@Ferdinand641 @friesneverdies You share it as you run the EU with the other member states.
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Tim Hill
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@friesneverdies Actually that poll failed to ask if people were prepared to give up sovereignty.
When asked of 70% said absolutely not.
You should know better than to read the awful Guardian
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The 60 most recent polls all show that Brits are not prepared to sacrifice sovereignty
Nobody wants to submit to the utterly useless and destructive EU.
Give it a rest!
Cary Cooper@ProfCaryCooper
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@Ferdinand641 @WagonTrain2 Oh dear. This is why we are on our way back. The EU is run by its members states. For its member states.
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@WagonTrain2 No they are not, they’re controlled by the EU and it’s endless bureaucracy
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@TerraOrBust A tariff is paid by the importer/consumer to a level of over 90%. Trump is collectively punishing the US.
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BREXIT BENEFIT
The UK is not held responsible for the actions of others in the EU, being collectively punished for their stupidity.
The Kobeissi Letter@KobeissiLetter
BREAKING: President Trump announces he is raising tariffs on cars and trucks coming into the US from the EU to 25%. President Trump says this is due to the EU "not complying with out fully agreed to trade deal."
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Thank Goodness for #Brexit.
Dan Rivers@danriversitv
Trump raises tariffs on EU next week on cars and trucks
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This is a straight up lie.
Scotch Whisky has *always* been at the top of the trade agenda between the UK and US, especially since Brexit returned the UKs ability to negotiate international trade.
It is mentioned in every document on UK-US trade negotiations.
Emily Mackintosh@EMackintosh1
🏴🥃 Amazing news for our Scotch whisky sector tonight. This wasn’t on the political agenda until @JohnSwinney raised it with the President last year & used every opportunity to advance the case. And credit to @ScotchWhiskySWA too for their huge efforts.
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@BellDavidst We are the only Anglosphere country that joined the EEC/EU and we have grown the least.
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In 2029, we should cancel the EU/UK TCA and re-align our trading laws and product standards with the USA/Australia/NZ/Canada.
There is no point aligning ourselves with a sclerotic bloc like the EU when we have so much in common with the Anglosphere (especially language).
Even the King is the Head of State for most of these and is a superstar to the USA.
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@Capybarapond @BellDavidst That's only because it is a tax haven. It's also now being flooded by third worlders.
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@ramonagusta Oh dear. The world has changed since you were young. Which 'standards' do you mean - dollars and km? What happened to the USA in this reckoning?
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I've been warning about this for a while. With all recent safety concerns and technology exploits, do you really want cameras built into your car, monitoring you at all times?
Leaving the EU allowed us to avoid this dystopian nonsense. Imagine wanting this level of monitoring.
Europa.com@europa
🇪🇺 From July 2026, a new EU regulation will require all new cars to include driver-surveillance systems (ADDW), using interior cameras to track eye movement, head position and attention levels to detect “distraction or drowsiness.” The systems are designed for in-car safety alerts, with data processed in real time within the vehicle. Follow: @europa
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@europa The irony here is that EU is simultaneously slow-walking autonomous vehicles rolling out, which would rapidly make the roads safer and make this regulation irrelevant. Metastatic, wasteful regulation for regulation's sake at its most obvious and detrimental.
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🇪🇺 From July 2026, a new EU regulation will require all new cars to include driver-surveillance systems (ADDW), using interior cameras to track eye movement, head position and attention levels to detect “distraction or drowsiness.”
The systems are designed for in-car safety alerts, with data processed in real time within the vehicle.
Follow: @europa
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@Paul__Craven @ramonagusta Clearly it was totally suited - and extremely influential too in creating the single market.
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@ramonagusta This is what Charles de Gaulle said about the UK in the 1960s (before we joined the EEC/EU). He was right. The UK was never suitable to be a member state.
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Never forget how bad the EU's single market has been for the UK... this chart represents millions of lost jobs and hundreds of £billions in lost wealth.
The only thing that saved us, was growth in financial services, which we didn't need the EU for anyway as we dominated that to start with.
#Brexit
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@ramonagusta The chart (no source) presumably shows balance of trade with the whole world, not the EU.
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@ramonagusta @Paul__Craven The 'Commonwealth' supported EEC membership in the 1975 referendum.
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@Paul__Craven Indeed. He was spot on. Catastrophic for Commonwealth too.
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@TerraOrBust I thought you were complaining that it took so long. Now it's being implemented in a piecemeal you are claiming it will bring the EU down.
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This deal is hated across EU member states. Absolutely hated.
The EU will have lost significant support for its continued existence, just on the implementation of this deal alone - let alone everything else going on.
Ursula von der Leyen@vonderleyen
Today, the EU-Mercosur agreement begins to apply provisionally. The benefits are real and visible as of now. Tariffs start falling. Companies are gaining access to new markets. Investors have the predictability they need. Provisional application will show the agreement’s tangible benefits. And how legitimate sensivities have been adressed. Giving @Europarl_EN and Member States the fullest evidence-based picture to carry out their democratic oversight.
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@TerraOrBust De Gaulle had other reasons as well, more to do with the US than just the protection of the stewardship of the countryside (which is where he was coming from here). As he was gone in 1969, you would need to add the POV of Pompidou who dropped the veto fast and who was his PM.
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In 1967 the French President of the time, Charles de Gaulle, blocked the UK application to join the EEC (the infant version of the now EU) for the second time.
He wrote in 1963 about the reasons for his objections - and these reasons stand true today.
Membership was never good.
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Carney is part of YTD Rejoiner blob - he should be committing to CANZUK
Verso Europa 🇪🇺@VersoEuropa
“Canada looks first to the European Union to build a better world.” Prime Minister Mark Carney The European Union is the world’s most successful project of peace, prosperity, and cooperation.
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British / EU trade has continued to grow year on year since we left the bloc
Anthony Glees @anthonyglees@AnthonyGlees
What you fail to understand & have never understood, for UK plc or your very own, now defunct business, is that for every £1 we invested in the EU, we got £9 back (2016 £8bn cost, £88bn return in free trade). It’s mad to heed you.
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@ramonagusta The data is in... leaving the EU had a huge negative effect. 47 years of EEC/EU membership was a huge success. econofact.org/the-economic-c…
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The data is in... leaving the EU had zero negative effect.
43 years of EEC/EU membership was pointless.
#Brexit
Dan Neidle@DanNeidle
We see these trends in the overall GDP data as well as GDP per capita. This chart normalises GDP to 2025 so we can see comparisons clearly. The UK trend is so close to other advanced economies (minus US) that it’s hard to distinguish the two lines on the chart:
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@julianHjessop You have to 'commit' to join the euro. In any case, there will be a form of Associate membership soon enough and that will involve SM and no euro yet. This is the only way to get Ukraine in and also part of what ever follows NATO.
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"We want the UK back in EU but no cherry-picking our rules this time, top MEPs tell Metro"
Would be interesting to see more polling on whether Brits really want to rejoin if this means losing the budget rebate, joining Schengen and adopting the euro...🤔
metro.co.uk/2026/04/29/wan…
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🚨European Parliament demands €200 billion extra for EU budget
This equates to a huge 10% increase on the previous year's budget.
Who is going to pay for this?
The innocent, ordinary, unconsenting European taxpayer.
The EU must be dismantled so that nation-states can pursue self-determination.
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