Preface by Team 2020UK: we do not know and do not need to know who Rick is – obviously he and Mil Williams have been in conversation. Rick takes me indirectly to task as one of those who, tweeting as … Continue reading
I have been wandering round the news sites again this week. I like to read the news on that Interweb, it allows you to skim some stories and find deeper opinion articles when you are in that frame of mind. … Continue reading
Frank Sinatra (back in the day) would croon, “Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage”. It may be that love creates a marriage but there is ample evidence that many a marriage becomes loveless which, in the … Continue reading
Introduction to to-day’s blog by Team 2020UK The following article contains much that is controversial and much (but not all) that we feel most of our supporters would disagree. It is published for two reasons: Allan has as much right … Continue reading
It seemed sensible to wait until we knew the outcome of the cabinet reshuffle before writing today’s blog – politically it is obviously today’s hot potato. Only it seems at the moment (nearly 4.30 in the afternoon) to be at … Continue reading
So David Cameron (the man who promised us a referendum on the UK remaining in the UK) has now announced that he would never push for us to leave the EU. The important thing here is that this makes our … Continue reading
This continues on from last Monday’s blog which is ended by asking this question. What is a community in the context of a society embracing direct democracy? To start with this is not just semantics: it is the building block … Continue reading
So the bill to timetable the bill to reform the House of Lords has been kicked into the long grass and some suggest that this is the end of the matter. Most of us would agree that spending time reforming … Continue reading
Are the people’s collective gut reaction more likely to back a good outcome than the processes we presently use? This is an extremely difficult question to answer for we do not know what people really think about things but we … Continue reading
There was an interesting letter in The Telegraph yesterday which touches on a point we’ve made several times here on 2020UK. Chris Myatt from Stone in Staffordshire wrote the following: Sir – There is an overwhelming desire for referendums on … Continue reading