David Cameron, it has been argued this week, has become detached from the views of Conservative voters on Europe. Amid the noise on the EU referendum, however, comes more evidence that it is Ed Miliband who has the greater problem of detachment from the views of his party’s supporters. While the Labour leader continues to
‘Well, Sir Godfrey, the benefit cuts are beginning to sort the men from the boys.’
‘Your phone has a voice recognition function — how come you don’t?’
‘I can’t stand people who don’t suffer fools gladly.’
‘Bloody Ukip, coming over here, taking our votes…’
‘Try calling 666.’
‘There’s another one of us looking at brochures of holidays we can no longer afford.’
‘Your baby’s actually quite ugly. Airbrushing’s an extra 20 quid.’
‘Why walk around the garden shaking dirt from your trousers? I swear he is up to something in that shed.’
‘You know it’s a top neighbourhood by the quality of the fly-tipping.’
‘I think I can hear drones.’
‘They protect your ears from the sound of Helen Mirren.’
‘Is he on another one of his crazy diets?’
‘They say if you can remember the Sixties, talk to the police.’
One-nation Toryism Sir: When my late father, John McKee, stood as Conservative candidate for South Shields in the 1970 general election he gained 19,960 votes, more even than David Miliband in the same constituency 40 years later. In last week’s by-election in the South Shields constituency, the Conservative candidate attracted only 2,857 votes. Many things
Home The UK Independence Party gave the government and opposition a jolt by doing well in the elections for 34 English councils, increasing its number of councillors from eight to 147 and gaining a projected national vote share of 23 per cent (compared with 25 per cent for the Conservatives, 29 per cent for Labour
Lord Lawson’s announcement that he intends to vote for Britain to leave the European Union has been interpreted by some as reinforcing demands that David Cameron holds his referendum this year or next, rather than 2017. But it does no such thing. Follow Lawson’s arguments and the logical conclusion is that the best chance of
Four kinds of nonsense Lord Lawson accused Nick Clegg of talking ‘poppycock’ on Europe. What are we really saying when we accuse people of talking nonsense? Poppycock From old Dutch word for ‘soft dung’. Codswallop Unknown, but said by some to come from a non-alcoholic beer (or ‘wallop’) brewed by Hiram Codd in the 19th century.
