Victory For Hammond? Proposal Meets Tory Leavers’ Demands
The Times and FT predictably report today’s proposal for a temporary customs union with the EU during the transition period as a victory for Philip Hammond. Is this true? Back in June Guido told you...
View ArticleDavis Diplomatically Distances Himself From Chappers
A few weeks ago James Chapman was talking up his apparently ongoing relationship with David Davis, briefing journalists that he should be the Prime Minister and regularly appearing in newspapers as an...
View ArticleRemainers Divided, Can’t Agree Positions, View Each Other With “Suspicion”
An interesting story in the FT today reports that continuity Remainers are riven by splits, cannot agree on how to oppose Brexit and view each other with “suspicion“. The paper says “working out which...
View ArticleSeumas Feeling the Strain
A parliamentary bag-carrier in Portcullis House yesterday spied an animated Seumas Milne having a heated row with fellow Corbyn aide Jennifer Larbie. Our eyewitness says Seumas was having a “temper...
View ArticleNatalie’s Making Blackberry Moonshine
Usually it is those of us of a more libertarian bent who rail against regulations that prevent individuals with enterprise creating goods and services which do no harm to others. Growing your own...
View Article“Gay Donkey” UKIP Candidate Unveils Online Shop
Readers will remember John Rees Evans, the UKIP leadership candidate who once claimed a gay donkey tried to rape his horse (refresh your memories with the video above). Poor John has never been...
View ArticleBBC Meets Young Leave Voters
The BBC meets young Leave voters to dispel Remain myths about Brexiteers. Not the sort of output you’d expect from the Beeb… The post BBC Meets Young Leave Voters appeared first on Guido Fawkes.
View ArticleHammond Hires Sky’s Giles Winn
Guido understands Philip Hammond has hired Sky News’ Giles Winn as his new media SpAd in the Treasury. He will be working alongside his former Sky colleague Poppy Trowbridge. Winn was the editor of...
View ArticleLabour’s Shadow Trade Minister Staggeringly Clueless on Customs Union
.@EmmaBarnett asks Shadow International Trade Minister @Bill_Esterson five times if Labour would leave the customs union #5liveDaily pic.twitter.com/5D94dQZ6Kw — BBC Radio 5 live (@bbc5live) August...
View ArticleConcerns Raised About Chappers
James Chapman’s painful live-tweeted breakdown is the subject of growing concerns among his friends in Westminster. It is not hard to understand why Chapman is anguished. He was being eased out of the...
View ArticleTransition Must Be Short Enough to Keep UK Appealing to New Trade Partners
As Guido reported yesterday morning, most Leave Tory MPs are on board with David Davis’ customs union plan. The influential European Research Group of 80+ Tory Brexiteers last night gave their...
View ArticleUnemployment Rate Lowest Since 1975
Worth keeping on about this. During the referendum Osborne and the Treasury said unemployment would rise by 500,000 in the immediate aftermath of a Leave vote. Today’s new figures: Unemployment fell...
View ArticleTories Queue Up to Blast Trump
UK PM says “no equivalence” between fascists & their opponents when asked about Trump’s response to Charlottesvillehttps://t.co/lMMg2VjaJ0 pic.twitter.com/w8pJlQiL7J — BBC News (UK) (@BBCNews)...
View ArticleSarah Champion Was “Thrilled” With Her Sun Article
Sarah Champion is under pressure from Corbynistas on Twitter demanding that she is sacked from her Shadow Cabinet job over her article in The Sun last week: “Britain has a problem with British...
View ArticleMay: Big Ben Bong Ban Wrong
Theresa May says the ban on Big Ben bonging is wrong. Jeremy Corbyn on the other hand sides with health and safety: “If we have to miss Big Ben in reality for a while so that work can be done, well,...
View ArticleSarah Champion Resigns From Shadow Cabinet
Earlier Sarah Champion tried to distance herself from that article in The Sun, only for Guido to reveal leaked emails showing she wasn’t being entirely honest. A Labour source tells Guido Champion is...
View ArticleVince Cable: I’m Not Supporting Chapman
This afternoon James Chapman claimed Vince Cable will be helping him launch his new party: It’s news to Vince. A LibDem spokesman says Cable may attend anti-Brexit events but will not have anything to...
View ArticleChappers Account Deleted
Overnight James Chapman’s Twitter account was deleted. He sent over 500 manic tweets yesterday and was calling mainstream politicians and journalists “Nazis” into the early hours, admitting he was...
View ArticleMuslim Labour Candidate: Champion is Brave Not Racist
“She’s been punished and used as a scapegoat” – @Amina_Lone on @SarahChampionMP‘s resignation from the shadow cabinet #newsnight pic.twitter.com/zWSFGEJhJZ — BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) August 16,...
View ArticlePeople’s March For Europe: Theresa May Must Explain Chappers’ Deleted Twitter
This press release has just been sent out by the People’s March for Europe, the organisers of the hotly anticipated James Chapman rally launching his anti-Brexit ‘The Democrats’ party.. They are...
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