Politics

Wetherspoon Founder and Chairman Tim Martin has called on UK negotiators to scrap any sort of deal with the EU in favour of free trade with the rest of the world. The outspoken critic of the union say he believes the benefits of free trade “far outweigh the illusory benefits of any sort of deal with the EU”. “In fact, ‘no deal’ really means ‘free trade’”, he added in a statement distributed by Leave Means Leave. Many Brexiteers have claimed...

The Welsh town of Llanelli – which voted 56.7 per cent to leave the EU in the referendum – has been left reeling after a major manufacturer upped sticks due to Brexit. Global firm Schaeffler announced this week that it is to close its plant in Llanelli due to uncertainty over Britain’s departure from the European Union. The closure was described as the “tremor that will lead to the Brexit earthquake” in the Welsh Assembly, with Juergen Ziegler, the company’s...

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) have published its findings from its monthly survey of its members and it doesn't look good for the UK property market. It found “the weakest reading since September 2012” in October, with prices falling in London, the south-east, south-west and East Anglia. They have are also forecasted that prices remain flat nationally over the next 12 months. In October, prices in London continue on their negative path as buyers wait for Brexit certainty, according...

Esther McVey recently referenced Mind in a speech about Universal Credit. The mental health charity decided to reaffirm their position on the much-criticised new benefit via Twitter. Responding to the noise on social media, Vicki Nash, Head of Policy and Campaigns said: “The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Esther McVey mentioned Mind in her Universal Credit (UC) regulations statement. We have repeatedly raised our concerns with the Department for Work and Pensions about UC and the regulations and so...

A $240-billion-a-day market has announced today that it is to switch London for Amsterdam ahead of Brexit. CME Group Inc. is moving its European market for short-term financing, the largest in the region, out of London because the exchange operator wants to guarantee continental firms can continue to use it if there is a no-deal Brexit, Bloomberg has reported. The decision is the first example of an entire major financial market leaving the UK. John Edwards, managing director of BrokerTec...

Remain would win a significant majority if the EU referendum were held again, according to a major new poll from Channel 4 and Survation. Some 54 per cent of people said they would stay in the EU if the 2016 referendum were held tomorrow – when those who refused to vote or answered “don’t know” were removed. Survation interviewed 20,000 people in the biggest ever independent Brexit opinion poll. Analysis showed that 105 council areas that voted Leave in 2016 would...

Sacha Baron Cohen resurrected Borat to canvass for Donald Trump in a hilarious midterm election spoof on the Jimmy Kimmel show. Borat engaged in conversations with Trump supporters who defended putting immigrants in cages and refuted the "fake news" reports of Trump in the video. “I don’t believe he is and I don’t see any evidence of that,” one man said to which Borat responded: “I am a racist, it is nice", Borat replied. Baron Cohen’s most recent project, Who...

With the final results pouring in the US Midterms look be a tale of two chambers. The Democrats took control of the House of Representatives for the first time since 2010, and Republicans held the Senate, results which were celebrated on both sides. At 1:27 am US time Donald Trump posted a quote from conservative economist and actor Ben Stein, who lauded the President as “the magic man". He said: “There’s only been five times in the last 105 years that an...

Britain’s deportation process has been secretly militarised as part of Theresa May’s Hostile Environment policy, new reports have revealed. According to a freedom of information request submitted by JOE the Home Office has started to use a Royal Air Force base to deport hundreds of people on specially chartered planes. The move was made to avoid protesters at civilian airports such as London Stansted. Brize Norton was used to deport hundreds of people last year, although that figure could have...