What would Boris lose by calling an election timed to take place just AFTER...
There has been speculation everywhere that Boris Johnson will call an election in order to get a parliamentary majority to secure Brexit. Some have said he would need to make an agreement with the...
View ArticleThe ruling class of an unrecognised state
In today’s Sunday Times, Matthew Goodwin reviews, favourably, The Great Betrayal by Rod Liddle. Goodwin writes, Brexit was always destined to bring Britain to a constitutional crisis. After all, it was...
View ArticleBrexit punk!
The Guardian’s John Harris is a lefty, a Remainer, and a fine journalist. He saw Brexit coming, and, little though I agree with his political views, I think he sees a certain raw truth about our new...
View ArticleHerr Oettinger seems a bit confused
Herr Oettinger doesn’t have any input into what the British credit rating is. The European Union doesn’t, nor even the European Commission or the European Central Bank. Any and all of them can refuse...
View Article“lt will take time for full realisation of this to sink into party...
“lt will take time for full realisation of this to sink into party headquarters…” The Spectator, 21 July 1973 “The full realisation of what?” I hear you ask. Here is the context: The Government managed...
View ArticleWe have had enough of experts. Yes, really.
Michael Gove’s famous or infamous quote about having “had enough of experts” has often been held up as an example of anti-intellectualism. Perhaps if Faisal Islam had spent less of the next half minute...
View ArticleBBC accurate, but for the ‘but’
Jacques Chirac, the former French president who championed the EU, but whose later years were blighted by corruption scandals, has died aged 86. This sentence from today’s BBC red-button news seems an...
View ArticleDear Santa, I have been good. If I can’t have Brexit, this is what I want for...
Senior Government figures are considering a series of proposals to “sabotage” the EU’s structures if Brussels refuses to agree a new deal or let Mr Johnson deliver Brexit without one. Two Cabinet...
View ArticleQuoth the Raven, “Nevermore”
Earlier today Robert Peston, the Political Editor of ITV News, tweeted: This feels very big. PM spoke with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at 8am this morning. According to Downing Street source, she...
View ArticleRighty ho, Guy
Just when the Remain side had got some traction for their line about the evils of inflammatory language with that embarrassingly crude tweet from Leave.EU that called Angela Merkel a “kraut” and...
View ArticleA little still she strove, and much repented, And whispering ‘I will ne’er...
There is news, my friends, and my title quote from the first canto of Byron’s Don Juan could apply to both parties involved: New Brexit deal agreed, UK PM Boris Johnson says
View ArticleI think the punishment should be expulsion
European Commission launches infringement proceedings against the UK following its failure to name a candidate for EU Commissioner
View ArticleMaking doubly sure Leave cannot win
It was always clear that the “credible Leave option” that the Labour party proposes to pit against Remain in a second referendum is a fake. The plan is for Sir Keir Starmer and Emily Thornberry to get...
View ArticleBATSIGNAL!!
Say what you like about Dominic Cummings, he knows how to get your attention: On the referendum #34: BATSIGNAL!! DON’T LET CORBYN-STURGEON CHEAT A SECOND REFERENDUM WITH MILLIONS OF FOREIGN VOTES
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