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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 06/10/2026

Basically all European states have financial issues and basically all are discussing (further) restricting social services/support/etc for the wealthier. See UK re childcare above £100 000. I totally get it. However: we need to acknowledge that this is creating a social contract problem.

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Literally asked the question here !

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

If 🇫🇷, 🇩🇪 or 🇮🇸 value Schengen, wonderful. They’re welcome to be a part of it, bully for them. 🇬🇧 is under no obligation to agree, and if you don’t want a response on why people don’t want Schengen, perhaps don’t ask.

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Schengen for the UK fixes very little and creates more issues than it fixes. And the “450m people think this is normal” argument is frankly bizarre. They get to decide what’s normal for their countries. British people get to decide what’s normal for Britain.

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Nor does pointing to 🇫🇷 prove what you think it does. Schengen doesn’t give every 3rd-country national an automatic right to settle, but it deliberately removes routine internal border controls. 🇬🇧 is entitled to decide that surrendering that control creates more problems than it fixes.

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🇮🇸 is an equally poor comparison. “It’s an island too” isn’t serious analysis. A country of ~400k and a country of ~70m with one of Europe’s largest economies, London, English as a global language and completely different migration networks are not interchangeable because both are surrounded by water

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You’ve managed to argue against things I didn’t actually say. I’m aware immigration and asylum are legally distinct. I was talking about migration generally. And given 🇬🇧 was one of the major destinations for 🇪🇺 migration during FoM, pretending it lacks significant pull factors is rather silly.

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

As I keep saying, when people finally figure this out, join is dead before it begins. I don’t see 🇬🇧 (as it currently is) accepting 💶 or Schengen.

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

You may not want to have borders but I think it’s pretty normal for the UK to want to police their own and control immigration into the country. Schengen would make the small boats look like a summer holiday. It would be a disaster.

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Simply not comparable, the UK is a far more likely destination for immigrants given the size of the economy, language, and several other pull factors. Schengen does not fix a problem for the UK, it creates a problem with an open border.

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

“Partial integration does not exist” Switzerland, Iceland and Norway would like a word!

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What utter bollocks, UK literally pushed for expansion eastward against french pushback. Completely devoid of truth that statement.

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sterling/gilt risk is a fair counterargument, but joining the 💶 exchanges one set of risks for another. It doesn’t eliminate risk. Again I think this would lead to people declining euro and therefore joining the EU again.

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Nor is an “EU median” particularly meaningful. The eurozone itself contains heterogeneous economies. What matters is economic cycles and how monetary policy transmits through them. 🇬🇧 housing, mortgages, household debt, services and financial sector all matter and make UK an outlier.

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don’t think “exceptionalism” answers the economics, 🇬🇧 is not exceptionalist to decline 💶 . Most sovereign states retain their own monetary arrangements and even 6 of 27 members remain outside the 💶. The question is whether surrendering monetary autonomy benefits 🇬🇧 more on balance than it loses.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Jacob Rees-Mogg is emerging as a serial defender of foundational boundaries against a radicalised right, with Carlson combining a defence of Putin with a 'who cares' view of WW2 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Jacob Rees-Mogg accuses Tucker Carlson of ‘verging on defending Hitler’

Former Tory minister defends UK decision to enter war in podcast with US rightwinger and Putin sympathiser

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Might be “fairer” but that’s not my point, it’s not going to be something that’ll sell easy to the populous. I also don’t think it works particularly well within our system, historically hung parliaments are not great.

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I for one and many others would rather the BoE retain the ability to respond specifically to 🇬🇧 conditions than exchange that for one voice around a much larger table.

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Potentially, but that’s the fundamental trade-off. 🇬🇧 would gain a voice within the ECB, but lose the ability to set monetary policy specifically for 🇬🇧 economy. The ECB ultimately sets one interest rate for the eurozone as a whole, not one optimised for each member.

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And politically, for a great many 🇬🇧 voters, giving up sterling and control of the BoE would kill the case for the euro, and therefore rejoining, stone dead. So sure there are arguments for join and the 💶 but there sure as hell are arguments against too, and they’re going to made over and over.

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You can argue that’s economically worthwhile, but “the rates have often been similar anyway” isn’t a compelling argument for surrendering the ability to set them independently when they aren’t.

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Joining the 💶 permanently transfers interest-rate and monetary policy from the BoE to the ECB, whose mandate is necessarily the eurozone as a whole.

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

But that’s not really my point. I accept BoE and ECB policy has often moved in broadly similar directions, particularly when responding to global shocks. The question is what happens when 🇬🇧 and eurozone conditions diverge.

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

They just might be sort of getting it. Although it's quite something to hear from a founder of Vote Leave that his part of the Right stands for truth.

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Perhaps but I think it feeds into a wider concern that PR leads to inevitable hung parliaments and coalitions where you have to make bedfellows with cranks, crackpots and extremists. Not sure that’ll be a system a lot of people will vote for and I wouldn’t be surprised if FPTP holds up, for now.

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And so the fall out begins. They’re going to make themselves political pariahs, no one will touch them with a barge pole in mainstream politics.

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Jan Philipp Albrecht @janalbrecht.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It is important that the German Greens directly reject the UK Green Party’s resolution titled "Zionism is Racism" and welcome the suspension of its voting rights within the European Green Party. It‘s urgently necessary for the @europeangreens.eu to distance itself from the UK Green Party’s position.

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I wouldn’t be so sure although I admire your optimism

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’m arguing that the pro-join campaign is walking blindly into a massive defeat, repeating the exact same mistake Remain made in 2016.

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Regardless of the merits, people simply aren't interested, which is why support for rejoining collapses when terms like the euro or Schengen come up. I’m not arguing against those policies on their merits, nor am I advocating for staying out.

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Clearly I’ve misunderstood what you’ve said but I think the move to PR will be dead as a result of the greens. It’s already very much anathema I’d argue given the majority of the public don’t follow politics in any extensive way, I’d be very surprised if it were supported moving forward.

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You literally start off by saying it’s hard to see how the greens have killed off a move to PR. If you think people will accept the Zionism is racism argument and therefore support a move to a voting system that gives these cranks a seat at the table, I think you’re wrong.

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You should read my actual post, I said the greens have killed it given it’ll need to a public vote like it was last time with AV back in the coalition. If you think it’ll pass now, I have a bridge to sell you.

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I think the greens have just killed any chance of proportional representation getting through. Now it’s clear the party has been taken over by the Corbyn cranks, there’s a clear argument against having coalitions with extremist parties on left and right.

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

passing the "zionism is racism" motion on the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street is a bit on the fucking nose isn't it

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

No doubt but a completely separate discussion to the one Elena’s been having. Which is quite frankly mental

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ok Elena, glad you’re advocating hard for the UK to keep its opt outs on euro and Schengen. Many thanks on behalf of all us Brits. Have a great Sunday!

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You’re being ridiculous at this point 👋 have a great Elena. Enjoy your fantasy war !

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

On your article I’d say it’s hardly a ringing endorsement. “almost half of all voters” ….. almost half and that would appear to be before you explain that the 💶 and Schengen are requirements. Again, that is unless you’re suggesting 🇬🇧 keep its opt outs in which case I think it’s a no brainer.

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I’m not denying anything, it’s blatantly obvious that the only person obtuse here is yourself. I am not adding hundreds of conditions I’m adding the conditions set by the 🇪🇺 as part of A49. Unless of course, you are arguing that 🇬🇧 should keep its opt outs and join sans euro and Schengen.

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

lol the reason there won’t be a war Elena is because you’re talking utter bollocks

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

If people didn't support membership back when we held custom opt-outs for the euro and Schengen, they certainly won't buy into it now that those requirements are mandatory. I think this is the fundamental Achilles heal of any join campaign, that they don’t understand why people are not interested.

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I admire your optimism, but experience shows that 'explaining it better' isn't the answer. In any market, if a product needs this much explaining, the underlying offer is the issue. It’s not necessarily a question of merit; it’s a fundamental lack of demand. Which I’d argue is the case here.

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The idea as well that control over a central bank is fiction is equally invalid, there are several reasons a highly indebted economy with a focus on services and high amounts of home ownership would want to control interest rates. You can a valid case but to say there’s no downside is false.

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There are of course cogent arguments against as well as for 💶 to say otherwise is simply not true. The balance of those arguments is what is important. Given the very different economy 🇬🇧 has compared to other comparative economies in the € it’s certainly not clear cut.

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Perhaps, but I see no evidence of that other than a relatively small minority of people wishing it to be so. My whole argument Is not against join it’s about the join campaign making the same mistakes as remain did and presuming the outcome was so obvious. So far that attitude has been proven wrong

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Charlie Maynard @charleswmaynard.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Could not agree with this more. The UK tax system is but one area that holds the country back, ridiculously complex and non sensical that actively punishes those who try to better themselves.

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