Category Archives: European Referendum

Polishing Balls…

Posted on April 10, 2019 by Guthlac

I hope this makes sense but as I’ve got a cold so my thinking isn’t as clear as it should be (I’ll let you decide whether my thinking as ever been that clear!)   So we are at start of yet … Continue reading →

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Death of a Nation….

Posted on March 31, 2019 by Guthlac

So this is it…the crack of doom.   No more a great nation.  No more a rich and influential place to do business.   No More.  No More. No More. All of this is nonsense.   Britain has endured over three hundred years … Continue reading →

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Are we losing all sense of perspective?

Posted on January 13, 2019 by Guthlac

Well it seems that things are getting more and more crazy by the day (and I didn’t think that that was possible!).   Today’s Sunday Times is screaming out about a …Very British Coup… Now I am older enough to have … Continue reading →

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It’s Brexit it just has to be Brexit….

Posted on December 31, 2018 by Guthlac

So we are in a Theresa May induced coma at the moment.   Parliament is away and the news isn’t all about Brexit…only of course it is.   The idea of putting off the meaningful vote until January is that it would … Continue reading →

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End of the world as we know it….

Posted on November 14, 2018 by Guthlac

  So we’re off to the races.  The draft Brexit agreement has now seen the light of day and it seems to have upset everyone (except Theresa May one assumes!)  Will it pass muster?  I haven’t got the first clue … Continue reading →

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Chasing away the demons….

Posted on November 28, 2017 by Guthlac

I’m reading a fascinating book at the moment – Brexit and Ireland: The Dangers, the Opportunities, and the Inside Story of the Irish Response by Tony Connolly and it provides a wonderful antidote to the endless upbeat nonsense put out by … Continue reading →

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Overplaying your hand…

Posted on October 21, 2017 by Guthlac

I haven’t written about Brexit for a while so I thought I would sally forth and have my say, not that it counts for anything.   Over the past few days we have experienced the humiliation of the British prime minister … Continue reading →

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Democratic Deficit…

Posted on September 23, 2017 by Guthlac

Anybody who has been following this blog for any length of time will know that I didn’t want Britain to vote to leave the EU.  I thought membership of the EU was in Britain’s long term interest – I still … Continue reading →

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Complexity’s complexity

Posted on April 14, 2017 by Guthlac

There was a time when much of Britain celebrated Easter, the holiest Christian festival, at a different time to the rest of Western Europe.   This was due to the way that the monks at Iona calculated the date of Easter … Continue reading →

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“…cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war…”

Posted on March 29, 2017 by Guthlac

So the letter is signed, sealed and ….(I’m not sure how it is delivered) but no matter.  The rollercoaster of all rollercoaster rides starts today.   After the best part of nine months of posturing this is it.   Britain … Continue reading →

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