After Brexit! Who Knows.

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“For years, investigating Farage was off-limits to Britain’s rightwing print media because “challenging” Brexit was off limits. That included reporting on the money behind it.

I don’t want to be the one to break this to Mr Murdoch, but this is the same story I’ve been reporting on for a decade. It’s the same cast of characters. The same dark money. The story currently across Britain’s front pages isn’t just about Farage and Reform: it’s Brexit too.”

The Reform leader’s relationship with the UK media has enabled him to operate with impunity for years. This past fortnight, that impunity fi

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Nigel Farage: The mysterious crypto firm backed by Reform's biggest donor

Tether is a giant in crytocurrency, an industry that Nigel Farage believes the UK should be embracing.

“But this is a unique situation where a political party preparing for government has received £15m of donations from one individual over the past year, a clear majority of its registered donations from a single individual.

In addition, a year previously, its leader accepted a previously undisclosed £5m personal gift from the same individual.”

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“Here, again, there is a Brexit connection or, rather, an illustration of how Brexit has segued into Brexitism. The idea that the referendum, because it was a vote, gave rise not just to ‘the will of the people’ but rendered all further involvement by judges, civil servants or even parliament itself illegitimate, was one of the most pernicious features of the post-referendum period. Now, Farage is seeking to draw on the same well-spring, by declaring that his by-election will be about ‘the people versus the Establishment’. He even reprised one of the most irresponsible of the appeals to leave voters, to use the vote not to decide on the ostensible issue under consideration but simply to “stick two fingers up at the Establishment”.”

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Palantir Co-Founder Peter Thiel and Reform UK's Cambridge University Recruitment Pipeline Project Revealed

The world-renowned academic institution has nothing to say in response to a six-month investigation by Byline Times raising serious concerns

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“The pure, British, union jack-wrapped, political destiny that gave us Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, that almost bankrupted the country, that weakened its power and influence, that destroyed ties with our friends and partners and that made the country a laughing stock.”

The 13 people most to blame for Brexit

From liars like Johnson, Farage and Gove to incompetents like Cameron, May and Corbyn, here are the guilty men and women responsible for a n

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Brexit 10 years on.

Charts reveal how leaving has made the country poorer.

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Immigration numbers are falling.

“the rise, as the Institute for Government’s Sam Freedman helpfully points out, is mainly in foreign students and foreign workers going home.) Even small-boat crossings are down on last year. We have, in short, finally made ourselves as unattractive to the rest of the world as leave voters always wanted – which means that, sooner or later, populists who built their careers on railing against supposedly uncontrolled immigration are going to be needing another scapegoat to explain why taking back control hasn’t magically solved all the country’s problems. And with a grim inevitability, they’re finding it in turning on migrants who are already here.”

Let this be a warning – if Europe worries about Trump, it has even more reason to fear JD Vance | Gaby Hinsliff

His toxic Henry Nowak intervention fits a pattern. Vance has hard-right views, a disdain for European society – and he may yet become presid

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“”We didn’t have a plan for what to do next, because we didn’t think it was our job to have a plan,” Johnson confesses at the end of Brexit: A Very British Civil War. But someone did.”

Someone certainly did have a plan and it still continues. Weaken Europe and EU, using disinformation and use cyber warfare to seize control. Much cheaper than munitions.

The shocking lesson of the BBC’s Brexit: A Very British Civil War

They lied and lied, we were complacent – and the culture war began in earnest

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“Thus, launching Reform’s London local government election campaign in Croydon, under its current and perhaps ill-advised slogan of ‘Reform will fix it’, he spluttered that: “This is, this is, this is 1940 all over again. The very existence of our nation, its culture, its identity is under threat.” It is the same message of a ‘nation in existential peril’ that Goodwin peddles; the same message as that of the ‘family voting’ accusations; the same message as is contained in the stories about Easter eggs, yoga mats, dogs, and all the rest of it.”

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“Before the referendum, when London’s stock market sneezed, Europe caught a cold. Now though, our research suggests that the financial relationship between the UK and the EU has flipped.”

How Brexit reduced the City of London’s financial clout – new research

European financial power has realigned at a cost to the City of London.

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“Bannon texted Epstein describing the UK as a “hot mess” and explained: “I’ve gotten pulled into the Brexit thing this morning with Nigel, Boris and Rees Mogg.” Epstein replied, asking if May would survive; Bannon responded, “I don’t see how… Boris; Gove; Rees Mogg; David Davis – somebody has to step up.””

Brexit meant interference from foreign, in this case US, political figures. Why would Epstein and Bannon want Johnson as PM? Pliable, mercurial, unscrupulous, untrustworthy, seeking his own advancement at the expense of others? Just what was wanted if you want to disrupt the UK and the EU.

Bannon, Epstein, Farage and Johnson and the Plot to 'Topple' Theresa May

The far-right former Trump adviser told Jeffrey Epstein that "we are overthrowing May right now" as he worked with Boris Johnson to remove t

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“It’s not a question of Rejoining the institution we left ten years ago, but of Joining a new institution where our membership is inextricable with the EU’s success.”

Brexit is officially a disaster. We must join and reshape a new EU

Starmer and Reeves are talking tougher than before. Now they need to make a positive case for the UK in a bolder Europe

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How Brexit screwed the economy – a horror story

We were lab rats in one of the biggest economic experiments of all time. It was a disaster, and it’s getting worse all the time

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Just announced: Iceland has urgently moved up its referendum to join the European Union - to 29 August. A reminder: 🇮🇸 is in many ways alre

To join what we should never have left.

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The continuing fallout from the decision to impose sanctions upon ourselves.

The people who campaigned for Brexit should be held accountable for their lies and deceit.