BY JAMIE FOSTER The EU is trying to set up barriers to a UK/US trade deal by claiming that US food standards fall far below UK standards. This is a claim made by the US Ambassador to the UK speaking on the Today programme. It is a line that is being touted in the press recently. The NFU President Minette Batters said that US Standards … Continue reading USA Lower Food Standards Myths
BY FRANK HAVILAND Just days away from the hallowed Brexit date of March 29th and we may be redefining the nation’s future on an hourly basis. As we near the crescendo to the most interminable 3 years’ procrastination, and the worst negotiation since Lady Godiva’s tailor agreed to be paid by the stitch, Great Britain is now in the position where absolutely no one knows … Continue reading Letwin Coup Irrelevant
BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN The Put it to the People march on Saturday in London was the latest in a series of “second referendum” marches against Democracy, although this time there was more honesty on display about the true motives of the losers’ vote they propose – multiple placards openly stating “let’s revoke Article 50”. It was more sizeable than previous marches according to the impartial and … Continue reading Winners Don’t March
CSM EDITORIAL For months now Brexiteers have been warning about motorways getting blocked and the real dangers associated with delaying Brexit. That No Deal was actually the easy way out for our ruling class. That their Project Fear would actually only come to pass if they were so stupid as to delay Brexit. Well, last night they were that stupid. This afternoon the M5 and … Continue reading And So It Begins
CSM EDITORIAL And so in the final week (or is it 19 days?) there were five choices: Vote for Mrs May’s Deal – Highly Unlikely. Revoke Article 50 – Civil War. A last-minute longer extension offered by the EU before the 29th March/12th April with conditions (likely financial and attached to either a second referendum or some other significant game-changer like a General Election to … Continue reading The Final Countdown
BY JAMIE FOSTER As Theresa May prepares to bring her contentious deal back before parliament for a third meaningful vote, presuming John Bercow gets over himself, members of the ERG have some serious questions to ask themselves. Do they back the deal this time round to ensure that Brexit is achieved or do they hold their nerve in the face of all the threats that … Continue reading Hold Your Nerve
BY JACK PEMBERTON Since 2010 I have worked with a bloke called Dave. We’re good friends and our families know each other well. We’d do anything for each other. But since the summer of 2016 Dave’s been a Remainer and I’ve been a Brexiteer. We’re still friends. Nothing’s changed. I still work with a bloke called Dave. We often wonder who are these actors who … Continue reading Defending Remainer Dave
CSM EDITORIAL So, the House of Commons is no longer representative of British voters. Many years of political apathy in Britain have allowed a bunch of careerists, amateurs and Marxists to steal the green benches. A Remain Parliament voted for itself last night and this will not be fast forgotten. The obvious route from here – after a delay to Brexit is called for today … Continue reading Gloves Off
BY JAMIE FOSTER Theresa May’s deal looks dead in the water after Geoffrey Cox the Attorney General gave his advice that the legal risk of being stuck indefinitely in the backstop remained unchanged despite new legal documents secured from Strasbourg. While there still stands to be a vote on the deal, the DUP has already said they will be rejecting the deal following Geoffrey Cox’s … Continue reading Vote May’s Deal Down
BY ALEXIA JAMES Watching those few who have hung around to try and overturn Brexit is a sport in itself. They are clinically insane. While the rest of us were enjoying our Friday evening in the real world at dinner parties, down the pub or snuggled up on the sofa watching a movie, the tinfoilers were busy having a Twitter meltdown about Arron Banks, the … Continue reading Watergate Codswallop
CSM EDITORIAL There seem to be a lot of smug Remainers back on the scene all of a sudden. Just when we Brexiteers thought they had been summarily dispatched – reducing them to a desperate rump of hideous nudity and Nando’s dinners – the anti-democrats are back on our TV screens and clogging our timelines. No doubt they are buoyed by Corbyn’s support for a … Continue reading The Orbán Quotient
BY PAUL NEWALL The First Amendment of the US constitution should be adored. Granted that when the original US constitution was written, it was fanciful and flawed. Slaves for instance were regarded as two thirds of a human being which wasn’t quite as racist as you might think being as there were as many white bond slaves in this era as there were black African … Continue reading Towards a British Constitution
CSM EDITORIAL The Sky News State of the Nation Survey paints a picture of a country that is deeply divided and doesn’t trust its political class or its mainstream media. One that is fearful for its economic future after Brexit – one that is racist and “Islamophobic”. Nearly 9 in 10 people think political leaders do not care about the public. (Sky Data interviewed a nationally representative … Continue reading State of the Nation
#standupforbrexit Continue reading Well Said, Warrington
BY NICK PEARCE Mrs May’s deal is not Brexit. Even if she manages to get a concession on the backstop then the deal is still a stinker. MPs should not be scared of “no deal”. It provides a genuine exit door for the UK from the EU. All the other options on the table, including May’s deal, are BRINO (Brexit in Name Only) or worse. … Continue reading No Deal Better than a Bad Deal
BY ANDREW MOODY English celebrities aren’t a patch on our American cousins. The teeth! The collagen injections! The breast enhancements! The penile implants! Us Brits prefer curling up with our smartphones tweeting sarcastic comments about Brexit (Pro or Remain, your choice) whilst farting into our favourite sofa cushion. Those that want to actually crack the media industry need to be six foot classically trained beauties … Continue reading Dear Trump
BY JAMIE FOSTER Alastair Campbell can’t help himself. He has to go and say that Honda’s Swindon factory closure is about Brexit. The only problem is that it’s not. Twitter, as usual, saw through the remarks he made to Mishal Hussain on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. As he was blaming Brexit, Honda’s top executives were confirming that the move had to do with electrification … Continue reading Propahonda
Let’s find a bolshie spokesperson who can lie us back into this Alastair Campbell Let’s make out that Brexit is going to be a crippling disaster Project Fear II Let’s find fault with the Referendum itself It was only advisory Let’s call an exit without a withdrawal agreement (even though there’ll be loads of existing agreements) sound really bad Crashing Out – No Deal Let’s fight … Continue reading The #FBPE Guide to Losing Disgracefully
BY DAVID EYLES In the early part of 2019, it would appear that Theresa May (without any apparent effort) has effectively sundered the Conservative Party into two irreconcilable groups. The first group is of the party in Westminster, including all MPs, peers, journalists, special advisers and so on. The second is the party in the constituencies – the holders of coffee mornings, bring and buy … Continue reading May’s Great Divide
BY JAMIE FOSTER The office of Speaker of the House of Commons is notable for its impartiality. One of the longstanding attributes of the office is that it stands above politics. The way the role has always functioned is for the Speaker to cast off his connections to his party so that he can take a truly impartial stance towards the issues of the day. … Continue reading Falling Short
