Articles tagged Opinion:
Cameron and May must be incandescent with rage. It looks like the Whips Office have panicked.Not their finest hour
- 10 Nov 2014
It is not often that I get really, really angry with my party, but today’s disgraceful, degrading fiasco has made my blood boil. The European Arrest Warrant, as I have written before, is eminently sensible. It is, apart from the Tory brain dead, a no brainer. May has skilfully...
In politics always shoot to kill and never to wound
- 10 Nov 2014
In the early eighties as a young and foolish backbencher I was accused of plotting to oust Margaret Thatcher. It was, of course, nonsense. Francis Pym, a sacked and bitter Foreign Secretary, gathered a group of wets together to try and put a more compassionate and human face o...
Grayling is a menace. His department is frighteningly Kafkaesque
- 4 Nov 2014
In that great Palais de Wankerdom, the Ministry of Justice, Grayling’s peculiars have been up to their usual tricks. A few months ago I was defence counsel for one of the defendants in the Leicester fire bombing. This was the case where an innocent family were burned to death....
Carswell and Raab are hopelessly wrong about the European Extradition Warrant
- 28 Oct 2014
I sincerely hope that no sentient Tory backbencher is going to be so craven and frit as to submit to Douglas Carswell’s blackmail about the vote on the European Extradition Warrant. In yesterday’s Telegraph he gave them a sinister message. ‘Any Tory MP who fails to vote agains...
The shocking truth about EU migration is that Farage is hopelessly wrong. And it's all in a government paper.
- 20 Oct 2014
Over the last few months I have been rather perplexed about the stampede of the main parties towards the general perception that EU migration is undercutting British jobs. There seems to be a popular view that once the people have spoken politicians should listen and have a du...
It's about time that Farage was exposed at the cynical Westminster operator that he is
- 10 Oct 2014
Despite all the hype from the Faragistas, no mould has been broken and nothing much has changed. The Kippers have just officially replaced the Lib Dems as the spittoon for the aggrieved, the nutters the no hopers and thoroughly pissed off from Jaywick. It is scary for the Tori...
For the police to hack the Mail on Sunday is a national disgrace and an affront to the freedom of the press
- 5 Oct 2014
Apart from the appalling news of the savage and senseless murder of a thoroughly decent man and the more encouraging reportage of British Imams speaking with one voice in condemnation, there is a worrying news story which is not being picked up. It is the Mail on Sunday splas...
If only Cameron could tell the Rampton Wing of the Tory party to fuck off and join UKIP
- 1 Oct 2014
Why anybody wants to be leader of a party, let alone Prime Minister is beyond my comprehension. Your private life is subjected to an unhealthy scrutiny by a carnivorous and mischievous media. You have to react immediately to a crisis with an instant and popular plan. You are o...
Self Control is always more satisfying than premature ejockulation. Time for a Royal Commission to look at the collective whinges of the UK
- 19 Sep 2014
Well, they think it’s all over; but it has just began. All party leaders have been damaged by this. Cameron is accused by the usual suspects of selling out England. Miliband of being as of much use as a cat flap in a submarine. And Salmond of conducting one of the most bad tem...
Who will speak up for the raving bonkers?
- 17 Sep 2014
These are joyous times for all Cameron haters. Andrew Rosindell, Graham Brady and that towering interlectual that is Owen Patterson must be creaming in their cavalry twills. Tomorrow is their big day because whatever the result that wicked, stuck up wealthy toff and his chums ...