Josh Sherer

Provided you’re a family group, you can all go through the EU queue. Even the non-holders of EU passports.

Pro-Europeans really need to get their act together if they're going to sieze the opportunity which is being presented here. Press and broadcasters reverting right back to their previous position from 2016, with zero update.

Hi “Pro Go” EV charging people. When you installed your fancy new chargers with their touchscreen controls at Eight Ash Green, did anyone test whether the touch screens work in the rain?

Horrendous decision. Ukrainians dead as a result.

Leaving X has, I'm pretty sure, hit my bookings and career. But it comes at the massive bonus of a) my own mental wellbeing and b) not providing free content for the owner of Starlink:

I feel I don’t say it enough: this is truly a fantastic, welcome, long overdue change in tone, and more than just a change in tone. Yes yes it’s still [waves hands expressively] but my God it has been a long 15 years so let’s be thankful we’re finally heading in the right direction on this.

Russia’s update of the Schlieffen plan: 1. knock Britain out of the European theatre 2. rapid shock-and-awe operation on the Ukrainian near-abroad Two points, one strategy?

The flagship policy of Marine Le Pen is to cut the state retirement age to 60. ??????? Populist bullshitter or serious politician? This isn’t hard.

When the europhobes attack the euro, we defend the euro. When they say, “ah but Britain would have to join the euro”, we say “and Britain would get to join the euro”. Let’s stop ceding the ground, and attack them on their arguments. High press.

This is obviously correct. The US has an enormous single market. Ours (the EU’s - I am a citizen) is incomplete and fragmented. Let’s make it whole.

Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!

Looking forward to @chrisgrey.bsky.social’s next blog. Might be his longest one yet.

#Rejoin

Bloody French, saying what we're all thinking ...

This is - as usual - excellent. But it stands out this fortnight as being particularly depressing. A government with no sense of urgency. As if, having ditched Starmer for Burnham, it’s done its part. Yet it hasn’t even started on Europe, ethno-nationalism, democracy or geopolitics.

Imagine being sad or annoyed or cross because Taylor Swift is releasing a new single….

An early election would only make sense if Burnham were already rolling the pitch to drop the red lines and the taxation pledges from the last manifesto. Which he’s not.

That thug sabotaging rescue efforts, racist riots, flags on lampposts, pink ladies wanting to burn down hotels, doxxing charity workers, ICE-style deportation plans, threats to scrap the Equality Act and leave the ECHR… “legitimate concerns” No. A tornado of hate and prejudice set off by Farage.

my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...

So the favourite obsession of the far right, being weaponised by US billionaires to push us towards their technofascist dystopia, is repeatedly legitimised by a Labour government. Other concerns, including the longstanding concerns of the left, are vilified and delegitimised.

Amazing speech by Carney to the European Parliament - free movement, common market, ... Not hard to see how his stint as Chairman of the Bank of England through the worst of the Brexit years influenced him. Well done Brexit and Trump for achieving what I never thought would be possible.

How has Carney’s EU policy gone down in Canada?

We know with certainty that Brexit was a disaster, and now while Canada negotiates associate membership with the EU, Britain is stuck on the sidelines of its own continent. Hopefully this will be the moment our government stops dragging its feet and finally rethinks our relationship with Europe.2/2

The EU has delivered greater stability across the continent, greater mobility for its citizens, and a single market that gives Europe global economic weight. An honour to hear President von der Leyen address the European Parliament today as we build a deeper partnership for the future.

Wow last night of the proms, it’s like the secret resistance! Well done #euflagmafia and the entire pro-EU movement for keeping the flame alive.

Still, at least the unions can still channel a few thousand to the Labour Party.

Charles (king) could do something useful for once and do a high profile visit to the RNLI right this minute

Let’s face the Musk and Vance!

Elon Musk supported the rising neo-Nazi party in Germany. He’s the number one funder of Republicans in the midterms. He’s supporting fascist agitators in England. It’s long past time for anyone who supports democracy to leave his propaganda website. It’s time to boycott X.

Apparently, Burnham is expected to demand that Britain be incorporated into the EU “made in Europe” scheme….

The tactics and lack of ethics of the Sadiq-haters continues to amaze, and serves only to make clear how much better he is than his opponents. news.sky.com/story/sadiq-...

Politicians all love growth, but hate the things that create it: being in the EU, immigration, higher education and London.

'percentage points' is the new 'no case' and the bullshit is unchanged

We will never get a proper reset under a Labour government. The party - nostalgic , hankering after a lost industrial past, Euro-sceptic - is incapable of producing leaders who can engage properly with the modern geopolitical landscape.

1) There is no such deal that can give "percentage points growth" while keeping the UK Labour red lines: only SM and CU access can give that, and that requires Freedom of Movement, dynamic alignment and payments to EU cohesion funds 2) Wielding a concession on a Youth experience scheme as.. (2/x)

As I board the ferry from Tallinn to Helsinki, I’m reminded yet again of three things about the EU: 1) You don’t sacrifice any of your national identity or culture by being part of the EU. Estonia remains Estonia. Finland remains Finland 2) Schengen is great. 3) Brexit was and is shit.

BECAUSE IT WAS OBLIGED TO BY FRENCH GOVERNMENT LEGISLATION

He was right about ULEZ He’s right about Brexit. No need to “revisit old arguments”/lies now we know it’s rubbish and costing us a fortune. Moving on means admitting this and asking about how to now join. Not pretending it’s ok in case Farage loses his shit. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/sad...

Mark Carney: "This fall we will begin intense discussions with the European Union, the world's second-largest economy, to build a much stronger and deeper economic and security partnership"