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, … Continue reading QUEEN AND STUNTERY : Parliament Returns In Crucial Brexit Week
Well, we thought it was going to get messy. Lo and behold, this week saw the beginnings of what is going to be a truly horrendous election period. An extension is now the most likely outcome on the 31st of … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up : BLAME GAME? NO SHAME
A relatively short and simple one today. The deal, which wasn’t a deal, because it wasn’t agreed on both sides, was explicitly rejected yesterday, making it even less of a deal. Because it was never a deal. In fact it … Continue reading COMING HOME TO ROOST : Johnson Loses Game Of Chicken With EU
We are in “Squeaky bum time”, to quote from Sir Alex Ferguson. If Johnson fails to negotiate a deal with the EU, based on the slim pickings he sent them last week, then we have an almighty clash on our … Continue reading FACTUALLY IN-ARCURI-TE : Poll Dancing and Parliamentary Democracies
Don’t let the smoke and mirrors fool you. This has been yet another terrible week for Boris Johnson. Despite his swashbuckling display at the Tory party conference, and praise for a toned-down rhetoric in Parliament yesterday, he’s still playing the … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up : LIES, DAMNED LIES, AND LOGISTICS
Yesterday was like watching politics through a fairground mirror. While normality, and sensibility, reigned out the outside, proceedings were bizarrely distorted through the looking-glass. Boris Johnson gave his keynote speech at the Conservative Party conference and, in all credit to … Continue reading BEYOND THE PALE : A Bad Day For Brexit, But Hope For The Future
The Tory Party Conference is currently in full swing, and you can imagine what it’s like. A room full of crackpot old farts falling asleep to dismal speeches given by sub-par Ministers, Parliamentarians and commentators. You can imagine it is … Continue reading KNACKERED JOHNSON : Why The Tory Conference Is Irrelevant
Hello, the internet. I have something to confess. I sat at my keyboard two nights ago, with a very large whisky in my hand, and tried to write about what I had witnessed in Parliament. I try, in everything I … Continue reading Weekly Wrap-Up : DICKTATORSHIP
Wow. Wow, wow, wow. Lady Hale, president of the Supreme Court, just announced that Boris Johnson’s prorogation of Parliament was illegal. It was also null and void, and “Parliament is not prorogued.” This was a unanimous verdict of all eleven … Continue reading ALL HALE BREAKS LOOSE : Supreme Court UNANIMOUSLY Declares Prorogation Illegal, Null and Void
Even the weekends are mad these days. We enter this week with the real chance of it being Johnson’s worst yet since becoming Prime Minister. Either today or tomorrow, the Supreme Court will make its ruling on his prorogation of … Continue reading CONTACTS, CONFERENCE AND CONFLICT : PM In New Scandal, Labour Lose Plot
