There was a lot of defeatist talk around last night, in the media and online, from pundits about giving up on No Deal (just as No Deal is taking off like fire amongst the greater public). My reply to this … Continue reading →
Drummond’s Law says that whatever the left accuse the right of doing is something they’re up to themselves. Now, the left is always accusing the right of being evil, whereas, so the story goes, the right accuses the left of … Continue reading →
According to the Guardian, a female artist was allowed to hang around Westminster harrassing MPs for their thumbprint on a work of art about Brexit. The work itself sounds supremely uninteresting; it’s basically just a bunch of coloured thumbprints. The … Continue reading →
Jim in the comments: I have this suspicion that Corbyn is very carefully trying to make sure that he has nothing whatsoever to do with Brexit at all, and is leaving the Tories to sink or swim themselves over it. … Continue reading →
Will Remainers eventually vote against the government in one of the many no-confidence motions Labour are threatening to bring in the next few weeks? Juliet Samuel thinks they may well do so: But there is another avenue of pressure: votes … Continue reading →
From Ducky McDuckface in the comments: Naked exercise of the power. The EU, particularly the way the UK government chose to implement membership, means that ministers and civil servants have a great deal of latitude in the development and implementation … Continue reading →
There’s been a lot of comment recently in the newspapers about how Remainers want us to stay in the EU because they don’t trust themselves to run things any more. This is the wrong answer. The real answer is that … Continue reading →
The Telegraph re-published a Clive James piece on the Sopranos from 2004, and the one thing in it that stood out for me was this: The wise guys work their Thing by intimidating each other from the top of the … Continue reading →
Following on from yesterday’s post about Matthew Parris and his recent MPs-should-ignore-the-people Spectator article, you’ll notice, I trust, that Parris’s whole way of talking is more suitable to a member of a hereditary ruling class than an elected democratic representative. … Continue reading →
Jim in the comments: The thing is he’s [Parris] not 100% wrong. You can’t have the public involved in every small decision of government, it would be chaos. To govern is to choose and sometimes you have to choose things … Continue reading →
A few weeks ago in the Speccie Matthew Parris came right out and said that the government should ignore the people: Oddly, then, this column is not really about Brexit, but about trusting the people. I don’t. Never have and … Continue reading →
In the Telegraph: Our man in Brussels James Crisp says that Nathalie Loiseau, France’s Europe minister, has had this to say: [Question asked of Loiseau:] Is there a new way you could prove to MPs you don’t want to use … Continue reading →
In a highly revealing article former MP Matthew Parris admits that the Conservative Party would often lie so that it could do what it wanted. And when it didn’t lie it fudged and avoided issues in order to prevent the … Continue reading →
Soapy Joe QC calls for the workers to rise up and have a general strike… against Brexit: It is time for the people, the workers to take control. For the hundreds of thousands who will lose their jobs this is … Continue reading →
Some UK businesses have been complaining to the media about a possible no-deal Brexit: Business ‘watching in horror’ as PM plans for no-deal Brexit Five leading organisations say UK is not ready and parliament must back Theresa May’s deal … Continue reading →
