- 22 Mar 2019 18:41
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Nonsense -
I would be the first to admit that the tone of your latest post is more moderate & improved than the last one.
However, your criticism, IMHO, is too Tory-centric.
CAMERON('Bullingdon Boy'-if you like ), stepped out of the box, for want of a better description, gave people the freedom to vote on the issue of Europe, which is something that happened only once under Labour & the public were subjected to biased government messages in it's desire to influence the voting back in 1975, even though the actual referendum questions were virtually identical to 2016..
The economic background back then, was very different than today, the oil crisis was barely two years on & industrial relations were, as always post war, 'messy'.
No one rejoices at how Theresa MAY has dragged the country, as well as herself into a downward spiral over her mis-handling of the referendum result's intention.
The referendum result ordered the government to take us out of the E.U,she should never have ceded any control over the issue to parliament, or even her Ministers,she is soon to be-was)in the 'driving seat', but now, she is a passenger, it's her own fault, no one else is to blame.
The day she ceded control to parliament, was like watching street stray dogs(MP's), waiting for scraps to be thrown at them, tails waggling, but, instead of each fighting for the scraps, they all headed for the person(the PM) that threw the pieces at them & have been devouring the carcass ever since.
That is no way for any 'leader' to behave, or for any 'parliament' worthy of the name.
Of equal measure did Labour descend on that windfall thrown at them, Theresa MAY's arch-nemesis, CORBYN' whom she once said in parliament, said that she would do everything in her power to stop being voted into power, has, by her actions, elevated CORBYN into being the bookies favourite as the leader at the next election.
That is something that I have alluded to before, the 'Nuclear' option, arising from the BREXIT betrayal by Theresa MAY, which is rather ironical.
Rich wrote:I'll row back slightly on my earlier comment. The referendum wasn't useless, in that it got us where we are now. If you're happy with where we are now then it was useful. Brexit's failure's not my fault, I live in a Tory constituency. May is smart. She knew she would batting on an extremely tricky wicket, but to shamelessly mix sporting analogies, when the ball comes lose from the scrum, you need to grab it. In politics you never know if you'll get a second chance.
So May knew she had a giant problem before she even took the job. She was Tory leader first and Prime Minister second. If she reached acoss the house to opposition MPs she wouldn't be party leader for long. The whole point of Brexit was to stop the Tory party splitting. May wasn't going to do a Ramsey Macdonald. Tony Blair seemed to finally eclipse MacDonald as the Labour hate figure after a mere 70 odd years. The Tory party was massively split, this meant she was going to be dependant on the 40 to 80 hard Brexiteers Tory MPs to get any deal through Parliament.
So when May had a massive opinion poll lead. she did the smart thing in going to the country. She can hardly blamed for failing to predict that Football crowds and Festival audiences would be chanting "Oh Jeremy Corby." She can hardly be blamed fot not predicting that Jeremy Corby would deliver the biggest increase in the Labour vote since World War II. So since the election her problem is worse. The Tory party can't agree on what sort of Brexit they want, but she can't reach out to Labour, because if she did, the Tory MPs really would dump her.
A lot of Tory MPs are very unhappy with May, but their unhappy for completely opposing reasons. Some want her to go harder and appease the Tory right, but some want her to go softer and reach out to Labour MPs. So you can whine about May as much as you want, but any replacement would face the same arithemetic, and even an election probably wouldn't change it.
Nonsense -
I would be the first to admit that the tone of your latest post is more moderate & improved than the last one.
However, your criticism, IMHO, is too Tory-centric.
CAMERON('Bullingdon Boy'-if you like ), stepped out of the box, for want of a better description, gave people the freedom to vote on the issue of Europe, which is something that happened only once under Labour & the public were subjected to biased government messages in it's desire to influence the voting back in 1975, even though the actual referendum questions were virtually identical to 2016..
The economic background back then, was very different than today, the oil crisis was barely two years on & industrial relations were, as always post war, 'messy'.
No one rejoices at how Theresa MAY has dragged the country, as well as herself into a downward spiral over her mis-handling of the referendum result's intention.
The referendum result ordered the government to take us out of the E.U,she should never have ceded any control over the issue to parliament, or even her Ministers,she is soon to be-was)in the 'driving seat', but now, she is a passenger, it's her own fault, no one else is to blame.
The day she ceded control to parliament, was like watching street stray dogs(MP's), waiting for scraps to be thrown at them, tails waggling, but, instead of each fighting for the scraps, they all headed for the person(the PM) that threw the pieces at them & have been devouring the carcass ever since.
That is no way for any 'leader' to behave, or for any 'parliament' worthy of the name.
Of equal measure did Labour descend on that windfall thrown at them, Theresa MAY's arch-nemesis, CORBYN' whom she once said in parliament, said that she would do everything in her power to stop being voted into power, has, by her actions, elevated CORBYN into being the bookies favourite as the leader at the next election.
That is something that I have alluded to before, the 'Nuclear' option, arising from the BREXIT betrayal by Theresa MAY, which is rather ironical.
Andre PREVIN : "Your playing all the 'wrong' notes" .
Eric MORECOMBE ; "I'm playing all the 'right' notes,but, not necessarily in the 'right' order".
Eric MORECOMBE ; "I'm playing all the 'right' notes,but, not necessarily in the 'right' order".