Simon Flett

Brit. #RejoinEU . Dispute Resolution. Financial Services sector. Former Army territorial jnr officer. Personal views here, only. Loathe English Nationalism. #FBPE #Brexit 🇪🇺🇺🇦 Rule of #Law 🕷 (not Law of Rulers). Appeaseniks blocked.

RejoinEU: Campaign for UK to RejoinEU
Brexit: Overturn Brexit

Public Key

npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak

NIP-05 Address

rejoineu_at_mastodon.online@momostr.pink

Profile Code

nprofile1qqs9cuz60ev98qq8ettjl4q3rdrfq49lqzdcw6qeeguqrw7tf6gexwgprpmhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumt0d4hhxarj9ecxjmntuf9rlm

Publishing to

relay.momostr.pink

Author Public Key

npub1t3c95ljc2wqq0jkh9l2pzx6xjp2t7qymsa5pnj3cqxaukn53jvust8reak

Show more details

Last Notes

2026-04-16 08:57:31 UTC

What other right wing European politicians can JD be persuaded to fly in to lobby for on the eve of important weathervane elections?
Hmm.
#farage
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/116/413/552/241/305/623/original/0c027036ec0348c1.jpg

2026-04-13 15:53:28 UTC

- reply

We shall see. Is it not the essence of democracy that an electorate can change its mind ? The EU is a trade community, whereunder member states agree to pool a measure of sovreignty over trade-related matters. Not a secret order of religious devotees mutually and irrecovably bound by dark oath-taking. I accept we have much work of persuasion ahead of us. But no political resolution is ever static.

2026-04-13 15:21:55 UTC

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn897e8280do
What to make of this purile hyperbole?
"Carnage" is descriptive of slaughter & massacre. Not travel delay & disruption.
The implicit effort, in the manner of reporting, to blackguard Easyjet, & the EU, adds self-delusion to the misdirected outrage.
We VOTED (collectively) for this.
And for those who voted to Remain, with (now) the many who abstained owing perhaps to uncertainty as to the consequences, the entire stolen decade has been the "nightmare".
#RejoinEU
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/116/398/081/842/465/483/original/f93f49cb9ae7f6eb.jpg

2026-03-23 14:17:25 UTC

- reply

Donald Trump is never happier than when smarming up to autocrats . In Lukashenko of Belarus he recognises a fellow mafioso with whom he can do corrupt business at the expense of Belarussian citizens & the environment of that nation. "Birds of a feather flock together". Psychopaths recognise each other at long distance & seek each other out.

2026-03-17 18:50:05 UTC

- reply

Yes. 'Bomber' was exceptional. My late Father also a Sqd Ldr on heavies, starting with Lanc, finishing on Canberra.

2026-03-16 10:47:20 UTC

You are right Mr Rt Hon Nick Thomas Symonds MP Labour Torfaen Minister for EU Relations, "alignment" is not a dirty word. It is (rather) an empty word, meaningless to pro-Brexit, pro-Rejoin & EU functionaries alike. It is a turgid Organ McWeenyism that tries, & fails, to be all things to all people, successfully antagonising all of them, now overdue for discarding (like its originator).
1/3
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-uk-eu-customs-union-nick-thomas-symonds-b2937977.html

2026-03-11 10:26:48 UTC

So farewell then Hereditary Lords.
And to those of you who were/are enthusiastic #Brexiters may your roof-timbers be eaten by beetles, your pheasants be taken by foxes, & your tweeds be consumed by moths. Curse you for your insularity, exceptionalism, complacency & failure to exercise the leadership & platform which posterity bequeathed to you by accident, but with which you achieved nothing useful.
Begone, & take the Placemen, Donors & Electorate's Rejects with you.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxg76rgdp7o

2026-03-03 18:40:32 UTC

- reply

tripling (?)

2026-01-29 13:35:54 UTC

Zack 'CND' Polanski & his friends now firmly in this account's 'no longer interested' file. To be advocating unilateral nuclear disarmament at the onset of Russia's reignition of the Cold War is simply barking. Sorry, nice people, well-intentioned, but there it is. I did military service towards to end of the last Cold War, I don't do barking.

2026-01-29 12:44:26 UTC

#Starmer cosplaying 'Global Britain' unlikely to impress the Chinese government which has diminished interest now that UK cannot act as a conduit to the EU Single Market & Customs Union.
The 'hi-tec transfer' sales pitch is hollow, from a nation that cannot organise UK software systems for the most straightforward of administrative tasks, so places huge public contracts overseas with #Palantir & Fujitsu.
(PS When you get back Sir Keir, please fix the driving examination backlog).
#RejoinEU

2026-01-17 20:12:03 UTC

Takes a psychopath to initiate a dangerous situation & then claim to the entire globe he is not the cause of it. I'm no longer in any doubt - the man IS a manipulative psychopath.
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/115/912/256/300/744/238/original/dbd9c1558f89bf3f.jpg

2025-12-10 18:29:22 UTC

If the European Union truly was "weak", as Fat Donald makes out, he wouldn't be expending energy dissing it. Unity is strength. #Trump & his oligarch paymasters hate the EU because they can't control it. They want to smash it as they smash & deride all competing structures of international cooperation such as NAFTA, the Paris Climate accords, the International Courts & COP. Smashing things up is all they know.

2025-12-01 17:01:27 UTC

Under the pressure of a threat of an absurd 100% tariff on British-manufactured medicines sold into the US (which would have harmed US patients & their insurers) our leaders (notably Health Secretary Wes #Streeting & Prime Minister #Starmer) have bargained away the purchasing power of the #NHS as a scale buyer of medicines for British citizens from private US pharmaceutical corporations. When the figures emerge, this will be seen to be a terrible deal.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn0k520v4xro

2025-11-13 10:06:00 UTC

A commensurate response to #Trump 's attempted browbeating of the UK National Broadcaster would be for the #BBC to commission an in-depth investigative piece on Trump 's association with Jeffrey Epstein to include the latest emerging evidence.
Fight fire with fire.
#BBC

2025-10-28 07:36:20 UTC

https://bylinetimes.com/2025/09/29/the-integrity-gap-how-we-built-the-authoritarian-future-we-fear/
Clive Lewis MP Labour Norwich South. My MP , on digital ID:
"This is the danger we face. Not an authoritarianism that arrives overnight, but one that is painstakingly assembled by Governments of every stripe - until the day it falls into the hands of those more than willing to use of it."
"What is needed is a politics that trusts the public, not one that surveils and manages it".
👍

2025-10-27 14:48:30 UTC

Hey Wes;
1. Are you, as UK Minister of Health, selling ("sharing") confidential NHS patient data to private corporations, foreign or otherwise, with or without patient consent, or planning to do that? #Palantir
2. Have you negotiated away #NHS purchasing power for medicines, under pressure from Trump on behalf of private US pharmaceutical corporations (or have plans to do that)?
You earn no plaudits for tellyspats with dimwits on tedious culture war side-issues. Please focus on your portfolio.

2025-10-20 10:49:39 UTC

Fellow Brits: this is the way it goes. Don't get suckered-in. Don't believe Farage. Demand adequate funding for our NHS and that Fat Donald & his big pharma big-data oligarch bros are kept OUT.
#nhs
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/115/406/102/042/609/186/original/c525b6bd8442b3d6.jpg

2025-09-30 14:32:04 UTC

Petition to dismiss the silly sod who whispered in Keir's ear last week "stake everything on digital id, it'll be a winner".
#OrganMcWeeny
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/115/293/729/273/865/360/original/aed26e88c62d87b0.jpg

2025-09-29 17:40:25 UTC

We know what "Not in my Lifetime" 's policy is on #RejoinEU .
Mr Burnham 's policy on Rejoin seems more aspirational. He actually has something to offer, rather than #Starmer 's "thanks for your vote now bugger off and stop bothering me for the remainder of my lifetime."
RejoinEU being THE CENTRAL SINGLE ISSUE bearing on the economy, Mr Burnham 's approach to economic policy seems more promising.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/andy-burnham-brexit-reeves-starmer-labour-b2835906.html
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/115/288/778/282/007/939/original/66a9c7aefa8236e8.jpg

2025-09-23 17:32:21 UTC

- reply

Private medicine is not structured to be able to cope effectively with the demands of emergency medicine. You'll die on the sodding gurney waiting for an insurer to authorise your treatment.

2025-09-10 17:35:28 UTC

- reply

Hah! Farmers loyal to Trump reap what they sowed.

2025-09-09 18:06:47 UTC

- reply

An impression gained as an employee of one of the regulated. When they say jump (which is not infrequently) believe me, my employer jumps.

2025-09-09 17:29:23 UTC

- reply

By and large, my impression it is a proactive regulator, with consumers best interests in mind. Unlike some i could mention (OFWAT, ICO, the 'Prudential Conduct Authority - yeah - i know). 🙂

2025-09-09 17:16:27 UTC

- reply

The FCA hoped to take & hold control over the comp scheme & warned punters off the claims management companies & solicitors firms advertising widely for clients in the media. In that, the FCA reportedly failed, as tens of thousands have signed up with lawyers implying significant additional spend for tortfeasors (loan finance lenders) in Claimant legal costs. And why not? Why shouldn't victims of the scam lenders seek & obtain independent legal advice? The FCA has been unrealistic.

2025-09-06 08:38:23 UTC

- reply

'Back then' dentists got paid by the filling which was a completely naive way to organise public health, because it incentivised the unscrupulous (present in every profession) to administer unecessary 'treatment'. Forty years on from a trusting visit to a charlatan in Tooting i am living with the consequences of his deceit & greed, and curse him every day.

2025-09-05 16:52:06 UTC

- reply

KGB double-think. Putin willed his invasion. He can unwill it in an instant. He's kidding his populace they are "winning". When they finally comprehend the truth, Putin will have nowhere to run.

2025-08-20 12:37:26 UTC

- reply

Shame on Modi. He leads the World's biggest democracy, but can't resist a bargain, with his US$dollars & rupees for Russian oil paying for Putin's bombs & missiles raining down nightly on the citizens of a fellow democracy - the Republic of Ukraine. #Modi confirms his true colours - no principles & a friend to fellow aggressive authoritarians. He was in my county, Norfolk, lately. I feel sullied by his visitation.

2025-06-25 09:04:19 UTC

Brexit is English Nationalist wastecrime.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyn47g2jzqo
#RejoinEU
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/114/743/197/442/564/892/original/10bd8230542bc9da.jpg

2025-06-07 08:51:58 UTC

- reply

If it is trees the campaigners want to see on the high fells (bringing diversity of habitat) why not the Attenborough "Ocean" approach whereby a certain portion is made protected (no fishing says Sir David - & by analogy, no grazing for the fell tops?). The diversity benefits should extend beyond the reserves? As an occasional tourist, i don't see what might be "wrong" with the management of the lower slopes ("in-byes"?). The ancient byres show it's been that way since viking times.

2025-06-07 08:31:35 UTC

- reply

Sounds a risky strategm - trying to get World Heritage Site protection binned, just to limit commercial grazing? Chucking the baby out with the bathwater. Except the bathwater is the WHProtection (which surely we'd all want to keep?). It's the baby lambs they want to chuck (or limit). Sheep represent livlihoods. From my own annual trip, the high fells don't appear to be overrun by sheep but i suppose the campaigners wish to see them more forested? Red deer would have to go too?

2025-06-04 07:41:50 UTC

- reply

By definition "deterrent" sentencing is disproportionate and excessive. It doesn't work, & is a travesty of the justice Judges are entrusted to administer on behalf of Society. I feel shame, on behalf on my profession. I'm confident the Judge does not. Let him look his grandchildren in the eye at Christmastime.

2025-06-03 19:24:07 UTC

RebrandUK & #Tory talking heads blaming 'the French' for the boat crossings instead of their idiot #Brexit, is absurd. After indulging themselves being as offensive as they could possibly be to our European neighbours & allies (most notoriously #Farage 's Brexit Party MEP fascist back-turning stunt before the entire assemblage of the democratic representatives of the continent!), their very first act of Brexit idiocy in 2020 was kicking over the Dublin Treaty entitling the UK to send them back.

2025-05-09 17:53:22 UTC

From yesterday's US/UK trade deal, it would appear Sir Keir is in need of testing facilities able to check samples of 13,000 tons of US beef per year to for growth hormone. In a hurry.
One for the VIP reference network Sir Keir?
Or will you, y'no, just not bother?
Everything the US "paid" for their side of this deal, they invented a month ago - 10% tariffs on imports of UK goods to the US.
You've been had #Starmer
You've jumped in first, (of EU, Japan & China) because you had to.
#Brexit

2025-05-09 15:31:47 UTC

Had the Red Square parade been a sample battalion of body bags and convoy of turretless T72s , it would have been an honest representation of the present state of the Russian military. The pomp & ceremony fools no-one but the foreign 'dignitaries' craven enough to have shown up. Shame on them.
#SlavaUkraini

2025-04-28 12:04:02 UTC

'Tesla is in worse shape than you think'. Report from CNN .
Carmakers producing gasoline vehicles need credits to comply with environmental regulations, which Tesla , as a EV manufacturer, can sell to them. Seems this income stream ($595m) is all that is presently keeping Tesla on the road.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/28/business/things-at-tesla-are-worse-than-they-appear

2025-04-14 15:32:00 UTC

- reply

Asylum seekers are also banned from working pending processing of their application. Instead they get £49.18 per week subsistence allowance "to help you with food, toiletries, clothes & travel', but also liable to be deducted for 'asylum housing'. As to 'travel' the rule is 'You cannot choose where you live' & authorities are prone to summoning applicants to a new hostel on the other side of the country. It is deliberate, performative, vengeful humiliation & puts us to collective shame.

2025-04-12 03:14:50 UTC

So #Gove , too cowardly to stand at the general election on his record, (co-chair Vote Leave, VIP PPE contracts for cronies etc) is to be reinserted into our Legislature like a used supposiTory as the parting gift of failed #EnglishNationalist loser #Sunak ?
And the #Labour Government simply nods along?!? This appointment simply yells #Starmer's failure to address broken democracy & governance in the UK, where cronyism is normal, & failure rewarded by a life tenure in the legislature.
#RejoinEU

2025-04-02 08:34:19 UTC

FOTUS "Liberation day" bears all the hallmarks of the Brexiter 's "Independence Day".
The know-nothing cultists will dutifully prance around the Maypoles for about 5 minutes, then go back to the serious business of moaning about why their cost-of-living bills are going up.
#RejoinEU
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/114/267/466/943/385/640/original/2b0ede9b3b16aff1.jpg

2025-03-18 18:34:32 UTC

- reply

Sure he did - because Ukraine is hurting Russia 's oil & gas infrastructure, which earns Putin dollars & fuels his APCs. Surely it cannot be that team #Trump can have allowed itself to be taken in by this nonsense? If they have fallen for it, they confirm themselves as the amateurs the onlooking World assesses them to be.

2025-03-17 08:23:30 UTC

Organ McWeeneyism in the Labour party has carpeted Regulators. That puerile "See Me Monday morning" power play. #Labour has a bee in its bonnet that "regulators are bad".
From 1st hand experience: Financial Conduct Authority does a good job for consumers. The Financial, Legal & Pension Ombudsmans Services offer legal redress without lawyers & court costs. Others maybe could pull their socks up (ICO?). But get this Labour: regulators are all that stand between the public & Rip Off Britain.

2025-03-01 08:59:15 UTC

- reply

We've been brainwashed by generations of Estate Agent speak.

2025-02-28 18:52:40 UTC

Solidarity for Zelensky. The most remarkable leader in Europe since WW2.
#SlavaUkraineSlavaEU

2025-02-28 09:06:36 UTC

- reply

High on the list would be Tory #Norfolk County Council, not just from underfunding but from a sordid symbiosis with developers, corporate housebuilders & road contractors that has lead them to fetishise roadbuilding. Norfolk is £50m in deficit, with councillors flailing & in secret talks with the Government. Most of the deficit is due to one single scheme the "Western Link Road". Their conduct in trying to force their scheme through has been appalling. Bankruptcy would expose them.

2025-02-27 09:53:24 UTC

- reply

Trump hates the EU because he can't control it. Because it represents a market bigger than his. Because it places the interests of citizens above those of corporations & oligarchs. He would destroy it if he could. Just as idiot British brexiters hoped would happen in consequence of #Brexit .
Can we all see this clearly now?

2025-02-25 10:33:33 UTC

Maybe if Rebrand UK were forced to establish itself as a properly-constituted political party with credible democratic accountability of leadership to membership (instead of being the private corporate property of its leader) its leader could take that as his opportunity for yet another rebrand, from Kippers to Brexit Party to...Alternative fur England.
Direct the Electoral Commission to stipulate minimum qualifying constitution for parties (distinct from independents) to put up candidates.

2025-02-20 10:00:56 UTC

- reply

Wondering whether in the light of the seizure of control of data in US organisations by data-bandit #Musk, it is still part of the Wes gameplan to "share" UK citizens' medical histories with US "health" corporations with blithe disregard for basic courtesy & the legal necessity of procuring our express individual informed consent beforehand?
#wesstreeting

2025-02-19 16:06:55 UTC

- reply

When the self-defense tweet is a rambling screed, you know the author is rattled.

2025-02-15 11:29:50 UTC

- reply

'Them' means 'him'.
Electors unable to see through Nigel Facade 's majority shareholding private Limited Company fake party Rebrand, are from the same stable as the mournful pension scam ad guy "they took everything [sniff]" (no less dozy wife looking on sympathetically), & deserve everything that's coming.

2025-02-14 16:39:02 UTC

To Eastern autocrats' delight, #Trump appears gearing up to find pretext to exit NATO, (just as he has now kicked over Paris Climate Accords twice). Courage Europe. The sky won't fall in. The treaty organisation will contine in being. US will find itself Top Nation of the square root of bugger all. He'll be gone soon enough & sanity may yet prevail. In the meantime, my late father used to fly nuclear bombers & there's probably still a few old bombs lying around at the back of a hanger somewhere.

2025-02-12 14:39:32 UTC

- reply

The Financial Ombudsmans Service is of assistance to the Financial Services Sector because it provides an inexpensive forum for prompt dispute resolution. In my experience the service is not "against" the sector. That would be a construct put upon it most likely by people, like politicians, who have no hands-on current relevant experience in the sector, of dispute resolution, or of interaction with FOS. Most probably Tories, for whom every free to user public service is anathema.

2025-02-12 10:35:32 UTC

- reply

I am friends with a local government lawyer (since retired). Whenever, socially, i enquired how pfi was panning out, he pulled a face. It was widely understood to be a crap way to do public procurement, in terms of value for money for the taxpayer, even as it was being enthusiastically pushed by the politicians. The bottom line is politicians have no knowledge of the building of [hospitals], & no interest in acquiring it, or in recruiting the necessary expertise to commission it.

2025-02-12 09:08:48 UTC

So Sir Keir Starmer Kings Counsel & erstwhile principled human rights lawyer is to go down in British history as the Prime Minister who stamped out the long-established & proud doctrine of British political asylum that saved Albert Einstein & countless others from persecution & extermination, because he thought he'd been backed into that political corner by Nigel Farage UK Ltd incorporated?
Pathetic.
How many 'boats' were there before #Brexit & the kicking over of the Dublin Treaty, Starmer?

2025-02-03 17:49:10 UTC

As well as government ministers' privileges of issuing bent contracts to cronies, number 10 spokesorgan Organ McWeeney has thought up a second #Brexit benefit. Those 74 democratically elected MEPs we had from multiple political parties - they get replaced by one single person - our Prime Minister, who gets to go over & say whatever he likes to the EU behind closed doors. So much more democratic & accountable, esp in future should our single representative be the nicotine-stained frog.
#RejoinEU

2025-02-03 12:56:58 UTC

If Nazi domination of occupied Europe had ended in 1945 by regime change, (rather than by the suicide of its architect, ruination of german cities & occupation by foreign powers), by 1950 the Nazi press would still have been running opinion pieces on how national socialism had "been a success" and/or "could be been better implemented".
May the consignment of their readership to care homes herald the insolvency of the Daily Brexiters; the Telegraph, Mail & Express.
#FiveYearsofBrexit

2025-02-03 12:30:16 UTC

5 yrs ago, the #EnglishNationalists crashed the UK OUT OF THE EU WITHOUT A DEAL ON FINANCIAL SERVICES. Our primary invisible earnings sector.
Johnson/Frost : the ultimate no deal, no brains, no idea partnership.
They cooked our FS goose, & handed it to European rivals on a plate. Transition is a ledger of capital-flight & slow decline.
That those 2 clowns still enjoy platforms in the brain-dead parts of the British print media (Torygraph/Mail) is testimony to the dopiness of the readership.

2025-02-03 09:58:21 UTC

You need a mandate Starmer.
You haven't got one.
Since you won't listen to British electors on the point, let it be the Ministers of the EU Council of Ministers who explain this to you, in the prevailing spirit of reciprocal politeness.
#RejoinEU

2025-01-31 13:16:55 UTC

Reformtown news.
Yarmouth town square trees felled. Roost of many starlings, beloved for murmurations, not so much for their droppings on cars. Every conflict between cars & wildlife is resolved by the Tory/Reform "exterminate it" cabal, in favour of cars. The council could have granted temporary seasonal parking elsewhere nearby in the town. But out came the chainsaws & #Yarmouth citizens who valued the birds for their cheer & amazing displays, & the trees for their oxygen, are the losers.

2025-01-22 20:07:02 UTC

Maybe the US will give the UK Home Office a good price for its fleet of laid-up "Go Home" vans just now?
From one #EnglishNationalist turkey, into a bargain basement US "Go Home" fleet, with just some minor overpainting required. Proto-fascist flop, with all the style & civic dignity of a Theresa May "hostile environment", guaranteed or your money back folks.
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/873/806/008/373/595/original/dfb3d5a2e1603d5b.jpg

2025-01-15 08:29:47 UTC

It could be argued that the British Electorate were 'more aware of reputational risks' than Starmer appears to have been, when they ejected #Sunak & his party, unimpressed, to say the least, by his f-in-law being one of the richest men in India. What a pity to witness Labour falling into the same hole. Persons secretly orbiting in the sphere of oligarchs are not of suitable character to lead us out from beneath the heel of oligarchy.
#RejoinEU
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/831/449/163/093/737/original/22a7dcb7f559b3a2.jpg

2025-01-13 18:29:53 UTC

- reply

'Anonymised nhs data' my foot. Do any of Wes Streeting 's staff have the remotest idea how time-consuming & costly it is to 'anonymise' personal data such that a person cannot be identified from it (for that is the test to be met)? UK Labour are marching up a primrose path decked out by private medicine providers, at the end of which is a perfect storm of data-breach claims. Don't go there #Labour . It emphatically, is NOT worth it.

2025-01-12 08:45:40 UTC

"The public are never wrong". Stella Creasy MP Lab Walthamstow, Chair Labour Movement for Europe.
How was it that "the public" can have been "right" Stella, on 23 June 2016, when we had no blueprint laid before us for what leaving membership of the European Union would look like?
A majority of the British Electorate now recognise that we were, collectively, mistaken, misled or just 'wrong'. But you are too dogmatic to ask us.
Nobody wants stealth. Least of all, the Europeans.
#RejoinEU
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/814/526/883/266/462/original/52766d1513df0556.jpg

2025-01-09 11:28:12 UTC

- reply

Many Citizens think the FS industry doesn't concern them - but their pensions are massively invested in it, as the Truss experience reminded us. Those who dismiss it as being merchant bankers' bonuses (beloved of..er..merchant banker Sunak), over-lent banks, dodgy motor loans, private-equity asset strippers, insider-traders, money-launderers, russian oligarchs, tax-havens & legions of hanger-on tax advisors have a point. But the bad stuff can be regulated. Unless it isn't.
#RejoinEU

2025-01-09 10:37:39 UTC

- reply

The #FTSE has recovered from Covid, but that's the extent of it. UK #equities are dead dead dead. The daily activity is just professional-traders' "churn" as they try to take money off each other to justify their jobs. Who even wants UK gilts - a country that flushed its prosperity down the toilet & might default? Labour dreams of 'growth' are fantasy. Politicians do not create 'growth'. They may set conditions, but this lot have stopped up their ears, & switched off their brains.

2025-01-09 10:28:16 UTC

- reply

I work in the financial services industry - we may not be the country's favourite citizens, but we pay the bills. Witnessing this collective abandonment of the UK's pole position alongside New York & Tokyo on rolling 8-hour watch for 24 hour trading, is agonising. It was so predictable, but the 'pundits' stuffed their ears with wax and intoned 'will of the people'. It is still reversable imo, but every passing year kills it deader than a python parrot.

2025-01-09 09:55:09 UTC

- reply

What can be causing this investment outflow?
What happened 9 years ago? We ask ourselves
The #Brexit Referendum - 23 June 2016 is now 8 years, 6 months, 17 days ago. When Gove/Farage/Mogg/Murdoch persuaded approximately 1/3 of the British Electorate to credit the guff that had been targeted at them in their print press over the preceding decade.
Off-shore investment tax-haven barons, eg Mogg, thought it would protect their golden goose from further Regulation. But they killed it.

2025-01-06 08:16:36 UTC

- reply

The £30.2bn divorce settlement with the EU includes Farage 's MEP pension.

2025-01-03 11:49:05 UTC

Those of us who care who legislates over us, & still reeling from the brazen #EnglishNationalist abuse of Prime Ministerial power of appointment to our second chamber (think Goldsmith, Cruddas, Lebedev, Cameron, Owen, Kempsall & similar backscratchers, donors & mysterious creeps), want to see Labour renounce the power altogether, at minimum handing it over to a crossparty selection board. Ejecting Hereditory Peers is not good enough #Starmer . Get on with it.
#HouseofLordsGreatBritain

2025-01-02 10:23:45 UTC

- reply

Information sufficient to identify an NHS patient would include name, address, former adddresses, dob (as a corroborating detail), NHS number, NI number, contact details, and, i would contend, much of their medical history, which would be unique. Disclosing such information without express consent is more than breach of GDPR, it goes to the root of practitioner/patient confidentiality. Breach that code in principle, & an entire can of worms is opened.

2025-01-01 09:36:12 UTC

- reply

Streeting & his commercial partners are going to get their hides sued off in the biggest data-breach GDPR class action yet seen. Patient data is confidential Streeting. What is it you fail to understand?

2024-12-28 10:04:45 UTC

- reply

Yep.
Approx 52% of them voted to bin their Common Agricultural Policy subsidy at the rate of 50% , and to block seasonal workforces WHO WENT HOME AGAIN AFTER THE PICKING WAS DONE. Why? Because Gove told them to 'vote leave'? Or because Farage sports a barbour jacket?
Now they cry blue bloody murder over inheritance tax, which can be avoided altogether by making a 7 year succession plan, & fill Whitehall with tractors expecting public support? No sympathy from this account.

2024-12-28 09:42:21 UTC

- reply

My farmer friend, a former sole tenant of 500 acres in Cambridgeshire, employed an accountant as a matter of course. It is a business, & claimed subsidies. Kitchen table-top accounts in exercise books were not good enough for HMRC. I suspect most engage an accountant annually to audit accounts. They thereby have ready access to advice around IHT, which is not rocket science. My friend & his wife recently came to visit & were both right on top of this issue. Clarkson is an amateur.

2024-12-27 09:40:22 UTC

- reply

The strategic appraisal from Japan. Devastating for #Putin
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/724/123/994/224/520/original/f861d91abc2db50c.jpg

2024-12-24 16:53:23 UTC

"..blocked off in recent years by oil drums, concrete barriers and even barbed wire in places."
High time that wilful obstruction of byways by landowners with the intent of terminating ancient public rights-of-way be subject to prosecution as a criminal offence with a penalty of a heavy fine and in default of payment, the taking of the route into local authority protective ownership.
#RightToRoam
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/708/820/177/878/079/original/cc459be6c6b65fbf.jpg

2024-12-17 16:43:07 UTC

- reply

#Farage rarely misses an opportunity to set a sordid conspiracy-theory hare running to further his divisive narrative, disclaiming the consequences by saying he was only 'asking legitimate questions.' Before long, this motormouth, who said he'd 'pick up rifle' if #Brexit was thwarted, will overstep & get prosecuted for incitement. Then let's see what he has to say about sentencing policy.

2024-12-17 13:45:16 UTC

"Peaceful protestors shouldn't be locked up, period" said Friends of the Earth lawyer Katie de Kauwe.
Amen to that.
I newspaper.
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/668/463/766/039/763/original/c0ffd0a97c4c276d.jpg

2024-12-16 11:08:28 UTC

If their rationale was "take back control" , what do our Brexiter friends make of sale of Royal Mail to Mr Kretinsky, said to be a Czech billionaire ?
Face it friends. #Brexit had nothing to do with ordinary people "taking back control". Under US style dog-eat-dog unmoderated free-market capitalism, the "control" is funnelled to oligarchs.
Same class of oligarchs funded Vote Leave
The 'Great British Public' looks like that guy on the pension scam ad : "They took everything."
#RejoinEU

2024-12-14 12:31:38 UTC

"Regulators plan to reintroduce a cap on credit [and debit] card fees of UK-EU transactions after it found that Visa & Mastercard had raised charges more than fivefold since #Brexit ".
See the dishonest word salad statements put out by these two market-dominance abusing cheats at the end of this article - from iweekend newspaper.
#Brexit was a licence to such corporates to rip Britons off, and they wasted no time doing just that.
#RejoinEU
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/651/187/091/509/811/original/cb51ee5e23b393ba.jpg

2024-12-14 12:04:32 UTC

Whoever decided the "Oxford word of the year" should be "brain rot" plainly read PPE at Oxford, not Maths.
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/651/080/894/701/062/original/e86780bbf37ec1ab.jpg

2024-12-09 08:12:51 UTC

A shame they were not also designed & manufactured here. Britain should be leading this post-industrial revolution Mr #Starmer , not trailing along in its wake building housing estates & bypasses.
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/621/858/154/006/249/original/4dde1d89617f388e.jpg

2024-12-06 12:15:19 UTC

https://pca.st/episode/1739d281-d21b-459f-9d56-ec92f2edd689
The account of Mr "Not in my Lifetime" #Starmer ambling across the House of Commons floor to shake the hand of the architect of #Brexit Nigel #Farage, during the assisted dying debate, with a goofy grin on his face, confirms the growing realisation that #Starmer is unfit to build the necessary bulwark against an even worse far right Government than the one he just defeated.

2024-12-05 18:23:58 UTC

- reply

The intellectual laziness (or worse - fraud) yells itself from McSweeney's script:
"We haven't built a reservoir for over 30 years, & even the projects we do approve are fought tooth and nail, until you end up with the absurd spectacle of £100m bat tunnel holding up the country's single biggest infrastructure project, driving up taxes & the cost of living beyond belief".
1. There is no causal connection between spending on HS2, & "the cost of living".
2. The £100m was for the embankment.

2024-12-05 18:01:19 UTC

Starmer's big "plan for change" speech today dripped contempt for environmentalism. In his rush to emulate Johnson 's populist play for laughs about "newt-counters" enviro-dunce Starmer singled out bats.
Bats are a keynote species for our countryside, from which insects are visibly vanishing under the assault from monculture & pesticides, and with them, the pollinators (without which NOTHING grows), then the birds, and of course, our bats. Bats are precious. We should value them.
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/601/530/068/399/110/original/0be2261d9f80aff8.jpg

2024-12-05 13:12:17 UTC

"...Now we have the upper hand" . In this sinister way, #Starmer addressed every British Citizen who ever exercised their right to register an objection to a planning application, dismissing us in a rhetorical sweep as "nimbys".
On yer bike bike Starmer you populist poser.

2024-12-04 16:23:41 UTC

- reply

You are a senior politician advocating your country applies to join the #EU - your country's 'policemen' beat you senseless, destroy your offices and carry you off to interior ministry detention. Nice.
#FreeNikaGvaramia
#Georgia

2024-12-04 16:11:25 UTC

Georgian opposition politician beaten unconscious by police, party says, as government crackdown intensifies
https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/04/europe/georgia-opposition-gvamaria-beaten-intl
What can be said of such utter thuggery? The Georgian interior ministry ('Georgian Dream') issued a statement that Mr Nika Gvamaria "had been arrested on charges of "disobedience to the police"".
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/595/437/932/701/375/original/2d65db2f6de16390.jpg
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/595/437/991/279/053/original/6c33f34df753fae4.jpg

2024-12-04 08:18:54 UTC

Some smart person in Powys cinched it, some time ago. "Brexit was the equivalent of having your library burned down by people who can't read."
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/593/564/133/076/363/original/dfea213b132c1a73.jpg

2024-12-03 08:01:40 UTC

- reply

Instead of moaning on the telephone to the EU Commission chief, perhaps #Fico would be good enough to set out his 'reasoning' for his opposition to support for Ukraine for public scrutiny throughout Europe.

2024-12-02 08:20:49 UTC

Farewell then Motor Vessel Ruby. Nelson's county & port bids you better fortune. Wish we could say it's been a pleasure. You are busy earning dollars for #Putin to turn into missiles. Your incompetent captain ran you aground. You dumped 300 tns of contaminated ammonium nitrate mixed with fuel oil off our swimming beaches, crab fishery & seal colonies & then departed to continue your voyage of disaster to the far-off shores of Africa. Hope you took Rupert Lowe MP with you.
https://www.greatyarmouthmercury.co.uk/news/24763672.mv-ruby-heads-new-port-great-yarmouth-stay/
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/582/283/540/696/588/original/a48a6b0686d23bd8.jpg

2024-11-26 10:44:47 UTC

- reply

Have you not yet spooted the clause in the bill entitled 'Incovenient Academics'?

2024-11-25 16:59:35 UTC

- reply

Law professors of England must now explain the core decision(s) (ratio decidendi) of this case to students.
1. It seems being a Kipper / #Brexit Party / Reform Party Ltd #Farage groupie is not "philosophy".
2. Further, it may give rise, in some circumstances, (including non-disclosure) to legitimate grounds for dismissal.
Obiter [Ed]: Espousing a baseball capful of random nationalistic / xenophobic / islamophobic / anti-EU / human right-stripping views is bigotry, not philosophy.
#RejoinEU

2024-11-25 15:49:47 UTC

Fairbanks v CGL [2024] UKET 2409700/2023. Employment Tribunal dismissed the Claimant's case for Unfair Dismissal. She contended she had been dismissed because of her former councillorship for UKIP & cited four stated beliefs in evidence: "I believe the UK should be outside the EU / I oppose illegal migration / I am against the halal slaughter of animals / I would be happy to leave the ECHR". Held: these amounted to no more than opinion or viewpoint, & not underlying philosophical belief.

2024-11-24 10:40:01 UTC

The farm tax fightback deploys the 'we grow your food' submission, which is fair.
Timely to remind ourselves however that the lesson of two submarine blockades is that Britain is not self-sufficient in food. As regards warm-climate produce - eg oranges - we NEVER WILL BE. We therefore screw around with our supply chains at our risk - rationing at best. #Brexit saw us playing fast & loose with our food supply chains, & although seemingly normal, our supply resilience is diminished.
#RejoinEU

2024-11-20 18:42:10 UTC

- reply

I've read the judgment and it is very rigorously explained & persuasive. I don't rate the appellants' chances.

2024-11-20 18:40:10 UTC

- reply

bn ? Or mn?

2024-11-20 18:15:52 UTC

My wife relates how typographical errors in the spelling by immigration & home office staff of temporary identity documents become new identities: thus one gentlemen has had bestowed on him as a first name, the name of his first temporary hotel. He has thus become Mr Brook Chang [surname amended for confidentiality]. Another, now a senior local court official, goes under the name 'Nuah' because the semi-literate & indifferent clerk couldn't be bothered to check back the correct spelling of Noah.

2024-11-20 08:08:03 UTC

- reply

A regulation permits British ports to handle Russian ammonium nitrate, notwithstanding Ukraine War sanctions, but is revokable on a case by case basis if unsafe. This vessel & cargo is patently unsafe - why else did it put to sea to dump contaminated cargo? Addition of an oxidant to this stuff turns it into explosive. Even local Tories are now up in arms, and Lowe looks like the fool he is. Decision to dump at sea, with unspecified "contaminant" is disgusting from an environmental view. 2/2

2024-11-20 08:01:41 UTC

https://splash247.com/ruby-back-in-the-headlines-as-it-offloads-some-of-its-controversial-cargo-into-the-north-sea/
Trouble in Reformtown. Rupert Lowe MP welcomed the Maltese MV Ruby into #Yarmouth claiming it was good for jobs, & he takes 3 spoons of ammonium nitrate in his tea. Contaminated, the fertiliser becomes explosive (cf Beruit disaster). The ship puts to sea again, to just outside the 12 mile limit, to dump 'contaminated' cargo in the North Sea. No news on contaminant, but likely fuel oil. The claim is made the Secretary of State has no power to order out - this is false 1/2

2024-11-19 19:23:36 UTC

https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/24728648.plans-travellers-site-west-dereham-norfolk/
Trusses gotta Truss.
Even out of office she's a prejudiced piece of work. Secure in her mansion, she begrudges people the place to park that the council is obliged to provide.
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/511/248/787/321/891/original/9bae672301bf95b6.jpg
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/511/260/387/016/259/original/2e79830b0644efe7.jpg

2024-11-19 07:55:26 UTC

https://app.theneweuropean.co.uk/2024/11/13/magas-useful-idiots/content.html
"The Brexiteers are in raptures".
On Trump 's likely trade deal terms. Entry for awful US food. And the consumption by their health insurance and pharmaceutical companies of the NHS.
"He [Starmer] should admit that for the next four years at least, the special relationship is dead and that our future lies in alignment with Europe".
Jonty Bloom. The New European.

2024-11-16 18:32:03 UTC

This character Moore can do one.
Yours sincerely
The UK
https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/113/494/060/015/941/503/original/4cec24d65c6f991f.jpg