Even those of us, like me, who consider Brexit would be a disaster for the UK have to admit that the UK and the rest of the EU often do not get on very well. One of the main reasons for that is legal. Whereas British, or rather English, Law is Common, Continental Law is… Read more
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Brexit
About the decision, background and process of the UK leaving the European Union.
The Good Friday Agreement as a Roadblock to Brexit
“The Good Friday agreement, which is to say, the entire Northern Irish peace process, complicates and even threatens Brexit. This being so, it is obvious that the fault lies with the Belfast agreement, not with Brexit, and if one of them must go, well, it is not difficult to discern which of them Brexiteers consider… Read more
‘Our future, Our choice’
A hard hitting and self explanatory video from one of the founders of this anti Brexit youth organisation – well worth its two minutes of your time. He speaks truth to power. As they suggest, the UK’s problems need to be fixed, not added to. The hashtag is #DontBrexitFIXit By way of contrast… Read more
Democratic Brexit – or not
Bill Mitchell and Thomas Fazi have written what seems to me a rather odd article where they run through the history of the changes in the EU ending with its conversion to neoliberalsm. They finish: To conclude, any belief that the EU can be ‘democratised’ and reformed in a progressive direction is a pious illusion…. Read more
At last! The Japanese speak out (but too late to stop disaster)
And so, at last, members of one of the major manufacturing sectors in the UK – Japanese car makers – backed up by their government, meet with our powerless Prime Minister to publicly express their concern at the direction in which Brexit is heading. In so doing they unambiguously emphasise that should it come to… Read more
Bordering on Madness?
There are about twice (some estimates say over 3 times) as many border crossings between Northern Ireland and the Republic than the entire eastern border of the EU from Finland, through the Baltic States, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania. This startling statistic does not seem credible but click on this link for more detail…. Read more
Perhaps this report is greatly exaggerated:
But if reports of death are premature then surely both leavers and remainers are beginning to realise that Brexit is failing as an idea. As Simon Wren Lewis has said “Brexit is fantastical. There is nothing about the case for Brexit that is based in reality. This is why everything Brexiters say is either nonsense… Read more
Desperation and shame: Theresa May and the Liar in Chief
So now we know, the details of Donald Trump’s much derided State Visit to the UK are being ‘finalised’ for later in 2018. This after Trump and May had a short meeting at the World Economic Forum in Davos, at which Trump declared the US and UK to be ‘joined at the hip’. We also… Read more
Why is Ireland so pro EU?
Introduction One of the dreams of the Brexiteers is the creation of a domino effect and a hope of Irexit and indeed that other countries might follow them out of the EU. Irexit would be very good for the UK as it would remove the Irish border issue, which is a major sticking point, and… Read more
Stereotypes, lying and government duty
Yanis Varoufakis has an article in which he suggests that Germany and France – the principal powers of the EU – are rather dysfunctional neighbours: At the heart of this Franco-German war is the clash between two Rs: the German commitment to rectitude versus the French penchant for redistribution. German officials greet every French government… Read more