RE: OXO26 Oct 2019 21:57
Just think back
The leaders are bad enough. Jeremy Corbyn is an absurd, witless parody of his lifelong role as a Left-wing camp follower. The Liberal Democrats’ fresh new face, Jo Swinson, looks and sounds like the president of a fifth form debating society. And then there is that preposterous buffoon, Ian Blackford, who leads the Scottish Nationalists at Westminster. The notion that any or all of these people could somehow constitute a plausible “unity government” in the event of Boris Johnson being removed without an election is ludicrous. But worse than the leaders are those new-ish backbenchers most of whose performances would be an embarrassment to a local council.
I take it as a personal affront, as a political journalist who happens to be female, when I have to listen to a Greek chorus of keening, carping Labour women address the House (always from pre-scripted notes) with that suppressed histrionic sob which now seems to be mandatory. I wonder if the stoical suffragettes who were jailed and tortured for the cause of female suffrage ever imagined this s
The leaders are bad enough. Jeremy Corbyn is an absurd, witless parody of his lifelong role as a Left-wing camp follower. The Liberal Democrats’ fresh new face, Jo Swinson, looks and sounds like the president of a fifth form debating society. And then there is that preposterous buffoon, Ian Blackford, who leads the Scottish Nationalists at Westminster. The notion that any or all of these people could somehow constitute a plausible “unity government” in the event of Boris Johnson being removed without an election is ludicrous. But worse than the leaders are those new-ish backbenchers most of whose performances would be an embarrassment to a local council.
I take it as a personal affront, as a political journalist who happens to be female, when I have to listen to a Greek chorus of keening, carping Labour women address the House (always from pre-scripted notes) with that suppressed histrionic sob which now seems to be mandatory. I wonder if the stoical suffragettes who were jailed and tortured for the cause of female suffrage ever imagined this s
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