Tony Blair is probably not the best spokesman for Brexit-blocker, though many believe he’s still more electable than Corbyn.
It appears that Bregret is finally starting to set in, just a bit.
Meanwhile, Daniel Korski looks at what Remain did wrong.
And the banks are making their plans, vultures are circling, but Sweden offers an olive branch.
While everyone’s eyes are on Britain, the EU might should be more worried about Angela Merkel’s potential departure.
I am a bit iffy on Britain’s libel laws in general, and I’m not sure the newspaper is the proper target, but this nonetheless pleases me. The level of truthiness involved in some of this is downright Trumpian.
Robert Colvile explores what we can learn about refugees from the “Calais Jungle“
Blair: On another blog, a poster pointed out that voters tend to grow tired of popular politicians after about 8 to 10 years. Blair had his eight to ten years, so British voters do not want more of him.
Corbyn: It would take something that makes the Conservatives look very bad to make Corbyn electable and even than it might not work. Corbyn represents what Saul calls the failure mode of the political party, when the party’s members believe in it’s plank but the rest of the electorate isn’t buying it one bit. Labour has been struggling with the United Kingdom not being a country filled with starry-eyed leftist idealists since 1979.
The Remain article goest to an article about France’s President.
I’m disappointed that the plan to attract London’s businesses does not involve magnets.
British courts never eviscerated libel laws like the Supreme Court did in the United States in the name of freedom of speech. Its also generally the defendant’s burden to show that their statements were true rather than the plaintiff’s burden to show that they were false like it is in the United States. The reason why the British are famously polite is because failing to do so can get quite expensive.
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