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Richard B retweeted
The rewriting of 2016 needs challenging.
❌ The referendum ballot did NOT ask: “Should Britain end freedom of movement?”
It asked whether Britain should remain in or leave the EU.
Nothing about leaving the Single Market.
Nothing about the customs union.
Nothing about ending free movement.
And during the referendum prominent Brexit campaigners openly cited Norway and Switzerland as models for Britain outside the EU.
🇳🇴 Norway is in the Single Market and accepts free movement.
The Leave coalition contained several completely different versions of Brexit. The public was never asked to choose between them.
So it is simply not accurate to retrospectively turn 17.4 million Leave votes into 17.4 million votes specifically against free movement.
That interpretation came afterwards.
And if Britain is now deciding what relationship it wants with Europe, voters are perfectly entitled to decide again with the actual choices made explicit.
Richard B retweeted
Czech President Petr Pavel says a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine was “quite close” – until Donald Trump lifted sanctions on Russian diesel.
vist.ly/5pf23
Richard B retweeted
This is why I pay the license fee.
Trump ordered to sit for deposition in BBC lawsuit bbc.in/47vF8sP
Richard B retweeted
BREAKING: We understand that @itvnews has been reported to the police for using fake identities by someone claiming to be the “Shadow Home Secretary”.
Richard B retweeted
“What is it mein Fuhrer?”
“It’s from Steve Witkoff. He’s nominated me for the Nobel Peace Prize.”
Richard B retweeted
There is a lot of Russian propaganda in Europe. They have invested as much money in it as in weapons during this war. This is a massive financial program spanning decades. Russia has been waging a hybrid war against Europe, including Italy, France, Britain, and Germany, for a long time. It just isn't waging a full-scale war against them as it is against us. Because we had the same thing – a hybrid war. Russian narratives across absolutely all television and media platforms, on the internet, and on social media.
People should not be pierced through and brainwashed by waves of narratives from the Russian Federation. Because it is up to France, Ukraine, Italy, and Spain to decide how to live and whom to elect. Russia cannot influence Italy's choices and freedom. Italy is a free country, just like Ukraine.
The Russians will seek to exploit far-right movements, religious movements, faith, migration, and gender. Russia doesn't care what issue can divide society: from religion to language, Russia will always find it and strike there. We are seeing this now not only in Europe – they also have influence in the United States of America. They have a very significant wave going on there, and their network is operating.
From an interview with Corriere della Sera. (3/3)
Richard B retweeted
Donald Trump says the Russian sanctions waiver is to help negotiate peace. But one Russian paper today writes: “We will make a deal with Ukraine entirely on our terms.” Another paper: “Russia’s borders, as we know, do not end anywhere.” #ReadingRussia
Richard B retweeted
My fellow Texans, #TalaricoCanWin, but only if you vote.
Vote to turn Texas blue. Vote to stop Donald Trump's agenda. Vote to protect your right to vote in the future.
Richard B retweeted
F*ck you.
Hegseth on Afghanistan:
I was a captain in Afghanistan, and we would go to the headquarters in Kabul, and there would be 50 flags at the headquarters.
It was a beautiful thing to see 50 different countries contributing to the NATO alliance and the ISAF mission there.
Except there were like maybe five that contributed. It was actually closer to one or two that, by the end, were actually involved in kinetic operations.
In fact, the ISAF patch, we would joke that it meant "I Saw Americans Fighting."
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Over 1100 non-American soldiers from 31 US-allied countries were killed fighting in Afghanistan, approximately 1/3 of the total combat deaths.
t.co/x4tGhxJiFG
Richard B retweeted
Much punchier accusations from Sir Malcolm Rifkind - a former defence and foreign secretary:
"I choose my words very carefully. I think this week Donald Trump has shown himself as a person to be repulsive; as a President of the United States to be a disgrace to his own people as well as to his international responsibilities.
"We all know his actual reasons for this are a grubby attempt to win a few more votes in the midterms by trying to get oil prices down.
"In order to achieve that, he has not only betrayed Ukraine in the middle of a war, fighting for its very existence, but he is also directly - not indirectly - directly responsible for the deaths of many Ukrainians who will not now be protected by the attempts that have been successfully made using intelligence provided indirectly by the United States."
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Richard B retweeted
ゼレンスキー大統領の覚悟に涙が出ます。ロシアは悪辣、トランプ米国は卑怯な裏切り。 – at Matsumoto-shi, Nagano
「国を売り渡すつもりはない」
ピアーズ・モーガン氏のインタビューで、ゼレンスキー大統領は「強力なパートナー（米国）を失いつつあるのは残念だ」と率直な危機感を口にした。しかし同時に、「それは私たちのせいではない。弱腰になれば生き残れない。国を売り渡すつもりはない」と強い決意を示している。
現在、ウクライナは極めて過酷な局面に立たされている。
・頭越しで進むロシアとの取引への強い懸念
・命綱である弾道ミサイルの早期警戒情報（インテリジェンス）の遅れ・停止
・前線の通信を支えるスターリンクの制限問題
これまで最大の後ろ盾だった米国の支援が揺らぐ中、ウクライナは「主権と領土を犠牲にする不当な妥協」を拒否し、自国の防衛力と欧州諸国の支援を軸に戦い抜く覚悟を固めつつある。
大国間のディール（取引）によって、侵略された側が泣き寝入りする前例を作ってはならない。ウクライナが孤独な戦いを強いられることがないよう、欧州諸国に続き、日本も変わらぬ関心と連帯の声を上げ続ける必要がある。
🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini!
#ウクライナに平和を #StandWithUkraine #ゼレンスキー大統領
Richard B retweeted
Great work by @HardcashProd and @ITV on the racism rife in @reformparty_uk.
If you wonder where it originates from, look at the chapter titles of my book The Real Nigel Farage.
Chapter One: SSSSSSSS!
Chapter Two: Gas ‘Em All
Chapter Four: The Nig-Nogs Will Never Vote for Us
The racism comes from the leader.
@Nigel_Farage denies any wrongdoing.
Richard B retweeted
Hard to find words to express how abhorrent these Councillors’ views are.
Reform needs to root out every single racist from its party and stop dividing our communities with their vile bigotry.
Inside Reform: Councillors and candidates' extreme and racist views on camera
itv.com/news/2026-10-14/insi…
Richard B retweeted
Comparing Trump to Chamberlain is unfair… to Chamberlain
Chamberlain was wrong & became the symbol of appeasement towards Hitler. But he genuinely wanted peace, having lived through the horrors of WWI
Chamberlain was a misguided idealist.
Trump is a corrupt, warmongering crook
This weekend, Trump announced Ukraine and Russia agreed to an “energy ceasefire,” which has turned out to be completely false. Neither side agreed to anything, and Russia attacked Ukraine’s energy infrastructure again.
He’s making up fake ceasefires because he wants Ukraine to stop striking Russian oil refineries. Those strikes have been having a real impact in the war, and stopping them is a gift to Putin. It’s important to understand that any shortage of diesel fuel is because of Trump’s decision to go to war with Iran without understanding that they would shut down the Strait of Hormuz, which is perhaps one of the biggest geopolitical blunders in modern history. Instead of admitting that and trying to solve the problem he created, Trump is trying to put the blame on a country that’s literally fighting for its survival against Russia.
Siding with Putin and Russia seems to be a mainstay of this presidency. Even his supporters are piling on with Elon Musk tweeting that Zelenskyy has gone “too far.” Whose side are they on?
Regardless, the Ukrainians are making progress, and if things continue to go well, it’s a real possibility that Putin could be pressured to accept a deal that maintains Ukrainian sovereignty. Anyone who supports the Russians in this conflict will find themselves on the wrong side of history and the wrong side of America’s interests. Trump, Elon, etc. should try to avoid being this century’s Neville Chamberlain.
Richard B retweeted
US has not spent $350B on Ukraine. It has spent $132B, $33B of that is money. The rest is $21B in loans, repaid from frozen Russian assets, $4B in humanitarian aid, and the vast majority, $74B is military equipment.
Half that equipment is new, made in the US. The other half is old stockpile equipment, which soon would have had to be demilitarized at great cost. The replacement equipment is made in the US, so the money stays in the US.
Meanwhile, the EU and European countries have spent a combined $271B, more than twice as much as the US.
Richard B retweeted
Hey, @elonmusk, big man, are you playing politics with your products again?
As your European customers, we are watching you.
⚡️ 'This cannot be a coincidence' — Ukraine's Starlink access restricted without warning, Zelensky adviser says.
Ukraine relies on Starlink to operate its mid-strike drones in Russian-occupied Ukraine.
kyivindependent.com/this-can…
Richard B retweeted
🆘 This is Sir James Eadie QC, the Government’s own barrister, in the Court of Appeal in 2019.
Listen carefully to what he says.
Theresa May was, he told the court, “entirely well aware” of the “notorious” facts surrounding the referendum: the Electoral Commission findings, police investigations, ICO work and parliamentary scrutiny.
And then this:
“It’s perfectly obvious that the PM has decided to carry on.”
🔥 That is the heart of it.
The referendum was advisory. Serious unlawful conduct had already been established around the campaign. The PM knew the findings and proceeded anyway.
At the same time, Parliament had authorised the Article 50 notification, but had never expressly enacted the separate Article 50(1) decision to withdraw. That was the issue raised in my own Webster judicial review.
The courts refused permission in both Webster and Wilson. Now, years later, we are being told that Russia also interfered in the 2016 referendum.
That is why this can no longer be brushed aside as old Brexit litigation.
We need a statutory public inquiry under the Inquiries Act 2005.
We need the documents, the intelligence assessments, the Cabinet record, the legal advice, the witnesses under oath, and the full Article 50 decision-making trail.
Because the question is now very simple:
What did the Government know, when did it know it, and on what basis was Britain actually taken out of the European Union?
@JMPSimor @mrjamesob @mikegalsworthy @andyburnham