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By P W Laurie On Friday, January 31st, 2020
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Citizenship as cheap as chips: UK Government’s stick to beat Britons is a rod for its own back

As much as the British Government, fronted these days by Boris Johnson and a “Get Brexit Done” Tory executive branch, is convincing the Leave-voting British public (which is, generally, the part of the plebeian More...

By P W Laurie On Saturday, November 9th, 2019
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A brief history of recent elections leading to the collective stupidity of 2017: a gibbering imbecility about to be repeated

If most people vote in British general elections, where the outcome time after time is a steady progress to the same destination irrespective of which party is in office, because they think their political team More...

By P W Laurie On Monday, October 21st, 2019
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With the Leave-voting ignoramus worked into nervous frenzy (assisted by own leadership), tolerance at last for the Article 50 Treaty?

For nearly a year, this site has been explaining to its readership how the British Government has been attempting to engineer tolerance of the Article 50 Treaty, otherwise known as the Brexit deal, or the Withdrawal More...

By P W Laurie On Thursday, October 3rd, 2019
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Now the fight to leave the EU really starts

The Tory Executive has tweaked the Article 50 treaty in one place, and now there are positive noises from the EU. Michel Barnier (the EU’s Chief Negotiator), for example: “There is progress”. Jean-Claude Juncker More...

By P W Laurie On Monday, August 19th, 2019
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The Boris Johnson “bait and switch” operation: you won’t be buying what you think he’s selling

The effort to scare Leave-voters into tolerating an Article 50 treaty has taken a turn into bizarre and perhaps desperate territory. As the UK Government plays chess with itself and a nation observes, it has brought More...

By P W Laurie On Saturday, August 3rd, 2019
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At Brecon and Radnorshire by-election, least voter participation since 1922; Remain extremists gaslight a nation

After the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election, which came about under circumstances more implausible than those which generated the recent same such vote in Peterborough, the elephant in the room of interpretive More...

By P W Laurie On Saturday, July 20th, 2019
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Iranian humiliation of British Government, and pressure to break the will for American sanctions

The timing was impeccable. At around the same general time as Iranian TV had pictures of a vessel being seized by the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – an operation executed back on Sunday More...

By P W Laurie On Monday, May 27th, 2019
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Wanting to remain in the EU is extremist minority viewpoint – and other things not to be learnt from the election

It is the role of the corporate-media, after an election, to assist politicians in an exercise of interpreting the result for the electorate: to tell the people how they voted beyond the obvious facts of winning More...

By P W Laurie On Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019
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Summary: voting in the European election is a dumb thing to do if you want Britain to leave the EU

The European election [to return representatives to the European Parliament] is being held in Britain tomorrow. It is the poll that never should have been, because the country should have left the EU on the 29th More...

By P W Laurie On Friday, May 3rd, 2019
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Local elections: UK Government, frit by low turnout, about to make another big mistake?

The Government – meaning Westminster politicians, their brethren at local level, and corporate-media – can only recognise the impact of low turnout at yesterday’s local elections in the guise of “voter More...