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I didn’t expect Miliband One to come out singing “If You’re Irish Get out of the Parlour. There’s no Welcome Here for You” but his statement on their vote stands high in the history of Euro-gabble. “We must pass the Treaty. Because the Irish have rejected it”.
Daft. We should put it in the deep freeze
First: so we can also get any concessions made to them to entice them back.
Second: so we’re not part of the heavy gang who`ll want to bully them back.
Third: to make our position clear. The Treaty is dead.
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David Davis’s effort to focus his by-election on liberty is like ladling water with a colander.
Labour won’t stand – why should Brown dance to David’s tune. The Liberals dare not. But there’s every lunatic under the son, plus Kelvin McKenzie, available to boost Haltemprice as a tourist centre and raise every issue, from Pelmanism to Paedophilia. Then there’s the EU. It’s bound to muscle in. Finally he’s going to have to fight the tories too. To get his job back. Cameron’s glad to be shut of him.
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Since a lot of people have asked and a lot more suspect it, let me make it clear. I asked nothing and got nothing for my vote on 42 days.
Fact was I made up my mind to save Gordon from the nation at the last minute, too late to ask for a diesel subsidy for fishermen.
I’ve even gone further. I’m not saving Gordon again from follies I’ve warned him not to pursue.
But I’m still kicking myself.
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