Today, George Osborne, Ed Balls and Vince Cable shared a platform to argue against Britain leaving the EU. It was all three flavours of mainstream political thinking in the this country telling us that Brexit would be a terrible thing. In other words, it’s every mainstream party v UKIP on this one. And UKIP got […]
Boris Johnson becomes the latest British politician to mention Hitler
Just when I was starting to recover from the bout of Hitler tourettes Ken Livingstone suffered a few weeks back, now we have BoJo in on the act. Speaking to the Telegraph, Boris evoked a grand theory of why the EU doesn’t work that involved, you guessed it, the Nazis: “The truth is that the […]
I can see why Vote Leave are upset about Cameron v Farage
During the AV campaign, we used to get upset when a TV network would bring on someone who wasn’t directly involved with our campaign to speak supposedly on our behalf. It’s frustrating – and can be disastrous. The best example was Chris Huhne talking about Goebbels (proving once again that bringing up the Nazis is […]
The new Leave.EU video is like an advert for why we should Remain in the European Union
Leave.EU, the Arron Banks UKIPpy organisation that didn’t get official campaign status over Vote Leave, demonstrated this week precisely why that was the case. They put forth a campaign ad that was like a Remain campaigner’s wet dream. It featured badly edited scenes of Syrian immigrants in different parts of Europe, all with a voice […]
I have started to worry that Boris will be prime minister no matter what
Another day, another Cameron v Boris Europe spat. Cameron today has set out the “emotional” case for Remain, while Boris is apparently laying out the “liberal” case for Leave. That sentence leaves no further room for satire, so I will leave it there. In arguing so vociferously for something a lot of Tories do not […]
A word about the EU referendum polls at present – if you want to understand them, look back to AV referendum ones from the same period out
I know, I’ve made a lot of comparisons between the current EU referendum campaigns and the ones fought prior to the AV referendum. Some might say I’m simply trying to graft one experience of nationwide referenda onto a completely different situation. I would respond by saying I really, really did expect this all to feel […]
What to make of Theresa May’s EU speech? A review
The Home Secretary made her first intervention into the EU referendum debate yesterday with a sizable speech on the topic. Given many had assumed she would be on the Leave side of the debate a few months back, the substance of the speech made for an interesting listen. I’ll start with the positives. I liked […]
I don’t think I can handle another eight and a half weeks of EU referenduminess
I recall vividly the day a couple of weeks ago when the designations for the official campaigns of the EU referendum were announced. As expected, Stronger In and Vote Leave got the respective nods. Then Arron Banks said he was going to contest the decision – meaning the referendum might have to be postponed until October […]
Why the Brexiteers are wrong about Obama and the “back of the queue”
Needless to say, those who favour Britain leaving the EU were none too pleased with the president of the United States’ speech on the subject this Friday gone. Their reactions ranged from the somewhat sensible (the fact that America would never sign itself up to something like the European Union) to the downright barmy (Boris […]
Marine Le Pen and the EU referendum – please let this happen
Word reaches us that Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s far-right Front National and daughter of infamous quasi-fascist Jean-Marie Le Pen (who also led FN), is thinking of coming to London to campaign for Brexit. A few outlets have run the story, including The Guardian which included this understatement of epic proportions in their […]