NEW: Data just out for the complete 2024 set of Horizon projects shows that the UK still lags way behind the proportion it was getting before the Brexit vote.
It’s been a decade of damage to UK science.
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It’s been a decade of damage to UK science.
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June 7, 2026 at 12:02 PM
“Between 2019 and 2025, export volumes slumped 31 per cent as Brexit added border checks and trade complexity, pushing up costs for businesses”
… and threatening our food security.
Why TF would *anyone* want this for our businesses and our country?
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… and threatening our food security.
Why TF would *anyone* want this for our businesses and our country?
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Brexit and Donald Trump’s tariffs push UK’s food and drink trade deficit to £21bn
In the first half of 2026, the sector’s export volumes fell 11.7% to hit their third-lowest level on record
giftarticle.ft.com
September 25, 2026 at 7:32 AM
The Brexit drag on business, the economy and our living standards 🤔 #Politics #Economy #LivingStandards #SelfHarm #Europe 🇬🇧🇪🇺
Josh Babarinde MP "So many of our businesses who used to have thriving trade with European Union countries, now just struggle."
"There are so many barriers in place, so many bits of paperwork that you've got to navigate, so much red tape to try and cross."
"There are so many barriers in place, so many bits of paperwork that you've got to navigate, so much red tape to try and cross."
September 27, 2026 at 2:23 PM
The Brexit drag on business, the economy and our living standards 🤔 #Politics #Economy #LivingStandards #SelfHarm #Europe 🇬🇧🇪🇺
September 23, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Brexit Britain where we chose to become poorer, more isolated and less secure 🤔 #AndyBurnham #HamishFalconer #Politics #LivingStandards #Europe
Rebuilding our relationship with the EU “is the cheapest way to boost the economy, the fastest way to unite Europe in the face of security threats and the best way to get leverage on a global system that no longer has an American anchor.”
So obvious it hurts.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
So obvious it hurts.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Brexit has left Britain ‘impotent – a bobbing cork in the sea,’ says David Miliband
Exclusive: Former foreign secretary adds to mounting pressure for a new UK deal with EU to repair Brexit damage
www.independent.co.uk
September 23, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Brexit Britain where we chose to become poorer, more isolated and less secure 🤔 #AndyBurnham #HamishFalconer #Politics #LivingStandards #Europe
Hard truth - you can’t “boost growth” without rejoining Europe (or raise living standards) 🤔 #AndyBurnham #HamishFalconer #economy #growth #livingstandards #Europe
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September 26, 2026 at 7:20 AM
Hard truth - you can’t “boost growth” without rejoining Europe (or raise living standards) 🤔 #AndyBurnham #HamishFalconer #economy #growth #livingstandards #Europe
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July 25, 2026 at 6:47 AM
Brexit was an act of “sabotage” that has made Britain up to £30bn a year worse off, former foreign secretary David Miliband has claimed.
He said the loss of income caused by leaving the EU is equivalent to imposing “a punishing tax every day” on the UK.
#RejoinEU #BrexitDisaster
He said the loss of income caused by leaving the EU is equivalent to imposing “a punishing tax every day” on the UK.
#RejoinEU #BrexitDisaster
June 8, 2026 at 7:55 AM
🚨🚨 Given horrible state of things in the world, it is easy to simply forget about the absolute shitshow of #brexit but new report by Food and Drink Federation is a stark reminder of those devasting implications. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/business/202...
UK food and drink exports to the EU down 34% since Brexit
Food and Drink Federation say businesses are struggling to deal with added ‘complexity and bureaucracy’
www.theguardian.com
March 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
“Reeves has been ratcheting up the rhetoric on closer EU relations which she described as the “biggest prize” in trade”
If only we’d acknowledged this BEFORE we threw it away in a fit of arrogant prejudice. Getting back in the room is far harder than flouncing off
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If only we’d acknowledged this BEFORE we threw it away in a fit of arrogant prejudice. Getting back in the room is far harder than flouncing off
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Rachel Reeves to make new push for greater single-market access
Some member states, led by France, expect the UK to pay into the EU budget in return
giftarticle.ft.com
March 13, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Brexit Britain thanks to #BorisJohnson #MichaelGove #NigelFarage et al 🤔
#Reentry #LivingStandards #Europe
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#Reentry #LivingStandards #Europe
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Still no apology from Brexiteers
who fed us a pack of lies
"These estimates suggest by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. Investment, employment & productivity were all affected"
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meme via Reform Are Not Your Friends
who fed us a pack of lies
"These estimates suggest by 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. Investment, employment & productivity were all affected"
cepr.org/voxeu/column...
meme via Reform Are Not Your Friends
June 14, 2026 at 8:03 AM
Brexit Britain thanks to #BorisJohnson #MichaelGove #NigelFarage et al 🤔
#Reentry #LivingStandards #Europe
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#Reentry #LivingStandards #Europe
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Higher living standards anyone or shall we continue the self-harm? #growth #trade #livingstandards #economy #Europe
Lots of talk of growth ahead of the Budget, as if it were a baroque puzzle. Our problem is basic. It's that we no longer support the things which facilitate growth: Europe, immigration, higher education, tax simplification, policy stability. These are all choices and could stop making them anytime.
September 21, 2026 at 1:12 PM
Higher living standards anyone or shall we continue the self-harm? #growth #trade #livingstandards #economy #Europe
“In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker who arrived on a boat. Today we have 46,000 a year and do you know why? It was because of the botched Brexit deal pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage should be here apologising”
Daisy Cooper
Daisy Cooper
December 5, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Brexit Britain with it’s head in the sand and getting poorer - still after 10 years 🤔 #Economy #LivingStandards #Europe
Good letters in The Times on Canada’s moves towards the EU. Seems we’re far happier to discuss the strategic sense of Canada rethinking its allies and trade arrangements, than we are to discuss our own not-so splendid Brexit isolation.
Looking very foolish again, UK.
Looking very foolish again, UK.
September 19, 2026 at 8:28 AM
Brexit Britain with it’s head in the sand and getting poorer - still after 10 years 🤔 #Economy #LivingStandards #Europe
5 TL'lik çay (tea) 🫖
#economy #ekonomi #photography #Photographer #sunnyday #haftaiçi #fotoğraf #midweek #güneşligün #Fotoğrafçı #afyonkarahisar #tea #Türkiye #kültür #livingstandards #dünya
#economy #ekonomi #photography #Photographer #sunnyday #haftaiçi #fotoğraf #midweek #güneşligün #Fotoğrafçı #afyonkarahisar #tea #Türkiye #kültür #livingstandards #dünya
June 3, 2025 at 4:22 PM
A good read although you - and Labour - can’t avoid the Brexit issue @andrewrawnsley.bsky.social Is the Burnham government in possession of a plausible growth strategy? Definitely not, if we don’t rejoin Europe #AndyBurnham #HamishFalconer #Politics #LivingStandards #SelfHarm #Europe
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Labour wants to believe in Andy Burnham. The hard choices can wait
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observer.co.uk/news/politic...
Labour wants to believe in Andy Burnham. The hard choices...
A party that had lost hope under his predecessor will lap up the prime minister’s optimistic message to conference. But awkward questions remain
observer.co.uk
September 27, 2026 at 9:52 AM
A good read although you - and Labour - can’t avoid the Brexit issue @andrewrawnsley.bsky.social Is the Burnham government in possession of a plausible growth strategy? Definitely not, if we don’t rejoin Europe #AndyBurnham #HamishFalconer #Politics #LivingStandards #SelfHarm #Europe
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Agree - or we could just spend another 10 years getting even poorer and falling further behind the rest of Europe. Come on young people give us a hand here - your future (and mine) is at stake 🤔 #Brejoin #LivingStandards #Europe
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Tony Blair says Britain should work towards rejoining EU in next 10 years. Andy Burnham under pressure to revisit Brexit as poll suggests pledge to rejoin could boost Labour’s electoral chances.
IMHO we should rejoin tomorrow not in next 10 years.
IMHO we should rejoin tomorrow not in next 10 years.
September 24, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Agree - or we could just spend another 10 years getting even poorer and falling further behind the rest of Europe. Come on young people give us a hand here - your future (and mine) is at stake 🤔 #Brejoin #LivingStandards #Europe
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Brexit Britain and the continuing drag on trade. Oh, and our living standards 🤔 #Brejoin #Trade #LivingStandards #Europe
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www.theguardian.com/business/202...
UK food and drink trade deficit largest since 2000 at £21bn
Industry leaders call on government to protect homegrown produce in the interest of national security
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2026 at 7:16 AM
Brexit Britain and the continuing drag on trade. Oh, and our living standards 🤔 #Brejoin #Trade #LivingStandards #Europe
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www.theguardian.com/business/202...
When my girls were younger and we would come to France we would play a game where they counted as many UK lorries as they could spot and the 1st one to a 100 would win a prize (they’d pick a colour).
If they played that game today they would’ve seen 1. We’ve driven 473km today and that’s it. 1.
If they played that game today they would’ve seen 1. We’ve driven 473km today and that’s it. 1.
October 3, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Ah, Canada showing Brexit Britain one of ways of improving our living standards and a return to stability #AndyBurnham #HamishFalconer #Brejoin #LivingStandards #UK #Canada #Europe 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇪🇺
September 16, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Ah, Canada showing Brexit Britain one of ways of improving our living standards and a return to stability #AndyBurnham #HamishFalconer #Brejoin #LivingStandards #UK #Canada #Europe 🇬🇧🇨🇦🇪🇺
10 years after the Brexit vote.
UK economy is significantly smaller than it would otherwise have been.
Trade has suffered.
Business investment and productivity growth have stalled.
Families are on average thousands of pounds a year worse off.
UK economy is significantly smaller than it would otherwise have been.
Trade has suffered.
Business investment and productivity growth have stalled.
Families are on average thousands of pounds a year worse off.
How Brexit has made Britain poorer – in charts
Forecasters were wrong about an immediate recession but right that we would be worse off outside the EU
www.theguardian.com
June 14, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Ironic really “Ten years after the EU referendum Britain has become more European.” #Breturn #Europe #LivingStandards 🇬🇧🇪🇺
In 2016 some Remainers worried that Britain might turn its back on the “social Europe” of workers’ rights. The opposite has happened
Ten years after the EU referendum, Britain has become more European
A nation of caffeinated populists
econ.st
March 10, 2026 at 9:07 AM
Ironic really “Ten years after the EU referendum Britain has become more European.” #Breturn #Europe #LivingStandards 🇬🇧🇪🇺
I'm so weary of this shit 🙄
A £3Billion hit to oor Economy last year alone
As someone said to me the othernight, "what type of person doesn't want to be in charge of their own country" 🤷♀️
🏴 didn't vote to leave the EU. Scotland was denied a voice at the negotiating table. Gib & NI got a deal
A £3Billion hit to oor Economy last year alone
As someone said to me the othernight, "what type of person doesn't want to be in charge of their own country" 🤷♀️
🏴 didn't vote to leave the EU. Scotland was denied a voice at the negotiating table. Gib & NI got a deal
June 18, 2026 at 1:05 PM
“Britain is only going to move on when it starts realising it’s one little cog in a whole load of cogs that make up the EU, that make up global geopolitics, and the UK on its own, not being a cog anywhere, is really unwise”
“Independence Day”
How bloody stupid.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
“Independence Day”
How bloody stupid.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘A total, utter nightmare’: small businesses on Brexit, 10 years on
Cheesemakers, farmers, exporters and wine merchants say red tape, lack of vision and rising costs mean they have stopped trading, sold up or retired early
www.theguardian.com
June 24, 2026 at 4:12 PM
