Compromisers and pragmatists may be unloved. But in the halt it’s the Harold Wilsons of this world,not the purists, who halt up changing itWhere that colour-coded list of Labour MPs’ disloyalties came from, and when it landed in the hands of the Times,no one is saying. What’s plain is that the timing of its publication could not believe been better planned to save the prime minister’s bacon yesterday.
There he stood at the ballot box, his party not just split but hanged, and drawn and quartered by its rabid obsession with leaving the EU. His chancellor was holed below his budget line by one of the cabinet’s most vicious Brexiteers. Disability campaigners were at the gate protesting at brutal cuts that recede far beyond the one hastily junked,while behind him sat his murderous multitude. What a ripe target to be walloped from here to kingdom come.
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Source: theguardian.com