The immigration points system vote in parliament yesterday was a crushing blow for people who come to the UK to work. It is also a crushing blow for businesses that rely on them. Leisure, retail, construction, agriculture and care services will all be trying to figure out where they can source their workforce.
The government have squared that circle in the agricultural industry. Last week they voted down a bill that asked for American ...
I was speaking to a chap at our cricket club yesterday who is a local farmer. He is also a Tory but otherwise he is alright really. I had contacted him to find out his thoughts on a law that was defeated on Wednesday. This is part of a process to not have British food & agriculture restrictions on imported goods.
The bill, put before parliament by Tory rebels, was a 'Common Agricultural Policy' to ensure imported food met British food ...
Who would have thought that within six months of being Prime
Minister, Boris Johnson would have his friends in the right-wing media circling
above him like vultures?
For Johnson to have The Daily Telegraph turning on him is a
special moment. It is just unfortunate it is a health crisis he is making a
hash of. Although, in truth it would always have taken something like this.
Anyone who has followed Johnson with a reasonably keen eye, will ...
It was interesting seeing Keir Starmer in the dispatch box
yesterday. It was like watching two ends of the spectrum as he and Johnson traded
blows rather than insults. Insults may be seen negative in tough times, but I
am sure they will come.
In Starmer, you have a man who studies detail. He is taking his job seriously and using all his experience in the law profession to guide him. On the other side of the floor sat Johnson, all impulse and ...
A friend of mine was telling me the other day that when he
was a kid, he asked his father why Italy and Rome had become so insignificant.
This was the reply he got from his father, who was an ex RAF sergeant.
“A nation that dwells on past glories, goes into a decline it can’t free itself from!”
It appears that he is right. We are still trapped in World War II, 75 years after it ended. We are so traumatised by it; we cannot leave it ...
