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This week you might be forgiven for thinking that a well-known political dynasty was all that stood between Britain and disaster. You simply could not escape them, or their alarmist rhetoric. If we vote to leave the EU, they argue, we will have chosen ‘devastation and destruction’.
Take the family patriarch for example. Sporting a bizarre combination of dark glasses and a beige mac, the ageing windbag told a youth rally in London that the promises of the Brexit campaign were ‘pants’, ‘pure fantasy’ and ‘didn’t add up’. Clearly, the years have done nothing to diminish his verbosity.
Meanwhile, the formidable clan matriarch was urging female voters to consider the benefits she says EU legislation has afforded their gender.
In Westminster, meanwhile, the couple’s enigmatic son and heir was threatening what sounded like a parliamentary coup in which MPs will effectively ignore a win for Brexit if the British public has the temerity to vote against the family’s wish.
All in all, the trio is expelling a lot of hot air for the cause. And the family in question? It could only, of course, be the Kinnocks.
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