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IT’S BEEN a bad week so far for the concerted propaganda drive to portray the EU as a rock of stability in contrast to the chaos that is Brexit Britain.
In the Irish Republic, the Taoiseach and his Foreign Minister demanded written pledges from Britain on the post-Brexit north-south Irish border, despite countless verbal ones and the refusal of the EU to even begin discussing post-Brexit arrangements between Britain, including Northern Ireland, and the EU, including the south.
These fanatically pro-EU Irish politicians then took a break from issuing their demands and threats at the bidding of the EU Commission, in order to defuse a crisis that nearly brought down their rickety government.
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
