Partnership

  • Westminster Week: Away days

    Tuesday

    This government’s policy on the EU doesn’t yet feel resolved into any particular office, or purpose as it appears. It’s down to us, then, to trust what he or she says. It’s not easy to do. It may or may not constitute a real sets of events that’s accurate or at least recent. To this effect, the Chancellor says this morning, “we’ve reset our relationship with the EU”, and this is meant to be since the election last year. It’s tough to find any credible evidence of it on the ground, at least.

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    According to Heidi Alexander MP (Swindon South/Labour), the Transport Secretary, the railways are due an update, but it’s a cloud in the sky if it doesn’t happen.

    Wednesday

    Former PM Liz Truss is again a bugbear as the Prime Minister implies the Leader of the Opposition is auditioning for “The Liz Truss Show” as the guest star.

  • The US & UK can still stick together

    The UK and the US is unlikely to be a partnership that doesn’t last. This may not be the assumption that follows a reading of its National Security Strategy published last month. It reads as a sort of guide to American worries at home and its concerns abroad. This isn’t the ethic of the document at all.

    The US & UK have an arrangement whereby we support each other’s wellbeing, and this arrangement has lasted for a long time. It’s built into our respective security infrastructure, so it means we won’t nuke each other, at least. It’s also written into all our peace agreements, and other documents besides.

    This is what people know if they study the arrangements and are able to look at the data. It’s not just out there because some public domain information is able to be litigated out of reality. This means it’s unsafe because the wording doesn’t hold together, or hold true. The fact of it helps us to survive here, and may even help us to thrive.