Thursday 24 May 2012

One Flagship Sunk, One To Go

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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