Brenda from Bristol despair – another General Election is all but inevitable May 17, 2019 The perspective taken by this newspaper rarely chimes with that of the Scottish National Party. Yet it was difficult to disagree with former banker and current SNP member of parliament Ian Blackford yesterday, when he said: "The only thing we’ve learned from today’s latest fudge from the 1922 Committee is that Theresa May is so incompetent [...]
The Brexit Party genie cannot be stuffed back into the bottle May 16, 2019 It was said of the French Bourbons during the Restoration following the Revolutionary and Napoleonic interregnum that “they had learned nothing, and forgotten nothing”. Utterly oblivious to how France had changed since Louis XVI had been driven from the throne, his relatives proceeded to attempt to roll back the clock and restore their vision of [...]
Brexit party will win most EU election votes as Tories languish under May, finds poll May 15, 2019 The Brexit party is on course to win the lion’s share of votes in the upcoming EU elections as the Tories continue to shed support among the public. Read more: MPs in eurosceptic ERG 'will vote against' May's Brexit deal in June Nigel Farage’s politicians topped the public vote with a 27 per cent share [...]
MPs in eurosceptic ERG faction ‘will vote against’ May’s Brexit deal in June May 15, 2019 The majority of MPs in anti-EU Tory faction the European Research Group (ERG) will vote against Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal when it is presented to parliament next month, a minister has said. Read more: MPs will vote again on Brexit next month – despite no cross-party agreement Conservative MP Owen Paterson, who was [...]
Leaked document reveals Labour plan to nationalise UK energy network at below market value May 14, 2019 Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has devised proposals to take control of the UK’s energy networks in a plan that industry groups said could increase bills and slow decarbonisation. A Labour party document reveals Corbyn’s plan to nationalise energy companies “immediately” following a general election win. Read more: World could face energy shortage as investment lags [...]
MPs will vote again on Brexit next month – despite no deal between Tories and Labour May 14, 2019 Theresa May will attempt to force her Brexit deal through parliament for the fourth time of asking next month – despite not yet reaching an agreement with Labour. Downing Street has revealed May will put forward the legislation needed for the UK to leave the EU in the week commencing 3 June. The announcement came after May met [...]
Ex-Labour minster quits party with astonishing attack on the ‘Corbyn Cult’ May 14, 2019 A former Labour minister has quit the party with a savage attack on the “Corbyn Cult” she claims has taken over the leadership. Bridget Prentice, who served as a junior minister in the Ministry of Justice under Tony Blair, compared the Labour party to North Korea were “disloyalty to the leader is a criminal offence.” Prentice, [...]
John McDonnell tells CEOs: Karl Marx’s analysis has to be taken into account May 14, 2019 Labour’s shadow chancellor has told some of the world’s most powerful CEO’s that revolutionary thinker Karl Marx had ideas that “we have to take into account”. Speaking at the Wall Street Journal’s CEO council in London, John McDonnell was quizzed over his previous claim that he was a “Marxist”. An audience member challenged McDonnell to [...]
Boost minimum wage for young workers, Labour says May 11, 2019 The Labour Party has revealed plans to abolish the lower minimum wage for those under 18 as it aims to hike the salaries of all of the lowest paid to at least £10 an hour. The new hike would more than double what employers have to pay to their under-18 employees, who currently get a [...]
Get your Eurovision goggles, it’s time for yet another election May 10, 2019 Two years and 11 months since Britain voted to leave the EU, the country is voting again, on how we’d like to be represented in it while we struggle to work out what leaving actually means. Yes, we found out this week that the Euros are definitely on, despite the best efforts of an embattled [...]