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Rachel Allison

Blog, Politics and Elections · 19 July, 2018

Why are we angry?

Rachel reflects on the Anti-Trump Protests which happened all over the country last week. Last Thursday Madalena, Helen and I went out with 250,000 others to register our anger at the visit of Donald Trump to the United Kingdom.  We were not angry that he was here in the UK or that the red carpet …

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Blog, Brexit, Briefings · 19 July, 2018

Brexit: Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Communities

This paper is an information briefing for churches on how Britain’s departure from the European Union might affect farming and fishing communities. Please continue to pray for all those who work in agriculture and fisheries industry as well as the communities who rely on those industries. If you …

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Blog, Brexit · 9 July, 2018

Living with contradictory convictions… and Brexit

Rachel Allison on David Davis's resignation, the future of Brexit and disagreeing well.  This weekend has seen a big shift in not only our expectations for the England football team but also the final deal on Brexit.  On Friday the cabinet met to settle their Brexit policy and formulate a …

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Blog, Brief, Politics and Elections, Reflection · 18 June, 2018

Is that really what it says in the Bible?

 Last week, while defending the Trump administration’s immigration policy, Jeff Sessions said:  “I would cite you to the Apostle Paul and his clear and wise command in Romans 13 to obey the laws of the government because God has ordained them for the purpose of order… Orderly and lawful …

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Blog, Politics and Elections · 3 May, 2018

Power posing: cause for concern?

Rachel Allison explores the latest trend of political power posing and asks what it means that our politicians think they must be superheroes… There has been a lot of talk about ‘power-posing’ this week.  The new Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, decided to power pose outside the Home Office for …

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Blog, Brexit · 26 April, 2018

Deal or No Deal

Rachel Allison explains the uncertainty about post-Brexit devolution settlements and why the Welsh and Scottish Governments no longer agree.   Yet again devolution is the issue of the day for Brexit. Yesterday the government was set to announce its amendments to the EU withdrawal bill which …

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Blog, Brexit · 29 January, 2018

Brexit Doom and Gloom?

Last week the Scottish Government released their Brexit impact report and it was a lot of doom and gloom. Perhaps this is understandable; the devolved nations have a unique relationship with the EU and will feel the effects of Brexit more acutely than England. …

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Blog, Poverty and Inequality · 21 December, 2017

Merry Christmas David Gauke

This year at 3generate (Methodist Children and Youth Assembly) we asked young people to take part in some activities which explored how the benefits system in the UK works.  After taking part in our activities many of the young people saw a lack of fairness in the system and responded by writing …

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Blog, Brexit · 6 December, 2017

Bamboozled by Brexit?

It was all going so well… Last week we saw quite a bit of movement on the issue of Brexit, after what appeared to be deadlock came a flurry of announcements of progress being made in many different areas. Firstly we found out that, for the first time since their introduction in 2014 all of the …

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Blog, Brexit, Politics and Elections · 6 October, 2017

Does the EU want its cake, our cake, the morning croissant and afternoon tea?

As the Conservative Party conference rumbled on this week the European Parliament was discussing the future of the Brexit negotiations.  The European Parliament voted to urge the EU not to open the next phase of Brexit talks until a ‘major breakthrough’ had been made in the current negotiations.  …

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