Month: September 2015

European Dis-Union

September 18, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

First we had the Euro crisis. Then came the Migrant problem. Now we have the Refugee crisis. The common feature of all of them is that the EU cannot come up with a workable solution. With the Euro they opted for kicking the can down the road. With the refugees, because of the unprecedented numbers, […]

People’s Quantitative Easing

September 18, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

The current ideas of the new shadow chancellor to pump money into the base of the economy are welcome, although not quite right.  If you want to find out how it should work you can download a lucid explanation of the original idea from the links below. Download only .99p.  Paperback £2.99 Kindle or Paperback […]

Two Ex-Foreign Secretaries

September 18, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Two former foreign secretaries were yesterday exonerated by the authority which supposedly upholds parliamentary standards, over allegations that they misbehaved offering to sell lobbying services to bogus companies for thousands of pounds per day in a joint sting organised by Channel 4 and the  Daily Telegraph. They were told they had done nothing which broke parliamentary rules. Really? Well if […]

Hungary’s Razor Wire

September 16, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

There is something deeply disturbing about this fence that Hungary has put up. It is distressing to watch images of the anguished faces of desperate people as they see their route to freedom barred by an arrogant interpretation of a set of EU rules drafted without any comprehension of the kind of crisis now unfolding. Creating a […]

Corbyn And Labour MPs

September 15, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

We are now watching a situation entirely without precedent. A new voting process designed by a political party to extend its reach and appeal has done just that. It has expanded its membership way ahead of all the other political parties at Westminster put together with over 500,000 members and supporters. Of those over 250,000 […]

Tories: A Word Of Caution

September 13, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Evidently the political cabinet of the Tory party almost collectively wet itself it laughed so much at the thought of Jeremy Corbyn as Leader of the Opposition. It was of course thinking back to Michael Foot. Like everybody else and especially the sulking troops of New Labour, unable to take in what has happened to them. But […]

Corbyn Earthquake

September 12, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

This blog is pleased to have been one of the first to point out that Labour lost the general election because it was not far enough to the left. Various posts have put arguments and statistics before you to demonstrate the reasoning, endorsed by the landslide victory of Jeremy Corbyn. Today is historic because it marks […]

Refugees: Britain v Germany

September 12, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Britain has agreed to take 20,000 refugees over the next five years. Germany is expecting to welcome 40,000 this weekend. Britain can ague that it takes more EU migrants than any other country in the EU, that its population is growing faster than Germany’s and that it gives more aid to refugees in Syria and […]

Cameron Defeated: And the Drone?

September 8, 2015 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Already? It is clear that a failure of the government to listen to genuine worries about its ability to use its authority to skew the EU referendum campaign caused a pretty handsome defeat in the Commons last night. Things are not going well for this new Tory government. It is much less sure footed than its […]