"Silent, upon a peak in Darien"

photo © 2020 Martin Hübscher Photography

Despite his soul-piercing look of reproach, hope springs eternal while King Cat surveys
the ruins of his kingdom after human occupation.

Why I don't blog any more

What are you doing while the world burns?

 

We still have a choice.
We either continue to self-medicate or we get off the sofa and fight. If we are financially able, we must give money
to those who need it more.
If we are physically able, we must resist and protest.

A nation in denial of crisis at last appeals for help from EU

THE WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER TODAY

England, 2019

"Many of us...have a feeling that we are living in a country where fanatics, hooligans and eccentrics
have got the upper hand."
Horace Rumbold, British Ambassador to Berlin, 1933

"My God. History will condemn this period. It will condemn those who’ve sat back and kept their view to themselves, who haven’t stood up and tried to stop all this nonsense.”
Anna Soubry MP, 2017

Clio, Muse of History reading a scroll
Attic red-figure lekythos, ca. 435-425 BC. From Boeotia. Louvre. Image: Wikipedia

“I don’t want to be known as the last prime minister of the United Kingdom”
attributed to Theresa May, Prime Minister, 2019

"When I am dead and opened, you shall find Calais engraved on my heart".
Mary I, 1558, referring to the humiliating incompetence of losing England's last stronghold in continental Europe

Jan Swart van Groningen, Woman Lamenting by a Burning City 1550-55
Pen in black, brush in brown,
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Image: WGA

Tyranny

"So Theresa May will not promise to accept the will of our democratically elected Parliament when we vote on Brexit options - but she will carry out the result of an advisory referendum, won through cheating and lies, regardless of the cost to the country." David Lammy, 25 March, 2019

Lorenzetti THE EFFECTS OF BAD GOVERNMENT 1337 -39, Sala della Pace (Hall of Peace) Siena. Image: WGA

"May is making a very straightforward argument that the will of the executive is more important that the will of parliament. I had always thought that Oliver Cromwell had settled that argument with Charles I in a fairly conclusive manner." Craig Murray, 25 March, 2019

Lucas Vorsterman TRIUMPH OF POVERTY c. 1624 -30 Pen in brown, with gray and brown wash,
black and red chalks, and white highlights, British Museum, London. Image source: WGA

Spring in Park Lane

A million people marched peacefully to show the world that Britain is better than Brexit

“If a democracy cannot change its mind, it ceases to be a democracy.”

PETITION TO REVOKE ARTICLE 5O AND REMAIN IN EU HAS OVER 5 MILLION SIGNATURES

The Persecution of Love

Huguenot Lovers on St Bartholomew’s Day by John Everett Millais, oil on canvas, 1852.
Image: Wikipedia

If you are living in a mixed-nationality marriage in the hostile environment of the modern UK, true love and hard work are not enough to stop you from being forcibly separated from your family. “Oh, it couldn’t happen here”. Oh, yes it could, and it is happening now.
Only the rich will survive in Brexit Britain.

“FOR RICHER, FOR POORER by Lib Dem Immigrants

Many people who’ve not had cause to find out the hard way don’t realise that mixed-nationality couples can be forbidden from living together in the UK if they don’t earn enough. We want to raise awareness of this, and we’re proud that Lib Dem policy is to oppose it. If you’re married to a British person, you should be allowed to live with them. No means 

testing. For richer, for poorer.

 

Lina is a Dachshund from Munich, Germany; Jamie is an English Bulldog from Croydon. Jamie worries about whether Brexit will mean Lina can’t come and live with him.

Kuniko is a Shiba Inu from Kyoto, Japan. Gary is a Jack Russell Terrier from Bolton. Gary’s income is just enough for Kuniko to be allowed here — but not enough for their puppies too. They don’t know what they should do.

Malcolm is an Old English Sheepdog from Hexham; Brigitte is a Bichon Frise from Toulouse, France. Brigitte is looking forward to the country life, but first she needs to find out what paperwork she’ll need, and the Home Office isn’t answering her questions.

Maryam is a Persian cat from Isfahan, Iran. Tom is a Yorkshire Terrier from Leeds. Maryam expects to get a good job in the UK — but the Home Office won’t count that as income while she’s still in Iran. The stress is affecting both of them.

Rick is an English Bulldog from Solihull; Ernesto is a chihuahua from Ciudad Juarez in Chihuahua, Mexico. Unfortunately Rick lost his job as a security guard, and his benefits don’t come to enough for Ernesto to join him.

Rachel is a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel from Southampton; Dietrich is a Bernese Mountain Dog from Bern, Switzerland. Dietrich is trying to sort out Settled Status but that needs an Android smartphone and his big paws aren’t good with phones.

Shirley is a Bearded Collie from Durham; Jane is a Shih Tzu from Shenzhen, China. Same-sex marriages aren’t recognized in China; Shirley and Jane wonder if this will affect their rights in the UK.

Morag is a West Highland Terrier from Ardnamurchan, and Paweł is a Pomeranian from Gdańsk in Pomerania, Poland. Morag hopes that Paweł won’t experience the abuse that many Poles in the UK have had.

Rhys is a Collie from near Aberystwyth; no-one is quite sure where Ziggy is from, but Rhys loves them anyway.

* Liberal Democrat Immigrants exists to represent those members of the Liberal Democrats who have chosen to come to live in the UK from elsewhere. It also seeks to represent the interests of immigrants to the UK in general and to highlight those issues that disproportionately affect immigrants.”

#hostileenvironment #FBPE #Remain

A King Charles Spaniel by Manet, oil on canvas, c. 1866

The look on a dog’s face that says people have lost their minds. They had happiness within their grasp and they have thrown the ball away. Stop Brexit. STAY!

Three links to saving a nation

TWO IS NOT DEMOCRACY

 

YOU KNOW IT'S WRONG

THE PIPE DREAM THAT STOLE
66 MILLION FUTURES

 

The moment modern Britain got back its dignity

Dominic Grieve's magisterial speech at The People's Vote rally on 13 November was an historic moment to remember, whatever the outcome of the movement to save our disunited kingdom will be. All the speakers found new reserves of passion and determination, and, in some cases, humility, showing the time has come to put our country above all personal interests. This was patriotism, not nationalism.

October Afternoon

Trafalgar Square, afternoon, 20 October, 2018

  

700,000 patriots marched to save the future of our country from the consequences of Brexit

 

over 300,000 people have signed the  

petition for a People's Vote

 
over 1 million people have signed
The Independent's petition for

a Final Say

Whether you voted Leave or Remain, the time has come to demand a #finalsay

EVERYTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE UNTIL WE MAKE IT HAPPEN
video narrated by Brian Cox

Remain for a brighter future

A BRIGHTER FUTURE FOR THE UK
proposed by Gina Miller in a new campaign to save UK from political chaos, social injustice and economic decline

"The vote for Brexit shone a light on problems that successive

Governments have consistently failed to address – communities left

behind, inequality, the immigration system, economic stagnation,

stretched public services, crisis in housing and social care.

"Britain is one of the most unequal societies in Europe, where success increasingly depends on where you live, which school or university you went to, who your parents are, and who they know.

"With 42% of UK wealth owned by 10% of households, it is no wonder there is a breakdown of trust in our institutions and politicians.

"But is Brexit the solution?"
 Gina Miller, Remain Plus for a Brighter Future

 Ghirlandaio Four Sibyls Vaulting of the Sassetti Chapel, Santa Trinita, Florence.
Fresco c 1485.Image: WGA

"What we have ended up with is division, anxiety and unhappiness.  The options facing us are so poorly defined that clarity is desperately and urgently needed. There must be a better way.

"Time is running out, but it is not too late. It is only right, morally and democratically, that the people of the UK are given a vote on a future we will have to face together.

"We believe this is the only way to clear away the confusion, draw a line under Brexit and get back to dealing with the issues facing our country.  The only way to end the chaos."
Extract from Gina Miller's mission statement on the new website End the Chaos

The full text of Gina Miller's clear and constructive programme for reform following A People's Vote on Brexit is available to read here: Remain Plus for a Brighter Future

END THE CHAOS
REMAIN IN THE EU

The Fifth Horseman

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LINKS TO PETITIONS:
The People's Vote
Final Say

National identity

and the sport of politics
England would not have reached the World Cup without Freedom of Movement.

Repair Broken Promises and Broken Rights

PETITION THE GOVERNMENT TO KEEP THE RIGHTS OF EU CITIZENS ALREADY LIVING IN THE UK
UNCHANGED
AS PROMISED BY VOTE LEAVE BEFORE THE 2016 REFERENDUM

This promise has not been kept by the government.

Please sign and share the petition.

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UK GOVERNMENT AND PARLIAMENT

INFORMED CONSENT

"The public...need guarantees on NHS staffing, access to medicines and the safety of the NHS from any US-UK trade deal, before they can be satisfied that... Brexit will do no harm to our NHS and social care."

Source: More United

"At its 70th birthday, the NHS faces – in Brexit – perhaps the greatest threat to its survival in its history.

"The consent given by the public for Brexit was not informed consent. In medicine – and surely to any reasonable person – consent which is not informed is considered invalid, and this mandates a vote on the Brexit deal."

Source: Charles Gallaher The Independent

Save the nation from self-harming by signing
the petition for a People's Vote

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Our Future is in Their Paws

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Option 4

The Government's own Department for Exiting the EU has concluded that the best option for the United Kingdom's economy and people's jobs is to remain. 


Our elected representatives have shown themselves incompetent to act in our interests. Members of Parliament have undermined Parliamentary democracy by handing more power to the executive.

Now that everyone has more information about the consequences of leaving the EU, we, the People, should be allowed a say on the final deal.

A new People's Vote would not be a second EU Referendum.

It would be the third EU Referendum since 1975, when the majority voted in favour of remaining.

Brexit is still legally reversible. 

We can still save our country and all our futures.

There should be an Option to Remain.

Over 300,000 people have signed
the Petition for A People's Vote

PLEASE MAKE IT EVEN BIGGER BY SIGNING AND SHARING IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY

WE DEMAND

A PEOPLE'S VOTE

 PLEASE SHARE THIS LINK TO SAVING OUR COUNTRY
BY DEMANDING A SAY ON THE FINAL BREXIT DEAL

READ FULL DETAILS HERE
 
OVER 300,000 PEOPLE HAVE SIGNED THE PETITION
PLEASE SHARE AND
HELP WIN THE FIGHT
TO SAVE OUR COUNTRY

The Misgovernment of Britain

“THE UNCERTAINTY, MUDDLE AND DRIFT [OF BREXIT SHOWS]THAT VICTORIAN THEORIES OF GOVERNMENT SIMPLY DON’T DESCRIBE ANY LONGER THE REALITY OF HOW THE UK IS MISGOVERNED”
Tim O’Connor, Attorney at Law

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