Adviser on governance, risk and regulation in financial services. Developing skills in semi-retired activities and caretaker of the new, redesigned and updated https://BrexitFactBase.com London-based.
Richard Barfield
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Good news! At last, Wednesday 22nd July has been announced as the date for the 2026 UK-EU summit.
Russian fire bombing & propaganda attacks on the UK PM are part of a long & reckless campaign by Putin’s clique, in Europe & beyond.
We’ve known since at least 2008.
We’ve done far too little.
The fundamentals remain the same.
The dangers are greater than ever.
bylinetimes.com/2022/05/09/t...
Today, Sir Ed Davey addressed our event, calling on Labour to scrap their red lines on the customs union and single market, so that "we can get on with properly fixing our relationship with Europe.”
The UK's future is in Europe. We can only do that if we forget the outdated boundaries of the past.
On reflection - shouldn’t an effective minister have been able to get his department to do what he wanted?
Brexiters’ claims that the UK would be able to aggressively deregulate and forge new trade alliances with the likes of the US have failed to bear fruit
Uplifting day today at @europeanmovement.co.uk at the Westminster Chapel.
Great speakers & stimulating panel debates delivered a strong sense of realistic, forward-looking optimism for UK&EU,
including:
@gavinesler.bsky.social
@mikegalsworthy.bsky.social
@carolinelucas.bsky.social
@peterwilding.com
www.europeanmovement.co.uk
Daisy Cooper MP urges the government to drop its red lines on Europe:
"The world has changed. Putin has launched a war on our continent. An unreliable Donald Trump has returned to the White House. And here at home, the cost of living has got worse and worse."
‘Unbelievable’ waste and inefficiency at MoD, says ex-defence minister @alcarns.bsky.social
TLDR: Money already spent on projects with poor outcomes doesn’t justify spending more on those projects. Instead, spend scarce funds on new projects with better outcomes
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Fourteen years ago, Andrew Levi briefed the Labour Foreign Secretary on the dangers of Putin’s Kremlin. Now the terrifying predictions of that report have been vindicated, it is vital to reckon with o...
What would child-safe social media look like, and would everyone want the same?
1. Every user independently authenticated by a 3rd party. Children authenticated by their schools. Adults authenticated using their bank account’s AML/KYC rules.
