Showing posts with label Conservatives. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Conservatives. Show all posts

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.

Monday, 27 November 2023

Refugees. Is it them versus us?

 

Our poor and disadvantaged and those struggling to make ends meet – many in Britain think they should be helped rather than refugees.

Saturday, 18 November 2023

You and human rights

 

Let’s get this straight: Human rights legislation is all about protecting ordinary citizens from excesses of the state – in other words, OUR GOVERNMENT.

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.

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. 

Sunday, 19 December 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. 

Sunday, 13 December 2020

The day England turned blue

 

It was in the early hours of that Friday 13 December 2019 that we learnt the results of the third general election in four years: the Tories had won a landslide, with an 80-seat majority.

Monday, 23 September 2019

A general election is more democratic than a referendum


Today, Labour voted against being an unequivocal Remain party. So, what is their position on Brexit? Apparently, we won't know for sure until (and if) they win the next general election. 

Friday, 7 June 2019

Nobody voted for Brexit calamity


Prime Minister, Theresa May, officially leaves office today, with many Tory candidates hoping to take her place. But a new Conservative Prime Minister doesn’t mean that their 2017 manifesto promises can be forgotten or forsaken.

Sunday, 14 October 2018

Saturday, 20 May 2017

Do you want the Tories to put two Unions at risk?

This week the Conservative Party tweeted Theresa May’s statement: ‘Sturgeon’s plan to leave the UK – Scotland’s biggest market – would mean economic chaos.’

Friday, 4 March 2016

They want their country back, not yours


‘We want our country back!’ is the clarion cry of many who want Britain to leave the European Union.

But whose country do they want back exactly? Your country? My country? Or really, just their country?