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The Conservative party doesn’t do carriage clocks for people like Michael Gove. They just get a note reading “You have outlived your usefulness” and a five minute head-start on the hounds. Still, let’s fire up Walkaway by Cast and watch a montage of Gove’s best bits. First, Michael positioned himself as the man who had…
A Nigel Farage resignation is for Christmas, but not for life. Even before the Ukip leader finished the event announcing he was stepping down, Nigel was already softening his stance so much it feels more prudent to cast this as a sabbatical. Think of it as Glenn Close going under the bathwater in Fatal Attraction….
LONDON — Right-wing firebrand and populist politician Nigel Farage resigned as leader of his U.K. Independence Party on Monday morning, the latest political bombshell to hit the nation as it grapples with fallout from last month’s vote to leave the European Union. “I have never wanted to be a career politician. That is why I…
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Photo Boris Johnson in London on Monday. Credit Jack Taylor/Getty Images Well, that didn’t take long. Some of the most prominent politicians behind the “Leave” campaign are backing away from the false claims and dubious promises that they made in the run-up to the referendum to take Britain out of the European Union. Your Thoughts…
It seems Farage was right… again… “Can we all just grow up, stop this absolute scare-mongering nonsense?” Farage told CNBC on Tuesday, adding that the FTSE 100 is up 3 percent today. “Can we just end this complete rubbish?” FTSE 100 is now unchanged from pre-Brexit as Osborne, Cameron and the fearmongers appear…
SUNDERLAND, England — In places like Sunderland, with its once-robust shipyards silent and dead and its citizens leery of both London and Brussels, the idea of the European Union never really took hold. Although the once-proud working-class city in England’s northeast heartland benefited from the bloc, the campaign that became known as “Brexit” found many adherents and…
On polling day, last Thursday, a horde of sunburnt, smiling Labour Party volunteers hit the streets of Plymouth, our medium-sized coastal city near the southwestern tip of Britain. We knocked on door after door and made the case for the United Kingdom to remain in the European Union. Knocking on doors in the weeks leading up…
Former London mayor and Brexit campaigner Boris Johnson walks through the Houses of Parliament and Portcullis House in central London on June 27. (Justin Tallis/Agence France-Presse) Let me see if I can get all of these Brexit reactions straight. First, there’s the simple fact that markets have given a big short-term thumbs down to the…
https://youtu.be/9r5P1z4OWWo via Oh Shit, Brexit | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS – YouTube. Source: Oh Shit, Brexit | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS – YouTube