A very happy retirement to Sir Peter Tapsell.
But it will be a great shame to see him go.
He has been a Keynesian and pro-Commonwealth opponent of the Eurofederalist project from the very start.
He was scathingly anti-Thatcherite.
He has consistently opposed the neoconservative wars all the way back to Kosovo, and only last week was asking on the floor of the House why, if Scotland could have a referendum on dissolving constitutional arrangements that went all the way back to 1707, Crimea could not have one on those which dated only from 1954.
He has called for a return to the division between retail banking and investment banking.
He has identified, in their seasons, the money markets, the media moguls and the intelligence agencies as the heirs of the nabobs and of the Whig magnates whom past generations of Tories had made it their defining cause to cut down to size and to subject to the sovereignty of Parliament.
Regardless of party, some other such figure must be elected in 2015. But who?
But it will be a great shame to see him go.
He has been a Keynesian and pro-Commonwealth opponent of the Eurofederalist project from the very start.
He was scathingly anti-Thatcherite.
He has consistently opposed the neoconservative wars all the way back to Kosovo, and only last week was asking on the floor of the House why, if Scotland could have a referendum on dissolving constitutional arrangements that went all the way back to 1707, Crimea could not have one on those which dated only from 1954.
He has called for a return to the division between retail banking and investment banking.
He has identified, in their seasons, the money markets, the media moguls and the intelligence agencies as the heirs of the nabobs and of the Whig magnates whom past generations of Tories had made it their defining cause to cut down to size and to subject to the sovereignty of Parliament.
Regardless of party, some other such figure must be elected in 2015. But who?
What a pity, for various reasons, that it cannot be you.
ReplyDeleteHe is in better fettle than I am, despite being 48 years older.
ReplyDeleteBut there must be someone, somewhere.
Teddy Fourlegs?
ReplyDeleteThere's a thought...
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