Do Labour’s Rampant Remainers also have an agenda to thwart Jeremy Corbyn?
Do the Labour MPs who are making such efforts to stop Brexit and overrule the 2016 “People’s Vote” know what they’re doing? Has their Europeanism driven out their concern for Labour, creating a...
View ArticleCourting politics
I don’t worry all that much about the rampant Remainers trying to get the courts to become political. They might regret it if the election result is a Labour government with no majority, but at the...
View ArticleHow did the party of Asquith degenerate into a sanctimonious anti-democratic...
I‘m so old I can remember the Liberal Party, a party of the masses not the classes, of social reform and a brave northern non-conformist tradition of independence. All that still lingered in my early...
View ArticleThe MPs purporting to be democracy crusaders ought to acknowledge their...
Members of Parliament do not know their place in the EU food chain. It pains me to point this out, but they are the bottom feeders. The halibuts of European democracy. The flounders. So it turns out...
View ArticleBrexit has challenged the comfort and authority of the Establishment
I’ve always thought of the Establishment as a vague but useful description for the clusters at the top of the tree in politics and society: those who have the power to shape our ordinary lives rough...
View ArticleThe absurdity of Labour’s enthusiasm for the European project
I’ve never been able to understand my party’s ignorance of economics and production. We’re good at fostering consumption and excellent at the NHS, education, social services and welfare, but appalling...
View ArticleBoris Johnson must avoid being overconfident and prepare to play hardball...
Be boosted by the election and the rout of Remain – but don’t get too confident. It ain’t over yet. Prime Ministerial honeymoons are shorter these days and the rampant Remainers will regroup and...
View ArticleBrexit reflections from Austin Mitchell
Here is the latest in our series reflecting on the Brexit process with regular BrexitCentral authors and others who have played an important role in our journey out of the European Union. Here are the...
View ArticleBoris has a mandate to get Brexit done – but don’t underestimate how slippery...
As the Grauniad comes out edged in black, I’ll be celebrating Brexit day with a quiet pint of milk from non-farting Yorkshire cows. We should make it a genuinely national celebration by a magnanimous...
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