Welcome to my day (again) – 16 November 2016

Yes, another day. The LDV team are still a bit short-handed, and so I’m back in harness again this week.

It’s been another tough week for Theresa May’s administration, with suggestions that they haven’t got a plan yet, and that thousands more civil servants will be needed to deliver Brexit. I dimly recall that part of the problem with Europe was that there were too many bureaucrats… Ah well, at least we can be assured by the competence that they’ve displayed so far… Perhaps not.

There will be more news from Europe, as Guy Verhofstadt gently chides Boris Johnson on how Brexit negotiations might go. Meanwhile, I’ll be looking forward to the ALDE Party Congress in Warsaw, just two weeks away, focussing on the elections to its Bureau, as part of our coverage of that event.

We’ll also have the usual articles from you, our readers. Remember, we welcome well-written, lively contributions on whatever subject takes your fancy (well, obviously they should be related to politics…), 500 words or so and not previously published elsewhere.

And now, on with the show…

* Mark Valladares is a former day editor and Readers’ Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice.

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3 Comments

  • We don’t need thousands of extra civil servants to enable us, swiftly and surely, to leave the EU…
    Just leave it up to the three people best qualified to get us O.U.T….I refer, of course, to May (James, not Theresa), Hammond and Clarkson…

  • David Evershed 16th Nov '16 - 10:59am

    As Zhou Enlai may have said in 1968 about the significance of the 1789 French Revolution…….
    …… it’s too soon to say

    …… that the government has been competent or otherwise about Brexit.

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