#CustomsUnion

Leeds for Europe

@leedseurope.bsky.social

5 days ago

A letter headed "Green backing", that appeared in The Yorkshire Post on 10 March 2026. Peter Packham, Chair of Leeds for Europe, disagrees with the assessment of an earlier correspondent about the outcome of the recent Gorton and Denton by-election. A win for pro-EU Green Party was good for his group's cause, Mr Packham argues.

Chair @leedsblue67.bsky.social in @yorkshirepost.co.uk: Good #RejoinEU result in recent by-election 😊

Quoting victor @greenparty.org.uk leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social: " #Brexit disaster ...right now join #CustomsUnion ...want us in #EuropeanUnion " 😊

😞result for #Brexit party #ReformUK, too 😊

Pie Thagoram

@piethagoram.bsky.social

1 week ago

Another Brexit benefit? Thousands at risk of losing their jobs
#RejoinEU #SingleMarket #CustomsUnion

Tim Kinsella #FBPE

@timkinsella.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives. That’s the lesson from Gorton and Denton | Sadiq Khan The threat to the party in some parts of our country is now existential. But we can progress, as we have in London, by being bold and strong in our core beliefs, says London mayor Sadiq Khan

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Labour must stop channelling Reform and unite with progressives

“It has meant being honest about the huge damage being caused by #Brexit, lobbying for a youth mobility scheme with the EU, and the need to rejoin the #SingleMarket and #CustomsUnion”

Tim Kinsella #FBPE

@timkinsella.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

UK should talk about rejoining the EU customs union, says trade secretary But Peter Kyle argues it will not be a 'quick fix', as he visits Brussels to drum up trade

inews.co.uk/news/politic...

“The Government has committed to staying out of the #CustomsUnion and #SingleMarket on the basis of a promise in the Labour manifesto, but pro-European campaigners have been stepping up a push to reconsider this”

Absolutely!

And we’d get our #FoM back,into the bargain!

Laura Phillips

@lauraphillips.bsky.social

1 month ago

EU has 'open mind' on UK customs union debate, says commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis says the EU is willing to engage with Britain amid mounting global uncertainty.

#Brussels would be "open‑minded" about discussing closer trade ties with the #UK, including the possibility of working together on a #customsunion, the #EU Commissioner for finance told the #BBC. He also opened the door to Britain entering the EU's €150bn ($177bn; £130bn) #defence loans #scheme.

David Crewe

@crewedavid.bsky.social

1 month ago

Brexiteers know they were duped and Russia celebrated. #youthmobility #customsunion #rejoin

Susan Murray MP

@mpsusanmurray.bsky.social

1 month ago

Brexit has left Britain weaker. And with President Trump again threatening tariffs and picking fights with Europe, we cannot gamble our economy on an increasingly unpredictable White House.

#Brexit #CustomsUnion #Trump

Terence Knott

@terenceknott1.bsky.social

1 month ago

U.K. compared financially with several adjacent European countries for GDP (how much the country makes, per head, Per year)
We are not doing terribly well, chaps! We are down in the weeds…..
#customsunion
#fbpe

Sam

@samdolan.bsky.social

2 months ago

The "Brexit people voted for" is a chimera, a phantasm, a flibbertigibbet, a will-o'-the-wisp and a clown.

It doesn't exist.

You are in power, do something about it. #CustomsUnion

Terence Knott

@terenceknott1.bsky.social

2 months ago

Death by thousand cuts, as Starmer seeks to ameliorate enormous damage of Brexit (Costing UK £286 billion every year now)

Why cannot he have courage, backed by 80% of his own Members and 70% of country, to grip problems and go for #SingleMarket , #CustomsUnion, or re-entry EU?

Tim Kinsella #FBPE

@timkinsella.bsky.social

2 months ago

Would reversing Brexit make you richer? The experts’ verdicts Labour is taking the UK closer to the EU and the Lib Dems want to go further, but the economic benefits may prove to be limited

inews.co.uk/news/politic...

Would reversing #Brexit make you richer? The experts’ verdicts

“You are not going to fundamentally transform the relationship for the better without rejoining the #SingleMarket and #CustomsUnion”

Just do it!

Catrollo 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@catrollo.bsky.social

2 months ago

Starmer says closer ties with EU single market preferable to a customs union Prime minister gives clearest sign yet that government is seeking to further deepen Britain’s links with Brussels

Starmer: "we need to shoot down this idea that slogans, easy answers, quick fixes, shortcuts are what fix the country. They didn’t fix it.”

Then why the easy quick fix slogan of "closer ties", rather than a proven solution? 🤔
#CustomsUnion

Caroline Voaden

@carolinevoadenmp.bsky.social

2 months ago

Remember when Brexiteers raved about the trade deals we’d sign once we left the EU.

Well, five years on from Boris’s botched deal, let me show why these deals are worth absolute peanuts compared to what we lost thanks to Brexit. 🥜

#Brexit #CustomsUnion @libdems.org.uk

Eldrona rolande#FBPE#RejoinEU #RefugeesWelcome💙

@myliferjra.bsky.social

2 months ago

#customsunion. Just get on with it.
If people feel better off the #migration distraction loses some of its potency #EU #closerties

Sir Guy Fawkes

@guyfawkesright.bsky.social

2 months ago

Then the uk just has to join the #SingleMarket and #CustomsUnion and job done.

Fuck #starmers and #ukLabour red lines

Tim Kinsella #FBPE

@timkinsella.bsky.social

2 months ago

Trade unions leader calls on Labour to forge closer relationship with Europe In an exclusive interview, the head of the TUC Paul Nowak says a customs union with the EU could boost the UK’s economy

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Trade unions leader calls on Labour to forge closer relationship with Europe

“He did not believe there was a significant number of voters who still remained opposed to closer trading ties with Europe”

Indeed, so why wait?

#CustomsUnion
#SingleMarket

BrokenWorld 🌍

@landofbritain.bsky.social

2 months ago

Will Starmer's Labour listen in 2026?

While they dither with their huge majority, and repeatedly shoot themselves in both feet, Farage waits, laughing up his sleeve.

#RejoinEU #CustomsUnion #FreeMovementAgain #CancelBrexit #ToryCostOfLivingCrisis #ToriesBrokeNritain #r4today #skynews #UKPolitics

Tim Kinsella #FBPE

@timkinsella.bsky.social

2 months ago

Starmer faces a referendum on his leadership – and it could prove fatal The Prime Minister has a rocky year ahead

inews.co.uk/news/politic...

“Also worrying for Starmer will be the increasingly voluble debate over rejoining the EU #CustomsUnion – which would remove some trade barriers – as a magic fix for the economy”

Not as magic as #RejoinTheSingleMarket, though!

Tim Kinsella #FBPE

@timkinsella.bsky.social

2 months ago

Labour faces election threat over reversing Brexit The Labour Party is squeezed by Reform and Tories on one side, and Green and Lib Dems on the other

inews.co.uk/news/politic...

“A senior Labour MP told The i Paper on Monday that rejoining the #CustomsUnion was being widely discussed in the parliamentary party. “People want it. It would be a bold, sensible and grown-up way to get us out of the economic and political shit we’re in”

Or #RejoinEU

Stavvy@bsky.social

@stavvy.bsky.social

2 months ago

More than 75% of Labour, Lib Dem and Green voters think PM should open talks on joining EU customs union – UK politics live YouGov poll for the Times suggests even 40% of Conservative voters support such a move

More than 75% of Labour, Lib Dem and Green voters think PM should open talks on joining EU #customsunion – Wes Streeting used an interview to suggest that he favours joining a customs union with the EU. This is something that Keir Starmer has ruled out.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Glyn Moody

@glynmoody.bsky.social

2 months ago

More than 75% of Labour, Lib Dem and Green voters think PM should open talks on joining EU customs union – UK politics live YouGov poll for the Times suggests even 40% of Conservative voters support such a move

70% of Labour, Lib Dem and Green voters think future PM should open talks on #rejoining EU - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv... "80% of people who voted Labour at the last general election say a future leader should open negotiations on joining a #customsunion." pretty clear what needs to be done..

If my grandma had wheels she'd be a bike..

@calvinandhobbes69.bsky.social

2 months ago

So glad we are rejoining #Erasmus, now come on, rejoin #customsunion etc. #EU #Labour #brexit has failed us all!

Leeds for Europe

@leedseurope.bsky.social

3 months ago

This letter from Jas Olak, Vice Chair of Leeds for Europe, appeared in The Yorkshire Post on 13 December 2025. Sir Keir Starmer needs to make real moves on undoing economic damage caused by Brexit, she says.

Vice Chair @jazz072.bsky.social says #UKLabour #Starmer must put movement where mouth is on #Brexit in @yorkshirepost.co.uk letter.

We could grab back much of growth lost by quitting #EuropeanUnion - especially if ‘red lines’ ditched for good of economy. #CustomsUnion #SingleMarket #RejoinEU

Tim Kinsella #FBPE

@timkinsella.bsky.social

3 months ago

Is a customs union worth it? - UK in a changing Europe With debates about whether the UK should enter into a customs union with the EU resurfacing, Joël Reland explains what a customs union actually is and how one would, or wouldn't, benefit the UK.

ukandeu.ac.uk/is-a-customs...

Summary:

A #CustomsUnion is probably just about ‘worth it’

But nowhere near as much as #RejoinTheSingleMarket

Merely a step in the right direction…

Tracy H

@tracyhuts.bsky.social

3 months ago

#Farage complaining about the UK joining the #CustomsUnion, when during the #Brexit debate he repeatedly argued for a Norway-style deal after leaving the EU. He also said he supported the old-style Common Market. Hard to see why he’s now opposing something so close to what he once backed.

Toby Risk

@tobyrisk.bsky.social

3 months ago

And I would bet money, the difference between those approving of a #CustomsUnion is even more stark

Phil Ross

@phillyross.bsky.social

3 months ago

South London support for Lib Dem bill that rings the Bell on Brexit insanity Clapham and Brixton Hill MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy this week led a trio of South London Labour MPs to help push through a Liberal Democrat Ten Minute Rule Bill calling for the UK to rejoin a customs uni…

A sliver of Brexit sanity, a bill to rejoin the EU customs union, scraped through by a single vote.

But in Lambeth, the UK’s strongest Remain borough, three MPs abstained. I’m baffled.
#baffled #Brexit #CustomsUnion #Lambeth #SouthLondon #Politics

www.brixtonbuzz.com/2025/12/sout...

Tim Kinsella #FBPE

@timkinsella.bsky.social

3 months ago

Come with me to Jacob Rees-Mogg’s house. The Brexiters are rattled – and it shows | Polly Toynbee Labour and the country have reached a historic inflection point. For all the talk of Brexit ‘benefits’, the anti-EU ideologues know the tide has turned, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Come with me to Jacob Rees-Mogg’s house. The Brexiters are rattled–and it shows

Also: ”Laying down red lines against joining the #CustomsUnion and #SingleMarket is now as deeply regretted by many Labour people as the manifesto’s fateful tax straitjackets”

𝔸𝕟𝕕𝕪 𝔽𝕣𝕚𝕫𝕫𝕖𝕝𝕝, 𝘍𝘳𝘪𝘻𝘻 𝘢𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘣𝘪𝘻, 𝘦𝘭𝘭 𝘳𝘩𝘺𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 🔔

@andrewjfrizzell.bsky.social

3 months ago

‘Nuff said. Time to close ranks with our neighbours. @libdems.org.uk #CustomsUnion #RejoinEU