Brexit has revealed further the rottenness of the British political Establishment, but I am still truly shocked now to see the Government of the United Kingdom negotiating a major international treaty on the acknowledged, discussed and now published basis that it has every intention of breaking that treaty once it is in force. Officially published by the Attorney General, no less.
The Westminster Government’s contempt for international law was fully demonstrated just two weeks ago when it repudiated the International Court of Justice – an act which is the ultimate disavowal of the rule of international law – over the decolonisation of the Chagos Islands. So in one sense it is no shock that they are prepared to sign a treaty with no intention of honoring it.
But what is quite astonishing is that the discussions with the DUP and ERG on how to sign up to the backstop and then dishonour it, have been carried out fully in public, and with the potential other party to the treaty looking on.
I simply do not see how the EU can now sign the Withdrawal Agreement which was negotiated with May, when they have been given firm evidence that the UK intends to cheat on that Agreement.
I especially cannot understand the pusillanimous attitude of the government of Ireland to this development. The UK has published in advance that it is taking Ireland and the Irish people for fools and has no intention of keeping to the Irish backstop. The reaction of the Government of Ireland is to pretend not to notice. That is an astonishing dereliction of its duty to the people of Ireland, North and South.
The more so as Geoffrey Cox’s “advice” is an unsubtle hint to the DUP, should the backstop become effective, to restart the Loyalist violence with which they were for decades so closely associated, in order to provide the pretext for cancelling the backstop. In reading this, it is essential to remember that this legal advice was written, as a matter of definite fact, directly for the DUP audience to try and influence the DUP in the next “meaningful” vote. To signal to an organisation as steeped in blood as the DUP that the way out of the “Backstop” arrangement which they so hate, would be to demonstrate it is having a “socially destabilising effect in Northern Ireland”, clearly gives a very direct incentive to Loyalists to restart violence.
Anybody who knows anything about the history and politics of Northern Ireland must be aware that what I have just written is true. At the very best reading, Cox’s “advice” is grossly irresponsible and reckless.
It is also very poor legal advice. Unlike Geoffrey Cox, I have actually negotiated a number of international treaties, including most of the UK’s continental shelf boundary agreements, the Protocol on Deep Seabed Mining to UNCLOS and the Sierra Leone Peace Agreement. Cox’s interpretation of Article 62 of the Vienna Convention on Treaties is complete nonsense. To start with, Article 62 is designed not to facilitate but to prevent treaties being dishonoured under the excuse of “unforseen circumstances”. It reads:
Article 62
Fundamental change of circumstances
1. A fundamental change of circumstances which has occurred with regard to those existing at the
time of the conclusion of a treaty, and which was not foreseen by the parties, may not be invoked as a
ground for terminating or withdrawing from the treaty unless:
(a) the existence of those circumstances constituted an essential basis of the consent of the parties to
be bound by the treaty; and
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(b) the effect of the change is radically to transform the extent of obligations still to be performed
under the treaty.
2. A fundamental change of circumstances may not be invoked as a ground for terminating or
withdrawing from a treaty:
(a) if the treaty establishes a boundary; or
(b) if the fundamental change is the result of a breach by the party invoking it either of an obligation
under the treaty or of any other international obligation owed to any other party to the treaty.
3. If, under the foregoing paragraphs, a party may invoke a fundamental change of circumstances
as a ground for terminating or withdrawing from a treaty it may also invoke the change as a ground for
suspending the operation of the treaty.
Very plainly indeed, neither 1 a) nor 1 b) apply to the situation Cox outlines. Just not working out the way you intended is not grounds to dishonor a treaty. Social discontent in Northern Ireland would not radically transform the obligations under the treaty nor is social content the essential basis of consent to the treaty.
The second, and frankly hilarious, point is that Cox’s advice is demonstrably nonsense. To permit the dishonoring of the treaty, a change in circumstance must not only be “fundamental” it must also be “unforeseen”. Yet in his legal advice Cox foresees and specifies the “unforeseen” event that might lead to cancellation!
I rest my case.
It is worth reminding you – as the MSM refuse to do – that the Tory Brexiteers oppose the Good Friday Agreement, and destroying it is to them a potential gain from Brexit rather than a disaster to be averted. Remember this by Michael Gove, asserting that the British military option would be better than the Good Friday Agreement?
Ulster’s future lies, ultimately, either as a Province of the United
Kingdom or a united Ireland. Attempts to fudge or finesse that
truth only create an ambiguity which those who profit by violence
will seek to exploit. Therefore, the best guarantee for stability is the
assertion by the Westminster Government that it will defend, with
all vigour, the right of the democratic majority in Northern Ireland
to remain in the United Kingdom. Ulster could then be governed
with an Assembly elected on the same basis as Wales, and an
administration constituted in the same way. Minority rights should
be protected by the same legal apparatus which exists across the
UK. The legislative framework which has guaranteed the rights and
freedoms of Roman Catholics and ethnic minorities in Liverpool
and London should apply equally in Belfast and Belleek…In such circumstances, resolute security action, the use of
existing antiterrorist legislation and the careful application of
intelligence could reduce the IRA to operating as it did in the fifties
and sixties. Combining such security measures with a political
determination not to allow Ulster’s constitutional status to be altered
by force of arms would rob the republicans of hope.
It can be done. But does any Government have the will?
Interestingly enough, after I published an article on Gove’s 58 page pamphlet attacking the Good Friday Agreement, the Tory think tank which published it, the Centre for Policy Studies, immediately took it down from the web. I have, however, copied it to my own website.
By chance, my next couple of speaking engagements are in Northern Ireland. This is not the subject I was intending to discuss, but I never know what I am going to say when I stand up anyway. Happy to answer questions on anything.
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Somethings afoot outside Craigs house right now.
https://mobile.twitter.com/CraigMurrayOrg
Weird. Do you know what protest it is?
SDL fascists v anti fascists. Police have moved them on according to his twitter.
We are living in uncertain times in a toxic atmosphere.
Thanks Sharp Ears. Yes, a toxic atmosphere.
A few days ago I caught a comment of yours that was subsequently deleted, asking who my previous comment had been directed towards. My comment was in support of you.
Thanks Clark. I had missed that. Hope you are well.
O/t but I see the BBC is reporting that “ISIS” has “lost the last pocket of territory in Syria it controlled”. I probably missed it, but wasn’t aware that Idlib had already been liberated.
Macron lectures UK on democracy while France burns every Saturday – George Galloway
https://on.rt.com/9qqa
Macron woud never offer a referendum for his people to the leave the EU, thats for sure.
or allow the UK to get out of the EU by the sounds of him.
Macer Gifford, was on Sky News producing a sitrep on Syria. Country now wrecked and ruined. Well done chaps.
Said that ISIS have buried money and weapons and will resume activities ere long. Also that many of them will be heading for Europe and that there is no plan to hold them back.
He held himself out to be connected to the UK military. Not so. Fighting with the YPG!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macer_Gifford
You could not invent these psychopaths.
Cox may be stating the obvious.
When it comes to “Ulster” (more accurately the six counties of Ulster that make up Northern Ireland) the various governments of Ireland during the 20th century have always been bystanders and, eventually, acquiescent to actions by one faction of their constituents (direct democracy) and the decisions of leaders of UK institutions. From the Ulster Covenant in 1912 and the British Army’s Curragh Mutiny in 1914, both prompted by the introduction of the Home Rule Bill, the nullification of the 1918 general election through to the Ulster Workers Council Strike in 1974 following the Sunningdale Agreement UK governments have always caved.
In contrast, the Good Friday Agreement relied on wider and more complex compliance network and created obvious and popular benefits for all parties. It has only been scuppered by the UK government’s habit of caving to populist “direct democracy” – this time actually organized by Westminster itself.
The seeming indifference by the government of the Irish Republic may also be a case of acceptance of the inevitable based on the UK government’s history of ignoring “direct democracy” from the other faction in N.I.
What goes around, comes around.
So, after years of sick warmongering and conspiracies about Trump being a Putin stooge, the verdict is here, there was no collusion,
and now it seems the crazy anti-Trump conspiracy theorists will simply ingnore this fact and will instead create new conspiracy theories!
“Mueller is not recommending any further indictments as part of his inquiry, which effectively ended Friday, according to a senior Justice Department official”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ag-barr-aims-to-release-mueller-report-top-line-conclusions-saturday-night-wont-parse-words-play-games
I wonder how conspiracy theorist Luke Harding feels today ,
Watch Aaron Maté Destroy Russiagate Propagandist and “Collusion” Author Luke Harding
https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2018/10/06/watch-aaron-mate-destroy-russiagate-propagandist-and-collusion-author-luke-harding/
The sweet rain of Rachel Maddow’s tears be upon you my son (apologies in advance if I have misgendered)
I guess all those people who have known all along the Russia-Trump collusion thing was a complete and utter hoax, and have been called mad, bad conspiracy theorists throughout, are justified in feeling a little smug today.
Rachel is already creating new hoax accusations as can be seen in her last episode(s), that woman is finished mentally.
What the hoax is meant to curtail:
Stephen F. Cohen: Mueller Probe Hysteria Endangers National Security By Preventing Trump From Talking With Russia
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/12/04/stephen_f_cohen_russia_probe_hysteria_endagers_national_security.html
The whole point of mudslinging is not to find someone guilty, it is to alter perceptions in the masses, instil unease, a feeling untrustworthiness etc.
Five years of mudslinging has not found Jeremy Corbyn guilty of anything, but still he is portrayed as highly unpleasant and malodorous danger. His popularity ratings can be affected by mudslinging.
Craig has this to say about the so-called People’s March
“People who support the EU have the right to campaign and march today. But the undemocratic #Peoplesvote organisation is a comeback vehicle for Blairite war criminals who delivered illegal war.
Don’t be used. War Criminals should not be platformed whatever platitudes they spout.”
https://mobile.twitter.com/CraigMurrayOrg/status/1109398084294008832
True enough. But I also agree with one of Craig’s respondents who says that the aim of the march leaders (a motley array of war criminals, has-been blairites, and so-called centrists) is not to persuade a majority of MPs to support a 2nd referendum – they know that is not going to happen – but rather to cynically sow division within the Labour movement.
Campbell is all over the media today. Came on LBC this am quite breathless. Said he had been in up North.
https://twitter.com/campbellclaret/status/1109391109044781056 – reason for his breathlessness. His Twitter contains fairly aggressive posts.
Still full of himself. ‘He also advised the Better Together campaign against independence for Scotland, and the Remain side in the EU referendum campaign. He continues to advise left of centre parties, in particular in the Balkans, where he has for some years been a strategic director for the Albanian Socialist Party, who won a landslide victory in June 2013, making Edi Rama Prime Minister, and a second term four years later.’ https://alastaircampbell.org/about/
An odious egoist.
Q Does BLiar still employ him too? 🙂
A picture from today’s march unlikely to help Craig digest his tea
https://mobile.twitter.com/georgegalloway/status/1109501470813097984
oh, i didn’t realise Steve Coogan, Nicola Sturgeon, NHS doctors against Brexit, various young people’s organisations etc were war criminals. Such a pathetic niggardly comment. The tired old ‘smear the messengers’ tactic, when you haven’t got anything else.
“True enough. But I also agree with one of Craig’s respondents who says that the aim of the march leaders (a motley array of war criminals, has-been blairites, and so-called centrists) is not to persuade a majority of MPs to support a 2nd referendum – they know that is not going to happen – but rather to cynically sow division within the Labour movement.”
Indeed. Watson’s presence was solely to sow division, or rather, the latest stage of it. David Miliband was apparently flying in for the march too. I think he is the Messiah they’re paving the way for, in due course. He’s never been out of the loop.
Looks like the car industry has definitely lost confidence in the British government.
“BMW Mini, Honda and Jaguar Land Rover are all going ahead with their planned shutdowns on the 29 March.”
Also.
“Sky News can reveal that the Government has hundreds of gagging orders as part of its preparations for a no-deal.”
?Home Office has signed over 100
?Dept for Transport has signed 79
?Dept of Health has signed 26
?Brexit Dept has signed 7
https://mobile.twitter.com/TomBoadle
Is it really preparing for no deal? Glory be!
Perhaps the British public is so inured to recessions caused by banksters and bad governance it feels entitled to cause one of its very own making.
Sounds like a plus for the environment, at least.
“The EU assault on cheese industries located outside of EU borders is absolutely relevant to the issue of Brexit.”
1 – Disagree strongly
2 – Disagree
3 – Neither agree nor disagree
4 – Agree
5 – Agree strongly
What happens if you think that something just smells off?
You either eat it and call it Stilton or you put it in the outside bin.
Well we couldn’t call it camembert…or could we?
I can’t decide whether to disa-brie or A-brie. ?
To brie, or not to brie : that is the question.
A cheese pun party could well be able to unite the world.
A naughty boy in class at my school forty years ago tittered that ‘La Vache qui rit’ was an apposite description of his boarding house’s female cook.
Our French master expelled him from class like a good loyal housemaster should.
I have no idea whether he had a giggle about it in the staff room, not because he agreed with the boy but merely at the immature and savage rudeness of someone still to master the French language…..
Ha ha, yes indeed, May’s Brexit deal is absolutely Em-mental.
Brie-have yersel RoS!
Thanks folk for the best bit of conversation in a while. I plagiarised that from Loony, who maybe has some uses after all:
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2019/03/geoffrey-coxs-new-legal-advice-on-brexit-incentivises-unionist-violence/comment-page-7/#comment-846046
What exactly is it that you do not understand?
What possible locus does the EU have in cheese production and cheese marketing in Wisconsin?
Maybe. just maybe, a sufficient number of voters in Wisconsin voted for Trump because they believed Trump may protect them from the EU.
I note that you claim an interest in man made global warming. So tell me does it cost more in terms of emissions to export cheese from Wisconsin to Mexico (a major destination of Wisconsin cheese prior to EU intervention) or more to export cheese from Italy to Mexico?
Meanwhile as liberals continue to shed crocodile tears over drowning Africans, why not ask why those Africans are drowning in the first place. Why say a big hello to EU agriculture policy. This from a pro-EU source is still pretty excoriating as regard to actual policy.
http://www.epicenternetwork.eu/blog/the-cap-and-the-struggle-for-development-policy-coherence/
Sure people do not like being bombed – but not everyone is bombed, but everyone needs to eat, and everyone need to eat every day.
While it is true that you can you metaphorically piss all over Africans, some people will fight back – and Donald Trump is titular head of those who have both the will and ability to fight.
In simple terms if you support the EU then by definition you support the creation of Trump as President of the USA.
Suck it up – losers!!!!
I am sooo sorry EU dares to protect traditional, centuries old cheeses from having reputation destroyed by US hormone and canola substitute ridden crap. It’s funny how the Wisconsin farmers hide behind Italian and Spanish names instead of proudly calling their junk what it is, “Wisconsin almost-cheese vegetable oil product”. Why aren’t they proud of their work?
Also, when I can call my company makes “Ford” or my operating system “Windows”? What possible locus does the USA have in car and IT production in Poland? Gee, once I put it like that, it suddenly seems obvious, eh?
Mr V
Misleading, product dumping that is the result of huge taxpayer subsidies that go overwhelmingly to large agribusiness is not a mater of protecting French cheeses. After all Bayer now owns monasanto which is why Germany has tried to delay regulation of roundup/Glyphosate as long as possible.
6 – Don’t know
Johnathan Pie’s Latest Stint as the Very Pissed off Reporter – Reporting on Brexit from outside Parliament – is just Genius..
Very clever guy..There’s a wee bit of almost everything in there. “ Where’s Guy Fawkes when you need him…”
It’s Very funny at times
Very true
Very sad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IL2XwSkFJQ
Forgot the Spoiler Alert – Some Swearing
I saw that and enjoyed it. Does make you wonder what Oxbridge (and various tributaries) are proud of. (Apologies for the hanging thingy).
Thanks for that Brian Pie sums the failings of Westminster perfectly.
It is very funny and very wise, thanks for the link.
Meanwhile, here’s an excellent example of how bad news is always news and good news is simply not news : all quiet for quite a while now on the international Israel – Gaza border; no riots, no shootings. And the crossings are open as usual, thus allowing food and many other non-military goods into Gaza. A cause for happiness, surely, and certainly worth reporting as a small counter-balance to all the negative stuff that gets so gleefully reported.
The actuality is as follows and this is the truth of it , if anybody is interested.
‘Israeli forces killed two Palestinians and injured 62 at the Great Return March in Gaza on Friday, while the UNHRC slammed Israel’s use of lethal and excessive force at the weekly protests that have been ongoing for almost a year.
Jehad Harara was shot in the head east of Gaza City and Nidal Shatat was shot in the chest near the al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, the Gaza Health Ministry reports.’
2 shot dead by IDF in Gaza, 62 injured as UN slams Israel’s use of force (VIDEO)
https://www.rt.com/news/454563-idf-shoots-two-dead-gaza/
23rd March 2029. 11.38am
The date – 23rd March 2019. 11.28
No way, José.
If that were true, you or someone of your persuasion would have posted about it within the hour. And it would have been reported – albeit briefly, perhaps – in at least some of the UK/European media. It was not. A bad case of fake news (from RT of course).
Great stuff Charles and you’re so right. There should be headlines everywhere declaring: “AMAZING NEWS! ISRAEL HASN’T KILLED ANYONE TODAY!”
I wonder if I might be allowed to recommend to readers a website I’ve come across and which, although it obviously has an agenda, does offer sometimes useful and little-known information about various lefties, the uber politically correct, pop stars turned political pundits, haters of different stripes and so on.
It is the very aptly-named http://www.usefulstooges.com
Well worth taking a gander at, give it a try ( you can’t post; just read the articles)
Time to talk of many things: of
links without comments. Sea-lions,
Ship’s and whether pigs have wings.
@ giyane March 23, 2019 at 20:11
‘…pigs have wings.’
Monsanto are working on it.
Beginning to understand why people take the proverbial out of boomers.
“obviously has an agenda…… information about various lefties….. politically correct….. haters ……you can’t post; just read the articles”
Sounds like your kind of website Charles.
I stopped reading your inane drivel at this point:
I’m not really interested in reading stuff written by somebody trapped in an era of brown brogues, Oxford bags, a tweed jacket with elbow patches, a sleeveless Fairisle jumper, and pipe-smoking. It’s very bad form to link to your own website while trying to pretend it’s somebody else’s.
Stonkers
On a point of Information : http://www.usefulstooges.com is not my website, I have no idea whose it is.
“http://www.usefulstooges.com is not my website, I have no idea whose it is.”
Why was my comment making this point – that it is an anonymous smear site analogous to many others – deleted?
Thanks for the link Chas, it is useful to know where you get your opinions from, unless, of course, you wrote them. I gave up reading after page 22, tell me if I missed anything important.
I wonder if Craig has been watching a programme on BBC 2, just finishing. It was absolutely riveting showing the countries of Tashkent and Uzbekistan, the land, the buildings, the people. Such beauty.
Race Across the World
Episode 3/6. Baku to Tashkent
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0003g1s
Tashkent is not a country – perhaps if you kept away from the BBC this obvious fact would become obvious to you too.
Dear Loony. Glad you spotted the deliberate mistake! I should have said Kazakhstan.
Clive Lewis addressed the crowd at the People’s March earlier – a “Tory Brexit is a racist Brexit!”, he bellowed. What does this even mean? And what the f*ck is wrong with these people?
Anon1
Lewis is in a political wilderness, so I suppose he has to make noises occasionally to get noticed.
The more the word “racist” is used, the more people ignore it.
Come on, it’s a Saturday evening, relax 🙂
A russian guy married a Japanese girl, she is a singer and they both perform Alla Pugacheva’s song ‘Million of red roses’, composed by Raymond Pauls, Baltic composer.
It is wonderful! I wish all people on the Earth could just create and enjoy, instead of hatred and killig each other.
https://youtu.be/5dwCuhYOQH0
Kool Tatyana.
Since the Bride is Japanese.. the Merry couple can have a Free Stay in MY Hotel.. Stay as long as they like.
and have a Peaceful weekend yourself too.
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotel_Review-g681223-d1087065-Reviews-Fujisan_Onsen_Hotel_Kaneyamaen-Fujiyoshida_Yamanashi_Prefecture_Koshinetsu_Chubu.html
:Little winder that CM is having trouble writing an article about the Chagos people gaining indeoendence when Chinese influence has long been growing in the coumtries around South Africa, and the best thing that rthe West has for fighting it is the American secret arms in Diego Garcia.
Trow. Are referring to the capture of the Huawei IT engineers on the Malaysian passenger airliner which was diverted to Diego Garcia ?
No, glyane, I was thinking of that cyclone which knocked the crap out of Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Madagascar, like the ones it used to do to Malaysia et al. from its bases around Australia. The US gpv has all it needs in terms of secret air and undersea power in or from Diego Garcia.
Two letters in the Guardian on the UK’s treatment of detainees –
UK asylum system compounds trauma of torture victims
Vulnerable people are being wrongly detained and without adequate safeguards, says Sonya Sceats, chief executive of Freedom from Torture. Judith Daniels argues that the Home Office needs an urgent overhaul
22 Mar 2019
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/mar/22/uk-asylum-system-compounds-trauma-of-torture-victims
Parcel bomb turns up in Ireland https://mobile.twitter.com/MailOnline/status/1109711472156991488?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
Mrs.Theresa May has called in Boris and Jacob, for talks.
It is thought this is to see if their factions can be cajoled into accepting her “Deal”
the smart money is on them letting her believe they will support her deal but then not supporting it at the last moment.
If she thinks it will not pass, she will not put it to the vote but go for kicking further down the road, while handing over the the extreme remainers.
If she thinks it will get through, she can cling on to her job.
So, JRM would like her to put it to the members on Wednesday, then by Friday, we would have gone over the cliff.
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-ethiopia-airplane/ethiopian-airlines-questions-boeings-aggressive-software-idUKKCN1R50BP
“When Boeing supplies aircraft there are items which are mandatory for safety and then there are optional items,” he said. “The angle of attack indicator was on the optional list along with the inflight entertainment system.”
Just breathtaking. Airplane safety is an optional extra with Boeing. It’s just another example of how fucked up the United States of America is.
“For almost three years every Tory MP has chirruped the mantra that no deal would be better than a bad deal.
“I believed that the Government was sincere in making that claim, and I believed that the Prime Minister genuinely had March 29 inscribed in her heart.
“I am afraid I misread the Government. We have blinked. We have baulked. We have bottled it completely.” Quote Boris Johnson
Some are suggesting Mrs.Theresa May will be gone before the new month kicks in.
With the 75% Remainer Parliament resting control.
They will be taking back control for Remain.
When there is another General Election, these fraudsters will be ousted.
May has lost another vote.
It seems several more ministers have resigned, tonight.
She is hanging by a thread
I don’t think it’s off topic to state that the deliberate obfuscation of Brexit is the same political chicanery of the current Tory elite as the deliberate obfuscation of Chagos.
For those like me who have an allergy to obfuscation and who seek clarification and ultimately truth, The political technique of grinding us down with confusion and false choices is exhausting and repulsive.
Of course Craig is correct when he says that the Tory duplicity over Chagos is the opposite of diplomacy. Just as the Brexit referendum has been a reneging of the basic human right to consultation and meaningful debate.
This style of government which started as spin and has evolved into tyranny has lit the fire of revolution in France. I believe that was deliberate. The British created a whole new version of Islam in the Muslim Brotherhood setting Muslim against Muslims Divide and rule.
We must not allow divide and rule to succeed and we will only get one chance to dispose of the divide and rule Tories if the moment of frustration from Brexit amongst our representatives in parliament gives us a once in a generation chance to throw the carboundum bastards out.
It would seem, after the House of Commons has taken back control, they can not come to any conclusion, other than they do not want any proffered option.
Some are suggesting it is now time for Mrs.Theresa May to hang up her crown and prepare for leaving parliament.
Today as 23.00 hours gets closer, another shambolic day, half a vote, only.
Canada updates U.K. travel advisory as Brexit protests intensify
https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/canada-updates-u-k-travel-advisory-as-brexit-protests-intensify-1.4357535
The federal government is warning Canadians in the U.K. to “exercise a high degree of caution” as Brexit protests intensify in London after a third “no deal” vote.
Global Affairs Canada upped the threat level Friday morning due to the “threat of terrorism,” according to its website.
“Acts of violence could occur as well as confrontations between demonstrators and security forces,” the agency wrote on Twitter. “Avoid areas where demonstrations are taking place and nearby underground stations.”
Remainer members of parliament are getting ready to be deselected, reality is awaiting them.
Mrs. Theresa May had, yet another resignation yesterday, she has now had more ministers resign in two years than Tony Blair had resign in a decade.
Not bad going.