Tag Archives: People’s Vote

Brexit: Till we get the healing done

Posted on September 25, 2019 by wonkypolicywonk

So, as Jim Pickard of the Financial Times noted on Twitter yesterday, Jeremy Corbyn “has worked out what would heal the divided nation, and it’s a [second] referendum on EU membership”. Yep, in his speech to the Labour Party conference in … Continue reading →

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Brexit: Do Johnson, Gove & Cummings have a cunning plan?

Posted on August 7, 2019 by wonkypolicywonk

Do Johnson, Gove & Cummings have a cunning plan? Honestly mate, I haven’t got a fucking clue. No one has. Maybe not even them. No, it’s a mug’s game making predictions about what may happen between now and Halloween – … Continue reading →

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Brexit: a progress report to the EU27

Posted on June 7, 2019 by wonkypolicywonk

Back in April, when the EU27 agreed to grant the UK another six and a bit months to decide what Brexit means, they wisely thought it prudent to use their regular Council meeting on 20-21 June to take a rain-check … Continue reading →

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Brexit: Remainers have a credibility problem

Posted on May 29, 2019 by wonkypolicywonk

Earlier this week, while walking the stage of the Thames Path from Windsor to Marlow, my bestie Jane and I trudged through Maidenhead, the constituency of our soon-to-be-former Prime Minister. We didn’t see Theresa May, but we did agree that Maidenhead … Continue reading →

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Brexit: the People’s Dilemma

Posted on May 15, 2019 by wonkypolicywonk

So, MPs are busy piddling away another four days of the precious little time they have left to at least get started on ‘sorting’ Brexit before the EU27 take a rain-check on the Hallowe’en Article 50 extension at their Council meeting … Continue reading →

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Brexit: d’Hondt leave me this way

Posted on April 30, 2019 by wonkypolicywonk

A couple of weeks ago, while walking the section of the Thames Path from Chertsey to Windsor, my bestie Jane and I found ourselves gazing towards Windsor Castle across the playing fields of Eton. The playing fields on which, according … Continue reading →

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From here to Brexternity

Posted on January 24, 2019 by wonkypolicywonk

So, we’ve had one Meaningful Vote, and next Tuesday we will have another. Which begs the question: How many bloody Meaningful Votes do there have to be before anything meaningful happens? Because Theresa May’s defeat in what future historians will … Continue reading →

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Brexit: WHEN will it all end? HOW will it all end?

Posted on January 3, 2019 by wonkypolicywonk

So, the xmas break is over, and in Parliament the Brexit bullshit is about to start all over again – with knobs on. For my sins, I work in Parliament and, if I had a penny for everyone who asked … Continue reading →

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Brexit: Nothing has changed!

Posted on October 23, 2018 by wonkypolicywonk

Another Monday, another oral ministerial statement to MPs on progress (or not) in the Brexit negotiations. Two weeks ago, following the somewhat less than triumphant informal EU summit in Salzburg, the Secretary of State for Exiting the EU, Dominic Raab, … Continue reading →

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Love is blind, and so is Brexit

Posted on August 9, 2018 by wonkypolicywonk

“Love is blind, and lovers cannot see”, says Jessica, daughter of Shylock, in The Merchant of Venice. And, while we can only guess what Shakespeare would have made of the tragicomical farce that is Brexit, with its unappealing cast of … Continue reading →

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