Jo Swinson was on stellar form in the Commons this week. In her latest procrastination statement, the Prime Minister tried to claim credit for shared parental leave.
As we know, it was Jo who, as a Business Minister, delivered that against the wailing opposition of the Conservatives. So she naturally took exception to the PM’s claim.
The Prime Minister made much today of her plans to make 'legal commitments' to protect workers' rights after Brexit. Let me tell you what the Conservatives wanted to do when I was Minister for Employment Relations in the coalition government. (1/n) pic.twitter.com/5APqcRYOKz
— Jo Swinson (@joswinson) February 12, 2019
And afterwards, with the help of some excellent gifs, she took to Twitter to rip the Tories to shreds on workers’ rights. She highlighted the times in the coalition when we fought against them. And there was a touch of humility as she said that we might not always have got it right, but we sure as hell battled every day. Here’s are the highlights:
This is my favourite:
First, there was the Beecroft ‘Report’ – though it was really more like a crap GCSE essay attempt without proper evidence. It was written by a Tory donor, though, so they demanded the ideas in it were looked at. pic.twitter.com/5UbbTfddQq
— Jo Swinson (@joswinson) February 12, 2019
Beecroft included ideas like scrapping maternity rights and bosses being able to fire people for no good reason, on a whim. Vince Cable rightly told the Tories to take a running jump.
— Jo Swinson (@joswinson) February 12, 2019