It won't make any difference. Even if Ireland votes against the FU Treaty, it’ll be imposed anyway. It’s what happened when the country voted against Nice in 2001, and against Lisbon in 2008. Brussels won’t take ‘No’ for an answer. This time, Eurocrats won’t even need to demand a rerun (‘go away and try again, [...]
Subscribe and save 38 Search Home Blog Opinion Articles Campaigns Life History Subscribe Shop Follow us on twitter Home Blog Blog Email a Friend Email this article to a friend Your email : Friend's email : Send Twitter Facebook RSS Email a Friend RSS RSS RSS Portcullis House fig trees will go by Amber Elliott 28 Feb 2012 14:48 The rented fig trees are going in September if you give a fig Getty Images Related Articles Labour's naughty boys' want Bercow's attention by Amber Elliott 15 February 2012 On higher education , confusion reigns by Martin Shapland 24 January 2012 Labour is being gentle on benefits cap by Amber Elliott 23 January 2012 Tom Watson on phone hacking and stepping down by Oliver Wiseman 19 January 2012 Cameron used the veto to keep us in the EU by Darren Ennis 13 DecemberSubscribe and save 38 Search Home Blog Opinion Articles Campaigns Life History Subscribe Shop Follow us on twitter Home Blog Blog Email a Friend Email this article to a friend Your email : Friend's email : Send Twitter Facebook RSS Email a Friend RSS RSS RSS Portcullis House fig trees will go by Amber Elliott 28 Feb 2012 14:48 The rented fig trees are going in September if you give a fig Getty Images Related Articles Labour's naughty boys' want Bercow's attention by Amber Elliott 15 February 2012 On higher education , confusion reigns by Martin Shapland 24 January 2012 Labour is being gentle on benefits cap by Amber Elliott 23 January 2012 Tom Watson on phone hacking and stepping down by Oliver Wiseman 19 January 2012 Cameron used the veto to keep us in the EU by Darren Ennis 13 DecemberSubscribe and save 38 Search Home Blog Opinion Articles Campaigns Life History Subscribe Shop Follow us on twitter Home Blog Blog Email a Friend Email this article to a friend Your email : Friend's email : Send Twitter Facebook RSS Email a Friend RSS RSS RSS The unionists' tough choice on the anti-independence campaign by Caroline Crampton 28 Feb 2012 14:02 Cross-party talks have begun in Scotland about the pro-unionist campaign , but how united are they Related Articles Darling : I don't need to be a frontbencher to get on TV by Amber Elliott 27 February 2012 We should all be worried about the Sun journos' arrest by Dan Hodges 13 February 2012 Women and politics : class and construct by Sadie Smith 30 January 2012 A long-overdue PMQs success for Ed Miliband by Caroline Crampton 25 JanuarySubscribe and save 38 Search Home Blog Opinion Articles Campaigns Life History Subscribe Shop Follow us on twitter Home Blog Blog Email a Friend Email this article to a friend Your email : Friend's email : Send Twitter Facebook RSS Email a Friend RSS RSS RSS The unionists' tough choice on the anti-independence campaign by Caroline Crampton 28 Feb 2012 14:02 Cross-party talks have begun in Scotland about the pro-unionist campaign , but how united are they Related Articles Darling : I don't need to be a frontbencher to get on TV by Amber Elliott 27 February 2012 We should all be worried about the Sun journos' arrest by Dan Hodges 13 February 2012 Women and politics : class and construct by Sadie Smith 30 January 2012 A long-overdue PMQs success for Ed Miliband by Caroline Crampton 25 January
The United Kingdom joined the EEC on a false premise. In 1972, most British people believed that they were trading sovereignty for prosperity: in exchange for ceding a limited degree of democratic self-rule, they'd be joining a large and prosperous market. Does anyone still believe in that equation today? With every week that passes, it [...]Subscribe and save 38 Search Home Blog Opinion Articles Campaigns Life History Subscribe Shop Follow us on twitter Home Blog Blog Email a Friend Email this article to a friend Your email : Friend's email : Send Twitter Facebook RSS Email a Friend RSS RSS RSS New Lib Dem tactics over health bill by Amber Elliott 28 Feb 2012 00:00 Timing is everything , and with the Lib Dem spring conference one week away , what should we read into Nick Clegg's new hardball' approach Getty Images Related Articles Nick Clegg's NHS letter is a hit with Lib Dems by Ben Duckworth 27 February 2012 Conservative PPS : Lords reform should be at the bottom of our priorities right now' by Caroline Crampton 27 February 2012 David Miliband launches lecture series by Amber Elliott 13 February 2012 Lords reform threatensSubscribe and save 38 Search Home Blog Opinion Articles Campaigns Life History Subscribe Shop Follow us on twitter Home Blog Blog Email a Friend Email this article to a friend Your email : Friend's email : Send Twitter Facebook RSS Email a Friend RSS RSS RSS New Lib Dem tactics over health bill by Amber Elliott 28 Feb 2012 00:00 Timing is everything , and with the Lib Dem spring conference one week away , what should we read into Nick Clegg's new hardball' approach Getty Images Related Articles Nick Clegg's NHS letter is a hit with Lib Dems by Ben Duckworth 27 February 2012 Conservative PPS : Lords reform should be at the bottom of our priorities right now' by Caroline Crampton 27 February 2012 David Miliband launches lecture series by Amber Elliott 13 February 2012 Lords reform threatensSubscribe and save 38 Search Home Blog Opinion Articles Campaigns Life History Subscribe Shop Follow us on twitter Home Blog Blog Email a Friend Email this article to a friend Your email : Friend's email : Send Twitter Facebook RSS Email a Friend RSS RSS RSS Nick Clegg's NHS letter is a hit with Lib Dems by Ben Duckworth 27 Feb 2012 16:17 Persuading Shirley Williams onboard proves a popular move for the Lib Dem leader Getty Images Related Articles New Lib Dem tactics over health bill by Amber Elliott 28 February 2012 The agenda 28 February 2012 Diversity still divisive for the Lib Dems by Charlotte Henry 17 February 2012 David Miliband launches lecture series by Amber Elliott 13 February 2012 The rise of Liberal factionalism by Martin Shapland 13 February 2012 Dickens' classics for cabinetSubscribe and save 38 Search Home Blog Opinion Articles Campaigns Life History Subscribe Shop Follow us on twitter Home Blog Blog Email a Friend Email this article to a friend Your email : Friend's email : Send Twitter Facebook RSS Email a Friend RSS RSS RSS Nick Clegg's NHS letter is a hit with Lib Dems by Ben Duckworth 27 Feb 2012 16:17 Persuading Shirley Williams onboard proves a popular move for the Lib Dem leader Getty Images Related Articles New Lib Dem tactics over health bill by Amber Elliott 28 February 2012 The agenda 28 February 2012 Diversity still divisive for the Lib Dems by Charlotte Henry 17 February 2012 David Miliband launches lecture series by Amber Elliott 13 February 2012 The rise of Liberal factionalism by Martin Shapland 13 February 2012 Dickens' classics for cabinet
In a press conference on Saturday, Kevin Rudd, who has resigned as foreign minister to challenge his boss, Julia Gillard, said something revealing. 'The job of the Australian government', he pronounced, 'is to keep Tony Abbott out'. Really? That's the primary purpose of the state machine of the Commonwealth of Australia? Not to run the [...]
In their hearts, most Labour MPs know that they can't win under their present leader. Winning, though, is never the sole consideration. Electoral calculations are compromised by personal rivalries and ambitions. Plenty of MPs would rather be a spokesman under X in opposition than a backbencher under Y in government. Loyalists try to tell themselves [...]
How, readers ask, can I be against the European Union but in favour of the United Kingdom? The short answer is that I support referendums both on issues. Yeah, persist some of the English separatists who comment on this blog, but how can you personally, Hannan, want independence when it comes to Britain, but not [...]
How much worse do things have to get, for Heaven’s sake? Greek politicians keep repeating that leaving the euro would be an economic disaster. As opposed to what, precisely? The present Wirtschaftswunder? In 2011, the Greek economy contracted, not by the forecast three per cent, but by six per cent. Sixty thousand small firms [...]
The Cousins have finally clocked the EU for what it is: a corporatist, protectionist, anti-American racket. Heaven knows it took them long enough. For decades, they did everything they could to encourage political integration, pouring money into the European Movement, ending every summit with a demand for deeper union. Not any more. Most Americans are now watching [...]
Thrillers can tell you a great deal about the preoccupations of a society. Their plots don't have to be entirely believable, but their milieus do. For the trick to come off, the baddies ought to reflect readers' anxieties. Once they were Soviet agents, then wicked multinationals, then Islamist bombers. Now they are Eurocrats. In the [...]
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A black squirrel was first reported (in the wild) back in 1912 – in either Bedfordshire or Hertfordshire , according which article you read! That particular black squirrel had probably escaped from the ‘menagerie’ of a ‘well to do’ collector. Victorians, and to a lesser extent Edwardians, were great collectors of things – both living [...]
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