TIME FOR 'NO DEAL' TO TAKE CENTRE STAGE.

Today, there is to be yet another attempt to stop Brexit from happening at a gathering presided over by three of yesterday's people.

David Miliband, when he was rejected by the Labour Party in a leadership fight won by his brother, abandoned the UK for a lucrative job in the United States; Nick Clegg was ignominiously rejected by the constituents of his former Sheffield constituency and Nicky Morgan, after a less than sparkling ministerial career, was sacked from her role as Education Secretary by Theresa May.

This unholy trinity are all ardent 'remainers, determined to try to stop the UK from ever leaving the European Union in any meaningful way. They want the UK to stay within the, or some form of, customs' union and also the single market, an approach which would see the UK be subservient to the EU while having no voice at all over its decision making. In effect, it would prevent Brexit from happening and the UK's position vis-à-vis the rest of the world would be even worse than it is now.

The only reasons that this bunch of losers has any audience are that the broadcast media largely opposes Brexit and that the UK's government has yet to state its own position on the future trade relationship with the EU. While various alternatives have been touted, there has been no agreement within the Cabinet and the EU has basically rejected every suggestion out of hand; they continually refer to the Irish border and, more recently, Gibraltar, as 'problems which must be resolved. Indeed, on the question of Gibraltar, it seems that the Spanish government has been given an effective veto over whatever the UK puts forward unless there is an agreement to substantially increase Spanish influence and control over that enclave.

The EU needs a deal every bit, possibly more, than does the UK. It is long passed time that the UK government took the bull by the horns and told the EU that enough is enough. As has been said many times by all and sundry, 'nothing is agreed until everything is agreed' and the EU is desperate for our money, not to mention our continuing trade. If the EU continues to be unwilling to accept what the UK proposes and continues to do all that it can to put obstacles in the way of a sensible agreement, then the UK has only one option left.

'No deal is better than a bad deal', so NO DEAL it must be, whatever Miliband, Clegg and Morgan might say.

LIBERAL DEMOCRATS ? HA, HA !

W hile the Labour party is offering to tax the nation to death and create a Marxist state, the Liberal Democrats simply want to ignore Democracy.

Ever since the referendum in June 2016, the 'LibDems' have been trying to find ways of reversing the decision which was democratically arrived at by a majority of the people. Most recently they've been trying to convince us all that we were horribly uninformed and simply didn't understand the choice we were making; since when was calling the electorate stupid a good way of gaining their votes ?

Yesterday, on 'The Daily Politics', Nick Clegg was at it again, repeating over and over that the people didn't realise that a vote to leave the European Union also meant leaving the 'Single Market'; he claimed that this fact was simply not explained, or even worse, was ignored by the 'Out' campaign.

Clegg was then confronted with a series of television interview clips which made it absolutely clear that his claims were nonsense; David Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and George Osborne were all shown stating, very clearly, that leaving the EU meant leaving the 'Single Market. There was no room for doubt and the interviews were all conducted by well-known figures on well-known programmes; importantly, the statements were made by campaigners for both the 'In' and Out' campaigns.

Astonishingly, Clegg still didn't bend. Instead, he shifted his ground to say that most people didn't watch these programmes and tried to imply that the problem was in some other, undefined, area. Now, in clear defiance of the democratic vote of the people, the Liberal Democrats are promising, if elected to government, to hold another referendum; obviously it is their view that the last one produced the wrong result so they want to give us all a chance to realise how silly we were and to get it right.

Accordingly, the Liberal Democrat manifesto promises another referendum along with a something about housing benefit for 18-21 year olds and bus passes for all; not exactly a programme for government. Interestingly, the real Liberal Party, the one made up of people who didn't like the way in which their old party was taken over by the left-leaning 'Social Democratic Party' in 1988, is perfectly happy with the notion of the UK leaving the EU and campaigned for a 'No' vote in 2016.

It would seem that the LibDems are not liberal at all, and they're certainly not democratic. In truth, they're just another bunch of self-serving and egotistical politicians who'll say and do anything to get votes and protect their own positions.