Rafael Behr is right; by not making clear the damage Brexit has wrought, the Labour Govt. (and Kier Starmer specifically) have let Nigel Farage off the hook, and implicitly allowed him to profit from the implication of political success the referendum result (wrongly) implies.

Its long past the time to make the Brexiters pay the price for their 'leadership' in wrecking our economic prospects. Brexit was a major policy error & that needs to made clear!

#politics #brexit
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/27/nigel-farage-keir-starmer-brexit-truth

Rafael Behr is right; by not making clear the damage Brexit has wrought, the Labour Govt. (and Kier Starmer specifically) have let Nigel Farage off the hook, and implicitly allowed him to profit from the implication of political success the referendum result (wrongly) implies.

Its long past the time to make the Brexiters pay the price for their 'leadership' in wrecking our economic prospects. Brexit was a major policy error & that needs to made clear!

#politics #brexit
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/27/nigel-farage-keir-starmer-brexit-truth

"#Labour’s reluctance to name #Brexit as the cause of so many problems hasn’t stopped #Reform’s rise. It’s time to try the truth."

#UKPol

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/27/nigel-farage-keir-starmer-brexit-truth

"No policy action of the 21st century matches #Brexit in terms of consequence for Britain, nor even comes close. Boris Johnson can take credit for cajoling a majority to vote leave in 2016. David Cameron earns a place on the podium of shame for blundering into a referendum in the first place. But Farage’s agitation was the key. He set the goal, branded it “independence” and connected it to the high-voltage rail of anti-immigrant feeling."

"We tried listening to Farage. His probity and judgment were sold as the product called #Brexit. It turned out to be a piece of shit. Enough people already know this is the truth, but it would be liberating to hear it from the prime minister."

"No policy action of the 21st century matches #Brexit in terms of consequence for Britain, nor even comes close. Boris Johnson can take credit for cajoling a majority to vote leave in 2016. David Cameron earns a place on the podium of shame for blundering into a referendum in the first place. But Farage’s agitation was the key. He set the goal, branded it “independence” and connected it to the high-voltage rail of anti-immigrant feeling."

"#Labour’s reluctance to name #Brexit as the cause of so many problems hasn’t stopped #Reform’s rise. It’s time to try the truth."

#UKPol

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/27/nigel-farage-keir-starmer-brexit-truth

Also they open most peesonal packages and you then receive a form to fill, making the delivery time longer. I don’t know if it improved but the 1 time my wife received a b-day gift from a UK friend, this sucked.

Immigration now one of Scottish voters’ top concerns

A survey of more than 2,000 people found that 21 per cent put the issue in their top three priorities

and 79% did not.

http://archive.today/2025.08.25-204728/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/immigration-scotland-top-priority-voters-wf3tn39zx

Although there is an issue (driven largely by numbers of ‘legal’ migrants), this is being whipped up by the main stream media and parties such as #Reform. I seem to remember that #Brexit came virtually nowhere until the same thing happened with the consequent disaster.

#Scotland#ScotPol

Sooooo now you know why all the discontent was boiling up. What it was leading up to, all converging to a point ... Farage announces a new plan to curb illegal immigration. Funny that, just a coincidence I’m sure. The highlights, Farage and chums, would:
offer people £2.500 to leave voluntarily.
Britain would leave the European Convention on Human Rights and scrap the Human Rights Act to prevent legal challenges
Do deals with and pay some very dodgy governments inc the Taliban to take people

All very democratic and fair - on the basis he gets inof course - now watch the right wing press support him all the way to the next election, as they know he can be bought and paid for …. #brexit #tory #tories #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #ReformUK #farage #nigelfarage #operationrestorejustice

Farage's bigotry clear, he doesn't care about other human beings so long as it gets a few grubby votes. His #Brexit xenophobia cripples the UK, making it impossible for proper talks between UK & EU. He's quite happy to see UK as an international pariah by ripping up human rights legislation. It might have escaped his attention but leaving human rights conventions will negate trade agreements and good Friday agreement. God Help Us! https://shorturl.at/YLXsY #RejoinEU #ClimateCrisis#StandwithUkraine

Trump's little chum Farage has been trying to mobilise his thugs to campaign for an exit from the ECHR.

His stupid #Brexit has done more than enough damage.

Do people really want the government to drag them off the street, torture them, and execute them without a trial? That's what our ECHR membership is protecting us from.

Farage wants his own gang of masked thugs on the streets. He is not fit to run a whelk stall, let alone a country.

Farage's bigotry clear, he doesn't care about other human beings so long as it gets a few grubby votes. His #Brexit xenophobia cripples the UK, making it impossible for proper talks between UK & EU. He's quite happy to see UK as an international pariah by ripping up human rights legislation. It might have escaped his attention but leaving human rights conventions will negate trade agreements and good Friday agreement. God Help Us! https://shorturl.at/YLXsY #RejoinEU #ClimateCrisis#StandwithUkraine

Trump's little chum Farage has been trying to mobilise his thugs to campaign for an exit from the ECHR.

His stupid #Brexit has done more than enough damage.

Do people really want the government to drag them off the street, torture them, and execute them without a trial? That's what our ECHR membership is protecting us from.

Farage wants his own gang of masked thugs on the streets. He is not fit to run a whelk stall, let alone a country.

Sooooo now you know why all the discontent was boiling up. What it was leading up to, all converging to a point ... Farage announces a new plan to curb illegal immigration. Funny that, just a coincidence I’m sure. The highlights, Farage and chums, would:
offer people £2.500 to leave voluntarily.
Britain would leave the European Convention on Human Rights and scrap the Human Rights Act to prevent legal challenges
Do deals with and pay some very dodgy governments inc the Taliban to take people

All very democratic and fair - on the basis he gets inof course - now watch the right wing press support him all the way to the next election, as they know he can be bought and paid for …. #brexit #tory #tories #toryscum #politics #ukpolitics #bbc #news #EU #Labour #keirstarmer #Starmer #labourparty #RejoinEU #ReformUK #farage #nigelfarage #operationrestorejustice

Immigration now one of Scottish voters’ top concerns

A survey of more than 2,000 people found that 21 per cent put the issue in their top three priorities

and 79% did not.

http://archive.today/2025.08.25-204728/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/immigration-scotland-top-priority-voters-wf3tn39zx

Although there is an issue (driven largely by numbers of ‘legal’ migrants), this is being whipped up by the main stream media and parties such as #Reform. I seem to remember that #Brexit came virtually nowhere until the same thing happened with the consequent disaster.

#Scotland#ScotPol