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David Rearlamp

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cEUrmudgeon Reflective, orange faced, white bodied. Valid handle Suspect Rail Safety (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 is Commission Regulation 1158/2010 with the words Member State crossed out and United Kingdom written in crayon.

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David Rearlamp @rearlamp.bsky.social · 22h
Another Brexit benefit? www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...
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Malcolm X-Bluebird-X 🇪🇺 #FBPE 🇪🇺 #RejoinEU @brothermanshaft.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
To ALL UK residents, ALL UK Citizens, read on, SIGN & SHARE: when UK Brexited, it ended 'home fees' University tuition rules for students applying from outside UK - that included UK Citizens! BiE obtained a stay of execution until 2027 but time's running out. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/77...
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Petition: Protect UK citizens’ living in the EU right to home fee status & loan access
We call on the Government to scrap plans to remove university home fee status and student loan access from British citizens living in the EU from 2028. This could financially discourage EU-based UK ci...
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
What's the stupidest joke you most have to fight the urge to tell? Mine is not replying to questions about whether I have any allergies with 'we'll find out together, I guess'.
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paulusthewoodgnome @paulusthewoodgnome.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't know what's worse: your being banned, or the lack of solidarity from fellow journalists. Actually, I do. It's the latter. Because if journalists don't have each other's backs, they can't be surprised if they eventually have enemy knives stuck into them. bsky.app/profile/paul...
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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 30/09/2026
Does the EU want Britain back? Yes, @sandrogozi.bsky.social tells Andrew Marr.
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Marlène Aviation @aviationmarlene.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fifty years separate these two aircraft: the meeting between the legendary Blériot XI and the C.450 “Coléoptère”, an experimental VTOL aircraft, in April 1959.
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David Rearlamp @rearlamp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Did one of the arrested say "I ran into the trees" at the police interview and US intelligence has heard the first 2 words on the shared tape recording?
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Macron: “Brexit is the biggest lie of the last 30 years. “Those who said, "We will be richer" - eight points of GDP less ten years later. "”We will solve the problem of immigration" - it is more complicated than before. "”We are going to crush it in international trade" - it is worse.”
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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Should the U.K. look to rejoin the EU? Only 71 votes so far …. In @manchestereveningnews.co.uk www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news...
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Pete M @fastcarspete.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Have Labour dropped the ludicrous red lines yet? Until they're gone, nothing changes.
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Massimo Faggioli @massimofaggioli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
these words of pope Leo are for me, and for many others I think, profoundly moving
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 29/09/2026
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Crime Girl @crimegirl.co.uk · 28/09/2026
I am a barrister who once spent time seconded to the CPS serious crimes unit making charging decisions. Today, you can pretend to be one too and work through the decision-making framework in a very serious case. The police have multiple suspects in custody and the phone just rang. 👨 👨 👨 👨 👨 📱 👮‍♀️ 🚨
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Richard Marcus @rbmarcus.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In honour of the passing of the great The Mighty Sparrow - King of Calypso and Carnival - here's the Clash's "Lets Go Crazy" with its shout out to the man himself - www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e2k...
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The Clash ''Let's Go Crazy''
YouTube video by SoulStylistJukeBox
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John Elworthy @johnelworthy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
👀 Have you seen this man? Cambridgeshire Police have released CCTV images as part of an investigation into three fires in Huntingdon. Police want to speak to the man pictured. www.cambsnews.co.uk/news/crime/m...
👀 Have you seen this man?
Cambridgeshire Police have released CCTV images as part of an investigation into three fires in Huntingdon.
Police want to speak to the man pictured.
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Times this morning. Me in December last year. It was pretty damn obvious this would happen to anyone who did the maths. samf.substack.com/p/the-oversh...
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Michael @vivamjm.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I note it does not state the specific reason why, despite the likes of me warning for years you will see progressively more of these because of it.. "Major UK haulage firm collapses into administration after 50 years with ALL staff losing their jobs" share.google/cZypT8CgKOt3...
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UK haulage firm falls into administration after 50 yrs with dozens of jobs lost
A MAJOR British trucking firm has collapsed into administration after 50 years and has made all its staff redundant. JT Leyland Limited, in Milthorpe, South Cumbria provided distribution, warehousi…
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Meredith Glaser @cyclingprofessor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING 📣 For several days, a peaceful protest took place in the morning, after a young child was killed by a car driver. The child was riding his bike to school, the father with him. The grieving community came together with hundreds of people, cyclist or not, creating a 3km long human bike lane.
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the3million @the3million.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“I can lose my job, I maybe don’t have the right even to rent the property that I’m living in now, because of course I have to prove my right to live here." This is the real impact of the Home Office's granted in error policy, and why we are challenging it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘We’ve done everything by the book’: EU citizens left in limbo after UK government strips post-Brexit residency status
Home Office faces legal action after 1,473 people living in UK before Brexit told settled status was granted in error
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Reece Dinsdale @reecedinsdale.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you could take a minute to read this and, if it takes your fancy, then re-post it… I’d be so grateful. 🙏🏻 I’m doing my utmost to #SaveSquareChapelArts for the good people of Halifax & far beyond, and I need all the help you lovely lot can give me. Thank you! x www.canncomms.co.uk/post/actor-a...
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Actor and long-standing Patron, Reece Dinsdale fronts new campaign to save Halifax’s Square Chapel Arts Centre
Photo credit: Reece Dinsdale in the cinema/studio space at Square Chapel (photo by Ant Robling)Reece Dinsdale leads Square Chapel rescue mission: “It’s time to bring it home”Award-Winning Actor, Write...
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Robert James @geographer52.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I was part of the team that was tasked with creating an UK version of TRACES European Commission's online platform for animal and plant health certification. The EU said no need to replace can continue to use, Gove insisted that we had our own system, IPAFFS.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
These enormously complex, badly rushed settlement proposals fell apart during consultation on many fronts yet remain v poorly understood - in media, in parliament, in government itself. There remains a big risk that the Burnham government gets the new policy wrong www.easterneye.biz/andy-burnham...
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Can Burnham find a new balance on immigration?
'Fair rules should protect more than just care workers'
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Liz Webster 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇬🇧🇪🇺 @lizwebster.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Should the U.K. rejoin the EU and reverse Brexit? Get voting! www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 25/09/2026
🚨 "Sir Richard said the vote in 2016 had been an “unprecedented act of economic and political self-harm”, and the British people should be given a “second chance” to decide whether to be in the EU."
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Richard Branson joins call from Tony Blair think tank for Britain to rejoin EU
The Virgin Group founder compared Brexit to ‘swapping an F1 car for a hatchback’.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 25/09/2026
📉 Every day we stay out of the EU our businesses lose money - that is fewer jobs and less money in our pockets...
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UK ‘losing up to £6.5bn a year in EU trade’ without post-Brexit product deal
IPPR finds failure to align testing standards costing 0.18% of national income and has seen companies abandon exporting
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Richard Corbett CBE @richardcorbett.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
UK and EU to work together on foreign aid. Coordination avoids duplication, cuts costs, and is more effective. We used to do it as an EU member. Good to see Britain starting to rejoin this, at least partially. www.politico.eu/article/uk-e...
politico.eu
UK and EU step up cooperation on international aid
Britain’s international development minister to attend EU summit for the first time since Brexit.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Between 2019 and 2025, export volumes slumped 31 per cent as Brexit added border checks and trade complexity, pushing up costs for businesses” … and threatening our food security. Why TF would *anyone* want this for our businesses and our country? giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
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Brexit and Donald Trump’s tariffs push UK’s food and drink trade deficit to £21bn
In the first half of 2026, the sector’s export volumes fell 11.7% to hit their third-lowest level on record
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Brian Wernham C.Eng. @brianwernham.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Food and drinks UK trade gap with EU widens by another 1.7% Trump's tarrifs cause a 16% fall in UK exports to USA www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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UK food and drink trade deficit largest since 2000 at £21bn
Industry leaders call on government to protect homegrown produce in the interest of national security
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Margy Mayell @margy15.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Britain's future relationship with Europe is being debated in Parliament on 12th October. I've just asked my MP to attend. Will you ask yours? www.europeanmovement.co.uk/contact-mp-a...
europeanmovement.co.uk
Ask your MP to stand up for our future in Europe
On 12 October, Parliament will debate the UK's future relationship with Europe, after a government petition got over 100,000 signatures. Will you write to your MP to ask them to attend the debate?
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David Rearlamp @rearlamp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Please don't make me download another parking app. Looks like I need to pay for parking in cryptocurrency.
A P blue parking sign next to a car with the word Shitcoins below in black on a white background.
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"I want my country back ..." ... back from the Reform UK domestic abusers pretending to care about protecting women & girls, back from the attackers of RNLI volunteers, back from the abusers of non-white NHS heroes, back from MPs paid to make the super-rich even richer meme via We Demand UK
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The Marsh Family @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In case anyone's interested in some of the mayhem that goes on behind the scenes, here's a bunch of out-takes / bloopers from our 2025 music and promo videos: youtu.be/OzNo6e5tl7U Sorry for occasional bad language, ugly behaviour, mess-ups, arguments, exploding the myth of competence, etc.
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Marsh Family Out-takes 2025: A Fifth Year of Fails
YouTube video by Marsh Family
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Rejoin Means Rejoin.
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
1/x In the 1840s, a lame American naval officer, grounded at a desk in Washington, cut weeks off the world's ocean voyages without inventing a single machine. His raw material: a warehouse of logbooks nobody had ever read. Matthew Fontaine Maury, Pathfinder of the Seas. A 🧵 #maritimehistory
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Sam Vimes @samvimes6.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The article doesn't go into why his residency application failed, but it does highlight the dangers of being an immigrant when hardline governments come to power. I would advise all people in his situation to obtain citizenship as soon as possible where you can.
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Chris Grey @chrisgrey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Good piece
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 20/09/2026
YouGov’s latest poll: 628 out of 632 constituencies in Britain want to rejoin the EU. It couldn’t be clearer: It’s time to talk about EU membership. Read more: bestforbritain.org/uk-membership-mo…
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David Rearlamp @rearlamp.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Boris Johnson, June 2016 post referendum column in The Telegraph "British people will still be able to go and work in the EU; to live; to travel; to study; to buy homes and to settle down." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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‘I have nothing in the UK at all’: British man torn from his Swedish wife and home
Charles lands at Heathrow with just two bags and nowhere to go as a result of Brexit and Stockholm’s hardline immigration position
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Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I was going to write a long poem about the revolting racism and aggression in England - but it turned out to be very short “Let the children drown Can’t you see they’re brown” Remember how many times Farage was on QT - remember ITV putting him I’m a Celebrity - every little helps the brutality
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Andrew R @excelpope.net · 20/09/2026
I was looking something up on Google Maps, and I think I might have found out why successive governments have been so bad at delivery.
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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If Totnes decided, in an unofficial referendum, to join the EU, I wonder how many pages of coverage the BBC would give to a cat that can play a banjo?
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
💥 On Oct 12th, Parliament will debate the UK JOINING THE EU! Use this page below to send an email to your MP. In the context of Canada-EU, 61% of the UK public for joining, and devolved leaders saying the future is the EU... ...Westminster needs to catch up. Sign and share everywhere please. 👇
europeanmovement.co.uk
Ask your MP to stand up for our future in Europe
On 12 October, Parliament will debate the UK's future relationship with Europe, after a government petition got over 100,000 signatures. Will you write to your MP to ask them to attend the debate?
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Mags L Halliday @magslhalliday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Every year on 19 December, the famous Christmas lights at Mousehole in Cornwall are dimmed between 8 and 9pm, leaving just the Cross and Angels shining down across the village and out to sea.
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Ralph Darvill @tringdriventhing.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Play badders, but not against Tilly...Tilly cheats and uses 2 rackets. Why do people post this shit to promote their club/ business? It makes you look stoopid.
Fuck AI to hell.
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Good plan, Australia and Canada. Huge sigh, UK. How long do we wait, how much do we lose, how stupid do we have to be?
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A personal story about that phrase “young men of fighting age” applied to asylum seekers. As many of you know I took in a young Ukrainian woman under the Homes for Ukraine scheme. As part of that process, soon after she arrived we were visited by the local authority rep and a Fire Brigade rep.
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Solidarity with this Piddington resident ♥️✊ #Newsnight
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Graham Simpson @grahambs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This could be the start of something big. A new international collaboration in support of democratic, liberal values. Congratulations @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu and @mark-carney.bsky.social Where is the UK? Please watch youtu.be/NJfoS9yO-QU?...
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BREAKING: Von der Leyen Hails Mark Carney, Proposes Historic EU Associate Role for Canada | AC1G
YouTube video by DRM News
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Angelique @ladydelancelevee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Btw Reform recently took this down from their website… think they may want to keep this one on the wraps in the U.K.
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Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The UK government is making upwards of £4.9bn in profit from visa fees, citizenship fees & the immigration health surcharge. Meanwhile, people are getting into thousands of pounds of debt or going without food just to afford to these immigration fees. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...
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Government makes £5bn a year from immigration fees while applicants…
Home Office’s fees are up to 10 times the processing cost – and rising every year
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