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Brexit: Boris Johnson moves to scrap environment safeguards to get deal with Trump
When Boris Johnson used his first three speeches as UK Prime Minister to flag up his desire to “liberate” GMOs as part of Brexit, we warned that this meant his priority was doing a trade deal with Donald Trump at any cost. Johnson, we said, was “simply dancing, puppet-like, to Trump’s tune”. Continue reading
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The truth about Brexit medicine shortages
Last week, TruePublica published an article entitled – The list of Medicines affected by no-deal Brexit, which was read by over 40,000 readers in 24 hours. We decided not to make an issue of the story and simply published the most comprehensive list of medicines either in short supply, expected to be in short supply… Continue reading
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Corbyn holds pro-Remain party discussions over leading “caretaker” administration or stepping aside to allow “government of national unity”
Labour’s Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell yesterday publicly opposed plans for a “government of national unity” and insisted on Jeremy Corbyn’s right to head a “caretaker government” to prevent a no-deal Brexit. Continue reading
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Accusations that disaster capitalists are piling the pressure on Johnson to pursue no-deal Brexit
30 September 2019 — True Publica By TruePublica Editor: “For the first time in 35 years, I am not packing my bag to travel to the Tory party conference tomorrow. The party I joined as a student and first campaigned for in the 1979 general election is suffering a convulsion that makes it — for Continue reading
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Bojo/Brexit News Links 29 September 2019
29 September2019 • 20:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back No 10 denies Boris Johnson ‘thigh squeeze’ claim PM ‘model of restraint’ amid Parliament language row https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49868344 Johnson can promise the world, but Corbyn nails why we ‘can’t Continue reading
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Bojo/Brexit News Links 25 September 2019
25 September 2019 • 23:15 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Corbyn cuts through the Brexit chaos and media noise during BBC interview Britain: political crisis deepens as Supreme Court intervenes http://www.marxist.com/britain-political-crisis-deepens-as-supreme-court-intervenes.htm Continue reading
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Johnson Enters Neo-Con Heaven By Craig Murray
There has been remarkably little media commentary on the effect of the UK leaving the EU Common Foreign Policy, even though this is a major aim of Johnson, Gove and the Tory Brexiteers. The media appear not to have noticed the existence of the Common Foreign Policy. We saw perhaps the first public glimpse of… Continue reading
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UK Supreme Court rules Johnson’s prorogation of Parliament illegal
British politics entered uncharted waters yesterday as the Supreme Court—the UK’s highest judicial body—declared illegal Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s authoritarian prorogation of parliament. Far from resolving the crisis over Brexit, the ruling has set in motion what one political commentator described as a “constitutional earthquake.” Continue reading
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The Supreme Court, Proroguing & Dangerous Precedents Remainers celebrating the ruling need to consider the greater implications of a judiciary that enforces policy, not law
The Supreme Court has ruled against Boris Johnson’s proroguing of Parliament. Because of course they did, because they were always going to. Continue reading
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Prorogation: Judicial Blowback
The Tory government, under both May and Johnson, has made plain its contempt for the rule of law repeatedly, and not only over the prorogation of parliament. In the last few days we have seen the Tories admit to illegal sales of arms to Saudi Arabia, in direct breach of a ruling by the Court… Continue reading
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Factional warfare over Brexit dominates Labour Party conference
A series of opportunist manoeuvres by party leader Jeremy Corbyn have failed to stop the descent of Labour’s annual conference into bitter conflict over its policy on Brexit. Continue reading
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Corbyn tries to unite Labour Party to solve Brexit crisis for ruling class By Thomas Scripps
At least 81 motions have been submitted by local branches calling on the party to pledge itself to campaign for the UK’s continued membership of the European Union (EU). Deputy Labour leader Tom Watson and Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer have repeatedly declared in the last weeks that “Labour is the party of remain” and… Continue reading
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Something interesting about Rees-Mogg and a broken oath
We in the UK are on the verge of embracing, if only through resignation, disbelief, tabloid pugilism and sheer damn tiredness, a new variant of despotism. One that will be policed and lubricated by state surveillance if it succeeds – a danger that Paul Mason set out in the Guardian. The comic photo-opportunities of Prime… Continue reading
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Brexit News Links 19 September 2019
19 September 2019 • 15:00 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back Piers Morgan leapt in to defend Laura Kuenssberg. It didn’t end well The European Union And The Euroscepticism (I) https://orientalreview.org/2019/09/19/the-european-union-and-the-euroscepticism-i/ Continue reading
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What is at stake in the British Supreme Court’s ruling on the proroguing of Parliament? By Thomas Scripps
On Tuesday, the UK’s Supreme Court began its hearing into the legality of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s proroguing of parliament for five weeks from September 10. A ruling is expected by Friday or early next week. Continue reading
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Brexit News Links 17 September 2019
17 September 2019 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back ‘Alternative Arrangements’ to the Backstop Won’t Work, and the Government Is Beginning to Realise It Nations Unhappily Held Together Continue reading
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Boris Johnson gets short shrift from European Union leaders in Brexit talks By Richard Tyler
Boris Johnson’s first visit to meet senior European Union (EU) figures since he took power in July ended with the UK prime minister sent packing without receiving any concessions on Brexit. Continue reading
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Brexit/Bojo News Links 16 September 2019
16 September 2019 • 22:20 — The New Dark Age There may be some duplication due to cross-posting and may be updated throughout the day, so check back ‘World order based on empires’: EU’s Verhofstadt ridiculed online for bizarre ‘Vote Leave’ rhetoric Boris Johnson says EU has had ‘bellyful’ of Brexit process https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49715705 Continue reading
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As David Cameron resurfaces ‘Broken Britain’ disintegrates
By TruePublica: David Cameron has no shame whatsoever. He has, cynically, come out of hiding – simply to promote his new book and make some money from an ongoing catastrophe of his making. For the last three years he hid from the political landscape he set fire to and finally pops up to say that… Continue reading
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The Brexit crisis and the struggle for the unity and political independence of the working class By Thomas Scripps
Britain’s Supreme Court will begin its hearing Tuesday into whether Conservative Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s proroguing of parliament is unlawful. Continue reading
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