Labour MP tells truth shock!

Here is an extract from what Labour MP Barry Gardiner said on a BBC panel discussion this week. I have to wonder if someone at Conservative HQ managed to feed him a truth serum!


“Number ten circled the wagons.

“Why are they having to defend themselves? Well the answer is very clear. Because this government, from the beginning, actually from before it was a government, has cared more about extirpating the people who disagreed with it than they have about setting out a clear programme and policy.”

“And quite honestly, you know, every day people looking at this tonight are going to say,

‘For God’s sake, what do these politicians think they’re doing?’

You know, you circle the wagons and you end up in a circular firing squad!

That’s what they’re doing. And people want a government that’s going to say

‘This is what we’re about.”

They don’t know. That’s why our poll ratings are so low.”

“People are looking to this government, saying ‘What are you giving us?’ You had ten pledges when you started off campaigning to be the leader of the party, you jettisoned them all.’

There is no clear programme, and the public are fed up with it, and it’s reflected in the polls.”























Henry Hill commented that he agreed with Barry Gardner's analysis so far as it went but added 

 "The Government can't communicate a clear programme because it doesn't have one, and it doesn't have one because having one would involve making extremely painful choices the public would hate."

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