: QUENTIN LETTS - yesterday in Parliament
By Quentin Letts
Published: 07:53 AEST, 10 July 2014
German politicians were visiting. ...
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If our German friends were taking a written note of the following half-hour, they may have gained a skewed impression of what is electorally important in Britain.
Issues included: child abuse, strikes, Aberdeen to London air connections, a charity walk in Derbyshire’s High Peak constituency, ‘revenge’ pornography, blackmail by Westminster Whips, gay cake decorating in Ulster, female genital mutilation and the fact (can it be right?) that no serving American president has ever visited Wales. Gay cake decorating! A fruit cake?
Europe was mentioned but once, and that at a tangent when the European Arrest Warrant was raised by admirably sceptical David Nuttall (Con, Bury N).
But no one attacked Jean-Claude Juncker for his Campari intake. No one demanded a renegotiation of our European Union membership. No one tore into Mr Cameron for being too close to/too distant from Angela Merkel and Co.
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FULL article - here.
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COMMENT
David Nuttall (Con, Bury N)Nuttall is rated as one of the Conservatives' most rebellious MPs.
Nuttall also handed PM David Cameron a petition for the in/out referendum on the UK's membership in the EU...David Nuttall voted against in the House of Commons Second Reading vote on marriage equality in Britain.
Nuttall ... 42 policies were listed including reintroduction of the death penalty and conscription, privatizing the BBC, banning the burka in public places and preparation to leave the European Union. The Daily Telegraph believes the whips sent Edward Leigh [British Conservative politician] to try and persuade the group not to table the amendments.
[source: wikepedia]
LOL. What on earth is going on in the UK?
