Politics
Ten ways in which Theresa May’s Government is failing Brexit voters
The EU referendum and the question of whether we sever ties from union with our neighbouring countries has divided both politics and households. Nothing could persuade many die-hard Europhiles that remaining in the EU might be a better option for the UK. Britain Thinks found 37 per cent of Leave voters are 'Die-hards' who want out of the EU at any cost. However, this implies that 63 per cent of the 17.4m, like myself, who voted to leave the EU (16.1m voted...
Could Remain areas be given special measures on Brexit?
A deal on the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic has thrown up the possibility that Remain areas could be given special measures on Brexit. According to a draft text seen by RTE News there will be no “regulatory divergence” on the island of Ireland following the EU divorce, which means parts of Britain could get special dispensation. Nicola Sturgeon and Sadiq Khan are leading calls for other parts of the UK to be given special measures such as remaining part of...
UK concedes on “regulatory divergence” – Uniting Ireland and putting hard border on mainland
The UK will concede that there will be no "regulatory divergence" on the island of Ireland, according to a draft text seen by RTE News. Late last week Ireland’s deputy prime minister and foreign minister said he had been in talks with Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist party on the subject, saying a Brexit deal on the Irish border question is “doable”. The government repeated its demand for an assurance from the UK that there would not be any regulatory divergence between Northern...
Brexit UK faces sluggish growth as global economy is “firing on all cylinders”
There has been a stark warning from Britain’s largest business group about the future of the UK economy. The CBI has said that the UK will face a sluggish period of growth at the same time the global economy will enter a strong and positive economic outlook. The Eurozone will also benefit from a good period of growth. The UK’s GDP is likely to rise 1.5 per cent in 2017 and 2018 and then slowing to 1.3 per cent in...
700,000 more kids and OAPs plunged into poverty in 4 years
Hundreds of thousands more children and pensioners have been plunged into poverty over the last four years. A devastating report has today revealed some 400,000 more youngsters and 300,000 more elderly people are now living in poverty compared to 2012/13. The results track the period in which the Conservative's austerity cuts were implemented, highlighting the ruinous impact they have had on British society. Joseph Rowntree Foundation chief executive Campbell Robb said: “These worrying figures suggest that we are at a turning...
Poll puts Labour way ahead of Tories
Survation the most accurate pollster of the General Election in 2017 has indicated that Labour’s lead over the Tories is growing. This will strike fear into the Conservative Party, who are struggling to get to grips with Brexit and have been mired in a number of recent scandals. The poll reads as followed Labour 45 % (+1) Conservatives 37 % (-1) LibDem 6% (-1) UKIP 4 % (-) Green 1% (-) With pressure increasing on Theresa May on a daily...
Donald Trump just edged closer than ever to impeachment with one tweet
In an astonishingly stupid tweet - even for Donald Trump - the US president tweeted today that he "had to fire General Flynn because he lied to the Vice President and the FBI." https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/937007006526959618 It wasn't long before people started pointing out that Trump's tweet technically meant that the President just confessed to obstruction of justice. Soon after firing his national security adviser Michael Flynn, the President had told James Comey, then the head of the FBI to back off...
Entire Social Mobility Commission board resigns as ‘little hope of a fairer Britain’
Breaking News: All four members of the board of the government's Social Mobility Commission have stood down in protest at the lack of progress towards a "fairer Britain". All four board members of the government’s Social Mobility Commission have resigned Chair Alan Milburn said Theresa May’s government had betrayed Brexit voters. The Ex Labour Minister said there is “little hope” that the “necessary” progress would be made. The government are paying no attention to social mobility as Brexit their only...
Jeremy Corbyn to Morgan Stanley bank: “You’re right, we are a threat – to a damaging and failed system that’s rigged for the few.”
With the dust yet to settle on the 2017 General Election the banks are already running scared at the prospect of Jeremy Corbyn becoming the next Prime Minister. Following comments from a Goldman Sachs banker that Britain would be like "Cuba without the sunshine" under the Labour leader a strategist at Morgan Stanley has claimed Corbyn is a "bigger risk than Brexit" to Britain's slowing economy. The comments were made in the bank's annual outlook for the European stock markets, which...