British Politics

Don't Blame Young Voters for Not Bothering About the EU Referendum

Edit Huffington Post 08 Jun 2016

Let's face it, as Peter Foster of The Telegraph pointed out some weeks ago, even when it comes to events that political aficionados think are capturing public attention, the reality is that long periods of profound uninterest are punctuated by very short spikes of attention. Using Google searches as a proxy to capture "interest", his findings are depressing to all those who feel "the people" should be interested in politics....

What the Government Isn't Telling Voters About its Plans to Leave the EU

Edit Huffington Post 08 Jun 2016

If you knew that there was no risk to the economy, if you were freed from that fear, how would you cast your vote? I believe a great many British people long to be shot of an undemocratic political union they never agreed to be part of ... his duties to the British people directly conflict with his role as the figurehead of a political campaign group....

Brexit: British to vote on EU membership, U-M experts available to comment (University of Michigan)

Edit Public Technologies 08 Jun 2016

University of Michigan experts can discuss the history behind the vote as well as its political and economic implications ... 'Part of what makes the current situation so complex is that the history of British attitudes, including the major parties' positions, to the European Union and its predecessors is very complex, and people can be on the same side of the remain/leave division for very, very different reasons,' she said....

Brexit Raises Fear of Aggressive Russia in Baltics

Edit Voa News 08 Jun 2016

Political analysts say a vote in favor of Britain leaving the European Union would raise concerns among the former Soviet states in the Baltics and eastern Europe that are now EU members and neighbor a resurgent Russia ... Outside a British-style pub in Moscow, Latvian tourist Klaus Ristaposhin told VOA he hopes the British vote to stay in the European Union....

EU Referendum and Whitby fish & chips: Batter in or out?

Edit BBC News 08 Jun 2016

And this theme is reflected across the wider British fishing industry. Research from the House of Commons Library shows the British fishing fleet caught and landed more fish at UK ports in 1890 than it did in 2014 ... The current levels are similar to those during World War Two, when the conflict brought a massive fall from the amount of fish caught by British crews in the 1930s....

Britain’s Trade Future in Question if Brexit Happens

Edit Voa News 08 Jun 2016

Future trade with the European Union is a major issue as British voters decide this month whether their country should remain in the bloc, and there are concerns about the future of the U.S ... Opponents of a Brexit, a British exit from the EU, have for months warned of dire consequences in terms of losses in exports and productivity ... Some analysts say Obama’s warnings were based more on politics than on the laws of economics and trade....

What the Result of Britain's EU Vote Could Mean for Scotland

Edit Voa News 08 Jun 2016

The British referendum this month will determine not only whether the country remains part of the European Union but could also shape the future of the older union of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Former British prime ministers Tony Blair and John Major have warned that if voters decide to leave the EU on June 23 it could tear the United Kingdom apart because it might spur Scotland to vote for independence....

Blair Sees U.K. Rejecting Brexit as He Attacks Boris Johnson

Edit Bloomberg 08 Jun 2016

Blair, a strong advocate of British engagement with the EU during his decade in office from 1997, said he expects turnout in the June 23 vote to be “substantially higher” than for a general election ... A narrowing of polls over the past week or so has raised the likelihood of an unprecedented British exit from the EU. The Number Cruncher Politics ......

A chat between interns (EPP Group)

Edit Public Technologies 08 Jun 2016

From Galicia, she studied Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Santiago de Compostella, and completed her Masters in the same topic at the University of Vigo ... Elizabeth (Liz) Scott-Wilson, is a twenty-four-year-old trainee of British and Cypriot origins, who, having spent her whole life in Brussels, considers herself to be European ... How to use Social Media in politics....

Staying in EU 'the British thing to do': David Cameron

Edit The Times of India 08 Jun 2016

David Cameron argued on Tuesday that remaining part of the EU was the "British thing to do" as he faced senior eurosceptic Nigel Farage in a TV grilling two weeks before a knife-edge referendum ... "I would say the right thing to do, the British thing to do is to fight for a Great Britain inside the EU and not take the Nigel Farage little England option," Cameron added....

British police training Saudis amid torture fears: Documents

Edit Press TV 08 Jun 2016

British police are training Saudi officers to use high-tech detection skills despite concerns that they have led to suspects being tortured. Senior British MPs called Tuesday for the suspension of the controversial program by the College of Policing ... Reprieve condemned the program, saying the training could help Saudi police target political activists....

We Can Not Be Truly 'Open to the World' While Being Part of the EU

Edit Huffington Post 08 Jun 2016

I grew up in Karachi, Pakistan and have witnessed first hand the catastrophic effects of terrorism, gang wars and political upheaval ... The pressures of class, patriarchy, political and religious intolerance and underlying abuse within the confines of our own home ... However, news of the EU referendum last year gave way to an interest in politics that I have never felt before....

the story of the British steel logo

Edit New Statesman 08 Jun 2016

Financiers Greybull Capital have promised to resurrect the name “British Steel” in their takeover of parts of Tata Steel UK. What does this mean for the golden age of British industrial design? ... From the late 1960s onwards the image of British Steel became intertwined with David Gentleman’s iconic “S” shaped branding ... Indian ownership is out and British Steel is (sort of) back....

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