Josh Sherer @pickle1805.bsky.social · 5hWhen the europhobes attack the euro, we defend the euro. When they say, “ah but Britain would have to join the euro”, we say “and Britain would get to join the euro”. Let’s stop ceding the ground, and attack them on their arguments. High press. 051
Josh Sherer @pickle1805.bsky.social · 13hThis is obviously correct. The US has an enormous single market. Ours (the EU’s - I am a citizen) is incomplete and fragmented. Let’s make it whole. 232
Josh Sherer @pickle1805.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Can someone remind me of the political or philosophical or ideological difference between UKIP and Reform? 000
Reposted by Josh ShererSenator Amy Klobuchar @klobuchar.senate.gov · 29/09/2026Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes! 2526253766283
Josh Sherer @pickle1805.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The sale of the Telegraph earlier this year may be seen, in retrospect, as the key that unlocked a proper conversation about Brexit. 010
Josh Sherer @pickle1805.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Sounds a bit like David Davis’s strategy of getting on the phone to “Paris” and “Berlin” to sort it all out in an afternoon…. How did that go? 1162
Josh Sherer @pickle1805.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Looking forward to @chrisgrey.bsky.social’s next blog. Might be his longest one yet. 010
Josh Sherer @pickle1805.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I take your point and your scepticism. But at least he is encouraging us to have the conversation - and making clear Brexit has failed. This is progress and may lead to more. Agree with you that a positive “why the EU is a Good Thing / Britain is European” in its own right is still missing. 162
Josh Sherer @pickle1805.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Our future lies in a stronger deeper partnership with the EU? Any way to make that sentence shorter, more meaningful and more accurate? How about “Our future lies in the EU”? 2303
Josh Sherer @pickle1805.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Not been this disappointed for Tom Watson since he failed to get up and down at the last in 2009. 000
Reposted by Josh ShererMax B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 24/09/2026Bloody French, saying what we're all thinking ... 19478228
Josh Sherer @pickle1805.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is - as usual - excellent. But it stands out this fortnight as being particularly depressing. A government with no sense of urgency. As if, having ditched Starmer for Burnham, it’s done its part. Yet it hasn’t even started on Europe, ethno-nationalism, democracy or geopolitics. 010
Josh Sherer @pickle1805.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Imagine being sad or annoyed or cross because Taylor Swift is releasing a new single…. 021
Josh Sherer @pickle1805.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Maybe I do, maybe I don’t. But I think it’s quite hard work to get offended by “Perfidious Albion” today, unless I suppose one were actually responsible for UK foreign policy and the term were being used to denigrate it now. 100
Reposted by Josh ShererNiall Ó Conghaile @nialloconghaile.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We need to hear contrition for Brexit's having shattered the West, the glee which so many of his colleagues greeted our suffering, and the rampant Europhobia still present And we need to see him say he will *support* Europe as the best hope for a critical mass of democracies working together Ends 74910
Josh Sherer @pickle1805.bsky.social · 24/09/2026To me it just conveys that British foreign policy, particularly in the C19th, was not thought particularly trustworthy by other nations. 210
Josh Sherer @pickle1805.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Perfidious Albion is, however, an excellent fantasy league team name. 120
Josh Sherer @pickle1805.bsky.social · 24/09/2026An early election would only make sense if Burnham were already rolling the pitch to drop the red lines and the taxation pledges from the last manifesto. Which he’s not. 000
Reposted by Josh ShererSarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026That thug sabotaging rescue efforts, racist riots, flags on lampposts, pink ladies wanting to burn down hotels, doxxing charity workers, ICE-style deportation plans, threats to scrap the Equality Act and leave the ECHR… “legitimate concerns” No. A tornado of hate and prejudice set off by Farage. 641054332
Reposted by Josh ShererJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270... 6428121171
Josh Sherer @pickle1805.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Mainly, reminded of how Trump and Vance told Zelenskyy he didn’t have any cards (and needed to wear a suit) 050
Josh Sherer @pickle1805.bsky.social · 18/09/2026The failure of the Labour Party to do this - and instead to amplify the “legitimate concerns” narrative of the American far-right weirdos - has been the crushing disappointment of the last decade. 020
Reposted by Josh ShererJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 18/09/2026This is true. But also, sometimes you just have to stand up for stuff even if you don't know the effect it will have. 1525138
Reposted by Josh ShererGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026So the favourite obsession of the far right, being weaponised by US billionaires to push us towards their technofascist dystopia, is repeatedly legitimised by a Labour government. Other concerns, including the longstanding concerns of the left, are vilified and delegitimised. 252980
Reposted by Josh ShererChris Kendall @ottocr.at · 17/09/2026Amazing speech by Carney to the European Parliament - free movement, common market, ... Not hard to see how his stint as Chairman of the Bank of England through the worst of the Brexit years influenced him. Well done Brexit and Trump for achieving what I never thought would be possible. 513740
Josh Sherer @pickle1805.bsky.social · 18/09/2026At what point does the Government go: Brexit was a mistake, we need to join the EU? 020
Josh Sherer @pickle1805.bsky.social · 18/09/2026So - we have a situation where Brexit has a recognised economic cost; those costs are getting greater as the EU develops its own sovereign (ahem) economic policies; and the government faces a ‘headache’ of having to pay for defence spending. 100
Josh Sherer @pickle1805.bsky.social · 18/09/2026In the same article: “Paying for the UK's growing defence commitments is one of Healey's biggest headaches as he prepares for the Budget in October and next year's spending review.” 100
Josh Sherer @pickle1805.bsky.social · 18/09/2026“Treasury officials said Healey wanted to reduce the economic impact of Brexit and build closer ties with the EU, but not at any cost to the UK.” Do they hear themselves? Maybe read the quotes they’re giving to journalists and think:- hold on, what are we doing? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukJohn Healey to ask EU finance ministers to let UK into Made in Europe schemeThe chancellor wants the Made in Europe programme to deepen ties with the UK "rather than erecting new barriers". 100
Josh Sherer @pickle1805.bsky.social · 18/09/2026They haven’t processed yet that we left. They still think that, “really”, Britain is the most importsnt country in Europe. And also that the EU is a temporary phenomenon but Berlin, Paris are what count. 172
Josh Sherer @pickle1805.bsky.social · 18/09/2026My grandmother came over aged 12. Alone. Without her parents. 010
Reposted by Josh ShererHelen Maguire MP 🔶 @helenmaguiremp.bsky.social · 17/09/2026We know with certainty that Brexit was a disaster, and now while Canada negotiates associate membership with the EU, Britain is stuck on the sidelines of its own continent. Hopefully this will be the moment our government stops dragging its feet and finally rethinks our relationship with Europe.2/2 2158
Josh Sherer @pickle1805.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Been the classic way of othering people since ancient times. 010
Josh Sherer @pickle1805.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Could be, and maybe if that is the governments position a legal case would find maybe in their favour in several years depending on the facts. But as a political matter - what’s in it for the counterparty? 000
Josh Sherer @pickle1805.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The government’s handling of Made In EU seems to be “please be nice to us” without any positioning of what is in it for the EU. 2100
Reposted by Josh ShererMark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The EU has delivered greater stability across the continent, greater mobility for its citizens, and a single market that gives Europe global economic weight. An honour to hear President von der Leyen address the European Parliament today as we build a deeper partnership for the future. 1073041699
Josh Sherer @pickle1805.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I can think of one particularly high profile, powerful example 010
Reposted by Josh ShererDr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 13/09/2026This sort of thing plus being seemingly relaxed about blokes in balaclavas blocking roads is really not helpful in a plus / minus 3% electoral environment. 1113
Josh Sherer @pickle1805.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Wow last night of the proms, it’s like the secret resistance! Well done #euflagmafia and the entire pro-EU movement for keeping the flame alive. 1233
Josh Sherer @pickle1805.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Still, at least the unions can still channel a few thousand to the Labour Party. 001
Reposted by Josh ShererLesley McDowell @lesleymcdowell.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Charles (king) could do something useful for once and do a high profile visit to the RNLI right this minute 1240860
Josh Sherer @pickle1805.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I don’t get it! How do you think she becomes PM with these polls, FPTP and a split right wing? Genuinely. You think the Tories have a majority after the next GE because Labour loses seats to them? Or the LDs do? I can’t see how she pulls this off from here, is all… 110