If I were Gina Miller, I’d want my time and effort back. The courts ruled in favour of parliament having a say in the triggering of Article 50, only for parliament to give over one of the most tepid, passive sessions in its long history. It were as if the House of Commons was having […]
Brexit and Trump are becoming synonymous for a lot of people. That’s really bad news for Labour
The other day Nadhim Zahawi, the Iraq-born Tory MP for Stratford-Upon-Avon, tweeted about his sadness surrounding the Trump Ban and how it would (we assumed at the time) personally affect him. I retweeted Nadhim and was surprised at how many people came back with something along the lines of “That’s what you get for supporting Brexit”, directed […]
Labour is walking into its own death sentence with its handling of the Article 50 bill
I wasn’t surprised when Corbyn said he will three-line whip his MPs to vote for May’s brief Article 50 bill; we all knew that was coming. However, even I didn’t think Corbyn would just roll over on the timetable, which must still be causing giggles in the government whips office. I can just imagine the discussions […]
I hate to keep harping on about this, but what is Labour’s position on Article 50 exactly?
Shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry had this to say about Labour’s approach to Article 50 being triggered by parliament: “Article 50, if it is going to be triggered, we will not get in the way of it, but we will try and amend the legislation in order to ensure that they keep coming back, that […]
Why the ICM 26% referendum poll should actually be really worrying for Remainers
It’s official: the Supreme Court has ruled that parliament must vote on the triggering of Article 50. May can either accept this ruling or, surreally, appeal to the European Court of Justice. I would love it if she did the latter, but it’s very unlikely. In the run up to the decision, which emerged as […]
The meeting of the far-right in Koblenz deserved much more attention than it received
Amidst Trump’s inauguration, it may have escaped some of your attentions that there was a meeting of far-right European leaders, hosted by Alternative fur Deutschland in the Rhineland city of Korblenz. Geert Wilders, Marine Le Pen, the whole far-right gang were there at a conference, open to all the public. They gave speeches and posed […]
Can anyone tell me what the hell Keir Starmer is doing at the moment?
I hate harping on the guy, I really do. Unlike when I point out when Jeremy Corbyn has done something daft, I really don’t enjoy it when I have to take the member of parliament for Holborn and St Pancras to task for a silly move. But Starmer leaves me no choice this week. After Farron […]
Here’s why Trump hates the EU
Inauguration day, here we are. Today, Donald Trump becomes the 45th president of the United States of America. A lot has been written about Trump breaking from conventional American foreign policy in numerous ways, not least of which in terms of volume having to do with how instead of seeing the European Union as the best guarantor […]
More PMQ awfulness from Corbyn – and what a time to do so
First of all, I can barely watch PMQs any longer, so depressing is it as a spectacle. It feels as if you could be watching the final days of Romulus Augustulus, the last emperor of the western Roman Empire – far from May and Corbyn making me think that a new dawn for Britain is just […]
This may be the weirdest thing said in the House of Commons – and weirdest move by the Labour Party – ever
Sorry to write about what is essentially the exact same topic two days in a row, but two factors play into me doing this. One, I’m in Italy this week, interviewing people for several projects I have on the go, thus I’m away from Westminster at present and two, the totally bizarre statement given by […]