Conservatives sent packing
Yet “more Tories than seem possible now will escape the July 4th massacre, and emerge from their burrows, blinking but alive.”
On the transgender nonsense, immigration and Israel alone the British Labour party is to the right of all major Irish political parties. You would have to go all the way to the Greens to match the extremism of the Irish establishment.
Since 2016, the Irish political and media establishment has clung to a single, unifying, and unshakeable theory about Brexit: It was a fluke result, fuelled by the confluence of several unique factors. A poor remain campaign. Lies by Brexiteers. A surge in anti-immigrant sentiment, or when they’re not being diplomatic, “racist bigotry”. Poor turnout by […]
Right to Life UK have released a new video asking voters to “vote for life” in today’s General Election as the abortion regime in the UK is called increasingly into question by both sides of the debate. Whilst Labour and the Liberal Democrats have promised to expand the law to allow greater access to abortion, […]
One of the comfortable things about observing the British election is that whatever the outcome, the impacts on the life of the Irish viewer will be largely insignificant. If the Conservatives win a majority, a Brexit deal will pass which is acceptable to the Irish Government. If Mr. Corbyn ends up as Prime Minister, there […]
We’ve stayed away from the UK election on this site because, let’s face it, it’s impossible to escape it at the moment, but this has some relevance to Ireland, given the well-known problems at RTE. Boris Johnson says this morning, in Sunderland, that he may take the opposite route to that being proposed by the […]
It’s good advice in life to try and find yourself something that you are as passionate and excited about as Jo Swinson, the leader of Britain’s Liberal Democrats, is, about pushing the nuclear button and causing a nuclear holocaust: Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson says she would use nuclear weapons and answers other quick questions […]
Watching the British Labour Party general election campaign has been, on the whole, a depressing affair. The Party has taken a momentous decision, on Brexit, to enter a General Election with a promise to have no fixed policy at all, and to make up its mind later. It decided at its annual conference six weeks […]