Laura Pidcock did well on last night's Question Time. But she said quite clearly that she was in favour of a second referendum on EU membership, leading to a Remain vote. Not, "Even Remain would be better than the deal on offer." Remain for the sake of Remain. That is not my view. In fact, I am not in favour of a second referendum at all.
I will stand for Parliament here at North West Durham even if I can raise only the deposit, which I could do by going pretty overdrawn, although that was not how I was brought up. I would still prefer to raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign, but I am no longer making my candidacy conditional on having done so. In any event, please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
I will stand for Parliament here at North West Durham even if I can raise only the deposit, which I could do by going pretty overdrawn, although that was not how I was brought up. I would still prefer to raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign, but I am no longer making my candidacy conditional on having done so. In any event, please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
That is the policy Tom Watson advocates and Jeremy Corbyn (who has already whipped twice in favour of a second referendum) looks set to unveil next Tuesday.
ReplyDeleteIt was not the policy of a single Tory leadership contender, though.
But it is still what they have every intention of doing.
DeleteNot a third of her Tottenham audience understood a word she was saying. What the hell is that accent? It's not Northumberland, where she comes from. It's stage Geordie for the telly.
ReplyDeleteI do not normally do this, because her accent is not the point. But that accent is completely fake. No one speaks like that. In 37 years in the North East, I have never met anyone else who spoke like Laura Pidcock, and in any case she comes from an upper-middle-class background. She chooses to sound as one of London's public school television producers or public school Labour Party hacks expects a "Geordie" to sound. But no one, absolutely no one at all, naturally speaks like that.
DeleteIt’s not, though. They can’t. Keeping the Tory vote and membership depends entirely upon leaving the EU, whereas keeping the Labour vote and membership depends on the opposite. Hence every Shadow Cabinet member from Keir Starmer to Tom Watson is now a dedicated second referendum Remainer. No Tory leadership contender or Cabinet member could dare advocate any such thing.
ReplyDeleteDominic Grieve, Sam Gyimah and Justine Greening’s advocacy of a second referendum puts them in the permanent outer wilderness of the Tories.
You'll see.
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