Hezza: Almighty killing off Leavers
LORD Heseltine has called for a second referendum because the ‘Almighty’ had intervened and many of those who voted Brexit have died.
The former deputy prime minister said: ‘The important thing about the 2016 referendum, frankly, is the intervention of the Almighty. Because a significant number of people, elderly people, who voted to Leave, have died.’
He told Sky News: ‘And a significant number, reported in the press today, of young people have joined the [voting] register and they are appalled that they have, in their view, been betrayed by an elder generation. They want a vote.’
Separately, he was also asked yesterday whether pro-EU Cabinet members such as Amber Rudd should resign if Theresa May appears to be taking the UK to a No-Deal outcome.
He told BBC Radio 4’s World at One: ‘I think that would be what I would do. I believe it is in the national interest that they should. Every indication of this battle – which is so serious and so prolonged – is that the Right-wing [of the Conservative Party] will not compromise and the only way to bring a measure of balance to it is to play the same ruthless game that they are playing.
‘you have to ask yourself why you are in politics. What’s it for? What do you believe in? What sort of person are you?’
Lord Heseltine added: ‘I cannot go along with the tactics and techniques being used to try to blackmail us into a bad deal for Britain.’
In September 2017 Sir Nick Clegg also called for Brexit to be put off because Leave voters were dying. In a TV interview, he said:
‘The last vote was… a sort of photo finish, there was only 650,000 votes in it. And how can I put this politely? Actually I suspect that the high point of the Brexit vote has already passed.
‘Crucially, young people who have to live with the consequences of that referendum vote and these botched negotiations overwhelmingly want something different.’
Asked whether he was saying that Brexit voters were ‘dying off’, the former Liberal Democrat leader said: ‘Well, I’m saying if you look at the demography, the oldest voters voted for Brexit in the largest numbers, the youngest voters did the opposite.’