brexit

On Brexit, a general election and Scottish independence

September 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson · It looks like Britain will leave the EU on 31 October without a deal after all. In order to ‘trump’ his Parliamentary opponents and their ‘No ...

Illusion and reality in the world of Boris Johnson

August 16, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · Nearly a month into the reign of the new Tory leader, the torrent of right wing media praise for Boris Johnson is unabated. Even the reduction of the Tory/DUP commons majority to ...

As Trump’s pal Boris powers ahead, it’s clear there’s no good Tory choice

June 21, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · As the crisis wracked Tories, for centuries the premier pillar of the British state, fall in behind proven blunderer, racist and imperial fantasist Johnson a pitiless spotlight is ...

Surreal Euro polls put crisis of the British state in the spotlight

June 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson • Historically a bye word for stability, statecraft and order, the British state is now facing political and constitutional disarray on a unimagined scale. Already gridlocked ...

‘A social wrong as great as the poll tax’

April 11, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Sandra Webster · April: a time of rebirth of new opportunities. Our government is using the Brexit debates to hide some very bad news and ridiculous payments to those with the most need. Surely ...

All that’s solid melts in air amidst Brexit crisis

April 11, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · Even the most hardened journalists, activists and politicians now stand on the edge of Brexit bafflement as things unthinkable one day enter the mainstream the next. Moving at ...

Neither tragedy nor farce but action for real change can save the day

March 22, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · If Marx was right when he wrote the famous dictum that history repeats itself first as tragedy than as farce you have to wonder where on that scale lies the crisis wracked UK now? ...

Time the left faced indy’s new challenges

March 6, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Colin Fox, SSP national co-spokesperson · Isn’t it strange how Brexit is being blamed for everything from Honda’s decision to close its Swindon factory to the unseasonal February weather? ...

Brexit-fuelled fantasies of Empire 2.0 makes indy case

March 1, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · In what now seems like a universe far, far away, during the 2016 EU referendum, the Voice took a reluctant Remain position and warned that the politics of Brexit would be dominated ...

Action on people’s priorities can drive real change

February 8, 2019 // 0 Comments

by Ken Ferguson · Even political junkies must be reeling by now at the dizzying pace of Brexit crisis following Brexit crisis and the saturation media discussion of it on what feels like a 24/7 ...