This week, Bath MP Wera Hobhouse spoke in a parliamentary debate on a petition calling on the Government to walk away from the Brexit talks with no deal. As ever, she did so with passion and wit.
Enjoy.
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“Passion and wit”? She needs to go and see “The Darkest Hour” to see what passion and wit, courtesy of Winston Churchill, really are.
@John Marriott Wow, classy – attacking Wera for her German nationality like that. How lovely of you Brexit gammon.
Red Liberal, I am merely commenting on the description of the lady’s performance, which, in my humble opinion, was neither passionate nor witty. Perhaps the pronoun I should have used was ‘you’ rather than ‘she’. How anyone can assume I am attacking her origins beggars belief.
I guess that your response is an attempt at sarcasm. It is a pity that you have jumped to conclusions about my loyalties. I voted to stay in the EEC in 1975 and to remain in the EU in 2016. You are perfectly entitled to your opinion. However, I would have more respect for it if you didn’t hide behind a pseudonym.
Superb performance by Wera. How I wish the media would pay attention to rising stars such as Wera and Layla.
Bath is blessed.
“Superb performance”. Now Jess Phillips in the House of Commons yesterday. THAT was a superb performance. Mind you, Don Foster would be a hard act to follow.
Wera speaks with great intelligence and conviction, if not always with the same eloquence as the greatest speech ever made in Parliament (that puts her in the same category as every other living politician, John Marriot); what she was saying was that the use of the phrase ‘project fear’ is now a threadbare attempt to stifle debate, and it is time everyone on both sides moved beyond it. In any discussion about a decision that might have bad consequences those bad consequences are bound to be part of the debate. The Leavers’ logic is that if Osborne exaggerated, therefore all other negative predictions s about Brexit must be wrong. Wera is reminding the country that we all need to examine the emerging truth, rather than trying to win a squabble with junior playground logic (my pejorative reference to the playground, not hers).