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Will Mrs May now hammer the final nail into Brexit and democracy?

April 10, 2019April 10, 2019 Melaniebrexit, eu, may, No Deal

On the Briefings for Brexit website an anonymous civil service whistleblower, “Caroline Bell”, who previously wrote about the government’s duplicity over Brexit and the case for leaving with no deal as I described here, has now written an explosive claim that many of the detailed orders prepared by Whitehall to enable the country to continue to function smoothly in a no-deal departure are being deliberately held up by Number Ten. MPs and even ministers, s/he maintains, have been acting in a deliberately created information vacuum. Worse, s/he fears that, if…

Britain

No deal is the real deal: a passport to freedom

April 10, 2019 Melanie

It seems to be an article of faith among most MPs that Britain cannot leave the EU with no deal. This is presented as an unthinkable disaster which cannot be allowed to happen. The question is why. For it has become clear that the apocalyptic no-deal scenarios have been much exaggerated. The reasonable conclusion should surely be that, while problems are inevitable, the country can weather leaving without a deal and that whatever the short-term difficulties, these are outweighed by the greater good. So why is it instead unthinkable? The…

Britain Israel

From the Golan to Brexit, “compromise” is a fig-leaf for surrender

April 5, 2019 Melaniebrexit, compromise, Golan Heights, law

Two current sources of uproar tie Britain, the United States and Israel into a matrix of hypocrisy, double standards and spinelessness. The first was the welcome announcement by President Donald Trump that the United States will recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, the strategically crucial mountain range that Israel seized from Syria in 1967. Cue horror in the foreign ministries and policy circles of the world where Israel’s annexation was denounced as a violation of international law. Britain’s Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, tut-tutted: “We should never recognize the annexation…

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Given these suicidal conditions, how could any MP possibly agree to a further extension?

April 4, 2019April 4, 2019 Melanie

Yvette Cooper’s bill, designed to kick Brexit into the long grass and passed last night by the Commons on a majority of one, is at the moment of writing going through the House of Lords on its way into law. This is constitutionally and morally deeply objectionable. Normally only the government, not backbench MPs, can initiate bills that become law. That rule has now been torn up by a Remainer-dominated House of Commons. Normally, bills receive weeks of scrutiny in both Houses of Parliament. That’s now been upended with this…

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How to fail? Actually, it’s how to succeed

April 3, 2019 MelanieElizabeth Day, failure, success

A book being published later this week is entitled How to Fail: Everything I’ve Ever Learned from Things Going Wrong. This is surely a misnomer. For the book is actually a primer on how to succeed by learning from your mistakes or misfortunes. The book’s author, Elizabeth Day, describes it as part memoir, part manifesto in which she writes about dating mishaps, surviving your twenties and failing at relationships, babies and sport. She plays upon her own misfortunes including divorce, a miscarriage and childlessness. And she’s right that transformative moments…

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Hold your nerve, Brexiteers: there is a way forward and it’s called leaving with no deal

April 2, 2019April 2, 2019 Melaniebrexit, No Deal, Steve Baker

So now, finally, it’s make-or-break time and the issue remains exactly the same as it always was, for Brexiteers and everyone else caught up in this maelstrom. Are MPs going to do what they promised the electorate they would do and honour the referendum result and the (amended) act of parliament they themselves passed by allowing the UK to leave the EU on April 12; or are they going to break their promise, cementing into history their contempt for democracy and the British people, and stop Brexit? For after the…

Britain

The real reason why MPs are dead against no-deal

April 1, 2019April 1, 2019 Melaniebrexit, customs union, No Deal

Another working day, another chance for MPs to try to reverse Brexit through forcing through the Commons a formula for remaining in the EU by pretending to deliver a form of the oxymoronic, deeply dishonest and cowardly “soft” Brexit. And Mrs May apparently intends to try once again to blackmail buckling Brexiteers into backing her Brexit-in-name-only-Remain-by-stealth deal – which as argued here is a one-way ticket back into the EU – on the false grounds that the alternative to that is no Brexit at all. The civil servant whistleblower “Caroline…

Britain Culture wars

Jews on the wrong side of the west’s lethal culture wars

March 29, 2019March 29, 2019 Melaniecultural Marxism, culture wars, jews, Suella Braverman

Why are so many Jews getting our vicious culture wars so very wrong? “Cultural Marxism” is a term that refers to the strategy propounded by left-wing theorists in the last century to use the institutions of a society’s culture to bring about a revolution in society. In a speech this week, a British Conservative MP, Suella Braverman, said that conservatives were engaged in “a battle against cultural Marxism, where banning things is becoming de rigueur; where freedom of speech is becoming a taboo; where our universities, quintessential institutions of liberalism,…

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The university becomes a vehicle for the suppression of ideas

March 29, 2019March 29, 2019 MelanieCambridge, Jordan Peterson, universities

The Canadian psychology professor, best-selling author and intellectual celebrity Jordan Peterson has had his offer of a two-month visiting fellowship at Cambridge University’s school of divinity withdrawn. To explain why it disinvited him, the university first said cryptically that it was “an inclusive environment and we expect all our staff and visitors to uphold our principles. There is no place here for anyone who cannot.” The university is increasingly turning from the crucible of ideas, argument and debate into a vehicle for the suppression of ideas, the enforcement of dogma…

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Mrs May’s Brexit end game: “the biggest assault on our democracy and constitution since the 17th century”

March 28, 2019March 28, 2019 Melanie

If there was ever a shred of doubt that this parliament of Remainer MPs was hell-bent on stopping Brexit in its tracks, it was surely blown away in last night’s farcical performance of that much-trailed stage-show, “MPs Take Back Control of the Brexit Process”. Despite eight different proposals being put forward, they couldn’t agree on a single one – including the option for which they actually legislated an act of parliament under which the UK is supposed to leave the EU tomorrow at 11 pm. As for Brexiteers like Boris…