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Dear Boris, please stop worrying about too much democracy


It seems vital as we approach the end of the 34th month since we last voted on a series of rather half correct and even dishonest promises about Brexit and we are at the beginning of the 23rd month since … Continue reading

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Surely this use of language justifies a legal investigation


When Boris claimed on LBC radio that £60m of public money had been ejaculated up a wall by the Police service investigating historic child abuse cases he surely crossed some sort of line. Had he crossed it in private he … Continue reading

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National negotiations are not the same as commercial negotiations


This tweet from Boris implies that George Eustice and his ministerial colleagues and indeed himself when he was a member of the Cabinet were involved in a private, confidential negotiation with the European Union. The key paragraph of George’s letter … Continue reading

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A border is a border, with or without technology


The chaos we can see in Parliament in the light of Theresa May’s latest visits to Northern Ireland needs to be resolved by the people who organised the 2016 referendum claiming it would lead to our nation finding agreement on … Continue reading

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Is this man’s judgement worth £3,000 an hour?


We clearly live in a very unequal society, with top end footballers paid £120,000 or more a week and CEOs earning £6.24m or more a year. Even when a person is paid £3,000 an hour for merely 20 hours each … Continue reading

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Why a 2019 referendum is vital


Recent public calls for a so called ‘second referendum’ are on the surface heavily opposed by those who favour either a No Deal (Jacob Rees Mogg and Boris Johnson) or Theresa Mays Deal (Michael Gove) who all seem to be … Continue reading

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Why a new approach is needed, urgently


Yesterday in the Daily Boris-graph, the ‘news’ paper managed to give Mr Johnson a headline on the front page and several inches of print along with his own column which the paper published on page 20 and clearly pays large … Continue reading

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A ridiculous article in yesterdays FT


When MPs and Ministers or ex Ministers write articles in newspapers they rarely do so in a fully balanced or non-political way. Tragically some of them such as Boris Johnson write comments that are deeply outrageous. One wonders if the … Continue reading

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An admission that certain decision makers have lost control


On Friday night as part of Any Questions on Radio 4 Gisela Stuart and Stella Creasy both made some interesting comments regarding how and when our nation will depart from the EU. Gisela like Stella admitted that the House of … Continue reading

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#Standup4UnitedKingdom


According to today’s national newspapers David Davis who was our Governments chief negotiator for our departure from the EU from July 2016 until he resigned in July 2018 is now calling on the rest of his Cabinet colleagues to reject … Continue reading

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