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’…
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…
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…
British Democracy In Decline
By Max Musson: As the day of the General Election draws near, falling party memberships, falling voter turnout and diminishing respect for those in public life are all factors signalling a widening gulf between those in government and the people they are meant to represent. In recent decades voter turnout at general elections had been gradually falling, dropping from 83.9 % in 1950 to 77.7% in 1992 and following which there was a marked drop of over six percentage points to…
Is the Ice Starting to Melt?
By Frederick Dixon: Much has been said in the newspapers about the Rotherham child sex scandal and I do not propose to repeat here the appalling details. Many mainstream commentators have picked up on the moral cowardice of the police and the local authority and they have for once pinned the blame for that moral cowardice on the right target, political correctness and “anti-racism”. It may be that this is as significant a moment in the political history of our…