By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The on-line voting registration system had crashed, EU citizens had wrongly been given polling cards and both sides have predicted the world will end on the 23rd June depending on which box you tick. So unsurprisingly the EU referendum led today’s session. At one stage ...
“Above all, it is criminal to excite anger and discontent without proposing a remedy, or only proposing a false remedy” --- Theodore Roosevelt, How Not to Help Our Poorer Brothers, 1987 Foreigners! Terror! Instability! Economic bombs! Elites! Democracy! Arrest warrants would fill several grand rooms if we were subject to ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor SNP supporters will be overjoyed to find that the Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon has been placed in the top 50 most powerful women in the world. Scotland appears to be flexing its muscles on the world stage and it’s being led by Sturgeon, who ...
The former and current Mayors of London are set to lock horns at Wembley in front of 6,000 people in a live debate on Europe. Labour Mayor Sadiq Kahn will face the former Conservative Mayor Boris Johnson just hours before the country goes to the polls. According to The Standard, ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor Jeremy Corbyn has vowed to bin the EU’s highly controversial free trade deal (TTIP) with America. During an anti-Brexit rally he promised to get rid of the trade deal if he is voted in as PM before it is implemented. He hates the deal so ...
Property prices in Greater London have breached the £600,000 mark for the first time, according to LCP’s Land Registry analysis. The continued upward trajectory for property prices in Greater London has resulted in swelled property prices driven by record lows in mortgage rates and beneficial falls in basic rate Stamp Duty. England ...
JD Wetherspoon founder Tim Martin has weighed in to the EU debate to counter the high-profile intervention of Ryanair's Michael O'Leary, but could run in to trouble with the Electoral Commission. The pub chain is to print 200,000 beer mats to be distributed across all 920 UK pubs which could violate electoral law ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor The EU referendum debate has got totally out of hand, from both sides, and lots of people are caught in the middle, with no idea who to believe. Both sides seem to have a new claim every day, each more far-fetched than the last. Also ...
By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor As the EU referendum comes ever closer the news that annual net migration nearly hit record levels, will leave the “Brexiteers,” rubbing their hands with glee. The statistics, released by the Office for National Statistics, show that annual net migration in Britain rose to 330,000 ...