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Euro elections: you can ‘send a message’, or you can vote to get Brexit done

Being an Anglican blog, there is no absolutism, command or demand in respect of the way people choose to exercise their vote; there is no 'must' or 'should' or 'ought', for what divides us in the realm of liberal democracy…

Bercow: all Brexit options must lead to the Treaty of Rome

April 2, 2019
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Following last week's 'indicative votes' to determine what sort of Brexit Parliament is for (as opposed to what it is against), yesterday's 'indicative votes – the sequel' yielded four more…

Chequers Plan: a dog’s Brexit, or a dog’s dinner of pragmatic politics and parliamentary sovereignty?

July 9, 2018
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Whatever you think of Theresa May's Chequers Plan, it did at least unite the Cabinet for 48 hours. On the plus side, it was at least a plan. It may…

COMECE: Roman Catholics should support EU integration

October 18, 2017
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COMECE is the Roman Catholic Church in the European Union (the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community). Its mission is to explore strange new worlds, to seek…

May invokes Article 50: may our second national revolution be as glorious as the first

March 29, 2017
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On 22nd January 1972, Conservative Prime Minister Ted Heath signed the Treaty of Rome, by which the process of UK accession to the EEC began. After hundreds of hours of…

As Brexit Bill receives Royal Assent, a lone bishop urges retention of free movement

March 14, 2017
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By now Her Majesty will have set her seal upon the Brexit Bill: La Reyne le veult. At last we have The European Union (Notice of Withdrawal) Act, for which…

EU withdrawal Bill clears the Commons: will the Bishops vote for Brexit?

February 9, 2017
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It is the stuff of which our Island history is made. The House of Commons has voted overwhelmingly to give the Prime Minister leave to invoke Article 50 of the…

EU Referendum: Sentamu preaches "moral responsibility" and Welby "peace and reconciliation"

June 12, 2016
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Don't you just love the Church of England's concept of 'neutrality' in the matter of the EU Referendum? A whole sea of bishops has endorsed the Remain campaign (that…

Faith leaders blast "isolationist" Vatican for refusing to join the EU

May 30, 2016
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Religious leaders from the UK’s main faith communities – including former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams – have joined forces to urge Pope Francis to commit the Vatican State…

Giles Fraser backs Brexit – and the liberal elite sneer at him for it

May 11, 2016
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The Rev'd Dr Giles Fraser is one of the very few Church of England clergy who has publicly declared that he wants the UK to leave the EU. It…

Cameron splashes £9million of taxpayers' cash on EU propaganda

April 7, 2016
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When is EU propaganda not EU propaganda? When it's commissioned by the UK Government and paid for by British taxpayers? When it's helpful facts rather than belligerent opinions? Or…

Cameron's EU deal: we were lied to in 1975; we won't be deceived again

February 3, 2016
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David Cameron's EU deal is no deal at all. It amounts to minor tinkering, presentational puff, and achieves little in terms of the subsidiarity-sovereignty objectives which the Conservative Party…

Cameron's EU via media: a British Model of Associate Membership

November 11, 2015
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We want neither to be absorbed by the infallible magisterium of catholicity ('ever-closer union'), nor isolated by the nationalism of puritanical reformation ('out'): we want, instead, a particular 'British…

Time to forgive Guy Fawkes?

November 5, 2015
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"Guy Fawkes should be forgiven because he has become a ‘global brand’, says headmaster of Catholic plotter's old school." That's a summary of an inept piece in the Telegraph…

Conservatives for Britain – but not if you're on Government payroll

June 8, 2015
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"Conservatives for Britain has been formed among Tory parliamentarians to discuss the criteria by which to judge the Government's EU renegotiation. We are willing to consider how to prepare…

A British Bill of Rights is wholly contingent on the UK leaving the EU

May 27, 2015
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Today's Queen's Speech is the first to be delivered on behalf of a majority Conservative government since 1996, when John Major was Prime Minister and 'Europe' was tearing his…