While European governments have taken action against Russia’s violations of Ukrainian sovereignty, too little is being done about its violations of the rights and freedoms of its own population.
One positive effect of today’s European deal is that it should be more difficult for MPs to deflect attention onto the faceless bogie-man that is ‘Brussels’.
Poverty and job insecurity are more strongly associated with support for UKIP than migration.
When the European Commission president agrees with David Cameron his views are ‘definitive’.
Britain’s triple A credit rating would be better protected under a Labour government than under the the Tories.
The tendency to see EU policy as a battle between competing nations should be more problematic for the left.
Momentum against TTIP is building on both sides of the Atlantic.
It is a direct threat to any future British government’s ability to fully renationalise the NHS.
Good for rich investors and big business, less so for everyone else.
There’s very little evidence of the ‘magnetic pull’ of our benefits system. But there is evidence which suggests the Prime Minister wants to win back disillusioned Tory voters who’ve been attracted by UKIP.
