25 April 2019
Rail unions were claiming victory over the Easter weekend after the announcement that 47 of the 51 ticket offices slated for closure on London Overground will be retained.
Sovereign states have this in common: they are all that now stands between the peoples of the world and utter domination by the transnational monopolies that think the world is rightfully theirs to exploit.
Through the treachery of the government and MPs, Britain is in political and economic limbo. Instead of being free to take back control, they have handed the future of the country over to the EU…
As both the EU and the UK government seek to thwart the results of the biggest democratic decision in our history, it is time to take stock of where we are, and how we can preserve and develop fishing…
Britain’s fishing fleet needs new boats, and skilled workers. Some 60 per cent of our fishing fleet has been scrapped over the years.
All political parties have shown themselves ready to sell out fishing at the merest hint from their Brussels controllers.
Even the government admits the rail system is a mess. Its solution could make matters worse…
The fragmentation of Britain’s railways has its roots in an EEC directive (91/440/EEC) handed down in 1991. This directive decreed the separation of infrastructure from train operations, with the express purpose of creating a competitive market. It was the blueprint used by John Major for the Conservative government’s privatisation of Britain’s railways from 1994 to 1996.
The Labour Party is mired in monumental confusion over the future direction of the railways. Nationally, its policy is to return the railways to public ownership and control. But since privatisation, whenever it has been in power, it has done the reverse.
Change is in the air in the NHS, with its most senior managers reportedly pressing for repeal of the destructive Health and Social Care Act. And there are new calls to stop looting doctors and nurses from abroad…
The June 2016 referendum result was entirely rational. It represented a sophisticated view of the connection between economics and politics.…
