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Mark Purchase 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 @markpurch.bsky.social · 14m

Careful.............Humpty doesn't like his posts being shared via a screenshot

Mark Purchase 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 @markpurch.bsky.social · 58m

Whatever you think of him, Sánchez is pretty remarkable Whenever the odds are stacked against him and it seems guaranteed that he'll lose...........he calls a snap general election

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Éamann Mac Donnchada @almagroschool.bsky.social · 2h

The first of many posts on the election in the coming weeks. You won't get analysis like this in most of the anglosphere press so please consider ponying up for a sub macdonnchada.substack.com/p/the-spanis...

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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 3h

Vox is also a case of radicalisation of the far-right - used to be part of the ECR and present itself as more moderate, and now has become one of the more radical voices amongst the 'Patriots for Europe'.

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Jack Fortune @jimmyhird5.bsky.social · 3h

We're not in Schengen because the UK opted out Dave. Because the UK is still on our island we have two jurisdictions on our island. So in order to satisfy the Good Friday Agreement and have British hard border in Ireland, we were left with no choice but to opt out of Schengen when the UK did.

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 4h

Breaking News! The latest ECMWF forecast for October continues to show the Niño 3.4 sea-surface temperature peaking around 4.0°C above the 1991-2020 average in December, with a strong El Niño lasting into Spring. The current Nino 3.4 anomaly is 3.3°C. charts.ecmwf.int/products/sea...

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 8h

On current trajectory the EU won't want the UK back or even much closer. Thus the challenge for Andy Burnham is not just building the domestic case, but also one that works across the EU. My considered response to that bit of the speech... ecipe.org/insights/uk-...

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UK Rejoin Requires a Bigger European Story

Rejoining the EU is formally back on the UK political map if not yet a government commitment. Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s speech offering the possibility responded to pressure within his party, but ...

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Mark Purchase 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 @markpurch.bsky.social · 8h

Coach operators run HTS (Home to School) on ridiculously tight margins Local authorities have no room in their budgets to pay sensible rates for this essential service and many local family owned coach companies feel an obligation to the local area to run HTS They desperately need help

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Mark Purchase 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 @markpurch.bsky.social · 9h

It’s hard to disagree The options are fully known and understood and pretending they need more time is risible Despite the general positivity and my desire to always have a glass half full I’m not expecting a fully formed position to be in Labour’s manifesto, just a removal of the red lines

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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 17h

If LeBron or Taylor Swift posted this most recent El Niño historical temperature graph (current one in red) 500 million people would be in the streets. (And a hundred million lives would likely be saved in the next 20 months) #ClimateCrisis

Graph showing all the past El Niño temperatures on a monthly timeline with the current one in red way above all the others and still climbing.

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

against joining again He couldn’t be more wrong as it’s highly likely that those people are also desperate to join the EU again I can’t see how demonising those people and making them your enemy can possibly help the campaign to join It is completely nonsensical

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

The problem Humpty has is that he is so focused on only one aspect, mobility of people that he has allowed himself to believe that anyone who has the ability to lawfully take a citizenship for a European country in addition to their UK citizenship is automatically in favour of the status quo and is

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

The fact that these accounts only post in certain threads (and we know which ones) shows why they are set up and what their purpose is

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

The thing that is objectionable is that someone (and it’s clearly an individual not lots of different people) spends the time and energy to set up these hibernophobic accounts to harass and intimidate other posters for no reason other than they try to be realistic and factual about the situation

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

It’s all exceptionalist nonsense Ireland has opted out of Schengen - ignoring the fact that as the UK opted out they had to as well Poland and other Eastern European countries didn’t join the Eurozone on day 1 - ignoring the fact that they had economies that couldn’t possibly join on day 1

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

🤡 William Hague, John Major, Edward Heath, Alec Douglas Home, Harold MacMillan, Anthony Eden, Winston Churchill, Neville Chamberlain, Stanley Baldwin, Andrew Bonar Law …… all unclassical new school 🤡

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

It’s no surprise why they gather there Sad and so utterly pathetic and helps nobody other than those who want to keep us outside Europe and want to ensure FOM never returns

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

You do realise that Pedro Sánchez leads a minority government that is currently struggling to get any legislation passed Spain could have an election soon where the right wing Popular Party will win the most seats (as usual) and might bite the bullet and form a Government with the fascist VOX

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Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦 @jamiemackinnon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The “strongest El Niño in a millennium” is is seeing ocean “surface temps over 6 °C warmer than normal.” This Week in Collapse: “One scientist said, “this record breaking El Niño will double the amount of sea level rise we’ve seen from climate change overnight.” #climate

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Mark Purchase 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 @markpurch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Bring on the AI powered spell checker that knows what you were supposed to be saying as well as correcting the spelling

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Tom Hayes @tomhayes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

In this week’s Scribblings, I am back to one of my favourite topics – the relationship between the UK and the EU. hayest.substack.com/p/scribbling...

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Scribblings

No Early EU “Going Back” for the UK

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Mark Purchase 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 @markpurch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Lord Idiot of Frostyshire can’t be happy this topic is still being debated

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Mark Purchase 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 @markpurch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s really unusual for Ferrari to mess up their race strategy like this 🤦‍♂️

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Mark Purchase 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 @markpurch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Are you 100% certain that if in those years it had been a 19 team division with 36 games that the team that originally finished 2nd would have done so again?

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Mark Purchase 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 @markpurch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

To illustrate the randomness that isn’t easily overcome would be in one of the TdF Josep Beloki was only a few seconds behind Armstrong in the overall and crashed on a descent when trying to get away and gain time It ended his race and career Maybe it wouldn’t have happened but who knows 🤷‍♂️

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Mark Purchase 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 @markpurch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The ASO got this right by stripping Armstrong of his 7 TdF wins but leaving each race as having no winner There are far too many variables involved in Sport to just award the titles and cups to the team that originally came second

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Mark Purchase 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 @markpurch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A present from the Hacienda in 🇪🇸 is usually a hefty tax bill

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Mark Purchase 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 @markpurch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The triple lock is very cheap to maintain when there is no SP In fact they could make the annual increase a minimum of 50% a year and still have plenty of money for tax cuts for crypto billionaires

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Mark Purchase 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 @markpurch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Are there 55,000 fully trained, experienced medical professionals with a good level of English just sitting there unemployed desperately waiting to move to UK to work

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botrange694.bsky.social @botrange694.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Andy Burnham moved from the Smiths to the Beach Boys recently but if Labour stick with just good vibrations we'll all be miserable soon. Any kind of hope for the future? youtu.be/4kxPIi3cuIY?...

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Peter Hammill-The Future Now

YouTube video by gastmeier

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Mark Purchase 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 @markpurch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It seems that England are always playing against Croatia I’m pretty sure at least half the caps Luca Modriċ has won have been against us

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Mark Purchase 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 @markpurch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It’s obvious that the only party in favour of “two tier justice” is Reform They constantly demand punishment for anyone who disagrees with them and leniency for anyone who agrees

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nickequipechasee #TuckFrump @nickequipechasee.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And that's not going to happen right now, because we've just had a decade of pro-brexit propaganda from our media, along with effectively 5yrs of there being "No Case for Rejoining the single market" etc, from even the people who should have

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Mark Purchase 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 @markpurch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

or the UKG that turned the directive into UK law, and finally blame Chris Martin because it was Coldplay that funded the organisation Client Earth that took the UKG to court in 2017,2018 and 2019 to force them to implement the law The last person to blame for ULEZ is Sadiq Khan

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Mark Purchase 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 @markpurch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It is so ridiculous when ULEZ is just a fancy name for a Clean Air Zone, of which there are many throughout the U.K. and even more throughout Europe If you want to blame anyone, blame the UKG that signed the Gothenburg Protocol (along with lots of countries) in 1999 or the EU Ambient AQ Directive

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Mark Purchase 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 @markpurch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I don’t believe they think at all It’s all a knee jerk reaction, and they haven’t even noticed that it’s not working anymore

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Mark Purchase 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 @markpurch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

later date There are CAZ in many UK cities all implemented to meet AQ targets set in U.K. legislation (exactly how they function is a devolved power) There are cities that achieved the necessary AQ levels by using other measures but that would have been impossible for London

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Mark Purchase 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 @markpurch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

12 months and in the year before that introduced the Toxicity charge for large vehicles in the CCZ The expansion out to the N&S circular was also necessary to meet legal AQ targets but the final expansion wasn’t strictly required to be implemented so early but it likely would have been needed at a

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Mark Purchase 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 @markpurch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It’s a bit more complicated than that The GLA was required by legislation to improve AQ and the only measure that could do so in the mandated timeframe was a CAZ Johnson planned to introduce a CAZ (which he chose to call ULEZ) at the latest possible date of 2020. Khan brought the date forward by

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Captain Haddock @realcaptainhaddock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The UAE doesn’t seem to realise the UK govt does not control the Premier League or football more generally

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Mark Purchase 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 @markpurch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Nige really needs to stop all his MPs and the other guy speaking if he is serious about getting close to power, they are all morons

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This is all very nice on Burnham's opening the door a little on EU matters, but I've been having conversations in Brussels about the UK's choices since at least 2023 and nothing has basically changed since then. www.ft.com/content/3d43...

ft.com

Does the EU want Britain back?

Burnham has reopened the Brexit debate. That doesn’t mean the UK will be welcomed back on its own terms

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Martín Roberts 🇪🇺 🇪🇸 🇬🇧 🚲 @madridcorro.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

So the FT headline misses the point. Maybe it's about time they realised Europe does not revolve around the UK, let alone what the latter might, possibly, be doing at an unspecified time in the future.

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Mark Purchase 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 @markpurch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hopefully Burnham has started a process that will ultimately lead to a more realistic and factual domestic debate The options have been well known for ages, as have the benefits and trade offs If this just leads to more of the same from the UKG side there will a lot of disappointed people

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Mark Purchase 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 @markpurch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Are those the ones that mean it will rain for 40 days and nights, or the ones that mean it will never rain ever again?

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Mark Purchase 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇸 🇪🇺 @markpurch.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If we are going to make any meaningful progress we need to stop treating mobility as a negative The ability to work, study, retire and live in 30+ different countries is a huge positive

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