+UPDATE+

A motion recommending the suspension of Conservative MP, Owen Paterson, will go before the House of Commons on Wednesday, November 3.

The UK govt has now accepted the vote is inevitable after very few Tory MPs supported Paterson's contention that the report was flawed.
UK Govt's final end strategy will now be to convince enough MPs to vote against the suspension despite the obvious record of corruption.

If they don't, and Paterson is suspended for 30 days a "recall petition" would seem inevitable.

This would likely trigger a by-election.
Should enough Tory MPs vote against the suspension in order to prevent it...they will of course go on record of voting to prevent the absolute mildest of rebukes for clear corruption by a sitting MP.
As such, if you have any interest in having a clean country....it is imperative that people contact their MP - particularly theur Conservative MP - to encourage them to do the right thing and suspend this corrupt MP.
The best strategy here when contacting Conservative MPs to stick to criticism of Owen Paterson.

Its not much of an incentive if you merely use this to attack the conservative party in general...

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30 Oct
Boris Johnson, the end of Elizabeth’s reign, Brexit, Irish unification & Scottish independence are not just connected politically they also mark the end of Britain’s post war cultural era.

It marks the final end of empire & the end of a cultural deference to British pragmatism.
There are essentially 3 paths Britain can go down now

1. Holding on dysfunctionally
2. Complete split
3. Euro aligned UK federalism

However paths 2 & 3 are probably just a function of path 1 + time.
The struggle in the upcoming years will be between 2 and 3.

The longer 1 goes on the more the balance is tipped towards 2.
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26 Oct
If you are looking to "punish" Labour or the LibDems for not being (as you see it) not "instant rejoin enough", you might do well to consider that by the end of the next parliament...

...not a single person in their 20s will have had the chance to vote in the 2016 referendum.
Britain surely has had enough of narcissistic politics.

Those 20 somethings, & soon 30 somethings, who had no power over Brexit surely deserve better than to be held hostage by people trying to play silly games.

Time for sensible politics.
Strategic thinking.
& clever voting.
If the already 60%+ who dont want a Tory govt can find a way to get Conservative seat count below 310 then the next govt will be a coalition of 2 to 4 parties - all of whom have pro european voters, members, MPs & leaders.

If that isn't good enough for you - YOU are the problem.
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22 Oct
If theres anything that should gladden a rejoiners heart its this sort of article.

You can't cant rule out Britain chaning its mind in the coming years. That would be the end of democracy...which can only mean one thing:
...Brexiters are running scared.
The article is obviously correct in many things, eg:

"There is no appetite for letting the UK rejoin at any time soon – most certainly not with the budget rebate and opt-outs from Shengen and the Euro it previously enjoyed."

Which is why Rejoiners need to play smarter.
Every weakening of Brexit, every softening is a move in the right direction.

& part of that process will involve a phase of "making Brexit work" - rejoiners will have to campaign for making Brexit work as if Rejoin is a discreet far off dream, even as it brings it nearer...
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20 Oct
One of the enduring myths of the last few years is that “before we joined Europe we traded more with the commonwealth & empire.”

It’s amazing how embedded this myth has become to the point that even some remainers believed it.

But it’s utterly wrong.
For the last 200 years Britain’s biggest trading partner has been Europe - not the empire and not, later, the commonwealth.

This makes sense both from geography as well as comparable industrial development reasons.

However there was a time in history when this wasn’t the case…
The time when UK traded more with empire than Europe was during the “trilateral trade” era - when Britain exported manufactured goods to Africa, slaves to America, then agricultural goods back to UK.

Of course this was not free trade” but “coercion trade”.

& coercive trade is…
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19 Oct
+UPDATE+

Uptake of vaccine by Premier League players greater than media reports.

It also now looks that many players waited till end of last year's football season to vaccinate.

It now turns out 81% of players have had at least one jab & 70% of players now double vaccinated.
At the end of September there were only seven clubs in the Premier League where more than 50% of players were fully vaccinated.

The huge rapid leap in double vaccination looks to have been a large clump of PL players not wanting to "risk" vaccination during season.
I pass no judgement on whether there's a case to be made for young sportsmen to "delay" vaccinations to a sporting "off season"...

...what I will say is this:
Media reports of PL players being "anti-vaxxers" seems widely over-blown or even...simply a lie.
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17 Oct
Boris Johnson is the expression of "Brexitism national will".

What Brexit is..is what Boris Johnson wants it to be today, not what Johnson said it was last year - which could be something utterly different.

That is why you must get rid of Boris Johnson 1st.
All flows from that.
Its hard for many to grasp this.
Indeed especially hard for many remainers who are immune to Johnson schtick.
It seems so..."unbritish".
But that is where we are.

To deny this is to deny the journey this country has been on.

We cannot even begin to roll this back until he goes.
)0% of people dont the difference between free trade, the WTO & a customs union.
Why should they..they have busy lives to lead.

Brexit thus can only "percieved" as a "feeling" or a "picture" thru which hopes/emotions are projected.

It has no concrete meaning beyond this.
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