The Union is founded on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities. These values are common to the Member States in a society in which pluralism, non-discrimination, tolerance, justice, solidarity and equality between women and men prevail.
K J Garnett It is a well known fact that to qualify as a Black London cab driver a cabbie must first pass “The Knowledge”. What a shame then that our very own Prime Minister, her Brexit team and Her Majesty’s Official Opposition (Jeremy Corbyn) are not required to pass an equally rigorous and challenging …
So there’s to be a snap general election. Many are running scared predicting that the 48% who voted remain do not have a snowball in hell’s chance of winning on 8th of June. The 48% are too divided to find common cause. Many are assuming that the only party defending the 48%, the Liberal Democrats, …
Today Theresa May will send a letter triggering Article 50. She asks the whole nation to unite around Brexit. This is impossible because a referendum won on a simple majority is not decisive. It is divisive. In many respects half the nation is now more pro-European than many living in Belgium. Ode to Joy was the …
Without wishng to sound too conspiratorial or over paranoid we have reached a stage in the United Kingdom where it has to be asked who exactly is running our country? Our Prime Minister and her government or the newspapers and their possies of editors and/or proprietors? When Barnier begins his negotiations with the UK to exit the …
According to Theresa May my support for the European Union casts me as a "Citizen of the World - a citizen from nowhere". People, like me, simply do not understand what good citizenship requires. Standing on a podium with a slogan announcing “A country that works for everyone” Theresa May appears quite happy to assume that 48% …
Dear Member of Parliament Theresa May is weak. She has but a small majority in Parliament. Her home constituency of Maidenhead voted remain. Like you, she fears, she could lose her seat at the next general election. Considerably more Members of Parliament (full list below) campaigned to remain in the European Union than to leave. She …
Continue reading Parliament – seize the hour! Do what is right not what is popular.
As the Eurozone countries find themselves once again in the position of having to play the bank of Mum and Dad to Tsipras the usual "euro-is-dead" critics are out in force. Needless to say, most of these critics neither live nor work in a Eurozone country, which does rather beg the question why they are all so …
Anger. Shock. Despair. Fear. First Brexit. Now Trump. Tempting to believe “It’s the end of the world as we know it.” Don’t. Despair encourages populism. Defeatism strengthens fear. Anger feeds the monster. We are better than that. We must be more confident in our message assured that there are literally millions and millions of us …
Continue reading Focusing on the Positive. Believing in Tomorrow
At the Conservative Party Conference in October Theresa May made three bold statements: The people gave their answer with emphatic clarity. The referendum result was clear. It was legitimate. This is the last in a series of three posts challenging Theresa May’s statements. The purpose is not to ridicule the British voter who, in good …
Continue reading Why the EU referendum results are not clear
At the Conservative Party conference Theresa May declared: The referendum result was clear. It was legitimate. The people gave their answer with emphatic clarity. Hard Brexiteers are hoping that this will become accepted wisdom and mainstream political thinking. In a series of three posts euperspectives will put the case why the referendum is not legitimate, why it is …
Continue reading Why the EU referendum is not the will of the people
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