Britain's Brexit drift. Latest post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. The latest Brexit news may be slow, but fundamental structural change is happening without any accompanying strategy. Sunak can't provide it, but will Starmer? No one knows. chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2024/04/britai…

Brexit Britain's ailing state. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. The widespread sense that 'nothing works' in Britain has many causes, but Brexit has contributed by the ways it has overloaded the political and administrative capacity of the state: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2024/03/brexit…

'I want my country back': what's in a phrase? New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. A deep dive into what lies beneath what Lee Anderson says he and millions of others want, and how it relates to debates about extremism: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2024/03/i-want…

Rishi Sunak says Frank Hester's 'remorse... should be accepted'.

A reminder that Hester still refuses to even admit making the comments, let alone say that they were racist or sexist #pmqs

Ian Dunt: 'We're clearly looking at one of the most staggeringly inept political operations we've seen for years... now the Tories have adopted a line that he's not a racist, he just says racist things & therefore we get to keep the money... that's not tenable position to be in'

'So he's not racist, because he's been to the Caribbean?' 

James O'Brien reacts to Lord Marland and Mel Stride's 'feeble' defence of donor Frank Hester after he said Diane Abbott made him 'want to hate all black women'.

How the failures of Brexit feed Radical Brexitism. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. Truss, Braverman & Anderson illustrate how as Brexit continues to fail to deliver its promises a more radical Brexitism feeds off the politics of nostalgia & grievance: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2024/03/how-fa…

This isn’t war. This is genocide.

Repeat it. Spread it. Let the world know.

Britain is slowly learning what Brexit means. New post on my Brexit Blog. From defence to regulation to trade to border & food security, UK is learning the logic of connectedness. It's creating a messy patchwork, but the direction of travel is clear: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2024/02/britai…

The wealthiest 148 billionaires in the UK get £700m richer each every year.

That is half of the NHS budget every year, going almost entirely tax free to people who are already billionaires.

That's the problem, right there.

Brexit, Brexitism, and the Trump and Russian threats. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. With concerns about these threats deepening, the geo-political folly of Brexit gets clearer but so too does the case for a closer UK-EU relationship: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2024/02/brexit…

Michael Gove is blaming doctors strikes for fair pay, for the NHS waiting lists

See that black arrow on the right of the chart? That's when doctors strike began

Truss budget forced UK councils to take out massive 50-year loans at soaring rates, knocked £425bn off pension funds’ assets, and added an average £200 to every monthly mortgage payment. We will be paying for her blunders for the rest of our lives.
And, she won't just fvck off!

.Charlie Taylor asked the PM on BBC Somerset if he’d apologise over his trans joke in the commons that the dad of Brianna Ghey’s dad said was ‘dehumanising’.

He didn’t.

Unpicking the defences of Brexit. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. A deep dive into the tangle of arguments Brexiters currently deploy, from denial, bathos, deflection, whataboutery, lies & half-truths to the last redoubts of sovereignty and democracy: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2024/02/unpick…

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What. A. Laugh!
At least Health Secretary, Victoria Atkins, thinks it's hilarious.
Even funnier when a bereaved mother is in Parliament.
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Every now and then the expensive mask falls away and you can see Rishi Sunak for what he is: a truly reprehensible human being.

Heroes🇪🇸

Brexit: a mug's eyeful. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. Fittingly, 4 years on, the week's Brexit news is dominated by trade non-deals, costly border controls, and yet another NI reboot. It's ever clearer that Brexiters sold the public a dud product: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2024/02/brexit…