Six Months to Save Britain
This week a long extension to Article 50 was finally confirmed. Brexit day is now the 31st of October, giving us 6 months to end the Brexit nightmare. While this is shorter than my preferred Brexit extension of 500 years, it is long enough to hold a referendum, and that is what will now happen. The most significant implication of the extension is that no-deal is now truly dead. Even the Government has now folded on its bluff that this was ever going to happen. It has halted n
The Defeat of Thatcher’s Brexit Army
On Thursday afternoon, some 6 hours into the House of Lords filibuster on Yvette Cooper’s bill, I looked across from me and thought I was reimagining a scene from the 1980s. But when I rubbed my eyes, I realised that what I was seeing was indeed real. There sat Nigel Lawson, Norman Lamont, Michael Howard, and Peter Lilley, most of the surviving Thatcher cabinet, filibustering for Brexit. It is the perfect depiction of Brexit. The Thatcherite ideology of austerity and centrali