🧵 Ahead of the 10th anniversary of the Brexit referendum vote on June 23rd, we’re sharing 10 misleading Brexit ads over 10 days. The third: Channel 4 reported that this ad was a "dark ad" targeted to a specific audience on Facebook which made it hard for journalists to track at the time.

Does NATO even really exist anymore? Time to think about that European defence force?

Quite a few people are asking why Angela Rayner didn't just put a call into the head of HMRC. That would be wildly improper in 2025. However it was absolutely the done thing in 1925 A completely tangential thread:

Windows 11 has warned me that today is International Cat Day. I can only assume this means social media is going to be 87% more fluffy today.

It says a lot about where we're going that the BBC is now running stories in which they ask lifeboat crews whether they will apologise for using their boats to save lives

With Farage inciting his supporters to kickstart the Farage Riots again this Summer, watch him claim to know nothing again if he succeeds.

President Pushes to Strip Citizenship From American for Criticizing Him One reason we’re in that situation—not the only reason, but a significant contributor—is because of figures who proclaimed a national speech crisis when people they consider lesser talked back to them. I’ll never get over that

The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?

To quote an old line, the average IQ of both parties has gone up.

David Higham@oldtrotter.bsky.social · last yr.

So Jake Berry joins Reform. There's a surprise. Unpleasant man joins unpleasant party.

Would you look at that? Getting sucked into far-right American funded hate didn't actually create any winners - just losers all round. bylinetimes.com/2025/07/07/s...

'Supreme Court Gender Decision Achieved Nothing and Was a Waste Of Money'

Eleven weeks after the ruling, Mathilda Mallinson and Helena Wadia tear it apart and explain how the media is making matters worse

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Labour announcing their plan for community centres which will include medical services (dignostic, mental health, dentistry, etc) and link up with debt, employment and other services. Absolutely huge. What are the media talking about? The Chancellor was a bit teary.

The Ages of Rod Stewart 2018: Advocates for a second Brexit referendum saying that voters might have been misled in the first one 2021: Brexit has been a “disaster for the UK” 2025: "Give Nigel Farage a chance" He wants to give the person who misled the British people in 2016, a chance? 🤷‍♂️

As it's in the news again - this is the post I wrote a few months ago on why the disability benefits bill has been going up. Essentially, you can't remove need by removing support - it just pops up as a cost somewhere else. open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

The definition of madness

Governments need to stop making the same incredibly expensive mistake over and over again

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Foreign secretary David Lammy tells Reform's Sarah Pochin to "get off social media and get help" As she spouts nonsensical conspiracy theories in parliament

Pete Hegseth explains how there's no new evidence to suggest that Iran is building nuclear weapons and that it was just Trump's hunch

9th anniversay of brexit referendum. If anyone fancies a laugh, this is what arch-brexiteer, Daniel Hanan, said life would be like in 2025 if we voted to leave. www.reaction.life/p/britain-lo...

What Britain looks like after Brexit

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This is the last thing the BBC needs

1. Take a situation that has challenges - pretend it's a huge crisis (trade deficit, immigration); 2. Use it as a pretext to massively deploy executive power in a way previously constrained by laws and norms; 3. When anyone complains yell, THERE'S A CRISIS AND YOU'RE WHINING ABOUT LAWS & NORMS?!?

So, when Starmer said two hospitals in Badenoch's constituency are getting new scanners, she said there was only one hospital in her constituency. I've checked and there are three main ones, plus community centres. Did she forget about boundary changes?

Interesting campaign strategy. Tell the voters they're all feckless and that's why they should vote for an unhinged maniac to rule over them for their own good.

Best for Britain@bestforbritain.org · last yr.

Farage just said that lower productivity in Wales "says to you that people don't have belief, they haven't got ambition". Comical misunderstanding of productivity in economics. What it says is: low investment, old tech, poor training, slow transport etc. Not that Welsh people can't be bothered. ~AA

Setting aside the implausibly high number, wonder if actually most people would prefer a government that protected them from AI making it even harder to actually speak to humans about whatever they're trying to achieve...

Best for Britain@bestforbritain.org · last yr.

NEW: PM Starmer announces "a partnership with eleven major companies, to train 7.5 million workers in AI by 2030". ~AA

NEWS! Winter Fuel Payment to be reintroduced for all state pensioners (Eng & Wal) but clawed back through tax if you earn £35,000+. My instant analysis of how it works, what it means and is it an improvement. youtu.be/fHg7ReqbnpA

Martin Lewis: Winter Fuel Payment to be reinstated for many - instant analysis

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What do we think?🤔 Hmm…. A Daily Mail headline so clearly designed to make you furious. Being shared by salivating Tory MPs who love a good rage farming story! So, what’s going on here? Let’s take a look!👀 🧵 1/13

🔴Bearly Newsworthy: Stepping Off the Rage Carousel You don't have to care about everything – outrage is exhausting and distracting from the real issues, argues @bearlypolitics.co.uk www.bylinesupplement.com/p/bearly-new...

Bearly Newsworthy: Stepping Off the Rage Carousel

You don't have to care about everything – outrage is exhausting and distracting from the real issues, argues The Bear

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