Brussels has its wrenches in a twist again, this time tinkering with a proposal that'll leave classic car enthusiasts spitting oil and vintage van lovers seeing red. The word on the cobbled streets is that the EU wants to slap a "repair refused" sticker on any car over 15 years old, effectively sending them to the scrapyard in the sky. Now, before you grab your pitchforks and head to the Parliament, let's pop the hood and see what's really under the hood of this policy. Officially, the EU says it's all about sustainability, wanting to "rejuvenate the vehicle fleet" and reduce emission ..read more

  Breaking news: Hungary has vowed to defy EU pressure to approve a four-year, €50bn aid package to Ukraine and has condemned the bloc’s proposal to undermine its economy as ‘blackmail’ https://t.co/3M0uGYWcY1 pic.twitter.com/H3L9PWAHPK — Financial Times (@FT) January 29, 2024 ..read more

  A file seen by the FT outlines a confidential plan by Brussels to shut off all EU funding to Budapest in order to spark a run on Hungary's currency and drive a collapse in investor confidence https://t.co/QRQWzBMvdZ pic.twitter.com/cjiB1EtekC — Financial Times (@FT) January 29, 2024 Orban is a Putin stooge, but crashing a member state's economy isn't the way to deal with him nor does it show the EU in a favourable light. It would be more effective to remove Hungary from the EU ..read more

  pic.twitter.com/SXDHlGn13c Send for the white vans …..immediately ??? — ALAN (@GatesheadLad23) September 24, 2023 ..read more

  Civil servants are meant to be totally impartial … but here’s what the former foreign office chief did in the aftermath of the EU vote pic.twitter.com/iyUzc5yOt0 — Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) September 11, 2023 Foolish thing to do, as it impairs his ability to appear to be impartial ..read more

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  Labour will make Brexit work for Britain.https://t.co/wsYymasJ6l — Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) May 31, 2023 ..read more

  ? | BREAKING: Keir Starmer tells Sky News he will reopen Brexit negotiations as PM, but the UK must NOT rejoin the EU or single market — Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) May 17, 2023 Given that this is Starmer, you can rest assured that if he does become PM this will not occur ..read more

CPTPP with the addition of the UK will account for 16% of global GDP, this is the same as the EU.  However, by 2050 the World Bank forecasts CPTPP will account for almost 25% of the global economy compared to the EU's 10%. The remainers will of course not tell you that ..read more

NEW: it’s all kicking off in Tory land. As admin, Minister Steve Baker is removing MPs one by one from the official ERG WhatsApp group saying Brexit is done so group is disbanding. IDS accused him of being irrational shortly before he himself was kicked out. ? — Harry Cole (@MrHarryCole) March 24, 2023 ..read more