A feeling of anti-Brexit momentum is in the air. Perhaps it’s just the silly season that accounts for it and such ideas will seem quaint come the autumn; perhaps the tide really is turning against the UK leaving the European Union. Yet for all of the James Chapman hits Twitter inspired hope stirring Remainers the truth is, Brexit […]
Archives for August 2017
Why comparing Venezuela to Saudi Arabia doesn’t get Corbyn off the hook
Corbynistas have taken to social media to defend their hero in the face of a fairly relentless right-wing onslaught on the topic of the Labour leader’s refusal to say a single bad thing about Maduro and his regime. When pushed by the press to condemn the Venezuelan leadership, Corbyn said: “What I condemn is the […]
There is going to be a pro-EU rally outside Tory conference this year. That’s good news for all sorts of reasons
The Guardian informs me this morning that there will be a pro-EU protest outside of Conservative Party conference in Manchester this year. I will now tell you why this is good news – even for Eurosceptic Tories. The Conservatives hold their conference in Manchester every two years. I don’t know why they do this – I […]
The freedom of movement quandry sums up Labour’s Brexit headache
Clive Lewis, David Lammy, along with trade unionists and Momentum members have written an open letter to Jeremy Corbyn, asking the Labour leader to accept continuing freedom of movement post-Brexit as the party’s official position. Not, for clarity, that freedom of movement should be swallowed as part of a trade deal; but that freedom of […]
Why Corbyn probably won’t condemn Maduro
Jeremy Corbyn has come under pressure from the media and his own MPs to say something negative about what is happening in Venezuela and to denounce Nicolas Madura. It is sad that one of the leaders of Britain’s two major parties has to be cajoled into saying a failing dictatorship is bad news, but there […]
Why is everyone still pretending Theresa May has any real power?
The Sun is not happy with Philip Hammond. Not one bit. For his intervention in telling the nation the obvious, namely that we’ll need some sort of transitional deal after spring of 2019 in order to stave off crisis, he has been given a black mark. The most interesting aspect of the Sun article about […]