The Eurosceptics, it has been said by many, have no clear narrative in this referendum. That’s a little harsh – sure, they have nothing even approximating a consensus on what life outside of the EU looks like for Great Britain (which is fairly important), and sure, they are scrambling all over the place coming up with […]
The latest argument for Brexit involves………puppies. I’m serious
David Amess, the Tory MP, has come up with another reason the UK should leave the EU. Apparently the country is being overrun by foreign dogs. Really, I’m not making this one up – I know Amess got done over by Chris Morris years ago on the infamous “Brass Eye” drugs episode, all on the […]
I’m tired of talking about Europe already, so instead I’ll talk about……Europe
I’ve just spent three days in Barcelona. It was the first time I’ve been away from London on something other than business in how long I genuinely cannot recall. I hadn’t been to the city in almost twelve years, and my previous visit was a very different one. Back then, I spent a month in […]
Osborne faces greater threats from his own backbenchers than from John McDonnell
Yesterday’s Treasury Questions were interesting – I mean, for people who could ever find Treasury Questions sessions interesting, obviously. Osborne found them tough going this week, which is rare these days. But it wasn’t because Jon McDonnell had a good week. In fact, even by McDonnell’s incredibly low standards this week’s edition was stunningly poor. […]
So why won’t Jeremy Corbyn share a platform with David Cameron exactly?
Corbyn is like the old buses showing up adage – he’s quiet for ages and then a flurry of ill-advised activity is flung at us. So following his decision to hire a former Syriza politician as an adviser, Corbyn takes to ITV last night to tell us that despite sharing the same basic viewpoint as […]
The problem for Brexiteers is they are fighting the EU campaign using their opponent’s language already
There was an article in the Telegraph a couple of days ago that beautifully summarises what the article you are about to read is about. It was by Richard Walton and the headline stated: “Brexit wouldn’t jeopardise our fight against terrorism”. Seasoned campaigners should be able to point out the glaring fault in that sentence […]
The Conservative Party isn’t going to split over Europe
I have been a contributor once or twice to the discussion on the realignment of British politics over the previous few years. After the last general election, I like many who wasn’t all that thrilled with the result, consoled myself the notion that the EU referendum would see a possible split in the Conservative Party. […]
More and more, the Leave campaign resembles Yes to AV
I’ve actually written about this before, but this week I really do need to say it again: the Leave campaign at present eerily resembles one of the AV referendum campaigns, and not the side that won. The most immediately relevant piece of evidence for this being the already legendary Mandy Boylett “Three Lions” video that […]
Nadine Dorries, Cameron, and who is prime minister – why this helps the Remain side of the debate
Yesterday, Nadine Dorries, Tory MP and erstwhile game show contestant, took to LBC to say some things about the EU referendum debate. I shouldn’t have to actually say this but just to confirm, Dorries is a Brexiteer. But she had this to say about David Cameron, which is interesting: “If the British public vote to […]
This is one of the best arguments for Remain – and Cameron is finally using it
There are many arguments concerning why the UK should remain a member of the European Union that I have been waiting for David Cameron to use for months now. But he finally used one in particular yesterday for the first time. It’s a simple one: if we voted to leave in the referendum, it wouldn’t […]