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Nigel Lawson, ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer, recently criticised the UK membership of the EU, the media has covered his mainstream view as if he is a bad boy starting a fight in the school playground, but is he right about the EU? What has changed that makes EU membership a …
Read More »SNP threats over #Brexit are empty
William Hague has recently stated that although he dislikes much about the EU, he will be voting to remain. His arguments amount to the following. He thinks that we have to be in the single market to shape and benefit from it. He thinks that the EU despite its faults helps …
Read More »William Hague is scaremongering over the EU referendum
As the EU Referendum creeps closer don’t be fooled by high profile politicians, such as William Hague, being wheeled out one after another to make a case for staying in the EU. Although unsettling to an uninformed general public, a favourite point being made throughout UK media given his previous Eurosceptic stance, this …
Read More »Tom’s Daily News & Comment- November 8 and 9
This begins a series of Daily News Updates with Comment by Daily Globe Contributor Tom O’Brien News November 9 Comment on today’s news. Corbyn and the Armed Services Jeremy Corbyn is upset that the Chief of Military Staff has entered into ‘politics’ by saying that the Uk bombing Daesh in …
Read More »In Scotland we admire things that don’t work
One of the odd things about political discussion in Scotland is our attitude to the EU. During the Referendum it was accepted by both sides that it would be some sort of disaster if an independent Scotland were not to retain membership of the EU. There was therefore lots of …
Read More »Cameron’s Wrong Demands
Cameron's EU renegotiation demands are timid and ineffectual.
Read More »The Euro is a creating a Powder Keg
Well, the EU machine defeated Greece. Tsipras thought he had “taken it to” the Germans and their Benelux friends in Brussels when the Greek people rejected their bailout terms. Then he came right back on bended knees for more money and accepted an even harsher bailout plan. The undemocratic and …
Read More »Cameron’s chance to be a great Prime Minister
David Cameron has been a very good Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative party. He has taken the party from being entrenched in opposition to being the majority government. He has led a government which has helped bring an economy back from the brink to now leading the G7 …
Read More »EU Proves once again it is the quintessential socialist organisation. Time to let them pay their own bills.
Recently, left wing leaders from Hollande in France, to Miliband in the UK, to Obama in the US have fancied the phrase “fair share”. “The rich must pay their fair share!” So we are told., over and over again…. Well recently the UK has become the “rich man” in the …
Read More »My Open Letter to David Cameron: Valiant effort Dave, but the future is not in Europe.
Dave, you are to be commended. You fought the good fight over Jean-Claude Juncker’s appointment. As Fraser Nelson so articulately points out, the UK now has a Europe strategy, one based on principle and against the toxic reincarnation of Versailles that is Euro politics in the 21st century. But Dave, …
Read More »Understanding Euroscepticism
Recently, I read an interesting “explanation” from the Economist about Eurosceptism. To play what the Economist gets right & what they get wrong (in my humble opinion…it’s of course possible that they are completely right but this article seems the work of a lazy europhile) What the Economist gets RIGHT: …
Read More »A Tale of Two Countries.
2013 was a very good year. Politically, the Tory party took steps in the right direction, ditching the “green crap”, getting tougher on immigration and welfare culture, offering people a choice on EU membership, and giving Thatcher the proper send off of admiration she deserved (I particularly liked the Prime …
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