Embed from Getty Images Anyone who has been dumped will know the problem: what do you do next? Bridget Jones was faced with exactly this dilemma. She saw that she had two choices: to give up and accept permanent state of spinsterhood and eventual eating by Alsatians, or not. The rest of the European Union has just been dumped by Britain. It faces much the same dilemma as Bridget Jones faced. And like Bridget Jones, it is choosing not. Bridget…
Embed from Getty Images The Labour leader’s apparent decision to back Kate Hoey as the chair of the newly-created Commons Brexit select committee is an error, argues Joff Wild Jeremy Corbyn just cannot help himself. After supposedly heartfelt pleas for unity during the Labour party leadership contest, he has followed up on his controversial dismissal of former chief whip Rosie Winterton by seemingly opposing the election of Hillary Benn as chair of the newly created House of Common Brexit…
Liberal Democrats backed into 10/1 from 50/1 to win Thursday's Witney by-election after a rush of money… https://t.co/BKFhwPC3TT pic.twitter.com/s3Renglv4P — Ladbrokes Politics (@LadPolitics) October 18, 2016 Ladbrokes report that betting on the Witney by-election is the highest ever for a by-election. — Mike Smithson (@MSmithsonPB) October 18, 2016 This by-election could be pivotal to the type of Brexit Mrs May’s government tries and obtains, and if she decides to hold an early general election. If the Lib Dems do pull…
How the Leavers may have ultimately signed the United Kingdom up for the single currency, the Schengen agreement, an EU Army, and a United States of Europe. Despite all the hype and bluster, the court case, and Parliamentary scrutiny, the United Kingdom will be leaving the European Union within the next few few years, and both will rapidly change because of Brexit. Without the United Kingdom inside the EU stopping and vetoing more federalist ideas nor without our influence advocating…
Sunil looks at close referendum outcomes “It has been a damned nice thing — the nearest run thing you ever saw in your life.” – those were the immortal words of one Arthur Wellesley (the Duke of Wellington) in the aftermath of the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815. I keep seeing comments on PB.com, and the wider MSM, about the EU Referendum being a close result, with the implication that it was the closest referendum result in human history,…
Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his country for his career. Super story by @ShippersUnbound pic.twitter.com/P20Z44xBUh — TSE (@TSEofPB) October 15, 2016 Boris wrote that Brexit could lead to economic shock, Scottish Independence, and Russian aggression 2 days before he backed Brexit. For the last few years I generally kept on advocating that Boris should be laid for the Tory leadership, that advice isn’t going to change for the next Tory leadership contest. It will…
The most lethal word in the English language, in any language really, is “Why?” Why should matters be as they are, as they have always been, are questions not asked often enough. This is not to argue for pointless change. Often the only way to preserve something of value is to ask why we should have it and discover again the reasons for it. Those who bridle at the very idea of challenging some long-established belief or strongly held…
Excl: Cabinet split on Brexit growing over whether to stay in EU's customs union – 'will see Hammond or Fox walking'https://t.co/w7KaQJ4Ui4 — Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) October 5, 2016 A few days ago The Sun reported that A MAJOR Cabinet split on Brexit is brewing over whether to sever all links with the EU on customs controls, The Sun can reveal. One of Theresa May’s top table team has even predicted there will be resignations from it over the tinderbox issue….