Pro European activist. keep calm and carry on FBPE. Lib Dem + Labour + Greens together we can GTTO! Blocked by Daniel Hannon!

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🥳 The pro-EU majority continues to grow and deepen. 7m new voters have reached voting age since 2016 and oppose Brexit by about 5:1. Allowing for turnout, Peter Kellner estimates 3.5m new pro-EU voters versus 700,000 new pro-Brexit voters. Even if nobody from 2016 had changed their mind, that demographic shift alone would now produce roughly a 55–45 majority for EU membership. Then add switching: around 5m voters have changed their minds, and roughly three-quarters of them moved from Leave to Rejoin. Put together, Kellner arrives at: 🇪🇺 Rejoin 63% 🇬🇧 Stay out 37% A majority of almost 9 million.
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Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
Terry Reintke, “Brexit has caused more damage than good.” “I think I'm the 5th speaker in this debate who is quoting Andy Burnham because he's right.” “There has been so much damage economically, politically, but most of all for the people in the UK.” “We have seen two decades of division, because that is what demagogues and populists cause, and this is the only thing that they cause damage, pain, scars, broken promises.” “Building unity and a future, they cannot.” “We can, because that is what the European Union has effectively done over the past decades building unity, making friends out of enemies, creating peace instead of war, freedom instead of oppression, prosperity instead of small minded national competition, together with the United Kingdom for many decades, and this unity is worth fighting for, especially now when we have so many lunatics all around the world in power.” “So first, any move closer is a good move, the better.” “We cannot become the enemy of the good in this.” “Whatever we can, we should do, be it Erasmus, be it Horizon, be it the Customs union, you name it.” “Second, of course, you can come back.” “We do not debate this here at all, because we all agree we want the UK back in the European Union, and thirdly, dear friends in the UK, whether you voted for Brexit or not, know this the European Union is not your enemy.” “It has never been and it will never be.” “Brexit was a mistake and to admit that is not a sign of weakness, but it is a sign of strength, and it is a mistake that can be corrected by all of us, so let's do it.” “Thank you very much.” My view: Brexit was sold as a route to greater freedom and prosperity. Instead, it deepened divisions and left people living with the consequences of promises that were never fulfilled. Admitting that Brexit was a mistake is not weakness; it is the first step towards putting things right. The European Union is not perfect, and closer cooperation will not solve every problem. But it has shown the value of countries working together: building peace, shared opportunity and stronger ties between people who were once set against one another. The UK should never have been treated as Europe’s enemy, and Europe should not be treated as ours. Every practical step closer matters, whether through Erasmus, Horizon or a closer trading relationship. But we should not let “the good” become an excuse to avoid discussing what would serve people best. Britain should be able to consider the full range of options, including rejoining the EU. The mistake can be corrected—and there is strength in having the courage to do it.
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Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
Another report that concludes that Britain’s best interest is to rejoin the EU :
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RT @euromove: A stronger future for the UK lies in Europe. The Institute for Public Policy Research is calling for EU membership to protec…
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RT @euromove: The UK deserves a say in shaping Europe’s future. George Monbiot makes the case for full EU membership: a seat at the table,…
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British food and drink exports to EU collapse by more than a third since Brexit NFU analysis of official data shows falls in exports to UK’s largest trading partner since 2019 include 70% for sugar and 74% for egg products theguardian.com/business/202…
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Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
"Sunderland one of hardest places to grow up". This doesn't surprise me one bit. Losing multimillions of EU money to Brexit was catastrophic. And a despicable tory govt who took pride in taking money out of poor areas & giving them to affluent areas. thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/2…
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Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
Truth........
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In 2016 the Conservative Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said, "The only country that would like us to leave the EU is Russia" In 2026 the former Head of MI6 Sir John Sawers said, "Russia was very keen that the Leave campaign should succeed and that Britain should leave the European Union. Because that would marginalise Britain as a global player and weaken Europe in general" "That's the strategic opportunity the Russians spotted, and the leaders of the Leave campaign fell into it" My view: The warning was there before the referendum: Moscow had a clear interest in Britain breaking with Europe. A decade later, a former head of MI6 has explained why — a divided Europe and a Britain pushed to the margins would serve Russia’s strategic interests. It does show that the Kremlin saw Brexit as an opportunity to weaken both Britain and the European Union, and was keen for Leave to win. The damage was predictable: less British influence in Europe, more friction between allies and a weaker collective response to Russian aggression. Brexit handed Moscow the kind of division it wanted. The leaders of Leave may have believed they were restoring Britain’s power. In reality, they pursued a course that played directly into Russia’s hands, and the country is still living with the consequences: weaker, worse off, with escalated societal tensions.
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Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
Traitors like Johnson and Farage that caused the Brexit disaster must be prosecuted.
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Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
🔥 Max Hastings gives Trump both barrels and not before time. Trump made 30,573 false or misleading claims during his first term. Now the lying, bullying and grotesque inversion of truth have become instruments of government, while billionaires and political courtiers compete for seats at his table. The victims are the Ukrainian people being bombed, betrayed and blamed while Trump appeases Putin. Hastings is right: democracies must stop treating industrial-scale dishonesty as background noise. “This is a lie” must become our collective reply.
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Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
The Festival video is out! 😍💙💛And you can still donate!👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 crowdfunder.co.uk/p/vpdfo-20… @ukrconnect
War Diary Day 1,696 Please help Ukraine by sending a clear message to Vladimir Putin: Do Fuck Off! Watch our VPDFO! 2026 Festival in Kyiv. Every penny raised goes to Ukraine charities. crowdfunder.co.uk/p/qr/VlDvr… VPDFO! 2026 part 1 youtu.be/FbGl8Doyc_4?si=WjPk… VPDFO! 2026 part 2 youtu.be/kd7mFNs0sPg VPDFO! 2026 part 3 youtu.be/bYZFMhOQIk8?si=GxRz… VPDFO! 2026 part 4 youtu.be/beAnb-LwxoI?si=Vsel…
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Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
🇪🇺🇬🇧 The UK is back. The UK will soon reintegrate into the EU, paving the way for Europe's full economic and military integration. Britain is essential to ending Europe's dependence on Washington and forging an independent foreign policy. For the UK, reintegration would mean greater economic prosperity and global influence Britain's biggest mistakes of the 21st century is finally coming to an end.
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Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
Russia's Brexit operation may be falling apart, 10 years later.
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“There is not a single sign of any overall economic damage done by Brexit” says @Nigel_Farage Meanwhile back on planet earth by almost every economic & financial measure Brexit has been disastrous for the UK Is anyone seriously buying his bull****? Get the FACTS here👇
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Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
🤩 The Brexit debate is moving very fast now. Bernd Lange, @berndlange chair of the European Parliament’s trade committee and a veteran of the Brexit negotiations, says Britain could move quickly into a *Switzerland plus* relationship with the EU. In other words, the choice is not simply: Hard Brexit forever or wait years for full re-entry. There are routes back towards deep economic integration much faster than that. And once again, the message from Europe is not stay away. It is: if Britain wants to come closer, the door is open.
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Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
#bbcqt Disappointing that the panel failed to challenge @mimsdavies that we did NOT receive the Covid vaccine early because we had left the EU. Just more deliberate misinformation from Brexiters.
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Patrick McCarthy🇪🇺🇬🇧#FBPE retweeted
Ten years on and nothing has changed has it? I still see TV programmes & social media with the same Brexit ignorance, lies, deceit, misinformation, stupidity, English nationalism, exceptionalism, denial & immigrant/foreigner hating driven opinions. The fact is Brexit was always going to remove our greater access rights onto our continent (for our businesses & us as individuals) without equally compensating us elsewhere.. It was & is not in the UK's gift to do what it did (its quite remarkable achievement) with 27 others.. Brexit was always going to shrink the UK economy; make trade, growth & movement across borders more difficult; *level down* trade; remove more rights, opportunities & benefits for more of us plebs; diminish our country's standing in the world .. All just a matter of how much. Brexiters (fully in control, in BJ's govt purged of Remainers) chose to make sure of this by a substantially greater amount than it needed to be. They got what they wanted: a "Canada Style" FTA ...tariff free & quota free (good luck getting this from their darling, Trump, or any other country) ...but no FTA was ever equally compensate what was rejected by them: i.e. 85% of *our* former *internal* market, by wealthy consumers. Which now (for goods) is smaller than the UK itself
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