Showing posts with label Boris Johnson. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Boris Johnson. Show all posts

Sunday, 17 December 2023

The infamous five Prime Ministers

 

The five Conservative Prime Ministers of this millennium have cumulatively inflicted such deeply ingrained damage to our country that it may take generations to repair what they have done.

Wednesday, 6 December 2023

Boris Johnson: Sorry is too easy

 

No matter what he does wrong – and there’s a thick catalogue of wrongs – Boris Johnson thinks he can just say “sorry” and everything will be fine.

Tuesday, 28 November 2023

How freaky hair 'won' in the Netherlands and Britain

 

An editorial in The Guardian asked a key question following the shock ‘win’ this month of a far-right politician in the Netherlands, Geert Wilders, and his anti-immigrant ‘Party for Freedom’.
‘How did the Netherlands reach the point at which a former political pariah finds himself on the threshold of formal power?’

Thursday, 27 October 2022

Wednesday, 5 October 2022

True Tories were Remainers

 

Conservatives, have you forgotten what your party in power used to stand for regarding Europe?

For most of the past seven decades, Tory governments did more than any other to bring us closer to our continent.

Wednesday, 22 June 2022

Tuesday, 14 June 2022

Refugees are innocent

 

Last November, 27 people died trying to make the treacherous journey in a small boat across the English Channel to reach our shores. Among them were one pregnant woman and three children.

Monday, 7 March 2022

Putin’s fingerprints are all over Brexit

 

Brexit has Putin’s fingerprints all over it. We’ve increasingly been suspicious of this for some time, but the evidence is mounting.

Sunday, 20 February 2022

Broken Britain

 

I need some work done at home and invited firms to quote. “That’s a smart van,” I said in passing to the managing director of a limited company that visited last week. 

Wednesday, 16 February 2022

Boris Johnson: A dangerous clown

 

Boris Johnson is “not a complete clown”, his new communications director, Guto Harri, said this month adding, “he’s a very likeable character.”

Saturday, 12 February 2022

EU referendum broke 'rules' set by former Brexit secretary


The EU referendum was entirely flawed according to criteria set by former Brexit Secretary and ardent Brexiter, David Davis, on how referendums should be "done properly".

Sunday, 19 December 2021

Wednesday, 22 September 2021

Tuesday, 22 June 2021

Yes, the Prime Minister is useless, but that’s not enough to shift him


By a strange set of circumstances, which some of us would call a perfect storm, we now have the most incompetent, corrupt and dangerous Prime Minster in living memory.

Saturday, 8 May 2021

Only three Labour leaders have won general elections

 


Britain (aka England) is predominantly a Conservative country. That may be hard to swallow for those of us who are left leaning, but I am not expressing an opinion. 

Monday, 1 February 2021

It was never 'just about trade'

It was one year ago that Britain left the European Union, and one month ago that we also left the EU’s Single Market and customs union.

So far, NOT so good.

Sunday, 17 January 2021

How Cameron, May and Johnson let down Britain with Brexit

 

The three Tory Prime Ministers of this millennium – David Cameron, Theresa May and Boris Johnson – could have been the solvers of Brexit if only they’d been wiser, magnanimous and acted in the national interest.