Host Isaac Anderson talks with Andrew Rosindell, MP for Romford in the UK House of Commons, and Vice-Chair of the CANZUK All Party Parliamentary Group on the promise of CANZUK and greater Commonwealth engagement, the value of positive national identities, and personal reflections on people and places in Canada. Later, …
Read More »Movement of Goods after a No Deal Brexit
UK ports imported 248m tonnes of produce and exported 138m tonnes in 2017. (See UK Port Freight Statistics 2017). Click to enlarge. Dover was responsible for only 26m tonnes of the total 386m tonnes of international freight transported in 2017. Top 10 major ports + All other tonnage Dover moved 15.5m …
Read More »What the UK’s response to the EU’s Article 50 letter should be
At first listen, the tone and words used by Donald Tusk, European Council President, seem helpful and conciliatory but listen again. The EU response to Britain’s triggering of Article 50 is a poisoned chalice. There are three main strands to this response. Firstly, the EU seeks a ‘divorce settlement’. The …
Read More »Gibraltar: Earth, Air, Water and Spanish Fire
Many will have become aware of renewed Spanish aggression towards the people of Gibraltar over the past few years due to news coverage of raising tensions between the British and Spanish governments. In an interview with journalists, Spanish Foreign Minister José García-Margallo declared that previous ministries had been “soft” on …
Read More »The Daily Globe #Brexit Manifesto
Winning the referendum was one of the greatest experiences of my life. I’ve been fighting for Brexit for a long time and winning was one the grandest of satisfactions. I see fantastic opportunities for the post-Brexit United Kingdom. However, before those Brexit opportunities are realised we need to address the …
Read More »Gibraltar is British.
Recently, Spain has been making a lot of noise about Gibraltar. The Spanish saw the noise Christina Fernandez de Kirchner aka Plastic Surgery Zilla and thought “hey why not use her tactics of making noise about nothing and distract our people over our dreadful economy?” Spain’s actions, like Argentina’s over …
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