Action this day! An update
‘I like things to happen, and if they don’t happen I like to make them happen’ Winston Churchill once said. Now is the time for us all to make something big happen on Brexit. The People’s Vote March for the Future is tomorrow and will be a game-changer. Make sure you are attending! We will assemble on Park Lane, north of the Hilton Hotel, at 12pm, and then march to Parliament Square where there will be speeches in support of a People’s Vote from 2pm. Follow me on Instagram fo
Brexit's back in the Lords: An update
Parliament returned this week, and a big new Brexit issue is arising. Once the Government accepts, as it is clearly beginning to, that its oxymoronic aim of a ‘good Brexit deal’ is unattainable and it settles for some kind of ‘blind Brexit’ deal, it is hugely in the Government’s interest to rush its miserable deal through Parliament before it can be become clear just how bad it is. This would be a historic affront to British democracy. On Thursday I raised this matter in the
Conferences and Councils: An Update
The last couple of weeks have seen the Conservative Party reach new lows. First there was Theresa May’s announcement of a ludicrous £120 million ‘festival of Brexit’. As I argue in the Guardian. It is surely no coincidence that this ‘celebration’ coincides with 100 years of Ireland’s partition when the Government is currently beholden to DUP leader Arlene Foster. In my New European piece this week, which can be found here. I argue that if this ‘Festival of Partition’ happens,