UK elections come and go, but some things remain the same. Namely, my not being able to vote in a UK election. It is strange how feelings associated with citizenship can be so diametrically opposed. In 2017, I was so proud to have been able to participate in the French presidential elections. I felt a […]
Elections
Is It Alt-Right To Be A Leftie? – Polarisation In Politics
I don’t know whether it was a compliment or an insult but someone in the blue wastelands of Facebook called one of my posts, “a leftist rant.” Now then, I’ve been labelled for life and I must find out why and what it means. A “leftie,” moi? I admit that when I was at the tender […]
The Brexit Fundamentalists
Populism and dogmatism have replaced empiricism and pragmatism, leading to an ideological frenzy, the perpetrators of which are in a constant civil war with their opponents. It is a psychodrama that has cut through political divides, carved apart families and neighbourhoods, to finally break its way through to the very top of the State and […]
Three Men In A Vote – Cameron, Johnson, Gove (And Larry)
If we are going to play a blame game like David Cameron does in his memoirs, I would personally blame Mrs Pickleworth who lives in Sunderland, and the people like her who voted Leave in a frenzy of anti-European fantasies. She has never held a UK passport because the furthest that she has travelled is […]
Boris Johnson: An Agitator Within The Law
Like it or not, Boris Johnson’s prorogation of Parliament is perfectly legal. The Queen might very well have choked on her porridge, she gave the prime minister her blessing and paved the way for Parliament to be muted whilst Brexit is being irrevocably defined. It’s a sad state of affairs for UK democracy, of course, […]
Boris Johnson Can’t Deliver Trains, Let Alone Brexit
I want to be the prime minister who does with Northern Powerhouse Rail what we did with Crossrail in London. And today I am going to deliver on my commitment to that vision with a pledge to fund the Leeds to Manchester route. – Boris Johnson 2019 There are a few words […]
Internal Affairs – How Marine Le Pen And Emmanuel Macron Misused The European Elections
I cannot deny the truth. Marine Le Pen won the European Parliament elections in France, with a whopping 23% after just over half the electorate had decided to go out and vote. Her new party, the Rassemblement National, has performed just as well as her old party, the Front National, did in the European elections […]
Bye-Bye Mrs May And Take Your Brexit With You!
Theresa May has finally realised that nobody actually likes her and many more even hate her – as a politician, that is, not as a person. I am not to judge what sort of person she is. If I’m honest, there’s a part of me that feels sorry for Mrs M. She reminds me of […]
Democratic Britain? EU Citizens Denied Vote In European Elections
Today, under Theresa May, many EU citizens have been denied the right to vote in their own elections. What would happen tomorrow under Boris Johnson? Reports that many EU citizens living in the UK have been denied voting rights in the European parliament elections defy belief. It was so easy for me to […]
Why It’s Time For The UK To Leave The European Union
In times gone by, the European Union was something that was never mentioned in rural England, despite its continuous presence. Like a morning mist that never lifts, the scent of the EU lingered daily above the Yorkshire dales, well into the afternoon before briefly disappearing, only to return with a vengeance at dusk. Since the […]