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RationalBrit #FBPE #RejoinEU @rationalbrit.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Maybe we need to find out how much the USA needs those bases in the UK that is planning to spend billions upgrading. Parliament and Whitehall need to realise that “All the way with the USA” is dead.

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Trump’s ‘retribution’ could now include Falklands as favor to Milei – and revenge on the UK

US president suggests he might support his Argentinian acolyte’s drive to reclaim sovereignty of disputed islands

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RationalBrit #FBPE #RejoinEU @rationalbrit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

www.theguardian.com/environment/... I’ve always said that we will be knee deep in water when the ice caps melt and they’ll still be denying that climate change is a thing and counting their earnings from the fossil fuel corporations.

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From ‘psyops’ to ‘hysterical hysteria’: how GB News and Talk TV lost their cool in the heatwaves

Thousands of heat-related deaths in record-breaking temperatures appeared to only intensify hosts’ climate denials

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RationalBrit #FBPE #RejoinEU @rationalbrit.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... So all that matters is winning elections by falling to lowest common denominator politics. Starmer gained some popularity by not doing what Blair did; going to war with the Americans using faked up intelligence. Blair can’t read the room.

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Tony Blair tells Starmer and rivals: abandon net zero and move closer to Trump

In highly unusual intervention, ex-PM says his party’s ‘almost infinite capacity for self-delusion’ makes it likely to lose next election

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

If journalists were doing their job properly, it would simply not be possible for the public to be labouring under this degree of ignorance when it comes to immigration. inews.co.uk/opinion/immi...

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RationalBrit #FBPE #RejoinEU @rationalbrit.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Astonishing that the FT thinks that the divisions caused by Brexit had healed over.

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RationalBrit #FBPE #RejoinEU @rationalbrit.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

www.theguardian.com/politics/202.... Nandy is a useless creature who has clung to the red lines in the vain hope that Reform voters in the red wall seats will return to the Labour fold. She can’t read opinion polls either.

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Top of Labour in row over EU as Nandy challenges Streeting’s remarks

Former health secretary’s allies rally to his defence after culture secretary calls his comments about rejoining ‘odd’

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RationalBrit #FBPE #RejoinEU @rationalbrit.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Labour’s problem is that people can see that the govt looks intent on preserving the tax advantages that multinational corporations, millionaires and billionaires have. We need less monetarism and more Keynesian economics. Put money into local communities.

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Labour losses pile up in England local elections as Reform UK makes gains

Reform runaway winners in north-east, likely pushing Labour into opposition in Hartlepool, with other losses for Starmer in Chorley, Wigan, Redditch and Tamworth

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RationalBrit #FBPE #RejoinEU @rationalbrit.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... “All the way the way with the USA” is dead”. Those in Westminster and Whitehall who are thinking that normal service will be resumed when Trump is gone are as delusional as those who think Brexit can be made to work.

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The Guardian view on the US and Europe: the UK tried to be a bridge, but Trump likes to burn them | Editorial

Editorial: The president’s outbursts on allies and Nato were further confirmation that Europe cannot wait to bolster security – and Britain must play its part

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Curse of private equity This is an interesting story of how private equity turned UK care homes for vulnerable elderly people into cash machines. Govt privatised care service. PE hiked prices, councils forced to pay PE loaded companies with debt, cut wages/staffing, asset-stripping, poor service

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The great care home cash grab: how private equity turned vulnerable elderly people into human ATMs

When did care homes come to be seen as recession-proof investments? And who pays the price?

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peterg19.bsky.social @peterg19.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Americans are dying and we’re killing Iranians and guess where Trump is? Yup, His pimp Palace Mar-r- lago, golfing and sticking it to America with the charges.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

The Trump Administration will receive a $10 billion fee for brokering the sale of TikTok. What blatant corruption, Donald Trump and his entire family should be in jail.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

“Reeves has been ratcheting up the rhetoric on closer EU relations which she described as the “biggest prize” in trade” If only we’d acknowledged this BEFORE we threw it away in a fit of arrogant prejudice. Getting back in the room is far harder than flouncing off giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Rachel Reeves to make new push for greater single-market access

Some member states, led by France, expect the UK to pay into the EU budget in return

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RationalBrit #FBPE #RejoinEU @rationalbrit.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

You know we had the War of Jenkin’s Ear in the 18th Century. Do you think that the war with Iran will be known by future historians as the War of Epstein’s Files?

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RationalBrit #FBPE #RejoinEU @rationalbrit.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

You know we had the War of Jenkin’s Ear in the 18th Century. Do you think that the war with Iran will be known by future historians as the War of Epstein’s Files?

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RationalBrit #FBPE #RejoinEU @rationalbrit.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

www.theguardian.com/business/202... And people wonder why I grab every vaccine going. It’s doesn’t reduce my risk to bacterial infections to zero but it will reduce it.

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Pipeline of new drugs to fight superbugs is ‘worryingly thin’, experts warn

UK’s GSK is leading the way in research but AstraZeneca is not involved in the area, report finds

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Cornish Skipper #FBPE #RejoinEU 🇪🇺🔶🌹💚💙 @cornishskipper.wsocial.eu · 08/03/2026

“The pollster Peter Kellner has calculated that if the referendum were rerun today, instead of a leave win by 1.3m votes, remain would win by 8m. There’s no historic parallel for the injustice of that.” #Brexit disaster www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...

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Did baby boomers eat all the pies? John Lanchester on the truth about the generation gap

It’s a grim time to be in your 20s, no doubt, but don’t blame it all on older people: being chopped up into ever smaller rivalries only serves the market

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

The King is supposed to be visiting the USA *next month*. This is the definition of a diplomatic nightmare. In all seriousness, I would urge him to pull a sickie.

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RationalBrit #FBPE #RejoinEU @rationalbrit.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m... I understand that the Kennel Club is considering the inclusion of a new breed of dog which is known as the American poodle. It comes in two subtypes, Reform and Conservative depending on how dependent they are on the tangerine tyrant.

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Opportunities, perils and pitfalls: how UK parties have responded to war in Iran

Starmer’s ‘purely defensive’ stance has won support among voters, but what challenges lie ahead for each party when it comes to their base’s view of war?

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Allen Holub @allenholub.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength" We are living in Oceania.

A poster showing an AI-generated heroic Trump with text: President Trump is ending the forever way that Iran has waged against America for the last 47 years."

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Starmer's ability to find the exact sweetspot which pisses off everyone is extraordinary. He's a savant.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

"All the US is doing is showing the next generation of Iranians that the US is a vicious Government that goes around bombing children, we are fighting the Epstein Class that rape little girls or bomb little girls."

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RationalBrit #FBPE #RejoinEU @rationalbrit.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... About time Westminster and Whitehall realises that the special relationship is dead. The postwar consensus of “all the way with the USA” is no longer in our interests.

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Starmer faces greater quandary over ‘special relationship’ after Iran attack

PM is in diplomatically precarious position of declining to endorse US strikes while also refusing to condemn them

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RationalBrit #FBPE #RejoinEU @rationalbrit.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

observer.co.uk/opinion-and-... Been saying this for a while. That useless creature Lisa Ñandy needs to purge the BBC of the Tory placemen like Robbie Gibb.

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The Observer view: political interference at the BBC

The corporation has been ambushed

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RationalBrit #FBPE #RejoinEU @rationalbrit.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

observer.co.uk/opinion-and-... Been saying this for a while. That useless creature Lisa Ñandy needs to purge the BBC of the Tory placemen like Robbie Gibb.

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The Observer view: political interference at the BBC

The corporation has been ambushed

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RationalBrit #FBPE #RejoinEU @rationalbrit.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... Who do these entitled tw*ts think they are. If it was me, I’d have been banged up on remand in Brixton since day one. Not swanning about complaining about the audacity of the police arresting me.

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Mandelson accuses police of arresting him over ‘baseless’ claims he planned to flee abroad

Former Labour grandee’s arrest over his links to Epstein came after Met police informed he was preparing to fly to British Virgin Islands

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Melody Hamby Goss @melodygoss111.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Anyone listening? Hello?

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