I hope you are listening to views from outside the ‘Tory Box’? Today Tim Brake of the Lib-Dems states that no-deal ‘would “have wartime implications, in peacetime, all of them self-inflicted”. That sums it up.
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Last week I, along with millions of others, paid the second part of my annual tax bill to HMRC. Until now I have never quibbled about how the government spends my hard earned cash
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I assume that you will soon be off on holiday with your family where I sincerely hope you will be able to cut yourself off from the chaos of Westminster. But please remember that, behind you, you will be leaving a nation in turmoil.
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So Boris PM is going for broke. And this time perhaps, we are entering the final phase of the Tory Party Civil War. The boil which has been festering for so long now is becoming red and raw and will burst by October 31st
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So you failed the first test last Thursday. You voted No on the Northern Ireland Bill thus, I am afraid, revealing your willingness to allow Boris to force through a no-deal Brexit without consulting parliament should he deem it necessary.
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I believe it was Sophocles who once said that those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. Well the first stage of that process has been reached. The Tory Party has gone mad.
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Many thanks for your personal reply to my fifty nine letters to you over the last year. It was much appreciated. This is my fiftieth letter to you so, for me at least, it is quite a red letter day!
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Your party seems to have gone stark, raving bonkers. It may be exciting for those of you in the Westminster bubble but from out here in the real world, you all seem to have lost control of your senses. It is difficult to believe what we are hearing and seeing.
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I don’t know whether you are a theatregoer or not but you may have heard of a play by Michael Frayn called ‘Noises-Off’. The author is quoted as saying that a play ‘is often funnier from behind than in front’.
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A small round of applause. Your man – Jeremy Hunt - has managed to squeeze into the final two for a vote by your 140,000+ members at the end of July. The final result, of course, is a foregone conclusion.
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Where do you live? I’m speaking metaphorically, of course. Your message to justify backing Jeremy Hunt as the next Tory leader reads a little like a schoolboy essay in exculpatory flattery. And its irrelevance is almost touching.
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The headlines say it all. Mr Gove snorted cocaine. Mr Stewart smoked opium. Mr Hunt tried cannabis and Mrs Leadsom did the same. It seems that your party is going through some sort of drug rehabilitation programme
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Air Force One arrived at Stansted yesterday with President Trump and his family on board for the start of his 3-day State Visit to the UK. He has come to bathe his massive ego in the colour and pageantry that only our country can offer.
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What a week! Your head must be spinning. What’s it like to be in a political centrifuge being pushed outwards towards the extremes of Tory party ideology? As predicted, the tsunami of last week’s Euro elections has swept over you and your party
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So this is it. Mrs May, after yet again trying to batter her way through, is about to be killed off by her own party as have so many of her predecessors. Two days ago the Daily Telegraph, referring to Mrs May, cried out ‘Desperate, Deluded, Doomed’.
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It had to end in tears. The men in grey suits have finally visited Mrs May and told her she has to relinquish her position after the coming European vote this week. The Chief Executioner, Sir Graham Brady, did it all in a very Tory manner.
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Hold on a moment. Can this really be true? Is Mrs May’s only new initiative, to do for a fourth time, what’s she’s already done three times before - without success?
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You will not have noticed but I have been away. An African wedding. A safari in Zambia and a bit of lake dwelling in Malawi. You should try it.
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She was almost normal. For the very first time Mrs May seemed relaxed as she spoke to us from a Chequer’s sofa. The glass of water propped to her left reassured us that we were not in the hands of some intoxicated die hard
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Today The Daily Telegraph screams,’Brexit Betrayal’ across its front page. But who is betraying whom? It’s all so predictable. Mrs May is trapped.
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