Trade unions are speaking out against Brexit — when will Labour start to listen? on February 5, 2018Britain’s giant industrial unions have signed a statement calling for the UK to stay in the EU’s single market and customs union in contrast to the fence-sitting by the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn who still equivocates and plays semantic games about “a” not “the” customs union as do his shadow cabinet team. By contrast, two […]
It wasnt austerity that led to Brexit, it was nationalism – and Nicola Sturgeon knows it on October 3, 2016As Britain grapples with how to handle Brexit, the debate from top politicians is becoming confused and incoherent. At the Labour Party conference in Liverpool the organisers refused to hold a debate on Brexit, the most importance political topic of the day. They feared exposing Jeremy Corbyn’s incoherences on Europe – in favour of unrestrained […]
12 reasons not to panic about Brexit – and why we probably wont leave the EU after all on August 15, 2016 For Remain voters, it’s been a difficult summer. Worry no more; here are 12 reasons why the vote to leave the EU doesn’t mean we’ll actually be departing the union after all. 1. Calls for a second referendum now, like calls for second front in 1942 or 1943, are premature. Prime Minister May’s incantation […]