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<rss version="2.0"><channel><description>Using information, education and agitation to expose the shills &amp; charlatans who stole our rights, freedoms and protections in 2016. Multi-contributors. #BrexitScam </description><link>https://bsky.app/profile/brexitshambles.bsky.social</link><title>@brexitshambles.bsky.social - brexit_sham</title><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/brexitshambles.bsky.social/post/3mi5o5ucvvs2p</link><description>As British farmers look with envy at the terms of the EU&#39;s deal unveiled on Tuesday, a former minister admits that Britain’s flagship post-Brexit trade deal with Australia was a failure. https://www.politico.eu/article/anger-as-eu-gets-better-trade-deal-with-australia-than-brexit-britain/</description><pubDate>28 Mar 2026 22:20 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:odflj3je3jw23odyexecwaig/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi5o5ucvvs2p</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/brexitshambles.bsky.social/post/3mhv2eqvegs2s</link><description>In a blow to Farage’s Reform UK, a government review recommends political donations in cryptocurrency could be blocked and also recommends political funding from Britons living abroad be capped at about £300,000 a year… https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/25/political-donations-cryptocurrency-blocked-reform-uk?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</description><pubDate>25 Mar 2026 12:05 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:odflj3je3jw23odyexecwaig/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhv2eqvegs2s</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/brexitshambles.bsky.social/post/3mhnycdwh6k2o</link><description>Same old same old, Reform using third party to turn opaque crypto transactions into cash and hide donors, Electoral Commission confirm that they are limited in the information they can obtain from crypto providers that are based overseas. https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/reform-accused-of-using-third-party-to-turn-crypto-into-cash-and-hide-donors</description><pubDate>22 Mar 2026 16:39 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:odflj3je3jw23odyexecwaig/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhnycdwh6k2o</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/brexitshambles.bsky.social/post/3mhntvbawrc2l</link><description>Trump has no strategy, no plan, no understanding of the complexities of the conflict he has ignited, his gamble has failed and America&#39;s allies will pay for it. https://apple.news/AhXhSCfIrQRa_ppE-lYAgiA</description><pubDate>22 Mar 2026 15:20 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:odflj3je3jw23odyexecwaig/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhntvbawrc2l</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/brexitshambles.bsky.social/post/3mg3bkaez722a</link><description>Telegraph Journalist, “Mr President, are you disappointed with Keir Starmer?”&#xA;&#xA;President, who has no legal justification or legal authority to wage what he has described as a war, “Yeah”&#xA;&#xA;Telegraph “Exclusive: Trump – I’m ‘very disappointed’ in Starmer over Iran”&#xA;&#xA;See how it works?</description><pubDate>02 Mar 2026 12:39 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:odflj3je3jw23odyexecwaig/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg3bkaez722a</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/brexitshambles.bsky.social/post/3mg3aovitbc2a</link><description>Weird Reform’s post-match analysis of Gorton &amp; Denton was that they lost due to an “Islamo-communist alliance in which hardline Muslim patriarchs supposedly forced wives to back a female atheist and a gay Jew.”&#xA;That works on Twitter, not in the real world. https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2026/03/reform-uk-are-too-weird-to-win</description><pubDate>02 Mar 2026 12:24 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:odflj3je3jw23odyexecwaig/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg3aovitbc2a</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/brexitshambles.bsky.social/post/3mfxpi4gsw22l</link><description>Iran’s peace was within reach, but, rather than allowing diplomacy to conclude, the US and Israel attacked Iran when, as revealed by Oman’s foreign minister, a principles agreement could have been signed within days. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/us-iran-attack-israel-peace-within-reach-b2929572.html</description><pubDate>01 Mar 2026 02:38 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:odflj3je3jw23odyexecwaig/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfxpi4gsw22l</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/brexitshambles.bsky.social/post/3mfrhwj5hek2d</link><description>After 15 years hard work, and initial funding from the European Development Fund - when the UK had access to when it was part of the EU - the UK&#39;s first geothermal power plant has been turned on to meet the electricity needs of up to 10,000 homes. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cewzg77k721o?xtor=AL-71-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Bbbc.news.twitter%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D&amp;at_bbc_team=editorial&amp;at_link_origin=BBCNews&amp;at_format=link&amp;at_campaign_type=owned&amp;at_campaign=Social_Flow&amp;at_ptr_name=twitter&amp;at_medium=social&amp;at_link_id=9B6C09DC-12D0-11F1-81BE-9BF3DFB79095&amp;at_link_type=web_link</description><pubDate>26 Feb 2026 15:07 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:odflj3je3jw23odyexecwaig/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfrhwj5hek2d</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/brexitshambles.bsky.social/post/3mfjwigq7dc2c</link><description>Farage’s stupid stunts fit a familiar pattern. His allies in Germany’s AfD — courting disaffected working-class voters — are rallying at a notorious Nazi site and their leader fined for using the banned Nazi slogan “Everything for Germany.” Ring any bells? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/23/afd-nazi-history-far-right-germany?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</description><pubDate>23 Feb 2026 15:06 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:odflj3je3jw23odyexecwaig/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfjwigq7dc2c</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/brexitshambles.bsky.social/post/3mdq24r5xak2s</link><description>On this sixth anniversary of Brexit, take a moment to reflect on how much better off Britain is — as explained here by Baron Hannan of Kingsclere, ennobled for his role in delivering what has been described as “the single stupidest thing any country has ever done”</description><pubDate>31 Jan 2026 14:36 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:odflj3je3jw23odyexecwaig/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdq24r5xak2s</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/brexitshambles.bsky.social/post/3mdiq3xu7wk2x</link><description>Slovakia’s prime minister and Trump ally, Robert Fico, is worried about ‘psychological state’ of ‘dangerous’ president and has privately told European leaders that he fears the US president is ‘out of his mind’ after Mar-a-Lago visit. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/01/28/trump-ally-robert-fico-worried-about-psychological-state/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_tw_post_fico-worried-about-psychological-state/</description><pubDate>28 Jan 2026 16:48 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:odflj3je3jw23odyexecwaig/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdiq3xu7wk2x</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/brexitshambles.bsky.social/post/3ma226l54vc2b</link><description>Listening to head of MI6 Blaise Metreweli’s words makes you realise just how asleep at the wheel British politicians have been over Brexit, exploitable right-wing populists and all their ‘friends of’ groups…&#xA;&#xA;[contains quote post or other embedded content]</description><pubDate>15 Dec 2025 16:23 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:odflj3je3jw23odyexecwaig/app.bsky.feed.post/3ma226l54vc2b</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/brexitshambles.bsky.social/post/3m7zxyd224c2h</link><description>Classy as ever, Trump launches attack on film director, Rob Reiner, who was found stabbed to death alongside his wife… https://news.sky.com/story/donald-trump-launches-attack-on-film-director-rob-reiner-found-stabbed-to-death-alongside-his-wife-13483564</description><pubDate>15 Dec 2025 15:44 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:odflj3je3jw23odyexecwaig/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7zxyd224c2h</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/brexitshambles.bsky.social/post/3m7yeunkhik2g</link><description>Russia - along with other states - are ‘exporting chaos’. Assassination plots, sabotage, cyber-attacks and the manipulation of information mean that “the frontline is everywhere” in this “age of uncertainty” the new head of MI6 will warn on Monday. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/dec/15/new-mi6-head-blaise-metreweli-speech-russia-threat?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</description><pubDate>15 Dec 2025 00:29 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:odflj3je3jw23odyexecwaig/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7yeunkhik2g</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/brexitshambles.bsky.social/post/3m7w4oxwghk2f</link><description>Critics warned the UK–US trade deal was built on loose terms and vague commitments. Now the cost of that ambiguity is emerging, with Washington telling London it is pausing a $40bn technology-related agreement in Trump’s latest shake down.&#xA;https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/business/economy/trump-uk-trade-deal-tariffs.html?smid=tw-share</description><pubDate>14 Dec 2025 02:58 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:odflj3je3jw23odyexecwaig/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7w4oxwghk2f</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/brexitshambles.bsky.social/post/3m7ueponq2223</link><description>The Times - There are no serious economic papers arguing Brexit has benefited Britain. The ongoing cost for each of us is £3,000. But, as ministers hunt for growth, the evidence suggests restoring frictionless trade with the EU would deliver major gains. https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/brexit-made-us-poorer-and-its-getting-worse-kgwkwg3kw</description><pubDate>13 Dec 2025 10:16 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:odflj3je3jw23odyexecwaig/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7ueponq2223</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/brexitshambles.bsky.social/post/3m7q5ojdt722e</link><description>Dulwich College has said allegations that Nigel Farage made racist and antisemitic comments to fellow pupils at the school are &#34;profoundly distressing&#34; and &#34;entirely at odds with the Dulwich College of today&#34;. https://news.sky.com/story/politics-latest-budget-taxes-reeves-starmer-labour-badenoch-farage-12593360</description><pubDate>11 Dec 2025 17:59 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:odflj3je3jw23odyexecwaig/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7q5ojdt722e</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/brexitshambles.bsky.social/post/3m7l7mfj6h22o</link><description>All the bastards were there at Jacob Rees-Mogg’s mad hatter’s tea party, IDS, Bill Cash, John Redwood and the Bruges lunatics celebrating 75 Brexit benefits including more expensive food and borrowing costs, lower GDP and a £90bn annual loss to the Treasury. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/09/jacob-rees-mogg-house-brexiters-labour-brexit-benefits?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</description><pubDate>09 Dec 2025 18:51 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:odflj3je3jw23odyexecwaig/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7l7mfj6h22o</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/brexitshambles.bsky.social/post/3m7l5t22mlk2o</link><description>Should stablecoins be welcomed by people other than the issuers, criminals of various kinds and the US Treasury?  NO. &#xA;Last month, S&amp;P downgraded Tether’s USDT to “weak”. This is not a trustworthy stablecoin, but it is the one Nigel Farage is promoting. https://www.ft.com/content/a5f4b737-215f-4e40-b6e8-0c3ade7e9a30?utm_social_post_id=618850146&amp;utm_social_handle_id=18949452</description><pubDate>09 Dec 2025 18:18 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:odflj3je3jw23odyexecwaig/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7l5t22mlk2o</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/brexitshambles.bsky.social/post/3m7l3tzyra225</link><description>Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, who supported Brexit in 2016, now admits Brexit was a “shock” that has damaged the UK, as 100 MPs voted for Britain to rejoin a customs union with the EU. https://www.ft.com/content/d3581bbe-98c6-4451-a7d9-c7c36b49d782?utm_social_post_id=618846105&amp;utm_social_handle_id=18949452</description><pubDate>09 Dec 2025 17:43 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:odflj3je3jw23odyexecwaig/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7l3tzyra225</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/brexitshambles.bsky.social/post/3m7kmoppoic2u</link><description>This country is in this economic mess because one man with a pint and half a fag sold the UK a myth that ‘sovereignty’ would make us richer. Instead we’ve ended up with lower growth, lower wages, weaker services and higher borrowing costs — the Farage tax. https://www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/the-farage-tax-what-the-uk-pays-for?utm_medium=email</description><pubDate>09 Dec 2025 13:12 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:odflj3je3jw23odyexecwaig/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7kmoppoic2u</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/brexitshambles.bsky.social/post/3m7kiia3oes2h</link><description>Essex police assessing “alleged misreported expenditure by a political party” following a referral from the Met acting on documents submitted by a member of Farage’s campaign team.Tory &amp; Labour candidates in Clacton say Reform’s campaign was a “juggernaut”. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/09/reform-campaign-for-farages-clacton-seat-was-a-juggernaut-say-candidates?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</description><pubDate>09 Dec 2025 11:57 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:odflj3je3jw23odyexecwaig/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7kiia3oes2h</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/brexitshambles.bsky.social/post/3m7je4ir64c2v</link><description>The clown show continues…“Reform UK councillor’s business has been handed a £40,000 fine after the company was found to have hired someone without the legal right to work in the UK.”&#xA;https://www.ft.com/content/de36d9bd-9b8f-429c-a632-e1b82917c8d0</description><pubDate>09 Dec 2025 01:06 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:odflj3je3jw23odyexecwaig/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7je4ir64c2v</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/brexitshambles.bsky.social/post/3m7jcajxxak2n</link><description>Richard Tice has been accused of discouraging racism victims from speaking out after he claimed allegations against Nigel Farage from his school days were “made-up twaddle”. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/richard-tice-accused-retraumatising-victim-36358346</description><pubDate>09 Dec 2025 00:32 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:odflj3je3jw23odyexecwaig/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7jcajxxak2n</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/brexitshambles.bsky.social/post/3m7gdmvs7tc2f</link><description>BREAKING: Nigel Farage has been reported to police by a former member of his campaign team over claims of falsified election expenses. Given the serious nature of the allegations the Met’s specialist crime group will assess the documents that have been submitted.</description><pubDate>07 Dec 2025 20:19 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:odflj3je3jw23odyexecwaig/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7gdmvs7tc2f</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/brexitshambles.bsky.social/post/3m7gc4tin3c2a</link><description>More Reform sleaze… Farage under more pressure after Electoral Commission asked to investigate his links and promotion of cryptocurrency Tether after Reform declared a £9million donation from Thai based Tether investor, Cryptopher Harborne. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/nigel-farage-under-pressure-over-36365237</description><pubDate>07 Dec 2025 19:52 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:odflj3je3jw23odyexecwaig/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7gc4tin3c2a</guid></item><item><link>https://bsky.app/profile/brexitshambles.bsky.social/post/3m7g644wzl22u</link><description>CPS says Farage MEP’s Jonathan Bullock, Julia Reid and Steven Woolfe followed a script given to Russian asset Nathan Gill by handler Oleg Voloshyn. At least eight UKIP/Brexit Party MEPs now linked to Kremlin-tasked efforts coordinated through Reform’s Gill. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/dec/07/farage-bloc-meps-alleged-to-have-followed-russian-assets-script-ukip-brexit-party?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other</description><pubDate>07 Dec 2025 18:40 +0000</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">at://did:plc:odflj3je3jw23odyexecwaig/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7g644wzl22u</guid></item></channel></rss>