bitterncynical 🇺🇦

No shit🤔💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯

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.”

An actual cartoon from Dutch cartoonist Siegfried Woldhek.

Joe Walsh Is Right......

In case you missed it ... Labour hasn't officially talked about the benefits of EU and Single Market membership for over 10 years now. So do they expect to just pop it into the next manifesto without a warm up? It isn't enough to just mention Brexit damage. You have to say what makes the EU great!

Canada and Australia will have a better, closer relationship with the EU than Britain has. While they look to the future and adapt their policies to meet new challenges, the UK government still feels bound by ridiculous red lies adopted almost a decade ago. It won't even rejoin the Single Market!

English politicians may ignore this, but it really is a big deal and symptomatic of the loss of faith in Westminster — especially since Brexit.

I'm not even sure this is a nationalist issue - its just decades of Whitehall only ever caring about London combined with the huge disenfranchisement of Brexit. "Leaders of Sinn Féin, Plaid Cymru and SNP to sign independence declaration"

Trump has just said Lindsay Clancy "did a horrible, horrible thing". Does that mean he's probably prejudiced any retrial?

Brown bear floating along in Bristol Bay Alaska: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

According to Nigel Farage, Iceland being in the EU Single Market, having free movement of people and belonging to Schengen is perfectly compatible with national independence. I look forward to him endorsing the same independence for the UK: back in the Single Market, with free movement and Schengen

From Mr Brexit himself. Apparently you CAN be in the single market at still be independent. Remember that folks

Iceland is not in the EU, but it is a member of the Schengen area. It’s also a member of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and is part of the Single Market, meaning it enjoys freedom of movement with the EU. Good to know that doesn’t impact their independence. Maybe we should try it, Nige.

Before idiotic Brexiters gloat over the Iceland referendum, it should be noted that Iceland is in the EU single market and Shengen, so are already streets ahead way better off than the UKs pathetic red lines

@eddavey.libdems.org.uk refusing to rule out a pact with the Conservatives when the last time they had a pact was the most disastrous move for LibDems in their history, where people have still not forgiven them over tuition fees. Every party, full of idiots it seems.

It goes without saying that Trump is a petulant child with his renaming, but I love how everyone on the internet is suddenly fluent in indigenous languages and the etymology of Lake Ontario 😀

Donny Shits-his-pants is gonna need to stock up! #Tariffs #Canada #ElbowsUp

Why have they changed the opening lines to Saving Lives At Sea... come on BBC, it was iconic!!! "We're an island nation, drawn to the sea that surrounds us...For them saving live is a WAY of life"

Evidence, as if more were needed, that Brexit has been a disaster for the UK #RejoinEU

Thank you for everything. 💚💚💚 Tomorrow, there will be more of us.

If Canada, who are hugely dependant on trade with the US can tell Trump where to go with his crappy trade deals, then the EU and the UK should also be able to. Why aren't they standing up to him in the same way? #Carney

So Nvidia is effectively paying OpenAI to buy its chips? Sure, the AI bubble isn't going to burst 🙄

We couldn't save the cheerleader, we can't save the world 🙁 #RIPHaydenPanettiere

I've literally lost count of the number of times I've switched on BBC News only to find it platforming Reform holding yet another "press conference". Completely uninterrupted diatribes. When is the UK Gov going to clamp down on this?

Is noone else concerned about the chilling effect that the partisan attack on an advisor Dr Fauci causes? He's not a politician. If you don't like the rules and regulations that happened during Covid, then blame Trump. He was in charge!

Has anyone done a calculation just how much Reform UK has cost the tax payer in having to constantly rerun by-elections? #FarageResigns

If we rejoin the Single Market, with all the benefits to trade, free movement, investment, growth, culture and cost of living that it brings, Reform would have to fight the next election explaining why they'd abolish those things – which is something they didn't even dare do in rhe ref! #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

The UK's endless political circus is a direct result of Brexit. Leaving the EU made it impossible for any PM to deliver the kind of economy, living standards & public services that voters demand. Meanwhile, Farage exploits the failure of his own policy for personal power. Good to discuss on WION.

Let’s check in on how Jared and Ivanka’s luxury Albanian resort is doing…

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @andertoon.bsky.social)

People may not be aware of it, but Brexit impacts every single area of policy that's causing problems. From inflation to failing services to lack of investment to skills shortages to defence to culture and music to interest rates to manufacturing to dissolutionment with politics.

So Starmer is going and Burnham is (probably) coming. But the cycle of failed PMs will just continue unless he has the courage to bin Brexit. #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

6 British Prime Ministers in the last 10 years. They will continue to keep falling until one of them finally has the balls to address the Brexit elephant in the room and the economic devastation it has wreaked on the country #RejoinEU #KeirStarmer

Does anyone else wonder how the heck all these patients on #GPsBehindClosedDoors manage to get face to face appointments?!

It's probably no coincidence that Infantino looks like The Hood from Thunderbirds. World Cup shambles

In case you forgot what it looks like when a real president gets the love at a game. You know, when the crowd actually wants the president there.

SPOILER ALERT: As usual, Farage was lying about the EU being "unelected and unaccountable".

Since Brexiters keep screaming "brexit wasn't completed. we haven't left" can we not just #rejoineu without telling them since they all live in a state of complete deillusion anyway and won't be happy whatever we do.

You can't be at the heart of something from outside its body. We need to be in the EU, at the heart of its single market, and at the table when the big calls are made.

"Rebuilding the UK's relationship with the EU is what the Labour government will be defined by" Starmer said. Don't get me wrong I'm very pleased to hear this, but shows how his "never rejoin in my lifetime" Brexit rhetoric was (and still is) completely ridiculous.

Kitten.. mad as a box of frogs 😆 #CelebsGoDating

Why the heck have #CelebsGoDating got Dr Tara yet again? She adds absolutely chuff all. Looking forward to watching the lovely Lucinda though

#Channel4 have a show "Your Song" where members of the public sing a song personal to them. Then they hardly show it, and just talk all over it. I'm sure its for licensing reasons, but it just makes it all a bit shit! #YourSong

#RaceAcrossTheWorld really need to get better at showing us the time and budget differences between the teams. Even looks like they deliberately blurred the book this week!

“The U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society has calculated that Magna Carta is cited in at least 160 Supreme Court cases since 1789, not least as the foundation of the principle that executive power is subject to checks and balances,” Charles said. Hell yeah!!! #KingCharles

I'm finding it really weird that Reddit has essentially no posts on the White House correspondents dinner shooting. The handful of posts there are, have no comments

Only 10mins in, and I'm already blubbing at #TheAssembly. Such a fantastic series. And such a feeling of safety in that group