Iain
Dale, broadcaster and political commentator, has written an article on ConservativeHome in which he opines that
the courage of some Conservative Cabinet Ministers is equivalent to that of Italian
tank commanders.*
Referring to recent votes in the House of Commons
dealing with Brexit he writes:
“Let’s
start with the four Cabinet Ministers, eight junior ministers and two PPSs who
failed to obey a three-line whip and abstained on the No Deal amended motion.
They deserve to be named. They
are Amber Rudd, Greg Clark, David Gauke, David Mundell, Stephen Hammond,
Richard Harrington, Tobias Ellwood, Robert Buckland, Alistair Burt, Margot
James, Anne Milton, Claire Perry, Vicky Ford and Bim Afolami.
Two others, Sarah Newton and Paul
Masterton, voted against the three-line whip. At least they had the honour and
courage to resign, unlike their abstaining colleagues.” Mr Dale
goes on to say: “Some weeks ago, we were told 40
ministers would resign if they were whipped to vote for a No Deal Brexit. A
couple of weeks ago we were told a dozen would do so. In the event only one
did. These ministers have all the courage of an Italian tank commander with one
forward gear and four reverse gears.”
In my opinion such a comparison is an outrageous
insult to Italian tank commanders!
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