Just listened to Dominic Raab being interviewed on the radio. Would have been funny if it wasn’t so sad and pathetic. He played the victim card first off, whining on about how the EU have bullied us throughout the negotiations, then moaned on about his own government’s ‘scaremongering’, before denying that Rees Mogg has changed his line on the backstop (although Rees Mogg says Rees Mogg has changed his line on the backstop).
This was the long Today programme interview, during which he came up with exactly zero positive ideas about how to resolve this, which probably explains his brief and pointless stint as Brexit Secretary, which ended with a little flounce out, after admitting that he had no idea how much trade actually goes through Dover. What happened to the great British characteristics - stiff upper lip, mustn’t grumble, worse things happen at sea?
This (from a 2012 book) is what he thinks of the British
“Once they enter the workplace, the British are among the worst idlers in the world. (…) Too many people in Britain prefer a lie-in to hard work.”
He also thinks that men are discriminated against more than women, people who use food banks just have ‘temporary cash flow problems’, spending more on health and education is ‘a childish wish list’
He also backs a second referendum
“I think the sensible thing, if it's very close, within a couple of points, would be to take pause, respect the verdict of the British people and effectively shelve this debate until that point (a second referendum) which I hope is going to be as close to the 2020 election as possible.”
Dominic Raab, 9 June 2016
Striking stuff. £ still well up, currency traders obviously think a deal is likely. Shame I don’t trust them.
Elsewhere David Lammy making a bit of a tit of himself about Comic Relief.
We got a remoaner negotiating.
No idiot would vote for him?
