Category: Comment

No cars, no food? The rich will still eat.

A number of rash online anti-EU “Leavers” like to cite how the EU needs the UK to buy the EU cars and so the EU will come running back. But not all goods are equal and there is one good…

May has NO mandate to proceed. Do not enable this nationalistic coup.

Prime Minister May has NO mandate to proceed with Article 50.  No business case has been presented, the result was gerrymandered. All EU citizens (and that includes all British as we’re EU citizens too) must resist this wholesale enabling of…

Remaining in the EU negotiating objectives

Remaining in the EU objectives The Government highlights the 12 objectives that are achieved by the UK remaining in the EU. 1. Providing certainty and clarity By remaining we provide certainty and clarity for the future for all European Union…

Leaver lies – white paper – EU budget

By white, the Government means “snowjob”. A good example is that the EU Budget gets one paragraph, Page 49 para 8.51, “8.51 Once we have left the EU, decisions on how taxpayers’ money will be spent will be made in…

Run away, run away…

The German market story shows the integration of Europe that the Brexiters hate; along with the German victims, we have an Italian woman working in Germany who was a most likely a victim, a Spanish student on the Erasmus program…

Daily Mail – Tom Utley and his Christmas ‘plea-lemic’

Tom Utley’s Christmas plea in the Daily Mail online highlights all that is wrong with the Leaver campaign. He’s partly right – there will be some Brexiters who will have analysed the relationship of the UK in the EU and…

The burden of proof remains with you.

A lack of belief that god exists is not a belief that no god exists. A lack of belief that ‘x exists’ simply means that the neural network structures which would allow me to say that ‘x exists’ (is true)…

Economic magnets

We British tied Merkel’s hands many years ago – the Basic Law of Germany was agreed by the Allies after the 2nd world war and it guarantees refugee rights. Trouble is that decades of US/UK interfering with Middle East politics…