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'I haven't seen any evidence that Brexit has had a negative impact on the economy,' Conservative MP Tom Hunt tells the BBC.

The Government's own spending watchdog puts the hit to economic productivity at 4% with a long term hit on trade of 15%

bylinetimes.com/2024/05/20/bre…

Hamas and Israeli leaders may face international arrest warrants. Here’s what that means | CNN cnn.com/2024/05/20/mid…

Britain’s decline under the Tories weak leadership, poor economic management and Brexit have dragged the country out of the top 10 countries in a global index on good government. independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

'Privatisation' as practiced in the UK is essentially naked theft of public assets.

The fact that this grand larceny has been going with increasing intensity for upwards of 40 years and politicians are STILL arguing that it is a reasonable way to run things is insane.

Taking back control… “ New EU checks could spell end of ‘turn up and go’ Eurostar travel” thetimes.co.uk/article/new-eu…

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has applied for arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Hamas's leader in Gaza for war crimes. bbc.com/news/articles/…

Weaker than weak regulator “starting the process for consideration of a statutory sanction” news.sky.com/story/gb-news-…

A key promise of Brexit was to ‘take back control’ of our border. Yet more than three years after the end of the transition period, full import controls are still not in place and post-Brexit border checks will cost UK businesses £470m a year. theguardian.com/politics/artic…

Michael Carlson Brexitshambles I thought that Brexit was supposed to make us like Singapore. The population density in Singapore is 8592 per Km2. In the UK it is 279 per Km2.

Appalling child poverty, record number of distributed food bank parcels, the unabated pumping of raw sewage into waterways, seas and lakes, and the decrepit state of our justice and prison systems….

Just another week in #ToryBritain 🧵 ⬇️

FACT: Someone tell Jim Ratliffe 'tiny' Britain is the eighth biggest island in the world, seventh if you don't count Greenland.

And there you have it again, proof positive that money does not discriminate against the ignorant.

2015: Jim Ratcliffe, 'I don't like doing things if we have not been really rigorous in our analysis.. I don't like people winging it'

2024: Jim Ratcliffe, 'Well Brexit sort of unfortunately didn't umm, it didn't turn out as people anticipated'

In fourteen years of total chaos, destruction and corruption, probably the only decent thing they did for the country… thetimes.co.uk/article/nadhim…

There’s a term for someone who blames people born outside of their country for the woes caused by their own abominable government and its disastrous 14 year tenure.

“Booming” 😂 what a tit.

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Brexitshambles Everything there rightwing wing nuts lament is a result of their rightwing politics.

Brexitshambles Imagine if all the government spending that triple the national debt went for housing, transportation, new hospitals, new schools, etc. The UK economy would be humming. Instead it went to foreign investors and offshore accounts. What?