Terry Reinke, the German MEP, who has previously appeared on these pages, is to me, quite unaccountably, still fighting for us… Profound thanks are, I suggest, the least we could offer…. Read more
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Brexit
About the decision, background and process of the UK leaving the European Union.
Fishermen’s regrets
This (below) is from the FT and a quote from someone who was vocal – at least locally – in supporting Brexit. He works in Brixham – the most prosperous fishing port in England and Wales, which now catches much more than even Grimsby or Hull, whose precipitous decline was the historical result of the… Read more
The Venn Diagram of Brexit Costs and Benefits
And I don’t even usually agree with the concept of the cost benefit analysis – but I think I can make an exception here:… Read more
Whose Sovereignty exactly?
This was in Saturday’s Times: And the Baron of Siberia bit had to get permission from Putin. Now, joy of joys, it has been granted. We have a Baron of Siberia in the House of Lords – that must be what the Conservatives meant by taking the money, sorry, taking back control…. Read more
Beware December 31st
The food industry now thinks that Brexit will actually be government’s ‘worst-case scenario’ on January 1st and the Grocer has added this little table to give some idea of shortages: It rather confirms Tesco’s suggestion that there will be two or three months of fresh food disruption – indeed the same article quotes one industry… Read more
FT news on handbag economics
This FT article ‘Sunak faces worst hit to UK finances since second world war’ is worth reading – not so much because it indicates that Sunak has got pretty much everything wrong about money that it is possible to get wrong but also because these misunderstandings have lead him to think the rich have to… Read more
New poster campaign
Which is, I suspect, organised by Led by Donkeys – the posters seem to suggest their blackly humorous and hard hitting style, which is, as more and more of us realise, no more than the truth: What they don’t mention is that all this self-inflicted hardship is actually in the middle of a pandemic…… Read more
Corruption at the heart of the state
I don’t usually quote from the Times but even they say – in relation to the recent National Audit Office report: Amid accusations of cronyism, government auditors found that suppliers with links to politicians were ten times more likely to be awarded contracts than those who applied to the Department of Health and Social Care…. Read more
Victims of the “the overwhelming might of the state”
This is a quote from Rishi Sunak, who is profiled in ‘Tatler’, which although I feel sure absolutely all our readers subscribe to, I will offer the link nonetheless. When your Chancellor is in ‘Tatler’ you have to realise that he has arrived – even if none of the rest of us has. (The article… Read more
There goes the brexit we voted for…
Or not! Still it is an amusing couple of minutes and I’m told that the quotes from the Cummings blog are genuine…… Read more