By GRANDPA1940 12th March 2020 Opinion Piece The British Politicians, with one voice, parrot the reply, “We’re Listening to the Scientists, and reacting accordingly”. The diseased numbers sweep inexorably upwards, as Italy signals ‘defeat’ by ...
By GRANDPA1940 The Labour Party published its 2019 Manifesto four days ago. It comes in at 105 pages, full of £Biliions for this, and more £Billions for that, sympathy and promises of action for ...
The latest date that we are due to leave the EU is now 31st January 2020. At least I think it is, I have lost track to be quite honest, I am sure this thought ...
By GRANDPA1940 MAKE YOUR VOTE COUNT. Over the next five weeks, we here in Great Britain & Northern Ireland will be making the most important decision in the political life of our Countries. More important, ...
By Grandpa1940 Mr. Morpurgo’s Op-Ed piece in the columns of the Sunday Times was most revealing, both in terms of the way this Author thinks, and his attitude towards those who had the temerity to ...
It’s crunch time again. This Brexit saga has had more crunch times than a taste tester for Maltesers. Parliament will, at some stage during this extraordinary Saturday sitting, vote to endorse or reject the deal ...
There you have it, good people. Yesterday it was laid cold, hard and bare. Any pretence that the EU’s envisaged backstop for Northern Ireland was anything other than a shameful land-grab of UK sovereign territory ...
By GRANDPA1940 The headline above might seem, to some, to be written in a search for a headline which might revolt, but also to some as a warning of what can be foreseen. Foreseen as ...
By Andrew Gardner 21st September 2019 Three years in and this could go either way. The possibilities have narrowed somewhat but this has now come to a standoff – a game of ‘who blinks first’, ...
By Anne Marie Waters 13th September 2019 The BBC’s reporting on Operation Yellowhammer, the Government’s contingency plan for a no-deal Brexit, makes me think I’m about to be subjected to some specialist propaganda. The opening ...
