Jon Danzig
There is no doubt across the world, even in Russia, that Vladimir Putin was directly involved in the murder on Friday 16 February 2024 of Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny.Just as there is now little doubt that Russia directly interfered in the UK’s democratic processes – the Scottish...
Jon Danzig
The Guardian has reported that Labour is planning to ditch radical reforms and only offer ‘safe policies’ in a stripped-down, cautious manifesto that is “bombproof” to Tory attacks.Keir Starmer has now rowed back on numerous big policies, such as its £28bn a year commitment on green investment,...
Jon Danzig
Our NHS would collapse without migrants.Almost 20% of the staff in NHS England are from overseas. Out of 1.5 million NHS staff in England, around 265,000 reported a non-British nationality as of June 2023. That’s 45,000 more than the previous year.What’s more, since Brexit, data indicates that the...
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The word Brexit was invented in 2012. It’s when I started to campaign against it, seriously concerned that it could really happen.But what did I do before that?For those who are interested to know, BBC Three Counties Radio broadcast an extended interview with me about my career as a...
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The five Conservative Prime Ministers of this millennium have cumulatively inflicted such deeply ingrained damage to our country that it may take generations to repair what they have done.Of the five, four strongly supported EU membership before the referendum. They knew in their hearts and heads...
Jon Danzig
No matter what he does wrong – and there’s a thick catalogue of wrongs – Boris Johnson thinks he can just say “sorry” and everything will be fine.But everything isn’t fine and sorry won’t do.On 6 December 2023 at the Covid public inquiry, Boris Johnson said he was “deeply sorry” for the victims of...
Jon Danzig
It was on 1 December 1955 that a black woman in Montgomery, Alabama was arrested after refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white person.Rosa Parks had broken racist, segregation laws in her state which stipulated that black Americans must vacate their seats if there were white passengers...
Jon Danzig
An editorial in The Guardian asked a key question following the shock ‘win’ this month of a far-right politician in the Netherlands, Geert Wilders, and his anti-immigrant ‘Party for Freedom’.‘How did the Netherlands reach the point at which a former political pariah finds himself on the threshold...
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After the EU referendum, suspicions grew about the role of Russia in clinching the narrow ‘win’ for Brexit.Evidence was mounting that there had been deep involvement and interference by Russian ‘agents’ whose aim was to destabilise the EU by enabling Britain’s departure from it.It was no secret...
Jon Danzig
So, in a straw poll of Twitter users organised by the new Chief Twit, Elon Musk, Donald Trump has been ‘elected’ back onto the platform after being banned in 2020 for reasons we all know.“The people have spoken,” tweeted Mr Musk. Haven’t we heard that phrase before, ad nauseam, since 24 June...
Jon Danzig
Brexit used to sit on the far side lines of politics.Indeed, the word ‘Brexit’ was only invented in 2012, and until the referendum, most people didn’t know what it meant.(Now it’s in the Oxford English dictionary.)An in-depth study by the Migration Observatory showed that:The volume of press...
Jon Danzig
So, Rishi Sunak has been crowned the second ‘unelected’ Tory Prime Minister in as many months. Is the country ‘Ready for Rishi’? Well, the country has no choice. The new Prime Minister has been anointed by just 194 Conservative MPs. We don’t get a say.Although in the UK we don’t directly elect a...
Jon Danzig
For most of the UK’s five decades as a member of the European Union, Britain didn’t want to leave. On the contrary, most Brits wanted us to stay.What’s the proof of that? Well, apart from polling over the years, look at governments and general elections.From 1959 to 2016, every UK government and...
Jon Danzig
Brexit is based on blatant mistruths and lies.Every reason given to leave the EU was a stinking falsification. When, one day, there is a public inquiry into how our country was conned, there will be gasps into how conniving, cunning politicians managed to get away with it.Lies, lies and more lies....
Jon Danzig
New British Prime Minister, Liz Truss, demanded that ‘no EU flags’ should be shown at the Prague meeting of European leaders on Thursday 6 October 2022.EU news website EURACTIV reported that the flags were kept away from the inaugural European Political Community summit at the demand of Ms Truss...
Jon Danzig
Britain’s Children’s Newspaper – subtitled, ‘The Story of the World Today for the Men and Women of Tomorrow’ – was a remarkable and mature publication for youngsters.On 8 October 1938, with dark clouds of war looming, the newspaper ran a visionary editorial describing Europe as ‘one...
Jon Danzig
Conservatives, have you forgotten what your party in power used to stand for regarding Europe?For most of the past seven decades, Tory governments did more than any other to bring us closer to our continent.After all:It’s because of the Conservatives that the UK applied to join the European...
Jon Danzig
So, Keir Starmer made it crystal clear today that a Labour Party government under his prime ministership will not attempt any significant changes to the Tory Brexit deal.Under a Labour government, there will be no rejoining the EU, or the Single Market, or the customs union, or resuming free...