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Simon Flett<p>As <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> swaggers over US campuses directing them how it's going to be, let us recall <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Tory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tory</span></a> former Whip Heaton Harris 👇 who took it upon himself to write to Uni Chancellors demanding the names of academics opposed to <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brexit</span></a> , &amp; understand; browbeating institutes of higher education is absolutely a hallmark of fascism, wherever it thinks it has cemented itself in power. The sinister ERG 🎩🩲🇬🇧⚓️ has disappeared from view, but he &amp; his kind are still out there, hoping for a comeback.<br><a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RejoinEU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RejoinEU</span></a></p>
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@stux" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>stux</span></a></span> as a Brit I'd like to see it just to make our current position all the more fucking ridiculous. <br> As I understand it, Canada is more aligned with the EU than us anyway, clown island that we are. </p><p>We've tried telling our Prime Minister, but he just won't fucking acknowledge it.😡 </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brexit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElbowsUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ElbowsUp</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a></p>
SpaceLifeForm<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@SecurityWriter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>SecurityWriter</span></a></span> </p><p>So, does this mean UK products are exempt?</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brexit</span></a></p>
M Schommer<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>georgetakei</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@KimSJ" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>KimSJ</span></a></span> <br>In that same book, Osnovy Geopolitiki, <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/Dugin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dugin</span></a> also suggests to alienate the UK from the rest of Europe… which was achieved with <a href="https://hostux.social/tags/Brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brexit</span></a> in June 2016, just a few months before Trump got elected,</p>
MediaFaro News Digest<p>Britain’s biggest unions call for much closer UK-EU ties amid a ‘volatile’ global economy.</p><p>The unions calls for new cooperation agreement ahead of Keir Starmer’s reset talks with Brussels.</p><p>The UK should forge much closer ties with Europe amid an increasingly “volatile and unpredictable” global economy, Britain’s biggest trade unions argue as they push for new workers’ rights across the continent.</p><p><a href="https://mediafaro.org/article/20250307-britains-biggest-unions-call-for-much-closer-uk-eu-ties-amid-a-volatile-global-economy?mf_channel=mastodon&amp;action=forward" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mediafaro.org/article/20250307</span><span class="invisible">-britains-biggest-unions-call-for-much-closer-uk-eu-ties-amid-a-volatile-global-economy?mf_channel=mastodon&amp;action=forward</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brexit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Unions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Unions</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/TUC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TUC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Economy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/KeirStarmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KeirStarmer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/tags/Starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Starmer</span></a></p>
Police State UK<p>"In the broadcast media, every interview with <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Farage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Farage</span></a> should start and end by asking him why he made such a huge mistake in championing <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brexit</span></a>, and how can voters trust someone with such poor judgement. After all, if any other politician had cost the average voter 4% of their income this would be the media’s approach. But it hardly ever happens with Farage."</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/UKPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/ReformUK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ReformUK</span></a></p>
Police State UK<p>"I have little doubt that with a media more committed to telling the truth <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brexit</span></a> would never have happened."</p>
janhoglund…many of the districts of Great Britain most heavily subsidized by the EU voted to leave it. Putin gently supported the misunderstandings and prejudices that led to things falling apart…<br>—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America<br><a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/putin" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#putin</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/russia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#russia</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/uk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uk</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/eu" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#eu</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/brexit" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#brexit</a>
janhoglundFour hundred and nineteen Twitter accounts that posted on Brexit were localized to Russia’s Internet Research Agency… About a third of the discussion of Brexit on Twitter was generated by bots—and more than 90% of the bots tweeting political material were not located in the United Kingdom. Britons…had no idea at the time…that the bots were part of a Russian foreign policy to weaken their country. The margin of the vote was 52% for leaving and 48% for staying. … Brexit was a triumph for Russian foreign policy, and a sign that a cyber campaign directed from Moscow could change reality.<br>—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America<br><a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/russia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#russia</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/unitedkingdom" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#unitedkingdom</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/uk" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#uk</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.microblog.se/tag/brexit" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#brexit</a>
janhoglund<p>Britons who considered their choices had no idea at the time that they were reading material disseminated by bots, nor that the bots were part of a Russian foreign policy to weaken their country. The margin of the vote was 52% for leaving and 48% for staying.<br>—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>brexit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/uk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uk</span></a></p>
janhoglund<p>About a third of the discussion of Brexit on Twitter was generated by bots—and more than 90% of the bots tweeting political material were not located in the United Kingdom. <br>—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>brexit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/unitedkingdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>unitedkingdom</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/uk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uk</span></a></p>
janhoglund<p>Four hundred and nineteen Twitter accounts that posted on Brexit were localized to Russia’s Internet Research Agency—later, every single one of them would also post on behalf of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.<br>—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America<br><a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>putin</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>brexit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nu/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a></p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>EUCommission</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://respublicae.eu/@EUCouncil" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>EUCouncil</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CEUM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CEUM</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CETA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CETA</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GeoPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeoPol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TrumpCoup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpCoup</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TrumpTariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpTariffs</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CANpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CANpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EUpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EUpol</span></a></p><p>(5/n)</p><p>... <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Rejoin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rejoin</span></a> the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/European" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>European</span></a> economic block. <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brexit</span></a>, a project by international rightwing organizations, was an utter failure. To withstand a sandwiched position by/a an imperialist, expansionist <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kremlin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kremlin</span></a> and a likeminded <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Washington" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Washington</span></a> (<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Panama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Panama</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Greenland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Greenland</span></a>,) a renewal of the "ever closer union" is of the essence.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EU</span></a> processes take far too long in this rapidly changing,...</p>
Rocketman<p>Because <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brexit</span></a> was such a brilliant idea, the UK will now also require EU citizens to apply for permission to enter the country.</p><p>Starts April, costs 12€ initially, with prices rising to 19€ later.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Bahnblogstelle/114113941363927826" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon.social/@Bahnblogstell</span><span class="invisible">e/114113941363927826</span></a></p>
Albert Cardona<p>One sees what the US is doing to itself these days –imposing tariffs on trade partners while also gutting government agencies and services–, and I can't but think of what China did to itself 500 years ago.</p><p>On tariffs specifically see:<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haijin" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haijin</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>On the cessation of government-sponsored seafaring expeditions:<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_history_of_China#Ming_expeditions_and_decline" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_hi</span><span class="invisible">story_of_China#Ming_expeditions_and_decline</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_treasure_voyages#Causes_of_cessation" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ming_tre</span><span class="invisible">asure_voyages#Causes_of_cessation</span></a></p><p>And a scholarly article on the topic:<br>"The Cessation of Zheng He's Voyages and the Beginning of Private Sailings: Fiscal Competition between Emperors and Bureaucrats", Yiu Siu 2023<br><a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-chinese-history/article/cessation-of-zheng-hes-voyages-and-the-beginning-of-private-sailings-fiscal-competition-between-emperors-and-bureaucrats/8FE45F3210A4DF174A4EC2B30868D433" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cambridge.org/core/journals/jo</span><span class="invisible">urnal-of-chinese-history/article/cessation-of-zheng-hes-voyages-and-the-beginning-of-private-sailings-fiscal-competition-between-emperors-and-bureaucrats/8FE45F3210A4DF174A4EC2B30868D433</span></a></p><p>Not unlike what the UK did to itself with Brexit – more so since 50% of its food arrived from the rest of the EU at that point – but at an even more grandiose scale.</p><p>One wonders why are Western countries shooting themselves in their own feet one after the other.</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/tariffs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tariffs</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>brexit</span></a></p>
Albert Cardona<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://econtwitter.net/@sjwrenlewis" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>sjwrenlewis</span></a></span> I wish this chart that you quoted was more widely known: the impact of Brexit on the UK economy, as seen from 2016 onwards, both before and after the top of the pandemic. Particularly visible in comparison to USA, Italy and France:</p><p><a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>brexit</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/UKStagnation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKStagnation</span></a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/tags/UKEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UKEconomy</span></a></p>
Sir Jo<p>Started out on Twitter because of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brexit</span></a> in 2016, Left X because of too much muskrat, came to Mastodon on a French server (Mastouille.fr), and this is my back up on .social. Good thing in the fediverse: Even if one server is down, you can still migrate to another one. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> forever! :)</p>
Adrian J. Chung<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://c.im/@rightsprung" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>rightsprung</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://med-mastodon.com/@auscandoc" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>auscandoc</span></a></span> <br>Starmer saw how billionaire owned media swung the election for Trump, and back in the UK billionaire owned tabloids convinced gullible redwall voters to vote for both <a href="https://mastodon.me.uk/tags/Brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brexit</span></a> and then for BoJo.</p><p>He doesn't want to antagonize the billionaires or his oh so precious redwall will vote for Reform and we end up with Putin-friendly Farage as PM 4 years from now.</p>
DrD<p>The UK should formally rejoin the EU - even before Trump's disengagement from the western alliance - the massive folly of Brexit was writ large over the British economy and politics.</p><p>Now with a very different European and global geopolitical landscape, from both an economic and security perspective Britain needs the umbrella of a pan-European alliance. <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>europe</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>brexit</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/starmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>starmer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/eu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eu</span></a></p>
Glyn Moody<p>The Hollow Men Of Silicon Valley - <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/2025/02/25/the-hollow-men-of-silicon-valley/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">techdirt.com/2025/02/25/the-ho</span><span class="invisible">llow-men-of-silicon-valley/</span></a> "In our eagerness to appear rational, to base our arguments on facts and logic, we’ve often neglected the emotional core of human experience." <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/brexit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>brexit</span></a></p>