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Rejoining the EU would be unprecedented, but don’t let that stop you telling us how long the wait will be. Have you got a Secret Calendar in your, err, head that no one else can see? Share your informed take and I’ll stick it here!

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Secret Calendar @secretcalendar.bsky.social · 9h
If the plan is to attract Remainy voters Thursday-Sunday but pacify the Brexity wing of the PLP Monday-Wednesday I don’t think it’s without risk.
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Secret Calendar @secretcalendar.bsky.social · 12h
Just because your hero Sir Keir Starmer is now a political corpse doesn’t mean you should stop inventing reasons why it’s impossible for us to rejoin the EU. Glad so many realise this. 😊
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Secret Calendar @secretcalendar.bsky.social · 15h
A big problem these days is people thinking they know what they want and then getting it.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 11/10/2026
The idea that rejoining the EU would take the UK a decade is a myth. Finland went from application to full membership in less time than it took us to negotiate and sign a trade deal with India. bestforbritain.org/uk-rejoin-eu-sin…
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UK could rejoin EU within a single Parliament, experts confirm - Best for Britain
The UK could rejoin the European Union (EU) within a single Parliament, and complete negotiations in less time than it t
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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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Secret Calendar @secretcalendar.bsky.social · 18h
Free game of dot-to-dot on the BBC website this morning:
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38 Degrees @38degrees.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Ministers are turning on foreign spy-tech giant, Palantir, but our personal healthcare data is still held by them!
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
So, finally, a PM who admits there **was** Russian interference in the Brexit Referendum — after all the evidence amassed by myself @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @lukeharding1968.bsky.social Sergei Cristo, J Patrick et al — dismissed as conspiracy for ten long years Truth is the daughter of Time
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Gavril Ducu 🇷🇴 🇩🇪 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @ducugavril.nafoforum.org · 10/10/2026
And here it is, if any of y'all had any doubts of what's what. I am sad for America.
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It's really time that all the other sympathetic countries [obvs including the UK] stand up properly to the US and isolate it. Flattering him and humouring him isn't working, and it's preventing all the electorates from realising what is at stake and what it will cost to face up to the challenge.
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Secret Calendar @secretcalendar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Something to consider as we ponder whether our billionaires are likely to be more or less wealthy in a few years and whether they’ll be more or less megalomaniacal as a result.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This is completely outrageous and disgusting. This must immediately be blocked by Congress and Trump should be impeached for this. The US is now funding Putin’s war machine as he murders civilians including children. We are lost as a country.
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Palantir is owned by fascists with strong links to a geopolitical adversary - the US - that is funding far right activity in the UK. It already has dangerous leverage over critical UK state functions. Tom Watson is a piece of shit who has ruined what reputation he had.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 09/10/2026
Remember when Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale called for public executions? www.thenerdreich.com/joe-lonsdale...
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Joe Lonsdale Calls For Public Hangings
Silicon Valley radicalization escalates
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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
This prompted me to go back and check the claim that "On current DWP forecasts, from the 2024 election until 2030, Labour will have increased working-age benefit spending by a further £51.6 bn/year." It appears to be equally fictional/spreadsheet error. Correct figure is maybe £36bn..
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Secret Calendar @secretcalendar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
People like Tomlinson seem to love pretending they have a big rule book of this stuff somewhere.
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Secret Calendar @secretcalendar.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
tHeY jUST dON’t WaNt uS baCK! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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'Come all the way' back to EU, French finance minister tells Britain
Roland Lescure tells the BBC that being in the bloc enables members to better address the challenges facing the world.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Burkes Road in Beaconsfield just let out a collective whoop.
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Brexiter Andrew Griffith complains that the civil service has expanded since 2016. I wonder what contributed to that.
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Secret Calendar @secretcalendar.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#landoftheblind update:
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Secret Calendar @secretcalendar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Don’t these people have a dictionary? Who do they think the other state would be in a two-state solution?
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Global Justice Now @globaljusticenow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Palantir’s HQ this evening. Momentum is building to break the NHS contract. And we won’t stop there.
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Secret Calendar @secretcalendar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A ‘never’ is always good fun. #secretcalendar
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 30/09/2026
“That, to me, was an implicit threat. It feels very Palantir. Very Big Brother”: MP @labourlewis.bsky.social reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir By @carolecadwalla.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/clive-lewi...
‘We’re watching you’: MP Clive Lewis reveals Tom Watson has warned him over criticising Palantir. (l-r): Clive Lewis, Tom Watson and the Palantir logo, against a pink background
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Secret Calendar @secretcalendar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Anyone remember #draintheswamp?
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Secret Calendar @secretcalendar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Time from EU accession to Schengen adoption (excl EU-12 other than UK😬 & Ireland, who have an exception): 2y11m Aut 3y8m Cze, Est, Hun, Lat, Lith, Mal, Pol, Slovk, Slovn 6y3m Fin, Swe 9y6m Cro 17y3m Rom, Bul 22y5m (& counting) Cyp
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Secret Calendar @secretcalendar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Time from EU accession to Euro adoption (excl EU-12 other than UK😬 & Denmark, who have an exception): 2y8m Slovn 3y8m Mal, Cyp 4y Aut, Fin 4y8m Slovk 6y8m Est 9y6m Cro 9y8m Lat 10y8m Lith 19y Bul 19y9m (& counting) Rom 22y5m (& counting) Pol, Cze, Hun 31y9m (& counting) Swe
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Secret Calendar @secretcalendar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We seem to regularly see immensely wealthy people weedle their way into our institutions, cause havoc and then dare us to endure the consequences of kicking them out. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Andy Burnham 'really concerned' if Man City owners sell up after rule breaches
The prime minister compares the allegations against Man City to the plight of his own club Everton.
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Secret Calendar @secretcalendar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The 1st part makes sense & maybe (just maybe) the 2nd is also right? And potential for an economic benefit from the markets this side of the election once he picks one. Would be quite something if after 10 years of Brexit triangulation from Labour leaders he outflanks the other ‘Remain’ parties.
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Dr Stylite @columnist.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One for all those strange people who think this is a rare view.
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Secret Calendar @secretcalendar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Interesting flexibility from the EU, eh? www.politico.eu/article/ursu...
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EU to offer single-market access to candidate countries
Economic benefits would be conditional and can be taken away if non-members backslide on democracy or share sensitive tech with unfriendly governments, the plan says.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/09/2026
This is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.”
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Secret Calendar @secretcalendar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Going from “Absolutely not” to “Have a guess” I think counts as progress? www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c6...
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Move to rejoin EU among options for UK, Burnham tells BBC
The PM was speaking after using his conference speech to say the government will end the existing triple lock on pensions from 2030 to help fund social care reforms in England.
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Secret Calendar @secretcalendar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And far better than playing dumb through the election and then coming up with a Winter Fuel Payments surprise for the pensioners six months afterwards.
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Secret Calendar @secretcalendar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I see the “Norwegian referendums on EU membership” Wikipedia page has been taken down again. Foreign actors, maybe?
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Secret Calendar @secretcalendar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Union Learning Fund restoration is very Starmerist: good in itself, gives Paul Mason and JD Bance something to post about but it’s £15m a year- *one* large NHS trust would get through that in about a week.
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Secret Calendar @secretcalendar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I *suppose* the guy whose military antics caused the price of diesel to rocket is a foreign actor? (At least to us.) www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Rubio says foreign actor was ‘clearly’ behind suspected RAF Fairford bomb plot
The US secretary of state offered no evidence for his claims, and also said many people were ‘disturbed’ that the five suspects had been released on bail
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Secret Calendar @secretcalendar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Iranian secret service is noted for being the only one worldwide that takes their highly and expensively trained secret agents and lets them take their chances in small craft on major shipping lanes.
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Secret Calendar @secretcalendar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There was a moment in the Spring (Sarwar calling for a new PM?) when B4B swung from “this is how we keep the lights on despite Keir Starmer’s very well thought-out red lines” to “stop the insanity!” Has yielded nothing yet but who knows?
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'Which taxes do you want to raise instead?' should be the default question to anyone who calls for reductions in immigration.
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good thing that this couldn’t have been predicted almost a year ago <runs bitter victory lap> and the government didn’t just blithely carry on doing the same thing. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/718...
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Secret Calendar @secretcalendar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trying to work out if this guy’s barber is good, bad, evil or something else.
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Secret Calendar @secretcalendar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
These guys had two years and were booted out because they were gifting the country to Farage. Imagine taking advice from them now! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Andy Burnham not doing enough to boost growth, says former business secretary
Ex-Business Secretary Peter Kyle calls for more urgency on the economy, as Labour members head to the party's annual conference.
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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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Secret Calendar @secretcalendar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Lots of things these days remind me of the last five minutes of Bridge on the River Kwai. How do people ending up doing stuff like this?
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Secret Calendar @secretcalendar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Millionaires used to argue that they needed tax cuts so it was still worth them generating jobs for the rest of us. Trillionaires realise that their use of this tool would be smelt a mile off, so they have to pursue their tax cuts by alternative means.
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Secret Calendar @secretcalendar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Very, very bad.
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Secret Calendar @secretcalendar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Will be interesting to see if anyone at all who has associated with this pair of nutjobs doesn’t get a free pass from the media.
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Secret Calendar @secretcalendar.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
They were going to lose the referendum so they started banging on about immigation. Once they won there was no plan to get the toothpaste back in the tube.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As former Labour minister Tom Watson joins Palantir, please read this devastating exposé by @petergeoghegan.bsky.social & @lucasamin.bsky.social of how the company, with Peter Mandelson's help, wormed its way into the UK government to sell its dire & dangerous products. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Peter Geoghegan and Lucas Amin · ‘This looks absolutely rubbish’: Palantir and the NHS
A decade ago Palantir was largely unknown in the UK. It now holds public contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds...
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