It was a cricketing metaphor used by Geoffrey Howe that was the undoing of the more long lasting Margaret Thatcher government.
Communities formed from immigration are becoming enforcers in their host countries of the religious and cultural codes of the societies they had left behind.
There is no accountability for the starvation and killings of civilians in Yemen. And with the western states, the western media is entirely complicit in this genocide.
Sadly, over-ambitious and unscrupulous politicians are more likely to succeed electorally.
The precedent set by Britain is being replicated by the ISIS, which now peddles stolen heritage to fund terror attacks, including on Londoners.
The Brits are much too dumb to make it happen, being comfortably outmanoeuvred by the EU at every turn.
India's easiest route to securing its residency in the Security Council would be simply to supplant Britain.
MP Jacob Rees-Mogg has accused EU leaders of a 'high-handed colonialist approach' to Brexit talks.
Hong Kong was handed over to China in 1997, under a special arrangement of one country, two systems.
The British always seek to hide their obvious weakness behind a veneer of heroism.
