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November 02, 2019

Brexit: Watching Brexit unfold from China, I despair at the inadequacy of the British political establishment

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as instructed by the people1
back the deal and get Brexit sorted1
beware the stagnant eurozone1
Boris Johnson would be well-placed to play hardball with the EU in negotiating the future relationship1
Brexit: A Brexit Party perspective on “splitting the Leave vote” at the general election1
Brexit: A post-Brexit customs union with the EU would be the worst of all worlds1
Brexit: A short primer for Philip Hammond on the benefits of free trade deals1

Brexit: As a Tory MP who helped found UKIP1
Brexit: As I seek to replace Oliver Letwin as MP for West Dorset1
Brexit: As we consider our future economic relationship with the EU1
Brexit: At DExEU I saw the May Government agree to Brexit in name only – now we must free ourselves from the EU’s shackles1
Brexit: Bemused at the surrender of sovereignty at Maastricht1
Brexit: Bonnie Greer’s intervention on Brexit and Ireland last week was spectacularly ill-judged1
Brexit: Boris Johnson has delivered a Brexit deal that eurosceptics can – and should – enthusiastically support1
Brexit: Boris Johnson needs a Conservative majority at the election to Get Britain Out of the EU1
Brexit: Boris Johnson sells his new Brexit offer to MPs – full text of his Commons statement1
Brexit: Boris Johnson should accept Farage’s overtures and let the Brexit Party wreak havoc in Labour’s heartlands1
Brexit: Boris Johnson’s Brexit offer will take us to the desired destination – with a basic UK-EU trade deal in the interim1
Brexit: Boris Johnson’s new Brexit offer to Jean-Claude Juncker1
Brexit: Boris Johnson’s Withdrawal Agreement provides a path to the Canada-style EU-UK free trade deal we seek1
Brexit: Brexit could help cause a dramatic change in the Welsh political landscape at this election1
Brexit: Brexit has challenged the comfort and authority of the Establishment1
Brexit: Brexit is no right-wing coup1
Brexit: Brexit Secretary Stephen Barclay addresses Tory Party conference: end delay to unlock Brexit opportunities1
Brexit: Brexiteers are crying out for Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage to work together1
Brexit: Busting more myths about the free trade deals we can do around the world after Brexit1
Brexit: Busting the Project Fear health myths about a UK-US free trade deal1
Brexit: By standing candidates in Labour seats1
Brexit: Can Boris Johnson get us out of the EU before a general election?1
Brexit: Centuries on from 1381 and we peasants are still revolting against the establishment1
Brexit: Courting politics | BrexitCentral1
Brexit: Do you have any materials you could donate to the Museum of Brexit?1
Brexit: Does the European Union’s online ad spending constitute foreign election interference?1
Brexit: Economist Gerard Lyons: End economic uncertainty by getting Brexit done1
Brexit: EXCLUSIVE: How Steve Baker exhorted the ERG to back the Johnson deal1
Brexit: For cosmopolitan liberals1
Brexit: Forget comparisons to May’s deal – Boris Johnson has secured a good deal in its own right1
Brexit: Four more Brexit myths propagated by Remainers that need to be busted1
Brexit: Having voted down the May deal three times1
Brexit: Here’s the deal on candidates that Boris Johnson should do with Nigel Farage today1
Brexit: How can you protest for democracy1
Brexit: How did the party of Asquith degenerate into a sanctimonious anti-democratic rabble?1
Brexit: How sad that British courts are becoming as politically predictable as the European Court of Justice1
Brexit: How the British conception of sovereignty makes EU membership untenable1
Brexit: How the Liberals justify their crusade to cancel Brexit1
Brexit: How to protect both the UK border and EU Single Market in a post-Brexit world1
Brexit: How Tory voters switching to the Brexit Party could deliver another hung parliament1
Brexit: I have signed the Brexit Pledge – will you?1
Brexit: I never thought I’d say it1
Brexit: If Boris Johnson secures a majority1
Brexit: If he wins a majority1
Brexit: If I were still advising Nigel Farage1
Brexit: If Nigel Farage is putting country before party1
Brexit: Ignore Labour’s scaremongering – post-Brexit trade deals will bring huge benefits to the NHS and its patients1
Brexit: In an election focused on the question of democracy1
Brexit: In Peterborough at this General Election1
Brexit: Is the support of Brexit-backing voters in ex-industrial towns key to the Tories winning the election?1
Brexit: Is there any rule the Remainers aren’t willing to break in their bid to overturn Brexit?1
Brexit: It’s time for Boris to pull off another deal – with the Brexit Party1
Brexit: It’s time for some statesmanship from Leo Varadkar1
Brexit: It’s time to end the constitutional wrangling1
Brexit: It’s worth reiterating that the reasons we had for leaving the EU in 2016 are just as valid today1
Brexit: Jeremy Corbyn would rip up the rulebook and make his second EU referendum a travesty of democracy1
Brexit: Labour has days to dump its unappealing Brexit policy before its manifesto is agreed1
Brexit: Labour should oppose outsourcing trade policy through a customs union or face severe electoral consequences1
Brexit: Labour’s Brexit policy – text of the motions backed by the party conference1
Brexit: Leavers and Remainers in Ipswich are clear that they want to Get Brexit Done1
Brexit: Let’s get a Brexit deal now – and address the future UK-EU relationship after a general election1
Brexit: Masquerading as democrats1
Brexit: MPs back Johnson’s Brexit deal at Second Reading1
Brexit: MPs back Letwin amendment and prevent vote on Johnson’s deal – how every MP voted1
Brexit: MPs must stop the dither and delay and back Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal today1
Brexit: Next week’s Canadian election could deal the UK a new post-Brexit ally1
Brexit: Nigel Farage has misjudged the mood of Brexiteers1
Brexit: Nigel Farage reveals the Brexit Party will not contest 317 Conservative-held seats – full text of his speech1
Brexit: Over the last three years we have been witnessing the deconstruction of democracy1
Brexit: Parliament must now do its duty and ensure Brexit is delivered1
Brexit: Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s statement on Brexit to the House of Commons1
Brexit: Put country before party and back the Leave-backing candidate best-placed to win where you live1
Brexit: Queen’s Speech promises legislative programme to ‘seize the opportunities’ of Brexit1
Brexit: Sajid Javid should use the first post-Brexit Budget to make his mark as a tax-reforming Chancellor1
Brexit: Saturday’s antics in the House of Commons made me sick and ashamed to be an MP1
Brexit: Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer’s speech at Labour Party Conference1
Brexit: Shunning EU science programmes will allow us to embrace world-class scientific collaboration1
Brexit: Some special Brexit arrangements for Northern Ireland are likely – but the backstop was always a questionable solution1
Brexit: The absurdity of Labour’s enthusiasm for the European project1
Brexit: The Brexit Party is right to assist a Boris Johnson victory for the greater cause1
Brexit: The coming election will see the establishment pitted against the people – and the people will win1
Brexit: The compelling ‘take back control’ mantra must be harnessed to bring about long-term political change1
Brexit: The economic case for a clean break from the EU’s protectionist cartel is stronger than ever1
Brexit: The eight mistakes I saw the UK make in the Brexit negotiations1
Brexit: The European Court of Justice’s pernicious role in the Withdrawal Agreement1
Brexit: The Farage ultimatum to the Tories should make Brexiteers despair1
Brexit: The Government must hold firm against the demand for future alignment of the British and EU economies1
Brexit: The Johnson deal is not perfect1
Brexit: The Labour Party urgently needs to address what kind of Brexit deal it would seek from Brussels1
Brexit: The legal way to exit the EU by 31st October is through a transition in the EEA1
Brexit: The Lib Dems’ economically illiterate “Remain bonus” is based on very dubious forecasts1
Brexit: The MPs purporting to be democracy crusaders ought to acknowledge their irrelevance to EU law-making1
Brexit: The pro-Remain establishment’s efforts to block Brexit have reached new heights this month1
Brexit: The Remainers stymying Brexit right now are actually making our departure from the EU all the more certain1
Brexit: The Superstate into which the EU is evolving makes our departure all the more urgent1
Brexit: The UK negotiators must ensure a clean break from the ever-expanding EU Defence project1
Brexit: The Welsh people are backing Boris all the way in his quest to get Brexit over the line1
Brexit: There is a good reason countries are not lining up to seek an EEA-style deal from the EU1
Brexit: There is no reason to be bamboozled about dealing with the Irish border post-Brexit1
Brexit: Three hard questions (and an easy one) for Labour about their Brexit policy1
Brexit: True compromise? The concept is alien to the EU debate1
Brexit: Trump and Farage are wrong – Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal will not hinder a UK-US trade agreement1
Brexit: UK and EU agree new Brexit deal with revised Northern Ireland Protocol and Political Declaration1
Brexit: Unlike the Government1
Brexit: Watching Brexit unfold from China1
Brexit: We should be suspicious of an anti-democratic EU now creating its own fighting force1
Brexit: Welsh Labour are more out of touch with voters on Brexit than ever1
Brexit: What is a border? Demystifying customs controls and checks in Northern Ireland1
Brexit: What the 2019 Labour manifesto says about Brexit1
Brexit: What the 2019 Liberal Democrat manifesto says about Brexit1
Brexit: What the Brexit Party’s ‘contract with the people’ (not manifesto) says about Brexit1
Brexit: What the Green Party 2019 manifesto says about Brexit1
Brexit: Whenever abroad1
Brexit: Whether I vote for a new Brexit deal rather depends on what’s in it1
Brexit: While No Deal may not be optimal1
Brexit: Why I – a Brexit Party MEP – trust Boris Johnson to do a deal and deliver Brexit by the end of this month1
Brexit: Why MPs should vote for Boris Johnson’s deal1
Brexit: Why the Brexit Party maintains that Boris Johnson’s deal is not Brexit1
Brexit: Why the Irish Taoiseach has a vested interest in keeping the UK locked into EU economic structures1
but defeat programme motion – how every MP voted1
but the means of escaping the EU’s neo-liberal economics that are harming our planet1
but we Brexiteers have to trust a Tory to deliver Brexit – or risk no Brexit at all1
but we cannot afford to delay the Brexit process any further1
collective cultural loyalties override the economic advantages of Brexit1
Extends Those with Germany1
for business or pleasure1
he should stand down more candidates before nominations close1
here’s why I back Boris Johnson’s deal1
here’s why I believe Boris Johnson’s deal deserves support1
I despair at the inadequacy of the British political establishment1
I know people here want Brexit delivered – and now1
I was always going to be a Brexiteer1
I’d urge him to scrap his strategy that could see Brexit blocked entirely1
Immigration: 1657: Rebel Christmas – The National Archives1
Immigration: Austria Prolongs Border Checks with Slovenia and Hungary1
Immigration: Belgium Bans Chinese Professor from Schengen Area Under Accusations of Espionage1
Immigration: Celebrating volunteers across the capital1
Immigration: Cyprus MFA: We Applied for Schengen Membership in September1
Immigration: Cyprus Revokes ‘Golden’ Passports to 26 Investors in a Bid to Join Schengen1
Immigration: Denmark Introduces Internal Border Checks with Sweden1
Immigration: EC Spokesperson: ETIAS Launch May Be Delayed Until the Introduction of Entry/Exit System1
Immigration: EIOPA Says Travel Insurance Products Remain Valuable for Costumers1
Immigration: EU Ambassador in Armenia: Visa Liberalization Does Not Mean Permission to Work in EU1
Immigration: EU Approves Regulation for Establishment a Border Force of 101
Immigration: EU Approves Visa Facilitation Plan With Belarus1
Immigration: EU Commission Criticized for Giving Croatia Green Light to Join Schengen1
Immigration: EU Court of Auditors Says Schengen Border Control IT Systems Need Timelier and More Complete Data1
Immigration: EU Guidance on Visa Application Processing for Residents of Donetsk and Luhansk Regions1
Immigration: EU Parliament Confirms Its Support For Kosovo Visa Liberalization for the Third Time in a Year1
Immigration: EU to Sign Visa Facilitation Agreement with Belarus1
Immigration: EU-Serbia Sign Agreement on European Border and Coast Guard Cooperation1
Immigration: European Commission Says Croatia Is on the Way to Join the Schengen Area1
Immigration: Finish and German Passports Are Currently the Best EU Travel Documents to Have1
Immigration: Forthcoming disruption to online services1
Immigration: French Firm Hosted Unlawful Copy of SIS Data for UK: Report1
Immigration: Frontex Testing “Biometrics on the Move” Border Check Technology at Lisbon Airport1
Immigration: Funding awarded under Government programme1
Immigration: Germany Extends Border Controls with Austria for the 10th Time in a Row Since 20151
Immigration: Germany to Intensify Police Border Checks in a Bid to Discourage ‘Secondary Migration’2
Immigration: How do you make meaning when interacting with archives?1
Immigration: How Traveling to the Schengen Area Will Change in the Next Few Years1
Immigration: Human Rights Watch: EU Should Address Croatia Border Pushbacks – Rule Out Schengen Accession1
Immigration: Illegal Border Crossings on EU’s Main Migratory Routes Increased by 14% in September1
Immigration: Interactive map shows devastating impact of Second World War air raids1
Immigration: Italy to Make It Easier for Algerians to Get a Schengen Visa1
Immigration: Knowledge of EU Visa-Free Traveling Requirements Drops Among Georgians1
Immigration: Kosovo Outgoing PM Insists Council of Ministers Will Grant Kosovars with Visa-Free Entry to Schengen in December1
Immigration: Latest MI5 files released – The National Archives1
Immigration: MEPs Ready to Start Negotiations with EU Ministers on Revision of Temporary Checks Within Schengen1
Immigration: Merkel in Croatia: I Am Committed to Preserving Schengen Area1
Immigration: New Rules for Schengen Visa Application for Netherlands as of February 2020 – Including Increased Visa Fees1
Immigration: Online research project announced to mark World Digital Preservation Day1
Immigration: Organizations Demand Croatia to Remain Out of Schengen Until it Improves Asylum Practices1
Immigration: Over Half Million Asylum Applications Lodged in EU+ so Far – 10% More than Last Year1
Immigration: Planned Electrical Work – The National Archives1
Immigration: Planned electrical works on Sunday 27 October1
Immigration: Schengen Visa Holders Now Eligible for Saudi Arabia’s Tourist e-Visa1
Immigration: Swiss Govt to National Council Member: Suspension of Schengen Is Not Feasible1
Immigration: UK Govt to Fund 6-Month Healthcare for Over 180k Britons Living in EU in a No-Deal Brexit1
Immigration: Western Balkan Leaders Continue Their ‘Mini-Schengen’ Plans Without Kosovo1
it’s a Brexit outcome the Government can manage1
Louisiana | Wikipedia audio article1
Nigel Farage could yet be throwing a big spanner in the works for Boris Johnson1
only a vote for the Conservatives will deliver Brexit1
our Parliament is sadly now behaving like the European Commission1
Survey Shows1
the anti-democratic Lib Dems must be exposed1
the Brexit Party is arguing from a point of principle for a clean break Brexit1
the transition period will not be extended beyond next year1
Video: 7 MOST SCARIEST STUNTS IN THE WORLD | Amazing Top51
Video: Bob Dylan | Wikipedia audio article1
Video: David Bowie | Wikipedia audio article1
Video: Female genital mutilation | Wikipedia audio article1
Video: Harry Harrison (writer) | Wikipedia audio article1
Video: Logan Paul KNOCKED OUT at Press Conference (KSI Rematch)1
Video: Lumber | Wikipedia audio article1
Video: Michael Sheen EXCLUSIVE Actor1
Video: Naval mine | Wikipedia audio article1
Video: New Orleans1
Video: So You Want To Be A Renegade? (Father And Son ATV Adventure)1
Video: THE TRUTH ABOUT KSI's BULK (KSI vs LOGAN PAUL 2)1
Video: Torpedo | Wikipedia audio article1
Video: What Happened To LuxuryPranks And Their "Social Experiments"?1
Video: Whirlpool | Wikipedia audio article1
Warns of Costumer Protection Issues1
we Leavers need to evangelise about Brexit1
welcomes baby girl with actress girlfriend Anna Lundberg1
when your cause is to ignore democracy?1
which is why I’ve left the Brexit Party for the Tories1

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