Frankly, I am sick of it – sick of the farce being played in Parliament, in Government and in the MSM, sick of the manipulation and obfuscation our ‘betters’ display daily in the MSM, and thoroughly sickened by the now daily disregard by all of the above ‘players’ for us, the voters, the 17.4 million.
If you had just come back from a holiday on a remote island with no MSM and looked at today’s papers, you could be forgiven for thinking that the main issue facing us as a Nation is which Tory faction has more power to force the PM to accommodate their version of Brexit. You could also be forgiven for assuming that it’s rather about when, not if, Ms May will be made to go – the gossip is about forcing her into a GE after the local elections in May.
That brings me to the other issue which sickens me: the incessant Brexit gossip. I mentioned yesterday (see here) that all MSM now have their own ‘Brussels correspondent’ with their own special ‘confidential sources’, unconfirmed information being leaked from ‘en coulisse’. And if those ‘sources’, those ‘Brussels diplomats’ are unavailable – remember, that lot is on it’s way to Sharm-El-Sheik for tomorrow’s EU meeting – then ‘experts’ are wheeled out to sermonise.
It is simply not worthwhile to list them all, but this article, about the ‘former WTO Boss’ pontificating, illustrates why the Brexit debate has become so inane. M Lamy says that going out on WTO rules would beggar us because most trade is done through FTAs (Free Trade Agreements).
Does he not know that EU member states are prohibited from negotiating FTAs? Does he not know that we’d have to conform to that rule under Ms May’s disastrous WA? I know that, and I’m most certainly not a former director of the WTO!
Btw – where are all the articles telling us how wonderful the EU is? Is it really accidental that news about protests in France or Spain don’t make it onto the front pages?
Then we have this report about an economist – remember the old saying that economists were invented to make weather forecasters look good! – speculating why an extension plus Ms May’s deal could be likely, based on the rise of some domestic stock on the Footsie!
It’s all irrelevant because the one point on which it all hinges is the Backstop – and, surprise surprise, it’s, at best, secondary in today’s papers. I urge you again to read this outstanding article I referred to yesterday. That’s what we’re up against – and that’s how Brexit will be betrayed. This report in The Times (paywalled) should serve as huge red flag – do take note of the language and compare with the warnings in the article I urged you to read:
“The EU’s chief Brexit negotiator has told ambassadors that Theresa May would use the threat of delaying Britain’s departure to push her deal over the line. Michel Barnier said that Geoffrey Cox, the attorney-general, was seeking to negotiate a legally binding “instrument” allowing him to issue new legal advice that the Irish backstop would be temporary. Language will be included to allow alternative arrangements, such as technology, to supersede the backstop as well as setting out strengthened review procedures. However, the government has quietly dropped demands for a specified time limit to the backstop or a unilateral exit mechanism.” (my bold)
However, given the “warnings”, or in plain English: blackmail by some of Ms May’s Remain Cabinet ministers (more on that below), what to make of this:
“Senior EU sources also reiterated that a deal would not be signed off at the Sharm El Sheikh summit this weekend. “Not all of the 28 are there. So even if we wanted to we couldn’t do it . . . This is very serious and it needs to be prepared. It’s very clear there will be no EU session” (paywalled, my bold)
Obviously, there won’t be a deal. Ms May will come back with empty hands, and the Brexit betrayal is on because of the blackmailing gang-of-three:
“Three cabinet ministers told Theresa May last night that they would vote to extend membership of the EU if she does not get her deal passed next week. David Gauke, Amber Rudd and Greg Clark also told the European Research Group of Tory MPs to accept that parliament would stop a no-deal Brexit and to back the deal or “have no one to blame but themselves” for a delay.”(paywalled link)
The language in the DT report (paywalled) is even more forceful:
“They warned Mrs May in a meeting in Downing Street as many as 22 members of the Government are prepared to vote for a backbench bill that would force her to request an extension of Article 50. The Telegraph has been told if the Prime Minister fails to seal a deal with the EU that she can put before Parliament on Monday or Tuesday, the only way she can avoid a revolt is by announcing a Brexit delay. “She knows what she needs to do,” one minister told The Telegraph. “If she doesn’t take no-deal off the table then Parliament will do it for her. And we are not willing to stand by this time. She has to say publicly that she will formally request an extension of Article 50.” (my bold)
And to give us the full house of “extension plus 2nd referendum”, the DT (paywalled) writes:
“Five ministers are also considering backing another amendment tabled by Labour backbenchers that would make Mrs May put her deal to a second referendum. It came as it was claimed the civil service had switched in some Government departments from planning for no deal to preparing for a two-year delay to Brexit. One source said the U-turn had happened in recent days, leaving ministers frustrated: “No one can get anything done because the civil service has now switched to planning for a two year delay to Article 50. “Nobody knows what on earth Theresa May’s thinking is or what she is actually going to do so it seems the civil service is now planning for all eventualities.” (my bold).
You really couldn’t make it up!
With Ministers and MPs who are obviously too thick to have known what they voted for when they voted to implement Article 50; with Ministers and MPs who show that they have huge issues with their memories and with civil serpents whose Mandarins treat them like the Good Old Duke of York treated his soldiers, one thing is obvious as this week ends: the Brexit we voted for is dying of 1000 cuts.
I think I’ll change the title of this column to “YOUR DAILY BREXIT BETRAYAL” from Monday onwards … let me know if you concur!
IT IS A FACT THAT THE CROWN IS NOT, AND HAS NO WISH TO BECOME INVOLVED IN POLITICS ! H.R.H. cannot be seen to be partial, and Queen Elizabeth has maintained that through her long reign, but it is her Government, constitutionally !
Now this is just a thought that has passed through my mind, such as that is ! ….. What does the Crown do when Parliament is, without any doubt, broken, split and useless ? To the People, whether they be Left or Right, Leave or Remain in the EU, or just utterly disgusted that their money is being passed to Parliamentarians for a job of work, that they cannot or will not perform; some action is required ! ….. Does Her Majesty take action, and if so, what ? Does H.R.H. do nothing, in the view that it is nothing to do with The Constitutional Crown ? The People vote for their representative MPs, but when their choice results in absolute inability to govern, in a matter that will effect generations to come, a ‘Referee’ is required with some urgency !
It would never be correct for the Crown to appoint a Government.- That is the right and duty of the People only ! H.R.H. could redirect the rules for a General Election, and hopefully bring in a PR system, scrapping the FPTP, which would make future administrations totally Democratic, and give the People the ability to vote for what they want, scrapping the need for deviate and tactical voting. It seems that this is a requirement from a ‘Referee’ as even this utterly common sense change, is beyond the ability of our Government.
I put this forward purely as a thought, in the knowledge that it could be an embarrassment to Her Majesty. Embarrassment set aside however, something is urgently required. The Monarch has always been seen as permanent, but without any power, yet today’s Government that is impermanent but with power, is clearly not up to the job in hand.
The media’s Brexit hysteria has reached ridiculous new heights. I’m in South East Asia where Al Jazeera are reporting, fed by the BBC I’m sure, Cambodia the eighth fastest growing economy in the world, beautiful place and people but if you built a corrugated iron garden shed in Phnom Penn it would likely raise the GDP by 500%, are about to go bust because the UK may leave the EU and therefore trade with the UK, their biggest customer for textiles, will come to an end causing poverty, pestilence and all things biblical including starvation. I can’t recall seeing one optimistic report of Brexit in the whole time I have been out here right from the moment the referendum didn’t go the way the British media expected. Of course the most vocal and loudest voice is the BBC followed closely by Sky News, they certainly have done their best to undermine confidence in the UK economy. It’s actually got to the point where I don’t watch either channels now and as for CNN, their fixation is Trump, that’s all they talk about, so have stopped watching them as well. Al Jazeera oddly enough are normally quite fair in their reporting, even Trump often gets a fair hearing occasionally but once you mention Brexit its like a red miss drifts down and clouds their reason, judgement and impartiality but then when you consider most of their correspondents are ex.BBC reporters from the same political class and education its not really that surprising is it.
Then its 1642 al over again.
Wish I could disagree with your analysis, Viv.
Were this apology for a government still in charge of parliamentary business, it would be worth reminding the PM that – in the event of her wretched Withdrawal Agreement finally being rejected in the HoC – she would have to accept that it is a bad deal.
We would also point out that she launched her premiership on the understanding that the democratic will of the people expressed in the referendum, and unchallenged as such by MPs during the campaign, must be implemented and – crucially – that “NO DEAL IS BETTER THAN A BAD DEAL.”
Unfortunately, the HoC is currently under the control of a Speaker who is exploiting this crisis to overturn well-tested protocols in a drive for self-promotion; populated by a majority of third-rate politicians who depend on their parliamentary salaries and have no interest in governing our nation or restoring it to a leading role in the world.
A number of MPs are demanding that “No-deal” (the WTO arrangement) is “taken off the table”. These same MPs also voted to enact the Article 50 withdrawal notice which set a timeframe of two years to reach a withdrawal agreement, after two years if an agreement hadn’t been reached in the meantime, EU treaties would no longer apply to the UK, ie it would no longer be an EU member.
To the best of my knowledge, Theresa May’s preferred ‘Withdrawal Agreement’ does not even cover trade, only that this is to be discussed as part of the “UK’s future relationship with the EU”. Until a future ‘trading arrangement’ can be agreed (on the EU’s say-so), the UK will not be permitted to leave the EU, hence all the hysteria over the ‘backstop’.
Under this arrangement, as the EU has us exactly where they want us from the start, there would be ‘no rush’ to come to an agreement on any “future relationship” with the UK. The status quo remains, why would they want to change things?
“No-deal” cannot be taken off the table, because of the Article 50 process these same MPs all agreed to undertake. The only way to take ‘no-deal’ off the table is to either:
1) request an extension to the Article 50 deadline – this is possible, but it would require the agreement of all 27 EU members (excluding the UK of course). This has several flaws:
a) a specified date would need to be set, otherwise negotiations could be allowed to continue indefintely – a situation just as bad as Mrs May’s Withdrawal Agreement
b) it would be utterly pointless, as the EU has already demonstrated it is not prepared to offer the UK any “further concessions” or to indeed negotiate any further.
c) there could be ‘conditions attached’, like a ‘requirement’ for a second referendum, or general election, to ‘let the people decide’ (And we all know how that would play out)
2) revoke Article 50 altogether – thanks to Ms Gina Miller this is probably impossible. Government and Parliament has a mandate to ‘carry out the instruction of the British people’, and the Supreme Court ensured that Parliament voted to enact Article 50. There is no mandate to revoke this notification, that would require a second referendum or general election.
The ‘No-Deal’ outcome looks inevitable, barring some ‘new’ spanners being thrown in the works…
Stuart…. There are numerous spanners about to be thrown in.
What matters now is the government getting scared of a perceived threat to civil order that must come after 29th March lest we do not actually leave that day.
Of course I would never encourage breaking the law. Heaven forbid. However I would encourage able bodied men under the age of 60 to take the next 5 weeks to get fit, get used to wearing boots, to buy protective headgear and goggles and to toughen up a bit.
That’s good for your health and in line with NHS advice to moderate your lifestyle. All good stuff.
Twittering and listening to ‘Sargon of Akkad’ mean bugger all. TR’s bullshit means bugger all. Gerard’s inactivity means bugger all.
Be prepared.
A second Referendum might sound a good idea, but there are three things against it: l) it would mean that Referendums would never again take place because there could then be a second/third/etc. A second or third Referendum could well be rigged or, at least, each side would say that the other had rigged it and the fighting would continue; 3) it would be the end of Democracy.
I think it would be best alround if we forgot a 2nd referendum and went for a qucik General Election along the lines of a by election when an mp has a motion of no confidence by their local HQ. I am sure its done in 14 days as there is no need for any door to door or meetings as the whole country knows why and the arguments. Parliment should be suspended on Monday to allow for this and reconvened the start of April. When we switch To WTO. SIMPLE ! If this does not happen we will be a number on the eu map
Yes this is the best answer. If May is serious about leaving the EU on March 29 she could call an election now with the sure and certain outcome of the TIGs being wiped out. There are lots of advantages to this course of action – there would be no more plots in Parliament, nobody could stop us leaving and we’d be running on WTO rules by the beginning of April. Certainly better than being shackled to the EU.
Debbie,
Either she is not serious about leaving or she has a seriously warped view of what leaving really means. Judge her by her actions, not her words.
All we can hope for is that she creates such a mess that our leaving on 29/3 slips through by default.
I have no doubt that second referendum would effectively keep us in the EU. They thought that they had the last one in the bag through Project Fear but will not make the same mistake again.
All it needs is more than 2 questions and/or the option to remain in the EU either directly or indirectly stated. They would also have the support of those recently emerged from “education” and the possibility of even younger ones being allowed the vote.
As a patriot, it is a source of puzzlement and a sort of shame, that any English man or woman could sign up to the capitulation WA with that backstop and with no break clause. What is she thinking of, fighting so hard to make us swallow it? I hadn’t noticed the tanks and stormtroopers holding down the population. And then there are all the other parliamentary grouplets undermining this country and trying to overturn democracy. I have seen more maturity in a kindergarten. We shall do no good as a nation until we get rid of them. We must get rid of them. Can we still exile people?
Tony Ted Heath got 10 million in 1972 whats todays rate ?
Your “Daily Brexit Betrayal” sounds just right to me. Almost everyone I speak to in the real world feels the same. Unfortunately getting them to put their cross where it will do most good is almost impossible thanks to the continual bias to tearing to pieces anyone associated with UKIP or Leave EU etc. When it all finally collapses I will take no pleasure in saying “I told you so”. The current situation is beyond senseless with no obvious way of changing anything because NOBODY IS LISTENING. I may have to increase my blood pressure pills.
The British public may not fully realise the extent of subjugation and loss of sovereignty they have been unjustly been exposed, by administers of their ‘Representative Democracy’, to the EU.
The EU has effectively been ruling this country for some time so any talk of British Democracy is misconceived.
The tiers of Governance are, Local, National and Supranational.
The Referendum was a bit of candy to keep the proletariat contented.
It was never going to be lost! Oh no.
No one is going to Brussels to ‘negotiate’. No-one!
They are going there to connive to contrive to conspire!
David Cameron looked a fool because he was not playing the part very well and they had no idea of the consequences of his gamble.
Theresa May a slightly better actor, but does anyone believe her? Is the ‘standing up for the British people’ stance washing? No.
It is all a sham, sham, sham!
Don’t change the name of your daily article. We have to be positive.
If the politicians don’t get this right by the Referendum result they are finished. There will be recrimination a complete breakdown in confidence and respect. The country will be irretrievably split and god help society.
We have to leave on the 29th March. But I kind of think we won’t.
Has anyone here stopped to think just where the rot lies? Could it be the very Party System itself? One hundred-and-odd years ago there was a successful move among the people (who named themselves The Chartists) to (a) ensure that property owners weren’t exclusively entitled to become MPs; (2) that MPs should be paid for their work. Those two objectives were achieved. Spectacularly, by reports today.
Unfortunately, two other objectives were not achieved: (3) that an MP should be chosen by and elected by his constituents, not by outsiders (especially not Party outsiders); and (4) that an MP should be elected for 12 months after which time he (no she in those days) should be returned to his constituency for, in effect, an annual review — just like any other employee would expect. If he satisfied his constituents, he could be returned to Parliament for another year. If he failed to satisfy his constituents, he could be replaced. This idea would have put paid to career politicians who, first and foremost, were interested in their own moneymaking opportunities in politics. Included in these ideas was one whereby General Elections every 4-5 years would become unnecessary. Constituents would have the ability to weed out opportunists and all those who have forgotten who it is that employs them, every twelve months. Perhaps that would be a better way forward and would more closely follow our constitutional freedoms that all parties fail to observe.
“The British public”: Too many living their lives on social media and/or in thrall to watching sports to the exclusion of all else.
Would the country stomach a delay? Do we really want to string this horror out for more weeks/months??? We are all thoroughly sick of this bloody mess. May has to be the worst, most ineffectual PM of all time but strong on brass neck – does anyone trust a thing this duplicitous woman says? We want the whole thing OVER – so No Deal on 29/3/17 PLEASE!.
A no deal is the only route to a deal, if there ever was a deal to be considered, it will only come from a position of strength not vassalage.
The cost to Britain and our potential trading partners around the world runs into Billions over the past two years and eight months. Perhaps we could sue the EU under the protection of Investors laws, and recoup the expenses from the European central bank with an international class action??
It is within our own political establishment where the real treachery, deceit and downright dishonesty lay not the EU. They were refreshingly honest in stating from the word go that they would make exit difficult to discourage the other members contemplating leaving. The blame lay with the Conservative Party who felt they were having to deliver Brexit rather than wanting to. Our membership of the EU right from the start was a Conservative Party baby – they and the Party sponsors nutured it and still nuture it. Mrs May was tasked from day one to fudge Brexit and she appears not to waver from this task.
Clearly the House of Traitors has an overwhelming majority against a No Deal Brexit, i.e an ACTUAL Brexit. They will therefore use that majority to thwart a WTO exit. Such is British “democracy”.
Given this, the only possibility of a genuine exit – i.e. a WTO exit – is shutting down the House of Traitors : What if ? : – the WA is defeated again on Feb 27th (Labour will still be nearly all against, plus the ERG ) ; Corbyn calls a confidence vote(he needs no encouragement) ; the ERG, or a large number of them just abstain ; the Government falls and there has to be a General Election which will take place after March 29,probably on May 2 ; Parliament will have to be closed down until after the GE and the swine will be unable to stop Brexit on March 29.
The Tory activists, membership and ERG are pissed-off with the Government at the moment and given their support the ERG might just be prepared to bring down their own Government and risk losing a GE to skewer May and get a genuine Brexit on March 29, in line with the people’s wishes. If this does happen, May will quit immediately of course(next week!) and the Tories would have to have a very rapid leadership contest, probably another shoe-in. My guess is that it would probably be Boris because he is good election campaigner like Corbyn. Both leaders would be leading totally split parties. Unprecedented.
Peter
If all else fails then let it roll. Unfortunately, this is a long logic trail when events are changing on an almost daily basis.
Interesting hypothesis, Peter. The question is, I suggest, whether the threat of that scenario could persuade Remainer Tory MPs to support the blocking of any attempt in the Commons to revoke Article 50, or to apply for any extension of same. (Re the latter, I wonder if the ERG has made any advances to EU-sceptic governments which might be inclined to veto such an extension.)
The tragedy is that, unlike 2015, the potential of Tory or Labour votes being lost to UKIP in the event of a snap GE is currently minimal because – for reasons aired previously in these columns – the party is unable to project its pro-WTO Brexit views in the mainstream media. The threat would only re-emerge in the event that the GE were called AFTER a deferral of Brexit, or after Brexino had taken place on March 29th under some version of the WA. And, by that time, UKIP would be likely to be facing competition from The Brexit Party.
““If she doesn’t take no-deal off the table…” May has been a weak, ineffective negotiator throughout the whole ridiculously lengthy process. Now they want her to throw away the only ace that she has left.
These people are simply not fit to be in government by a long way. We have to rid ourselves of them at the first opportunity. Is UKIP going to waken up in time for the next election?
No Jack, IMHO it`s moribund – killed off from without and within. To be quite honest I don`t think it has even the ability to fight another EU election if there is an extension.
n.b. I am not blaming Batten, I think he is doing the best he can within the limited funds and paid helpers he has available. When UKIP was operating in its pomp it depended on big backers, spending £millions – £zillions even!, they`ve gone and wont be back.
We`ll be lucky if we can manage to generate enough impetus and clout to fight even the local elections (adequately) in May and speaking personally I have very little interest in LE anyway – never had!
UKIP will never get a fair appraisal from the mass media especially Sky and the BBC….so what to do….to my mind get as much as you can on radio and TV…Gerard does this well when he is on. It is up to the branches to get out there on the street either by constant leafleting or by way of weekly stalls….so galvanise the members,get them out there,get the UKIP message across….plus gain more members.
Farage has got the media behind him but as someone I used to trust …I do not now
It’ll be difficult to get a full slate of candidates for a GE. In 2017 most of those who stood lost their £500 deposit. As treasurer at the time I calculated that candidates had collectively lost at least £150,000 and most couldn’t really afford to lose their deposits.
What was galling was how many of our very well remunerated MEPs & AMs didn’t stand. If you can’t stand for your party in a GE why are you in it? The demise of UKIP has, in the main been driven by the appalling behaviour & incompetence of many of our MEPs & AMs-disgraceful!!
John
If we come to some arrangement with the so-called Brexit Party then maybe we can get either a UKIP or Brexit Party candidate in each constituency nationwide without treading on each others toes.
I agree with you 100% there. The party is in dire need of some proper leadership, but I am wondering now just who will step up to the plate and make this happen. We are running out of options…….
To gain a foothold in any parliamentary constituency, a party has to build from the bottom upwards, that means winning local council seats and getting sufficient of them to challenge the parliamentary seat. To think otherwise is cloud cuckoo land thinking………
Totally correct….target those local councils in May…get those stalls out,start at the grassroots
The big problem there, is that we do not have a credible leader ourselves. It has all been said before time again and its getting boring now, but the UKIP leadership decided in its own wisdom to take their eye off the Brexit ball and concentrate their energies in siding up with unwanted third parties, and without consulting the membership at large beforehand. This has caused a load of unnecessary resignations from the party and consigned us to be stuck at 7% in the opinion polls which is not going to win us a Mars bar, let alone any council seats. By rights UKIP should be riding high in the opinion polls with at least 18% of the vote, if not more, when one considers the state of dis-array amongst the other major parties. This state of play is not good enough, not good enough by far. The May leadership election cannot come quick enough as far as I am concerned. If the leadership does not change then, we will be done for, and there will be loads more leaving the party.
Who do you suggest then? Bear in mind it must be someone of integrity and not some covert Tory. Most of the blame lies with farage party who are doing their level best to wreck UKIP and split the eurosceptic vote; this must suit the Tories just fine and one wonders whose side they’re really on. why dont they cooperate not compete? Plus some of the blame must rest with the voters who have wasted all these years blindly voting over and over again for mainstream parties in spite of warnings and may do so again. UKIP if given a chance could be the UK counterpart of populist parties on the Continent who are giving the EU a run for their money at present. Batten may or may not get things right all the time but our policies are right . The alternative is to roll over and accept our fate.
Mary There may be two or three hundred constituencies where UKIP no longer have an active Branch. I would have no problem with Farage’s Brexit party putting up a candidate in those constituencies. In this way we could co-operate to our mutual advantage.
I feel sure that it is better to give UKIP members a chance to vote for the Brexit Party than have no committed Brexit party on the voting slip.
Jake, you are right there at least that number. In fact in some counties there are no branches at all. In my own county we are trying our utmost to turn this around. Insofar as The Brexit Party is concerned, they have no membership data base just expressions of interest, and no branches whatsoever. It takes years and years to establish a political party and cannot be done overnight. To get anywhere they will need to field high quality candidates who are suitably qualified, and they need to be backed up and supported by a large group of activists prepared to wear shoe leather out delivering election paraphernalia and canvassing at the doorstep. Just putting up a candidate to stand at an election is simply not good enough, and will not bear fruit. Ask any activist with Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats and UKIP, and they will tell you the same story.
A ray of hope from Europe:
https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/02/collapse-of-eu-superstate-euroskeptics-could-paralyze-brussels-after-may-elections/
There are one or two likely candidates, but it would be unfair of me to name them here. I agree we cannot just roll over and accept our fate. We at the grassroots level will do our best like we always do at election time, and hope that those in higher positions don’t say or do anything stupid, to put even more of the electorate off of us. Whoever takes over in May after the leadership election, will I suggest, will have to go down the road of total re-branding, to make us a viable force once again You cannot honestly blame Nigel Farage for any of this, as he was the party’s most competent ever leader. It was a crying shame that he felt it necessary to leave the party, but the brand has become toxic for one reason or another which has turned a lot of our members and core voters away. To carry on as normal is not an option.
So let’s hear your suggestion for a leader who comes anywhere near to GB in terms of experience, knowledge and cool under fire? No, I thought not.
Sussex a, what does that mean. Answer……you are afraid to sue your own name. Don’t lecture me please. There are others who can and probably will step up to the plate when the time comes. Stop burying your head in the sand and face facts for goodness sake, ans stop being totally naive. Under Farage’ leadership we topped out at 18% in the opinion polls. Under the present incumbent we were stuck at 7% but recent by elections tell a different story, namely 1.4, 2.5% and 5.5% of the vote. To win an election we need to be polling at least 25% and need a large activist base in each constituency to deliver leaflets, canvassing at the doorstep and getting the vote out, all of which are now sadly missing.
As long as Gerard wastes his time – and UKIP funds- on TR rallies slagging off the BBC ( I’m not concerned about the veracity of the TR argument- it’s got NOTHING to do with Brexit ) rather than engage with them and the rest of the media about real issues then UKIP is dead.
No more bullsh*t with interviews between Kris Hicks and ‘Sargon of Akkad’ either. Self – indulgent crap.
Stop ‘getting down with the kids’ Gerard, get your Press Officer to get you on political programmes. FFS you are paying for a full time Chairman/Press Officer/ PA / Campaign Manager and they produce zilch and achieve even less.
£400,000 of our money down the pan.
With 30 or so days left, there is no more time to waste. The important thing right now is to make it clear to the government that nothing other than the 29th March deadline and us getting out at 2300hrs on that day will do.
It’s time to prepare for either a party on the 29th or a war.
I think it will be the latter.