Brexit: a sense of stupidity
December 31, 2020 2:18 am Post a CommentWe’re into joke territory once more, this one about a senior officer writing up the annual fitness report for one... View Article
We’re into joke territory once more, this one about a senior officer writing up the annual fitness report for one... View Article
To look at Twitter you would think that Vaccinegate was a vindication of everything brexiteers have ever said. I’m not... View Article
“The deal struck between London and Brussels does not represent a decisive breakthrough for popular sovereignty. But it does eliminate some... View Article
The deed is done. Parliament has done its thing. The deal is to be the basis of our future relationship.... View Article
A couple of remarks from leading brexiteers over the last couple of days have sent a chill down my spine.... View Article
And so we come to the UK parliamentary approval of the TCA signified by the passage of the implementation Bill. This is... View Article
The conservative unionists on Twitter seem to have convinced themselves that this version of Brexit makes Scottish independence impossible now.... View Article
Yesterday on Twitter I postulated that instead of small ideas like Canzuk, the UK needs to forge an EU FTA... View Article
I do admire these clever people, many of them employed by the legacy media, who have so diligently ploughed through... View Article
Johnson is looking like the man who gave away Northern Ireland, drove Scotland to the brink of independence, destroyed millions of jobs and soured relations with our closest natural allies. Only the creative writing of The Spectator could write that up as anything other than a spectacular failure.
It is worth stepping back from the media rhetoric on the EU-UK TCA (or TCA, for short) and consider briefly that Johnson’s... View Article
There’s no getting around it. From a strictly trade perspective the deal is bad. There is presently very little in... View Article
Many of my assumptions about the deal were wrong. Like many others I was expecting a thin deal. And indeed... View Article
In a quote attributed to Bismarck (almost certainly wrongly), it is said that, “Laws are like sausages. It’s better not to... View Article
Like just about everyone else I earnestly announced I would not be speculating on the deal until I had seen... View Article
There is that incredibly old joke where a man goes to Hell, and is shown round the place so that... View Article