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Category: European Union
Dec 18 2017
What kind of Brexit?
There is everything to pray for as her majesty’s ministers meet today and tomorrow to discuss what kind of Brexit they will propose to the European Union as negotiations move onto the UK’s trading relationship with the EU. The BBC’s Norman Smith says some ministers, ‘like Chancellor Philip Hammond and Home Secretary Amber Rudd’ want …
Apr 25 2017
Mrs May’s General Election Challenge
As the political parties write their general election manifestos, one of them faces a particular challenge. The Conservatives might think they have an unassailable lead, but they could easily snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. And that would put Brexit in peril. NHI for the Self-Employed Firstly., they would dearly like their manifesto to give …
Mar 24 2017
Treaty of Rome: signed where and why?
European Leaders are gathering in Rome, the Emperor Hadrian’s ‘Eternal City’, to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome. The Treaty was signed on 25th March 1957. The champagne quaffing will however be somewhat tempered by the imminent arrival of That Article 50 Letter. UK Prime Minister Theresa May is set to start the Brexit process …
Feb 09 2017
Article 50 Bill passes House of Commons
The Article 50 Bill, more properly the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill, has passed all its stages in the House of Commons. The SNP tabled a whole raft of amendments at Committee Stage. Labour tabled some others. The House voted on some of them and defeated all it voted on. That meant there was no …
Dec 05 2016
Austria has not voted for the Elite!
Austria has seemingly embraced an EU-friendly, migrant-welcoming view of the world in electing Alexander Van der Bellen as its President and rejecting the Freedom Party’s Norbert Hofer. Herr Van der Bellen, a former leader of the Green party, said he would be an “open-minded, liberal-minded and above all a pro-European president”. Herr Hofer might feel …
Nov 28 2016
Brexit and the EEA
The ‘Remoaners’ are at it again. As part of their anti-Brexit campaign for the UK to stay in the EU, they intend to launch a legal challenge. This one is not over Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty but over a certain Article 127. Confused? Article 127 is the exit clause for the European Economic Area. The so-called …
Aug 29 2016
Hammond must deliver on Brexit
News is emerging that Chancellor Rt Hon Mr Philip Hammond MP is working against Brexit. Mr Hammond was a disaster as Foreign Secretary, funding Jihadist groups in Syria and encouraging them with his ‘Assad must go’ mantra. President Assad was and is the only guarantor of stability in Syria. He protects the religious minorities such as Christians, Alawites …
Jul 14 2016
Prayer for Cabinet appointments
Last night, new Prime Minister Theresa May made six senior appointments, covering the three great offices of state (Chancellor, Home Office, Foreign Office), and created two new post-Brexit positions. Continue to pray for her appointments today. BORIS JOHNSON The most astonishing appointment last night was that of Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary. Mr Johnson is said …
Jul 11 2016
Andrea Leadsom gives PM job to May
The reasons Andrea Leadsom MP has given for pulling out of the Conservative leadership race seem perfectly plausible but do not totally convince. Eighty-four colleagues supported her, but she said, “Nevertheless, this is less than 25% of the parliamentary party and after careful consideration I do not believe this is sufficient support to lead a …
Jul 02 2016
Brexit ‘Could be reversed’ – Kerry
The United State’s top foreign policy official has said the British vote to leave the European Union could be ‘reversed’. Clearly, the United Kingdom’s dramatic #Brexit vote has upset the kings of the earth and Kerry has let the cat out the bag that they intend to prevent it. Speaking at the Aspen Institute, a …
Jul 01 2016
European Union falling apart
The European Union appears to be splitting in two in the wake of the Brexit Referendum. The day after the result was announced, the foreign ministers of the founding six, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxemburg and the Netherlands met in Berlin. No-one else was invited. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Germany’s foreign minister, said European leaders have to meet …
Jun 22 2016
Jo Cox, WEF, and why Brendan is wrong
The appalling and senseless murder of Jo Cox MP on Thursday 16th June 2016 shocked us all and resulted in a very public outpouring of grief from her politician colleagues. Disgracefully, some of them made shameless political capital out of it for the #Remain campaign in the European Referendum. One leaflet, distributed in Kate Hoey’s …
Jun 20 2016
European Union’s Roman Empire
Is the European Parliament Tower in Strasbourg modeled on the Tower of Babel, the Colisseum in Rome, or both? Why was Rome called ‘the Eternal City’? Who was the first Eurocrat, who drafted the Treaty of Rome and decided where it would be signed? What did he say about reviving the Roman Empire? View my …
Jun 08 2016
UK votes for Monsanto Roundup
The United Kingdom was among twenty European Union nations voting earlier this week for Monsanto’s controversial ‘Roundup’ weedkiller, it has emerged. The vote, held on Monday 6th June 2016, failed to authorise the use of glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup and similar products from Synerga and Dow Chemicals. Germany, France, Italy, Greece, Austria, Portugal …
May 16 2016
European Union’s New Roman Empire
Boris Johnson is in trouble with the Guardian not just for saying the European Union is planning a new Roman Empire, but for saying Napoleon and Adolf Hitler had that dream as well. (A more sympathetic view of Mr Johnson’s speech is here at the Daily Express!) We say there is actually no need to invoke Hitler and …