Remainer godfather Michael Heseltine made a helpful intervention on the PM’s behalf this morning, telling Sky that Boris’s resignation would re-open and threaten Brexit. Responding to the latest allegations about PM’s 10-minute birthday cake session in 2020, the perpetually bitter talking mouth told viewers:
“It’s misleading the house, it’s misleading the people and it’s misleading the whole country in a general election because if it were to be established that the PM has been lying then that is going to open a can of worms because very large numbers of people – now the majority of people – believe that the Brexit case was actually a pack of lies… now if he proves to be a liar – to the public, to parliament – what does that do for the very large numbers of people who think it is a catestrophic misjudgement to have severed our good relationships with our European neighbours”
Something for Tory MPs to reflect on…
Lord Heseltine has been doing the media rounds yet again this morning as broadcasters scrape the barrel to generate ‘blue-on-blue’ content now the Soubries of this world have jumped onto their own sinking ship. Not that Heseltine is making any effort to be ‘blue’ any more after publicly endorsing the Lib Dems over the weekend. Will the Remainers in CCHQ be expelling him from the Party like they threatened to do with anyone who backed the Brexit Party?
When challenged about the UK economy outpacing EU countries like Italy and even Germany, Heseltine’s mask entirely slipped:
“This country’s economy is doing significantly better than you might hope.”
Remainiacs literally admitting that they wanted the economy to be doing worse to punish voters for their democratic choice.
The former pro-Euro campaigner also claimed that the strong economic performance was in part because “the Government is of course continuing to live on borrowed money” which doesn’t quite make sense as an argument given that the deficit has tumbled to its lowest level in fifteen years. Despite, of course, Brexit…
Last night, yet again Newsnight invited washed-up failed former politician Michael Heseltine onto its programme for a plum spot to discuss the latest on Brexit. Guido was at a loss to think why a man who hasn’t been elected to office since last century is such a regular voice to analyse the modern machinations of political manoeuvering. He spent the best part of a decade (three decades ago) conspiring to usurp the most successful Prime Minister in recent history, and failing…
He is so past his sell-by date that he has only voted in the Lords on two days in past last year (with Labour and against the Tories on both occasions) and only spoken five times (on four days) over the last three years. Good to see we’re getting our money’s worth…
Heseltine last night admitted he did not vote Conservative in the 2016 London Mayoral election, he won’t have voted Conservative in the 2017 election because he is a peer and if you believe he will vote Conservative in the European Elections, Guido has a bridge to sell you. The idea that he might criticise the Tory Party is about as novel as Chuka Umunna criticising them. There’s no real reason for the BBC to keep getting him on any more – they’re just after the cheap blue-on-blue soundbites…
Fair to say Lord Heseltine is not impressed w/ @BorisJohnson's suggestion that the UK would be okay with no Brexit deal from the EU #Peston pic.twitter.com/M3znBSb6r3
— Peston on Sunday (@pestononsunday) March 12, 2017
“I find myself chastised by you”: Lord Heseltine’s “man-sized job” comment about @theresa_may to @skysarahjane on #internationalwomensday pic.twitter.com/V67ZDYGg5F
— Sky News (@SkyNews) 8 March 2017
“I find myself chastised by you…”
Heseltine says he has been sacked as a government adviser at DCLG after rebelling in the Lords on Brexit tonight. He had unsurprisingly faced calls for his head from Tory MPs and peers in recent weeks. Inevitable.
