Here’s a short roundup of recent activity and some future outlook on the movement to end Brexit, Rejoin the EU and Reboot Britain in a year where insanity was normalised in several political theatres of the absurd around the globe.
Progress 2025
I list three recent projects of note … We were interviewed by Danish journalist Rose Kodal recently on Brexit and Rejoin. She interviewed people across the Brexit spectrum. Her final piece is an interesting perspective of views on Brexit from academic to more out front pragmatic leadership on the topic. Poor old Ken the Brexiteer simply wants his daughter to forgive him for his vote to leave and value his continuing illusions about Brexit as being equivalent to facts. She won’t. Illusions are not of the same value as facts. Find Rose’s brilliant piece of journalism here. If you can help her find her career into journalism you will find her at Rose Nina Kodal Larsen on Linkedin.
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We also did an online masterclass on Rejoining the EU for North Herts for Europe. The session was invaded by Reform UK types who exposed themselves on the call and filled the screens with pornography. This really sums them up. After some careful editing, we salvaged the content. The Q&A is very interesting as it plays to some of the problems we still have as a movement summed up by Qahir. There are no easy fixes to change the culture of the Remoaners as he pleads for. God knows I’ve tried and made myself extremely unpopular into the bargain.
Q&A session. A great insight into the minds of Remainers.
Keynote address. No Reform nudity thankfully …
The Brexit RIP : Reboot Britain book has had another minor update to consider the impact of demographic changes aka death, based on the illusion that Nigel Farage could re-litigate Brexit if elected in 2029. Still people are more occupied by working as NF’s unpaid marketing forrce than driving forwardson our own strategy. Then they wonder why NF prevails. Oh well, this leads me to Project 2026. Here is a sample of the book on this topic.
Outlook : Project 2026
I am stepping back from full time involvement in Brexit and Rejoin, having given nearly 10 years of my life, much of it full time and unpaid to do so. Instead, I will work on a project by project basis to continue the work to break Parliamentary silence, leaven the mainstream media’s grip on populism and so on, see our five goals. Projects I am willing to undertake include:
Public speaking to constituency groups and / or movements. such as I did for Labour MP Sadik Al-Hassan in 2025. This was instrumental in breaking the silence on Brexit and promoting a minor rebellion in parliament, alongside the book which we sent to 300 + MPs, risking arrest in Parliament for taking white envelopes to the House of Lords and Portcullis House.
I have been asked to tour the UK in the Bollocks to Brexit Mini on a “Cost of Living” tour, including street events, keynotes and so on. Organising the stunt is easy but ensuring that our message reaches deep into each community’s heart and so on requires work. I’d judge that the project is not currently viable, needing a social media team, press / media people, an on the ground group to organise events and fundraising to cover costs. Get in touch if you would like to help. A mini tour might tame the complexity.
I was also asked to assist with an Organisation Development (OD) approach to align the various movements who wish to bring a fairer voting system to Britain. Further to some initial analysis, I found that they are just as divided as the Remain movements over ends and means and I have declined until they are ready for such a series of interventions. It would be akin to trying to heal an alcoholic who does not believe they have a problem with alcohol. I have wasted too much of my own time on such projects and ideologues so I’m setting a higher bar for my professional services in 2026. Get in touch if you have a project that may be of value and I promise to take a look at it without prejudice.
The major shift that I have not been able to alter significantly is the “learned helplessness” of the Rejoin / Remoan movement. They are the principle internal obstacle to Rejoin. We could significantly impact the parliamentary silence on the matter if they also stopped arguing about ends and means. Here are some of the daily objections I encounter from such people. It’s seriously wearing, reinforced by mixed messaging from the larger rejoin movements and key actors. I see no possibility of building enough momentum to Rejoin EU until the movement heal themselves. I get hardly any pushback from Brexiteers. We are the obstacle.
I’m told that Keir Starmer is toast shortly. To be honest I have mixed feelings about it as nobody seems able to tell me what comes from it. We removed Theresa May only to get Boris Johnson … Oh well. To 2026 …. !!!