by Chris Rogers | 4 Mar 2016 | European Union, Politics, Uncategorized
Let me tell you why you should vote in favour of my argument. It’s because the other side, their position is nonsense. I can promise, it’ll be bad for you. You’ll be worse off. What do you mean, why is what I’m arguing better? It just is. But, make no mistake, the...
by Chris Rogers | 1 Mar 2016 | European Union, Politics
It had been just five years since the referendum on Europe and the Party was splitting. In fact, it had all but split: the ideologues, on the losing side of the European vote, had taken control of the Party and the moderates were giving up and going their own way. The...
by Chris Rogers | 24 Feb 2016 | European Union
As EU referendum fever (or exasperation, given we’ve four more months of it) sets in and campaign groups of every persuasion increase the heat, another type of ‘conflict’ has raged in the background: purdah rules and the role of the civil service. For those needing a...
by Chris Rogers | 19 Feb 2016 | European Union, Politics
When walking towards The Whitehouse Consultancy offices this morning, I was confronted by a gaggle of people matching in the opposite direction. Nothing terribly unusual about that around London Bridge – except this particular group were adorned in t-shirts...
by Chris Rogers | 2 Feb 2016 | European Union
The last referendum on Britain’s membership of some sort of European political association – the EEC back then – was in 1975, as pro-leave groups never tire of reminding us. You would think then that such groups have had enough time to organise themselves properly and...