#CustomsUnion
I would do anything for growth (but I won’t do that)

#customsunion #singlemarket #youthmobility
January 23, 2025 at 6:28 AM
A good summary graphic of a regular message of ours...
#Brexit - Bad
#CustomsUnion and #SingleMarket - Better
#RejoinEU - Best
April 15, 2026 at 4:25 PM
🚨🚨 This is beyond-wit non-sensical horseshit from this Lab official proposing some conspiracy-like idea on the meaning of a #customsunion.

Another reminder why Labour has a very long way to travel on their thinking on #brexit which is getting increasingly disattached from their electorate.👇
Absolutely batshit quote in @patrickmaguire.bsky.social must-read column on Labour’s thinking about The Current Events
April 11, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Can anyone tell me why we WOULDN’T want to be in the single market and the customs union whilst we’re on the subject?
#SingleMarket #CustomsUnion
December 20, 2023 at 6:53 AM
No mention of avoidable supply chain disasters and ensuing high prices caused by leaving EU #CustomsUnion and Single Market. Time govt and stakeholders stopped misleading public via crass silence on this. www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Asda hits out at government for ‘killing confidence’ among consumers
But supermarket blames ‘self-inflicted’ IT problems that left gaps on shelves for 3.7% drop in sales
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Like the man says let’s undo #Brexit
Returning to the #CustomsUnion will encourage economic growth, increase tax revenues and pay for better public services

It is a no brainer!
If the UK economy were larger, Labour would automatically be able to collect more tax without having to raise taxes.

If Labour were able to collect more tax, they could do more.

If they were able to do more, we'd all be better off.

Brexit shrank the economy. Let's undo Brexit.
July 6, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Lib Dem leader says Labour's rejection of EU offer to join Europe-wide customs scheme 'act of economic negligence' - he is absolutely right!
#RejoinEU
#SingleMarket
#CustomsUnion
January 23, 2025 at 11:51 AM
The last thing Trump will want is for #Starmer to strengthen the UK’s negotiating hand by doing a customs union deal with the EU…

#CustomsUnion
February 3, 2025 at 10:26 AM
😱 Five years on, a botched #Brexit has cost #Wales up to £4bn and left the average person £2,000 worse off 😠

Labour must try to rejoin the #SingleMarket and #CustomsUnion to rebuild our economy and protect our future! ✊
January 31, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Labour and Rachel Reeves put the last nail in their coffin. ⚰️

Every PM who’s tried to make Brexit work since 2016 failed. Every politician preaching “Brexit opportunities” is no longer in public life.

There’s a reason: you can’t defy gravity.

#europe #customsunion #europeanunion #fbpe #brexit
January 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Reynolds is depressingly useless, actually.

Surprised he's in charge of anything.

#Labour #EU #Brexit #CustomsUnion #r4today #wato
Jonathan Reynolds makes a depressingly weak, one-sided argument.
He ignores the potential economic benefits of a customs union to the UK and, more worryingly, the much bigger benefits of the single market.
The Burnham government should show more ambition for the UK.
www.ft.com/content/b08b...
UK business secretary argues against rejoining EU customs union
Labour’s 2024 manifesto position on the bloc ‘absolutely the right one’, says Jonathan Reynolds
www.ft.com
July 31, 2026 at 7:55 AM
Northern mayors are ramping up pressure on Sir Keir Starmer to forge closer ties with the European Union (EU) – including rejoining the customs union

#CustomsUnion #EU #RejoinEU
March 16, 2026 at 11:26 AM
March 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Death by thousand cuts, as Starmer seeks to ameliorate enormous damage of Brexit (Costing UK £286 billion every year now)

Why cannot he have courage, backed by 80% of his own Members and 70% of country, to grip problems and go for #SingleMarket , #CustomsUnion, or re-entry EU?
January 6, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Yes, it's a hot potato. Governments and PMs have fallen over #Brexit; I can understand Govt is reluctant to rip open old wounds. But they have a huge majority now, and the people have moved on.
Be brave #Labour, start with #CustomsUnion and #SingleMarket. You're going to regret it if you don't !
Ian McConnell in today’s Herald
“Brexit has been the elephant in the room for far too long. It is now reckless to ignore the severe damage that continues to be done to the public finances” @mikegalsworthy
@euromove www.heraldscotland.com/politics/vie...
High time Labour stopped kidding itself on Europe
It is imperative to strip away the gloss and consider the substance of the matter
www.heraldscotland.com
December 11, 2024 at 2:29 PM
The way to get things moving is to rejoin #SingleMarket and #CustomsUnion , or just the latter as a minimum. No point looking to the USA because Trump won’t agree anything that doesn’t benefit him and the USA to our detriment.
November 16, 2024 at 7:27 AM
Remember when Brexiteers raved about the trade deals we’d sign once we left the EU.

Well, five years on from Boris’s botched deal, let me show why these deals are worth absolute peanuts compared to what we lost thanks to Brexit. 🥜

#Brexit #CustomsUnion @libdems.org.uk
December 31, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Keir Starmer can’t escape the European question
'The political winds driving integration are growing stronger.'
The New Statesman
Feb 3 2025

#StarmerCritique 🇪🇺 #RejoinEU #CustomsUnion #SingleMarket
February 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Thank you! But no, just a quick work trip. Will be in London on Saturday for the Rejoin march. Wouldn't miss it for the world🥳

Rejoin is the answer! AT least for the SingleMarket&CustomsUnion. There's no alternative.

(someone should tell Starmer!🙄)
September 20, 2023 at 7:34 PM
April 7, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Morning
Positive small steps for our disenfranchised young people
More please
#ToriesGone524
#CustomsUnion
#WeDidntVoteForThis
December 11, 2025 at 12:20 AM
#KeirStarmer take note. This racist, misogynistic sexual predator will roll over you & our country. Wake up & get us in a #CustomsUnion with the #EU.
February 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Burnham confirmed Starmer's #RedLines Talks of closer alignment etc. but doesn't suggest pursuing an alternative framework... No #CustomsUnion won't solve economic problems... It's just more #5DChess and we've wasted 2 years on that already!
If you're not backing #JoinEU or suggesting #EFTA #EEA
July 30, 2026 at 10:59 AM
‘ #Germany’s top diplomat in London has called on #Britain to strike a customs union deal with the #EuropeanUnion.
Speaking at the British Chambers of Commerce on Thursday morning, ambassador Miguel Berger pointed to Turkey’s long-standing #customsunion with the EU as a potential model.’
Germany urges Britain to rejoin EU customs union
Call is at odds with UK Labour’s own post-Brexit red lines.
www.politico.eu
March 20, 2025 at 2:08 PM