Caroline Lucas of the Greens on the Lib/Dems

It did not take long before the members of the new "Remain Alliance" between the Lib/Dems, the Greens and the Welsh nationalists were sniping at each other.

In an interview on 9th November, Caroline Lucas, formerly the Green party's one MP and their joint leader, had this to say about the Lib/Dem policy on Brexit:


"Position of Revoke, at that point I just felt, this is just taking party interest above national interest to such an unforgivable degree to be honest. 

I think, you know, er, if you wanted to send a message to 17.4 million people that you don't give a f*** about what they've just said, then why don't you just say so?"


I don't always agree with Caroline Lucas but I think she had a point there. I'm sure meetings of the "Remain Alliance" will be lively.

Comments

Gary Bullivant said…
Will there now be a Copeland Leave Alliance for Labour and Conservative Leavers or is this just Armistice Day repeated one hundred years later? Very good of Lord Farage of Brussels in the Kingdom of the Belgians to wait= until 1200hrs to announce his surrender.
3:12 pm
Jim said…
There was a Leave Alliance, sadly it did not catch on with politicians. You see the Leave alliance actually seemed to know what they were doing, and, God forbid, actually wrote a plan on how to achieve Brexit, and done it BEFORE the referendum ***GASP***
5:52 pm
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