Queen Mary College London conducted a large sample neutrally worded poll to find out if people want international lawyers, Agreements and institutions to play a bigger role or if they want a UK government to be in charge. Asking about 20 big areas of decision the average score was 60% wanting the UK to control things and just 7% wanting a UK government to be bound by international rules and institutions. People could also vote for a UK government deciding after seeking international agreement voluntarily, or for Don’t Know.
In every area the most votes were cast for UK independent decision. In 17 out of 20 that commanded more than 50% with 83% thinking we should set our own VAT. AI Regulation was at 47% for independence but only saw 10% want it settled internationally. Trade rules decided by the UK stood at 44% compared to 7% wanting it imposed, with some wanting it negotiated by agreement. Data Protection saw 46% want it set by UK with 16% favouring international.
All this goes to show people do not think Brexit was wrong. They are angry because Brexit has not been used by the UK government to control our borders or promote growth. The government is now busy trying to lock us back into the EU.They are misreading the mood. The public wants UK government to be in charge of all 20 of these areas where the EU used to have important powers.
We want this because we want a better policy with better outcomes. EU trade policy gave us a huge trade deficit with the EU and big barriers against rest of the world imports. It charged us a lot, insisted on VAT and Customs duties, allowed many migrants to enter the UK and stopped us doing trade deals with friendly countries . The present government who wish to recreate much of this through an EU re set misunderstand the public’s wishes.
August 7, 2025
Good morning.
Having international agreements between various countries are not always a bad thing. But there are those who see such things are a way to piggy-back further legislation that gives supranational bodies such as the EU and the UN. The UN is especially egregious in this regard.
The solution to such things is to have ‘sunset’ clauses in such agreements. So when we sign any agreements, if we find them so bad we know at some point in the near future any agreement will expire.
Another solution is direct democracy. Any international agreement must be subject to proper scrutiny and held to a national referendum. It has been clear to me that Parliament can no longer be trusted to look after our best wishes and so, it is to ourselves we must look for our own protection.
August 7, 2025
I agree with your view on direct democracy, I see two opposing forces applying to the UK currently, namely:
I) it has lawyers in senior positions (PM and Attorney General) who favour an international rules based world. This approach seems to result in decisions being made which are not in the best interests of the UK eg the Chagos Islands. I also regard this approach as a form of intellectual idleness because people merely look to see what the rules say rather than think through what is the right answer to the issue in question
Ii) Trump has upskittled the widely held belief that trade deficits don’t matter – this belief has always seemed to me to be wrong if a country wants to have more rather than less control of its destiny, which means that the Government of a country has to be in control of the decisions made in respect of a country rather than being subservient to international rules.
In any event, I would not choose a lawyer to make to be in charge of decision making on my behalf because their training does not equip them to be good at solving problems in general!
August 7, 2025
(Although in fairness, Trump on the money putting tariffs on Modi – but I wonder if this is all just huff and puff and whether he will really carry out – so just fake politics).
August 7, 2025
Agree, though I would have regular review points rather than a single sunset – an arrangement has to be of mutual value continually and any bad outcome be addressed rapidly.
August 7, 2025
Many international agreements contain provisions for exit that require giving notice which may trigger the possibility of renegotiation or simply ending the agreement terms. Article 50 was one such. Gibraltar was supposed to have been ceded by Spain in perpetuity under the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713. 300 years later they have a foot in the door. At the end of the day might enforces rights, whatever treaties say. As an interim measure you can apply the Vienna Convention of the Law of Treaties where both parties are signatories. Parties can simply repudiate a treaty if they choose. There can be consequences of repudiation or even legal withdrawal, as we are all well aware post Brexit. Then again, even when there is no formal treaty countries can go around trying to impose sanctions or tariffs or restrictions on visitors as an alternative to war to try to influence others.
August 7, 2025
Yes, there is a very clear pro-Sovereignty majority across the poll.
Now the people have to vote for a Government which wants to deliver it and which will deal with the Obstructionists in the Establishment.
August 7, 2025
The voters are flocking to Reform because they see the uniparty policies are more or less identical. Rachel from complaints after one year has manufactured £50 billion deficit at the time 2TK is giving money to Mauritius, Singapore and everywhere else the Taliban Turnip sets foot.
We hear that the one in one out channel paddlers agreement is totally to the benefit of France with all associated costs down to us.
2TK has more or less scuppered the USA trade agreement by agreeing dynamic alignment with the EU.
Of course we want self government but not by the anti British uniparty.
August 7, 2025
When Two-Tier and Rachel from Complaints droned on about inheriting a £22 billion black hole last year, no-one realised they were playing a game of Double or Quits.
According to them there was a £22 billion black hole, created after 14 years of “Conservative” Government. And now there’s a further £30 billion black hole created by Rachel from Complaints in just 10 months. Way to go, Rachel!
I think we’ll certainly be remembering the first female Chancellor, but not for the reasons Two-Tier claimed.
August 7, 2025
Polls are ignored unless they suit the line governments intend to take.
August 7, 2025
At least until an election looms, but by then it is usually too late.
August 7, 2025
Of politicians, only the lazy and those with no respect for sovereignty would wish us ruled by offshore entities. Unfortunately this comprises the majority in the HoC.
Our current goverment only rules for its party, it has no interest in the wishes of the majority of the people. They are so bad that I anticipate an implosion caused by our money running out well before their end of term. On the surface I anticipate growing civil unrest. Such is socialism UK style, whichever political parties practice it while choosing to call themselves something else.
August 7, 2025
Unfortunately what you describe may actually happen, would not be the first time a Labour Government has run out of Money, indeed they did the last time they were in power, and actually left a note to say so !
August 7, 2025
@agricola – we empowered and pay our legislators, the first thing they do is refuse their job. So why are the even there?
August 7, 2025
I want the UK not only to make the decisions but also to act upon those decisions within a reasonable amount of time.Academic decisions are facile.
August 7, 2025
I voted “Leave” in the referendum; after much soul-searching, the issue that swayed me was sovereignty. But I’ll make two observations. Firstly, like it or not, we need to have good trading relationships with our European neighbours.
But second, I regret that about a £TRILLION pounds left the City and went to New York, Paris and Frankfurt. Along with the financial engineering skills
August 7, 2025
It takes two to tango. History although short tells us that the neighbours are not wanting good trading relationships with us!
August 8, 2025
Brexit won’t work until we take ownership of the mistakes made in Brexit. And we start to put a plan how we’re going to make it work. Including our economy and immigration.
Else there’s a chance we could return to EU but much the poorer and still big problem of immigration.
At moment we’re seriously stuck in limbo land with everyone blaming the other but not taking responsibility and ownership of what’s going on.
For the sake of our great country (and I’m confident we have a great future but got to stop the blame game – and take leadership!)
August 8, 2025
Also, problem is it’s like Brexit is a jigsaw puzzle that needs solving and can be solved. But Brexiters and Remainers are both shouting each other about the jigsaw pieces on the floor. Instead of taking some leadership and figuring out a way to slot the pieces together so that Brexit works and not in a triumphalist way ether (‘told you so!’).
We need to persuade Remainers that it’s BONKERS not to be sovereign.
But equally that it’s BONKERS not to have the leadership, plan, finance and timing in place to make it work (like D-Day).
And we need to start putting our country truly first. Great entrepreneurs and artists and geniuses in general make MISTAKES. Many mistakes. Making mistakes is not a terrible thing. What is terrible is not owning up to them and learning from them – and then moving on in a positive way!
So instead of calling ourselves Brexiters (or Remainers) let’s call ourselves PRAGMATIC SOVEREIGNERS or something!
August 7, 2025
Oh – so they did not leave for the heartland of the EU then …
August 7, 2025
Unfortunately, our European neighbours (particularly the French) don’t want to have a good trading relationship with us. They want a captive market and to control us.
It takes two sides, who want one, to have a respectful relationship
August 7, 2025
I’d be interested to see the sources for your claim of a trillion loss to the City of London SG, because a quick Internet search shows numerous articles saying it is a fraction of your claim.
August 7, 2025
The same principles behind making something work like Brexit and D-Day (and military in general) also applies to business. It’s not rocket science. Lots of people who voted ‘no’ could see where we’re now because they were focusing on emotion over pragmatic reality – were swept away by emotion like a man is by the beauty of a woman and a woman by the beauty of romance (beauty in a woman and romance are both great things – as Brexit is in theory – but they have to be framed in pragmatic reality too which Brexit wasn’t – and sadly many relationships between between couples).
Let’s be more like ‘boring’ Switzerland when it comes to politics. We’ll have to plan more and wait longer, but more like to get there in the end.
August 7, 2025
I do not make this criticism of Sir John Redwood. He is exceptional. Nevertheless there is a preference widely held among politicians for international regulation because lifts responsibility from them and limits their accountability to the voters. International governance is cosy, comfortable, unaccountable and therefore very attractive. That indicates laziness and so on but it is human nature. People don’t volunteer to have their every decision scrutinised, especially be people they don’t know. That was the situation UK had while in the EU. But it is worse now because these factors also attract the autocratic, intolerant and authoritarian who are found more on the Left than on the Right. The Left legislate to control behaviour and thought. They believe that in doing so they are making us better people. Popular objection to their policies and legislative programmes reinforces their belief that the population needs to be changed for the better and they are the ones chosen and best qualified to do it. So they become increasingly authoritarian. They no longer see the point of public debate so rather than wasting their patience, time and resources on it and risking debate causing their failure to meet their objectives they just shut it down.
The elevating, thrilling virtue of regulating internationally is a taste that is hard to give up once aquired. The EU infused UK’s body politic with this cancer. I do not know the solution because they cannot be dislodged from their seats of power. We must await their choosing to submit to a popular vote. Since there is nothing in law to force Starmer’s Gang to hold a general election after the automatic dissolution of parliament in 2029 – the Gang will remain in office – I will not be surprised if Starmer cites some emergency or peril, real or synthesized, as an excuse to postpone the next general election to what he deems to be a more appropriate time.
August 7, 2025
“I will not be surprised if Starmer cites some emergency or peril, real or synthesised, as an excuse to postpone the next general election to what he deems to be a more appropriate time.”
And there was me thinking that I was alone in thinking and saying exactly that. I wonder how many others also think that?
August 8, 2025
I’m paying attention to the constant warnings about war with Russia within a few years. I can well imagine discussions along the lines of “we need something to unite the nation like it was during WW2 … how about a war.”
August 7, 2025
One part answer is to defer much babblespeak and invest in our own manufacturing and farming, continue with finding broader solutions to our energy problems and sweetly say push off.
August 7, 2025
@Peter Gardner – yet they are the only ones that have any legitimacy.
August 7, 2025
Well observed. But I think there are increasing numbers who are not content under this type of government by quangocrat and supra national organisation. Some dare to propose alternatives – including this blog. Many encourage debate about their ideas – again including this blog. Maybe democracy might become fashionable again. A key would be people willing to learn about problems and potential solutions, and willing to pick up ideas from others and run with them. Here, the waning influence of the state propaganda system, despite its all-pervasiveness, is important.
As an aside, I recently read Frederick Forsyth’s autobiographical The Outsider. What he has to say about the BBC, FCO and the Wilson government about the Biafran secession, war and famine is truly shocking – and this goes back to the 1960s.
August 7, 2025
That was what we hoped for when we voted for Brexit. Sadly the previous government failed to apply all the freedoms available and abilities to make our own decisions. What happened to the ‘bonfire of EU rules and regulations’ It was ditched.
Now the rabble in government are slowly slipping us back into the EU via the back door. If Starmer remains in power for another four years (Gawd help us) We’ll be junior members of the EU. Taking every rule and regulation they force upon us.
August 7, 2025
Anyone who has used a lawyer, solicitor, barrister or QC will know they are very expensive, inefficient, time consuming, and make many mistakes in any paperwork they generate.
Avoid use if at all possible, your bank balance and your state of mind will be the better for it.
I speak from experience, and from friends and family members who have also had a similar experiences.
Back to the question, yes I want the people who were elected with a Uk vote to govern the UK, for the UK people, in the interests of the UK people. Not someone in far off Lands.
August 7, 2025
Yes, I once had to get a document signed by a Notary Public. I was in a very scruffy office with piles of papers everywhere for about 3 minutes and was charged £110. What a racket. Took me quite a few hours to earn that.
August 7, 2025
The British people know the country is in a mess due to goverments since 1997 pandering to Socialist supranational bodies like the EU and Marxist supranational bodies like the UN. It’s also due to the intimidation, lies and distortion by Eco-activists and the Marxist Black Lives Matter.
I don’t think its hard to renegotiate or withdraw from mandates where necessary and I dont think its hard to say no to activists and to prosecute them for illegality where necessary.
I dont think its hard to end illegal migration nor to limit legal migration to only highly skilled people which we dont currently have nor to cut the welfare bill and cut taxes and thus grow the economy too.
It’s only hard for the politically confused and lightweights and we have had far too many of them for far too long.
August 7, 2025
I totally support your post, Paul.
The problem is, as we all know, the overwhelmingly leftward-leaning civil service and every political party other than Reform. If Nigel can get a majority, which will be a huge task, we will have another titanic battle even harder than after Brexit, to make the necessary changes to genuinely become a sovereign independent state again.
We will get no support from Europe, so we will have to hope that Vance wins the presidency in 2028 to have an ally in the international arena.
When the battles over Brexit were being fought, I posted here that we should only be signed up to bodies and treaties that the US President finds acceptable. Thanks to the EU, we are locked into many that even Obama would have rejected.
August 7, 2025
+1
August 7, 2025
Brexit? We are still waiting for it! What you said in the House on Day 1 was spot on, but instead we had an Austro-German surrender agreement imposed on us.
Nobody would ever have voted for Brino. If we had been offered a choice between Remain or Brino, even the most ardent Brexiteer, of whom I was one, would have voted to Remain. XPMTM has a lot to
answer for.
August 7, 2025
Spot on Annie
August 7, 2025
You would have been VERY wrong.
All treaties are easy to leave, it’s the lowest level of law, remaining in the EU would have been suicide,
August 7, 2025
Theresa May’s appalling Brexit betrayal, plus her Net Zero lunacy and of course simce elevated to the Lords while Kemi was leader of the party. She should have been kicked out of the party in disgrace let alone elevated! Why did Kemi go along with this insane elevation? But then we know Kemi did not take proper advantage of Brexit in deregulation and is a fan of net zero, the ECHR, the Windsor Accord, large low skilled immigration levels, May’s elevation, a job for not so Cleverly… she is giving out very bas signals!
August 7, 2025
May’s Brexit betrayal was thwarted!
August 7, 2025
Perhaps the most astonishing thing is that Queen Mary College considered it even worthwhile paying for this large scale opinion poll. I can’t imagine anyone thinking it would’ve been worth carrying out a generation ago, the answer was so obvious.
August 7, 2025
I get the impression Sir John, that you imagine our government cares what the peole of the country think and want.
It is clear from events happening now and decisions taken since the referendum on EU membership in 2016 that thise running our affairs of state do not care less what we think what we want or what we say other than we must not criticise anything.
It is no longer a state operating as a democracy. We are a pseudo democracy. The theatre every five years where votes are counted ( could morph ed)into what used to happen in Stalin’s USSR.
Stalin was once asked if he was concerned about the people’s vote prior to an election event. His reply was;
“the people who vote do not count, only those who count the vote count”…..
etc ed
August 7, 2025
This morning BBC R4 hosted the failed Labour politician Gordon Brown, one of yesterday’s men, who decisively lost the 2010 election. Which let Cameron (“Mr Referendum”) and Clegg (“I will never agree to making students pay for their university education”) run the country after 14 years of Labour
Apart from Dunblane, Brown will be remembered for two really stupid decisions. First, he sold off the Treasury’s gold at the bottom of the market 1999 to 2002 – and told the market in advance that he would do so, thus ensuring that he got the worst price possible.
And second, Brown single-handedly destroyed final salary pensions with his stealth tax on dividends.
Whilst I did agree with some of Brown’s observations on child poverty this morning, his voice grated on my ears.
August 7, 2025
Probably an even greater stupidity was his tripartite system of financial regulation that utterly failed and caused the financial crisis with dire consequences. When that happened I thought that he had sunk the Labour party as a party of government – until Cameron decided that he wanted to run a coalition rather than govern to put right Labour’s many failures. In 2010, Labour should have been reduced to a rump as the Tories were last year.
August 8, 2025
@Mark
Don’t forget the dot.com crash of March/April 2000. At the time British pension funds were very exposed to equities, particularly the tech bubble stocks. There was concern that should the market suffer a “correction” – which eventually did turn into a crash – those nearing retirement would lose substantial sums. Greenspan famously referred to “irrational exuberance”
Brown recognised this and in a directive of unbelievable idiocy, instructed the pension funds to divest a large portion of their equity holdings. Pension and endowment mortgage firms like the then Standard Life and L&G immediately dumped a lot of their stock holdings, which caused the start of the crash phase.
I can recall when, aghast, the FTSE 100 dropped a stomach churning 12%. In one day. Those shorting the market made a killing. By the end of the long stock market downturn in 2002, global stocks had lost $5 trillion in market capitalization from the peak. At its trough on October 9, 2002, the NASDAQ-100 had dropped to 1,114, down 78%.
Rock on Gordon, Mr Prudence.
August 8, 2025
Not to mention that he stphoned off the temporary actuarial valuation bonus in tax, robbing pensioners.
August 7, 2025
Democracy is not perfect, but is safer than all the alternatives. We see it everywhere when the unaccountable get to circumvent the ‘will of the people’ with their own personal views of control, they do just that.
Its called ‘Dictatorship’.
International agreement, are just that agreements to further mutual understanding and mutual benefit for all. They are not for unelected, unaccountable egotist to get a ‘high on’ We must stop calling mutual agreements ‘Law’, they are not. The only real Laws are the ones created, amended and repealed through the democratic process.
The UK’s problem that its legislators both elected and unelected, will NOT defend ‘democracy’. They will fight it but not defend it.
August 7, 2025
The results of that poll reflects my own views and that of a great many of my friends & colleagues ….so why, in a democracy, isn’t our governments complying with the majority of peoples wishes ….But after the last peoples referendum, we don’t trust governments; it really is them against us ..eg the Chagos Islands wasn’t in the manifesto
August 7, 2025
@glen cullen – not a democracy, is the only thing that comes to mind. A minor Scocilist WEF colony dictated to by the unelected, unaccountable beurocrats in a far away place
August 7, 2025
“They are misreading the mood.”
They don’t care about the mood or what the people want. This government, like the last few, is captured by the Globalists who have a long-term plan for how we will all live, work and die. The long march is upon us.
August 7, 2025
You would have thought the Conservatives would have jumped on this one, but no, their leadership cannot even make up its mind whether continuing in the ECHR is in our national interest.
August 7, 2025
@William Long – living upto the Uniparty label
August 7, 2025
Labour saying Conservatives £20bn blackhole after 5 years is incompetence then Reeves creates £50bn blackhole after 6 months.
Just a reminder high taxes trigger (not the underlying grievance but the trigger) civil wars. Taxes are normally the straw that breaks the camels back.
* English Civil war – Ship Money Tax charged on in land counties
* American War of Independence – Tea Tax (enforcement) to pay debts of East India company
* American Civil War – Morrill Tarrif on southern goods
* French Civil War – biden of taxes on third estate (commoners) but not on elite
* Texan Independence – dropping property tax exemption by mexican government
August 7, 2025
biden = burden
August 7, 2025
@javelin – there is no understanding that a budget means controlling expenditure to match earnings. This is all spend, spend, then borrow, borrow like there is no tomorrow, then again that last point, maybe actually be the point.
August 7, 2025
Successive Governments and CS are not interested in the people’s wishes, they know best and having an Electorate is a pain for them.
August 7, 2025
Agree – and if a party breaks it manifesto promises, they should call a general election
August 7, 2025
My surprise at this poll is that votes for the UK government to make decisions for the UK, irrespective of any other bodies, are so low. I would have expected at least 90% voting for sovereignty on every issue.
The rot set in with Blair and Quangos being set up that are accountable to no one, and MPs allowing their power to be given away. Then, 14 years of Lib/Conservative governments that did nothing about it, just allowing further power to drain away. Much of it was also driven by EU membership and how a shocking majority of MPs voted Remain. The current PM and government are the worst we have had for the last 100 years, and in nearly 14 months, have done more damage than their predecessors did in 14 years. We need a recall system for MPs, so they can’t ignore voters for 5 years, and referendums on major decisions. The low votes for the UK government to decide issues for the UK also reflect on our education system over the last 30 to 40 years.
August 7, 2025
The present government have no choice but to have someone in charge because they could not, collectively, run a Bath.
August 7, 2025
It would be scalding hot and those involved in using it would die of at least 3rd degree burns.
Most of us are experiencing the result of a financial 3rd degree burn.
August 7, 2025
“The present government who wish to recreate much of this through an EU re set misunderstand the public’s wishes.”
Of course they know the public’s wishes. Do you think they don’t know that pubic don’t want mass legal immigration, illegal immigration, the economy sabotaging Net Zero and the giving away of the Chagos Islands in order to lease it back at enormous expense? Unfortunately we’re no longer a democracy with the judiciary siding with the legislature against the public’s wishes.
August 7, 2025
And its not just EV cars and Ebikes catching fire & exploding…..An electric narrowboat exploding into flames at Gayton Marina in Northampton
https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/crime/canal-cordoned-off-and-marina-evacuated-after-boat-explodes-and-burst-into-flames-in-northants-5260199
August 7, 2025
A Li-Fe boat!
August 8, 2025
Very Good
August 7, 2025
Just because a UK government can do its own thing and go its own way doesn’t mean that it should or that it is sensible to do so.
I am still waiting to see the first pint bottle of wine for sale (something the previous Conservative government decided was a good idea). Why is that? Producing wine in pint bottles which can be only sold in one country (the UK) makes zero business sense, so no business has bothered to do so.
Business operates in a global market. To be able to sell in to other countries and markets, goods and services need to be compliant with the standards and laws in those countries and markets. As the pint bottle of wine example shows, making laws and regulations that differ from the international standards that global business is operating under is not necessarily a good idea.
August 7, 2025
Each national market and their customers have quite different likes and dislikes Peter.
Companies that trade internationally alter their advertising and their product specifications to meet the specific requirements of each market.
They have been doing it for decades.
If a pint bottle of wine is demanded by a market then companies will satisfy that demand.
August 8, 2025
There are no pint bottles of wine on sale, so there is clearly no demand (or, at least, none that make economic sense to fulfil).
A clear example of a government doing something entirely for show, not because it makes any sense at all.
August 7, 2025
Good to see you being interviewed on Peter McCormack’s YouTube Podcast Sir John. I’ll be watching it this afternoon.
Why don’t you post a link to it? Not everyone will be familiar with Peter’s Podcast.
August 7, 2025
We do not know if all those surveyed were British citizens. However, there appear to be some who still would prefer to be ruled by an unelected and unaccountable group of mysterious foreigners based in a foreign country.
Why would anyone but a fifth columnist wants that?
August 7, 2025
Phenomenal poll. Daily Sceptic analysis is very interesting: Libdem voters ticked the UK to have absolute sovereignty in 16/20 of the areas. It shows how important it was not to mention the EU or Brexit in the questions, otherwise (one assumes) they would have automatically ticked the “transnational institutions” box, Pavlovian style. It suggests their voters are pro-brexit, but don’t acknowledge it to themselves.
Probably many in Queens University, and in our MSM, wish this poll is obscured and forgotten ASAP. Well done for highlighting it here.
August 7, 2025
There is an episode of Yes, Prime Minister where Sir Humphrey gives Bernard a masterclass in changing the result of opinion polls simply by changing the questions asked.
This latest “don’t mention Brexit” poll would vindicate Sir Humphrey’s theory.
August 7, 2025
155 criminals were illicitly shipped, into the UK yesterday on the 6th August from France……That’s 3 that could potentially be returned to France; but we have to except an additional 3 from the France authorities …..unless they all claim to be under 18yrs
August 7, 2025
This useless government will take those findings as indicating ‘widely-held satisfaction with the way the government is governing’. For the avoidance of doubt, we must have a constitutional settlement that forbids the government from consulting any foreign or globalist body, NGO or legal entity without the express permission of a referendum.
We have too many lazy, venal and stupid politicians who are only too ready to give up actually governing if it involves them in inconvenient work or prejudices their potential personal financial gain from bribery or a future globalist job.
August 7, 2025
We have made donations of interesting items that we have charting the great battle for Brexit to The Brexit Museum.
I hope Jr will not mind my giving it a plug. Run by Lee Rotherham they are collecting all sorts of items and documents so that there is a permanent record of the great secret war.
The victory was hard won and many of the greatest warriors did not live to see the great night when the British people, under massive duress, voted to survive.
August 7, 2025
In spite of the disappointment at the ineptitude of our own degraded political class, it is heartwarming to know that the majority still intend to survive as a nation, sovereign and secure in our sceptered isle.
Sceptered” is an adjective describing something or someone as being invested with legal power or official authority, often symbolized by a scepter. It can also refer to something belonging to or characteristic of a sovereign or royalty.
August 7, 2025
and do you provide details of what might be termed the 5th column, working energetically to undermine the supposed great victory?
August 8, 2025
A PM who is given power temporarily for 5 years or less does not have the authority to give permanently away UK territory, nor to sign 100 year agreements, nor to change any constitutional arrangements, such as the voting age, without at least having these policies in their manifesto or better still, confirming the country’s wishes via a referendum. I don’t believe our current rulers “misunderstand the public’s wishes”. They know them too well. Their plan is not to change the policies to match the public’s wishes but rather to change the public to match their policies.