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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 17/12/2025

Excellent news. Many have been campaigning for this The UK quit Erasmus after Brexit, when Boris Johnson claimed the programme did not offer value for money. Those who take part say the experience transformative, both personally & career Now the UK will return to the EU’s Erasmus+ programme

theguardian.com

UK to rejoin EU’s Erasmus student exchange programme

Exclusive: British students will be able to participate in EU-wide scheme from January 2027, sources say

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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

13 Labour MPs voted in favour of the bill, which was tabled by the Lib Dems. Nigel Farage did not vote.

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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 09/12/2025

Oh!! MPs have narrowly voted to introduce a Bill exploring the creation of a new UK-EU customs union in a move that will pile pressure on Labour’s Brexit policy Lib Dem Dr Al Pinkerton’s ten minute motion split MPs precisely 100-100, with the deputy speaker casting a deciding vote for the ayes

independent.co.uk

EU customs union vote passes to pile pressure on Labour’s Brexit stance - latest

MPs were evenly divided over the motion, with the deputy speaker casting the deciding vote

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 09/12/2025

🚨BREAKING🚨 MPs have voted to PASS our bill to establish a UK-EU customs union. The Prime Minister must now listen to his own MPs, drop his self-imposed red lines and finally go for proper growth through an ambitious trade deal with the EU.

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Ed Davey @eddavey.libdems.org.uk · 27/11/2025

Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal. We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.

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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 18/11/2025

Labour do know it. This is the issue - people know that they are being disingenuous by parroting the same old tired rhetoric. The country needs immigration and this dehumanisation will only hurt the people the country rely on. It’s shocking.

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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 17/11/2025

He’s right! Most of the UK’s economic problems since Brexit would have been avoided if it had stayed in the European Single Market and Customs Union and it’s time to move closer to the EU, writes former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt

scotsman.com

In this new Age of Empires, why UK must choose Europe over isolation

Most of the UK’s economic problems since Brexit would have been avoided if it had stayed in the European Single Market and Customs Union and it’s time to move closer to the EU, writes former Belgian P...

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Leeds for Europe @leedseurope.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

This NOT “a Brexit win” it is a commitment to start negotiating an electricity trading agreement with the U.K. The need for such negotiations is BECAUSE of Brexit…

politico.eu

UK scores Brexit win as EU fast-tracks electricity trading talks

The breakthrough comes after days of wrangling in Brussels over the extent to which London might be expected to pay for access to the EU’s single market.

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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 05/11/2025

All regions of the UK are feeling the impact of not being close with Europe anymore. It's clear that only by rejoining the EU that we will begin to prosper.

“Scotland voted decisively to remain in the EU in 2016. Brexit has severely damaged Scotland and the wider UK’s economy and society. It has restricted freedom of movement, reduced opportunities for cultural exchange, harmed trade. Our position is clear: Scotland’s interests are best served by rejoining the EU as an independent member state. In the interim, we support rebuilding the deepest and most ambitious partnership possible with the EU.” John Swinney MSP, First Minister of Scotland

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

A total and utter hero

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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 04/11/2025

Today, the Chancellor named Brexit as one of the main reasons for expected tax rises and lower productivity. Wasn't Brexit supposed to put £350 million a week into the economy? 🤔 One of just many lies it seems...

“A rushed and ill-conceived Brexit that brought further disruption, as businesses trying to trade were faced with extra costs and extra paperwork. All this meant that when the pandemic arrived our country was under-prepared, our public services weakened and our economy fragile. And we finished the pandemic with higher death rates and higher debt than our peers” Rachel Reeves MP, Chancellor

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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 31/10/2025

He’s never there and does nothing for his constituents - The most impoverished area in England is in Nigel Farage’s constituency of Clacton, according to new figures released today.

mirror.co.uk

Mega-rich Nigel Farage's constituency has England's most deprived neighbourhood

A neighbourhood in Jaywick, Clacton-on-Sea, has been ranked with the highest deprivation score out of more than 33,750 small local areas nationwide, official statistics reveal

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Cllr James Catmur @jcatm.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

That is why in Spanish I am 'daltonico'

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Cllr James Catmur @jcatm.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

I don't think my ancestors were in La Rochelle, but they were Huguenots, and I have the family tree starting in Metz in 1621

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Leeds for Europe @leedseurope.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

#BrexitFail -ed. #Farage says so - points out this Hull Daily Mail ✉️ #Brexit supporters left complaining #EU better negotiator 🤦‍♂️. New trade deals don't make up for loss of #EuropeanUnion 'best trade deal of all' 😠 #BrexitReality = 'priceless' 🌍 opportunities stolen from Britain's young #RejoinEU

This letter appeared in the Hull Daily Mail on 23 October 2025. The writer argues that Brexit has failed and denied Britain's young "priceless" opportunities they might have enjoyed the UK remained a member of the European Union.

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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 22/10/2025

Ed Davey has urged Keir Starmer to go further on Brexit, calling for the UK to negotiate a new customs union with the EU. He’s right that Labour must be bolder in repairing relations with Europe and addressing the long-term damage caused by leaving.

"I know members opposite are relieved they are finally allowed to say the Conservatives' Brexit deal is a disaster. But that can't just be a political ruse to attract Nigel Farage, however much he deserves it" Ed Davey, Leader, Liberal Democrats

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 15/10/2025

⚠️ Higher prices, fewer opportunities, greater barriers, and an economy paying the price. A price that is ultimately paid by you. Find out more about the Cost of Brexit using our tracker. All the facts. All the figures. All in one place... 👇 www.bestforbritain.org/brexit_impact

bestforbritain.org

The Cost of Brexit

Change Minds → Change Politics

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

We flounced out of the EU on the say-so of politicians who lied to us. And what a total shitshow that’s turned out to be. The polar opposite of what they promised. Now the call to flounce out of the ECHR. By the same people. Telling the same lies. Has the country been kicked in the head by a horse?

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

The Trump Action Tracker is a British academic’s answer to Trump “flooding the zone” with anti-democratic and anti- rule of law behaviours. It’s a one-stop-shop for logging thd lot. And the neta-analysis of what is happening is very enlightening… darkly. See TrumpActionTracker.info

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 04/10/2025

Kemi Badenoch has chosen the side of Vladimir Putin and Nigel Farage with her plan to leave the European Convention on Human Rights. The ECHR is a proud British creation, championed by Churchill, that protects everyone's rights and freedoms.

"Kemi Badenoch has chosen to back Nigel Farage and join Vladimir Putin by leaving the European Convention on Human Rights – a proud British creation championed by Churchill that protects everyone's rights and freedoms.
"This will do nothing to stop the boats or fix our broken immigration system – problems caused by the last Conservative Government that Badenoch still hasn't apologised for.
"I say to former One Nation Conservatives who have been abandoned by their party’s lurch to the extremes: you have a home with us. The Liberal Democrats will always fight to defend our fundamental British freedoms and the rule of law."
Ed Davey

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Cllr James Catmur @jcatm.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

She will just place the company in Administration and keep the loot

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Ana Lucia Araujo @araujohistorian.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Check the 2025-26 program of the series The Disappeared of History led by Brad Evans and Chantal Meza at the University of Bath. I am excited to be one of the speakers next May 2026. www.bath.ac.uk/corporate-in...

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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 01/10/2025

Some honesty at last Labour MP blames Brexit for Rachel Reeves’ tax-hiking Budget last Oct, adding that he hopes Britain rejoins the EU in his lifetime. Andrew Lewin said leaving EU left Britain £40bn poorer per year, adding that “were we still members… there would not have been a single tax rise”

independent.co.uk

Brexit to blame for Rachel Reeves’ tax hikes, Labour MP claims

Andrew Lewin has said ‘not a single tax’ would have had to increase if Britain stayed in the EU

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Cllr James Catmur @jcatm.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

But I have digital ID in Scotland?

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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 30/09/2025

This should be a huge scandal. Reform’s (previously Brexit Party) former’s MEP Nathan Gill acted not in the interests of the people who had voted for him, or in those of the British and European taxpayers he was paid to represent, but in the interests of Russia. As guilty as the “Cambridge Five”

bylines.scot

Nathan Gill’s treachery puts him in same league as the “Cambridge Five”

Reform’s Russia connections may endanger our security – time for a public inquiry

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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 30/09/2025

Across the country, communities are being held back by a lack of access to training. @IanSollom.bsky.social explains the Lib Dems’ new lifelong learning plan that will unlock potential, fix the skills shortages, and put opportunity at the heart of our economy.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Congratulations North East Bylines on your 5,000th article! 👏😮 “In Newcastle there was a complete reversal with over 3500 anti-right-wing demonstrators to the UKIP-Advance UK gathering of between 150 and 200.” And make sure you’re supporting the Bylines Network…

northeastbylines.co.uk

Love over hate: Newcastle unites at Grey’s Monument

"We don’t need to be reminded of where we live, that’s what a football strip is for"

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Leeds for Europe @leedseurope.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

#Tory grandee Lord Patten: “No hope for #Conservatives until face up to #BrexitShambles.” #BrexitReality left Britain with low growth, poor productivity & “a difficult position.” #RejoinEU Via @yorkshirepost.co.uk | by @bradford4europe.bsky.social | @europeanmovement.co.uk

This letter appeared in The Yorkshire Post on 20 September 2025. John Cole, Chair of Bradford for Europe, references criticism of the Conservatives Party and Brexit by Lord Chris Patten.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Until the government is willing have an honest discussion about the negative impact of Brexit - Britain’s growth, productivity & living standards will continue to be weighed down by the structural handicap it has inflicted on the country & economy www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

theguardian.com

No prospect of UK rejoining EU in my lifetime, says Starmer’s reset negotiator

Comments by Nick Thomas-Symonds underline view in top government circles despite thaw in relations with Brussels

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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 12/09/2025

Take note Trump. Former president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, sentenced to 27 years in prison after being found guilty of plotting a military coup Guilty of leading a conspiracy aimed at keeping him in power after he lost the 2022 election to left-wing rival.

bbc.com

Jair Bolsonaro sentenced to 27 years in prison for plotting Brazil coup

The former president has been found guilty of trying to mount coup to cling to power after he lost the election.

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Leeds for Europe @leedseurope.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

We had so many visitors to our stall at the Braderie de Lille we had to have two Brexitometers. These are the results.

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Leeds for Europe @leedseurope.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

The Brexitometer is proving so popular at the Braderie we have had to start a new one.

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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 06/09/2025

Dotted along the British coastline, a number of border inspection facilities — built at great expense in the wake of the UK's chaotic exit from the European Union — now facing a bleak future.

observatoiredeleurope.com

Britain has an £800M Brexit border black hole

LONDON — Vast, concrete and cavernous, the buildings would be unremarkable if it weren’t for their eye-watering price tag. Dotted along the British coastline, a number of border inspection facilities ...

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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 03/09/2025

Look how easy it is This is what Labour should be saying New leader of the Green Party @zackpolanski.bsky.social on immigration We need stark truth and some left populism. Let’s hope it brings the same media fascination as it does for Farage’s lies & far right populism

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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 03/09/2025

New stats I received from Commons library showing a surge in small boats crossings after UK left Dublin convention. Brexiteers own this crisis - www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politic...

dailyrecord.co.uk

Nigel Farage blamed for small boats crisis after end of asylum 'returns' deal

EXCLUSIVE: The SNP say the Reform UK must own a rise in illegal immigration after the “Dublin Regulation” ended.

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European Movement UK @europeanmovement.co.uk · 03/09/2025

'A very sorry saga of wasted time, effort and money.' Politico on the hundreds of thousands invested into near-redundant border inspection facilities because of Brexit. www.politico.eu/article/brex...

politico.eu

‘Wasted time, effort and money’: Britain’s £800M Brexit border debacle

“White elephant” border inspection facilities face bleak future after U.K.-EU trade deal.

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Sortition Foundation @sortitionnow.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

It's not right that Lords should have less scrutiny than MPs. They have a job for life in our parliament. It's time to do away with all of them and have a #HouseOfCitizens instead. www.858.org.uk

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