Building from the Bottom Up!
The dust has now settled following the local government elections and the European Union parliamentary elections of last month, but in Britain we are still in a state of political flux: due in part to the impending resignation of Theresa May; the consequent election of her replacement as Tory leader and prime minister, and the looming end date for the Article 50 process by which we are to ostensibly leave the EU. I say ‘ostensibly’…
Game of Groans
In the week that the long-running televising of George R. R. Martin’s epic tale, ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ reached it’s disappointing conclusion, and more than a million outraged ‘Game of Thrones’ fans signed an online petition demanding that the TV script writers re-write the final season, so too another long-running saga is reaching its dismal climax, Theresa May’s ‘Game of Groans’. In the penultimate episode of TV’s ‘Game of Thrones’ fantasy, the main…
As May Staggers On – Opportunity Knocks and the Poisoned Chalice Beckons
More than a week after we were supposed to have left the European Union, and more than a week after solicitor Robin Tilbrook, head of the English Democrats Party maintains that legally we did leave the EU, Theresa May is still just about managing to slither over or under, or around all of the obstacles placed in her way, and to stumble on in the insistent and blinkered belief that her Brexit deal is ‘The…