Let’s be honest. Last night was a nail biting experience for everyone. For a while I thought that MPs might actually vote through the timetable motion against all the odds. But common sense won through. The vote was 322 to 308.
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Who are you kidding? Three days to scrutinize a Bill that will change everything for a generation? You must think we are all naive! It is quite obvious that this attempt to limit debate on Boris’s Bill is the act of a desperate man.
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Did you hear it? We are told that the roar of a million people standing outside parliament demanding a second vote could be heard inside the chamber as you debated the Letwin amendment yesterday.
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What a morning! At about eight o’clock the DUP did what it does so well. It withstood Boris’s bluster and stood up for the united bit of the United Kingdom.
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Did you see Marc Francois leaving the Cabinet Office yesterday? He was in a state of what used to be called ‘high dudgeon’. Then later I heard that Iain Duncan Smith had ‘exploded’ during a meeting with government officials regarding the on-going Brexit discussions.
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Your man is in a corner and it’s a corner of his own making. That Domesday clock in his office is ticking ever louder. Twenty days and thirteen hours until Brexit ‘Do or Die'.
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I came to your public meeting at Lavenham last night and was pleasantly surprised. You are clearly a likeable fellow and a decent man.
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So it’s all going to plan. Boris’s impossible proposals are going down like a lead balloon in Brussels, Berlin and Dublin. Which is exactly what Cummings/Boris expected so that they can now turn around and point the finger of blame.
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The charabanc is already out of control, the driver’s frenzied grip on the wheel, his maddened eyes focussed on the brick wall ahead. Under the bonnet, of course, there is the supercharged boy racer, one Mr Dominic Cummings.
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Boris is playing with us all. On Monday night he was in full crescendo, briefing that it was, ‘My deal or No deal’. ‘Take it or leave it. This is our last offer!’’ By Tuesday morning the mood music had changed to a soft diminuendo.
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Do you really think that people believe all this? Despite all the careful rehearsals, the ham acting, the assurances of inevitable success, the hesitancy, the ‘misspeaks’ and the constant flow of lurid allegations against Boris, the Big Lie goes on.
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So you have bought it hook, line and sinker. The new Tory Party has gone for broke. It has relinquished its ancient ties to a conservative broad church and its version of fairness and become Farage Party Mark 2.
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Imagine this. Dominic Cummings is sitting on a corner of a desk in No.10. There is a clock to one side and on the wall behind him a chart. The headline says, “We shall leave the EU on October 31st – Do or Die”.
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No contrition, no remorse. No apology. Just bare faced defiance. The full panoply of public school boy bullying and anger was on display in parliament last night as Boris Johnson hit back at what he calls the establishment stitch up.
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It came out of the blue yesterday morning. The Supreme Court announced its unanimous verdict. Boris has misled the Queen. The Prorogation of Parliament was ‘null, void and of no effect’. Yesterday afternoon the heavens opened over Parliament Square.
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Yesterday we saw the Labour Party commit electoral suicide in the ‘stitch up’ vote at their Conference in Brighton. It was committed against a chorus of ‘Oh Jeremy Corbyn’
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I’ve been pondering long and hard about how my MP, in such a short span of time, can travel, with apparently so little remorse or self-examination, the massive distance from a 2016 Remainer to a 2019 Parliament Suspending Brexiteer
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On Wednesday morning the Scottish Court of Session found Boris’s shut down of parliament to be unlawful, citing “clandestine” behaviour with “the purpose of stymying parliament”, to quote one of the judges.
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So the mask is off. You’ve finally come off the fence. After months of attempting to justify every wriggle and turn in your party’s rapid slide to the right you have chosen to be an unapologetic follower of the party line. Shame on you!
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I went up to Parliament yesterday. Or rather, to Parliament Square. It was a bright, sunny autumn day with white cumulous clouds towering above the Houses of Parliament. But this grand and proud institution currently lies under tarpaulin and scaffolding
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