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John Akeroyd

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Lives in Hertford, UK. Pro EU. Anti Brexit. Anything digital.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 20/09/2026
YouGov’s latest poll: 628 out of 632 constituencies in Britain want to rejoin the EU. It couldn’t be clearer: It’s time to talk about EU membership. Read more: bestforbritain.org/uk-membership-mo…
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A picture of post-Brexit Britain. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog on a fortnight of ugly political scenes, why a government-led counter-narrative on asylum is needed, and why these domestic political events are a national security issue: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/09/a-pi...
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Ren Zelen @renzelen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Nostalgia is a dangerous thing. People have a tendency to see it through rose-coloured glasses. Stop whining about young people and their more reserved habits and let them live their own lives. The world is very different place now and they have to live in it. It’s not easy and it’s not kind.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The attacks on Ed Miliband, the one truly successful person running a department under Starmer, shows that the lack of seriousness in British politics goes way beyond No.10 to the press, the trade unions, the business sector.
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Ann, Ðēos catte bīteð. #FBPE @soggymoggy50.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Yup. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...
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Andy Burnham would back Leave in second referendum if Labour secured a new deal
The Mayor of Greater Manchester said he thought leaving with a deal would be in the 'public interest'
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martindvz.bsky.social @martindvz.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Brexit explained by someone who isn’t a liar and was there and who knows:
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The Brexit vote was 10 years ago and it's been a disaster. We don't need another PM willing to pander to Brexiters. We need a PM with the courage and talent to lead such people back into at least the Single Market. If Burnham can't or won't do that, what's the point?
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niaru.bsky.social @niaru.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Most significant is probably that their counterparts in Europe invited them back. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Future of UK lies in the EU after Brexit ‘failure’, say European Greens
Exclusive: Co-chair Vula Tsetsi says it is time to trigger debate, as statement is agreed at annual leadership meeting in Brussels
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Just listen the that applause!💥💥💥 Here's Wes Streeting hammering Brexit and talking about rejoining the EU. It's a very well written statement, but what's more interesting is the passionate reaction and applause from his audience. The issue of rejoining isn't going away! #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺
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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Odd? Odd to want to discuss the most serious policy decision the UK has taken in decades, with ongoing implications for our foreign, domestic and economic policy? What’s odd is continuing to pretend we can just make Brexit go away if we don’t talk about it! 😡😡😡
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Switzerland is putting solar panels on all the empty space between train tracks. If done in the UK this would take 20,000,000 Solar Panels and would provide 8GW of electricity.
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Politics in the U.K. @politicsintheuk.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Fun fact that lying UK journalistic hacks won’t tell you because they hate Labour: Boris Johnson did not pass vetting when Theresa May appointed him Foreign Secretary. #UKPolitics
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 15/04/2026
It’s official: the UK is rejoining Erasmus! 👏🇪🇺
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
“Brexit betrayal” - oh for god’s sake.. Every day, we’re paying to be poorer. We’re paying to be second class citizens on our own continent. We’re paying to queue. We’re paying for more red tape. We’re paying to be less secure and less trusted. Brexit IS the betrayal. And so is defending it.
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Caroline Russell @carolinerussell.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
It may seem like nerdy detail that the increasing weight of cars is worsening potholes, but it matters. The car makers push to sell wider and heavier cars is increasing road maintenance costs and that affects us all. Not to mention worse crash outcomes and less space to pass (wider) parked cars.
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Adam Koszary @adamkoszary.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
A small Ford car sandwiched between two massive modern SUVs.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
This Reddit post is formatted like a joke but it’s actually a very dry recitation - at times, direct quotes - of America’s public war strategy over the last month. This can’t go on. This is deranged. Impeach and imprison.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/04/2026
The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.
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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Think about it. Trump spends the first year of his second term alienating Europe. Then he starts a war that Europe wisely refuses to participate in. Now he and Putin have their “excuse” to withdraw the United States from NATO. Everything he does, Trump does for Vladimir.
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 04/04/2026
Brexit reality
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Did BBC radio 4 #Today programme really just do a whole package about drilling in the N Sea without once even mentioning #climate change? And not having anyone challenging the one-sided claims of former BP boss? So irresponsible #bbcr4today
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Impressive so far. A refusal to be bullied into an illegal war by a mad US President should unite the nation. But Brexit Britain is, of course, not a normal nation.
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I get tired of those who moan "UK must decide what it wants before it approaches the EU". 1️⃣ There's a majority for rejoining at least the Single Market. 2️⃣ The Single Market's rules are clear. 3️⃣ Negotiations themselves will influence future public opinion. 4️⃣ 80+% of young voters already want full EU.
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Sarah Good @sassy0210.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Tuesday Friends #5 @gardening-gal.bsky.social @gwenie.bsky.social @edbgood.bsky.social @bendtowardjustice.bsky.social @pantonedreams.bsky.social @colette73.bsky.social @meliasmouth.bsky.social @releaseduhcrackhen.bsky.social @boldsea.bsky.social @originalabbenormal.bsky.social
A Facebook post by Andy Borowitz with a headline joking that Zelenskyy offers to be temporary US President while Trump undergoes psychiatric evaluation. Below is a photo of Donald Trump sitting at a desk, looking serious.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Am not an energy analyst but why does seem every interview with a U.K. minister this week included a pointed question about why not drilling more in North Sea and almost none about renewables/net zero as an energy security imperative? It’s bizarre, frankly
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
This is an excellent summary of current circumstances Kyle Kulinski: “A sundowning president with Alzheimer’s who’s a malignant narcissist is dragging us into WWIII, committing war crimes on a daily basis and crashing the global economy, and nobody is actually grabbing the steering wheel.”
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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
How can the BBC justify how much coverage they give other marches which are significantly smaller in size? The bias is so obviously blatant. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...
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‘The tide is turning’, Green party leader tells crowd at march against far right – as it happened
Organisers claim half a million people are marching through central London, protesting against the rise of the far right
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Wow. Sadiq Khan asks Keir Starmer to not only “rejoin the EU Customs Union and the Single Market this Parliament”, but also to “fight the next general election with a clear manifesto commitment: a vote for Labour means we would rejoin the European Union”, without a second #Brexit referendum 👏
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
A UK unable to escape a ridiculously simplistic US-EU binary choice is struggling to find a global economic policy voice leaving mistrust all round. A far more sophisticated, self-aware approach is needed, but where is the leadership? My latest... ecipe.org/insights/str...
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Persistent Brexit Divide Leaves UK Trade Policy Struggling
Ten years on from the UK’s Brexit referendum the only apparent national consensus is negative – that the country cannot survive without partnering with a major power, either the EU or US. This unr
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 10/03/2026
Sen. Coons: The clearest winner from this war in Iran is Russia. It's stunning that Trump is on the phone with Vladimir Putin and spending more time consulting with him than he is with Congress and the American people.
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Mr RobertBob @mrrobertbob.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
A graphic from You Gov showing the effects of births and deaths on the support for Rejoin/Stay out.
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Oxford For Europe @oxford4europe.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Farage, Johnson, Mogg - working with Bannon & Epstein in their push for global revolution, starting with Brexit. The disastrous appointment of Mandelson may be the end for Starmer, but the dishonesty & democratic collapse are not his, but those on the Right. We need a full exposure of their crimes.
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Newsweek @newsweek.com · 30/01/2026
Trump’s trade wars trigger the historic India-EU deal, reshaping global trade while leaving U.S. exporters on the sidelines.
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Trump Tariffs Push India-EU Into Historic Trade Alliance
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 30/01/2026
Amid an acute labor shortage, foreign workers in Japan hit a record high in 2025, totaling 2.57 million as of the end of October.
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Foreign workers in Japan reach a record 2.57 million in 2025
The total was up 11.7% from a year earlier and comes amid an acute labor shortage in the rapidly aging country.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Another health breakthrough. (h/t Gav)
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New study shows Alzheimer’s disease can be reversed to achieve full neurological recovery—not just prevented or slowed—in animal models | CWRU Newsroom | Case Western Reserve University
For more than a century, people have considered Alzheimer's disease (AD) an irreversible illness. Consequently, research has focused on preventing or ...
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
In case you missed it ... We never had a ref to leave the Single Market. So we wouldn't need one to rejoin it. You can be in the Single Market without being in the EU. Leaving the Single Market was therefore a POLITICAL decision made by a previous government. Later governments are not bound by it.
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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
This narrative doesn't make sense. You can't blame Brexit for harming the economy ... (UK businesses, for example, lose £37bn a year due to a drop in EU trade) ... yet at the same time categorically rule out returning even to the Single Market. So Starmer needs to do a masssive U-turn or step down.
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Starmer ‘planning to blame Farage and Brexit’ for budget tax hikes
Sir Keir Starmer has been ramping up his attacks on Nigel Farage in recent weeks as Labour falls behind in the polls
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
This is an excellent point. 👇
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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Now Gibraltar has won its way back into Schengen and a customs deal with more access than before Brexit, while the rest of us are stuck with queues, red tape and decline. And where’s the UK press? Silent. Once again it’s Washington Post exposing Brexit. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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The Brits who beat Brexit: Gibraltar celebrates its return to Europe
Nearly a decade after Britain quit the E.U., British residents of Gibraltar on the southern tip of Spain, will regain travel and commercial access under a treaty.
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WIRED @wired.com · 28/08/2025
Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves. www.wired.com/story/bluesk...
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Scientists Are Flocking to Bluesky
Academics once loved Twitter—but in the age of X they’ve abandoned it in droves.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Farage’s “probity and judgment were sold as the product called Brexit. It turned out to be a piece of shit.” And, unbelievably, this Labour govt finds itself trapped because it has refused to call this out. What a profound - and now dangerous - political failure. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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There’s an obvious way to challenge Nigel Farage. But Keir Starmer won’t do it | Rafael Behr
Labour’s reluctance to name Brexit as the cause of so many problems hasn’t stopped Reform’s rise. It’s time to try the truth, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
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James Chapman @jamesmchapman.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
He’s not wrong is he? www.rte.ie/news/busines...
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Brexit the 'stupidest thing any country has ever done'
Billionaire Michael Bloomberg has told an audience in Dublin that Brexit was the single stupidest thing any country has ever done, adding that "it's hard to believe how they did it."
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European Movement Staffordshire @emstaffs.uk · 22/04/2025
We don't have to be in the EU to be part of Erasmus+ We are campaigning to join Erasmus+ so we can ensure a brighter future for you and your children. Will you join us, and help make a better future? emstaffs.uk/erasmus.php
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Sue Wilson MBE @suewilson91.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
European leaders know/speak the truth about Brexit. One day our own leaders will too. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/ger...
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German chancellor follows Macron to slam Brexit
It "shook the European security architecture"
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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 17/07/2025
Conmen who are funded by the oil and gas industry Reform UK’s policies to “scrap net zero” would cost more than 60,000 jobs, & wipe £92 billion off the UK economy & raise energy bills according to a new study.
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Reform’s Clean Energy Crackdown Would Cost 60,000 Jobs and Raise Bills, Says Study
Reform UK’s policies to “scrap net zero” would cost more than 60,000 jobs and wipe £92 billion off the UK economy, according to a new study. Nigel Farage’s party — which took control of 10 councils in...
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Rachel Reeves says the UK is open for business with the US, EU and India deals: But we only get £22 billion: - £3.4 billion from UK-US tariff deal - £14 billion from UK-EU reset - £4.8 billion from UK-India Rejoining the EU Single Market would give us £140 billion
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 06/07/2025
The government has walked away from cross-party talks on social care, kicking long-overdue reforms into the long grass while millions face soaring care costs. We must fix social care and fix it now.
A newspaper torn headline graphic with a picture of a worried pensioner that says: Spiralling social care costs means one in five pensioners fear they will leave 'nothing' to loved ones by LBC News.
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Oliver Lord @olord.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Cars are getting 1cm wider every two years. That may not sound much, but over time it adds up, and they're showing no signs of slowing down 😬 That's #carspreading. Our new campaign is calling on city leaders to make parking policies fairer by varying costs based on the size of a car. Why? 🧵1/8
A graphic showing how much wider cars are getting and especially in the SUV market
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Neil Mackay @neilmackay.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Reform has five MPs, the Green Party has four, and the LibDems have 72 Do you think the media coverage of each of those parties has been proportional to their representation in parliament?
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
You wouldn't know it from today's newspaper front pages screaming "betrayal", but new YouGov polling finds that 66% of British people now want the Government to deliver a closer relationship with the EU, compared to just 14% who don't
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