Shame on plotters out to scupper PM
SHAME on you, William Hague! Throughout your time as Tory leader there were regular plots to get rid of you and you depended on the loyalty of people like me, who had not voted for you but who saw party unity as essential for electoral success. Yet now that one of your successors is under acute pressure, you add to it by calling for him to go. Ditto, you, Michael Howard.What election did you ever win?
Everybody knew the Conservative Party was going to lose the by-elections.All that mattered was how the generals and troops reacted and as is now the usual pattern, they reacted with panic, disarray and assassins’ daggers. If this lot had been in charge during the Second World War they would have given up at Dunkirk.
The challenge for Boris is now twofold. First, if he wants to consolidate “getting Brexit done” he should implement some Brexit policies of the kind which will ensure that voters will never want to water them down.
THE obvious example is taking full advantage of our right to set our own VAT rules and to begin by abolishing VAT on fuel. He hints that may happen but nobody is enthused by delay. All his vacillation is doing is encouraging disgruntled Remoaners to dream of a Remain PM taking us back towards the EU.
In that context shame on you, Andrew Bridgen, and you, Steve Baker. You condemn Boris but with no guarantee at all of making sure he is succeeded by a committed Brexiteer.Who exactly is your candidate? Tory voters want Tory policies but what they are getting instead is a high tax, high spend economy, hatred of grammar schools, oppressive state regulation, steadily increasing illegal immigration and kow-towing to the ECHR. For pity’s sake, Boris, what is the point of the largest Tory majority in over 30 years? Meanwhile the crazed antics of the Tories are drawing attention away from the much deeper divisions in the Labour Party.
Thank Heaven I am out of it. The sheep on Dartmoor have more sense.
HOW wonderful that the Queen is riding again at Windsor and how good to see her receiving visitors without a stick. There is often an assumption that once something goes wrong in old age it is bound to be permanent but that is not true, even at 96!