The bias changed and we got Brexit

 

Brexit used to sit on the far side lines of politics.

Don't blame voters for Brexit

 

Just 24-hours after the EU referendum on 23 June 2016, I posted this on my blog:

Three of a kind: Trump, Johnson and Farage

The Times and other newspapers report today that President Trump has praised Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage as two “big powers” in Britain. 

A low turnout today will favour Farage

This article is dedicated to Dave. He’s a good guy, but he told me this week that he doesn’t vote, he can’t see the point, he doesn’t think it makes any difference.

Remainers unite! Divided we fail

The Financial Times has published an article which provides the raw truth for the Remain movement: Britain’s Remainers are too divided.

How did we get stuck with Brexit?

DATELINE 6 JUNE 2018: Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has been criticised for rejecting a House of Lords amendment for Britain to remain a member of the EEA (European Economic Area) after Brexit.

Should the EU referendum be annulled?

It’s reported that police are investigating evidence that the chief executive of a key organisation that campaigned for Brexit allegedly committed criminal offences during the 2016 referendum.

So, what are you saying UKIP?

So, what are you saying UKIP? That you can have vote after vote until you get the leader you want?

How did we get stuck with Brexit?

Labour’s leadership has rejected Tony Blair’s claim that Brexit can be stopped.

Labour’s shadow chancellor John McDonnell said, "We have to respect the referendum result". And Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn agreed, adding "We do recognise the result of the referendum of a year ago."

How Brexit became mainstream

Brexit used to sit on the sidelines of politics. Indeed, the word 'Brexit' was only invented in 2012, and until last year, most people didn't even know what it meant. (Now it's in the Oxford English dictionary.)

Tim Farron versus Nigel Farage

• Ukip's Nigel Farage, and LibDem leader, Tim Farron, trading blows about the EU

Former Ukip leader, Nigel Farage, and Lib-Dem leader, Tim Farron, practically took over BBC’s Andrew Marr Show on Sunday when they traded blows about the EU.

TV entertainer says 'Britain is full'

Noel Edmonds of TV fame and one of the stars of the National Lottery's advertising campaign, is on the front page of the Daily Express declaring that ‘Britain is full’.

Most UKIP voters support Donald Trump's ban on all Muslims

According to a poll of British voters conducted by YouGov, most UKIP voters support a ban on all Muslims entering the USA proposed by Republican presidential hopeful, Donald Trump.  

UKIP plays party chairs

•  UKIP's deputy chair 'unsacked' as spokesperson

I had a funny feeling this would happen. This week a leaked internal UKIP memo stated that Deputy Chair, Suzanne Evans, had been ‘sacked’ as the party’s media spokesperson after she criticised her leader, Nigel Farage, on TV. 

Daily Express Fury About Illegal Immigrants

Today’s Daily Express front page headline screamed, ‘Fury over Britain’s 2m illegal migrants’.  

Yet, on closer scrutiny, the ‘fury’ should instead be about the Express’s careless journalism.  The ‘exclusive’ statistic, claimed the Express, came from 'think tank' Migration Watch – yet Migration Watch this morning denied this, and announced that they, “declined to cooperate in this story”.

The UK government described the Daily Express number of 'illegal migrants' as a 'guestimate' and fact-checking organisation, FullFact.org today reported that nobody actually knows the true statistic, but previous estimates put the number of illegal migrants in Britain at between 417,000 and 1.1 million. The FullFact headline read, 'Think tank says it didn't estimate Express '2 million illegal migrants' figure

What Nigel Farage told British expats in Spain

About two million Brits live, work, study or are retired in other EU countries. Over 800,000 of them are estimated to reside in Spain alone; over one million if you include those who sojourn there for just part of each year. 

The numbers might now be higher, as the latest estimates* were published in 2010.  In addition, many tens of thousands of British own second homes right across the European Union – over 140,000 estimated to be in Spain and Italy. 

Understandably, these British expatriates are concerned about what will happen to them, and their homes abroad, if Britain leaves the European Union.  ‘Expat Forums’ are replete with anxious postings about just this subject. 

This month Nigel Farage, leader of the anti-EU UKIP party, was interviewed by Talk Radio Europe, which is based in Spain and broadcasts in English to British expats living there.