He certainly give Pfeffel the runaround. Just to think that had Labour gained another ten seats in 2015 the whole of this Brexit nonsense would not have happened. Even if Cameron had managed to get as far as a referendum Miliband would have given Labour voters a clear instruction on how to vote, enough in my view to have swung the result.
I have just emailed the following, to my MP, Royston Smith (spit). “Dear Mr Smith Reference the Internal Market Bill I wonder if you would be so kind as to pass on my thanks and gratitude to the two Tory MPs who voted against breaking international law. Also, would you be so kind as to pass on, to those Tory MPs who abstained, that admirable as it was, to refuse to be whipped into voting for the breaking of international law, they would be more admired if they had had the courage to have voted against it. As for those who voted in favour of breaking international law, including yourself, I have nothing but complete and utter contempt. Clearly the reputation and good standing, of this country, means less to you than it does to decent and law abiding citizens. In closing, perhaps you can send me a list of national and international laws that I can choose to break, in a “specific and limited way”, without being held to account. Shame on you”
So now it’s Labour’s fault? There have always been doubts about the NI/Ireland border, but the last I heard (I might be wrong) the EU were still committed to doing selective checks on goods and not checking everything, as they could insist on given that we are no longer part of the Union.
If it is real, it’s straight out of the Goebbels playbook. Anyone who doesn’t follow the latest lie to the letter is an enemy. It’s Orwellian in its scale. Interesting times ahead.
I received that piece of junk but if the media trot out Johnson's rhetoric, those in the Red Wall will still be on his side, becuzz itsa abo' Brexit, innit?
Pfeffel getting taken apart by his own MP's on the Liason Committee. A real " Rabbit in the headlamps" performance. Totally out of his depth. Arguing that schools should not close until a positive test. Trouble is they can't get a test.
Then MacMillan cleverly fabricated the "One-Nation" Tory, which in fact had less substance than "New Labour," and is like the latter, totally meaningless. But it suits Johnson's narrative to keep trotting that line out again.
To be fair to Harold MacMillan, his government built over 300,000 new council homes every year throughout the 50s. His brand of patrician Conservatism, coming so soon after the communal sacrifice of the Second World War, genuinely bought into it’s One Nation values. It was Margaret Thatcher who tore up the post war social consensus, replacing “we’re all in it together” with “stand on your own two feet”. Cameron adopted the former as a slogan, but you don’t hear it much anymore.
Alistair Campbell saying it's a disgrace to be represented to the world by a man who can't string two sentences together. Sky news saying his claim on testing was untrue. It's falling apart now. Scots law minister quit too.
I would argue it was Ted Heath's Government who ripped up the "social consensus" with its beligerent conduct towards trade unions, per se!! It was during his time that the troubles really flared up in NI, Thatcher continued along the same path set by Heath with confrontation with the Unions. As we all know it was the Falklands War that helped her establish her ethos with a big win in 1983. However, I suspect she would have won the 1983 election even if there had been no Falklands War, despite her apparent unpopularity previous to said conflict.
