Finally. After long last Brexit will happen. The Conservatives have achieved a seismic landslide under the inspired leadership of Boris Johnson. Now, we must look ahead to the upcoming period of stability and opportunity. The time for naval gazing is over. With a large Conservative majority the United Kingdom can …
Read More »Boris is the leader needed for a better Global Community.
For months we have seen the House of Commons debate whether there should be an early Election in the United Kingdom before they were officially due in 2022. After tons of political jabs, some unsuccessful parliamentary votes and an outcry by logical patriotic UK citizens, Election Day 2019 is finally …
Read More »Your Conservative needs you
There is one thing that matters in politics above everything else. It matters more than Brexit. It matters more than economics. The only thing that really matters is keeping our country intact. The United Kingdom is our country. This is the way the word “country” is primarily used by everyone …
Read More »The World According to Dumas
The 14th Anniversary edition of Brent H. Cameron’s book, “The Case for Commonwealth Free Trade: Options for a new globalization is available now on Amazon worldwide. The current state of the world has been – and is continuing to be – described, dissected, and analyzed by a never-ending throng of pundits, consultants, …
Read More »Nothing’s too good for the man who beat Alex Salmond
I remember seeing Alex Salmond sometime in 2017. He lives quite near me and it was common enough to see him around, but this time there was something different. He was locked out of his car. He was on his phone. He was trying to pull the door handles. He …
Read More »The slaves of the fathers
Various universities in Britain are investigating their links to the slave trade. They are asking whether they directly or indirectly benefited from slavery. Glasgow has already confessed its guilt and proposes to do penance. Cambridge, no doubt will, soon do the same. After that we can expect every university that …
Read More »Will Brexit win the General Election?
This General Election was called because Parliament was hung over Brexit. Remain’s task is to divert attention from Brexit and the task of those who favour independence is to ensure attention stays on Brexit. Keeping attention on Brexit should be easy but the broadcast media are wholly Remain and are …
Read More »Do you remember the 1970s?
Do you remember the 1970s? It was when Britain reached peak decline. I was at primary school, but still those years have stayed with me like no others. Do you remember how we had three television channels? In fact, my family only had BBC1 and we could only watch it on …
Read More »Take the Conservative route and Back Boris
The United Kingdom stands at a pivotal crossroads in its history. To one side is the path of freedom, led by Boris Johnson and the Conservatives. To the other is a dark journey into diminution and decay under Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour party. The choices could not be starker. …
Read More »Environmentalism in the EU
The EU has had overall responsibility for environmental concerns in the UK and other member states for almost 30 years (Treaty on European Union, Art 191). How well has it done beyond putting up blue flags? Has it done better than the Member States might have achieved outside the EU? …
Read More »Either Boris or Remain
There are two realistic outcomes to the General Election. Either there will be a Conservative majority or there will be a hung Parliament. It is highly unlikely that Labour can form a government on its own. This has been the case ever since the SNP started winning the majority of …
Read More »Where is the best place to live in the world?
I was in the barbers last week talking about a recent visit to the South of France. I was asked where I would most like to live. I said “not the South of France” – much too hot in summer nowadays, the beaches are skirted by major roads, the …
Read More »We must stand up for Hong Kong
This speech was originally made by the author in the House of Lords on 24 October 2019 This House takes note of the recent political unrest in Hong Kong, and of the calls to offer residents of Hong Kong citizenship in another country.Lord Alton of Liverpool (CB) My Lords, the …
Read More »The American disease. Part three (the grammar of marriage)
I remember treating what was sometimes called “political correctness” as a joke. I wonder now if the humour element was part of the strategy. It made us think that the issue wasn’t serious. We could be amused by the “looney left”, but all the time the Left were using our …
Read More »Fighting a Brexit Election
Now that Hammond and other Remain Tories are no longer setting the agenda the new Conservatives can have a tactical election for Brexit. They can put tax cuts and other contentious issues aside. This is a Brexit election. Remainers will attempt to divert the campaign away from Brexit because they …
Read More »An existential threat to the UK
My first reaction to the announcement that we would have a General Election in December was to see whether it was possible to arrange a long holiday somewhere as far away as possible. The University of Almaty looked a more inviting prospect than Aberdeen’s granite turning ever more grey in …
Read More »The Abandonment of Democracy: Have teachers failed society?
The most shocking opinion poll that I read over the past year was by Roberto Stefan Foa and Yascha Mounk in the Journal of Democracy 2016. It shows that in 2011, only 30% of those aged between 20 and 30 years of age thought that democracy was essential. This is depressing …
Read More »Rainbows
Theresa May used to tell us “Brexit means Brexit”. However, she never really told us what Brexit means. In truth Brexit is like a rainbow, a range of colours, opinions and viewpoints. If we can define a rainbow, can we define a Brexit? Can it ever be touched? On our …
Read More »Does the SNP have the right to demand a second independence referendum?
As I was going home the other day, I passed a group of students waving Catalan flags. I didn’t stop to find out what they were demonstrating about. Rather confusingly someone handed we a leaflet about socialism in Chile. Were they Chileans complaining about Catalonia, Or Catalans complaining about Chile? …
Read More »Brexit election
The general election has finally been called. Of course a general election should be about more general issues but will Brexit dominate the agenda? The early stages suggest that this will be the defining issue. Looking back at previous elections, 2015 provided a surprising Conservative majority. Many aspects may have …
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