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The Political 2017-18 Season Summer Preview
With the summer recess coming to an end in a few weeks, and as a celebration of the return of the Premier League for the 2017-18 season, we review the major parties’ end of
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The Brexit Fallout: The Deepening Age Divide
Forget class war; age war is fast becoming the new reality of modern life. The grey-haired mob, who have voted continually for austerity in their own self-interest and for whom spitting on the grave
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European leaders need reminding that Brexit truly means Brexit
“For the first time, I’m starting to believe that Brexit will not happen.” These are the words of Joseph Muscat, the Maltese Prime Minister whose comments were recorded in the Guardian newspaper after the
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UKIP General Election Manifesto 2017 – The Final Nail In The Party Coffin?
Many of the electorate are beginning to ask themselves the following question – What is the point of UKIP as we head towards a post-Brexit Britain? Cross-party campaigning meant that UKIP could join forces
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UKIP: From Independence to Irrelevance
What a political journey the ‘People’s Army’ has been on. From winning the European Parliament elections in 2014, to forcing David Cameron into holding an in/out EU referendum, it once seemed that UKIP were an unstoppable
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Book Review – ‘Rebel’ by Douglas Carswell MP
Douglas Carswell, the independent MP for Clacton, is convinced that Britain’s political and economic systems are rigged. This in itself is scarcely noteworthy. These days just about everybody involved in politics, from the Corbynite
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The Rumble in the UKIP Jungle – Team Farage or Team Carswell?
After the recent by-elections in Stoke and Copeland, you would think that it is the Labour party that would be ripping itself apart. They lost a seat to the Tories, the first gain for
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The Implosion of UKIP
The chaos in the Labour Party has obscured a similarly messy leadership contest: this one for leadership of UKIP, started in the wake of Farage’s resignation. After a clearly political ruling barring those who
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In Profile: UKIP Leadership Hopeful Steven Woolfe
A boy born in Moss Side in Manchester, who moved to Burnage while waiting for a council flat in Withington after his old house was knocked down. His mother worked three jobs so he
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Britain has Voted for Freedom
Brexit is happening. We at The Backbencher see this as a triumph for freedom and democracy. The British people have demonstrated enormous intelligence and independent mindedness in disregarding the overwhelming narrative of fear and pessimism
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