We know her as the constituency MP of one of this blog’s authors. We know she has a strong sense of public duty and works her stockings off trying to fulfil that duty. What she seems to lack is a clear vision of how to achieve things that really matter. We don’t like to judge … More May (The Force is still with Us)
Does the Draft Withdrawal agreement match up to the expectations of those who voted for the UK to leave the EU? Is it in Britain’s best interest? We have been reading the Draft Withdrawal Agreement (DWA), soon to be presented to Parliament, by which the Government hopes to persuade us that we are leaving the … More Draft Withdrawal Agreement: a Fatal Flaw
What should we call a second referendum vote? Will there ever be a border in Ireland? Can a one-size-fits-all economic strategy work for the EU? People’s Vote 2 For the sake of democracy the people of the UK should have another vote on whether to continue membership of the European Union when the terms of … More Shorties-20
There is no example of absolute democracy; the term denotes some sort of ideal from which real nations fall short but so-called democracies can be measured against widely accepted and straightforward criteria. We believe – and believe that many others share this belief – that the notion of democracy contains two elements that are clearly … More So What is Democracy?
Let us suppose that the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement is adopted, will Theresa May remain as Prime Minister to manage the next stage in the process of non-withdrawal? If so we are totally screwed. At every stage so far she has made terrible mistakes or caved in to EU demands despite clear, advance warnings of EU … More The Turn Of The Screw
The Conservative Government offers a list of what they want us to believe about their draft withdrawal agreement (now accepted by the European Council but not yet by the UK Parliament). They are trying to steal our support with underhand propaganda. https://www.conservatives.com/sharethefacts/2018/11/40-reasons-to-back-the-brexit-deal?utm_medium=email&utm_source=SCexm&utm_campaign=wr1096_november_members_newsletter&utm_content=member Below are some comments on a few of their 40 Reasons. We don’t … More 40 Reasons or 40 Thieves?
This is true but also a truism, it adds nothing we didn’t know but it’s a slimy statement from anti-Brexiteers. It presumes that leaving the EU will make us poorer without demonstrating it as a fact. It says that we, the voters, didn’t realise this so they, the experts, have a duty to save us … More Nobody Voted to be Poorer
…into that good night… A friend who decided to ask his children how they would like him to vote in the 2016 Referendum will be visiting this week. We keep harping on about this but it really irritates us that Brexit discussions could be banned because our friend might ‘frexit’ our home if we asked … More Do not go gentle
The EU often stresses that it is a rules-based union but it is flexible when it wants to be. If there’s a hard Brexit the EU would expect to have: a hard border in Ireland rather than respect the Belfast Agreement (which says, no hard border and no change to the UK union without consent … More Rules Are Rules
The Economist (TE) in its Charlemagne column of 13 October offers an explanation of why Europe (i.e. the EU) will “…never produce a Google”. https://www.economist.com/europe/2018/10/13/europes-history-explains-why-it-will-never-produce-a-google “Europe lacks large firms in areas like social media, e-commerce and cloud computing comparable in scale to America’s Google and Microsoft, or China’s Alibaba and Baidu.” “Europe’s history explains the … More Empire Building?
This EU Won't Work 