After years of debate, negotiations and impasse, Britain will leave the EU this Friday, the 31st January 2020. This will be the final Brupdate before Brexit Day. In Britain, a strange calm seems to have descended since December’s general election.…
Continue reading Brexit Update: Post-Brexit Realities Begin to Bite
It was the Russian radical activist Emma Goldman who once said, “If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal” – she could not have been more wrong. Britain’s vote to leave the EU on 23rd June 2016 changed everything. One…
Continue reading Brexit Update: The Election That Changed Everything
The UK’s general election is drawing ever closer. Yet still – mere days away from polling day – no one seems to be able to predict what will happen with any real certainty. This is due to the fact that…
Continue reading Brexit Update: A Local View on a National Election
It’s the Brexit deadline that wasn’t, then almost was, but then again wasn’t. Britain’s ‘do or die’ Halloween exit from the EU ended up being nothing more than unfulfillable hyperbole. Warnings that Britain would “explode” if the Halloween deadline was…
It hasn’t actually been too long since I last wrote one of these Brupdates, but, since then, all hell has broken loose in the UK. This may sound like an episode of House of Cards, but, The Commons, under the…
Sound the Brexit klaxon! I’ve now come to the conclusion that I’ve been overly optimistic in these updates! Within the last fortnight, I’ve concluded that the UK is probably going to drop out of the EU without a deal. It’ll…
It’s a wiser man than I who can predict just what on earth will happen next in British politics. Not so long ago, I wrote about what I believed a Boris Johnson premiership could do to/for Brexit. It wasn’t exactly…
You won’t have heard it here first, but Boris Johnson is almost certain to be the next Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Why? Because he will be chosen by the membership of the governing Conservative Party. The Conservative membership…
In wealthier, more financially-minded circles, the problems presented by international borders and resultant visas have been negated, transforming citizenship into a free market commodity. In much the same way that American healthcare and British rail services are administered, citizenship is…
Brexit is being consumed by its own clichés. Freedom of Movement must end! cries Theresa May. Yet the Brexit-Ultras are outraged that doing so is reciprocal. We want control of our own laws and money! cries Theresa May. Yet some…
