Tory grandees and their pro-eu agenda

IT was delightful to read Councillor John M Parr’s contribution to the letters, when he accuses

Michel Barnier of play-acting (“Michel Barnier must stop his play-acting”, Opinion, November 17). This was during the week when two of the Prime Minister’s advisers were dismissed. The significance of their departure is they were both staunch Brexit supporters.

Mr Barnier might have seemed to be play-acting, but, unknowingly, he may have been talking in coded language to attract the attention of the party grandees (grandees manage the Conservative brand) and most of them are pro-eu. Therefore, it wasn’t a coincidence that Mr Lee Cain and Mr Dominic Cummings went when they did! Also, Mr Johnson was told by the party’s hierarchy to get a grip on power, or they will start a campaign to depose him from office.

When replying to letters about Covid-19 in the Post, I have advised the authors of those letters to listen to every word the scientists uttered before forming their opinion. Because academics of a high calibre are averse to explaining in simple language, as scientists in their faculties are flanked by intellectuals bristling with knowledge, and their professors don’t need to explain. It wasn’t necessary to parade them before TV cameras. At the outset, ministers didn’t handle the professorships properly. Now it appears, the Government got fed a diet of dodgy Covid-19 advice.

Sadly, we live in a time where frankness is no longer a desirable virtue, resulting in people in the public eye talking in a guarded manner, so as not to offend particular factions.

Nigel J Starbuck

Bingham