by Andy Dodd | Jan 16, 2019 | Extemplo
Her initial response doesn’t sound promising. What will it take for these idiotic Tories (and Jeremy Corbyn) and those still blindly clinging to Leave to understand that there is no better deal than membership? I wish I could feel triumphant but I actually believe the...
by Andy Dodd | Dec 1, 2018 | Brexit, On My Mind, Politics
Remember ‘Boaty McBoatface’? The previous shining example of the will of the people being left to its own devices and conspiring only to make a complete arse of itself. Imagine RRS ‘BoatyMcBoatFace’ hitting an iceberg (not hard, it’s an icebreaker) and, as the...
by Andy Dodd | Nov 26, 2018 | Brexit, On My Mind, Politics
“We need to rid ourselves of the burden of bureacracy and red tape that holds back business and entrepreneurs.” How often do we hear this cliché whenever a leading Brexiteer gets on their pulpit to promise free-trade nirvana? But it’s worth considering what all this...
by Andy Dodd | Nov 23, 2018 | On My Mind
I can’t decide on metaphors for Brexit at the moment. Sometimes I think it’s like a bus being driven by a bunch of drunks who are fighting to take a turn at the wheel, oblivious to the fact that they’re careering the wrong way up the motorway. In the dark. Without any...
by Andy Dodd | Nov 16, 2018 | Brexit, On My Mind, Politics
Theresa May’s lonely walk across a dark, windswept Downing Street was a potent symbol of the extent to which she is now a hostage to events she cannot control. Instead of making the Brexit deal announcement from inside the Cabinet Room, surrounded by the collective,...
