Jon ReedI remember these coins well from my childhood. The ‘ring of hands’ 50p, introduced 50 years ago today, to commemorate our entry to the EEC. How far we’ve fallen since #Brexit - and how much we’ve lost. 🇪🇺😢 #BrexitReality
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British Tech Guru@geomannie @jonreed Brexit is a disaster and the UK is too proud to admit it and return to the EU. It's sad to see.
@britishtechguru @jonreed Alas the rejoining boat has sailed. We could only rejoin if the EU were to trust the UK's sincerity & commitment to its economic & social goals. Would you? The best we can hope for in the short term is step by step alignment with EU standards & trading arrangements, with possible membership many years away. The possibility of membership for #Scotland as an independent nation would be easier.
Lassielmr@geomannie @britishtechguru @jonreed I am hoping Scotland does succeed in leaving the U.K. and join the EU. I’d even accept EEA & EFTA.
@geomannie @jonreed I think Scotland should and so should Wales. England can safely be left to its own devices.
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Paul H 🏴🇪🇺@james_tweedie @britishtechguru @geomannie @jonreed
Ok - scrub "safely" and ask for EU assistance reinforcing Hadrian's Wall and Offa's Dyke...
@Henrysbridge @james_tweedie @geomannie @jonreed I like that idea. I also like the idea of closing the Severn Bridges.
@britishtechguru @james_tweedie @geomannie @jonreed
In all seriousness, I don't like borders - the best one I've seen was between France and Belgium. A small bump in the road and a change in the shade of grey of the tarmac.
@Henrysbridge @james_tweedie @geomannie @jonreed Artificial borders like the borders between countries always irk me. We're all people and there don't need to be national borders.
@Henrysbridge @james_tweedie @britishtechguru @jonreed You realise that putting a Scottish border at Hadrian's Wall would mean ceding roughly 5,500km2 of English territory to Scotland? I'm cool with that 😉.
@geomannie @Henrysbridge @james_tweedie @jonreed That sounds very doable and I'd imagine the population in the "disputed" area would be quite happy to leave England in order to join free Europe.
@britishtechguru @Henrysbridge @james_tweedie @jonreed
The residents of Berwick agree
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-515350/Berwick-Tweed-votes-leave-England-join-Scotland-better-public-services.html
The residents of Berwick agree
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-515350/Berwick-Tweed-votes-leave-England-join-Scotland-better-public-services.html
Berwick-upon-Tweed 'votes' to leave England and join Scotland for better public services
An English border town has 'voted' to join Scotland so it can enjoy better public services, it was announced yesterday. Residents of Berwick-upon-Tweed supported a switch in allegiance from Westminster to Edinburgh, in an unofficial referendum
Daniel Barlow@geomannie @Henrysbridge @james_tweedie @britishtechguru @jonreed that line would make me Scottish by birth, so, purely personally, I'd be happy with the opportunity to claim citizenship if/when independence happens.
@dan @james_tweedie @geomannie @jonreed @Henrysbridge
If Scotland did go UDI and rejoin the EU then I'd tunnel under the border :p
@geomannie @britishtechguru @jonreed
The UK would need a major constitutional overhaul to satisfy current entry requirements. Only EEA/EFTA would be currently available. Even that'd be better than now!
@Henrysbridge @geomannie @jonreed The UK does not actually have a written constitution. The nearest would be the Bill of Rights or Magna Carta.
Theriac@geomannie @britishtechguru @jonreed
The possibility of membership for #Scotland as an independent nation would be easier.Weird, all those eggs wearing Georgie crosses said the opposite in the run up to '14. Irony eh?I've seen many "hands" 50p's. Never the "brexit" one "in the wild". Pity, as I was looking forward to refusing one in my change.
H4Heights 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦
Flaming June@jonreed Yeah, I’ve still got mine.
Plane Jane@jonreed I weep for the stupidity of the disconnect.
Yahia Lababidi@jonreed Yes, we are diminished when we forget our interconnectedness and interdependence.
‘Nationalism is an infantile disease’ as Einstein said.
Shield Maiden@jonreed Oooh, I've got one of those in a drawer somewhere...50p's have had lots of interesting designs on them and I've kind of collected some.
ex or current IDF unwelcome@jonreed further to fall with this government
Citizen Paul Templeman@jonreed I remember that coin well!
Gram@jonreed always loved thst design, even as a kid. My 'favourite' coin.
Philip SetnikI consider myself more worldly knowing that these coins have nothing to do with our former vice-president.
Real@jonreed have they become too conservative with time, or is it that they don't get anything joining hands?
Doug 🇨🇦🌈@jonreed
Yes but it turns out that a majority of UK citizens are happy to trade prosperity for keeping brown people out.
Yes but it turns out that a majority of UK citizens are happy to trade prosperity for keeping brown people out.
Keith_RMost EU citizens aren't even brown, though - and indeed, if we want a decent trade deal with (say) India, the UK will have to agree to easier immigration as a condition of the deal.
(God knows, we surely *need* more.)
So much for Brexit locking down the borders to Johnny Foreigner, then - and the "funny" thing is that we told the Brexiteers that this - Brexit resulting in *more* immigration - would have to be the case.
But sure: "Project Fear", right?
mistakenforarealpoet@Oldfartrant @jonreed and even that's an illusion
ArdentArchivist@jonreed
I remember those.
I remember the bs lies about prawn cracker crisps, too. Our current abysmal situation was planned a long time ago.
Zos93@jonreed The hands belong to the family of the sculptor David Wynne including his sons Ed and Roly who went on to form the band Ozric Tentacles.
Ford Eytou@jonreed Pretty sure that was the previous Vice Presidents rapper name.
Tyler Durden@jonreed UK should rejoin EU when Ukraine will join. Double celebration of victory over Putin.
Matt@michalz00 @jonreed Ukraine has already started the joining process, which means Ukraine is in a better position than backyards isolationist UK.
"backyards isolationist UK"
Can we be QUITE clear please, that the vast majority of the UK DID NOT vote for the shitshow that is Brexit?
In addition, current polling suggests that 2/3 of the populace WANT BACK IN.
Just getting really tired of being tarred with the same brush as the lying, xenophobic, knuckle-dragging arseholes who did vote for this colossally ignorant act of self-harm.
@keithreeder @michalz00 @jonreed like it or not, UK and ALL its citizens are led by the leaders our version of democracy delivers. We're all being led into a cultural and economic backwater so our thieving leaders can get rich at our expense.
I don't like being dragged out of the EU against my will and down into oblivion any more than you do.
A key part of resolving this is #PR
I don't like being dragged out of the EU against my will and down into oblivion any more than you do.
A key part of resolving this is #PR
"like it or not, UK and ALL its citizens are led by the leaders our version of democracy delivers."
The UK is NOT defined by its "leaders" - currently the very epitome of non-representative government, with <14m votes in 2019 - and they embody *nothing* that I hold dear.
The Tories may be "backwards, isolationist", but neither are unavoidably infectious nor mandatory conditions.
So again: enough with the generalisations and sweeping statements, please.
Pure Spirit@jonreed billionaires sure got their money’s worth buying out media and loading it with agitprop
Ged|Net@jonreed I still have a few about the place. As I was born close to that date I never knew their meaning. Now I know 😁
Thanks for that precious pearl of wisdom. 🤗🤗🤗🤗
Thanks for that precious pearl of wisdom. 🤗🤗🤗🤗
Unprecedented 2023@jonreed 😪 Together we stand, decided we fall.
Arnan de Gans@jonreed you’d have lost so much more in the coming years if you’d stayed… at least England is free of the eu oppression.
Unless there's a problem with your emoticons and this was "wit", you're getting blocked.
@arnandegans @jonreed What suppression is that environmental working rights?? And if you talk about independence .. didn't bankers get rid of your freely elected lizz truss ?
@Sam224466 @jonreed independence, freedom of thought, unelected eu government, endless regulation and over controlling everything. endkessly ignorant decisions from Brussels, to name a few.
Dunno what a lizz truss is.
Dunno what a lizz truss is.
@arnandegans @jonreed hmm which regulation don't you agree with ?? Environmental ?? Thats why you swimming in shyt ?? Working rights where british workers earn 8000 less then western counterparts ??? Oh you want independent governent to do what it wants and treats its people how it wants ??? Bit you don't like freedom of movement the right of religion without fear of persecution?? Or is it equality you dont like ??? How is it going so far winner??Ps Lizz truss was the britain pm
@Sam224466 @jonreed if you rather live in the western version of china, go right ahead and move to a eu country.
@arnandegans @jonreed why because you fell for Nigel lies or was it Boris
Which one is your favorite they need us more or less red tape ???
Which one is your favorite they need us more or less red tape ???
@Sam224466 @jonreed dude, before you go all fanatic realize who you’re talking to. I’m not British, I’m not in the eu. I left that shithole years ago. And I’m certainly not going to argue your nonsense to someone on an anonymous account. So save yourself the effort.
@arnandegans @jonreed So you think you know better than those that live here, lmao ...
@arnandegans @jonreed before ypu coment read get informed ypu just bring out your ignorance ..
dorf@jonreed it is sad that such advanced society decided to go back in time...
Although it is still a wonder to me nobody has challenged whole idea of referendum which is example of a form of direct democracy... Firstly for direct democracy to work whole society must be very well educated, secondly issue of leaving EU was/is so vast and complex matter that I doubt there's anyone in the world who would be able to grasp it... So then it wasn't a legit voting when a few were pushing their own agendas
Although it is still a wonder to me nobody has challenged whole idea of referendum which is example of a form of direct democracy... Firstly for direct democracy to work whole society must be very well educated, secondly issue of leaving EU was/is so vast and complex matter that I doubt there's anyone in the world who would be able to grasp it... So then it wasn't a legit voting when a few were pushing their own agendas
Unripe Cocktails@jonreed we had coins in Ireland very similar to Sterling. They always felt more substantial than modern coinage. Sorry to see some of Britain's recent decisions.