood supplies to treat the wounded. France, Germany, Norway, and Sweden quietly coordinated against us. This was not a drill. This was our closest allies preparing to fight Americans. Let that sink in. NATO allies. Countries whose soldiers have fought and died alongside ours for decades. They looked at this president and decided they had to prepare for the worst. Fewer allies does not make America great. It makes us more isolated, more vulnerable, and it hands Russia and China exactly what they have always wanted: an America abandoned by its friends. The American people deserve to know how badly this president has damaged our standing in the world.  bbc.com/news/articles/…

The appalling fact is The Trump administration is now the enemy of democracy Supporting dictators like Putin, Orban, and Lukashenko AGAINST the democratic governments of America's former Western allies When are the Americans going to realise that Trump is a Russian agent ?