No; as Major himself said, when there was wrongdoing, he tried to set up a Standards Committee to stop it. At every step, Johnson's instinct has not only been to do the opposite, but actually to… (View Post)

If he recovers from this one, Cummings will just pick another card from his famous Downing Street box. (View Post)

This is just the triumph of total cynicism, which Trump and Johnson have encouraged, even made a public virtue out of. This gradually corrodes democracy from the inside. (View Post)

Conversely there will be the argument about being the rule-takers without being the rule-makers. In the eyes of some this will discredit Brexit even further, but others will think much more along the… (View Post)

I think it's more likely than not that Britain will be back in the EEA in some form in the next decade. Full rejoining, on the other hand, looks very unlikely to me, for now. (View Post)