They Mean It
David Davis threatened to resign if forced to vote for. In the event, despite the protests of the loathsome Gove, the party whipped against and Ann Widdecombe was the sole rebel rather than their leader.
Tony Benn last night expressed incredulity over the outcome and now I can whole-heartedly join him. If Labour is now so authoritarian that only the most embittered and deranged aspect of the Tory’s far, hard-right, so niche as to be embodied in a single solitary woman, is prepared to give them support then the political landscape is a gnarled and confusing place that holds no appeal to me; and has shifted from making little sense to no sense at all.
I shall enjoy peering across the Atlantic.
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