“I’d rather be dead in a ditch than to go back to Brussels to ask for a further Brexit extension.” So said our new Prime Minister yesterday during a hapless attempt to launch his election campaign. I am afraid that he has just predicted his own political death.
Read MoreThe body language said it all. On Monday night, on the steps of Downing Street, Boris had to force his boisterousness upon us. His enthusiasm had lost its energy and his jerky hand movements had lost whatever authenticity they ever had.
Read MoreYour moment of decision has arrived. Yesterday evening Boris Johnson’s government issued an ultimatum to Tory MPs. If they vote against the government, the whip will be removed. That means immediate suspension
Read MoreCrunch time is fast approaching. Boris is proroguing parliament to avoid its scrutiny and the Tory split is here for all to see. At the moment, as an MP, your choice consists of one of two ‘Tory extremes’. On the populist right is the Johnsonian government
Read MoreYour new leader can’t help it. He spouts whatever comes into his mind and doesn’t care a jot about consequences. That is the secret of the populists – fluency. Boris is a prime example. David Davis suffers from it, as of course, do Nigel Farage and Donald Trump.
Read MoreI 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.
Read MoreLast 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
Read MoreI 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.
Read MoreSo 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
Read MoreSo 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.
Read MoreI 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.
Read MoreMany 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!
Read MoreYour 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.
Read MoreI 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’.
Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreWhere 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.
Read MoreThe 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
Read MoreAir 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.
Read MoreWhat 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
Read MoreSo 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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