Leavers worked very hard for years to secure Brexit – but we were also helped...
A TV advert came out last year starring James Corden as a motorist driving through central London and finding that every single set of traffic lights miraculously favours him. After cruising through...
View ArticleTory Brexiteers now owe the rest of us Leavers big style
Dear Tory Brexiteers, First I would like to say thank you for providing so many voices for Brexit in the referendum last year. We could not have won it without you or your contingent of big political...
View ArticlePhilip Hammond risks making David Davis’s job harder in the Brexit negotiations
Above all other politicians, Chancellors of the Exchequer must take care to calibrate their words carefully. Any lapse into hyperbole can set off speculative reactions that destabilise the economy....
View ArticleAny attempt to block Brexit now would shatter public faith in politics and...
There is no point denying that the General Election created an upheaval that breathed new life into attempts by grief stricken ultra-Remainers to block Brexit. It is frankly extraordinary that, well...
View ArticleLabour’s Brexit position has little do with the national interest and...
It is now clear that there is no limit to the ambitions of Labour Remainers when it comes to modifying the notion of Brexit out of existence. Keir Starmer’s policy shift – calling for the UK to stay in...
View ArticleJuncker has exposed the Remainers’‘Big Lie’ that there is no plan to create...
Since our referendum victory, we Brexiteers have had to become accustomed to something rather unfamiliar: being in the driving seat. Suddenly it is Remainers who are the ones locked out of power –...
View ArticleTheresa May must be bold to retain the trust of Brexiteers
Many a parent will be familiar with the experience of watching a child standing by the edge of a swimming pool, dipping a toe in the water, talking about what fun they are going to have splashing...
View ArticleTheresa May must name the day a transition period will end or risk losing the...
If you struggle to tell your Article 50 from your acquis communautaire, or your subsidiarity from your sequencing then fear not. For it is time to strip out the jargon and boil the battle for Brexit...
View ArticleBy dumping his Lisbon Treaty referendum pledge, David Cameron helped pave the...
We have plenty of high days and anniversaries to choose from in the Brexit movement. Obviously, there will always be 23rd June – a date that has already been christened “Independence Day”. Then, so...
View ArticleTony Blair’s attempts to derail the referendum result are contemptible
Some people become stuck in their halcyon days, seeking to deny the passage of time and the changing of circumstances because they wish to keep things just the same as when they were in their prime....
View ArticleRemainers should rebrand and make an honest case for being absorbed into the...
The Remain team in the great EU tug-of-war has an increasingly toxic image problem. Astute judges such as the political academic, Matthew Goodwin, have been arguing in recent days that their demeanour...
View ArticleThe transition deal may calm the corporate lobbyists, but what about the...
To judge from broadcast news coverage of the Brexit negotiations, the overwhelming priority of the British public must be ensuring the most frictionless trade possible for the 12 per cent of UK...
View ArticleTheresa May urgently needs to face down the anti-democrats seeking to dilute...
I have never been much of a one for conspiracy theories. Reality is almost invariably too complicated and messy and unexpected to allow for any kind of long-term secret operation to subvert the natural...
View ArticleAll change at the Albion Club
Dear club members, This is just a note from your chairman to say that your vote to change the set lunch on Thursdays from spaghetti and meatballs in tomato sauce to roast beef and roast potatoes with...
View ArticleConservatives must realise how damaging it would be if they betray the trust...
“There is this huge stuff about trust” (Alastair Campbell diary entry, July 2003). Forgive me for starting an article about leaving the EU with a quote from arch-Remainer Alastair Campbell. The quote,...
View ArticleTory Brexiteers need to lend UKIP their support now if we are to ensure the...
Oh dear, what a mess. The feeling that Theresa May was quietly selling out Brexit while publicly paying lip service to it that I wrote about several times for this site has turned out to be true. And...
View ArticleWe’ve needed a committed Brexiteer as Chancellor all along
When Theresa May made Philip Hammond her Chancellor there were plenty of gags about two-thirds of the Top Gear presenting panel being at the head of the Government. But the true significance of the...
View ArticleWhen Boris Johnson speaks out on Brexit, he’s standing up for 17.4 million...
There was a joke made at the expense of Nick Clegg when he performed his disastrous and, for him, ultimately terminal betrayal of his tuition fees promise at the outset of the 2010-15 Coalition...
View ArticleJuncker’s federalising State of the Union provides another reminder of why we...
With all the determined scaremongering about Brexit being conducted by very well-funded and well-connected establishment folk, there is one particular question that seldom gets asked – let alone...
View ArticleIf the Tories press on with an epic betrayal of the British public, they...
There is an old joke about someone asking an Irishman the way to somewhere and receiving the reply: “Well, I wouldn’t be starting from here.” In these ultra-politically correct, humour-crushing times,...
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