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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 4h

Generative AI became a thing with exactly the wrong president.

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 5h

It’s quite plausible that you get 60% of the electorate accepting it was a misadventure, times have changed, and we should quietly rejoin as there is no theory of growth that is palatable whilst we are outside.

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 6h

Burnham appears to have found the genie Starmer had from 2020-2024.

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 7h

There has been so much change in the intervening years. On FoM, remote work for example makes living and working in Europe much more accessible than it was before. AI makes languages much less of a barrier. It would be fun to sell.

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 19h

Because that is the direction of travel and I think it will happen v v quickly.

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 19h

Can I get odds on the UK having access to the single market next year?

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 21h

Surprised by how emotional I have found all the news. I knew Brexit bothered me, but it’s the first time I’ve felt hopeful since June 2016.

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 22h

Visible from space you might say!

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The way Burnham has framed it, not as a campaign but as a pragmatic decision to be made, strikes me as the most useful and consequential change in the debate since 2016.

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is a very winnable argument. In 2026, the opportunities of FoM are far more relevant to more of the population (remote work, AI, lived experience of barriers to mobility).

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I’ve said this all along; there are plenty enough measures within EU law that the UK can use as ‘controls’. I think this can close down the least dogmatic opponents to FoM.

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

More importantly, he’s not going to campaign. He’ll let the chips land where they may, but gravity will determine where that is.

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the point. He’s the first politician in 10 years to acknowledge the actual available options and speak freely about the trade offs. Pretty obvious where this is going.

instituteforgovernment.org.uk

Andy Burnham has opened the door to EU membership | Institute for Government

It is far from clear that there is a path to a clear consensus on Europe.

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I just don’t think it’ll be that unpopular. Enough people have now experienced negative effects associated with the removal of FoM that I think it can be sold as benefit. (There is also an ugly argument that I think will end up being made about 2019-2024 migration).

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Seattle - most underrated American city?

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s also easy to exceed expectations in an environment like that.

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Gravity and mathematics are doing their thing.

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“What’s your biggest weakness?” “I’m a glutton for punishment”

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Keep going - the only way the right decision will arrive is with debate and it’s surely what the purpose of this site is.

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It’s odd, but having this debate now is probably quite helpful in that the EU position could be framed as some sort of concession (when it was actually never going to be an issue).

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I do wonder if UvdL turns around at the UK-EU Summit and says the UK wouldn’t have to join the Euro or Schengen, that debate might begin to move quite quickly.

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Not for nothing, having a PM speaking in these terms makes me feel like I’m not insane.

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s a very alien feeling after the last ten years, but I woke up with a sense of hope that I had almost forgotten. Politics can do good sometimes.

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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In my view, when you narrow to those three choices, a combination of the inevitable balance of obligations combined with the greater consequentiality of rule taking means you end up at rejoin. And I think (to my surprise) that’s where he is.

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Luke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In this week’s voting intention, Labour's lead widens as Reform fall to their lowest in over 18 months. 🌹 LAB 27% (+1) 🌳 CON 22% (-1) ⏩ REF 21% (-1) 🔶 LIB DEM 11% (-) 🟢 GREEN 9% (+1) ⚫ RES: 6% (-) 🟡 SNP 3% (+1) ⚪️ OTH 1% (-) N = 2,041 | Fieldwork 25-29/9 | Changes w 18/09

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Election Maps UK @electionmaps.uk · 30/09/2026

Westminster Voting Intention: LAB: 29% (+2) RFM: 23% (-1) CON: 19% (-2) LDM: 9% (-2) GRN: 9% (+2) SNP: 3% (=) RES: 2% (=) Via @survation.bsky.social, 29 Sep. Changes w/ 22-23 Sep.

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It does strike me for all the ink spilt wondering what Burnham might do, he’s actually pretty closely following what his and Steve Rotherham’s book said should be done.

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s happening because there is no alternative. (I feel a personal sense of relief as having Brexit spoken about as if it is somehow normal public policy has felt like 10 years of gaslighting).

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Frame Freedom of Movement as a real freedom. Opportunities to live and work in 27 countries is of much more relevance post COVID and in AI age than it ever was in 2016.

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I don’t think it’s unimportant that he explicitly tied Brexit and immigration together, twice.

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This is coming much faster than conventional wisdom indicates.

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

There aren’t a great deal of choices either; status quo, Turkey, Swiss relationship, or membership.

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My reading was the summit was where the options would be presented?

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I might be wildly wrong, but I do wonder whether this came out of nowhere or if there has been some kind of leader to leader conversation.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As I wrote in September 2024, there's probably only two realistic UK-EU models, the one we have possibly strengthened in a Swiss way if we accept free movement of workers, or membership. But how to work that into a political narrative? Tricky. ecipe.org/publications...

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think the subtext is bold; no mention of red lines, nothing off the table, decision on direction this year.

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

If Hamish Falconer is serious about adding percentage points to GDP, you can only assume it means something that looks a lot like SM/CU at a minimum.

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It’s what happens when you fill it with things you won’t do rather than what you will/try to.

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

‘What if we called it a Dementia Tax before anyone else’

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Trump immediately spinning this as a transatlantic intelligence services triumph is so on brand, in the vein of Four Seasons Landscaping.

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Exactly right. There’s no middle way here and the idea there was one has just been self soothing for politicians still traumatised by the referendum. That cannot be an excuse forever.

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I wonder if there is an equivalent commentator from the 1920s who waxed lyrical on whether or not shell shock was a real condition, or if veterans should just divert their attention away from their PTSD.

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Ryan MacMullen @dogpatchryan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It would be less of a problem if anyone at all could present a thesis of prosperity outside of the market. As yet none has materialised or been articulated.

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