A whole 12% of voters think Brexit has been a success. And just 25% of Leave voters. Sigh.
“In effort to fend off Reform”
As a reason for public policy, this has to be the absolute worst.
How much damage will politicians do to compete with Farage? Brexit, immigration, scrapping NetZero..the ECHR..the Equality Act…
Stupid reasons to do stupid things.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
So much this.
See also: ‘first part the post’ protects political systems from extremists
Rightly angry piece from @iandunt.bsky.social about the Populist Right BS that followed the awful Henry Nowak murder case and how the media/national conversation has been drawn into it.
iandunt.substack.com/p/an-abysmal...
There are going to be a lot of these '10th anniversary of the referendum' pieces in the next few weeks - my own will be in the next @bylinetimes.bsky.social - but this by @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social sets a very high bar: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
📈 Livermore told the House of Lords on Monday that, in his personal view, the UK will eventually re-enter the European Union because doing so is in the country’s economic interest.
🗯️ His comments mark the first public endorsement by a serving minister of overturning the referendum result.
Roland is one of my favourite commentators on Brexit and much more besides. Chris, obviously, is an absolute boss. This'll be worth listening to.
Home Office sends letters to children as young as five saying they must leave UK
Born in Częstochowa, to Bronislawa and Dawid Kozak. The Germans took their factory away. Polish nuns hid the Kozaks from the Germans. It's close to miraculous she survived. In the 1970s, she did a PhD on women munition workers in WW1 at Hull.
May her memory be a blessing.
A Tory peer has just told Today that "We need to get back to a form of policing that is more colour-blind".
When was that, precisely?
The idea that we *used* to live in a colour-blind society, until minorities got special privileges, goes against *everything* we know of the history of policing.