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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 8h

So what ARE the options for Britain re EU? - Status quo: massive damage to the economy - Customs Union: limited economic benefit - Single Market: significant economic benefit but UK has to follow EU rules without a say on them - EU membership: econ & political benefits with a seat at the table

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🚨🚨 #brexit polling points to people thinking the #UK should have a closer relationship with the #EU. Fine but the problem with this type of polling (to also get some political imperative) is that the questions are too vaguely formulated. First, what is the meaning of a "closer relationship"?

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Richard M. @mat70x.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Brexit is done... It's at least as useless as we expected it to be: We lost the economy, We lost our Freedom of Movement, We lost our standing, We alienated our friends, neighbours & allies... We gained nothing... well actually we did... We gained racism in buckets, gained hatred, gained division,

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Kathy Love @kathylove.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I've been reading a number of recent threads about will they/won't they/should they/can they/can't they, but in the end I think Martín's post really is the bottom line.

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UK in a Changing Europe @ukandeu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🎉NEW REPORT OUT🎉 ⬅️The latest edition of the UK-EU divergence tracker by @jreland.bsky.social is here ➡️ "There is plenty happening on the continent which is going to have a profound effect on the UK, whether [the UK] pays attention or not." ukandeu.ac.uk/reports/uk-e...

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UK-EU Divergence Tracker Q2 - Q3 2026 - UK in a changing Europe

This is the seventeenth edition of UK in a Changing Europe’s regulatory divergence tracker, outlining how UK and EU rules and regulations have aligned and diverged in the period April-September 2026.

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Luigi di Angeli @luigidiangeli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

An excellent piece by @jamesprice.bsky.social on the part of Brexit Britain still seems least willing to confront: exceptionalism. Well argued, perceptive and very much worth reading. westenglandbylines.co.uk/opinion/brit...

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Britain and the EU – the exceptionalism trap

Brexit has weakened the UK, but the country still seems unwilling to contemplate a return to the EU

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Mark Purchase 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 @markpurch.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There is a very good reason that the Single Market encompasses FOUR freedoms Without all 4 it cannot possibly function efficiently and certainly not as it is intended to As you can see from this thread the inability of self proclaimed pro Europe Brits to understand that simple fact is ridiculous

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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Those on inefficiencies make us poorer and what we're working against b) because why should capital be free to go where it wants for profit, but labour - the only thing most people have - is tied to the land like serfs c) because believe in giving people the freedom to choose their own destiny 6

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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The horrific stench of Anglocentricism and #ExtrawurstGroßbritannien off this from Matt Kelly on The Two Matts pod. Supposed pro-European says UK will never join Europe that has freedom of movement. Okay then, don't. Let's move on. FoM is a key part of the attraction for Britons A 🧵

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The three far-right parties, Tories, Reform and Restore have about 50% together. All want to leave the ECHR and therefore the Council of Europe and blow up the GFA and TCA. It would be a worse crisis than Brexit

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Richard M. @mat70x.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

If we need #TacticalVoting to stop Reform then Labour will have failed to make a worthwhile difference to the UK in 5 years... The way to beat them is with policies & services that improve peoples lives!

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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My reflection on Brexit is ultimately that it was the best outcome. But that doesn't mean I'm happy with where my British friends are left or with the future. As much as some might wish it, the UK isn't going away. So we should want a "good" UK 1

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Kathy Love @kathylove.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Indeed. It's very disturbing that the (apparently pro-EU) rejoin posts advocate rejoining for only 3 reasons: to make more money from the Single Market; to avoid inconvenience at the borders; to give Britain a platform from which to (pretend to) be a world power.

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Kathy Love @kathylove.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is a really important insight that the rest of the world needs to focus on seriously.

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Mark Purchase 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 @markpurch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

On a list of the 10 most important things to address during his premiership it currently stands at number 11

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Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Preening, sibilant git.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This some advanced tankie "thought". Russia has a UNSC seat & world's largest amounts of land, gas, oil and NUKES. Russia also has no agency over our own actions and so cannot be held accountable and therefore must be excused and appeased.

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Mark Purchase 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 @markpurch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"there seems to be no sense of urgency about anything: about tackling the far right, about protecting liberal norms of governance, about challenging the immigration panic, about improving relations with the EU, or about recalibrating geo-political strategy" Nail on head...as usual from Mr Grey

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Brexit & Brexitism

<a rel="me" href="https://mastodon.online/@ChrisGrey">Mastodon</a>

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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🚨🚨 "there seems to be no sense of urgency about anything: about tackling the far right, about protecting liberal norms of governance, about challenging the immigration panic, about improving relations with the EU, or about recalibrating geo-political strategy." @chrisgrey.bsky.social

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Luigi di Angeli @luigidiangeli.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

France’s answer is admirably institutional: leave the internal market and its financial obligations, lose its protections. Germany may favour a wider allied circle, but British friendship is not a legal category.

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Elena Adaal @elenaadaal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Another article on the UK efforts to blow up its own Reset by tying it up with "Made in Europe" legislation. First the key: Made in Europe is EU legislation in progress. This means that the total EU 'circus' of EU Comm, Council and EP are working on it... (1/x) www.politico.eu/article/eu-u...

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EU warns UK not to put itself in a corner on Brexit reset

European officials warn the U.K. would be playing a high-risk game if it delays an upcoming summit over Brussels’ protectionist push.

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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Lethargy in place of strategy. New post on my fortnightly Brexit & Brexitism Blog looking at the urgent lessons from the Reform mega-donations, Piddington, and the growth of the far right; reset inertia; and the real lessons from Canada & Carney: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/09/leth...

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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@davidheniguk.bsky.social has been repeating consistently that the lecturing is really counterproductive and is getting the UK nowhere. He's right.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As an aside, "Canada's associate membership of the EU means x for the UK" takes suffer rather from the fact that few in Brussels know what this will actually entail but most are pretty sure it won't in any way resemble associate membership.

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Sean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 24/09/2026

Brexit, the Sitcom Mr Brexit no longer enjoys life as Europe’s most divorced man. Rooting for his phone amongst the discarded cans he texts his ex wife to tell her he’s willing to move back in with her but there will have to be changes. She will have to change. He stares at the phone waiting.

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kdw @kdw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Carney is in a totally different league to Burnham…. I struggle to believe Burnham will even be taken seriously by the EU…

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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Even the framing: Burnham and Carney v. Trump. Burnham isn't even in the room when Europe and the Canada are speaking.

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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Full report is here and we will see what kind of debate it triggers within Labour. But sorry UK friends, if you approach negotiations with the EU as demandeur requesting it bends to the British will, nothing has been learned in the past 10 years.

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Niall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

"We cannot afford to be outflanked by Canada on Europe" - Alastair Campbell Canada does not need Britain to have a relationship on Europe. Canada and Europe set our own path. Perhaps try being positive about Europe? 1

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6JQ6LT79X8etFIXzFQ5tYJ

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Simon Usherwood @simonusherwood.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

But absolutely tosh to think negotiations as third country (even in an accession path) can shape the EU

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The days of join Europe to prevent Europe are over. The days of balancing USA and Europe are over. In truth, the UK shouldn’t even need or want these things any more. The loss of imperial power should have been digested and forgotten.

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Oh, we're still on the "significantly reformed EU" nonsense are we? Like the UK has the power to dictate terms as a returning hero or some such? Same EU as per the last 40 years at least. Be part of it or not. Full stop. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Mark Purchase 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 @markpurch.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Errr...........that was the whole point Those behind the lies and deceit had only one aim, to destabilise Europe and undermine the West Farage et al were easily bought and paid for, and too many of the electorate were too easily conned www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

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Brexit has left Britain ‘impotent – a bobbing cork in the sea,’ says David Miliband

Exclusive: Former foreign secretary adds to mounting pressure for a new UK deal with EU to repair Brexit damage

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Monika FBPE @monika-uk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The current El Niño is likely to be the largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into an atmosphere in which temperatures are already rising rapidly due to human-caused global heating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Alex Hall Hall @alexhh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Wey hey!! Two cheers. Hurrah! I’m almost, but not, quite, mildly excited that something might not be ruled out in a few years time. Way to go, Andy. Bold, bravely ambivalent, solidly ambiguous, resolutely vague leadership, at last. 🙄🙄🙄 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Andy Burnham does not rule out Brexit reversal being in next Labour manifesto

PM says immediate focus is on rebuilding bridges with EU as he prepares for first meeting with Ursula von der Leyen

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Dave Wilson @davew1956.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I’m old enough to remember The Telegraph complaining about the lack of control of the porous EU border.

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Simon B.-M. @simonbm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Don’t take them seriously. Trust me, Telegraph readers love delays. It proves to their satisfaction that England is one world and non-England quite another. It’s a bit of intrepid explorer make-believe while off to the sunlounger. And provides materialfor some xenophobic banter in the queue.

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Richard M. @mat70x.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If the last 40 years have taught us one thing... it's that no matter what, the Telegraph, Mail, Express & Westminster will blame Europe for it... You might as well try to stop the tide as rail against that inevitability!

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Martín Roberts 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It is all very well to baldly assert that "Voters want it", but results confirm that they don't want it badly enough to vote for pro-EU parties.

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Mark Purchase 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 @markpurch.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Dear BlueSky guru’s Are cats usually very demanding? We’ve been cat sitting our sons cats while they’re on honeymoon The male cat follows us around all day, insists on being stroked and cuddled, and never seems to want to be left alone in a room His sister on the other hand keeps herself to

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Kathy Love @kathylove.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

An interesting and realistic comparison of the situations of Canada and the UK

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Mark Purchase 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 @markpurch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It does make you question how this fits with Article 7 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union His spouse as a Swedish citizen and is being denied the right to have a family life

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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Another pointless poll that doesn't spell out what Rejoin means.

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Simon Pease @simonpease.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

There is really no more sterile debate pursued on this forum than arguments about the precise terms on which the UK might rejoin the EU. For starters, tell me first what the global economic circumstances are, the state of UK public finances, and the rate at which the £ is trading. Otherwise STFU.

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Luigi di Angeli @luigidiangeli.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

www.lemonde.fr/en/france/ar... - This is what allies do when they recognise common interests and common values: they draw closer, build trust and deepen cooperation. France, Canada and the EU increasingly understand that reliability and shared principles matter in a more dangerous world.

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Macron makes rare visit to French territory off Canada, where he will host Carney

The French president will visit Saint Pierre and Miquelon for the first time during his presidency. Mark Carney, who this week welcomed a proposal for closer ties with the EU, will be the first Canadi...

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Mark Purchase 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 @markpurch.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Well we’ve lost faith in your cycling team you penny pinching twat, before you bought it they used to win grand tours regularly, and whatever you’re doing in Manchester clearly isn’t working either

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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Paragraph from the blog post, about Trump reviving old threats against Canada

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Tom Hayes @tomhayes.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We are out and want to stay out - no free movement of people for us - but we also want to be in - we want free movement for cars, but not people. Good luck with that argument.

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