Coming over here, taking over our travel groups...

The US-China rivalry goes from supply chains to satellite networks to undersea cables. So each builds its own, which can mean…other countries have more choice? How market forces & non-aligned countries are trying to resist global economic fracture. Me: on.ft.com/3MyEuzZ

🚨🚨"Renegotiating the UK’s Brexit deal will take more than warm words". Meaty read from long-time #brexit chronicler Peter Foster who paints a fairly pessimistic but realistic assessment of Keir Starmer's reset with Brussels. Brief 🧵ft.com/content/260041…

The German Ambassador valiantly - and vainly - encouraging the Daily Mail to report facts. 'Honest Bob' Jenrick is, inevitably, already running with the lies.

📉 "Brexit may...have contributed to the levelling up of the UK by levelling down more relatively economically prosperous regions" 🚨 NEW: Eleonora Alabrese, Jacob Edenhofer 🇺🇦, Thiemo Fetzer 🇪🇺🇺🇦 - same handle elsewhere, & Shizhuo Wang outline their research on the local economic impacts of Brexit. ukandeu.ac.uk/levelling-up-b…

New blog post: 'Legal Lessons Learned from the Pandemic' by Niels Kirst, a REGROUP blog post on the Best Practices and Key Takeaways for Liberal-Constitutional Democracies after the #Covid19 Pandemic. Read it here: bit.ly/4cUQiY7

Darllenwch y cwbl. Dyma pam fydd llywodraeth Starmer yn methu’r un ffordd â Sunak. Gwastraffu amser ar fanion pan allen nhw fod yn gwneud rhywbeth mawr i wella economi’r DU.

Jacob Öberg Financial Times Rachel Reeves Labour suffers from the same affliction as the Tories: thinking the UK is a world power like US or China, when today it is but a middle European power like France or Italy. It refuses thus to accept: a) an ordinary EU relationship and b) that the UK needs this.

This is a great thread

Jacob Öberg Peter Foster ..I see two possible reasons: 1) Labour had simply no idea that these requirements were difficult. This would mean that they are not competent. However, its not too strange: since Brexit, UK is simply not paying attention to what EU is saying... (2/x)

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Stuart Budd this is also a very good thread x.com/Jacob_oberg_EU…

A very good thread. Worth reading. This is a realistic and objective view of the situation of #Brexit

Another clear-eyed 🧵 by Jacob Öberg on the neverending #Brexit story, with lots of interesting insights &observations on hard-Brexit hard facts that pro-Lab Remainers in particular should be aware of & come to terms with once and for all, as self-delusion is not a strategy.

Jacob Öberg Peter Foster UK should pay more attention to this from Peter Foster’s first article this week reporting the EU is not fooled by the UK trying to use security and defence discussions to open up Brexit issues and if UK keeps doing that it will annoy the EU and only make progress more difficult.

Suggests that Starmer is as woolly and cakeist as the Tories. In the interests of improving British growth prospects, Labour are going to start taking a few political risks on the Brexit front

Again I don't understand why this simple fact was not more obvious to the UK politicians & MSM? English exceptionalism is a malaise that runs very deep. If you want the benefits of the EU, single market, a customs union, common travel area..do what every other fucker has to do !!

Sarah Ludford 🇬🇧 🇮🇪🇪🇺 🇺🇦 Jacob Öberg Sarah Ludford 🇬🇧 🇮🇪🇪🇺 🇺🇦 Hola, the unroll you asked for: threadreaderapp.com/thread/1831960… Enjoy :) 🤖

Seems to be quite clear that Keir Starmer stance won't help UK growth, because he's pandering to the racists & xenophobes with his red lines rather than being honest with the public about benefits of FoM & membership of SM. (He could quote 2016 Hannan, Johnson etc as proponents)

Jacob Öberg Peter Foster I don't think there will be any "renegotiating the UK's Brexit deal" given Labour's red lines. The TCA remains, some fine tuning and a few minor 'deals' in addition to the TCA. Hardly making a huge (economic) difference. Thanks for the thread Jacob!