Baroness Jenkin is right. Get over it
- 8 Dec 2014
Now I appreciate that this will really piss some people off, but Baroness Jenkin was right. Some of the poor do not know how to cook. This is an historical problem. My folks and their folks were brought up in the East End of London. Looking back it would seem an horrific child...
We don't want an economist as Chancellor we need a politician
- 4 Dec 2014
Will someone please explain to columnists like Peter Oborne that the Chancellor is actually a politician. And, shock horror, politicians make decisions to persuade the public to vote for them. There seems to be a sneering attitude towards George Osborne from the chattering cla...
What if Penny Mordaunt had been a man? The wimmin would be screaming for her resignation
- 30 Nov 2014
I have been reading with various degrees of mild irritation and amusement Penny Mordaunt’s now notorious ‘cock’ speech. Her real mistake was not so much making a rather foolish and on the scale of things a rather minor error of judgement, but fessing up to it at a public even...
Fire up the KIPPER Quattro. But Farage will not be at the controls. It will be Ed and the SNP
- 21 Nov 2014
If only the Labour Party could take a few lessons from Tony Blair. He understood the importance of encouraging hardworking people. He understood that if Labour was to win it was vital that the party reached across party divides. More importantly, he understood that voters woul...
UKIP has now become a fully fledged Westminster bubble party. It is tearing itself apart
- 18 Nov 2014
It may have passed by the good people of Rochester and Strood but UKIP have finally grown into a fully fledged Westminster bubble party. They are tearing themselves apart. This is not about the racism, sexism homophobia and general bonkerism that simmers unpleasantly below the...
Cameron and May must be incandescent with rage. It looks like the Whips Office have panicked.Not their finest hour
- 10 Nov 2014
It is not often that I get really, really angry with my party, but today’s disgraceful, degrading fiasco has made my blood boil. The European Arrest Warrant, as I have written before, is eminently sensible. It is, apart from the Tory brain dead, a no brainer. May has skilfully...
In politics always shoot to kill and never to wound
- 10 Nov 2014
In the early eighties as a young and foolish backbencher I was accused of plotting to oust Margaret Thatcher. It was, of course, nonsense. Francis Pym, a sacked and bitter Foreign Secretary, gathered a group of wets together to try and put a more compassionate and human face o...
Grayling is a menace. His department is frighteningly Kafkaesque
- 4 Nov 2014
In that great Palais de Wankerdom, the Ministry of Justice, Grayling’s peculiars have been up to their usual tricks. A few months ago I was defence counsel for one of the defendants in the Leicester fire bombing. This was the case where an innocent family were burned to death....
Carswell and Raab are hopelessly wrong about the European Extradition Warrant
- 28 Oct 2014
I sincerely hope that no sentient Tory backbencher is going to be so craven and frit as to submit to Douglas Carswell’s blackmail about the vote on the European Extradition Warrant. In yesterday’s Telegraph he gave them a sinister message. ‘Any Tory MP who fails to vote agains...
The shocking truth about EU migration is that Farage is hopelessly wrong. And it's all in a government paper.
- 20 Oct 2014
Over the last few months I have been rather perplexed about the stampede of the main parties towards the general perception that EU migration is undercutting British jobs. There seems to be a popular view that once the people have spoken politicians should listen and have a du...