I did enjoy this. While the British will still generally apologise to the door they bump in to, the French are, I suggest often prone to peremtoriness – so this, from a bar in Normandy much appeals: That is a tariff I think I’d be quite happy with, thank you very much – or even… Read more
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The ‘wages’ of immigration are actually most likely, rent
As, personally, a ‘remainer’, we need to speak about wages. It seems that a lot of the original talk that EU immigration had a small – or less – effect on wages was not entirely correct – and let’s be straight about that. It did not actually seem right to me at the time and… Read more
More Project Fear bumping up against reality
The fact that even the Telegraph thinks that the army is on stand-by to assist in food and medecine distribution means, I think, that it is true. Yet more of project fear looks set to turn out to be project fact. And we left the EU less than eight months ago… Quite how a couple… Read more
‘Passports please’ – or not..
The announcement that the EU is now going to charge ‘third country’ citizens for entry – originally heavily promoted by one, David Cameron, has come back to bite us as it were, with a seven Euro charge for entry to the EU. So I rather enjoyed this in, I suppose, a self flaggelatory sort of… Read more
More Brexit commercial reality
The Nikkei, the newspaper with the financial world’s largest circulation, had a headline yesterday on the unstoppable decline of the British financial sector, which, they consider, is driven by Brexit. This shows the share of international trade represented by £ Sterling – vanishing fast: And, indeed what else would drive it? While Britain has one… Read more
The religious principle…
This picture is apposite when we know that the US has frighteningly many more deaths from food poisoning than does the UK or any other country in the EU, where the precautionary principle has served so very well…… Read more
Immigration’s brexit is only just beginning..
This is a great article on Byeline Times from Jonathan Portes – and that is an almost surprising sentence for me to suggest. Although I’m not in favour of his interpretation of Labour’s economic policy this article seems entirely on the button. It concludes: What difference will it make if, in 2030, nearly one-tenth of… Read more
Johnson negotiated in full knowledge
Quite remarkable that he has to say this – but Johnson justifies with knobs on the ‘perfidious albion’ nomenclature. I’m really proud to be British… Not…. Read more
Amid all the fuss – what Macron actually said..
It is instructive to watch this French Television piece, which indicates that Macron knows precisely what the United Kingdom is and is not trying to split it up. He is so obviously clear it has to be doubted whether the UK government’s version is related to fact or fantasy – in fact knowing the truth… Read more
The International Joke
This was a hard question interview from Channel 4, not that Johnson engaged of course… No wonder Ursula Van de Leyen remarked that the Brexit agreement was written in English – so the British could understand it. Meanwhile Johnson, when in waffling haystack mode, which frankly seems permanently, might care to note that even his… Read more