21 September 2017 Boris Like Marmite A shambles, a clever tactic or an unacceptable, disloyal attempt at a power grab? By Lynda Goetz Boris does seem to have the same effect on people as Marmite – you either love him or hate him. His 4,200 word ‘speech’, actually delivered as an article in the Saturday… Continue reading Issue 121: 2017 09 21: Boris like Marmite (Lynda Goetz)
Tag: Brexit
Issue 120: 2017 09 14: Week in Brief: UK
14 September 2017 Week in Brief: UK Brexit GREAT REPEAL BILL: The bill which resets UK law at the point of Brexit passed its second reading comfortably with the Democratic Unionists and seven Labour MPs supporting the government. Now it will move to committee. Although a further Commons vote has given the Government control of… Continue reading Issue 120: 2017 09 14: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 120: 2017 09 14: Raccoons (Chin Chin)
14 September 2017 Raccoons Shock immigration news. By Chin Chin It is always a shock returning to England. After days of making difficult decisions over which wine to drink with lunch, you find that you have got completely out of touch with current affairs. Perhaps it is best, then, to glance at the news a… Continue reading Issue 120: 2017 09 14: Raccoons (Chin Chin)
Issue 118: 2017 08 17: Week in Brief: UK
17 August 2017 Week In Brief: UK Brexit TRANSITION: Philip Hammond and Liam Fox have published a joint article confirming that Britain will leave the customs union and the single market in 2019 and that, although there may be transitional provisions, they will not be used as a way of remaining in the EU by… Continue reading Issue 118: 2017 08 17: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 117: 2017 08 10: Week in Brief: UK
10 August 2017 Week in Brief: UK Brexit TRADING DISPUTES: The Department for International Trade is recruiting staff to deal with trading disputes after Brexit. The team, expected to comprise some 130 personnel, will not begin to operate until Britain leaves the Customs Union. FISHING: Speaking in Denmark, Michael Gove, the Environment Secretary, has said… Continue reading Issue 117: 2017 08 10: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 116: 2017 08 03: Week In Brief: UK
03 August 2017 Week In Brief: UK Brexit TRANSITION: In a move which has attracted broad cross-party support but is still contentious within the Cabinet, Philip Hammond, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has said that he would like to see a transitional deal which left trading relations with the EU much as they are now… Continue reading Issue 116: 2017 08 03: Week In Brief: UK
Issue 116: 2017 08 03: Flexible Government (John Watson)
03 August 2017 Flexible Government The need to bring the other parties on board. By John Watson Remember Napoleon as he stood with his victorious officers before the tomb of Frederick the Great at Potsdam: “Hats off, gentlemen. If he were still alive we would not be here”. No soldier has ever received a better… Continue reading Issue 116: 2017 08 03: Flexible Government (John Watson)
Issue 115: 2017 07 27: Week in Brief: UK
27 July 2017 Week In Brief: UK Brexit BREXIT NEGOTIATIONS: Last week’s round of talks ended with little agreement. Points at issue include whether EU citizen should be able to bring their families to the UK without restriction, whether the European Court of Justice should have any jurisdiction in the UK, whether the British people… Continue reading Issue 115: 2017 07 27: Week in Brief: UK
Issue 114: 2017 07 20: Week In Brief: UK
20 July 2017 Week In Brief: UK Brexit BREXIT BILL: The Government has published the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill which will repeal the European Communities Act 1972, the statute which gives EU legislation effect in the UK. The bill, which has the effect of freezing the law as at the date of Brexit so that… Continue reading Issue 114: 2017 07 20: Week In Brief: UK
Issue 114: 2017 07 20: Tick Tock (Robert Kilconner)
20 July 2017 Tick Tock Mr Barnier’s clock moves on. By Robert Kilconner Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock. In Mr Barnier’s room in Brussels, replete with the luxuries appropriate to the leader of the EU negotiating team, there stands a clock. At least I suppose there does, because he claims to hear it ticking… Continue reading Issue 114: 2017 07 20: Tick Tock (Robert Kilconner)
Issue 112: 2017 07 06: week in Brief: UK
06 July 2017 Week In Brief: UK Government AUSTERITY: The government’s austerity policy has come under renewed pressure with demonstrations against the 1% limit on increases to public sector pay and cuts to the real education budget. The 1% pay cap has been in place since 2013, before which time there was a freeze on… Continue reading Issue 112: 2017 07 06: week in Brief: UK
Issue 111: 2017 06 29: Week In Brief: UK
29 June 2017 Week in Brief: UK From the Brexit kitchen QUEEN’S SPEECH: Last week’s Queen’s speech, a two-year programme of 27 measures, 8 of which related to Brexit, omitted many manifesto pledges. Gone was the proposal to means test winter fuel allowance; gone were the plans to replace free school lunches with breakfast;… Continue reading Issue 111: 2017 06 29: Week In Brief: UK
Issue 109: 2017 06 15: The need for a new leader (John Watson)
15 June 2017 The Need For A New Leader The Conservatives need to move on. By John Watson It is hard to know how to take Teresa May’s decision to remain Prime Minister. Is this just an interim step while the Conservative party considers behind closed doors who should lead it next, or does she… Continue reading Issue 109: 2017 06 15: The need for a new leader (John Watson)
