Esther MCVEY
People are rightly disgusted, frustrated and disillusioned with the antics of MPS flagrantly breaking their election promises and seeking to frustrate and – increasingly – overturn the result of the referendum.
Nobody has been doing more to frustrate Brexit in Parliament than Sir Oliver Letwin, but terrible though that is, I fear the consequences of his actions over recent weeks will be even more catastrophic for the country.
I was brought up in Liverpool in the Eighties under the misrule of Militant Labour. Under the avuncular figurehead of John Hamilton, the council leader, Derek Hatton ruthlessly pulled the strings as his supposed deputy (the resemblance to Corbyn and Mcdonnell is uncanny).
It was the most disastrous part of my home city’s history. Rules were bent, decisions taken and then changed in private, threats were made, and the city was run into the ground in a culture of intimidation. A cabal stole Liverpool and sold it down the river, bankrupted the city, ruined our reputation and left us in the lurch.
So untouchable were Militant they feared no consequences and saw no irony even when, in Neil Kinnock’s famous words, we saw the “grotesque chaos” of the Militant Labour Council “hiring taxis to scuttle around the city handing out redundancy notices to its own workers”.
Marxists do not respect traditions and conventions which get in the way of the revolution they wish to unleash. They thrive in chaos and will stop at nothing to throw away the rule book so they can do as they please, unchecked.
Our democratic system, which has evolved over centuries, has rules which are there for a reason.
They are there to provide stable governments, ones which are fully accountable. Conventions and procedures have stood the test of time to make ours a democracy that is admired the world over.
However, just as in Eighties Liverpool, in Parliament we now see
the rule book being ripped to pieces. Conventions have been cast aside like an old slipper; a huge constitutional piece of legislation aimed at stopping no deal has been rushed through the House of Commons in one day and is being rammed through the House of Lords almost as fast.
But this isn’t Derek Hatton twisting the rules to beat the system; this is a senior knighted Conservative Privy Counsellor. Blinded by his rush to frustrate and ultimately destroy Brexit, Oliver Letwin has not only shown others the map to wreak parliamentary chaos, he has given it the cloak of respectability.
Sir Oliver is a brilliant man, but he is naive in equal measure. This is the man who opened his front door in the middle of the night to allow someone to use his lavatory, only to be robbed senseless. He is doing it again, only
‘Overturning the result of the biggest democratic vote in our history is not what I consider a worthy motive’
this time he is allowing us all to be robbed of our democracy. He might think he has good intentions (although overturning the result of the biggest democratic vote in our history is not what I would consider a worthy motive) but his actions are being watched by a malevolent force, one he does not understand, but which will be rubbing its hands with glee.
Not only is Sir Oliver creating the chaos which helps propel Marxists to power, it is obvious to this Liverpudlian that they will use his example as a cover when they rip up the normal conventions, rules and checks and balances to railroad their extreme agenda through Parliament.
In short, the Marxists running the Labour Party see Oliver Letwin as their useful idiot.
He is playing with fire and I can never forgive him for this constitutional vandalism which, mark my words, will become a matter of routine should the Marxists running the Labour Party ever come to power.