The promise that was never meant to be kept is now the hill they have chosen...
It is said of Obama that his every promise had an expiration date. That way of phrasing it seems almost too kind – as if each promise once had value and then lost it after it expired. Some promises are...
View ArticleSome MPs Leave Parliament
The remainers’ and Bercow’s mutual love is telling. A rowdy lot of student activists at the end, there. Looks like someone needs to come and ask them to go. Previously, one of these men is more...
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Et tu quoque?
Parliament demands to see all the private messages sent between nine advisers since 23 July relating to the prorogation of parliament (or to Yellowhammer), claiming there might be constitutional...
View ArticleThe David Starkey Interview
The historian David Starkey was interviewed by Brendan O’Neill of Spiked. He compares recent events in Parliament with events in the 17th century: We’re going through the events of the 17th century as...
View ArticleWe are oh so far past the stage where all must abide by every corrupt legal...
When leaders represent the will of the people – and the laws they are breaking are illegitimate or undemocratic – violating them is nearly always justified in retrospect. As it would be in this case....
View ArticleProrogation unlawful
The supreme court ruled that the prorogation was unlawful. It is unclear what the implications of this are, besides that Parliament will sit for more days than expected and that future prorogations...
View ArticleI say we wait three years before implementing the court’s ruling…
I say we wait three years without implementing the court’s ruling, then ask the court if that is still what they think. – Perry de Havilland
View ArticleI thought Chancellors of the Exchequer were supposed to understand this sort...
In theory I ought to like Independent MPs. In practice they are often cranks. So strong is this correlation that I begin to suspect that there might be causation involved. Perhaps the bites on the neck...
View ArticleAnd fortune, on his damned quarrel smiling, Show’d like a rebel’s whore
The Independent‘s John Rentoul is scarcely likely to be happy at what the latest poll by Opinium says, but dutifully tweeted it anyway: Opinium poll for Observer, Cons back to 15-pt lead: Con 38% +2...
View ArticleWhat was the point?
Parliament will be prorogued later today. It has been sitting since the court judgement – that is during the latter half of the Labour conference week, when it would normally have been recessed, during...
View ArticleThe unity candidate
The Sunday Times reports, Jeremy Corbyn ‘would support John Bercow as unity PM’ This is some new meaning of the word “unity” not previously known to me. I do not believe I am alone in preferring the...
View ArticleZombie Parliament
This parliament is not simply out of touch with public sentiment – something we already knew from the fact that 70 per cent of MPs, and a staggering 95 per cent of Labour MPs, voted Remain, while 52...
View ArticleBoris, you must resign
It’s probably quite nice to be Prime Minister, going to all the best dos, having people listen to your bloviations, having the second best address in London and having the power to vaporise France but...
View ArticleParliament cut off its own nose to spite the people’s face
Two things have been key pillars of parliamentary government’s ability to function for the past 330 years. One is the government’s power of dissolution. Bagehot (‘The English Constitution’) explained...
View ArticleThe terrible cost of political realignment
£22k! The Manchester Evening News reports: A Parliamentary candidate who could lose out on £22,000 in taxpayer cash if she is not elected to a Trafford seat next month says it could leave her unable to...
View ArticleAbout Bloody Time
MPs vote by 358 to 234 to back Boris Johnson’s Brexit bill to leave EU on 31 January They voted 358 to 234 in favour of the EU (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill, which now goes on to further scrutiny in the...
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