Boris Johnson’s suggestion that we should reject the EU in a first referendum in order better to negotiate changes that would benefit the whole Union makes a lot of sense. The present debate about our continuing membership of the EU suggests that we would simply leave the Union if voters chose not to remain. This requires …
In a recent letter to “The Observer,” Jeremy Hayes wrote: “I’m an accountant and I simply cannot support membership of an organisation whose accounts have not been signed off for 19 consecutive years. For many years I chaired the finance committee of my parish council and if the district auditor had failed to sign off …
How can voters support membership of the EU unless we can see the accounts? Read More »
“Ofsted is ditching 1,200 school and college inspectors after assessing them as not good enough to judge schools.” BBC Saturday, June 20th. So, many Ofsted inspectors are incapable of reporting on schools. a number are not even qualified as teachers and the standard of English in their reports is said to be poor. So, their numbers …
How dare anyone assume or pretend that opponents of the European Union, or those who would like its powers and influence brought under closer, more democratic control, are anti-European? Anti – is a powerful and very negative prefix which can suggest spite and prejudice; it is used by those who have very little to argue …
Parliamentarians should not wriggle out of the responsibility for setting for themselves fair salaries, allowances and expenses. With some MPs wanting to accept the recommendations of IPSA, the independent body established to set their wages, and others determined not to accept them, the result is clearly a bugger’s muddle. The problem with the old system was that MPs …
