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Britain 

Vote for Mrs May’s deal, and you will be bringing about the collapse of the Conservative vote

Melanie

One by one, even hitherto staunch Brexiteers are falling away under the pressure of Mrs May’s blackmail tactics. They are abandoning a diminishing and heroic core of principled patriots to defend Britain’s democracy and stand fast in the desperate and nightmarish struggle that has developed to restore the UK’s sovereign power to govern itself. Even Jacob Rees-Mog and Boris Johnson are now suggesting they might back Mrs May’s deal, which may be brought back to the Commons for a third Meaningful Vote on Friday – the day on which, as…

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woke Britain 

A Remainer’s mind is changed. “We must leave, come hell or high water”

Melanie, ,

A few days ago, I posted here a few of the longer comments I’d been receiving from readers about the Brexit crisis. I’ve now received another impassioned cri de coeur – this time from someone who voted Remain – which I think is very much worth wider distribution. Please therefore read it here. Like many Brits, I am simply furious with the sheer contempt and ridicule being inflicted upon this country by its own elected officials. I won’t lie: I voted Remain in 2016 – even despite my previous desire…

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no-deal Britain 

For the Brexit surrender monkeys, it’s groundhog day all over again

Melanie, ,

Five days to go until the UK is bound by an act of parliament to leave the EU, and yet again Mrs May intends to try to force through her deal by threatening the Brexiteers with dire consequences unless they back it. As she is so fond of saying – even faced with a threatened attempt to remove her which flared in the Sunday papers and then fizzled out again – nothing has changed. Yup, it’s groundhog day all over again. Over the weekend a series of Brexiteers were summoned…

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frenzy Britain Culture wars Global conflict 

After the New Zealand mosque attacks, an Orwellian frenzy

Melanie, , ,

It’s not often that I find myself in the same boat as Chelsea Clinton. At a vigil in New York for the 50 Muslims slaughtered by a gunman at two New Zealand mosques, Clinton was accused by students of being a cause of the massacre. The reason for this ludicrous charge was staggering. It was that she had criticized the antisemitic tweet by Rep. Ilhan Omar suggesting that Jews use their money to suborn American politicians in the interests of Israel. “Forty-nine people died because of the rhetoric you put…

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woke Britain 

In the face of the onslaught against democracy, Britain’s indomitable spirit rises

Melanie,

As this Brexit crisis has degenerated into a nightmare, with Remainer MPs making their no-holds-barred attempt to block Brexit while the prime minister tries to force through her dreadful and dishonest snatch-Remain-out-of-the-jaws-of-Brexit deal, I have been very moved by the messages readers have been steadily sending me demonstrating that amongst the public, Britain’s indomitable spirit has not been quashed. Far from it. As this thing has staggered from lies to incompetence to manipulation to intimidation to vacillation to constitutional chicanery and a total contempt for the people, all because of their democratically…

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no-deal Britain 

As Whitehall systematically sabotages Brexit, civil servants blow the whistle and promote no-deal

Melanie, , ,

I previously wrote here about “Caroline Bell”, who the Briefings for Brexit website says is a civil servant at the heart of preparations to leave the EU without a formal deal and whose identity it is protecting. S/he has listed the preparations now in place for no deal. The list, says BfB, shows that the civil service has prepared the country well to leave on a clean managed basis; “ Caroline Bell” says “it is simply a lie to suggest otherwise”. S/he says: “MPs and the public have been deliberately…

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Britain 

We risk turning doctors into executioners

Melanie,

Later this week, the council of the Royal College of Physicians will be discussing assisted suicide amid a terrific row and threat of legal action by a group of doctors. People have the right to kill themselves. Nobody, though, has the right to expect anyone else to kill them. And for doctors to help end lives in this way would transform their image from healers into something very much darker. No one denies that the situation of someone requesting help to end their life is often deeply distressing and deserves…

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Britain 

These banana republic plotters should be careful what they wish for

Melanie, ,

It appears that the Commons Speaker, John Bercow, is conducting a constitutional coup. He intends to remove the government’s power to govern the country and hand it instead to backbench MPs. That is the explanation for his decision yesterday to deny the third “meaningful vote” on Mrs May’s withdrawal deal. Various commentators assume, undoubtedly correctly, that his aim as a committed Remainer is to force a delay to the Article 50 exit process. This is intended to be long enough for the other arch-Remainer plotters in parliament to seize control…

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cox Britain 

Feeble, flabby, frit: the latest buckling Brexiteers’ fantasies of fear

Melanie, , ,

I wrote here that the arguments being mounted by buckling Brexiteers trying to justify their intention to fold and support Mrs May’s atrocious Brexit-in-name-only-worse-than-remain deal were wholly without foundation and a pathetic cover for cowardice, intellectual vapidity and absence of spine. The examples have continued to pile up, and we should note them despite this afternoon’s latest bombshell that the Speaker has ruled out a Third Meaningful Vote on Mrs May’s deal (which had been scheduled for tomorrow) unless there are substantial changes to it. While we all try to work…

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Boris Britain 

Wobbly Brexiteers! Your cowardly justifications don’t stand up for a moment

Melanie, , ,

The ongoing apparent collapse of the Brexiteers is almost beyond belief. Today’s Sunday Times reports that even members of the European Research Group of committed Brexiteers are falling like ninepins. Apparently they are gibbering that if they don’t vote for Mrs May’s deal on her third attempt to force it through parliament, there will be no Brexit at all. What on earth are they talking about? If they vote for Mrs May’s deal they will be voting for Brexit in name only, a meaningless Brexit, a paper exit from the…

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