Can anyone explain why we are now out of Erasmus? Was it that Johnson didn't like it or that the EU wanted something else in exchange as the price for staying in it and Johnson refused to agree?
France’s state-owned news network has dared to go where the BBC fears to tread by covering the litany of untruths made by Boris Johnson in the House of Commons.
Green Party MP Caroline Lucas “We have a parliamentary system based on the idea that all ./..
May we point out that Mr Johnson offered us £350 million a week for the NHS in 2016, by our maths that makes £18 billion a year.
Offering a paltry sum of £2.7 billion over 5 years seems a bit stingy in comparison. Are we as daft as he thinks we are?
#Brexit
is like the episode in Frasier (“Door Jam”) where Frasier and Niles can’t resist going through the platinum door at an exclusive health spa marked ‘no entry’ and find themselves stuck outside among the bins. There was no deal better than the one we already ./..
The Independent's Travel editor Simon Calder, on LBC this morning, explains that the jams at Dover docks are due to UK passports having to be stamped as a consequence of
#Brexit
. That's what voters wanted.
Heavily
#Brexit
voting Lincolnshire hit by Bus driver shortages. A large proportion of the workforce are EU nationals who chose to return to their home countries.
The switch has been stark and sudden. The percentage of women telling YouGov that they would vote Conservative has dropped 11 points since October. In fact this change accounts for much of the overall slump in the Tories’ poll ratings.
MPs are honorable. But that system crumbles when you have a prime minister who’s a serial liar – he’s been sacked twice for that in previous jobs.
“The normalization of lying in government is deeply dangerous, and when the Prime Minister systematically lies to the ./…
dispatch box with impunity, it is impossible for MPs to hold the government to account." “I am disappointed that so many news organizations have failed to pursue this direction when there are so many examples of it.”
Anna Soubry trying to explain to Harry Cole on the Sky news papers review that violence in NI is a consequence of leaving the SM/CU & the bad Brexit deal. Harry seems to think that it’s about a funeral last year, and there would have been similar riots in ‘Wolverhampton’ if ‘the
Telegraph reveals
#Brexitimpact
“There’s a skills shortage behind the camera and European crews are reluctant to come to the UK post-Brexit. We don’t have enough people to film good drama.
As predicted- UK Gvt’s devaluation of £ & Brexit incompetence means our industry is asset stripped & sold off to foreign interests.
Britishvolt: UK battery start-up set to be bought by Australian firm
The Brexit Inquiry petition closed at mid night last night and the final score is 216,782 signatures which puts the petition in the top 1% of of the 46,000+ government e-petitions submitted. Well done and thank you to everybody for your support.👇
The
#BrexitInquiry
petition has now closed. Thank you to everybody who signed, the 216,782 signatures put it in the top 1%. This is not the end, the petition is now a key foundation in the continuing campaign for an inquiry. Follow
@InquiryBrexit
for updates.
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Holding all the cards in
#BrexitBritain
: both main parties ' in complete denial about the contribution of
#Brexit
to the cost-of-living crisis', says SNP MP
Taking back control in
#BrexitBritain
: how
#Brexit
allowed a 'grotesque mediocrity' to exploit 'a fatigued, hollowed-out, crisis-ridden democratic system'
Howard Davies(Chair NatWest) - "The reality is brexit has caused the economy to be smaller... about 5% smaller... & we have to accept that's a significant handicap & it's one we've brought on ourselves"
#bbclaurak
#Ridge
Little
#BrexitBritain
: 'You bring Brexiters on, you never challenge them. You let them talk utter rubbish about
#Brexit
. And it’s happened on the BBC for year after year after year', says Alastair Campbell on BBC Newsnight.
#BrexitLies
#BrexitReality
#BrexitReality
This was reported by the BBC as part of an official Government statement (regarding the Lorry driver shortage) "The British people repeatedly voted to end free movement", how many people realised they were voting to... make life hell for travelling musicians, etc..
The Commons public administration and constitutional affairs committee called on ministers to stop the passage of the Elections Bill and rethink their plans.
Until now the Road Haulage Association have been saying that 15,000 EU drivers have quit the country. This evening on John Pienar's programme on Times Radio their spokesman said 20,000!
In a Westminster Hall debate on the impact of
#Brexit
this week, Labour MP Hilary Benn stood up and spat nothing but facts for ten minutes about the utter failure leaving the European Union has been.
Day of Action: there will be a stall in Hitchin Market Square on Saturday 16th March from 10.30 am till around 1.00 pm. This will include a Brexitometer.
Interest rate rises, inflation, and skills and labour shortages all contributed to sharp increase in company insolvencies in 2023 with no sign of slowing down.
“…everybody we work with cites Covid and
#Brexit
.”
Airline cancellations:
#Brexitdoublewhammy
as revealed by callers to LBC who work in the industry. 1. 40% of cabin crew were EU nationals or lived in EU. 2. Brexit split companies in two: UK and EU with legal restrictions covering which could fly where.
Sunlit uplands in
#BrexitBritain
: 'The aftershocks of Britain’s big
#Brexit
rupture, magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine war, are only just beginning to settle'
There ain't no bonus like a
#Brexit
bonus: consumers in
#BrexitBritain
paying as much as £1.1bn more on energy after losing access to EU internal markets'.
#BrexitReality
@nicktolhurst
Brilliant show, hope it can be brought back online following Time Team's example. Or it could go to C4 - blatant isn’t it? Very disappointed in new Chair.
Splendid isolation in
#BrexitBritain
: 'A UK government with a more constructive attitude could have shaped the European project for good, and still could in the future, “given,” as she puts it, “the size and the influence that the UK has.”
It's taken BBC 20 days since end of Customs Union to realise that GB is now a 'Third country' from an EU perspective! Domestic customers buying goods from EU getting billed on their arrival. And even worse, it's impractical to know in advance what the charge will be.
There ain't no bonus like a
#Brexit
bonus:
#BrexitBritain
must “tear down” trade barriers with EU if the economy is to prosper again, says Liberal Democrat leader.
‘Mutual free movement’ for UK and EU citizens supported by up to 84% of Brits in stunning new poll | Dr Mike Galsworthy and Prof Juliet Lodge
@mikegalsworthy
@julietlodge2
Lorry driver talking to J O'B on LBC this morning: Latest IR35 Tax rule change means reduced income for independents and EU Citizens paying National Insurance that they won't benefit from. Pingdemic means Lorry drivers now have much longer to wait to unload - he was told to come/
Sales of milk and cream to the EU are down an extraordinary 96 per cent – and chicken and beef by almost 80 per cent – because of
#Brexit
, new figures show.
trade barriers in BoJo’s deal have cost exporters more than £1.1bn since Jan, The Food and Drink Federation says.