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“Forgive me for offering only a cursory huff and puff about those “disgraceful Commons scenes” on Wednesday night. They were indeed disgraceful. The prime minister was foolishly belligerent and our political editor Francis Elliott was right to say that, thetimes.co.uk/article/theres…
in the 20-odd years he has been covering Westminster, we have not witnessed such raw hatred. Go back the 40-odd years I’ve been watching parliament, seven of them from the back benches, and Francis is still right.
But the miners’ strike (Margaret Thatcher once called the trades union movement “the enemy within”) and before that the Labour government’s nationalisation programme, did spark comparable passion and anger,
and there’s something to be said for a national debating chamber that reflects national debate.”
