45% for rejoin the EU almost exactly matches Burnham’s vote in Makerfield so no surprise. All the 38% for Stay Out likely voting Reform or Restore.
Still less than half for Rejoin though and over 10% DK. As a poll last week showed if Rejoin required joining the Euro and Schengen then Stay Out would retake the lead
A poll that lists arguments for one side of a debate only isn’t of much value. Also, it seems unlikely that, should the UK rejoin, that Schengen would be a requirement.
We should be in Schengen regardless of EU membership.
Being outside hardly achieves the objective of securing our borders.
We should certainly not be in Schengen, either inside or outside the EU.
I am a big advocate for freedom of movement. The Government (no Government here or in the EU) should be telling law abiding people who are no threat to the country where they can or cannot travel and how long they can stay. So unless people pose a threat to public safety or the country as a whole we should not be forbidding them from entering the country.
But Schengen is about removing the ability to control who does and does not cross your borders. It is a direct risk to public and national safety. Why do you think that, after a terrorist attack, the first thing France, Belgium and Germany have done in the past is to suspend Schengen? Why is it that right now Schengen is suspended for Austria, Denmark, Italy, The Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Sweden, France, Switzerland and Norway? All cite criminal and terror threats.
Schengen facilitates criminal activity and terrorism. Lets have freedom of movement but consign Schengen to the dustbin.
Schengen is a no-brainer (yes!) if you are in continental Europe and a no-brainer (no!) if you are on an archipeligo.
Not sure about the first part. Partial-brainer, maybe.
Clearly it isn't a no brainer for many Governments inside the EU.
France for example reintroduced border checks in 2015 and has never lifted them. They reapply to the EU every 6 months for an extension and it is always granted. Effectively France has been outside Schengen for the last 11 years.
Oh come now. They may have occasional checks on major roads but no-one's stopping the average motorist or an illegal immigrant or a gun-runner walking across fields. Not really "effectively outside Schengen".
If I fly to Basel and hire a car, will I be routinely stopped entering France?
I have no idea. I travelled often around Europe before Schengen even existed and regularly crossed borders without being checked. In the last decade I have travelled within the supposed Schengen area by train and have been checked at borders.
What I do know is that France has suspended Shcngen for the last 11 years so that it has the right to stop and check people at its borders and it has used that right. Same for a number of other EU states. They recognise what you apparently do not - that Schengen is a threat to their citizens. I see no prospect of that changing in the foreseeable future.
Entirely predictable, now that people have discovered that far from solving all our problems as was dishonestly promised or implied, Brexit has actually made some of them worse.
That's the fault of Bozo and his gang, not the concept of Brexit.
Is Scotland going to be first European team to win a match in #WorldCup2026 ?
Hope so. This is our WC. When you look at both Brazil and Morocco you think 1 point would be a result. Scotland need 3 points tonight to have any prospect of progressing. Going to be a little tense, I fear.
45/55 to REJOIN... Wasn't that what Populus found for REMAIN, in a UK-wide poll, on their day of referendum, poll? (asking for a friend as I'm getting old and my memory is becoming hazy )
"The father of a teenager who took her own life after viewing harmful content online has said he is "dismayed" by reports the government is to ban young people from using some social media platforms.
Ian Russell has campaigned for better online protections since his daughter Molly died aged 14. But he has said "sledgehammer techniques like bans" would only cause more problems."
45/55 to REJOIN... Wasn't that what Populus found for REMAIN, in a UK poll on their day of referendum poll, poll? (asking for a friend as I'm getting old and my memory is becoming hazy )
"My history's a little hazy, Cassius. But didn't the barbarians lose the Battle of Carthage?"
I see that Rubio is now the favourite to be the Republican candidate for the Presidency in 2028.
Is this since there were rumours Vance would be made to sign the shit sandwich Iran "peace" deal instead of Trumpski?
I think it is going to be an electronic signing now.
Whether signed or not I wouldn't set much store by any 'deal' between these 2 counterparties. The only country as untrustworthy as either of them is the other one.
45/55 to REJOIN... Wasn't that what Populus found for REMAIN, in a UK poll on their day of referendum poll, poll? (asking for a friend as I'm getting old and my memory is becoming hazy )
45 plays 55 does not demonstrate an enthusiasm for Brexit.
I was an enthusiastic Remainer, but now we have left I have absolutely no desire to return on far weaker terms than we had before we Brexited. I still regret leaving and I concur with TSE's assertion that we are the only nation in history to impose economic sanctions on ourselves, but we are where we are.
Gregg Carlstrom @glcarlstrom · 6h Amazing if four months of war comes to an end with J.D. Vance getting an email "Please DocuSign these documents: IranUSA_MOU_Final_FINAL_ActuallyFinal_V43"
Is Scotland going to be first European team to win a match in #WorldCup2026 ?
Hope so. This is our WC. When you look at both Brazil and Morocco you think 1 point would be a result. Scotland need 3 points tonight to have any prospect of progressing. Going to be a little tense, I fear.
3 points with hopefully reasonable goal difference gives a team a real chance of going forward in third place. Hopefully a good win 3-0 for Scotland tonight. A point v Brazil or Morocco then Scotland definitely qualify. Two narrow defeats gives them a chance.
Brilliant by Vinicius but the midfield lacks pace and some of the defending is woeful by Brazil.
This is nothing like the great Brazil teams of the past but they are still Brazil and a third game when they need something to progress is not what Scotland wanted.
"Home Office limits ‘one in, one out’ migrant deal with France
Officials fear the border scheme to effectively trade small boat arrivals for asylum seekers brings in ‘young men more likely to engage in criminal activity’"
The GB News bungalows are quite agitated about Mr Milliband:
In Germany the NAZIS had lots of Gauleiters like Millipede, they caused havoc and deaths, he is going to bring about scores of deaths this next winter, time he was actually PRACTICING what HE preaches, his carbon footprint is shocking.
We could apply this narrative by Congressman James Comer of Kentucky to the removal of welfare for genuinely poor people promoted by Lowe, Farage and Badenoch.
The GB News bungalows are quite agitated about Mr Milliband:
In Germany the NAZIS had lots of Gauleiters like Millipede, they caused havoc and deaths, he is going to bring about scores of deaths this next winter, time he was actually PRACTICING what HE preaches, his carbon footprint is shocking.
"The father of a teenager who took her own life after viewing harmful content online has said he is "dismayed" by reports the government is to ban young people from using some social media platforms.
Ian Russell has campaigned for better online protections since his daughter Molly died aged 14. But he has said "sledgehammer techniques like bans" would only cause more problems."
The silly fellow just needs to take a step back and see how other government prohibitions have worked. We are now gloriously free of drug abuse for instance. And thanks to that 'don't kill people' edict - the judiciary just faff about all day like scampering new born lambs.
The GB News bungalows are quite agitated about Mr Milliband:
In Germany the NAZIS had lots of Gauleiters like Millipede, they caused havoc and deaths, he is going to bring about scores of deaths this next winter, time he was actually PRACTICING what HE preaches, his carbon footprint is shocking.
His carbon footprint is enormous. In his private life as well as his public life. There is something deeply unsettling about the psychology of someone who wants other people to give up their tumble dryers and underfloor heating, yet lives an enormously privileged life largely at the expense of the same taxpayers he would like to have lower living standards. It's the reason why the public despise politicians.
"Home Office limits ‘one in, one out’ migrant deal with France
Officials fear the border scheme to effectively trade small boat arrivals for asylum seekers brings in ‘young men more likely to engage in criminal activity’"
You will be shocked, shocked, shocked by this accusation:
Many climate activists praise China as the world’s renewable energy superpower, usually to shame the United States for not doing more to cut carbon emissions. But Beijing is cooking its books.
China’s official economic data has long been questionable: The economic projection for growth last year was “around five percent,” and, sure enough, the final figure came in at precisely 5 percent. A similar pattern has emerged on climate accounting.
Reliable reporting suggests that China has been doctoring the data on its fossil fuel emissions by changing what it counts. In March, the Chinese government announced it had cut its carbon intensity by 17.7 percent from 2020 to 2025. That number was suspiciously close to its stated goal of an 18 percent reduction during that period.
The GB News bungalows are quite agitated about Mr Milliband:
In Germany the NAZIS had lots of Gauleiters like Millipede, they caused havoc and deaths, he is going to bring about scores of deaths this next winter, time he was actually PRACTICING what HE preaches, his carbon footprint is shocking.
You will be shocked, shocked, shocked by this accusation:
Many climate activists praise China as the world’s renewable energy superpower, usually to shame the United States for not doing more to cut carbon emissions. But Beijing is cooking its books.
China’s official economic data has long been questionable: The economic projection for growth last year was “around five percent,” and, sure enough, the final figure came in at precisely 5 percent. A similar pattern has emerged on climate accounting.
Reliable reporting suggests that China has been doctoring the data on its fossil fuel emissions by changing what it counts. In March, the Chinese government announced it had cut its carbon intensity by 17.7 percent from 2020 to 2025. That number was suspiciously close to its stated goal of an 18 percent reduction during that period.
Okay, maybe not all of you will be totally shocked.
Does Ed Miliband know about this accusation? If so, would he be inclined to accept it, or reject it?
Its almost as if allowing them to wipe out our manufacturing by dumping goods on us at less than cost price didn't actually save the planet after all. Free trade huh? Mugs, we are.
SNP may face fines over VAT claims linked to Peter Murrell fraud
Tax expert says John Swinney’s party, which has opened discussions with HMRC, should have come clean about potentially wrongful claims years ago
The SNP is facing fines from HMRC over potentially illegal VAT claims linked to Peter Murrell’s embezzlement, a tax expert advising the Scottish government has claimed.
After Murrell’s admission last month that he embezzled £400,000 from the SNP, John Swinney, the first minister, admitted his party may have wrongly reclaimed tax on items he fraudulently recorded as legitimate business expenses.
Dan Neidle, who was appointed by SNP ministers to sit on their own tax advisory group, told The Sunday Times that the SNP should have “fessed up” three years ago.
The party should have reported itself to the UK’s tax authority as soon as they became aware of Murrell’s offending, Neidle said.
When the tax issue was raised at Holyrood last month, Swinney said his party had “opened up discussions” with HMRC because of fears that Murrell’s embezzlement may have “implications in relation to tax”.
I have no recollection of taking part in this auction.
Shoe-gate! How Sturgeon donated £290 stilettos to SNP fundraiser...then watched as Murrell bought them for £4,000
Nicola Sturgeon donated a signed £290 pair of her shoes for auction at an SNP fundraising event – then looked on as her fraudster husband ‘bought’ them for an eye-watering £4,000, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
To the amazement of a packed venue, shamed former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell submitted the successful offer for his wife’s high heels – showcased in a bespoke display box – as bidding stalled at £1,500.
And just months after Murrell ‘returned’ the Kurt Geiger green snakeskin shoes to his then First Minister wife, she wore them at Downing Street on a visit to Prime Minister Theresa May.
Last night questions were raised over whether Murrell, who has admitted to embezzling more than £400,000 from the SNP, used stolen money to buy the shoes.
SNP may face fines over VAT claims linked to Peter Murrell fraud
Tax expert says John Swinney’s party, which has opened discussions with HMRC, should have come clean about potentially wrongful claims years ago
The SNP is facing fines from HMRC over potentially illegal VAT claims linked to Peter Murrell’s embezzlement, a tax expert advising the Scottish government has claimed.
After Murrell’s admission last month that he embezzled £400,000 from the SNP, John Swinney, the first minister, admitted his party may have wrongly reclaimed tax on items he fraudulently recorded as legitimate business expenses.
Dan Neidle, who was appointed by SNP ministers to sit on their own tax advisory group, told The Sunday Times that the SNP should have “fessed up” three years ago.
The party should have reported itself to the UK’s tax authority as soon as they became aware of Murrell’s offending, Neidle said.
When the tax issue was raised at Holyrood last month, Swinney said his party had “opened up discussions” with HMRC because of fears that Murrell’s embezzlement may have “implications in relation to tax”.
I have no recollection of taking part in this auction.
Shoe-gate! How Sturgeon donated £290 stilettos to SNP fundraiser...then watched as Murrell bought them for £4,000
Nicola Sturgeon donated a signed £290 pair of her shoes for auction at an SNP fundraising event – then looked on as her fraudster husband ‘bought’ them for an eye-watering £4,000, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
To the amazement of a packed venue, shamed former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell submitted the successful offer for his wife’s high heels – showcased in a bespoke display box – as bidding stalled at £1,500.
And just months after Murrell ‘returned’ the Kurt Geiger green snakeskin shoes to his then First Minister wife, she wore them at Downing Street on a visit to Prime Minister Theresa May.
Last night questions were raised over whether Murrell, who has admitted to embezzling more than £400,000 from the SNP, used stolen money to buy the shoes.
There is always haggling when a plea is agreed for something like this. And in Scotland it has been reported that what Murrell was looking to have excluded from his plea was numerous gifts made by him to his wife. Which suggested to me that he was still trying to protect her as best he could.
Erm, no she's not nor has she traded anything like it. Would be lay of the year that. Very good chance she's next chancellor but 1.04?!?!?!
Either that or I misunderstood you.
She's available at 1.04 as next Chancellor on Betfair but it is a relatively illiquid market.
My legendary modesty prevents me from posting that I tipped Ed Miliband as next Chancellor at 33/1.
Nothing will ever beat my first ever political bet at great odds after years posting on here and all thanks to a late night blog by SkyNews Jon Craig while at the TUC when he suggested that the Union bosses had decided that the best candidate to beat David Miliband in a future Labour leadership contest was his own brother Ed Miliband!
We certainly did but has the Scotland team ever done it any other way. But a win is a win, I was struggling to remember the last time we had ever won an opening match in the World Cup. Nite everyone.
We certainly did but has the Scotland team ever done it any other way. But a win is a win, I was struggling to remember the last time we had ever won an opening match in the World Cup. Nite everyone.
After asking the question when did Scotland last win a World cup game in our group chat with our sons at the end of the game I have been reliable informed by Fitaloon that the last time Scotland won a World Cup game was the year we got married!! Oops, so 36 years ago!
...which shows the Scottish side losing and its captain being disembowelled, castrated, and dismembered.
Robert Bruce captained and won the replay, however...
The Scot’s tend to remember the famous wins against the English. I do the same with wins over the French. The defeats, not so much.
Which would be the biggest English/British military defeats on land and at sea?
I think the Dutch won a few large naval battles against the English. Singapore seems like an obvious one. The Battle of Hastings, obvs.
Hard to think of a defeat of more lasting significance than Hastings.
Speaking of which, booking for the Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum opens next week for members. Could be a sell out.
If you miss out, go see it in Bayeaux. Lovely town.
Funnily enough I did 18 months ago when on a D-Day tip to Normandy with my brother. We wandered in with no queues and a virtually empty museum. Would still like to go to see it in Britain though.
Completely OT but a public information announcement for anyone interested in Indian Colonial History.
Back in 2014 the Qatari National Library entered into a project with the British Library to digitise the entire corpus of the British Indian Office Archive - basically every single document we hold concerning India from the start of the British East India Company in the 1600s to Indian independence in 1947.
The whole lot, every diary, message, briefing and memo is now online and free to access. I have been using it as part of my research for a book on the British interventions in Southern Russia at the end of WW1 and have so far downloaded about 40GB of data.
It also has a load of manuscripts relating to Arabia from the British Library.
Completely OT but a public information announcement for anyone interested in Indian Colonial History.
Back in 2014 the Qatari National Library entered into a project with the British Library to digitise the entire corpus of the British Indian Office Archive - basically every single document we hold concerning India from the start of the British East India Company in the 1600s to Indian independence in 1947.
The whole lot, every diary, message, briefing and memo is now online and free to access. I have been using it as part of my research for a book on the British interventions in Southern Russia at the end of WW1 and have so far downloaded about 40GB of data.
It also has a load of manuscripts relating to Arabia from the British Library.
I think that there's rather a lot of historical precedent for tolls. And the chance of the Strait being closed was obvious enough that Trump was warned about it before his ill-chosen course of action.
So I'm told local people regard the term "Platt Waz" as quite derogatory. Which would not be entirely out of keeping with the tenor of Rob Kenyon's campaign...
Never used to be. It was just a local nickname. But Platt Wazzer became synonymous with deprivation, poverty and crime during the 80's and 90's, as a catchall term for a local ne'er do well. It's become a lot nicer since. And never was as bad as painted. Maybe it needs reclaiming? The origins of Wazz for Platt Bridge aren't known.
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Though Donald Senior is at 11 to run again, so he is the favourite Trump. So good point.
What I do know is that France has suspended Shcngen for the last 11 years so that it has the right to stop and check people at its borders and it has used that right. Same for a number of other EU states. They recognise what you apparently do not - that Schengen is a threat to their citizens. I see no prospect of that changing in the foreseeable future.
https://www.dailymail.com/debate/article-15897821/COMMENT-vote-Restore-Burnham-reform.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=social-twitter_mailonline
https://x.com/rpsagainsttrump/status/2065418635221303549?s=61&t=LYVEHh2mqFy1oUJAdCfe-Q
Brentford's striker is the number 1 striker for Brazil in the world cup.
Same old Brazil, always cheating. Booo.
Morocco are all over Brazil like a rash. Well on top so far.
Both ended our hegemony over significant slices of the globe.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwykw759v3po
"The father of a teenager who took her own life after viewing harmful content online has said he is "dismayed" by reports the government is to ban young people from using some social media platforms.
Ian Russell has campaigned for better online protections since his daughter Molly died aged 14. But he has said "sledgehammer techniques like bans" would only cause more problems."
Brazil 0
21 mins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myP5hP-SFCo
I was an enthusiastic Remainer, but now we have left I have absolutely no desire to return on far weaker terms than we had before we Brexited. I still regret leaving and I concur with TSE's assertion that we are the only nation in history to impose economic sanctions on ourselves, but we are where we are.
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Amazing if four months of war comes to an end with J.D. Vance getting an email "Please DocuSign these documents: IranUSA_MOU_Final_FINAL_ActuallyFinal_V43"
https://x.com/glcarlstrom/status/2065826604530466968
And now a brilliant goal for Brazil. Gulp.
Officials fear the border scheme to effectively trade small boat arrivals for asylum seekers brings in ‘young men more likely to engage in criminal activity’"
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/france-home-office-border-policy-8ktl9lf0j
The GB News bungalows are quite agitated about Mr Milliband:
In Germany the NAZIS had lots of Gauleiters like Millipede, they caused havoc and deaths, he is going to bring about scores of deaths this next winter, time he was actually PRACTICING what HE preaches, his carbon footprint is shocking.
https://youtu.be/wEFiwnpFSs0?is=ovN1abLhTyusCJVS
Okay, maybe not all of you will be totally shocked.
Does Ed Miliband know about this accusation? If so, would he be inclined to accept it, or reject it?
Okay, maybe not all of you will be totally shocked.
Does Ed Miliband know about this accusation? If so, would he be inclined to accept it, or reject it?
Its almost as if allowing them to wipe out our manufacturing by dumping goods on us at less than cost price didn't actually save the planet after all. Free trade huh? Mugs, we are.
SNP may face fines over VAT claims linked to Peter Murrell fraud
Tax expert says John Swinney’s party, which has opened discussions with HMRC, should have come clean about potentially wrongful claims years ago
The SNP is facing fines from HMRC over potentially illegal VAT claims linked to Peter Murrell’s embezzlement, a tax expert advising the Scottish government has claimed.
After Murrell’s admission last month that he embezzled £400,000 from the SNP, John Swinney, the first minister, admitted his party may have wrongly reclaimed tax on items he fraudulently recorded as legitimate business expenses.
Dan Neidle, who was appointed by SNP ministers to sit on their own tax advisory group, told The Sunday Times that the SNP should have “fessed up” three years ago.
The party should have reported itself to the UK’s tax authority as soon as they became aware of Murrell’s offending, Neidle said.
When the tax issue was raised at Holyrood last month, Swinney said his party had “opened up discussions” with HMRC because of fears that Murrell’s embezzlement may have “implications in relation to tax”.
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/snp-peter-murrell-john-swinney-vat-fines-k3hmjh22q
Good luck Scotland 👍
Shoe-gate! How Sturgeon donated £290 stilettos to SNP fundraiser...then watched as Murrell bought them for £4,000
Nicola Sturgeon donated a signed £290 pair of her shoes for auction at an SNP fundraising event – then looked on as her fraudster husband ‘bought’ them for an eye-watering £4,000, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
To the amazement of a packed venue, shamed former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell submitted the successful offer for his wife’s high heels – showcased in a bespoke display box – as bidding stalled at £1,500.
And just months after Murrell ‘returned’ the Kurt Geiger green snakeskin shoes to his then First Minister wife, she wore them at Downing Street on a visit to Prime Minister Theresa May.
Last night questions were raised over whether Murrell, who has admitted to embezzling more than £400,000 from the SNP, used stolen money to buy the shoes.
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15897581/Shoe-gate-Sturgeon-donated-290-stilettos-SNP-fundraiser-watched-Murrell-bought-4-000.html
Either that or I misunderstood you.
My legendary modesty prevents me from posting that I tipped Ed Miliband as next Chancellor at 33/1.
(Hopefully ladbrokes count that as a John McGinn assist)
Speaking of which, booking for the Bayeux Tapestry at the British Museum opens next week for members. Could be a sell out.
A key source of revenue for the Qawasim was tolls, which they levied on all trade that passed through the Strait of Hormuz.
Wonder where the Iranians got the idea?
https://www.qdl.qa/en/british-gulf-overview
I think that there's rather a lot of historical precedent for tolls. And the chance of the Strait being closed was obvious enough that Trump was warned about it before his ill-chosen course of action.
But Platt Wazzer became synonymous with deprivation, poverty and crime during the 80's and 90's, as a catchall term for a local ne'er do well. It's become a lot nicer since.
And never was as bad as painted.
Maybe it needs reclaiming?
The origins of Wazz for Platt Bridge aren't known.