Who let the dogs out? Brexit
- September 12, 2016
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- Matt
More than two months after the Brexit referendum, the surge in hate crime and racism unleashed by the referendum shows no sign of abating, and the politicians who did so much to help bring it about continue to deny any responsibility for it. Farage has done this on various occasions, and now MEP and arch-Brexiter Daniel Hannan has joined the dismal chorus.
Asked by Dermot Murnaghan on Sky News whether he felt there had been ‘an increase in hate crimes involving foreign nationals in the UK’, Hannan denied that any such increase...
Boris Johnson’s Big Day Out
- July 23, 2016
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- Matt
Politically speaking, schadenfreude tends to be a consolatory emotion, whose pleasures are generally ephemeral and sharpened by defeat. Even so, the humiliation of Boris John last week was worth the price of admission. I’m referring, of course, to the car crash press conference in which Johnson appeared alongside John Kerry and found himself...
Mayday! Mayday!
- July 15, 2016
- by
- Matt
I’ve just returned to Brexitland after a week in the Aragonese Pyrenees with my daughter. During that time we continued to follow the tumultuous events that have convulsed our tormented island: Chilcot; the PLP’s viciously inept coup; the rapid extinction of the wretched Andrea Leadsom and the coronation of Theresa May; the ongoing racism coursing...
Labour Plotters: Stop your Sobbing
- June 30, 2016
- by
- Matt
I’m sorry to hear that some of the MPs who have turned on Jeremy Corbyn these last few days have been crying. Angela Eagle looks weepy every time she appears on tele, and now Margaret Beckett has cried on air It’s sad, but then there has been a lot of sadness and tears...
Taking Our Country Back: Brexit and the Seeds of Hate
- June 27, 2016
- by
- Matt
There was a time, in the country that so many Brexit voters would like to take ‘back’, when it was commonplace to have signs in the windows of rented accommodation that read ‘no dogs, no Blacks, no Irish. ‘ We have spent decades moving away from the society where such discrimination was semi-respectable; ...
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