THE first rule of Fight Club is: you don’t talk about Fight Club. In politics, it’s about not declaring cynical ulterior motives. That rule just got broken. The idea has been floated about turning the next general election into a ‘Super Thursday’ double poll by bolting on a referendum about whether or not to leave […]
FOUR years after Brexit, many still regard it as a mistake. Much at fault here are Conservative ministers, who rarely if ever contradict the falsely negative ‘Rejoiner’ claims. A refreshing exception is Kemi Badenoch, whose Department for Business and Trade has just published an optimistic report on where we stand. We hope that she will […]
I WAS sent a little vignette about how the French establishment sees Brexit, or rather more accurately how they would like to portray it. Le Figaro is the establishment self-proclaimed voice of La France, their equivalent of perhaps The Times with a bit of FT thrown in – and to them the mad Rosbif have got what they deserved, ‘a total loss […]
THIS was a recent Telegraph headline: ‘David Cameron says Britain needs closer ties with EU’. Well, he would, wouldn’t he? Lord Cameron is now gathering up the toys he threw out of his pram when the 2016 referendum went against him. What an opportunity to issue more rhetoric and platitudes about ‘our European friends and […]
BORIS Johnson. If I ever have to talk about that man again it will be too soon. This week, after revised immigration figures were released that showed net immigration in the UK for 2022 was 745,000, an ‘upgrade’ from 606,000 reported earlier in the year (and a record 1.3million over the past two years), former Prime Minister and all-round nincompoop […]
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