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Crisis: What Now with May? Or Corbyn?

December 19, 2018 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

There is emerging a kamikaze strategy from No.10.  Ramp up preparations for No Deal, with blood curdling warnings; oppose a second referendum; exploit the fear of losing Brexit altogether. The calculation is that constituency pressure on MPs will change their minds over Christmas. Remainers will back May to avoid a hard Brexit. Leavers will back […]

Government Crisis: Is May Losing It?

December 16, 2018 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

We are no longer in just a Brexit crisis. We now have a government crisis, because the Tory party and cabinet are fractured and unable to agree the fundamentals, let alone the details. But it is even worse than that. It has become a crisis of governance, because parliament, not just any parliament, but the […]

USA Healthcare: More Court Drama

December 15, 2018 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Trump is gleeful that a Texas judge has ruled Obamacare unconstitutional. It remains to be seen whether this gets to the Supreme Court and whether its new conservative majority decides to prolong the shameful fact that the USA is the only developed country not to have a universal and affordable healthcare system. But this is […]

May Wins: And Bigger Than it Looks

December 13, 2018 By Malcolm Blair-Robinson

May won. And she won convincingly. The Brexiteers were beaten. Two thirds of the parliamentary Tory party backed May. Had the same margin been required before effecting major constitutional change in the referendum in 2016, which should have been the case, the whole Brexit project would have failed. The hard Brexiteers are busy running around […]