Future of Britain

The trans rights movement presents itself as a progressive movement. It has adopted all of the language and tactics of progressive/minority rights campaigns. Except it is not. It is in fact a deeply Conservative and regressive movement. Anyone who can seriously argue that a boy who likes to play with dolls is really a girl, is a Conservative, is regressive, has entrenched ideas of what women and men are. The Women’s Movement has spent 50 years campaigning for women and…

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Professor Curtis has explained that biological sex is determined by our chromosomes XY for men and XX for women. He argues that one cannot in fact change sex. If he is right, then trans rights are basically built on wishful thinking. I would argue that it is not the place of a government to support wishful thinking. You are bound to get into difficulties if you do that. I think that is what is happening. Trans rights groups are able…

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The NHS was based on the premise that people would be sick for short periods. They would then either recover and be discharged or they would die. The founders of the NHS never expected a situation in which people would live with severe, life limiting conditions decades. They never foresaw things like IVF which are expensive They never foresaw things like organ transplants which are expensive. They never foresaw cures to cancer which are expensive. So the NHS that we…

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It surprises me how little political savviness Johnson is showing. One would have thought that politician of his seniority would know the most basic maxim of politics. Politics is the art of the possible. It is not going to be possible to push through a hard Brexit with the House of Commons as currently constituted. It will not be possible to push through a no deal Brexit either. The spectacle of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom playing stupid games with…

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Well, well, Boris Johnson has now got a deal. I personally don’t think it will pass. But let us see what happens. The DUP have already made it clear that they wont be supporting the deal. It remains to be seen whether the following 3 groups vote for it: the ERG who refused to support May’s deal. the 21 Tories stripped of the party whip (a couple of whom are now Independents or in the Lib Dems) and the 30…

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I noticed that the Labour Party conference passed a motion calling for New Zero by 2030. As part of that resolution that want to re-nationalise the Big 6 energy companies. Yes the Big 6 are nasty, voracious beasts, who in many cases treat customers appallingly. But the idea that re-nationalising them is going to solve all oir problems is fanciful. This is yet another nationalisation commitment from Labour. They also want to re-nationalise the water companies, railways and Royal Mail….

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 The Brexit process gets more and more astonishing with each passing day. Today, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Johnson’s decision to prorogue Parliament was unlawful. I have been of voting age for approx. 38 years. I cannot remember in all that time, a government that made it clear that it intended to defy the law of the land. I don’t recall a government that has ever been found to have misled the Queen, however inadvertently. The thing that Boris…

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 I went to a conference on climate change the other day. The conference was organised by a think tank that I had not heard of before – Green House. Natalie Bennett chaired the event. I did attend the whole event by any means. But having attended for a few hours, I was struck by a sense that we are barely beginning to tackle climate change in this country. Green House have done a lot of modelling to show that the…

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Brexit is causing the two party to really shudder. It has not yet been totally broken but it has given the system a couple of shocks. Firstly, both parties lost MPs who formed the Independent group which morphed into Change UK. Nick Boles was forced out of the Conservative Party. In the past week, Philip Lee has crossed the floor of the House of Commons to join the Lib Dems. Then 21 Conservative MPs who voted against the Government had…

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The latest development is that the Government is going to prorogue parliament in mid September. The result is that it is going to be much harder for MPs to stop a no deal Brexit. I have no idea how things are going to play out in the next couple of months. I don’t rate Corbyn as a political leader. It remains to be seen whether he and all the other Remain parties can find a way to prevent a no…

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