What many people don’t understand is that Britain isn’t just a nation, but it’s a way of life. Mother Britannia may be the head nation within the 54 Commonwealth Nations but is very clear is she also played a critical role in developing and grooming each one of those nations as …
Read More »Are We Finally Witnessing The End Of Bland, Centrist Politics?
Donald Trump, Jeremy Corbyn, Brexit… People want meaning in their lives and a purpose in their politics that dry, centrist managerialism cannot hope to provide This, by Ted Yarbrough, is very perceptive: Man does not live by bread alone. Though a religious statement by Jesus from the Gospel of Matthew …
Read More »Labour Centrists Bend The Knee To Jeremy Corbyn, Once Again
No courage, no backbone, no vision of their own Telegraph sketchwriter Michael Deacon reports on the rapturous reception given to Jeremy Corbyn by the Parliamentary Labour Party when he entered the Commons yesterday: Labour MPs cheered Jeremy Corbyn. Genuinely. They really did. And when I say Labour MPs, I don’t …
Read More »Social Conservatism – Flogging a Dead Horse
What has the world come to? Before the General Election, I incorrectly predicted that the Conservative Party would win hands-down, and to my own credit, so did many other commentators. Then democracy happened, and the great hand of uncertainty threw all my assumptions to the wind. Looking back at the …
Read More »#GE2017: Conservatives Cannot Give Up On The Youth Vote
British conservatives can no longer afford to cede the youth vote to the parties of the Left without putting up a fight for their hearts and minds One thing seems absolutely crystal clear to me: the Conservative Party can no longer allow itself to glibly write off almost the entire …
Read More »General election 2017 – winners and losers
Following a campaign that has been both turbulent and tranquil, the day is finally over. The voters can have had their say. This was an election that didn’t have to happen. The Fixed Term Parliament Act provided for a date in 2020, a year that could have provided perfect retrospective …
Read More »Bursting the SNP bubble
A few months ago there were two main strategic challenges facing Britain. How to leave the EU successfully and how to keep our country intact? There are in addition, of course, the usual challenges facing any government. How to keep the economy growing? How to earn more than we spend? …
Read More »Trinidad Youth Prime Minister – Choose May’s stable vision over Corbyn’s jam making skill & false promises.
With just one day to go before the Polls open throughout the United Kingdom I make a sincere plea to the Youth of the UK not to fall victim to the false promises of the left and hold on strongly to the stability, performance as well as vision of the Conservative Party …
Read More »An Election Poem
Won’t you join our Common Cause?” Said the spider to the fly, It really is a winner, and the cost is not too high, Well, Diane Abbot said so, but she hasn’t got a clue, We want you in, my friends and I as we have plans for you. We …
Read More »Why I think Jeremy Corbyn mustn’t be Prime Minister
I know the title gives away much of the article, but I would like to focus on two key aspects: Terrorism and the Union. This is not a partisan piece, but one that tries to rise above mere party politics in an unbiased fashion. Economics are, to an extent, reversible: …
Read More »For the Country and the Economy Vote Conservative. But whatever you do- Don’t Vote Labour
Politicians frequently say their General Election is the most important of their lifetime. Most of the time, they are lying or exaggerating. The General Election of 2001 was, for instance, not a particularly important election. This time however, is likely the most important General Election in a generation, if not …
Read More »Trinidad Youth PM- Theresa May is determined to create a sustainable United Kingdom
As I look on from the Caribbean I continue to be convinced as the Youth Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago as well as Former Commonwealth Youth Ambassador of this one time colony of the British Crown that a Theresa May victory at the polls isn’t only important to UK Development …
Read More »Don’t wake up to a nightmare
I don’t feel much like writing about politics at the moment. We all stopped campaigning. We did so for a good reason. How do we start up again? There is only one thing on all our minds. But no-one wants to score cheap points. Yet the alternative is to remain …
Read More »Weekly Globe Episode 7
This is the seventh in a series of weekly podcasts featuring Ted Yarbrough and Isaac Anderson. The podcast summarised the Manchester attack, Labour’s association with terrorism and concluded with a progress report on the CRCC- the Commonwealth, Realms & CANZUK campaign. We hope readers enjoy the Weekly Globe podcasts. You can listen …
Read More »Why I’m Voting Conservative
As a young person whose political allegiances lie with the Conservatives I have received a lot of abuse. The most common accusations and comments I’ve received are usually along the lines of calling me rich and selfish. Personal insults have also been thrown, however, in my eyes these do not …
Read More »May points the way
Recent experience has taught everyone with an interest in politics not to rely too much on opinion polls. However, the present General Election campaign is unusual because there has been an actual poll which has acted as an hors d’œuvre to the main course on June 8th. We don’t know …
Read More »Why I feel I will never vote Labour again
Coming from a working class background, my family, working hard just to make ends meet and growing up around many more poorer than us, have always voted Labour believing Labour were a voice for the working class and the poorer section of society. Therefore, growing up I always felt the …
Read More »Labour And The Left Simply Do Not ‘Get’ Patriotism, And Their Patron Saints Holiday Proposal Proves It
The Labour Party’s genius plan to “unite the nation” by further Balkanising the United Kingdom The Labour Party and the British Left in general just don’t get it. With the honourable exception of a few Cassandra-like voices warning that the Left must learn to re-embrace patriotism in order to reconnect with …
Read More »An Overview of #GE2017
So, here we go again. The politics of the United Kingdom are centre stage once again. Scottish independence Referendum 2014, UK General Election 2015, EU Referendum 2016 and now, UK General Election 2017. Introduction The one in Scotland was the ‘once in a generation’ Referendum you may remember but SNP …
Read More »The Prime Minister is Right to Call a Snap Election- Let’s Give her the Mandate to Deliver a Full Brexit
Many Brexiteers are legitimately concerned that the Prime Minister’s surprise election could backfire. Elections are never certain things- as we witnessed in the United States with the election of Donald Trump, and to a lesser degree with the United Kingdom to leave the EU. Some worry that through a strange unholy alliance of …
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