For most of the media it is never ‘our’ fault and the government may be in charge but it is never, ever their fault either. Up till now it has invariably been the EU’s fault. But that excuse is shortly to become unavailable. So what could the plans be from January 1st? I’m not in… Read more
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Brexit
About the decision, background and process of the UK leaving the European Union.
Johnson’s sorry go round
Well this turned out well: I also heard a piece on the radio that Ken Livingston went back to his old London Mayor office and it was exactly the same as he left it – even though he had been meaning to get rid of what if I remember correctly was his biro pot… So… Read more
The 3.5 per cent
Nothing to do with that other percent – the 1 or less – but this time, the academic, Erica Chenoweth, (who name sounds very Cornish, but she is an American) is the source of these 3.5% figures that keep cropping up everywhere – often just chalked up as in a park here: This concerns the… Read more
The French will have to build a wall …
If Brexit in fact is actually happening – and so far it seems it is – then unsurprisingly, its spirit is gradually dying of its own contradictions. Immigration is just one area when taking back control means actually relying on the co-operation of the er, French. True we already rely on French co-operation, but that… Read more
When comedy is prophesy
This is ten minutes of painful entertainment in a comedy programme of 24 years ago with Messrs John Bird and Fortune taking the mickey out of John Major’s Eurosceptic MP’s. As the general laughter suggests, the ideas of the Eurosceptics seemed ludicrous. Today it is unfortunately no more than the truth – if still equally… Read more
Johnson’s terminological inexactitudes – and outright misleading statements
Sorry – but this was just too straight obvious not to repost. Terminological inexactitudes are actually a Churchill term for lies are not permitted in the House of Commons – remarkably since they are now issued daily by this government…. Why on earth have we elected an everyday lier as Prime Minister? Surely the only… Read more
David Lammy nails it
(Personally, I also feel Labour would have been better served to take this line in the last election) Johnson said on the steps of Downing Street that he’d bring the country together. But every chance he gets he has a go at Islingtonian “remainers” – the area where he used to live – so presumably… Read more
Russia report surely represents prima facie Johnson’s Misconduct in Public Office
Or how the Tories have completely broken the already shaky, British democratic system. I was aware some time ago that French television had filmed people in Aaron Banks ‘Go Skippy’ insurance (now prominent in offering European Health Insurance for next year’s holidays, as there’s no opportunity like one you’ve prepared for yourself) ringing people up… Read more
The perfect Brexit Summary
And we seem to have a government that is mad enough even with easily the worst pandemic outcome in the EU to actually leave finally at the end of 2020 with no further transition period. It is getting harder to be optimistic at Britain’s future prospects…… Read more
What have we done to our future?
The consequences of Brexit look at least as disastrous as Project Fear. I suggest that that has indeed actually turned out to be Project Reality. Not that that makes its imminence any easier to stomach. Ian Dunt of Politics Home is of a similar opinion- he suggests that, What was treasonable metropolitan hogwash is now… Read more