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

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

Last Hope to Save Britain?

JOIN THE MARCH TO DEMAND

A FINAL SAY

ON THE BREXIT DEAL.


The politicians cannot deliver a workable deal. Our democracy is discredited if it does
not benefit the people.
This is the biggest fight of our lives to save our country and a decent quality of life for everyone,
the poor as well as the rich,
the sick as much as the healthy.
This march isn't just for Europhiles:
it is for all of us.

It is for our children;
it is for our parents and grandparents and great-grandparents who fought to give us
social and political rights we take for granted.

It is for people who care about education, environment and culture, for equality and justice, for music and science, for nursing and medicine, for affordable nutritious food
and humane farming standards, for their jobs.

It is for the freedom to follow your vocation in the modern world, unfettered by prejudice and ideology.

It's the last reality check before self-destruction.

A bad Brexit will cause more civil unrest in the long run than no Brexit.

Democracy was given to free the people,
not trap them.
 
March for a vote on the deal.
March for an option to Remain in the EU and reform it from within. 

Get details of the march here

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

#finalsay

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

CLICK HERE TO READ FULL POST

LINKS TO PETITIONS:
The People's Vote
Final Say

Is this really the Will of the British People?

 READ FULL POST HERE

HIS NAME IS WILL. LOOK AFTER HIM

STOP THE BUS

It is still legally possible to
STOP BREXIT

if the people tell the Government to
STOP BREXIT

The Cost of Leaving

THE TRIUMPH OF POVERTY

 

Save the United Kingdom

 

IT IS NOT TOO LATE TO STOP BREXIT

Britain, stop self-harming

CONDEMNED BY HISTORY

"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.”

A rare black swan in the dismal swamp of Brexit Parliamentary politics - Anna Soubry:
"I am simply not prepared to stand back and watch my country fall off a cliff edge. If that means voting against my party, so be it."

"It’s like the counter-revolutionary forces of Chairman Mao or Joe Stalin. It’s not enough that you went against everything you ever believed in; you have to sign up in blood. It’s like Orwell’s thought police and the reign of terror combined"

ANNA SOUBRY INTERVIEWED IN THE OBSERVER

The unspeakable in full pursuit of the untenable

Stealing off;—or—prudent Secesion by James Gillray, etching, 1798.
Image source: Wikipedia

OR

Unreasonable Withdrawal; -  A Brexit minister realizes that the EU Withdrawal Bill is a mistake,
2017

READ ORIGINAL POST HERE

Blame Projection

"Putting politics above prosperity is never a smart choice.”

"Davis's snide one upmanship, delivered with the demeanour of a car salesman fresh from his negotiating seminar, is the substitute for British diplomacy in Europe."

The Last of England

The democratic right to change our minds

THE BRITISH PEOPLE STILL HAVE A CHOICE ON BREXIT

CLICK HERE TO READ ORIGINAL POST

Lord Cardigan leading the Charge of the Light Brigade

ONCE OUT, THERE IS NO WAY BACK

 

 Lord Kerr 

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Come Out of Denial Now or Take Us All To Hell

A VISION OF BRITAIN'S IMMEDIATE FUTURE

No longer the country

It is good to see ourselves as others see us

When the joke is over

Brexit Photo © MHP

When men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect....like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead. Jonathan Swift.

A WHOLLY UNNECESSARY CALAMITY

“Mrs May condemns Catalonian nationalists for 'a reckless act of separatism' that 'risks casting their people into a wholly unnecessary calamity'.”
(BBC website)

"To know thyself is the beginning of wisdom." Socrates

"There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake." Jonathan Swift

Truth Unacknowledged bronze sculpture by Paul Dalou (1838-1902).
Image: WGA

"You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday."  Jonathan Swift

 “It is the right of those of us who voted to remain [in the European Union] to continue to speak for what we believe is in our country’s best interest and not allow ourselves to be cowed into silence.” Ian McEwan

The Writing on Our Wall

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“We are leaving the EU and there will not be a second referendum”  (UK Treasury, 17 October 2017)