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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU

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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 15h
Poll 4-6th Oct: The pro-Brexit parties fall further behind. Since Burnham's announcement, a five point and seven point gap puts clear blue water between high-flying Labour under Burnham... ...and the 2nd and 3rd placed pro-Brexit 'status quo' parties offering more of the same. #UKPol #RejoinEU
independent.co.uk
UK poll tracker: Labour lead over Reform widens
One poll has put Labour five points clear after Burnham’s conference speech
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 16h
A seventh man, a 22yo Brit, has been arrested in relation to RAF Fairford. (Turns out, the potential for an Iranian drone attack led to the exit of U.S. bombers from RAF Fairford according to the New York Times) #UKPol
theguardian.com
British man arrested over suspected RAF Fairford terrorism plot
Counter-terrorism policing says 22-year-old detained in London on suspicion of terrorism offences
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 18h
Britain's abusive arresting of peaceful protestors as fake terrorists continues under Burnham. Only America, under a white supremacist, of ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY FIVE countries, have declared Palestine Action a terrorist organisation. And Britain. Ya think we might be wrong? State tyranny. #UKPol
ibtimes.co.uk
94-Year-Old Human Rights Barrister Arrested for Holding Handwritten Anti-Genocide Sign While on Wheelchair
Margaret Owen, a 94-year-old human rights barrister, was arrested at a Liverpool protest challenging the proscription of Palestine Action, as police detained dozens under terrorism legislation.
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 18h
Second part of a good article on obstacles to rejoining the EU. No one knows for sure, of course. As no one has asked the EU yet. But while the EU is the final arbiter of club applications, the EU is a pragmatic organisation above all else. #UKPol #ReformEU
labourlist.org
'Imaginary and real obstacles to Britain resuming its membership of the EU' - LabourList
Former EPLP leader Richard Corbett looks at the myths and real objects that arise in any conversation about rejoining the EU.
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 19h
Frictionless Trade Which the UK played a big part in designing, is the policy of all possible policies out there that would uplift this country the most. Not even a close call. Last ministers to acknowledge that? Labour 2018 (Starmer) Tory 2019 (T. May) Our politicians *still* not honest with us.
eastangliabylines.co.uk
Britain still hasn’t learnt what being outside the EU means
Closer ties with Europe require Britain to abandon exceptionalism and understand what being outside the EU means
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Badenoch, last surviving leader of the Brexit party, was in London today, campaigning. According to the Independent, she was asked "if Brexit had been good for London?". She refused to answer. The journalist tried again. She refused to answer again. I wonder why?... #UKPol #RejoinEU
standard.co.uk
Closer ties with the EU cannot come soon enough for businesses all over London
Across London, businesses are breathing a collective sigh of relief at the prospect of closer ties with the EU, writes Chris Blackhurst
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Life in the EU? We have 47 years proof. - Just better. Less sewage in rivers to cheaper energy. Faster travel to lower taxes. More investment to more control etc. I find those against rejoining have one thing in common, they have airbrushed those 47 prosperous years out of their memory #RejoinEU
bylinetimes.com
'Why Andy Burnham Will Ultimately Back Rejoining the EU'
The logic of the Prime Minister's argument that Brexit has done more harm than good only points in one direction, argues Simon Nixon
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Since the end of WWII" Russia has sent invasions into Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Georgia, and Ukraine twice. Proper wars. Europe has never invaded Russia. A mad-dog Russia has now threatened Armenia, warning it could become a "new Ukraine" in the wake of Yerevan pursuing a relationship with the EU
uawire.org
Medvedev threatens Armenia over closer ties with European Union
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has threatened Armenia, warning it could become a "new Ukraine" in the wake of Yerevan's shift in foreign policy. In an interview with Iranian st...
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
No. Not our Green party. This is the EU Greens. Welcoming us closer. - There's literally no reason or need for us to be poorer than we should be. It tantalisingly awaits, our 47 years in the EU prosperity, almost within reach... #UKPol #RejoinEU
eureporter.co
Greens welcome 'new momentum' for UK re-joining the EU
The European Greens has welcomed what they call the “new momentum” for Britain to rejoin the EU. This comes amid media reports that UK PM Andy Burnham has said it is
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Should be working together anyway. If Britain attempted to put meaningful tariffs on Chinese cars "alone" = squashed. That stole our governments options. United front, twenty-seven other nations on our side, it becomes doable. "Made in Europe" benefits are the icing on the cake. #UKPol #RejoinEU
mirror.co.uk
Chinese electric cars could face 'end of easy ride' as UK 'reviews' tariffs
One in four new cars bought in Britain are made by Chinese brands - but tariffs could soon be brought in under a deal that would secure UK access to the EU market
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
With the self-serving RW newspapers profiteering agenda faltering.. Some good stats for our car industry. UK EV share is 8% higher than EU. In May, UK EV sales overtook petrol sales (yr on yr). EU EV sales are 8% higher than the UK in mid-2026. The two are converging in more ways than one😀 #UKPol
reuters.com
European EV sales hit record in 'pivotal' year for affordable cars, study shows
Europe's uptake of electric vehicles is gaining momentum, with record sales so far this year driven ​by a slew of affordable models coming onto ‌the market to bring carmakers in line with EU targets, ...
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The EU does Trump a favour. Hope they extracted a good price for it.
reuters.com
Oil settles lower after Europe agrees to tap diesel reserves
Crude futures finished down after European leaders agreed to US President Donald ​Trump's request to release diesel reserves to lower prices and reduce fuel imports from the US.
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
"Europe is monitoring “very closely” a suspected case of pneumonic plague in eastern Russia, following the death of a lab worker, a European Commission spokesperson said Monday" EU is Europe now, according to Reuters. More and more, Brexitland is being airbrushed out. Irrelevant. By the world 🙁
politico.eu
Suspected plague in Russia puts EU on alert
“We are aware of the reports concerning the laboratory incident in Russia, seemingly involving a pathogen-causing plague,” says European Commission spokesperson.
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
We wouldn't be having this revisit if the 'status quo' was truly acceptable. The 'status quo' only benefits the 0.01% ultra-rich. Like the overseas, offshore tax haven using owners of our RW Press and Tory\Reform donors. The rest of us get nothing, except permanent decline. #UKPol #RejoinEU
labourlist.org
'Britain and the EU – what are the options?' - LabourList
Foemer EPLP leader Richard Corbett sets out the options for our future relationship with the EU and how they would impact growth.
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Usually, if forced, Yanks redeploy to a new location in the same theatre, not abruptly pull back to America. And Trump has, according to our services, been lying (claiming joint investigation, big damage etc.) I suspect we're getting a slap on the wrist for not beheading them immediately.
news.sky.com
US removes all Air Force bombers from RAF Fairford after suspected terror plot
The Gloucestershire air base was the target of a suspected terror attack on 27 September.
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Tories took away 'Sure Start' centres (inc' much childcare) for poorer families. Now they want to give childcare cash to the over £100,000 earners? This punches down on 96% of earners (P.S. supporting Brexit makes 99.9% poorer) Shovelling OUR tax money to the ultra-rich any way they can. #UKPol
bbc.co.uk
Badenoch unveils plan to end £100,000 childcare 'cliff edge' ahead of Tory conference
The Conservative leader tells the BBC the earnings threshold for government support stops people "working harder".
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Stat of the week. Reform have lost six out of six by-elections. Including three to Labour. #UKPol
thelondoneconomic.com
It's happened again! Reform lose key local by-elections as Restore split the vote
Reform are being undermined from the threat on the RIGHT, as Restore voters spoiled their victory charge in two elections this week.
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Near miss for German leader Merz as Putin bombs a bridge in Kyiv.
theguardian.com
Russia strikes Kyiv bridge as German chancellor visits Ukraine in show of support
Attack shortly after Friedrich Merz arrived on unannounced visit intended to underline Germany’s backing
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Nothing illustrates better the harrowing intention to attack virtually everyone in this country. --> An actual desire to make them poorer, their lives worse. ...than *still* supporting a Brexit that only benefits the 0.01%, the genuinely ultra-wealthy. #UKPol #RejoinEU
independent.co.uk
Why Brexit could end up being Kemi Badenoch’s arrow in the eye
As the Tories arrive in Birmingham for their annual conference still languishing in the polls, political editor David Maddox looks at how the party’s publicity team’s version of the Bayeux Tapestry is...
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A problem entirely of our own making. The problem a direct result of Brexit. And being a middle-power who rejected cooperate with others, now stuck friendless, isolated. Getting scorched by both frying pan and the fire. Thanks Brexiters. #UKPol #RejoinEU
theguardian.com
UK car industry faces ‘difficult trade-off’ between Chinese and EU markets
Britain under pressure to put tariffs on cheap Chinese vehicle imports ahead of protectionist trade measures
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The attack on jury trials by "coattail rider" former Justice Secretary David Lammy has been scrapped. I rate this as righting a wrong. If Burnham makes some real attempt to right the horrific inequality in this country as well? Could be on the way to best Prime Minister ever. #UKPol
bbc.co.uk
Burnham scraps controversial plans to curb jury trials
The key policy idea announced by David Lammy when he was justice secretary will no longer go ahead.
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A plaintive cry dies on the wind: "Shoulda, woulda, coulda, Starmer" What a difference one speech delivered from the heart makes. Suddenly the future is bright. The future doesn't have to be Brexit decline. #UKPol #RejoinEU
independent.co.uk
Labour back on top in polls after Burnham’s Brexit pledge
The survey, carried out in the days after the prime minister’s conference speech, suggested Andy Burnham’s announcements on Brexit, social care and pensions were popular among voters
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don't think I have ever wanted Russia to roll over and die as much as I do now. Ukraine bombs oil terminals and fuel dumps. Russia bombs civilians and apartment blocks. Now over 200 war crimes and counting. www.rapporteur.com/news/russia-...
rapporteur.com
Russia warns diplomats, foreigners to leave Kyiv over strike threat | Rapporteur
Mayor Vitali Klitschko says Russia is ‘tearing Kyiv apart'
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Only Badenoch and Lowe telling us Brexit has worked. And "we're all better off now". (Good lord!) ---> In case you're wondering Farage did say "Brexit has failed" (his exact words). Just two leaders who want to feed the wealthy tax crooks at YOUR and MY expense left now. #UKPol #RejoinEU
nation.cymru
UK must rejoin EU for jobs and the economy - Liz Saville Roberts
Mark Mansfield The UK must rejoin the European Union to protect jobs and improve Wales’ economic prospects, Liz Saville Roberts will tell Plaid Cymru’s annual conference in Llandudno on Saturday. The ...
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A majority for rejoining the EU. A few shameless liars in the press making almost all the noise. A decade later, but not a decade wiser. Given the last decade of decline happened in large part because of the lies they wrote in 2016, it's quite grotesque bad faith foreign owners get away with it.
independent.co.uk
Boost for Burnham as poll shows half of UK supports rejoining EU
The prime minister said Brexit has done ‘more harm than good’ and promised to set out the options to the country around the time of a UK-EU summit
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
2016: Scotland voted for Remain. Scotland still supporting Remain today is not significant. ---> Five years of Brexit disaster shows they called it right, why would they change that choice? 2016: Wales voted to Leave. Wales supporting Rejoin today *is* significant. #UKPol #RejoinEU
bbc.co.uk
Andy Burnham should back EU membership now, says Plaid MPs' leader
Liz Saville Roberts says prime minister should not wait for general election to show "leadership" on EU.
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
As Brexit threatens our culture and weakens our sovereignty, financial black holes are being found up and down the country, not just in the exchequer. Prompting calls up and down the country for Rejoin. The call precedes a Scottish Parliamentary debate regarding EU relations scheduled for Tues.
deadlinenews.co.uk
Scottish First Minister urges UK Government to rejoin the EU amid £3.3bn revenue loss
Scotland's First Minister has called on the UK Government to work towards rejoining the European Union as swiftly as possible.
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
New poll: Survey conducted on 2 October 2026 on 5367 GB adults. Majority of Brits see us "Rejoining" the EU within a decade. In truth, that is pushing it, since it is a long process. But "Applying" to rejoin, taking that first step, is very doable. Next week even! 😃 #UKPol #RejoinEU
yougov.com
How likely or unlikely do you think it is that the UK will rejoin the EU within the next 10 years? | Daily Question
How likely or unlikely do you think it is that the UK will rejoin the EU within the next 10 years?
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Will we be forced to join the Euro? Being part of the worlds 'second currency' would make us considerably better off. That said, it is a 'life improvement to far' for many in the UK. In truth, nobody knows, and there has been no official public EU clarification. We have to ask. #UKPol #RejoinEU
theguardian.com
Half of UK wants to rejoin EU and backing it could drive up Labour vote, megapoll finds
Exclusive: Findings will bolster those in No 10 who want to negotiate on re-entry but some senior figures remain wary
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
'Moving closer' has been the public face, but behind the scenes there has been divergence from EU alignment in our finance and banking sectors. Not only will it cause more chaos if we Rejoin, more likely with every passing day of Brexit decline. That duplicity hardly speaks of stability. #UKPol
theguardian.com
UK urged to act as Polymarket takes bets on whether HSBC and Lloyds will fail
Revelation comes amid mounting concern over online prediction market’s effects on integrity of financial system
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Whether, as some claim, Starmer did allow British bases to be used for offensive acts of war against Iran? Or his doing "Israels work" in the partisan decision to arrest peaceful protestors as "terrorists" because Islamophobic knobhead? It does seem to have put an X over the British Isles. #UKPol
news.sky.com
Two Iranian men charged over suspected terror plot targeting Jewish people in Manchester ahead of Yom Kippur
Salam Ahmadyan and Rahman Salehi were arrested by counter terror police, accused of trying to get components for a homemade bomb and a manual on how to make an explosive device out of chlorine and bra...
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hasn't this farce gone on long enough? ~183 countries in the world. Only USA & UK have declared Palestine Action a terrorist organisation. Blatantly prejudicial. Compounded by political arrest of little old ladies & vicars. ~3600 peaceful protesters as "terrorists"? That's real abuse. #UKPol
theguardian.com
Palestine Action crowdfunder for UK supreme court challenge blocked due to US sanctions
Exclusive: CrowdJustice platform says US firm Stripe, its payment processor, ‘cannot support accounts or transactions’ linked to group
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
France and Spain yesterday. Today open arms from Germany. #UKpol #RejoinEU #FirstTimeInADecadeThereIsHopeForTheUK
independent.co.uk
Germany backs UK to rejoin EU as Burnham moves closer to bloc
The leaders of France and Spain have also backed Britain returning to the European Union
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Non-stop decline, five consecutive years of record higher taxes and governments of both colours scrambling to cover financial black holes. "Take back control" - Fantasy "We hold all the cards" - Fantasy "Better Lives" - Fantasy "Total fiction" is the nice way of putting it. #UKPol #RejoinEU
mylondon.news
Khan declares Brexit a ‘total fiction’ and says Labour must fight to rejoin EU
Sadiq Khan says ‘rejoining is the only viable path’ to Britain’s prosperity and security
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As diesel hits record high prices across the whole of Europe, Russia bans outside sales of its diesel, and the BBC reports America "thinking about it very seriously". The grown-ups in the room get on with working together with our European allies for the benefit of all. #UKPol #RejoinEU
bbc.co.uk
UK in talks with EU partners to release strategic fuel reserves if needed, BBC understands
President Donald Trump has threatened to ban diesel exports in a bid to ease prices in the US.
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
So.... Five attempt *something* at RAF Fairford. No explosives, some petrol. But one of them, a plucky Brit, called it in. Meanwhile, a sixth, an Iranian-UK dual national "mastermind" is behind it all? Sounds like a tangled web, good job by the police to track that lot backwards.
bbc.co.uk
Dual UK-Iranian national arrested over RAF Fairford incident
The 27-year-old man was arrested in Westminster, London, marking the sixth arrest in connection with Sunday's incident near the airbase.
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The papers are fixating a little on the Labour ministers who are in Leave seats. Reynolds, Nandy, Mahmood. They wish us to stay locked in permanent Brexit decline. Because nobody can genuinely believe staying in Brexit is for the best. That's insane, now, after five years of it. #UKPol #RejoinEU
leftfootforward.org
Majority of the British public backs rejoining the EU, YouGov finds
Support for rejoining the EU is strong among the British public
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The article brings up opposition leaders. It was noticeable after Burnham's speech, that Reform focussed on the triple lock scrapping and Tories on their latest Youth Slavery scheme rather than Brexit. They know supporting Brexit is a vote loser now. It's done too much damage. #UKPol #RejoinEU
irishexaminer.com
Officials at No 10 Downing Street gathering evidence on public support for UK rejoining EU
Senior Downing Street officials reach out to thinktanks and pollsters as they look to test backing for reversing Brexit
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Unfortunately the Tories and RW Press obsession with 'small state\syphon savings to the rich' meant there was literally only net 500 new prison places created in fourteen years. That is the catalyst for this scheme. Fixing this requires mountains of revenue. Rejoining the EU would help with that.
bbc.co.uk
Hundreds of criminals leave prison under early release scheme
Around 4,500 inmates are expected to be released early by June 2027 under a scheme designed to stop prisons becoming full.
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Rejoin the EU, we get "zero in, all out" available to us. For free. The 'Three Month Rule' (TMR) is part of Freedom of Movement. Pre-Brexit, Tories barely used the Dublin Regulations treaty or TMR. Which meant they DELIBERATELY allowed the numbers to skyrocket before Brexit. #UKPol #RejoinEU
bbc.co.uk
UK-France 'one in, one out' migrant scheme scrapped
Some 1,500 people have been removed to France since the scheme began just over a year ago.
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
They ended up torturing her. America is so different from the EU: 1) Death penalty (1 in 25 murdered by the USA state are innocent) 2) No National Health Service (bankrupts, 50% more avoidable deaths). 3) Guns common on the street (Americans 600% times more likely to be a victim of a massacre)
nbcnews.com
‘It was a mess’: Tennessee fails to execute inmate after 2 lethal injections
Attorneys for Christa Pike said she was being treated at a hospital but her condition is unknown. Journalists who witnessed her attempted execution described snoring, kicking and complaints from Pike ...
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Open arms it is. It's true, the EU has no say over any member nation's wealth distribution. The inequality in Britain is ALL the Tories crime. But now we *know* it's a Tory crime. Trickle Down, Austerity and Brexit. But it will help a lot to have frictionless trade back. #UKPol #RejoinEU
huffingtonpost.co.uk
France And Spain Welcome Burnham Proposal For UK To Rejoin EU
Emmanuel Macron said: “Come back!”
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Not wrong, is he? The very worst of our country wanted Brexit. And that's *NOT* a comment on voters, who were lied to on an industrial scale by the RW Press and Brexiter politicians, even the BBC and FullFact lied. The crooks know who they are. Most scuttled off at the first signs of disaster.
thelondoneconomic.com
Macron slams Brexit as the 'biggest lie of the last 30 years'
French president Emmanuel Macron has labelled Brexit the "biggest lie of the last 30 years."
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Slugger o'Toole comes out for Rejoin. "Brexit has been an unmitigated disaster for the UK" #UKPol #RejoinEU
sluggerotoole.com
Andy Burnham says the UK could ‘go all the way’ and rejoin the EU…
From the Guardian: Andy Burnham has opened the door to the UK rejoining the EU, saying Britain could “go all the way”, as he prepares to reconsider Labour’s post-Brexit red lines. The prime minister u...
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
WOW! WOW! WOW! I'm sure the timing is only coincidence, but just WOW!. During the Transition Period, when we were still actually still a member, the EU offered us single market membership as an option. Tossers and traitors turned it down. Once we left, not an option. But... #UKPol #RejoinEU
politico.eu
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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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I wasn't searching for polls, but I happened to stumble across two: This one in the MIrror. Currently 70% for Rejoin. And one in the Manchester Evening News. Currently 71% for Rejoin. Burnham has only delivered words so far, but the upwelling of hope. Impressive! #UKPol #RejoinEU.
mirror.co.uk
Mirror readers debate whether UK should rejoin the EU after Andy Burnham hint
Andy Burnham has hinted he could 'go all the way' and propose rejoining the EU after saying Brexit was a disaster that did 'more harm than good'
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Gor blimey! Mrs. Jones! A sudden bout of common sense breaks out! Suddenly, after a decade of Brexit bleak, hope is back. All things being equal, dropping trade barriers and the return of Frictionless Trade is *the* single most rewarding thing this country could do. Period. #UKPol #RejoinEU
huffingtonpost.co.uk
Britain Could Rejoin European Union On My Watch, Says Andy Burnham
The prime minister said reversing Brexit completely is “an option” as he seeks closer ties with the bloc.
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Increasing weakness since Brexit, and American backstabbing is undoubtedly behind the rebirth in pressure on issues like Chagos, the Falklands. In the Falklands War, contrary to the 2016 lies of Brexiters, we got a lot of help from the EU: U.N. support. Missile blueprints. Intelligence etc. #UKPol
news.sky.com
Argentina threatens UK with legal action over Falklands oil exploration
President Javier Milei sets a two-week deadline for drilling to stop on the Sea Lion project, a joint venture between Israeli and British companies.
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Times of Israel reports some addition information they say comes from passengers. One pilot tried to crash the plane. He was restrained by the other pilot and passengers.
bbc.co.uk
Israel-bound flight diverted after fight between pilots
Despite a brief emergency alert signalling a hijacking, the Israeli prime minister's office confirmed this had been ruled out.
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Steve Hughes 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 - Remember better? #RejoinEU @steven-hughes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
When the triple lock was created, Britain's state pension was 2nd from bottom of 38 OECD advanced nations. Fifteen years later, it's 3rd from bottom. Hardly a huge uplift. What's changed is the other end of the equation. We are poorer. Much poorer. Due to Covid, War, but mostly, sodding Brexit.
theguardian.com
Will pensioners be poorer as a result of Burnham scrapping the triple lock?
Original triple lock was designed to lift pensioners out of poverty but OBR says it contributes to unsustainability of public finances
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