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Catio Miles @catiomiles.bsky.social · 6h

Well, with improved productivity of 6% per year (according to OBR, BoE, etc), that’s extra £150 billion for our economy. Per year. And this is before we go into EU funding of UK infrastructure projects and before going into the benefits of € membership or Schengen membership.

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€zone membership alone will bring in more CASH to UK than the full GROSS contribution 👇 bsky.app/profile/cati...

Catio Miles @catiomiles.bsky.social · 6h

Just the administration? People have voted for this administration.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 7h

just when you thought it couldn’t get worse

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I bet I will get no engagement on this. And when the referendum will again be called, the false “net contribution“ argument will win again.

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Joining the EU is a liberal policy. The EU is an institutional model of how countries can cooperate to achieve peace and prosperity. It is a model that the world would be better off embracing and expanding. That’s why people like Trump or Putin hate it. Be on the right side of history!

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Indeed by 6% per year, or £150 billion extra economic output per year. But haven’t we debated this argument for more than 10 years now?

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 7h

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🇪🇺 Kallas: Russian strikes killed over 80 Ukrainian civilians in two days. Moreover, it has stepped up its hybrid attacks against Europe, both EU Member States and NATO Allies. Suspending sanctions on Russian diesel provides Moscow with more revenues to wage war.

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Fuel duty will dwindle in the next 10 years as we electrify

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How can you be a net contributor when you contribute £28 billion per year but get back £150 billion? How? And this is after more than 10 years of Brexit debates.

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How can you be a net contributor when you contribute £28 billion per year but get back £150 billion? How?

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In the art of communication, which the BBc masters, framing from losers to winners is important. And the BBC has decided to frame Reform as winning something. Remember the channel 4 investigation (and by the way, not BBC). Why do you think Reform paid for good polls showing them on top?

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Quite Good, Thank You @qgty.bsky.social · 12h

Yes, that would have been a good alternative. Yet the headline was framed as something positive for Reform.

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Here is a screenshot of the BBC website (showing the URL) clearly showing the graphic in question as part of their report. It should be emphasised that this is the first breakdown of the votes in the report. Heading this breakdown with "Reform came Fourth" is simply unacceptable.

Screenshot showing "Reform UK come in fourth, ahead of the LibDems and Restore"

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But that is a pro Reform headline anyway. Many other alternatives could have been chosen, for example: “despite racist attacks from Reform against the Labour candidate, Reform got 10 times fewer votes.”

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Now that comment was deleted. But the BBC support for Reform continues.

Maybe But the only relevant comment on Reform performance there from any journalist should have made reference to their racist attacks against the Labour candidate. Has the BBC done that? No. Why?

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Maybe. But the BBC could have also said: “despite racist attacks from Reform against the Labour candidate, Reform got 10 times fewer votes than Labour”. Have they said it?

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 9h

Yes, it was traditionally right leaning mainly on national unity considerations.

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🇵🇱 Sikorski: Our embassy reports fuel shortages even in Moscow, which is always a preferred supplier. Furthermore, reputable sources report that Ukraine has already damaged approximately 50% of Russia's refining capacity. So where will the surplus for export come from?

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Catio Miles @catiomiles.bsky.social · 9h

Any energy support from US?

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Catio Miles @catiomiles.bsky.social · 9h

Just stop dealing in $ and get non US software companies as suppliers and the US sanctions are worth ZERO.

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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The ICC is the cornerstone of the international criminal justice system. It prosecutes individuals responsible for the most serious crimes under international law.

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Catio Miles @catiomiles.bsky.social · 9h

Russia’s own laws currently bans diesel exports until 31 October as internal Russian needs are not met.

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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 11h

It would seem the Home Office has now acquired the ability to impose, without visibility or accountability, shadow bans on students coming to British universities from particular countries. How? Because of the interaction between indiv visa decisions (made by HO alone) and visa rules for unis 1/?

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Catio Miles @catiomiles.bsky.social · 10h

How can the government still be using Twitter?

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Catio Miles @catiomiles.bsky.social · 10h

The UN should think seriously to move its HQ away from US.

Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 09/10/2026

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In just two days, Russia’s rampage of violence has killed 78 people and wounded 215. Buses attacked. Innocent civilians targeted as they go about their daily lives. Never to return home. Pure and simple - these are war crimes.

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Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · 12h

This Mental Health Day, ask your kids how they are. Young Europeans spend on average 4 to 6 hours a day on screens. Engaging with some of the most sophisticated technology ever created. For years, platforms have been playing fast and loose with our children's mental health.

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Radical Association @radicalassociation.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Lib Dems believe in fairness, equality and human dignity. Davey's leadership has shown boldness on Trump, and has slowly got better on Europe, but has been tepid at best on the issues of increasing transphobia, hate crimes and poverty. Unfunded tax cuts should never be our answer to those problems.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 13h

The Bjg Time Chatlie account seeking to identify & incite vs RNLI staff as traitors was run by a recruitment consultant in Worcestershire who is a Restore donor & Cromwell Club member. He hss now deactivated the anon troll account after being publicly identifird www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Recruitment boss accused of being behind ‘doxxing’ campaign against RNLI and anti-racism activists

Tom Watson, of Worcester, alleged to be behind Big Time Charlie X account that created so-called Traitorbase

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 11h

Good to see Donald buy Russian diesel instead of Canadian. I know its right on USA border but they sell imperialist, woke diesel that makes your truck gay.

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Nick B 🔶 @aviarm.com · 12h

Lib Dem leadership challenge? I wrote this the day before I heard that Charlie Maynard had resigned to trigger a leadership challenge against Ed Davey. Yes Ed led us to our best ever General Election result, but as a Party we need to look forwards not backwards. www.libdemvoice.org/a-plea-from-...

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A plea from a member – more ambition and less equine pacification please…

Those were the days, eh? Way back in 2024, we were a Party on the up with a record number of MPs. The Tories were banished and in disarray. We talked, in all seriousness, about how we would be the Off...

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Shyamali Rodrigues 🔶️ @shyamali.eurosky.social · 12h

Forgetting left or right for a second, honestly, the total lack of messaging of what the Libdems stand for, that is distinct from other parties. I get asked this by friends and family and it's a hard to answer. Burnham swiped Care, EU and PR . It was easy for him to do. Now what are the Libdems for?

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Radical Association @radicalassociation.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This challenge to Ed Davey's leadership is timely and necessary. Lib Dem support is flatlining, and Davey's only response has been increasingly desperate attempts to appeal to Tory voters, most recently with unfunded tax cuts, which is both amoral and looks ridiculous.

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Lib Dem MP quits frontbench job over Ed Davey's leadership

Deputy party leader Daisy Cooper says "the vast majority of our MPs support Ed... and are furious at this distraction."

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It’s a revolving door indeed.

I don’t understand the hiring standards at @economist.com anymore, where do they find these people?

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 11h

Indeed. A motorway from downtown London to downtown Birmingham to downtown Manchester will be more expensive, slower and by the way residents there don’t have cars or there isn’t enough parking or access roads to skyscrapers. I understand teribilist teenagers proposing this, but The Economist?

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Excellent article in El Pais on the impact of Hormuz on electrification this morning. I told them “Electric cars and heat pumps are between three and four times more efficient [than their fossil equivalents]” archive.is/VfFsl

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Luke McGee @lukemcgee.bsky.social · 11h

Note: officially Russia has just banned diesel exports until 31 October as it cannot cover internal needs. Unlikely Putin will cut supplies to his country ahead of difficult winter months. But if he does, maybe people will go on streets against him.

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When Zelenskyy calls Trump weak it isn’t just rhetoric. Trump showed the world how weak he was when he bribed with cash to vote GOP. Putin saw that vulnerability and offered him a crappy deal on diesel as a lifeline. Trump is weak and the West’s biggest enemies can see it.

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Denmark enters the chat.

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