My brief comment on Paul Goodman’s condescending Article towards remainers in today’s Conservative Home
In Paul Goodmans misrepresentative and patronising article he comes across like a Mogladite regurgitating the same old, same old, a spoilt kid if you will who cannot get his own way straight away. Comparing remainers as ' shaggy mammoth unprepared for the end of the...
Press Release: Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke, CH, QC, MP formally accepts Presidency of European Movement East Midlands
The Right Honourable Kenneth Clarke, CH, QC, MP has formally accepted to become President of European Movement East Midlands. George Smid commented: With Kenneth Clarke as our President we hope we will now get the media exposure we have been sadly lacking so far. The...
George Smid: When any deal is better than no deal
Listen carefully to music: the beat is made of the sound – and pause. It is the pause which makes the rhythm. What you don’t hear is more important than the sound itself. The silence is everything. Now listen carefully to reactions to the draft agreement on...
Brexit no-deal will risk thousands of jobs – Respected Spalding & Lincolnshire Journalist Rodney Sadd speaks out
As the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee met last week to look at the impact of Brexit on the automotive sector, there were calls for the Government to keep the closest possible relationship with the existing EU regulatory and trading framework to...
George Smid Latest Column on the Current State of Brexit: Nobody gets everything may end up with everybody getting nothing
Once upon a time there was a happily married couple. She liked summer sun and sea. He liked winter snow and ski. They overcame their differences and compromised – they spent their holidays together in autumn or spring. Despite the fact that both of them suffered by...
Unicorns Don’t Exist – Alan Meekings responds to John Hayes MPs latest Brexit diatribe on the EU in the Lincolnshire Free Press
It's great when Brexiteers, like Mr R Garner (Letters, 27 February) and John Hayes MP (Hayes in The House, 27 February) rail against me for presenting uncomfortable facts and evidence about Brexit, as they simply give me further opportunities to point-out the...
Facts are Facts – Response to Paul Foyster UKIP South Holland and the Deepings
As Christina Lamb, chief foreign correspondent of The Times, said on Desert Island Discs this week, "Facts are facts. You can't have alternative facts." In this context, let's explore Paul Foyster's assertions in his latest letter (Spalding Guardian Reader's View)....
When Truth and Politics part company – “A venomous and ranting letter form Chair of UKIP rebuffed’
Can we have some facts from UKIP? Councillor Paul Cayton Foyster, Chairman, UKIP South Holland & the Deepings (Reader's View, January 4, 2018) says, "For many years every single time the UK has objected to new EU rules and laws, we have been outvoted and...
George Smid: No deal Brexit must mean staying in the EU
Deal or No Deal – in the game show you either accept the offer or stay in the game. If you wish to sell a house you either do a deal or you stay in your house – no deal. In every situation if you don’t do the deal you stay put. Brexit claims to be different. ‘No deal’...
An appeal to all people of good will: join us in stopping the “barmy” amendment
We are making real progress with the campaign against what our Chairman termed “the barmy amendment” to write “29 March 2019 at 11.00PM” on the face of the EU Withdrawal Bill. Dominic and other MPs have made very clear their opposition. The proposed amendment would...
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