Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, 2024 parliamentary candidate for North Durham, 2028 candidate for Mayor of the North East Mayoral Combined Authority, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", banned from Twitter so officially more dangerous than the Taliban, eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Wednesday 18 June 2008
Inveterate
The World At One billed Peter Lilley as "the veteran Eurosceptic". What, from back when he campaigned for a Yes vote in the 1976 referendum (that was how he met his wife)? Or from back when he voted in favour of the Single European Act? Or from back when he was in John Major's Cabinet at the time of Masstricht? When, exactly?
From back when he and David Davis were busy campaigning against the "bastards" who voted against Maastricht, presumably! Except of course that they've never really stopped.
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