Ian Stevens
Former teacher and lawyer, Liberal, pro-Europe.🇪🇺
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- Reposted by Ian StevensCount to one hundred. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog reflecting on a frenetic fortnight of domestic and international news, the state of the reset, the significance of the latest calls for 'proper Brexit', and the anger suffusing our politics: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/02/coun...
- Reposted by Ian StevensI've changed my mind. I think Starmer will have been replaced by September. I know Labour MPs talk a lot and act little (and the system is designed to stop them from acting) but Starmer's position is untenable now. What is the point of him? One way or another, he'll be ousted.
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- Reposted by Ian StevensMy "if you make us feel bad, we will have to shoot you" press conference is prompting the exact response I was trying to stop.
- Reposted by Ian Stevens"This is the increasing worry among many Labour MPs and ministers: they see Starmer as simply unable to resurrect the party and hold off what is viewed by them as the utterly terrifying prospect of a Reform government.
- Reposted by Ian StevensHow people laughed when it was ‘Comical Ali’ telling us to disbelieve the truth of what we could see.
- Reposted by Ian StevensMaking sense of the madness. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. Analysis of the international and domestic implications of the ‘Greenland crisis’, including how the ‘Carney doctrine’ could offer a way forward for post-Brexit Britain: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/01/maki...
- Reposted by Ian StevensAnd we're back. The moment the danger passes, people rush to pretend everything is alright again. It isn't and will not be.
- Reposted by Ian StevensWithout America, "right now, you'd all be speaking German" Trump tells an audience in Switzerland.
- Reposted by Ian StevensThis is one hell of a quote. European leaders really are running out of patience.
- Reposted by Ian StevensWhy is Donald Trump changing his mind every five minutes and saying completely mad stuff an embarrassment for Keir Starmer? It feels like it should chiefly be seen as an embarrassment for the United States.
- Reposted by Ian StevensAny Tory who claims the Conservatives no longer represent their values, and defects to Reform, is a liar. They were members under Sunak, and usually May, Cameron or even before. The idea that Reform is for them, Badenoch is not, but Sunak etc were, is laughable. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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- Reposted by Ian StevensStarmer keeps using this line, & it's bonkers. Most importantly, it's untrue: the party that ended Free Movement, ran the "hostile environment" & made Suella Braverman Home Sec did not run "an experiment in open borders". It's also politically mad. Voters who believe this will not vote for Starmer
- Reposted by Ian StevensBadenoch had multiple opportunities to sack Jenrick on matters of principle. By ducking that, she let him pull the Tory Party to ever more grotesque positions while building his profile. And by sacking him now, she gives the impression that the only offence that matters is disloyalty to the party.
- Reposted by Ian StevensWhen the interior ministry declares its militia to be above the law in terms that equate dissent with treason there really isn’t any question of whether or not we are looking at an authoritarian regime.
- Reposted by Ian StevensICE has escalated from Arresting undocumented migrants with criminal records to Arresting undocumented migrants without criminal records to Arresting legal migrants to Arresting US citizens who 'look' like migrants to Arresting US citizens protesting ICE to Arresting random bystanders. Who's next?
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- Reposted by Ian StevensAlmost everything Reform UK really thinks is diametrically opposite to the views of the UK electorate - on vaccines, Russia, Trump, climate change, green energy, race and nation, trade with the EU, whatever. If they're elected on an immigration scare alone the buyers' remorse will be so, so fierce.
- Reposted by Ian StevensWe are Christopher Isherwood, watching the scenes in the Berlin street below from our apartment window above.
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- Reposted by Ian StevensI'm afraid there *is* an obvious answer: it can't.
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- Reposted by Ian StevensMarco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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- Reposted by Ian StevensShamima Begum was the beginning of something in so many ways, one of which was 'the last government's inability to just do its job properly (in this case by passing legislation that would have allowed it to prosecute her here at home) and instead going 'no option but to undermine all our rights'.
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- Reposted by Ian StevensThe bit that gets missed in the scandal around Farage's schooldays is that his school made him a prefect - despite warnings from staff about his conduct. It's a recurring theme for Trump, Johnson, Farage & co. We can't be surprised at the way they behave, when their behavior is constantly rewarded.
- Reposted by Ian StevensAgree with all of this, other than "the right will go 'pro-natalist" - I think what will happen is that much of the right will shift from 'blaming our ills on immigration' to 'blaming our ills on ethnic diversity', which is already happening to an extent.
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- Reposted by Ian StevensProof that Farage is a liar www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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