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Yes that does seem a bit odd.

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VAT on private education is one, but for the most part not have British MEPs waving toy flags and turning their back on the Od to Joy like sour juveniles.

I don't understand. Why is this polling useless? Seems rather encouraging to me.

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This sudden change by starlink has nothing to do with the bombing of Russian data centers does it?

Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

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New IMF forecasts tell you 2 things about UK economy. Firstly, the British economy has proved resilient in face of the Iran conflict: IMF have UK growth as joint second fastest in G7 this year (forget forecasts, in hard data we’ve seen the fastest growth in G7 so far this year)

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Limp Whim @limpwhim.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Indeed and it gives bregreters an off ramp. Which is important as any future join campaign will need to avoid the blame game. Louise Haigh is very clever.

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Bright water @mikerrobo.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

No data centre should be built in the UK unless we have full sovereignty of the data stored and they use a closed loop cooling system and they generate their own power as a minimum requirement of providing planning. Otherwise it will not be the UK benefiting.

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Limp Whim @limpwhim.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

He is not condemning the execution, is he? Just the broadcasting of it. Strange that the USA is still so barbaric.

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Limp Whim @limpwhim.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

1. This will put pressure on Ukraine to stop bombing Russian refineries. 2. Does Putin actually have the spare diesel to export? I understand they are rationing it in Russia. 3. It may be all confected. Just a fillip for the misterms.

Limp Whim @limpwhim.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Even worse. If Ukraine keeps bombing refineries. Trump will say they're bombing our diesel. Stop. Putin falls off his chair with laughter.

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Limp Whim @limpwhim.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The barbarism is not in the viewing but in the act itself. It may be the broadcast does more to end it than anything else ever has.

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Limp Whim @limpwhim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Most users of the app complain that it's boring. Nothing happens. There just aren't enough boats to make it fun.

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Limp Whim @limpwhim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Excuse me. You all missed fucking Kojak. Who loves yer, baby.

Limp Whim @limpwhim.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

One. We have been spared the embarrassment of the spectacle of turquoise MEPs waving toy union flags sneering like soured children in the European parliament.

All land borders are porous unless they build a great big fence or there's a natural impediment like a mountain. People often commute across borders maybe crossing everyday. Villages straddle borders. So it becomes less of a thing. Schengen/TCA is normalised. None of this is the case in GB. Mindset.

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Schengen is not just about free movement within the member states but also strong borders with third countries. Confidence in the former is dependent on security at the later. The same is the case in the USA.

In no way different except NI lies in CTA and Belgium in Schengen. Your point?

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Yes, yes, we hear that quite a lot. Of course next year could see a reactionary shift within the EU. Let's hope we're the only exceptionalist.

I have no problem with Schengen, I live in France with an A50 residency permit, and benefit from it whenever I travel. None the less we do need secure borders with the right to decide entry. Schengen helps with that.

You're right and I understand where you're coming from. I was speculating on the possible reasons for the UK historical antipathy for Schengen. And all I can think of, apart from a hostile press, is our geography. Btw I'm pro Schengen - with EES -most secure borders on Earth. Safer in than out.

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Limp Whim @limpwhim.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The border has been open since 1995. It has always been porous. There are an uncounted number of roads that cross it. Fields streams etc. This is true across the mainland. It's true between Belgium and the Netherlands too. But at the UK border you need a boat.

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I can't explain it. I don't know why; perhaps it's because it's an island with no land borders save Northern Ireland. Schengen seems risky. The France-Belgium border is so porous it's impossible to police.

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Limp Whim @limpwhim.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The magic of the millitant tendency is visited now on the Greens.

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Oddly research shows much less opposition to FOM than in the past. Broad support acceptance intact. If we went SM as stepping stone, we could find that acceptable without a referendum.

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Euros are great and hey! cheaper mortgages.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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On principle of benefits of going to Europe "I would like it to be easier for UK citizens to work in another European country, or for my children to do so, and would be willing for EU citizens to have the same access to the UK" Support 53% (strongly support 22) Oppose 12% (strongly oppose 5)

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So she should have no problem with Freedom of Movement. Which is mostly white Europeans .

Indeed "far-fetched resolutions turning into rigid, outdated dogmas that fail to meet the real needs of the public." 1985?

My wife's Reform voting family in Essex are going to be well pissed off. Their grand dad was Scottish.

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So I need 4 English grandparents to qualify? But for those grandparents to be English they need 4 grandparents each who were English. We are at 16 now. And each of those....

Made me cry, 62, ex plumber also white.

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Everyone's quoting the Bible. FFS we don't need to take morel lessons from it. Far from it, it's probably the least reasonable source for any behaviour human.

Kemi: You just don't care, do you, you're going to take us back to 1978. FFS. ABBA for all I know.

Biannually in France. Smug.

Limp Whim @limpwhim.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

By the time anything concrete can happen they won't be there. So in practice they have already gone.

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And without auto-que without notes. He learned it. Impressive.

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Traficator, I think. Mine were a bit limp and only came out halfway.

Bet they were just nicking diesel.

Nigel (no, not *that* one) - I ♥️ 🇨🇦 @nigelingledew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

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I dunno, Nige. Maybe they gave their real names; Maybe they unlocked their phones; Maybe they were a bunch of idiots doing something like dogging or lamping or on a stag-do but not trying to sink a boat mid-ocean while someone was in it? Yeah, whatever, Nige.

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Seems most likely the Fairford five were out nicking diesel, if true, it's kind of ironic that the exorbitant price of fuel is down to Donald Trump.

Limp Whim @limpwhim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Macduff. I was from my mother's womb untimely ripped. Macbeth. Fuck.

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Limp Whim @limpwhim.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's not for any PM to take direct action against a citizen, that's for the police. And when dealing with high profile figures they will want to make sure they've crossed every t that takes a bit of time.

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Limp Whim @limpwhim.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There doesn't seem to be anything radical about the right. Everything they do is reactionary.

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Limp Whim @limpwhim.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This local Lib Dem councillor has absolutely explicitly stated the reasons for her objections to an asylum centre at this MoD storage facility, and none of them have anything to do with race.

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Limp Whim @limpwhim.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

North of Detroit there's Ray, Clifford, Melvin, and Leonard.

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Limp Whim @limpwhim.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Basildon Billericay Benfleet Rayleigh Westcliff