Labour has now come out in full support of this ruinous strike. Perversely this is a smart move. Because it is now a major political issue in the south and neither the government (or the company) nor the unions have put their case with any coherence, leading to a complete breakdown in public confidence and patience. […]
Surely the issue is not that these emails were allegedly hacked, but that they were actually written? Obama should think about that. The American people already did. That is why his friend lost.
It is good to hear that ACAS is now involved in this power struggle between the government and the RMT/ASLV combination making life impossible for huge numbers of commuters in the south-east. Although the government pretends it is just a bystander, it is in fact the key player. This is because the Southern is a […]
There are two strikes now in process which are in the worst traditions of the union indiscipline which exploded in the 1970s and put Labour out of power for nearly twenty years. They are the Southern walkouts over who shuts the doors of the trains and the threatened shut down of Crown post offices in […]
There is no doubt that the challenge to Corbyn’s leadership resulting in his re-election on an even larger mandate, has done the party a very great deal of electoral harm. Because, while the party has the largest membership in Europe entirely because of the populist Corbyn and his sidekick John McDonald, it is plain for all […]
In a word, yes. Very many Brits are deeply uncomfortable with the somewhat slavish attitude to the Saudi State of the Establishment, which goes to great lengths to keep within pages of the Saudi good books. There is an economic advantage of doing so. Saudi Arabia is a major customer for British goods and services and especially armaments, […]
It has been said, especially by this Blog, that the Euro cannot survive and that the EU itself is going to unravel. Neither is correct yet both are true within the definition of what was supposed to be. What is happening is that Europe is morphing into what it was set up to prevent. At some […]
Yes. In spite of what the opinions polls say (they do not have the methodology to deal with counter-intuitive cross party political trends) if there were a general election now, May would probably lose. This is not going to happen because, under the 2011 Act which provides for fixed term parliaments, there would have to […]
One of the problems this blog is going to have with the Trump presidency is that I agree with him on some things but not on others. I support him on the trade, but not the tax, aspect of his economic policy and I applaud his fresh approach to the current train wreck of America’s […]
The beleaguered May now faces another legal challenge to her stubborn insistence that she govern the Brexit process by Royal Prerogative. It appears that there is a strong legal opinion suggesting that leaving the EU will not automatically take GB out of the Europeans Economic Area, which is actually the free market extended to the likes […]