Absolutely
no one expects the legislation that is going to be given Second Reading
on Tuesday ever to reach the Statute Book. Therefore, Ed Miliband, while
preparing to vote for it in an exercise of the purest gesture politics,
may as well make hay by calling for the restoration of the Married
Couple's Tax Allowance.
Likewise, no Bulgarians or Romanians are going to ship up to what
little might remain of the British economy after another 11 months of
this wretched Government. Therefore, Ed Miliband may as well make hay by calling
for the restrictions on them to be retained, something that a
Government closer to the trade unions than to big business might very
well have done, anyway.
And might very well have needed to have done, since such a Government would
have presided over a country to which Bulgarians and Romanians, like
Poles and others before them, might have experienced the slightest to
desire to migrate. No one migrates from their own, improving, part of
the Upper Second World to someone else's, declining, part of the Lower
Second World.
Hmm. The line used to be "never reach third reading". Now it's "never reach statute book"
ReplyDeleteWatch the Lindsay wriggling, followed by u turn.
Call it whichever you like. It is not going to happen. And everyone knows it. Tuesday's will the last ever vote of the whole House of Commons on it.
ReplyDeleteI hope you are right.
ReplyDeleteBut this line struck me ""Ed Miliband, while preparing to vote for it in an exercise of the purest gesture politics""
So you are calling your own party leader a fraud and a liar?
Which of course he is-I just wanted to hear it from the horse's mouth.
I am not a member of any political party.
ReplyDeleteAnd gesture politics are still politics. They are part of the game.
You, of course, do have a Party Leader. He was in favour of same-sex "marriage" until Cameron decided to legislate for it.
ReplyDeleteFarage remains on record in favour of the legalisation of drugs and prostitution, even while sacking junior functionaries for expressing those very same views.