Author: pmknowles

The furore yesterday about the position paper on the Irish border shows just how flawed the Brexit process is. No one wants a 'hard' border between Northern Ireland and Eire. The free movement of goods is important but people in Eire work and shop in Northern Ireland and vice versa and to suddenly impose a border … Continue reading The Irish Question

I was listening to Steph McGovern explaining about the Customs Union this morning on BBC Breakfast and the penny finally dropped. The EU can't give us the same deal as we have now - even though it will be in their (and our) best interest. The reason has nothing to do with the EU but … Continue reading Why any deal will be a bad deal

There's a very good article in today's Guardian by Anne McElvoy about how Remainers need to make our arguments. She say it's very easy to get into he condescending 'you were stupid' attitude. We need to respect how people voted and not deride that decision otherwise we will become the equivalent of Nigel Farage. A better argument is 'we weren't … Continue reading Don’t say I told you so

In an interview with the BBC's Sunday Morning Live Alan Sugar said that it should be a criminal offence for a politician to lie. He said that Boris johnson and Michael Gove told deliberate lies in the EU Referendum and that 'most of the electorate did not understand the ramifications of leaving the EU'. He said … Continue reading Alan Sugar: Johnson and Gove should be jailed

Vince Cable has taken on Brexit in a no holds barred article in the Mail on Sunday today. He says, "The old have comprehensively shafted the young.And the old have had the last word about Brexit, imposing a world view coloured by nostalgia for an imperial past on a younger generation much more comfortable with … Continue reading Vince spoils Mail readers’ weekend