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…]
EU referendum
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…]
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…]
20th Century
Strands from the Yellow Vests
Labelling Leave voters racist bigots did not end “well” in Spring 2016. Neither did calling Trump supporters a basket of deplorables in September 2016. Now it is the turn of the French Gilets Jaunes, in [more…]
European Union
Life on Mars
Predictably, the EU big shots were quick the following day to declare that negotiations for The Deal could not be reopened following the Commons’ amendments votes on 29th January. At the same time, those around [more…]