Speaking in Lisbon on Tuesday, Frost said that in upcoming talks the UK would be calling for a light-touch scheme which allowed British traders to freely move goods to Northern Ireland. “We know we are getting the Commission proposals tomorrow,” he stated, adding that he thought the EU’s suggestions were …
Read More »Yes, Brexit has caused problems for crisis-hit Britain, but the harm caused by lockdown has been even greater
Poor old ‘Uncle’ Jim Callaghan was castigated – and paid a heavy political price – for Britain’s relatively short ‘Winter of Discontent’ in 1979, yet Boris Johnson’s premiership has been calamitous almost from the day he was gifted a large parliamentary majority by the voting public in order to ‘Get …
Read More »UK’s post-Brexit labour supply problems could last for ‘two years,’ business leaders warn
The group representing thousands of British businesses issued the warning as the UK government prepares to end the furlough scheme introduced to protect jobs in industries severely hampered by the Covid pandemic and amid supply shortages in the UK due to a lack of lorry drivers. Speaking in a statement …
Read More »It may feel like Britain has ground to a halt, but it’s Covid, NOT Brexit, that is to blame
Empty supermarket shelves, chicken carcasses rotting in factories and fleets of lorries lying idly in yards. No, this is not a scene from an apocalyptic movie, it is modern Britain… if reports are to be believed. I have to admit, I don’t recognise some of the descriptions of what is …
Read More »‘Focus on Brexit’: North Korea blasts London’s ‘provocation’ as UK sends its largest carrier strike group to Asian waters
In a statement on Tuesday, the North Korean Foreign Ministry decried Britain’s decision to permanently station military vessels in the Asia-Pacific. “The UK, which is intensifying the situation by pushing warships into the distant Asia-Pacific region, is using our ‘threat’ as an excuse,” a statement on the Foreign Ministry’s website …
Read More »Brexit deal ‘wasn’t something to last forever’: Britain says EU is ‘inflexible’ on Northern Ireland issue
In an interview with Sky News on Wednesday, Kwarteng backed the idea of re-negotiating the agreement. The effects of the deal were hard to predict before it actually came into force, he argued, so the parties should now be permitted to work together to make it more “smooth.” “Nobody could …
Read More »Post-Brexit 11th Night celebrations in Northern Ireland turn political with MONSTER BONFIRE lit by loyalists
Bonfires are traditionally built in Northern Ireland every July, as part of events commemorating the victory of Protestant King William of Orange over Catholic King James II in the late 17th century. Dozens are built across the country, but this year some particularly big ones have sprung up carrying a …
Read More »400,000 EU citizens living in the UK given 28-day warning to apply for post-Brexit right to remain
Speaking on Wednesday, Britain’s immigration minister, Kevin Foster, said that individuals who fail to apple for settled status by the June 30 deadline will not immediately lose their rights, which are protected by law. Instead, immigration officials will begin to issue 28-day warnings to those who are eligible for the …
Read More »Five years after the Brexit referendum, we have an imperfect deal from an imperfect PM, but I’m still sure we made the right call
I have to admit that I didn’t think we would win the Brexit referendum. I believed it had come too soon. I had always been convinced that the UK would one day leave the European Union, but I thought it would occur at some point in the 2020s. On the …
Read More »The EU wants to turn off Brit TV, as they’re angry over Brexit. But they’ll be sorry when a Maltese gameshow replaces The Crown
The French have never gotten over it. Not really. We – the English, that is – we won. And they lost. It’s all over. But they’ll NEVER stop whingeing about it. I don’t mean the Battle of Waterloo, where the Duke of Wellington finally knocked out that short-arsed megalomaniac Napoleon …
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