Search results

  1. Blackleaf

    What Michael Gove really said at the German embassy

    Michael Gove - the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and a prominent Brexiteer - made a speech at the German embassy to mark German Unity Day. Discracefully, some Remainers have come along and completely made up what happened whilst Gove was giving the speech. "Fake news!" as Mr Trump would...
  2. Blackleaf

    An invitation to carry on insulting me and my fellow Brexiteers

    Foul language and vile threats - the Remainers think these pass for political discourse... Coffee House...
  3. Blackleaf

    Tory MP prepares to launch legal challenge against Remainers' Surrender Act

    A Tory Brexiteer MP is preparing a legal challenge against a rebel law which currently stops Britain from leaving the European Union without a deal on October 31. The Benn Act, passed last month, orders Boris Johnson to beg the EU for a Brexit delay until January if...
  4. Blackleaf

    Jess Phillips and the snowflake Remainers

    Snowflake Remainer MPs can complain all they like about the "nasty" language used by Brexiteers, such as the word “betrayal”. In reality it is impossible to talk about those Remainer MPs without using the word “betrayal”. Because they have betrayed the electorate and the country...
  5. Blackleaf

    This would be a government of national betrayal

    The Remainers want to oust the elected government and install an unelected Remainer government. That the political class is casually chatting about taking such a drastic, emergency, anti-democratic measure as setting up an unelected government to stop Brexit is the most worrying sign of...
  6. Blackleaf

    Sorry, sir, we only stock books we agree with

    Bookshops today seem a little reluctant to indulge in breadth of vision. They have become the retail equivalent of virtue-signallers. ‘The only books we will stock are those we agree with’ is the mantra — a terribly stunted disposition, an anti-literary disposition...
  7. Blackleaf

    Egbert and his medieval bling

    A £2million Viking-age hoard of treasure found in a field in Scotland may have belonged to a man named Egbert, scientists have found. Archaeologists inspecting the objects...
  8. Blackleaf

    They once ruled all of Egypt, but the Khush Pharaohs have been overlooked

    When you think of pharaohs, does your mind conjure up Tutankhamun and the Valley of the Kings, Cleopatra and the pyramids of Giza? If so, you need to think again...
  9. Blackleaf

    Bollocks to Bercow!

    Almost literally! The Prime Minister at the Tory Party conference in Manchester today:
  10. Blackleaf

    Welcome to Greater Mexico!

    Has Manchester been taken over by Mexican drugs barons? Or the rulers of Gilead in The Handmaid's Tale? When I saw that banner strung across a bridge, complete with dangling mock corpses, to mark the start of the Tory conference, I thought immediately of the kind of savage, ritual punishment...
  11. Blackleaf

    When Brexit is done, this is the party to vote for

    Rod Liddle says we should vote for his party, the SDP, once Brexit is done... When Brexit is done, this is the party...
  12. Blackleaf

    Somerset human remains 'as old as Cheddar Man'

    Two boxes of human remains rediscovered after 55 years have been found to be as old as the Cheddar Man - Britain's oldest complete skeleton. The bones were discovered in a cave in Cannington Park Quarry near Bridgwater, Somerset, in the 1960s. Soon after they "disappeared", and were recently...
  13. Blackleaf

    Champagne smash for Sir David Attenborough polar ship

    The UK's new £200m polar research ship has officially been named the "Sir David Attenborough" after the famous BBC broadcaster and naturalist. A bottle of champagne was smashed against the hull of the vessel by the Duchess of Cambridge. Several thousand people had gathered at the Cammell Laird...
  14. Blackleaf

    Welsh Labour are more out of touch with voters on Brexit than ever

    Wales’ 854,572 Leavers outnumbered ‘Yes’ voters in the devolution referendums of 1979, 1997 and 2011 and voters for anything in a Welsh election since 1997. At the last General Election, 85% of Welsh voters backed parties committed to leaving the EU’s customs union. And at the European...
  15. Blackleaf

    13 times David Cameron’s book makes the case for Brexit

    David Cameron’s autobiography was supposed to be a chance for the former prime minister to settle scores and have his say on his time in office. But Cameron’s book is also something that he didn’t intend: a convincing case for Brexit...
  16. Blackleaf

    So where were you the moment they killed off British democracy?

    It will be a new generation's Kennedy or 9/11 question. Something people will casually ask each other while preparing to get one final round in before last orders. 'So where were you the moment British democracy died?' DAN HODGES: So where were you the moment they killed off British...
  17. Blackleaf

    MPs and the outrage game

    We were told MPs were against Mr Johnson's prorogation of Parliament because they wanted to get on with Brexit (something they hadn't managed to deliver in three and a bit years)...
  18. Blackleaf

    Johnson plans to prorogue Parliament

    Plans to suspend Parliament again were being drawn up by Boris Johnson (pictured on ITV's Peston show yesterday) last night Plans to suspend Parliament again were being drawn up by Boris Johnson last night – just one day after his first attempt was cancelled by a Supreme Court judgment. The...
  19. Blackleaf

    The cult of Lady Hale

    The first female president of the Supreme Court has been all but sanctified on social media following her delivery yesterday of the verdict all Brexit-haters were hoping for – that the government had acted unlawfully when it prorogued parliament... The cult of Lady Hale The gushing over this...
  20. Blackleaf

    A tyranny of judges

    The Supreme Court ruling is a vile assault on the democratic order... A tyranny of judges BRENDAN O'NEILL EDITOR 24th September 2019 Spiked Today’s Supreme Court ruling is a vile assault on the democratic order. In finding that Boris Johnson’s proroguing of parliament was unlawful, and...