Anne Marie Waters Friday 1st July 2022 Last week I spoke to an American organisation about the state of migration to the UK and the response of the country to this. I was asked for a written summary, and decided to publish that summary here. Let’s start with the numbers, as best we can ascertain... Read more
Anne Marie Waters Friday 24th June 2022 Two Parliamentary by-elections that took place this week have been rather revealing. The first obvious development is the loss by the Tories that has resulted in more calls for Boris Johnson to go. Johnson doesn’t seem to be paying attention however. For his part, he said “As a... Read more
Anne Marie Waters Friday 17th June 2022 This was never going to work. Priti Patel clearly thought that by stating she’d send illegal immigrants to be processed in Rwanda, the numbers of those crossing the channel would drop. She was wrong. It was another failed gimmick by a government trading in gimmicks. In April, the... Read more
Anne Marie Waters Friday 10th June 2022 The show must go on, as they say, and it is one hell of a show. This week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson faced a confidence vote in the Commons, and won. He scraped through by 211 to 148 votes, meaning that 148 Conservative MPs want him gone (or... Read more
Anne Marie Waters Friday 27th May 2022 It’s not easy to get to the truth about the latest World Health Organisation controversy, and that’s always worrying. The House of Commons library (on May 18th 2022) posted this: In March 2021, a group 0f world leaders, including UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, announced an initiative for... Read more
