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Consummate phrase maker, Lord Peter Hennessy sums it up: “The long experience of Brexit so coarsened our politics that we learned to shout at each other as the preferred mode of exchange. We used to be subtle, quite funny, self-ironic and forebearing to each other 1/
But now for so many people the first line is enraged and resentful…The tooth and claw battle we’re seeing right now is deeply unedifying and I sometimes wonder if we’ll recover from it. We need a viable centre right party as much as we need a viable centre left party” 2/
On Johnson: “For the first time in his life he should do the decent thing and show some restraint…it would be frightful if it does happen, if he does become Prime Minister again, 3/
Dad’s ability to improvise and compose beautiful melodies on the fly has always amazed me.
Tonight, I gave him four random notes as a starting point.
Although his dementia is getting worse, moments like this bring him back to me.
Tonight, I gave him four random notes as a starting point.
Although his dementia is getting worse, moments like this bring him back to me.
Lots of exciting things have happened since dad's magical improvisation went viral. To keep things in one place, and for posterity, here's a thread.
As this got some pick-up, some caution: Grieve am. reported today is leaked text; might still be work-in-progress. MPs can't table ams. to PM's main motion for 29/1 until she's tabled it on 21/1. Exact what/how of 29/1 debate may well only be clear that AM
OK, to pick this up again: Grieve on R4 #bbcbh now has said he & Nick Boles are "working along exactly the same lines" to give HoC control of its own business for 1 day during which it might debate motion(s) &/or legislation. 1/
re: majorities, Grieve confirms what was in yesterday's leaked Buzzfeed text i.e. under his plan the 300 MPs is the no. needed to get a motion on the order paper *not* the no. needed to pass anything, which would remain a maj. as normal. 2/
