For once, Mr Corbyn was right. ‘Hold our nerve? You tell that to the car workers at Nissan in Sunderland!’ It is quite clear that Mrs May is attempting to take us all for a very long ride indeed.
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Here we go again. Another week, another statement from Mrs May, another vote and no doubt, another delay in resolving our ever deepening crisis. Mrs May political limbs are stretched to breaking point
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In this brief lull before Brexit erupts again in parliament this week, I thought I should recommend to you a new book which attempts to explain how this wonderful country of ours has descended into its current cycle of self inflicted pain and harm.
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OK. Let’s face it. Donald Tusk shouldn’t have said it. You shouldn’t speak to your closest neighbour like that. Yet his intemperate language spoke for so many people in our country. Like us, he’s frustrated and angry due to Mrs May’s inability to tell the EU what we want.
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Forgive me for this intrusion into private grief, but assuming that beneath your MP’s status there lies a beating heart and something approaching the need for facts, yesterday’s projection of Tory Party unity on the steps of the Cabinet Office was quite frankly embarrassing.
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What a mess! Your party may be in a temporary lull in its civil war, but the path ahead is clear. The wagging Tory tail is about to throw the whole of our body politic and the nation it claims to represent into a totally unnecessary chasm.
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So the time wasting goes on. Last night, in my humble opinion, we saw the last charge of the Tory dinosaurs. Mr Johnson and his kind have won a very minor and very temporary victory. But Mrs May achieved her primary goal - the Conservative Party stayed together - for two more weeks at least.
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As one of my friends, and one your constituents, said to me yesterday evening, today, will be “frustrating-infuriating-exhilarating" and it will leave us "speechless-angry-optimistic". Take your pick. From the outside the world in the Westminster village seems to have gone mad.
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Many thanks for your round robin e-mail yesterday in which you presented your current position regarding Brexit. I am afraid to say that I think you are simply playing for time.
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Theresa May and her government have run out of ideas. Attempting to hang on to her deal, so famously and comprehensively rejected by the House last Tuesday, the ‘difficult lady’ has become the ‘ridiculous lady’
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On Tuesday evening I watched the result of the ‘Meaningful Vote’ debacle in the House of Commons from a hotel in Germany. I was with a group of German business people and I was the 'honorary Brit' who had to translate for them what was happening.
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The big day approaches. In our moment of crisis I sincerely hope that you will vote for the national interest rather than the party interest. May I suggest one way that the situation may resolve itself?
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The current Brexit situation is quickly moving from farce to tragedy. This morning Jeremy Hunt introduced us to the latest neologism in the Brexit lexicon - ‘Brexit Paralysis’.
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So it’s back to work today and what work it will be! The nation stands divided and Mrs May’s deal is in tatters. Parliament will resume its attempts to find a solution to the crisis but I am afraid it has already proven ill equipped to deal with it.
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The government is becoming ever more ridiculous in the country’s eyes. Mrs May has created this Potemkin Village of a no deal threat. Again, she shows herself to be totally disconnected from reality.
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Before the battle resumes next week in parliament, I thought it might help if we looked at where we stand as a country and a parliament. We are rightly proud of our institutions.
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A Happy New Year to you and your family. I hope that you feel rested after the Christmas break and will return to the Commons refreshed and ready for the battles ahead. For battles there will be.
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May I wish you and your family a happy Christmas and New Year. I have an admission to make. I am ashamed to say that I have suddenly become a shouter in front of the television screen.
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I am appalled. Yesterday Mrs May passed the point where one could just about understand her doggedness in the interests of her deal with the EU. Yesterday her doggedness became blockheadedness and the attitude of the bunker.
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You may be relieved to hear that this message will be shorter than my others. Mrs May has returned from Brussels, as expected, empty handed. She lies battered and forlorn at the foot of the brick wall of European solidarity.
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