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#UKGoodNews
posts. Author of the go-to Brexit Benefits list. Unapologetically pro-UK and pro-Brexit. Unashamedly centre-right and libertarian.
🚨THE BREXIT BENEFITS LIST 2024🚨
In March '22, I was asked to provide 10 "Tangible Benefits" of leaving the EU. So over the course of a lunch break I wrote a list of 10 and sent it over.
Since then it has been shared thousands of times, and even made the press multiple times.
Important note.
A lot of noise is being made about how the six men who tragically died off the French coast were Afghanis, who would've likely been eligible for asylum in the UK.
The French coastguard have said they were Afghanis, based on what the other migrants told them.
The UK is not in a recession.
The Eurozone, Germany, Estonia, Ireland, Lithuania and Hungary are all in a recession.
Please do by all means keep telling me that the UK is somehow worse. Go right ahead.
As the EU's own data says otherwise.
In tribute to
@Rob_Kimbell
, who sadly passed away after a short illness yesterday.
Many of you will know that Rob posted every weekday lots of good news about UK businesses and the UK economy.
So for the next hour I will do the same.
Rest in Peace Rob.
#UKGoodNews
Why is the BBC continuing the lie that the man arrested for the murder of Kulsuma Alter is "from Oldham", when he is in the UK on a student visa and is actually from Bangladesh?
This needs to stop.
He is the f*cking Prime Minister of a nuclear power.
The notion that he is just a normal guy that can just jump on a commuter train is for the birds. He isn't.
This isn't a pro-Rishi tweet - I would say exactly the same for *any* PM from *any* party.
🚁Uh oh, he's done it again. Rishi Sunak took a helicopter for the 70-mile journey to Kent to promote his small boats policy this morning. It would have taken him an hour on the train....
TANGIBLE BREXIT BENEFITS: 18 MONTHS LATER 🧵
In March 2022, I was asked to provide 10 "Tangible Benefits" of leaving the EU. So over the course of a lunch break I wrote a list of 10 and sent it over.
Since then it has been shared thousands of times, and even made the press.
So what have we learnt?
Marina - 1.5/5
Jacob - 5/5
Despite Marina repeatedly labelling Jacob a liar throughout this appearance, every single thing he said was true, and she said more things that were lies that those that were true.
So Marina is the liar. Not Jacob.
18/18 END
Kemi Badenoch on Brexit:
"Far from turning their backs on the UK, companies are queuing up to invest here. The UK is on the up and remains a country others want to deal with"
"Global Britain is here and it’s thriving"
#UKTrade
All I want is a smidgen of consistency in political arguments.
For example.
If Boris Johnson is to blame for the parties held by civil servants when he wasn't even there, as "the buck stops with him".
Then Keir Starmer is to blame for the inaction of the CPS against Jimmy
It has now been a week, 7 full days, where not a single migrant has arrived into the UK by small boat, as recorded by the MoD and the Royal Navy.
7 full days. Not a single migrant.
The Rwanda agreement, as a deterrent, is working. Lets keep it that way.
National Insurance Contributions fund state pensions and the NHS.
So will the Prime Minister’s £46 billion of unfunded tax cuts come from cutting state pensions or cuts to our NHS?
#PMQs
@omid9
That you personally have decided that someone's perfectly legitimate views are tantamount to racism, when they're not, is the problem here.
You want someone's views to be silenced, so you declare them as fitting into a category that they don't, in order to try and achieve it.
@adilray
Hi Adil
I would like a better life. Please give me your house and your car.
Make sure you give them to me in a civil and humane way.
Also I'd like your salary too. Again, in a civil and humane way.
Chop chop.
@GaryLineker
Not allowing UK citizens to go through eGates is a political choice made by EU member states, not a consequence of Brexit.
One that Spain, Portugal, Italy and others have already reversed.
You do not need to be in the EU to use eGates. It is a political choice. Nothing more.
Seriously
@BBCNews
- what are you playing at?
Every major international news outlet has covered the impending accession of the UK to the
#CPTPP
, except you. The national news broadcaster.
What is wrong with you? It is impossible for you to have missed it.
God this is tedious.
Debate in HoC about the Knowsley violence outside the asylum hotel, and nearly every Labour MP comment is that it is Suella Bravermans language that caused it.
They simply do not have a clue about what is going on in the country do they.
An interesting article here.
Germany says that Brexit has been an economic disaster for them in terms of import/export with the UK - having seen a 14% drop in exports of goods to the UK since 2016.
The UK hasn't seen the same level of decline, so the trade balance is actually
TANGIBLE BREXIT BENEFITS: ONE YEAR LATER
About a year ago, I was asked to provide 10 "Tangible Benefits" of leaving the EU. So over the course of a lunchbreak I wrote a list of 10 and sent it over.
Since then it has been shared thousands of time, and even made the press.
1/?
Andrew Neil & Jon Ashworth on C4 last night
AN: "What was the fastest growing economy last year in the G7?"
JA: "Well we were one of the slowest in the G7..."
AN: "Who was the fastest..."
JA: "You'll have to remind me..."
AN: "Well actually...it was the United Kingdom"
With the news about BoJo in the last 48 hours, i've noticed a resurgence in the volumes of people posting that the UK had the highest covid death rate in Europe.
For the record - no it didn't. The UK *never* had the highest covid death rate in Europe.
The volume of crybabies on here today about signing the
#CPTPP
agreement - it is a joy to behold.
As they know it is another very big nail in the coffin of their deluded hopes to rejoin the EU.
Cheers!
You'll love this one
@elonmusk
- one for your wall 😃
James Cleverly, UK Foreign Secretary:
"I believe there is an attempt by broadcasters to try to outpace social media platforms. The days of breaking news on those traditional platforms is long in the past"
"They should focus
If it is "Tory MP Imran Khan" when he had the whip removed, then it is also "Labour MP Claudia Webbe" and "Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn" and "Labour MP Fiona Onasanya".
Let's have a little consistency in our reporting eh, shall we UK press.
Same for same please.
So Priti Patel refers specifically to intelligence that shows Russian agents may try to enter the UK as Ukrainian refugees, and that this is why visa security checks are still required.
Labour and SNP response - why don't you just drop the visa checks.
Were they not listening??
Well.
I've read all 48 pages of the Tolley report on Raab's accusations of bullying, and I didn't see a single thing in there that isn't the norm in the private sector.
Didn't do your job? Don't expect a thank you.
As many of you will have seen over the weekend, the trade deal negotiations between the EU and Australia have broken down after five years of talks.
It could now be years before they even start up again, let alone complete.
Years where the UK will have a sizable advantage over
I think about this clip from time to time.
Where British representatives go to a foreign government, to ask them to negotiate in bad faith.
If there was ever a need for a modern example of treasonous behaviour, this was it. All caught on camera.
“What would help the Remain side in the UK, is if the EU can be very very tough and uncompromising to make the British people regret voting to Leave EU”
AC Grayling when he met with Guy Verhofstadt.
One important thing about CPTPP membership that seems to have been lost.
The UK got there first. The first non-founder country to accede.
Six more countries formally in the queue. Many more have stated they plan to join.
The UK will get a vote and a veto on them all.
So when
Remember when
@Keir_Starmer
said that lawbreakers couldn't be lawmakers, and we said at the time that he would eat those words?
Here is Emily Thornberry breaking the law (81mph).
So I assume she will be resigning, since she cannot be a lawmaker anymore?
Thems the rules, yeah?
Fascinating to watch the massive u-turn from Keir Starmer at PMQs on immigration.
The man who passionately argued for keeping Freedom of Movement, now saying that immigration is holding down the wages of British workers.
Thats the Brexit argument chief!
Captain Flip-Flop 🤡
So here's my 2p on the Keir Starmer / Jimmy Savile comment.
Starmer was the director of the CPS at the time.
So if you want to hold Johnson responsible for the actions of those working for him during lockdown.
Then you also need to hold Starmer responsible in the same way.
Wow - The Times admitting that there are benefits to Brexit.
"[Brexit] has enabled the UK to be much more nimble in striking bold foreign policy stances outside the EU’s foreign policy framework, which imposed some constraints. This was particularly notable in the way Britain
Remember the whole argument about whether or not an EU member state is sovereign?
Yesterday the EU referred Sweden to the CJEU for failing to fully implement what it was told to do.
Doesn't sound very sovereign to me.
The sheer brass neck of some people.
@MarinaPurkiss
and
@jemmaforte
having the audacity to comment on the
@LozzaFox
issue this week
Remember when she endorsed t-shirts calling for all Tories to be culled like badgers?
Is that better or worse than saying you wouldn't shag
Oh.
Sucks to be you Ireland.
"The Irish Government is strongly resisting a European Commission bid to seek a slice of Ireland's corporate sector profits as a way to replenish the EU budget, RTÉ News has learned"
This is in THE GUARDIAN.
"I’ve got news for those who say Brexit is a disaster: it isn’t. That’s why rejoining is just a pipe dream"
THE GUARDIAN.
It's over. This is the fat lady belting out her greatest hits through a megaphone.
Jacob Rees Mogg vs Marina Purkiss: The Verdict
Earlier this evening on GB News, the outspoken political commentator Marina Purkiss appeared on the Jacob Rees Mogg programme "State of the Nation" to debate the topic of the so-called "culture war".
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What a surprise.
"Bank of England boss Andrew Bailey set to stage U-turn as he is expected to row back on 'grossly exaggerated' forecasts about UK's looming recession"
🇫🇷🇬🇧Fun Fact
In 2012, the French economy was 99% of the size of the UK economy.
In 2022, the French economy was 90% of the size of the UK economy.
Please do tell me more about how the UK economy is suffering, and is growing less than its western EU neighbours. Go right ahead.
Amazing - this Labour MP better hope he still has a job in the morning, seeing as he just stated on live TV that his boss and party leader committed a criminal act by negotiating with a foreign power when not legally empowered to do so.
Q: ‘What you’re saying is that Keir Starmer has negotiated a secret deal with Emmanuel Macron, is that right?’
A: ‘What he’s doing is he’s negotiated a deal with him.’
@guyverhofstadt
The British people don't want to rejoin Guy - why not instead spend your time on things you are actually responsible for, instead of meddling in the politics and affairs of other nations.
🚨BOOM🚨
UK Accession to CPTPP Agreed!!
Announcement will be made on Thursday evening, that the UK has been accepted as the 12th member of the
#CPTPP
- the first country to accede since the agreement was created.
#UKTrade
Canadian PM Trudeau flew into London earlier today.
Guess what kind of plane he took.
That's right - a Canadian government one, bought and catered to the job, just like the UK govt use.
Let the outrage ensue. How dare he not use commercial flights etc.
So the Labour candidate for Wellingborough stands for:
- Open borders
- Unilateral nuclear disarmament
- Public ownership of all banks
- Second Brexit referendum
No one in their right minds should vote for this combination of beliefs into Parliament right now.
Same old Labour.
Meanwhile
London has been ranked as the world’s most high-tech city - snatching the top spot from New York
1. London
2. New York
3. San Francisco
4. Zurich
5. Lugano
6. ???
7. Oxford
8. Los Angeles
9. Tel Aviv
10. Hong Kong
No sign of an EU city...
I cannot oversell the value I have found in regularly reading newspapers from other EU countries.
The volume of anti-UK guff we are sold by our media here is off the scale, and presented completely out of context with what is happening elsewhere.
I'll keep sharing what I can 👍
Been two hours now since I started getting responses to my list of Brexit benefits, having posted it as a reply on the below BBC Politics post.
Lots of people saying things aren't true, lots of abuse, but yet to have a single coherent response to a single one of the items on the
Does anyone want to point out to Martin that:
1) Norway isn't in the EU
2) You don't have to be an EU member to use e-gates
3) Multiple EU members have returned e-gate usage to UK visitors
Glum Brits waiting in static line at Oslo airport for an analogue stamp, while EU and Norwegian passengers sweep through the digital barriers. Embarrassing Brexit self-harm in one shot.
#brexit
So we know that both Kier Starmer and Anas Sarwar own poppies - and we know that they've worn them in public.
But we also know that they both chose not to wear the poppy, when talking about Islamophobia. From all appearances, choosing to take them off.
Courtesy of
@LGB_1962
Meanwhile in the EU...
A proposed new law would see cars that are more than 15 years old be declared as "residual cars", and banned from having significant repairs should they require them.
You glad you left yet?
Oh.
Took her long enough! Mustve been when I pointed out that there is less than 25% support for rejoining the EU when you actually put the conditions for rejoining to the public.
She didn't like that one bit, obviously.
Wow.
Exit polls have the anti-EU PVV party led by Geert Wilders winning the Dutch general elections
The party strongly advocates leaving the EU.
Could we be about to see another massive shockwave to the EU, and a road to
#NEXIT
?
The UK and Brexit naysayers are really taking a spanking this week:
🌏 CPTPP Agreement Signed
📉 Inflation Down
💷 Pound Above $1.30
🚛 UK > EU at Pre-Brexit Speeds
🔋 Battery Gigafactory, 9000 Jobs
🎣 Fishing Laws Improved
🇹🇷 New Deal With Türkiye
This is what happens when you welcome British tourists from the outset, and don't act like silly buggers stopping the use of eGates out of spite like other EU nations did (and are now rolling back)
"Portugal hails ‘essential’ UK trade as visitors boom"
Cliff notes for those who haven't watched the clip (you should):
- By his account, Nima was a political refugee from Iran
- He was granted asylum in Greece
- He then went to Germany as an economic migrant
- He then went to France as an economic migrant
- He then came to the
Listen to this Victoria Derbyshire interview with an asylum seeker…
…it absolutely blows the Rwanda narrative out of the water. THIS is what has been entirely missing from the national conversation - the viewpoints and motivations of asylum seekers.
@thatginamiller
@VoteTrueAndFair
Quick question Gina,
You do know that:
1) EU membership now requires adoption of the Euro
2) Support for rejoining the EU drops to below 25% when adoption of the Euro is included
Even lower when Schengen is added.
You do get that you are flogging a dead horse, right?
Meanwhile...
The UK has climbed two places in the annual Henley passport index for 2024, ranked 4th in the world - getting visa free access to 191 countries.
Seems that whole "little isolated Britain" was more remainer nonsense.
#UKGoodNews
Andrew Neil:
"The EU at the moment is going nowhere - the EU economic model is not something that anybody wants to copy at the moment"
"Europe is still in long-term economic decline. Germany, at the centre of Europe, is now realizing that Mrs Merkel's 16 years were a disaster"
Picture the scene.
You are in your home, and you hear a window smash. You go to see what the noise is, and there is a man in your living room.
"Hello" he says "I need somewhere to stay, as I am running away from a bad thing. Can I say in your house?"
"No" you reply - "I do not
People like Loopy Liz Webster think that to "Save British Farming" we need to rejoin the EU.
This is what farmers across Europe think about EU policies and whether they are "saving" farming.
Yes - that is a photo of fires outside the EU Parliament.
This stinks.
This absolutely stinks.
Weeks of constant attempts to get rid of Boris, and then a left wing protest happens to mob the Labour Party leader, and Boris is blamed?
Someone happens to shout Savile during an anti-vaxx rally??
Am I seriously living through this?
This is an absolutely shocking headline
@BBCWorld
- sinking ever further into activism and partisan coverage instead of actual news.
"Vauxhall-maker warns Brexit may force it to close UK factory"
Your own article covers the detail, that the problem is the increased cost of raw
Sky News journalist intentionally distributes reduced clip instead of full exchange, to try to sell a different story to what actually happened.
Activists, not journalists.
Exclusive footage of Rishi Sunak challenged this morning by a former health worker on the state of the NHS, - captured by an off duty
@skynews
camera operator
The UK ends July '23 with more trade deals in effect than any other independent country on the planet
1- 🇪🇺 EU - 45
2- 🇬🇧 UK - 38
3- 🇳🇴🇮🇸🇱🇮 EFTA - 35
4- 🇨🇱 Chile - 31
5- 🇸🇬 Singapore - 27
CPTPP & Bosnia take the UK up to 40 - GCC & India when done, 42. Source: WTO July '23
In the last 24 hours, I've had like 10 remoaners reply to my tweets, telling me that there are tariffs between the UK and EU.
We have a zero tariff FTA with the EU - the only things that face tariffs, are things not from the UK.
Why do remoaners not even know the basics?
So, just so we are clear.
The BBC fact checked Keir Starmer's speech, and found that there were at least four demonstrable lies within it.
Where is
@RhonddaBryant
when you need him. Surely he's outraged that his leader is such a liar?
@robinlustig
@SuellaBraverman
As you may know Robin, the Nationality and Borders Act made asylum claims from those who have passed through safe third countries inadmissable (condition 4). As they cannot claim asylum, they are clandestine entrants, so have broken the law.
Hence being illegal. Hope this helps.
NEW: Big 12 percentage point lead for staying out of the EU in this weeks WeThink polling.
Remoaners are really having just a terrible week this week. Please don't share this and break their hearts even more - the tears might cause localised flooding.
INVESTMENT: Aldi, the UKs fourth-largest supermarket chain, is now sourcing 75% of its goods from British suppliers - and spent an additional £1.3 Billion with British suppliers in 2023 against the previous year.
#UKGoodNews
Gunther thinks that the UK should downgrade the UK plug standard - globally considered to be the best and safest plug design in the world - to conform with the worse Europe plugs.
Here's an idea - if they are all about doing things better, they should all move to the UK plug 🇬🇧
Well everyone got a sneak peek of what a Labour govt would be like this week.
Proposing a policy that everyone roundly hated, that would demonstrably make the situation three times worse than it is, and they were mocked by the EU for even proposing it.
Bravo. Top drawer stuff.
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TRADE: The Taiwanese Ambassador to the UK, Vincent Chin-Hsiang Yao, has confirmed that his country hopes to make Britain its biggest trading partner in Europe - stating that Brexit has allowed the UK "more leeway" in foreign and trade policy.
#UKGoodNews
Narrator: Lucy is intentionally sharing outdated graphs, knowing that the data being shown on them is wrong.
The ONS uprated UK GDP growth in September 2023, so the UKs position on this graph is just plain garbage.
Don't let them lie to you. Call them on it.
A Labour MP just called for, in relation to the Gaza crisis, "the hostages on both sides to be released".
Israel hasn't taken hostages. Hamas took hostages.
Remember people - these are the people that will be in power later this year, if we don't stop them.
On the BBC just now:
"The Northern Ireland Protocol was part of the Brexit trade agreement signed off by Boris Johnson and the EU back in 2020"
No it wasn't. No it isn't. The Withdrawal Agreement is not a trade agreement FFS.
Why can't you get things correct
@BBCNews
?
In another amazing coincidence, technology at the border is helping to completely eliminate queues at St Pancras for the Eurostar as well.
It's almost like Brexiteers were right when they said technology could solve any border delays. Who knew.
The diversification of suppliers away from the EU continues.
Morocco has gone from supplying only 1.5% of the UKs raspberry imports, to over 55%, inside of only a few years.
The UK now consumes over 25% of Morocco's raspberry exports.
#UKTrade
Quite the tasty little mic drop from Chris Heaton-Harris MP, at a press conference with Irish Tánaiste Micheál Martin.
There won't be a UK-Ireland returns agreement - if they want a deal, it has to be at the EU level.
In others words, SUCK IT.
Liz: So you know the EU yeah?
Farmer: The place we left?
Liz: Yeah
Farmer: The place where thousands of farmers are protesting, making blockades and laying capitals to siege over policies driving them out of business?
Liz: Yeah
Farmer: What about it?
Liz: You want back in, right?
Wow i've really annoyed a lot of people today.
Seems that there is a whole bunch of people who are upset that the UK is doing well, that their passport gets them into more countries now than it ever has, and that export opportunities for the UK are opening up around the world.
TANGIBLE BREXIT BENEFITS ALERT
In an interesting sign of progress from the now cliche "give me one tangible benefit to leaving the EU" line, I was asked this morning to provide TEN tangible benefits.
So I had a think over my lunch break, and here is my list.
0/10
Date for your diaries.
1st September 2023.
The day the ONS published revised GDP figures, that completely killed off the narrative that leaving the EU through Brexit caused damage to UK long-term GDP growth.
🎉🎉🎉
DID YOU KNOW?
Leaving the EU in 2020 allowed the UK to dodge an estimated €90 Billion bullet, by not having to be a guarantor on the €750 Billion covid recovery fund - a debt to be paid off over the next 30 years!
My new list - coming soon!
BREAKING: Boris Johnson once stared aggressively at a pigeon, and has also reportedly been caught in public eating scones with jam and cream applied in the wrong order.
Labour are calling for his resignation, and it has been suggested by the BBC that they are right to do so.