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The imaginary doomsday scenario was never credible to the EU but was a powerful force to shape UK domestic politics.
The threat of a no-deal Brexit has always been a hoax – and it has been one of the most successful deceptions in British political history. It was never a real option but has (...)
What will Tory Brexit mean? Joseph Healy takes a critical look.
Hugging the podium, Boris Johnson emerged on Xmas Eve, like a latter-day Chamberlain, brandishing his trade deal with the EU and rounding things off by exclaiming ‘and now for the sprouts’.
Continuing to employ the culinary analogy (...)
MPs, trade unionists and campaigners unite to call on Labour and other opposition parties not to vote for Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal.
After years of posturing and delay, Boris Johnson has finally announced that a trade deal with the EU has been agreed. The backdrop to the deal is a profound (...)
As fears grow of threat of chaos in new year, Lord Heseltine brands potential failure to strike deal ‘the worst decision of our times’
Boris Johnson faced a rising tide of anger from senior Tories and business leaders last night as he appeared ready to embrace a no-deal Brexit and prepared Royal (...)
Stay or leave? Simon Hannah argues that is no longer the main question.
It was clear from the first moments of Keir Starmer’s leadership that he was no friend of the Left and would do his utmost to wrestle the Labour Party back to the ‘sensible middle ground’ so beloved of social-democrats. (...)
Whilst after years of Brexit and the end-game of the end-game taking place we still don’t know if there will be a deal with the European Union (EU), writes Alan Thornett.
What we do know if there is a deal it will be reactionary, economically and socially regressive, and racist. We will be (...)
Two years on from the crucial moment for Labour’s Brexit policy - here’s what we got wrong
Almost exactly two years ago, in the early hours of the morning, I was scampering round hotels in central Liverpool, briefing delegates and negotiating the wording of a motion with trade union officials. (...)
As the United Kingdom exits the EU, the political scene has all the trappings of a restoration. The Tories are back in office with their largest majority since the 1980s, thanks to the long-ignored northern working class. The UK is resuming the offshore relationship to the project of European (...)
What happened?
Like many others on the left, we got the election result seriously wrong. Most thought a hung Parliament or even a Labour minority government was a real possibility. It was not.
Brexit shattered voting loyalties established over lifetimes and, along with Britain’s notorious (...)
Labour is the only party with a chance of forming the next Westminster government which is committed to giving us a second referendum on Brexit writes Andy Stowe. Remainers should vote Labour in England and Wales. Brexit supporters who think Johnson’s deal is poor should also vote Labour. The (...)
The British General Election campaign is off to a flying start. The election formally began with the dissolution of Parliament on the 6th of November and will be concluded on the 12th of December 2019. Needless to say, the 5 week campaign period as compared to the US is rather short (and much (...)
In December’s UK election, everything will be up for grabs. The Tories are nervous, but Labour has its work cut out for it. Above all, it must shift the focus of debate from the Brexit melodrama to the ravages of austerity.
The UK electorate is off to the polls again, for the fourth general (...)
In the parallel universe that exists between today’s fake Queens speech and the so-called ‘special session’ of Parliament on Saturday – that does not yet have anything to discuss – support for holding a second referendum before a general election has been gaining ground.
This is particularly strong amongst Labour MPs, including John McDonnell, Diane Abbott, Emily Thornbury, Keir Starmer and Rebecca Long-Bailey. I find it very convincing.
Yesterday, on Marr, Rebecca (...)
Other contributions to the debate on this site, notably by Phil Hearse and Kate Hudson, have rightly emphasized the urgency of the tasks facing us as socialists and internationalists, given the dangers of a Boris Johnson victory at the inevitable general election in the near future, and the (...)
The British political crisis continues, with the latest developments consolidating the hard right takeover of the Tory Party and Government that began with the Brexit referendum in 2016 and is now leading to the development of a potentially mass neo-fascist movement. This is taking place (...)
One of the first things Boris Johnson did on becoming Prime Minister was to give himself the title of ‘Minister for the Union’ and head to Scotland to try to shore up the collapsing Tory vote and prevent independence.
The constitutional crisis that has erupted over the coup proroguing parliament (...)
To date articles in Conter addressing Brexit have concentrated more on the neo-liberal opposition, and those on the Left perceived to be tail-ending this section of the British ruling class, writes Allan Armstrong of the Radical Independence Campaign. [1]
There has been no real analysis of the (...)
It is a tumultuous time in British politics, writes Susan Pashkoff.
Parliament returned from its summer recess on September 3 to a new Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, elected by only Tory members following Theresa May resignation as Prime Minister.
The Tory government had a working majority of (...)
Brexit was always going to end in an attack on democracy. The two can’t be separated.
This is always how it was going to end. Brexit is useful to the establishment because it takes a narrative about who is to blame for years of falling living standards – foreigners – and tries to put it on the (...)
The lies and duplicity surrounding the Brexit campaign have been highlighted at great length since 2016. In retrospect, we can see that the activities of Facebook and other networks in that campaign constituted a qualitatively new phenomenon in the undermining of democracy.
‘Fake news’ and the (...)
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