In better days, the humiliation of David Cameron, in his
having been forced to allow a free vote on the redefinition of marriage, would
have caused his resignation this morning. Alas, though, we are not yet living
in better days. But this climb-down can only have happened because Cameron was
facing a rebellion big enough to defeat the legislation, including enough
Ministerial resignations to cripple his Government even by comparison with its
present sorry state.
A triumph, then, for Ed Miliband, who never threatened
either to whip this issue or to make it any sort of priority in the present
economic climate, one of many reasons why Labour became the voice and vehicle
of conservative, even Tory Britain at the recent local elections. A status on
course to be maintained and consolidated all the way to 2015. The tyranny of
Blairism has met an obstacle.
Meanwhile,
do not expect this piece of Notting Hill dinner party chitter chatter to reach
the floor of the House, never mind the Statute Book. Hard times are hardly the
times for this sort of thing. But Cameron has only this and the other piece of
Notting Hill dinner party chitter chatter. Do not expect that to reach the
floor of the House, never mind the Statute Book, either. Meaning that there is
simply no point whatever to the continuation of this Government. It should be
put out of our misery.
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