Not content with making it impossible to “go and live there” if we don’t like Brexit, the Tories are planning to repeal all the EU derived legislation. The Bill is called the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill 2022-23. It is understood to threaten most already inadequate worker’s rights including holiday pay, working hours…
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Over the last 18 months I have working with CTOE, their focus has been on using the Conference on the Future of Europe to further democratic reform of the EU. CTOE has been influenced and supports the work of direct democracy campaigners. I made this page at the end of 2022 to expose some of…
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Gordon Brown’s Commission on the constitution of the UK has finished its report. Much of the press focus on the proposal to abolish/reform the House of Lords but it is much more thorough than that. I wonder if in its way its as ambitious as the Chilean constitution that failed earlier this year. I feel…
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Lot’s I don’t know, but comrades need a motion. Here are my notes …
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I was considering the effectiveness of Brexit Spotlight and it was suggested I look at it’s pseudo-competitors. Here are my notes …
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Various reading and musing has led me to the foundation of the United States, not the least, my studying of the history of Mexico. I wrote a little piece on the its founding, on my blog, interestingly called https://davelevy.info/subsidiarity-representation-and-human-rights/. I say interestingly, because the title has little to suggest it is about US governance and…
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The scandal, which broke in April 2018, saw the UK government apologise for deportation threats made to Commonwealth citizens’ children. Despite living and working in the UK for decades, many were told they were there illegally because of a lack of official paperwork.
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Twitter has been bought by Elon Musk. What do we do now? Here are some notes …
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There’s a general election in Israel; famously it has a a fissiparous PR system. Here is a note on how it works as far as I can tell and been told.. …
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This was postponed, due to the death of the Queen and reconvened in October. Here is the record of business and my unadorned notes …
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A german (ZDF) take on the referendum, in German, this page has a link to the video and the german language script, ….
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How important is the existence of deference and its decline, or otherwise to British Politics. My notes and links …
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This is available on youtube and as text, it is to my mind one of the best he’s given; he’s clearly more comfortable with the role than previously. The last 11 months of a polling lead which was to leap the following day will have helped, but I hope they don’t believe their propaganda that…
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And now we have #lab22, starting on Sunday, here are my notes …
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I had a look at the financial reports and plotted Labour’s membership over the last 10 years and then added another 20. Here are my notes …
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