Daily Archives: 5. April 2019
These #EuropeanElections are a de facto second referendum. The British people need to go to the ballot box on the 22nd of May and TELL THEM AGAIN that the British people will not be BULLIED into remaining. We need to SEND THEM A MESSAGE that we are leaving deal or no deal.
„Politische Freunde“: Obama bei Merkel im Kanzleramt
Regierungssprecher Steffen Seibert sagte, es handelte sich um einen vertraulichen Termin. Die Kanzlerin empfange den früheren US-Präsidenten zu einem Gespräch – wie es immer wieder vorkomme, dass sie mit früheren Präsidenten und Regierungschefs, „mit denen sie eine Strecke lang eng und gut zusammengearbeitet hat, auch durchaus nach deren Zeit noch einmal zusammentrifft“.
Brexit: Angela Merkel compares Irish border question to Iron Curtain
Speaking alongside the chancellor, Leo Varadkar, the Irish prime minister, said he knew of only three ways to prevent a hard border from re-emerging: Britain staying in the EU, it adopting a soft Norway-plus Brexit or ratifying the withdrawal agreement.
Asked whether she thought a hard border could be avoided, Ms Merkel said: “Where there’s a will, there’s a way”.
A Very Real British Coup Why Britain is no longer a democracy
In Chris Mullin’s 1982 novel A Very British Coup, left wing Labour prime minster Harry Perkins and Member of Parliament for Sheffield, is overthrown by a conspiracy of spooks, capitalists and media moguls. For many of us in the UK it feels like we are living through a coup ourselves. Except it is not one executed by a secret state against an elected government, rather it is one conducted by a government against its own electorate. And at the heart of the conspiracy is a Labour Party which is apparently left wing from top to bottom. Its role in this, the anti-Brexit coup, has been a canny one.
‚…the temperament inside the Remain camp has become hysterical and fascistic… and parliament is duplicitously refusing to implement Brexit. Britain has ceased to be a functioning democracy, ‚ says AFB‘s @michael1crowley in his latest vital article.
Communists condemn ‚saboteur‘ MPs and demand April 12 EU exit
Monday evening‘s votes in the House of Commons confirm that a substantial number of MPs remain determined to bind Britain as closely as possible to the EU and its rules and institutions if they cannot stop Brexit altogether.
These MPs show utter contempt for the EU referendum result – the biggest democratic vote in our history – and make a mockery of their past pledges to ‚honour‘ the decision made by a clear majority of voters.
In years to come, lips will curl at the very name of treacherous Theresa who has surrendered our freedom
When Mohandas Gandhi won independence for India in 1947 he was called the Mahatma, which means „Great Soul“. In 1980 Lech Walesa, an electrician at the Lenin Shipyards in Gdansk, put down his tool box and led fellow workers in overthrowing their Soviet rulers.
Brexit news – LIVE: Tory MP says Theresa May ‚in a bunker‘ amid anger over extension, as EU castigates Rees-Mogg after tweet
Brexiteer Mark Francois and ERG member says on the BBC that Theresa May‘s letter to Brussels is a „mistake“ and says the UK should leave the European Union, without a deal.
„She [Ms May] has completely ignored her own cabinet which is unconstitutional and she‘s gone and done it anyway. Her deal will never pass the House of Commons, it‘s been voted down three times – the speaker may not even allow it to come back.
„I‘m afraid the PM is in a sort of bunker here and is not listening to her own MPs, her own party members, or indeed her own cabinet and that is dangerous for the future of the country.“
Brexiteers must now ‚go nuclear‘ to force no-deal, or face political annihilation
There will be no second chances if we fail to leave on April 12.
The dam has burst.
Newport West’s by-election suggests Labour could struggle in a snap election
Ruth Jones (Labour):
Votes: 9,308
per cent (change on 2017): 39.6 (-12.7)
Matthew Evans (Conservative):
Votes: 7,357
per cent (change on 2017): 31.3 (-8.0)
Neil Hamilton (UKIP):
Votes: 2,023
per cent (change on 2017): 8.6 (+6.1)
Why does the Left sneer at the traditional working class? Labour alienates this integral element at its peril
When some on the Left argue that the term ‘traditional working-class’ is obscure or divisive or racist and should therefore be ditched, what they are really demonstrating, unintentionally, is their own hidden contempt for this group. They would rather it didn’t exist at all in the form it does.
They think its members are ‘nativist’ and reactionary and – God forbid – voted to leave the European Union. Because, you see, the group-thinkers and virtue-signallers and woke liberals and quasi-Marxists and echo-chamber-dwellers who comprise so much of the modern Left believe themselves to be Inherently Better People than those of us from the more traditional Left.
This is an exciting moment. We have arrived at a tipping point. The splits affecting the Conservatives and Labour have become so significant they begin to fall apart. This process had already begun.
Nigel Farage: ‚I‘ll stand in European elections – but I‘m not happy about it‘
„Am I happy about it? No I‘m not – actually I‘ve got many other things in my life I‘d like to do, I thought we‘d won the Brexit battle but I‘m not going to after 25 years of endeavour watch British politicians roll us over.
„This is the fightback and they‘re going to be very surprised by what they get.“
If a long extension leaves us stuck in the EU we should be as difficult as possible. We could veto any increase in the budget, obstruct the putative EU army and block Mr Macron’s integrationist schemes.
BREXTORTION: Theresa May begs Brussels to delay Brexit to June 30 – but EU want it to be a YEAR
But furious Brexiteers warned that if the EU forces us to stay another year, Britain should sabotage it from the inside by blocking plans for expansion.
Mrs May is expected to write separately to Jeremy Corbyn today, offering a compromise agreement which both party leaders could push through the Commons.
60 Words And A War Without End: The Untold Story Of The Most Dangerous Sentence In U.S. History
(17.1.2014)
Written in the frenzied, emotional days after 9/11, the Authorization for the Use of Military Force was intended to give President Bush the ability to retaliate against whoever orchestrated the attacks. But more than 12 years later, this sentence remains the primary legal justification for nearly every covert operation around the world. Here‘s how it came to be, and what it‘s since come to mean.
If Congress was serious about passing an anti-war bill they would ditch the AUMF but they do not at all. The only reason they did this Yemen thing is because the Saudis were are proxies in that war and the Saudis botched the whole war and our govt wants to wash our hands of it.
(4.4.2019)
I can’t support legislation that endorses an expansion of the 2001 AUMF and continued intelligence sharing with the Saudis with respect to Yemen operations. Many of my colleagues share these concerns and hope it will be changed in the Senate. I’m skeptical, but I hope so, too.
(14.2.2019)
Yemen: House votes to end US support for Saudi-led war – setting way for congressional showdown with Trump
The resolution, a version of which was passed last month by the Senate, now goes to the president’s desk. The White House says the measure raises “serious constitutional concerns” and Mr Trump is expected to reject it.
At that point, it will be up to congressional leaders to determine whether they have the two-thirds majority in both chambers to overturn the president’s veto.
House Votes to End US Military Involvement in Yemen War
This is the second House vote on the War Powers challenge in 2019. The previous vote was derailed by an amendment on anti-Semitism, which forced the Senate to start over, and the House to then adopt the Senate’s language, as they did in this vote.
Remaining Lords stages of the #EUWithdrawal5Bill are expected to take place on Monday 8 April (5/6)
Brexit delay law will not complete House of Lords stages on Thursday -Labour
Labour Lords said on Twitter that, following internal discussions, the bill would pass the initial stages on Thursday with the remaining stages taking place on Monday.
#ProtectJulian There are spare tents set up for anyone wishing to do a shift in the 24/7 Embassy Vigil Watch to #ProtectJulian from Embassy Expulsion. There is a very real fear of a covert @CIA rendition raid if no-one is watching/livestreaming. Please retweet/share widely
WikiLeaks reports that Julian Assange is on the verge of being expelled from the Ecuadorean Embassy in London. Please fill the street outside the embassy and protect him, and show solidarity with a courageous man, whose struggle ought to touch us all.
May to ask EU for Brexit delay TODAY: PM requests ‚long‘ extension to Article 50 to prevent No Deal next week in letter to Tusk – but wants get-out clause to go on May 22 if she can do deal with Corbyn
– Theresa May will write to EU Council President Donald Tusk to request extension to Article 50 beyond April 12
– Prime Minister wants ‚termination clause‘ to leave EU on May 22, day before European elections if deal passes
– AG Geoffrey Cox we need to use ‚any means to secure an ends‘ and cross-party talks are vital for securing deal
Sky’s FrEUdian Slip
Sky News was mistakenly accurate today when it described Leo Varadkar as ‘Angela Merkel’s Prime Minister’. A handy reminder of where EU power really lies…