by John Ward Today’s bigger stories all suggest that the time is right for something or other to happen. It’s just not immediately clear what that might be. Will there be a Brexit deal in the nick of time? Is Philip Hammond out …
Brexit Deal Hangs in the Balance With Monday Deadline in Doubt (Bloomberg) — Brexit talks hang in the balance as negotiators work through the weekend, with neither side confident they will clinch a deal in time to meet a self-imposed …
by GoldCore Brexit To Burst Dublin and London Property Bubbles? – London, Dublin, Sydney, Vancouver and Hong Kong housing prices fall … – Property bubbles in many cities internationally according to ‘Economist’, UBS & others – UBS found that six …
March 29 is the deadline. Urgent action is needed. But it’s not happening. By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. With less than six-and-a-half months to go before the UK’s deadline to leave the EU expires, progress is …
by Martin Armstrong COMMENT: Marty; You are not only the only person to forecast BREXIT, you also said the British Economy would do far better after BREXIT. There was absolutely nobody that agreed with you. I read every bank report …
Mark O’Byrne, Research Director of GoldCore.com considers the growing and unappreciated risks from Brexit to the London property market – Brexit in conjunction with severe price unaffordability, rising interest rates and global economic uncertainty is leading to sharp price falls …
by John Ward The British Fifth Column can calm down: Remexit is coming. The rest of us should start worrying now, because after March 2019 the potential econo-fiscal meltdown on the European mainland will be mixing unpredictably with chaotic political …
via truepublica.org.uk: By TruePublica: It is impossible for anyone who even occasionally visits the news to ignore just how dramatically the world has changed in the last 10 years. The epicentre of the crumbling world order that we have all known was …
via talkingpointsmemo: Trade Secretary Liam Fox told the Sunday Times newspaper that “intransigence” by EU officials “is pushing us towards no deal.” He put the chance of Britain crashing out without a deal at 60 percent. Britain and the EU say …
by John Ward Nearly two years have been wasted playing the Brexit Game according to surreal Brussels rules. In the Autumn of 2016, The Slog predicted precisely where that would lead. Our escape from the European Union can only be assured …
by John Ward Lying was a central feature on all sides of the 2016 EU Referendum in Britain. Lying has played a central part in every General Election there since the Second World War. There will, very probably, be no Brexit …
A high-risk blinking contest no one wants to lose. By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. A messy, no-deal Brexit could throw 48 million insurance contracts and £26 trillion ($34 trillion) of derivatives deals into confusion. Nausicaa Delfas, head …
by John Ward After two days r&r in the Gironde, remarkably little seems to have changed. Fine, Parliament is now in “early recess” (real reasons a little murky) and some pairing arrangements went wrong, seemingly ensuring that we’ll still have a …
Desperate May turns to LABOUR MPs to help force through her ‘stinker’ Brexit trade plan as she faces Tory calls to quit after David Davis resigns – with Boris Johnson ready to pounce Minister in charge of negotiating Brexit resigned …
by John Ward The Prime Minister is deluding herself if she thinks the ‘collective consensus’ of Chequers is any kind of checkmate ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ The BBC (who else?) led the way this morning in the peddling of Orwellian Newspeak about the Cabinet’s …
by John Ward Great historical events, sensational news reporting and genuine scientific advance do not immediately lend themselves to humour. But when those guiding such events are clearly mediocre, when twisted bumboy media owners spin failure into success, and when both …
by John Ward Theresa May is a girl who likes to please. She tries to please the House of Commons, the House of Lords, both wings of the Conservative Party, the EC negotiators in Brussels, and the 17.4 million majority voters …
Potential for ugly consequences, intended or otherwise, is rising. By Don Quijones, Spain, UK, & Mexico, editor at WOLF STREET. Construction and infrastructure giant Ferrovial has announced it is moving its international HQ from the UK to low-tax haven Amsterdam because of Brexit. The …
by John Ward As Brexit winds its way through a number of concentric circles of bitterness and arrogance, there is a tendency now for the British not just to think about something – anything – else, but also to ignore what’s …
by John Ward Labour saw its majority in Lewisham decline by 75% last night. The main transfer of votes was from Tory to LibDem. Jeremy Corbyn has no chance of forming a government with results like that. The dilemma for Conservatives …
by John Ward Tory rebels have pushed Theresa May in the direction of a final Commons say on whatever Brexit “deal” emerges from the UK/EC negotiations, but Leavers deny this. 90 MPs rebelled against Jeremy Corbyn’s Brexit whips yesterday, but nobody …
by John Ward The rise and rise of democratic atrophy ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ Prime Minister’s Questions every week is a TV programme that hardly anyone in the UK watches, because all it shows is that politicians are deaf. The highest rating it ever …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAHDGv62Gss Katie Hopkins joins Alex Jones live via Skype to announce that, in the UK, Parliament voted to honor the wishes of British people who asked to exit the European Union via the Brexit vote.
by John Ward Is push at last coming to shove on the question of ‘real’ Brexit being delivered? Backstop plans to keep all of Ireland in the customs union after Brexit have now morphed into a plan to keep all of the …
By David Stockman John Mauldin: Italy is not Europe’s only problem Messy Politics Fatal Flaws Parallel Currency Market Fireworks The Mutualization of European Debt Staying Close to Home Train wrecks and their financial analogues are a worldwide phenomenon. Europe, as …
by John Ward It does exactly what it says on the tin. “Funny I fort, I fort funny”. From our fake news correspondent Joe Blob ¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ The invasion of the Earth by giant Tampax-wielding scorpions from the Alpha Centauri star …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr2aae6pIuY&feature=youtu.be Soros-backed campaign to push for new Brexit vote within a year
by Thinker The Conservatives are readying for a snap election due to fears that the Brexit deadlock is insurmountable for Theresa May. MPs have been left wondering if a vote of no confidence is on the cards for the UK …
by John Ward All Theresa May needs to do at the moment is hold her nerve and prove the EUnatics wrong. If she continues to water down British independence, she will go down as the Prime Minister who snatched EU defeat …
