The most significant thing to come out of both G20 and David Davis in the Commons is that we learned almost nothing about government Brexit thinking. There were three small gaps in the fog. May said no to points and declared more direct control would be applied to immigration. Davis confirmed whatever happened there would be […]
The media have decided that today is Prime Minister May’s Big Day. The day she has to re-establish a working relationship with the Chinese leadership, shaken by the peremptory cancellation of the formal signing for Hinkley Point, even as the delegations were gathering to enjoy wine and cake in a celebration marquee. The resultant snub […]
A recorded interview with the Prime Minister on Andrew Marr this morning, she herself is at the G20 Summit in China, did not reveal any more of her political hand beyond the soundbites already in circulation. On Hinkley Point, Article 50, Grammar Schools and the usual list, she answered different questions to the ones put. […]
In a recent post I highlighted the notion that to save the euro and balance the euro economy so that it benefited people in all parts of the euro zone, not just Germany and her northern European satellites, the additional federalization, so long fought off by the UK, would now be able to go ahead following Brexit. […]
For years I have argued on this blog and elsewhere that the over valuation of sterling has been the primary engine of UK’s industrial decline driving its economy into a toxic combination of high debt, fixed asset inflation, declining public services and increasing deficits. The speed with which manufacturing has bounced back after the Brexit crash in […]
Any fool can see that this new contract is in trouble and always has been and that to cling to it is to damage the fabric of the NHS for no useful purpose. None of the NHS’s endemic problems lie with these dedicated young people. This Jeremy Hunt cannot or will not see and he himself is […]