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The Labour MPs voting against Article 50 – and the ones to watch

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The Labour MPs voting against Article 50 – and the ones to watch

Article from the  The Labour leadership wants to support the Article 50 bill. But some MPs have other ideas. On Tuesday, the Supreme Court ruled MPs must have a say before triggering Article 50, which begins the Brexit negotiations. Two days later, Tulip Siddiq, the MP for a marginal constituency which heavily backed Remain, resigned from her post as a shadow minister. The Labour leadership had insisted that MPs vote for the bill. In her…

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The Problem with the English: England doesn’t want to be just another member of a team

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The Problem with the English: England doesn’t want to be just another member of a team

Brexit is the result of an English delusion, a crisis of identity resulting from a failure to come to terms with the loss of empire and the end of its own exceptionalism, argues Cambridge University professor Nicholas Boyle There is a great lie peddled about the referendum: that it expressed the will of the British people. The pattern of voting showed up a colossal divergence between England, with its Welsh appendage, on the one hand,…

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After Alyn Smith’s EU parliament speech – it has to be accepted that the UK is finished

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After Alyn Smith’s EU parliament speech – it has to be accepted that the UK is finished

After Alyn Smith’s EU parliament speech – it has to be accepted that the UK is finished On the 28th June 2016, Alyn Smith an SNP, MEP insulted English and Welsh citizens by begging the EU parliament to give Scotland preferential treatment over them. By promoting themselves above the rest of the UK they have damaged and weakened the UK negotiating position. He also separated London from the rest of England and showed that the…

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Statement about EU referendum petition by Oliver Healey

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Statement about EU referendum petition by Oliver Healey

The petition was set up by a long standing member of the English Democrats and activist Oliver Healey, it was done with the best of motives when Parliament was debating the rules for the UK’s EU referendum back in November 2015, at the time the remain politicians thought they would win. It didn’t make the required number of signatures for it to be debated by Parliament prior to the UK Government and Parliament legislating for…

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Calls for the removal of E.U. flag

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Calls for the removal of E.U. flag

To the Government of the United Kingdom After the successful referendum campaign, in which the people of England voted to ‘Leave the European Union’, the English Democrats now call for all EU flags to be removed from buildings in England. We also call for the national flag of England to be flown from all public buildings in England.   Regards English Democrats  

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Now Switzerland WITHDRAWS its application to join the EU just a week before British vote

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Now Switzerland WITHDRAWS its application to join the EU just a week before British vote

SWITZERLAND has withdrawn its application to join the European Union just a week before Britain votes on its own EU membership. By CHARLIE PEAT PUBLISHED: 00:00, Thu, Jun 16, 2016 | UPDATED: 10:39, Thu, Jun 16, 2016 The vote came from the Government’s lower house as the Swiss foreign minister Didier Burkhalter told the bloc to “consider the application as withdrawn”.Mr Burkhalter said the motion is “unnecessary” because Switzerland does not intend to join and…

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England Could be Forced to Remain by rUK

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England Could be Forced to Remain by rUK

If the internet polls are correct, England will vote narrowly to leave the EU but be held in by, principally, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Charlie Jeffery crunches the numbers to assess the territorial implications of the EU referendum vote.    Most analysis of voting intention in the upcoming referendum focuses on the Britain-wide headline figures that most opinion polls produce. These headline figures can disguise important variations in voting intention by UK nation. Britain-wide polls…

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