Amber Rudd had to go. Wherever you can rightfully apportion blame here – and May, as usual, deserves quite a lot – Rudd telling parliament there were no deportation targets, later proven not only to be false but that Rudd had knowledge of them when she spoke to parliament meant she could not stay in […]
Archives for April 2018
Today’s conspiracy theory from the Left is one for the ages. Welcome to the ne plus ultra of idiotic leftist thinking, folks
A conspiracy theory regarding the Windrush scandal is being put round Twitter (and I assume other social media) by several leftists today. Those of you who have no idea what this conspiracy theory entails are now using your imaginations to come up with what it might be, I’m sure. But it is so absurd, you […]
Why the latest London poll makes extremely dire reading for the Lib Dems
Owen Jones tweeted a couple of days ago: I “I’m told a poll is coming out on Thursday which isn’t good for Labour in London. It’s been a hellish few weeks for Labour. It’s not in the bag in the local elections. Not even close. This is a wake-up call. If you don’t vote and encourage […]
The Brexiteer threats to the House of Lords are nothing but an elaborate bluff
At an Open Europe event this week, Jacob Rees-Mogg, now the great white hopes of the Conservative right, said a lot about the House of Lords. Here’s a snippet: “When it challenges the democratic will, as it is doing now, then we get fed up with it and think it has very little legitimacy and […]
Where is the government on the Customs Union issue? The fun continues
As I have predicted for a long time, signs are definitely there that HM government understands the only way to avoid a hard border in Ireland is at the very, very least to remain in what will effectively be the Customs Union post-Brexit, semantics aside. I say the very least as that may not be […]
Nick Timothy seemingly tries to pass the buck for the anti-immigrant vans onto Mark Harper and/or the Lib Dems. Did he really think this would work?
When Nick Timothy was given a column in the Telegraph, many groaned but I was quite looking forward to it. I figured here was a guy who had made some perfectly understandable assumptions that had turned out to be really, really wrong, the result of which probably changed the course of British history. I thought […]
Just some quick thoughts on last night’s anti-Semitism debate in the House of Commons
The government should be in a tricky place at the moment. First of all, the Windrush scandal should be hurting them badly. And it is – but Corbyn’s own problems with anti-Semitism give May a partial out. She used it against Corbyn at PMQs today because she knew it would stick. Secondly, they are having […]
How should I vote in the local elections? Please, let me know
I live in Camberwell, Southwark – I’m in a very, very safe Labour ward. It’s the kind of ward in which, in 2014, the three Labour candidates were way above any other party (by more than a thousand votes); followed by the three Green candidates as a block; then some independents/very small parties; finally, the […]
We have tried “non-western intervention” in Syria already. It hasn’t worked
I’ll shut up about Syria in a second, I just have this one thing to get off my chest. Jeremy Corbyn and many others, since May first made her intention to join the US and France in bombing Assad chemical weapons targets inside of Syria known, have vocalised a view that goes like this: western […]
The next phase of Brexit dawns: Leavers are preparing the ground for the UK having to remain in a customs union post-Brexit
Asa Bennett had an article put up on the Telegraph website yesterday afternoon entitled “Could Theresa May get away with a customs union climbdown?”For close watchers of all things Brexit, it is the first in what I imagine will be a long series of articles by Leave supporting pundits preparing the ground for Britain remaining […]