Gina Miller, the Emmeline Pankhurst of the Remainer movement, tweeted yesterday: YOUTH TO CORBYN: GET OFF THE FENCE ON BREXIT, OR ELSE! What struck me as so odd about this tweet is that Jeremy Corbyn isn’t on any fence on Brexit. I can’t say he was never on the fence on EU membership – he […]
Archives for February 2018
Explaining the Customs Union fudge and just how bad the “dream team” idea is
We’re on the perihelion of the government’s Brexit cycle – when the official position is closest to Rees-Moggness. After Hammond’s “slip” at Davos, admitting that a soft Brexit is what we’re headed for, May has to assert all manner of hard Brexitiness, with Downing Street telling us now that we will definitely be leaving the […]
The answer to populism is relatively simple: sustained competence
Appearing on This Week this week, Michael Portillo had this to say about Rees-Mogg as potential PM: “Because he is not in office he has the luxury of saying pretty much what he thinks, that he is clear cut and relatively charismatic and that he has ideas and that all of these things are what […]
Why Theresa May’s attempt to fiddle with the transition period will go predictably wrong
This week, another microcosm of the Theresa May premiership. One of her more pro-European ministers – usually Philip Hammond – says something that reflects the reality that the government is heading for a transition period during which we’ll kind of be in the EU, except without any say in anything. Following that, a post-transition in […]