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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The Times from ten years ago this week. They were wrong. In fact Brexit is costing the UK economy roughly £100 billion a year. #ProjectFear
Hard Brexit
could cost
£66bn a year


Leaked Treasury papers reveal lost revenue


Sam Coates Deputy Political Editor
Ollver Wright Policy Editor


Cabinet ministers are being warned
that the Treasury could lose up_to
£66 billion a year in tax revenues under
"hard Brexit", according to leaked
government papers.


GDP.could fall by as much as 9.5 per
cent if Britain leaves the single market
and hastorely on WorldTrade Organi-
sation rules for trading with the conti-
nent, compared with ifit stayed within
the EU,theforecasts show.Such a steep
drop in revenue would force ministers
to slash public spending or raise taxes.
The £66 billion drop, contained in a
draft cabinet committee paper seen by
The Times, is nearly a tenth of the
£716 billion that the government is pro-
jected to collect in taxes this year,and is
equivalent to 65 per cent of the annual
budget of NHS England.


Business leaders are_increasingly
worried that the UK could fail to nego-
tiate a deal with the 27 remaining EU
members by the time it leaves the
union, and will face a "cliff edge" of
trade tariffs and barriers,


Several cabinet ministers who sup-
ported Remain are stepping up efforts
to prioritise business concerns and the
economy in Brexit discussions, fearing
that Leave supporters fail to realise the
scale of potential damage, It comes as:;
○ Theresa May faces a potential legal
challenge by a group of Conservative
MPs over the decision to begin Brexit
negotiations without parliament's
approval. The prime minister's spokes-
man ruledoutgiving MPs a voteyester-
day,saying thatitwould"second guess'
the will of the British people.
○ Dominic Grieve, the former attor-
ney-general, said that unless the gov,
ernment could agree,a deal supported
by parliament it would not survive.
e


A Tory backbencher suggested that
British companies should hire disabled


Tuesday October 11 2016 | thetimes.co.uk | No 72038


people to do the work of EU migrants
after Brexit.


Mrs May visited Denmark and the
Nethe…
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They must be absolutely knackered.
One migrant crossed Channel every six minutes in first week of October
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Hats off to the Eye (as ever), for flagging the Conservative hypocrisy over our conference ban
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Wow.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
To see the sausage being made, look at this front page, then watch last night's Sky News "Wrap". Tony Diver co-wrote the piece, was preceded by Ed Conway explaining with charts that this was a global reaction. Diver agreed, yet NOBODY challenged that front page. Today, it had become Badenoch's PMQs.
The Daily Telegraph: MARKETS TURN ON BURNHAM
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Curious … the headline claims it’s ’women’ making the demands. Yet read the piece and you discover the campaign group is founded and run by a man, who wishes to remain anonymous …
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Northern & proud 👊 @gazlancs.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
French forces held a fierce defensive perimeter around Dunkirk and lost 18,000 souls. 40,000 became POWs. Without their resolve we wouldn’t have our nation’s story. It’s estimated 20-60k French resistance fighters died during the war. These fuckers really are vile bastards 😡😡
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Ever wondered if Allister Heath is a crazed ideologue or a brilliant satirist? HIs latest column - learn to love climate change and build more swimming pools - settles the question. The man’s a comic genius - and with perfect timing app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/74279/...
app.prospectmagazine.co.uk
Climate change sceptics have lost the plot as Europe burns
Reading the Telegraph, it’s hard to work out whether their climate columns are a work of satire
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Nighty night.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
What’s that, Dale? You want to give me an unconditional personal gift of £5million to do whatever I want with? Sure! I just need to fill out a form. If I didn’t declare it that would be silly.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
"Without [government] subsidies, Elon would probably have to close up shop and go back to South Africa." —Donald Trump (Yep. Feel free to Google it. One of the few factually accurate things the man has ever said.)
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Fair play this is a decent line
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Kemi Badenoch, "We're not standing a candidate in the fake by-election which Nigel Farage is causing to distract people from what is happening" "The reason Nigel Farage is doing this is because he is very worried that he's going to be found to have done something wrong"
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
People of Clacton, you know who to vote for 😆
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Oh look BBC Politics Live has dug up Daniel - Absolutely nobody is talking about threatening our place in the Single Market - Hanaan Of course after complaining about unelected bureaucrats in the EU, Daniel Hannan now sits in the House of Lords as an unelected bureaucratic lawmaker
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Robert Jenrick has a meltdown on #C4News He refuses to accept that there are parliamentary rules that Nigel Farage may have broken And insists the only people who can judge Nigel Farage are the people of Clacton 😅 - Whatever you do, please don't share this humiliating clip
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Paul Carnahan @pacarnahan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Farage is suddenly all about the right of families to be kept out of the media spotlight, which is a bit odd considering what he did to Henry Nowak's family just a couple of weeks ago.
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This COULD all be very Tatton 1997. Switch out Neil Hamilton for Nigel Farage, and that means we need a Martin Bell figure in a white suit to run as the anti-corruption candidate. And we need an Alastair Campbell figure to negotiate the progressive parties standing aside. Odds of this happening? 0
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Two MPs have been murderered in the last 10 years but Nigel Farage claims AGAIN to be the most attacked politician in modern times
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Arthur Snell @snellarthur.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Labour can threaten a £10k charge on migrants and still it’s never enough for the hard right. Perhaps there’s a lesson here? 🤔
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The multimillionaire Nigel Farage rails against climate action, while gliding from one air-conditioned building to another. He knows that he and his ilk will suffer least. But he is prepared to sacrifice everyone else to the demands of his fossil-fuelled funders. So much for "the man of the people".
A painting which depicts Nero fiddling while Rome burns.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 22/06/2026
The 'ten years' bit is a clue.
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 23/06/2026
Exactly 10 years since the Brexit vote, the verdict is in.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
It's the 10th anniversary of the dumbest moment in modern British history so let's celebrate some of the idiots who made it happen. First up ... Jacob Rees-Mogg and his promise of cheap food and wine... In fact food prices have increased some 12% as a direct result of Brexit (LSE) 1/5



Brexit will REDUCE food,
wine and clothes costs
by 20% - Rees-Mogg
fires back at Remainers
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Tollytb🇮🇪🇪🇺🇨🇦🇬🇧 @tollytb.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Anyone seen the Pure Cold Rage from Farage yet? 🐢💨
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Stanley Pignal @spignal.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
There is evidence this is an age-old custom that British politicians adopted from other cultures
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Bernie Sanders 👏
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I first encountered Mogg when he was about 23 at a weird lunch in Notting Hill. He was so strange and his opinions so out of kilter and his confidence level so high that when he became an MP some years later I genuinely feared for my country. And frankly I was right.
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Beth Rigby, "Why should women in Markerfield vote for you when you said they can't drive?" *Reform's Robert Kenyon runs away*
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James Crossland @jamescrossland.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Reform dreams of a Britain where good, honest, white folks eat steak with their hands like our glorious Anglo-Saxon forebears.
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
BBC's second top story at 6 o'clock was the Chancellor getting heckled by some shouty twat. Not even news. Let alone top news. Into the actual item, mentioned almost in passing, the fact gov't has frozen fuel duty. It is impossible to deny the bias. You have to REALLY not want to see it.
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I don't like to spoil this feed with too much science, but the only leader to win four general elections also liked tight shorts, therefore it logically follows that....
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Reform UK Councillors Gone Since Local Elections: Updated Matthew Jones has joined 3 other councillors in Worcestershire as an independent. Lost Seat Mike Morris Clarence Mitchell Alan Cook Mark Shooter Kira Gabbert Resigned Daniel Devaney Stuart Prior Jay Cooper Barry Martin Stephen Mousdell
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Farage has shared an image of an NUJ card belonging to a photographer that has presumably been dropped nea (one of)r his properties. For someone so concerned about his own security, he seems perfectly willing to whip up his followers against someone who presumably has none.
My security team just found this journalist
from The Guardian at my property


This is exactly why I need security in the first
place.


Completely unacceptable.
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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Please Sophie, Mark Francois didn't lose his spleen at the Battle of Albufeira for you to measure your runs in the continental style
runnersworld.com
Sophie Raworth: ‘Is it time for me to start measuring runs in kilometres rather than miles?’
The BBC broadcaster on learning to adapt to the new lingo
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I hope this isn’t true. There are times when it’s more important to put country before party. This is one of them. Burnham’s longstanding commitment to a fairer voting system could transform our democracy & counter the dire threat of a Reform UK government elected on a minority of the vote
theguardian.com
Greens suggest they will properly contest byelection in blow to Burnham
Statement follows speculation party would not field candidate in Makerfield or barely fight seat
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Praṇay Manocha @pranman.com · 14/05/2026
Not only does this man achieve quietly what every elected representative in the world would love to do, he communicates it with such emphatic confidence and panache. He is undoubtedly one of the most superb humans in the world today.
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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Badenoch again threatens to leave the ECHR, which would rip up the Good Friday Agreement, not to mention the Brexit deal (meaning immediate no deal with our largest market) and leave us all extremely vulnerable to authoritarian abuse of our rights. She and Farage want to make us poorer & less safe
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
As piss poor reporting on crossings go, burying that this is over the course of nearly a decade is pretty high, along with ignoring why people have to use them. Guess, "fewer than the average attendance of Glastonbury festival over eight years" doesn't get clicks. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05...
Channel migrant crossings pass 200,000 milestone
Thousands continue to arrive on small boats despite Labour promise to ‘smash’ smuggling gangs
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
This is so well done. 👌
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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 27/03/2026
Simpsons "Stop, he's already dead"
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."
"The oil crisis is exactly what the net zero brigade wants"
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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Breaks my heart that my 5‑year‑old is learning in school about all the ways he can protect our planet... While decrepit old fuckwits are dropping tons of bombs poisoning soil, air & water for decades to come for millions of us ...but sure, you recycle that bog roll little one.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
You might have formed the impression that Paul Johnson, former director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, knows what he's talking about. The media treats him like the voice of God. But here he is - and not for the first time - talking out of his hat. Let's break it down in a short thread. 🧵
This is utter garbage. I believe in net zero. We need to get there. But renewables are not competitive. That's why they are subsidised. Fossil fuel markets are highly competitive. It shouldn't be hard to hold these two thoughts at the same time.
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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Coincidence corner: JCB and Reform UK From the new Private Eye, out now.
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chazgay.bsky.social @chazgay.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
😂😂😂
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
nytimes.com
Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Nadhim Zahawi thinks London is now unsafe, because the other day a tired-looking man walked past him during the morning rush hour.
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