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Theresa May was the beneficiary of the vacuum created by the resignation of the then Prime Minister David Cameron following the disappointing result of the 2016 referendum. Since then she has struggled to hold her own. She lost her majority in the House of Commons after calling an election that was totally unnecessary in an attempt to wipe out the opposition Labour posed to her office, though she won the election, it felt like a loss and indeed was a loss because it wiped out her majority and made Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader most likeable. She has been ridiculed in the international spheres particularly amongst her European counterpart who are embittered by UK’s decision to leave the European Union. She has been nothing short of appearing weak, unable to sack Boris Johnson for disloyalty or even shake up her cabinet, she has lost her popularity amongst the electorates who made their feelings known through the results of the June election, some quarters have referred to her as a lame duck, others a dead woman walking, the Conservative Conference this week was hoped would bring her bag from the brink of ridicule, instead, she flopped that too, her speech hardly inspired even her own cabinet members, the electorates are not impressed, her back benchers are determined to get rid of her. The good luck the Prime Minister is riding on is the non-appetite for another leadership fiasco not to mention the ongoing delicate Brexit talks.

Former party chairman Grant Shapps is leading the quest to oust her by gathering petitioners, he needs around 48 to get the process of no confidence in the PM, as the drama continues the whole country is bitting their fingers, whether or not she survives, only time will tell.

As the constitutional crisis continues to rock the Spanish political dungeon, the country’s constitutional court has suspended a session of the Catalan parliament scheduled for Monday in which local leaders were expected to unilaterally declare Catalonia’s independence.

The ruling has spiked a legal challenge by the Catalan Socialist Party, which opposes secession. Catalan President Carles Puigdemont said on Wednesday that he favoured mediation to resolve the standoff, but that Spain’s central government had rejected this.

In an interview wit’s the Spanish Prime Minister, Rajoy said the solution to the Catalan crisis was a prompt return to legality and “a statement as soon as possible that there will not be a unilateral declaration of independence, because that will also avoid greater evils”.

Rajoy did not elaborate but ruling party lawmakers say he is considering drastic measures to prevent the wealthy region from breaking away from Spain. These would include the unprecedented step of dissolving the Catalan parliament and triggering regional elections.

Participants in Sunday’s referendum backed independence with 90 percent of the vote, but turnout was only about 43 percent as most Catalans who prefer to remain part of Spain boycotted the ballot, which Madrid had called unconstitutional.

Unfortunately the EU has been passive in the crisis,

It is understood that the Catalonian government is willing to negotiate but the Spanish government has refused to come to the table. Only time will tell if the Spanish government will allow the rule of law to prevail, the world is watching.

With the recent event in Spain and the role of the court, the latter can no longer pride itself as the last hope of the common man. The right to self determination is a fundamental right and it’s recognised in international law. A Spanish court declared the referendum election organised by the Spanish devolved government in Catalonia. Even the separation of powers was vehemently trampled upon by the courts when it made an order stopping the Catalonian parliament from holding a debate on Monday, it’s everything against the principle of natural justice, equity and good conscience. Absolutely ridiculous to ignore the wishes of the people, more unacceptable is the stopping of the meeting of the parliament, The Spanish government needs to make right all the wrong, absolutely abhorrent in a developed country.

Lucy Haughey admitted in court how she had arranged to meet a teenage boy at her house back in 2016 where they later had sex. The mother-of-three who won £1,000 after competing on cooking show Come Dine With Me admitted having sex with her friend’s teenage son.

The reality TV show contestant said she was ‘glad’ she did it.
Haughey, from Glasgow, appered in court where she admitted engaging in sexual activity with the boy on June 25 2016.

The government of Spain is making every effort to disorganise Sunday’s referendum vote by the Catalans from seceding from Spain.
Meanwhile the forerunners of the so called countries of the free world; the United States and the United Kingdom have strongly opposed the ambitions of the Catalonians to hold a referendum, a self determination right that is recognised by the United Nations. The US over the years have positioned itself as the defender of social rights, just a few days ago at the United Nations General Assembly, President Trump echoed that the US does not wish to impose its ways of life on other countries but yet it opposes the right of the Catalonians to self determination. Also, the United Kingdom which have had its own fair share of refrendum remains opppsed to the idea of self determination while it allows two referendum, one on Scottish Independence and the other on Brexit. It is high time those who claim to be leaders of the free world to allow the world be free indeed.

It was coming, has been predicted for some time now so it was only a matter of time for the German Chancellor Angela Merkel to cruise to victory in yet another election.
However, it isn’t a landslide victory nor one that hasn’t left sour grapes in the mouth of the Chancellor and her followers as her popularity reduced significantly, infant the anti-immigration Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party has entered the national parliament for the first time.
Mrs Merkel’s CDU/CSU alliance took between 33.5% of the vote, well ahead of the second placed Social Democratic Party with 21% which would be its worst result since World War Two.
But in a major shock, the AfD took 13%  in Sunday’s vote making it the country’s third biggest political force.
It is now heading for the opposition benches of the Bundestag lower house – the first time a hard-right openly anti-immigration party with so many seats has entered parliament since World War Two.

As one of the frontline power player in the EU, what does her partial victory mean for the EU which only last week the President of the European Commission gave a speech on the state of the union where he laid down a vision for further integration in Europe when he should have been talking about reforming the organisation’s immigration policy, a policy that has cost the German chancellor a landslide victory, will she take a look at the signs on the wall or will it just be business as usual for the EU, only time will tell.