Quote of the day 16th October 2019
"I ask myself: What if, two weeks after Jo Cox was murdered, a backbench Tory invited members of National Action to Parliament?
What if, while her murderer Thomas Mair was in court declaring ‘death to traitors’, that same Tory MP was outside at a ‘solidarity’ vigil?
What if that Tory MP had been willing to get himself arrested for the pleasure?
And what if he had written a cheery note to the organiser of the demo?
Now imagine that Tory MP ended up party leader one day. How would Labour MPs respond?
Would they cut his backbenchers the same slack they cut themselves? Would they shrug their shoulders and say, ‘Oh, they’re just being loyal party people’ or ‘He’s doing well in the polls’? Would they empathise with the Tory MPs and members who said they were staying to fight for their party’s ‘soul’?
Would they hell. They would be howling and marching and demanding every last Tory MP resign.
And they’d be right."
(Steven Daisley, extract from an article in the Spectator about why we should not forget Jeremy Corbyn's past actions and statements.)
The article from which the above extract is taken was retweeted this week by an MP, Ian Austin, who resigned from the Labour party for exactly the reasons it describes.
It concludes as follows:
"However unfashionable it may be right now, the past matters. Truth matters. Jeremy Corbyn’s character matters. And the character of this country – and what would become of it if we made this man our Prime Minister – matters. It may not be clever of us, the voters may not care, but some of us cannot move on."
What if, while her murderer Thomas Mair was in court declaring ‘death to traitors’, that same Tory MP was outside at a ‘solidarity’ vigil?
What if that Tory MP had been willing to get himself arrested for the pleasure?
And what if he had written a cheery note to the organiser of the demo?
Now imagine that Tory MP ended up party leader one day. How would Labour MPs respond?
Would they cut his backbenchers the same slack they cut themselves? Would they shrug their shoulders and say, ‘Oh, they’re just being loyal party people’ or ‘He’s doing well in the polls’? Would they empathise with the Tory MPs and members who said they were staying to fight for their party’s ‘soul’?
Would they hell. They would be howling and marching and demanding every last Tory MP resign.
And they’d be right."
(Steven Daisley, extract from an article in the Spectator about why we should not forget Jeremy Corbyn's past actions and statements.)
The article from which the above extract is taken was retweeted this week by an MP, Ian Austin, who resigned from the Labour party for exactly the reasons it describes.
It concludes as follows:
"However unfashionable it may be right now, the past matters. Truth matters. Jeremy Corbyn’s character matters. And the character of this country – and what would become of it if we made this man our Prime Minister – matters. It may not be clever of us, the voters may not care, but some of us cannot move on."
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