🇪🇺 “It's purely and simply #Brexit” organiser of Tour of Britain tells Cycling Weekly👇
https://www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/they-dont-understand-the-bigger-picture-tour-of-britain-race-director-responds-to-route-critics

@drmikepj <insert #Brexit joke here> 😂

#TourOfBritain race director blames #Brexit and funding crisis amid criticism

Only 96 riders started the race in Altrincham last week

Critics complained of too many flat stages before finale
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/sep/11/organiser-blames-brexit-and-a-funding-crisis-for-boring-tour-of-britain-cycling
#ToryPoliciesInAction #BrexitBonus #LocalGovernmentFundingCuts
#Cycling

"The Labour Party is afraid to mention Brexit - it was a catastrophe and everybody knows it deep in their bones"

Comedian @stephenfry gives his views on the impact of Britain leaving the EU

Courtesy of: #BBC

#LabourParty #Britain #Brexit #EU #StephenFry

@yacc143 @Dasy2k1

Many years ago a friend of mine diagnosed the problem with British politics as being the substitution of feelings for facts.... #Brexit & its aftermath (including buyers' remorse) seem like a good example of that

"The UK has joined the EU's Horizon science funding scheme – but if we want the UK to lead, the hard work has just begun"

Cooperation and a large degree of humility is called for. And not just forced by UK exclusion from the management of Horizon Europe.

#EU #HorizonEurope #Horizon #UK #Brexit

https://theconversation.com/the-uk-has-joined-the-eus-horizon-science-funding-scheme-but-if-we-want-the-uk-to-lead-the-hard-work-has-just-begun-213088

Former Foreign Office chief admits telling colleagues he voted to stay in EU, because he isn't a floor-shitting twat. #brexit
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/sep/11/former-foreign-office-chief-simon-mcdonald-told-colleagues-he-voted-to-stay-in-eu?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Progeny 1.0 starts a BMus in Popular Music next week.

"Tour de farce: How Brexit is crippling the music industry."
#Brexit
https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5tZWdhcGhvbmUuZm0vUE1PNDQ0MjUyMzQ5OA/episode/NmU5YjMxMzYtNGU1NS0xMWVlLThiZGEtMDc5MWM5M2FhY2Uy?ep=14

Informative episode of the #Bunker Politics podcast about the impact of #Brexit on the #creative #industries, particularly #music.

All the impacts, as tragic as they are, were predicted -- which makes Brexit the most philistinic example of political vandalism.

https://pod.link/1496246490/episode/56893f716824669aad9491c4f19f5935

Good news on #electricvehicles as #BMW decide to continue the production of the Electric Mini in Oxford, suggesting all is not lost for the #electriccar sector in the UK's automative #manufacturing despite fears around market access to the EU.

I'm sure #JeremyHunt will claim this all his or #KemiBadenoch's doing, while 'forgetting' that the problems around this decision were related to #Brexit.

Still, good news especially for the #workers whose jobs now seem secure!

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/sep/11/bmw-u-turns-on-plans-to-move-electric-mini-production-from-uk-to-china

"Today, the numbers we were talking about - the exporting of forty bottles of whisky per second, the incredible contribution of farming to Scotland’s GDP - are now very much a mainstream discussion. It’s hugely encouraging that promotion of one of Scotland’s greatest success stories is being championed widely. It’s a rare example of the Overton Window shifting in a good way. " #farming #Brexit
#ScottishIndependence
https://wordpress.com/post/theorkneynews.scot/141126

The Brexit deal has been devastating for touring UK musicians - but this can be rectified https://reaction.life/the-brexit-deal-has-been-devastating-for-touring-uk-musicians-but-this-can-be-rectified/ @birminghammn #music #musicians #Brexit

El progresivo empobrecimiento del Reino Unido alarma a los británicos - https://www.lavanguardia.com/economia/20230910/9216266/progresivo-empobrecimiento-reino-unido-alarma-britanicos.html #Brexit

What a ridiculous thing to be “outraged” about.

Better that they be outraged about the state of the NHS, crumbling concrete schools, child poverty… or even the diminished status of the UK on the world stage, in direct contradiction of the themes expressed in their beloved “Rule, Britannia!”

But such is the rabid xenophobia of the committed Brexiter.

#Brexit #EU #Proms

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/sep/10/brexiters-in-outcry-after-crowds-wave-eu-flag-at-last-night-of-the-proms

Global Britain hit by fresh setback

#Brexit dividend….

https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/global-britain-hit-by-fresh-setback-356695/

‘Everyone knows #Brexit is a catastrophe’ – Stephen Fry lets rip live on BBC https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/stephen-fry-brexit-bbc-356704/

@ChrisMayLA6

Reality is: #Brexit #Britain under the @conservatives has become an irrelevance within the context of global superpower power-playing!

It will take the UK a very long time to extricate itself from the wreckage of 14 years of Tory misrule - & I have * zero* confidence that a @UKLabour government under ‘Sir’ Keir (#KidStarver) #Starmer is up to the job of ‘building back better’!

To the contrary, I fear they will just manage our decline slightly more effectively but just as corruptly!

#ToryCorruption #ToriesUnfitToGovern #Sunak #Johnson #May #Truss #Cameron #Austerity

So, putting their finger(s) to the wind, companies are clamouring to talk to the #LabourParty... partly driven by needing to cosy up to the (prospective) next Govt., partly due to dismay about the #Tories continued 'mismanagement' of #Brexit & partly to try and get inside the party's #greentransition policy, firms have oversubscribed the party's #business summit.

The left of the party will see this as a further sign of the party's drift rightwards, for pragmatists this looks like a good sign?

@PSiReN

#Brexit mob: "We must regain support of our borders!"

Logical person: "Right, let's rejoin the Dublin Accord, creating a proper deterrent without paying Rwanda, and holding other EU countries to account via the ECJ, like we used to do"

Brexit mob: "NOT LIKE THAT!!"

I'm watching the Last Night of the Proms. My impression is that more people are waving the EU flag than waving the Union flag.

I'm looking forward to reading tomorrow's apoplectic editorials in the Sunday Telegraph, Sunday Mail & similar right-wing rags.
#Brexit #RejoinEU