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Last week’s UK local elections humiliated the Conservative-Labour duopoly and showed Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is no longer just a protest vote. iPINIONS argues that Britain is relapsing into Brexit politics just as America relapsed into MAGA politics … voters choosing entertainment over governance, their own welfare be damned. Read my full take on Substack:… Read more.
Just weeks ago, Liz Truss threw her Chancellor under the bus, hoping to save her job. No doubt she also wanted to show that, like Margaret Thatcher, this lady’s lady’s not for turning. But Truss failed to appreciate that there was no taming the mob. MPs force Truss to resign Tory MPs urged Ms Truss to… Read more.
Lines of cars snake from gasoline stations. Fights break out among angry motorists trying to get fuel. Grocery staples are out of stock on store shelves. A charity warns that doubling heating bills will force a million households to rely on extra blankets to stay warm. This was supposed to be the year the UK… Read more.
Listening to Prime Minister Boris Johnson rave about the Brexit deal he struck with the European Union, you’d be forgiven for thinking he wowed the Europeans with his negotiating skills. And that, as a result, he not only got everything he wanted, but induced them to give him a few extras. But Johnson is not… Read more.
This corona crisis is replete with ironies. None more so than British Prime Minister Boris Johnson boasting about ignoring his own social-distancing guidelines only to end up in the ICU a few days later – infected with COVID-19. Johnson expressed his gratitude to the staff of the National Health Service for saving his life when… Read more.
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British MPs have voted for a delay in the Brexit process for three months or more, after struggling to agree on what terms the UK should leave the European Union on 29 March. You might think, after months of division, infighting and uncertainty that surely, surely, this means everything will go smoothly from here. Well…… Read more.
I am on record dismissing Brexit as just a sham sold by shysters, full of lies and presumptions signifying no deal. I refer you to such commentaries as “EU: Britain Trying to Have Cake and Eat It Too,” January 29, 2013, “Brexit: Forget Leaving, Britain a Greater EU Contagion If It Remains,” June 22, 2016,… Read more.
UK Prime Minster Theresa May met with EU leaders in Salzburg on Thursday to discuss terms for a Brexit deal. The setting was idyllic, perfect for the kind of schmoozing and cajoling she had in mind. More to the point, May reportedly thought her Chequers plan provided just what both sides needed to break up… Read more.
Or, as Britain’s most notorious politician, Boris Johnson, warns, ‘volunteering for economic vassalage’? Here is the Trumpian way President Donald Trump thanked Prime Minister Theresa May for orchestrating his recent cloak-and-dagger visit to the UK: Mr. Trump second-guessed Mrs. May’s handling of the main issue on her plate: how Britain should cut ties to the… Read more.
