Like the paranoid conspiracists who see black helicopters and men in dark suits talking up their sleeves everywhere, the hardened adherents to the Cult of Remain just cannot help but believe that everything is still about Brexit. So much so, that the £120 million Festival UK 2022 scheduled for next …
Read More »As Brexit begins to bite, BoJo dodges the bullets because of the vaccine rollout. He’s the luckiest PM ever
The news emerged on Friday that Britain’s exports to the European Union have dropped by 40 percent following the ratification of the Brexit deal at the start of the year. Imports from Europe have taken a hammering, too. For most critics of the UK’s departure from the bloc, this will …
Read More »Rising tensions in Northern Ireland stem from Brexit, not the Protocol, Dublin says as UK blames EU vaccine control plan
“What is causing all of this tension is Brexit, not the [Northern Ireland] Protocol, the Protocol is an attempt to try to reduce tension and solve problems linked to Brexit,” Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney told BBC Radio on Wednesday. “The Protocol essentially is an Irish and British and EU …
Read More »The UK is finally checking visitors for Covid. But why has border-obsessed Brexit Britain been open to disease for so long?
So, the UK is placing restrictions on people coming into the country. From next week, at some point, probably, though it might change its mind, the government will require visitors to have had a negative Covid test less than 72 hours prior to arrival. Yep, almost a year to the …
Read More »Britain is ‘gung ho’ about its role in post-Brexit world, UN envoy says
In an interview with the Associated Press, Woodward said the British government is feeling “gung ho” about preserving its economic and political position on the world stage, despite potential diplomatic setbacks created by its withdrawal from the bloc. She argued that it was wrong to “underestimate” the UK’s relationship with …
Read More »The campaign to reverse Brexit’s begun already? Oh stop, please, 70 years of interminable wrangling over Europe has been enough…
Poor Michael Corleone in The Godfather Part III, he tried his best to get his family out of the mafia but they just wouldn’t let him go. Same, it seems, so far in this very young year, with Britain and the EU. The ink isn’t even dry on the ‘divorce’ …
Read More »Now that, after years of painstaking negotiations and political turmoil, Brexit’s really a done deal, here’s what happens next
The path from that referendum to actually withdrawing from the EU has not been smooth, including the resignation of not one but two Tory prime ministers, plus years of negotiations with Brussels about the ongoing relationship of the 27-member bloc and the UK. Despite multiple missed deadlines and proclamations by …
Read More »Less than a week after BoJo’s Brexit deal, is the UK starting to break up already?
The ink is barely dry on the Brexit deal and reality has bitten. Long tailbacks of lorries have been waiting to cross The Channel, due to increased checks. British qualifications will no longer be automatically recognised across the European Union. And British police forces have lost access to the Schengen Information …
Read More »British pound hits 2-year high after historic post-Brexit trade deal with EU
Sterling rose more than 0.8 percent, to around $1.3560, after the agreement was announced. It also climbed against the euro to just above €1.11. Earlier this month, the currency breached a 2020 high of $1.3624, a level it hadn’t reached since May 2018. The FTSE 100 also finished the day …
Read More »Both Britain & EU say post-Brexit agreement is a great deal! Now Scotland, Ireland and Wales want in on the action
After nearly a year of contentious negotiations, the two parties produced a 2,000 page document which, at least for the time being, has garnered positive reviews on both sides of the Channel. While British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has perhaps been most vocal about his endorsement of the agreement, EU …
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