Tag: Brexit

• David Cameron: the long-lasting toxic waste in Britain’s politics

  In the early 1950s, the Hooker Chemical Company was looking for a place to dump a variety of excitingly toxic chemical wastes, and settled upon a disused canal in Niagara Falls, NY called the Love Canal, which it promptly filled up with a touch under 20,000 tons of wastes and capped off with impermeable clay […]

  Bloonface

  January 22, 2021

  Politics

  Austerity, Brexit, Conservative Party, COVID, David Cameron, Politics, UK politics

• Government of notional utility

  Has everyone gone absolutely mad? Seriously? This is the new big idea, is it? A “government of national unity”? A temporary, caretaker Prime Minister to extend, or even revoke Article 50? This is what we’re going with now? Was the second referendum that was quite obviously never going to happen not implausible enough? The Brexit […]

  Bloonface

  August 15, 2019

  Politics

  Brexit, Centrism, FBPE, Jeremy Corbyn, Jo Swinson Britain's Next Prime Minister, Labour Party, Liberal Democrats, Politics, Stupidity, UK politics

• Performative remainerism

  I’m neither surprised or shocked that the People’s Vote campaign, which aims to secure a second referendum on whatever deal Theresa May can rustle up in concert with the EU, has another completely unproductive idea for getting this; a protest march. Protest marches, obviously, are incredibly good mechanisms for obtaining change, particularly when it comes […]

  Bloonface

  May 10, 2018

  Politics

  Brexit, Centrism, Jeremy Corbyn, Labour Party, Politics, Stupidity, UK politics