52% to 48% = uncertainty

 

So, in a straw poll of Twitter users organised by the new Chief Twit, Elon Musk, Donald Trump has been ‘elected’ back onto the platform after being banned in 2020 for reasons we all know.

Why the EU is more democratic than the UK

 

Brexiters claim that the EU is run by unelected bureaucrats. It’s a laughable claim because it’s untrue.

The EU is a democracy, run by elected politicians

Brexit campaigners often claim that the EU isn’t democratic. But in many ways, it’s more democratic than our system of democracy in the UK where:

Parliament cannot bind a future Parliament

Brexiters often say that the referendum result is a done deal and cannot be changed. But that’s not how our democracy works.

The Daily Mail is the enemy of democracy

My editorial today for my Reasons2Remain campaign:

Treating Parliament with contempt

What a bloody nuisance Parliament is to the Tory government these days, when all the Prime Minister wants to do is get on with Brexit.

Why referendums and Parliament are incompatible

For the first time ever in a UK referendum, the electorate on 23 June 2016 rejected the status quo, the advice of the government and the consensus of Parliament.

The Brexit vote divided the country and pitched ‘direct democracy’ against ‘Parliamentary democracy’, with potentially disastrous consequences.

Isn't it time politics grew up?

• First aid skills for school children killed-off by naughty MPs talking too much

A bill to introduce compulsory first aid training for all school children was blocked when Tory MPs purposely talked for so long that the proposal ran out of Parliamentary time.