MAKING POLITICS PALATABLE
Here we go, lads. Here we bloody go. After three and a half years of terror, torture and tragedy, we are finally in the Endgame. Brexit, one way or another, will be sorted on the 13th of December, 2019. …Except it may well not be. The sad reality is that Brexit is a part of…
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A disclaimer: this is not a full blog. Why is this, I hear you cry?! Surely so much has happened that we simply must be brought up to speed, damn you Between the Lines! Well, shut up. I’m going to tell you. Then I’m going to tell you why, yet again, it might all be…
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OH GOD IT JUST DOESN’T END. Nope. Nope nope nope. Even I am so done with this now, and I write about Brexit for a living. Don’t get me wrong, this week has been, yet again, utterly bizarre and totally bonkers, and absolute gold for politicos like me. I should be happy. It’s been a…
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Talk about a game of two halves. Yesterday evening, MPs voted in favour of Johnson’s Brexit deal going through to a third reading in the house. It won by a majority of 30, a strong result. This was the first time that a Brexit deal of any kind had won a majority in Parliament. Then,…
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The joke has been said many times already. I can’t resist. Boris is presumably writing his last will and testament, prior to his self-interment in a ditch somewhere in St. James’ Park. He said he wouldn’t do it. He refused to sign it. He sent three letters, trying to undermine his own request. But he…
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Well that was unexpected. Boris Johnson’s brand spanking, shiny, glorious, definitely-not-Theresa May’s-deal-in-lipstick deal didn’t even get a vote. Instead, Oliver Letwin, affable spaniel-turned politician, tabled an amendment that delayed a decision to be made on Brexit, and it passed by 322 votes to 306. So the first Saturday sitting of Parliament in decades was actually…
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Apologies for being misleading, but there’s no real weekly wrap-up this week. The reason for this is that anything I tell you now is pure speculation. Yes, I know, speculation is basically what keeps this website afloat, but this is different. Tomorrow, Saturday the 19th, will be the day that decides Brexit, one way or…
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My hat is currently being doffed to within an inch of its life. Somehow, despite it seeming almost certainly impossible just a few days ago, Boris Johnson has managed to negotiate a deal with the EU. That is a big, big deal, pun semi-intended. And something of a coup for the man who has been,…
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Hello BTLers. Apologies for not being in touch over the last couple of days. You might have expected me to have breathlessly commented on how brilliant it was that Johnson had managed to negotiate a deal, like the rest of the mainstream press. You might have expected me to tell you that the end is…
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Here we are again. Parliament, having been prorogued, is back. Brexit is still unresolved, despite us being seventeen days away from our departure date. Boris Johnson is still acting like a minor deity, despite having no power in Parliament. However, something has noticeably changed in the air. While the hopelessness of the last few weeks…
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