So there it is, in black and white. Вперед, к Cуверенитету comrades! Onwards, to sovereignty! Today’s FT long read (€) on how the Brexit Deal was struck and what happens next is a remarkable piece of work, drawing together a series
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Category: Brexit
It’s easier to critique honest incompetence than deal with malevolent deceit
“When future historians try to understand how Britain ended up with a choice between chaos and becoming a satellite of the European Union, one question will stump them,” wrote Fintan O’Toole in this Irish Times column in November 2018. “Were
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On the Brexit Deal and Erasmus the SNP appear clear and decisive, and Labour contorted and confused
It has been a good week for the SNP. On two major issues – due to their own clarity of thought and the errors of others – they have banked clear political wins. On both issues the Labour Party by
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There’s no way to avoid it: the EU question is going to be on the agenda at the 2024 UK General Election, and so Labour can’t wish away the EU question
On page 218 and 219 of the UK-EU Trade Deal (full PDF here) is the following paragraph (emphasis is mine): In order to ensure an appropriate balance between the commitments made by the Parties in this Agreement on a more
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Trying to be better at online political debate (around Brexit, and perhaps more widely too)
An abhorrent piece appeared in The Telegraph this afternoon, wishing ill on the President of France, and trying see an upside for the British and Brexit in the comeuppance of Macron. I am not going to link to it – because
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Deal or No Deal Brexit by the end of the year? Or delay via a mini Treaty?
The statement of the Conference of Presidents of the European Parliament has been an interesting development in the Brexit saga this week. The European Parliament is trying to impose a deadline at the end of Sunday 20 December for a
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The UK had only one card to play in the Brexit end game: the timetable. And even that did not work.
I don’t know if it was the intended strategy all along (I first mused about it in November), but in these fraught December days in the Brexit end game it has become abundantly clear that the UK’s negotiation tactic has
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When is Johnson going to meet von der Leyen? The sequence of the Brexit end game is very important
Now confirmed! *before* Monday 7 December at 1945, European Commission President von der Leyen tweeted out the statement that a meeting between her and Boris Johnson would take place “in the coming days”. It is now 22 hours on from
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The No Deal Brexit Terminology
OK, I might be jumping the gun – there may yet be a Deal between Britain and the EU – but as a result of this discussion with Catherine De Vries, it’s important to grasp the nettle – what terminology
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Notes on the timetable for a Deal, and how No Deal might play out
28 days to go to the end of the Brexit transition period. Things are getting edgy. The press is full of rumours of progress towards a Deal (or not). I’ve been trying to get my head around what is happening,
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Scotch Eggs are GREAT – and other sarcastic tourist posters
UPDATE! New posters – to celebrate this! I have always found the GREAT Britain campaign – those posters you see at airports and railway stations – rather nauseating. It’s a bit like a product that calls itself ‘de luxe’ –
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Is Brexiters’ absolutist notion of sovereignty going to lead the UK to a No Deal Brexit? We will shortly find out
Nicholas Westcott wrote an interesting piece for LSE last week entitled “A peculiar definition of sovereignty is the root cause of a failed Brexit“. The whole piece is worth reading, but one part struck me as especially apt. Brexiters “definition
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