Elections
What is Farage up to?
Many of GP’s people who don’t read the comments are kippers. They may not be too impressed with this but I have to say at the outset I prefer Batten to Farage but he doesn’t [more…]
Politics
Arts
Veterans March for Justice, 19th April
As I said yesterday I couldn’t find much on the march so wasn’t sure what to expect. I needn’t have worried. Postaliers Stout Yeoman, Sunshine & Showers, MarkW and OldTrout joined me. SY thought there [more…]
Conservatives
Some d’Hondt scenarios
European elections are conducted under the d’Hondt system, which works like this: Each voter has one vote and marks his ‘X’ against his choice of party. Each party puts up a list of candidates, in order [more…]
European Union
Conservatives
12th April – Brexit Betrayed, Again
So much for leaving on the 29th March, so much for leaving on the 12th April. The traitors, criminals and assorted degenerates and drug addicts will not easily relinquish their positions of power and influence, [more…]
20th Century
Emmet Dalton and the raid on Mountjoy Prison
This is a story about one of the rebels against British rule over Ireland and about one incident in that rebellion in the early 20th century. Emmet Dalton was born in the United States in [more…]
Business
“No deal” – is it a horror or a blessed release?
It must be clearly stated that Theresa May’s “deal” was not a compromise at all – it would have been nothing short of a humiliating capitulation. Let’s be in no doubt – the PM’s proposed [more…]
Arts
Placard-waving and Marching to Exit
The undoing of Brexit has been incremental so that it has been difficult to pin down any one point at which to say “Stop!” We may be reaching the end of this Brexit saga to [more…]
Arts
Marching on Parliament
The last day. It’s been some adventure, more on that later. Today is the big day, after 13 days marching from Sunderland we are in London and today we march on Parliament. I hope as [more…]