Lee Rotherham
@DrBrexit
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Historian, linguist, author. Good governance campaigner. Veteran Westminster/ Brussels adviser and think tanker. Dir Special Projects, Vote Leave.
London, England
Joined September 2016
RT @defossardf: The past year, British discussion of immigration has mainly focused on illegal immigration and asylum seekers, understandab….
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In EU circles back in the day, we called this funding of sympatico lobbyists "Brussels talking to Brussels". Neat system. Hand over public dosh to mates to tell you what you want to hear, ticking the outreach box and giving a justification for what you've already planned.
We are quoted in this article about the Scottish Government's funding of organisations which promote gender self-identification principles in public policy and law
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Increasingly suspicious that Rachel Reeves has gone full mediaeval sede vacante and the Crown is quietly raking in the diocesan revenue.
A mark of how irrelevant the Church of England has become in our national life is the fact that it has been without an archbishop of Canterbury for eight months, and nobody seems to have noticed.
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So my question is this: why has it taken so long for this to be admitted openly? . It's not meant just as a casual criticism. Why is the liberal elite so, well, appallingly useless at calling out catastrophic systemic failure? And does that now disqualify them from their role?.
This is striking from Ken Macdonald, former pupil of Helena Kennedy’s, co-founder of Matrix chambers with Cherie Blair, Keir Starmer’s predecessor as DPP, former Lib Dem, on the Refugee Convention via @FraserNelson
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I would rather we were back in a society that didn't need such unBritish ostentation to have to assert our identity. There used to be a time when we simply didn't need to fly flags. The change with the Parliament flagpole rules was the first marker.
Yet again the elite class in the UK is woefully out of touch with the rest of the country ⬇️. Nearly 60% of all Brits say "fly more Union Jack and St George's flags on lampposts and roundabouts". And I agree! 🇬🇧🏴. Source: More in Common pollsters.
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The sooner Reform develop coherent and thought-through policies, the better for all.
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There is, unhappily, a clearly emerging trend under Labour to adopt EU regulatory burdens while avoiding Parliamentary scrutiny. Whatever your views on Brexit, this is unacceptable.
Interesting piece by Sir Bill Cash on the (in)compatibility of the government's EU reset measures and the sovereignty clauses in the withdrawal legislation. Cash cites the poll I commissioned earlier this month on the British public's attitudes to sovereignty.
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The first one now joins the advice about starting a land war in central Asia or crossing a Sicilian.
Pro tip: Don't drop cluster munitions on Tel Aviv. Pro tip 2: If your anti-Israel politics drive you into the arms of a group of slavers who've murdered, kidnapped and tortured their way through their country and whose flag declares, among other things, "death to America" and.
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Things are interlinked. The sooner people get this, the better.
Leaving the ECHR won’t fix the asylum crisis. The real problem is the outdated and dangerous Refugee Convention - now a gift to the trafficking gangs. My Times column:-.
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RT @JohnRentoul: It’s garbage – the Dublin agreement didn’t work; small boats were discovered after better scanning of lorries, nothing to….
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The logical end state is to hive off "control personnel, give policy advice to the PM, interfere in ministerial responsibility" to fresh entities/people, either instantly or by diffusion over time. Whitehall career progression also needs to reward specialism (cf Army's changes).
New blog: .- How a *regime complete* new government could actually control the government.- Origins & evolution of the Cabinet Office from 1916.- How to structure No10.- Questions for those hoping to be next PM, & those hoping to help them.Link below.
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Once again, not seeing here the option of a bill clause simply asserting that, in the context of acts and agreements referencing the ECHR, such obligations are sustained by longstanding provisions in domestic law. Then see if either the EU or Dublin want that argument.
"The legal position is therefore clear: yes there is provision for a state to leave the ECHR and the Refugee Convention. But doing so comes with both legal and political consequences.". ✍️ @CSBarnard24 explains the impact of leaving the ECHR.
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Planning to withdraw does not preclude others trying to radically reform it. Fill your boots. We'll just be prepped for when you embarrassingly fail.
By far the better and quicker option is attempting to reform the ECHR. If there is popular support across Europe for some kind of change to the ECHR terms relating to deportations then it is possible to enact that. The ECHR text is changed regularly by vote in the Council of.
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RT @MuseumOfBrexit: It seems to have been completely forgotten today, but did you know there was a Parliamentary debate on establishing a f….
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Yes but that's the point. Like when Berlusconi keeps giving you and your wife expensive watches.
My very hot take, which I've held under both Tory and Labour governments, is that the existing £140 ministerial gift limit is farcically low and frankly embarrasing for minister to have to explain when receiving gifts. It should be raised.
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Concentrate minds. Just build a trapdoor in a conference room with a flip-chair lever and have done with it.
Just one more civil servant to drive change across government, I swear
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Or more precisely, why you need a proper worked out plan addressing all the moving parts.
Want to see how quickly Farage’s migrant plan would unravel? Greek journalist Thimios Tzallas explains
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Labour issued policy guidance to schools on this in March 2002.
Families shouldn't have to be out of pocket when doing the back-to-school shop. For the first time ever, this government are introducing new laws that will restrict the number of branded items a school requires to keep uniform costs down and help parents save money.
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