Based on “I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)” by the Proclaimers. From JOE.co.uk… Read more
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Brexit
About the decision, background and process of the UK leaving the European Union.
The Iron Triangle
There is a very interesting idea from someone who blogs as the Naked Mole Rat entitled Brexit cannot break the Iron Triangle. I confess I’d never heard of the Iron Triangle (although it has a Wikipedia entry) but it seems I’m not alone. I confused it for the old sales concept that a company’s offer… Read more
Thinking like China
There is a very interesting piece in the FT about China building a road in Montenegro, to link the Adriatic port of Bar to Serbia’s capital Belgrade. The Montenegrin government’s borrowing from China to finance the road’s cost, estimated at €1.3bn, has sent the country’s debt soaring from 63 per cent of gross domestic product… Read more
Your country needs me
As we now know that English is pretty much the lingua franca (a good – imported – English phrase!) of the EU we also know that they have a deep understanding of (the idiocies of) current British politics. We are negotiating with ourselves in full sight of our fellow negotiators. It is some evidence of… Read more
European Elections are on the way – legally at least
Even, it seems, when we are told there is a ‘democratic deficit’! The below is clearly government legislation – and it has to be hoped that this is also government intention: So I have to agree that the: The Tories seem to have encouraged absolutely anything but unmuddled thinking……. Read more
Stand not upon the order of your going but go at once…
Perhaps I should not be calling on the aid of Lady Macbeth, but to me it seems singularly and desperately appropriate. Our Prime Minister, who, I see Ian Dunt descibes as “quite simply, the worst British prime minister of our lifetime, and quite possibly of anyone else’s” managed yesterday to write a letter pleading for… Read more
A metaphor for Brexit…
This wonderful picture of a ParcelForce Worldwide van (surely symbolic of ‘Global’ Britain) teetering on the edge of a 200foot drop at er…..Tintagel, is irresistable (and just in case you may wonder – fortunately, no ParcelForce employees were harmed as a result of this photograph). The problematic dilemma is emphasised in this lovely article… Read more
Corbyn’s Engagement
First, it is worth noting that the government is so divided that, at the eleventh hour, it has been forced to call upon the opposition for help. I suggest that indicates that the government and the Conservative Party have collapsed. The UK Prime Minister, who has been so intent on putting party before country, has… Read more
15 : 20 Vision and Brexit- have things panned out as expected?
During the Brexit referendum, before the Progressive Pulse site was set up, many of my comments were on Prof Richard Murphy’s TRUK site. This was my thinking on the time-line and evolving predictions for the future. What I Got Right. The Referendum would result in a Leave victory. The Referendum was a horror show, with… Read more
Klannish…
Somebody had to do it – and perhaps I shouldn’t – but I thought this very amusing!… Read more