A Plea for Sanity to the Home Office
Personally, I find myself now embarrassed to be a citizen of the UK. The UK used to have a commendable reputation around the world for providing sanctuary for refugees, asylum seekers and individuals not born in the UK but with reasons to live in the UK – like Brian...
How the Parliamentary Whip System is undemocratic and allowed Article 50 to be triggered
Any explicit direction to an MP as to how they should vote would technically be a Breach of Parliamentary Privilege. (Quote from Wikipedia). A 3 line whip is a very strong communication to MPs that they must be present at a vote in Parliament but ordering how they...
George Smid: Brexit – crash in or crash out?
No sooner had Messrs Hammond and Fox published a joint article to show ‘unity of purpose’ than David Davis declared he knew nothing about it. And as soon as the same David Davis assured the public that there was indeed a ‘Brexit United’ team, other ‘fellow ministers’...
George Smid: Let’s do Brexit now – don’t wait until March 2019
Last week the talks between the UK and European Union taught us a lot about Brexit: the Brits do not need any negotiating notes, we’ll pay a divorce bill, we know a lot of detail about Euratom. We also know that the public is as divided as ever. And we see that...
REPRESENTATIONAL PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY
Currently, my local paper, the Lincolnshire Free Press, allows my local MP, John Hayes (Cons), a weekly column, called "Hayes in the House", in which John Hayes is allowed to say whatever he fancies, regardless of whether or not he's addressing the real issues...
New Chair to be Elected for the Conservative Group for Europe – How might this affect the Party?
As Neil Carmichael MP stands down at the end of his term of office as Chair of the Conservative Group for Europe, we thank him for his work during this time. We also look at how different the Conservative Party is now to what it was just five years ago and consider...
An absolute must read on ‘Seeking the Common Good’ in respect of Brexit, By Edward Bickham of the Conservative Group for Europe
Click the link below to download PDF version Seeking-the-Common-Good-Building-a-New-Constructive-relationship (1)
Welcome to New Leicestershire European Movement Branch & Press Release
PRESS RELEASE dated 11 May 2017 Voting and Europe Stephen Dorrell, who was the Conservative MP for Loughborough and then later Charnwood for many years, is now Chair of the UK branch of the European Movement, an international, cross-party organization inspired...
Spiritual leader to Tibetan pilgrims: ‘This teaching is principally for you’
Dharamshala — “Since many of you couldn’t attend the recent Kalachakra empowerment, this teaching today is principally for you. I have great admiration for the strength of spirit of you people in Tibet," His Holiness said to the Tibetan pilgrims in the audience before...
Tibetan Parliament opens new budget session
Dharamshala — The budget session for the financial year 2017-2018 of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile began today. This is the third session of the 16th Tibetan Parliament. In his opening remarks as Speaker of Parliament, Khenpo Sonam Tenphel, offered deepest gratitude...
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