Batten Down the Hatches
Max Musson’s article on the disastrous ineptitude of the Conservative campaign in the recent general election leads me on to explore one or two further implications of the debacle – and it was a debacle no matter how much Mrs. May’s supporters protest that she actually won the election – perhaps she did, technically, but we all know who really won it. In Paul Nuttall’s resignation speech he said that within eighteen months Ukip would be “bigger than ever”…
Brexit- Getting Down to Brass Tacks!
There is currently much talk of ‘hard-Brexit’ verses ‘soft-Brexit’, and with the Conservatives not getting an overall Commons majority in the general election, the talk is all about: how Theresa May wanted a hard-Brexit; how the result of the general election signals that the British people don’t want a hard-Brexit; and how so many in the Tory camp will revolt if Theresa May sticks to her guns and tries to negotiate a hard-Brexit. The truth…
Where Now for Brexit? – Laugh or Cry?
As we awaken this morning to a situation of political chaos, it is clear that following the historic victory for our nation when the British people voted for Brexit in 2016, the ‘deep state’ has successfully counter attacked leaving Theresa May’s Conservative government ham-strung and desperately looking to the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) for their support in forming the next government. As I have already previously explained, Theresa May did not need to call a…
Has Theresa May Deliberately Thrown the Election?
On the 22nd April I wrote an article questioning the Prime Minister’s motives for holding a snap general election at this time. I pointed out that in the 2015 general election the Conservatives had a manifesto pledge to hold a referendum on EU membership; that they introduced legislation through Parliament in June 2015 to hold such a referendum, which was passed by an overwhelming majority in both the House of Commons and the Lords; and…
A ‘Second Referendum’ on EU Membership?
The European Union Referendum Act 2015 is an Act of Parliament that made provision for a non-binding referendum to be held in the UK on whether Britain should remain a member of the European Union or leave. The bill was introduced to the House of Commons by Philip Hammond, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs on 28 May 2015 and the Act was subsequently passed by 544 votes to 53 on 9 June…
Electoral Folly and Corruption in the Potteries
On 13th January this year and following significant policy differences with party leader Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour MP for the constituency of Stoke-on-Trent Central, Tristram Hunt, resigned his seat and announced that he is to take up the position of Director of the Victoria & Albert Museum, thus triggering a by-election to be held on 23rd February. Stoke-on-Trent Central has been a solidly Labour ward throughout the last sixty-years or more and so one might…
The Poisoned Chalice?
Following the successful referendum campaign and the majority support of the British electorate for Brexit, UKIP — the United Kingdom Independence Party — have been thrown into a state of disarray. Nigel Farage has quite rightly in my view been awarded the lion’s share of credit for masterminding the campaign to induce the Tories to hold an ‘in-out’ referendum on UK membership of the European Union, and it seems that flushed with his own success,…
As the Dust Settles … Europe on the Brink
Three weeks on from the fateful day when the British people finally managed to throw off the death grip that the EU held us in, we can look back on a turbulent period during which money markets and stock markets have see-sawed violently and during which several major politicians, and some minor, have seen their career prospects first raised up, and then dashed upon the rocks. Now however, as the dust settles, we find Boris…
Brexit – It doesn’t have to be this way!
Following the historic referendum decision by a majority of the British people for the UK to leave the European Union we have had several days now of alternately hysterical and/or petulant reaction on the part of Remain campaigners, many of whom were stunned by the result and are now in a state of denial, desperately calling for a second referendum in the hope that last Thursday’s decision can be reversed. However, not only have Remain…
Rejoice!
Despite months of intense scaremongering by the Remain campaign, it now looks as though we are heading towards victory for the Leave campaign and a firm vote in favour of the UK leaving the European Union. As of 05:15am this morning the Leave campaign have received 15,437,289 votes, compared to 14,328,314 for the Remain campaign, placing Leave on a 51.9% share of the vote counted so far and 1,108,975 votes ahead. Already Nigel Farage has given the…