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My overnight (Saturday into Sunday) trawl of the newspaper websites has revealed reports that Labour MP Chuka Umunna is claiming that if the Referendum outcome is a Brexit victory it will be a win for Far Right ‘dog whistle’ politics; that the latest polls show that the two opposing campaigns [...]

June 12, 2016 // 0 Comments

Rumbling on …

Regular readers of this esteemed organ will be aware that we are currently covering the UK’s EU Referendum campaign almost daily in our own quaint fashion – i.e. commenting upon developments, not reporting upon them – not least because the one ‘fact’ being asserted by politicians [...]

June 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

Not much longer to go now …

Last night at 7.30pm I tuned to BBC1 to see another of Andrew Neil’s interviews with the protagonists in the EU Referendum campaign – this time with Remain’s George Osborne. Now inside the last fortnight before 23rd June Mr Neil has taken upon himself the unenviable task of challenge the [...]

June 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

Power and democracy

Observing developments in the forthcoming US Presidential Election on top of those in Britain since 2015 (the Coalition Government, the 2015 General Election and now the EU Referendum) there certainly seems to be something in the theory that there is a growing ‘disconnect’ between ordinary [...]

June 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

On the downward slope to the finishing line

So with less than three weeks to go to the big vote on 23rd June I settled down yesterday to watch Sir John Major’s extraordinary appearance on BBC1’s The Andrew Marr Show. Lest we forget, Sir John was the British Tory prime minister from 1990 to 1997, now probably most well-known (or at least [...]

June 6, 2016 // 0 Comments

Counting down …

Now with just 19 days to go to the EU Referendum, it seems that both the Remainers and Leavers campaign have finally settled into their respective comfort zones – the economy versus the ‘leap into the dark’ for the former, ‘Let’s get our country back from the twin evils of an unelected [...]

June 4, 2016 // 0 Comments

Bidding a temporary farewell …

The dictionary definition of ‘purdah’ suggests that it is a practice of certain Muslim and Hindu societies whereby women are screened from men or strangers, especially by means of a curtain. As regards the UK political system, as I understand it, the word has come to be applied to an agreed (or [...]

May 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

Some may not like it up ’em (at least at this time of the morning)

Yesterday my schedule had been built in advance around the latest Prime Minister’s Question Time shown live from the House of Commons on BBC2 as part of the Daily Politics programme hosted by Andrew Neil. What I hadn’t banked upon was the fact that David Cameron wasn’t going to be there – [...]

May 26, 2016 // 0 Comments

The best outcome of all

The EU Referendum campaign has less than thirty days to run and seems to have settled into a pattern of new daily accusatory ‘he said/she said’ claims and denials from both camps. In the past fortnight we have had the Remainers claiming that every family in the UK would be £4,300 worse off, [...]

May 25, 2016 // 0 Comments

Like mushrooms in the dark

Someone said on the radio yesterday that there are now just 35 days until the EU Referendum and last night I watched – well, until I nodded off about ten minutes from the end – Jeremy Paxman’s BBC1 programme Paxman on Brussels: Who Really Rules Us? I read somewhere that, given Paxo’s [...]

May 20, 2016 // 0 Comments

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