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

Three links to saving a nation

TWO IS NOT DEMOCRACY

 

YOU KNOW IT'S WRONG

THE PIPE DREAM THAT STOLE
66 MILLION FUTURES

 

Stop Brexit's Sale of Britain

THE KING ALFRED JEWEL
Ashmolean Museum
Symbol of Everything We Value in Our Country

SIGN OPEN LETTER TO THE PRIME MINISTER DEMANDING PROTECTION OF CURRENT STANDARDS AND REGULATIONS IN ANY FUTURE TRADE DEALS

In the light of a cold winter’s day

“The Treasury’s analysis shows that the UK would be permanently poorer if it left the EU” 

Re-unite or Self-destruct

Humans are selfish by instinct, like all animals. We are narcissistic, like no other animal. We reason, like no other animal. We squander our natural gifts, like no other animal. We are cruel, like no other animal. We have more regrets than any other animal.
We cannot bring the people we love back to life but we can make at least one sensible decision for the common good before we die. (Noelle Mackay)

VOTE REMAIN IN ANOTHER EU REFERENDUM
(the third, not second, since 1975) 

WANTED: 24 Heroes and Heroines

TO SAVE BRITAIN FROM BREXIT
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Click here to read Nick Clegg in conversation with Richard Thaler in The Guardian

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

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

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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 moment we finally failed

 

William Hogarth, Tail-piece or The Bathos. Image: Wikipedia

Brexit could be “the moment we finally failed as a great nation and became a second or third tier nation”. George Freeman, Chairman of the Conservative Policy Forum, Theresa May's chief political adviser (The Independent)

Monstrous, Humiliating National Crisis

"A PAINFUL, MONSTROUS NATIONAL CRISIS"
"There is an aspect of national humiliation associated with what is going on. The triggering of article 50 was so monstrously premature." David Miliband, The Guardian.

The democratic right to change our minds

THE BRITISH PEOPLE STILL HAVE A CHOICE ON BREXIT

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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