I’m impressed with a Paul Mason article in the ‘New Statesman’ in which he suggests that Labour should coalesce around remain and actually have a radical agenda for EU reform. Hurray for that. Remain and reform is what so many of us have wished for… He suggests that reform would be easier if we revoked… Read more
Our ‘island’ language
I think we should give a little more understanding to the idea that, although Jeremy Corbyn is supposed to be in favour of Brexit, he is demonstrably only 70% in favour of the EU, and we should realise that he’s married to a Mexican and does at least speak fluent Spanish. How many Brexiters speak… Read more
Sign of the times?
Making politics matter again
It is interesting that recent developments indicate that Parliament is supreme. Little intricacies like calling the government into contempt as a result of its actions prove that Parliament is indeed the highest court in the land. I fear this is indicative that – up till now most MPs, just as they seem not to know… Read more
What ‘every’ MP should already know by now…
Introduction Steve Bullock is one half of the CakeWatch Podcast along with Chris Kendall and a tireless Brexit-watcher and Remain campaigner. Chris has already had an outing on the PP Blog with Brexit negotiations: how is the UK doing? and it seemed this is now the time to feature Steve. I would strongly recommend CakeWatch…. Read more
A right to Food
According to the Department of Health, in 2015 there were 184,528 hospital bed days taken by patients who were suffering from malnutrition from lack of food” Is There A Right To Food? How To Solve The UK’s Growing Food Poverty Crisis. According to the Malnutrition TaskForce, the cost of malnutrition to the health and care… Read more
Scotland and Ireland the Road to Independence (part III)
Introduction In part I the common heritage of the Scots and Irish was explored. Part II explored the comparative performance of the two economies over the past few hundred years. In part III the current situation is examined. Has independence been a success for Ireland? Should Scotland look at Ireland with envy or pity? Ireland… Read more
More public transport going free
In the UK we seem to have been granted a semi- permanent fuel duty freeze, whilst, unbelievably, “rail travellers in Britain prepare for tickets to cost 3.1 per cent more in 2019.” Meanwhile the ‘Independent‘ has discovered, in an interesting article, that Luxembourg is likely to implement entirely free public transport from next summer. In… Read more
Worthless of the world unite
There is a lovely ‘Le Monde’ quote that “The elites talk about the end of the world while the people talk about the end of the month.” And that indeed would appear to be a predominant complaint of the ‘gilets jaunes’. Macron has enhanced the impoverishment of the people whilst the rich have been granted… Read more
Conservative Brexit ‘Thinking’
According to an article in Bloomberg, ex governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, considers the proposed EU withdrawal demonstrates “less a carefully crafted diplomatic compromise and more the result of incompetence of a high order.” Aside from those who might suggest that King would know all about ‘incompetence of a high order’ it… Read more
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