Carl Gardner
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Carl Gardner
@carlgardner
Backroom legal obsessive. Former law lecturer and government lawyer. If you followed me here—thank you. But it's not what it was. I'm at Bluesky now.
- The key fact in British politics is Jeremy Corbyn. If we had a decent Labour leader capable of speaking to "middle Britain", Johnson couldn't get away with any of this.
- I don’t think it’s really right or fair to say he “took a £20,000 donation”. Lots of viewers or readers will think he received a payment.Sir Keir Starmer says he took £20,000 donation after promise to protect family in Sky News interview. "I wasn't going to let me son fail because of journalists outside the front door" news.sky.com/story/sir-keir…
- I can't say how much I admire Grieve. He's one of our very best politicians, and his defeat's a sign of the dodgy times. I suppose he'll return to the Bar now, but I hope he has some political or public role again.DG on election night: “I have absolutely no regrets on standing on this platform at all. I wouldn’t wish to be a member of a party that was led by Boris Johnson.”
00:00 - You have to admire Rutnam for not just taking the money and going quietly. He'll have done a lot of things in his 30-odd years as a civil servant, but his biggest public service may come now.
- I'm furious with the Corbynites. But I'm also furious with people like this. Why didn't they do this in 2016? They went along instead, or just moaned, instead of doing anything. Cowards. In contrast: respect to the Bergers, Umunnas, Leslies, Gapeses et al, who did something.Labour MP tells me: “Corbyn has got to go. Now.” Says that if he doesn’t go the PLP will unilaterally elect its own new leader to represent it next week.
- Claire Fox's peerage is a massive two-fingered salute from Boris Johnson to the Parrys, victims of IRA violence, and the people of Warrington.
- Perhaps Corbyn should propose sending a sample of the mural to some neonazi group, just to check if it's really antisemitic.
- No Brexit's better than a bad Brexit.
- Blaming May for the Northern Ireland Protocol is one of richest lies in the whole Brexit saga. The Protocol is what Johnson himself chose as his replacement for May's "backstop". Astonishing that he can just keep on selling bent bananas like this.
- Something's spread invisibly in England that seriously threatens us. A free-floating up-yours querulous contrarianism on everything that puts two fingers up to "know-alls" and "ain't bovvered". Whatever "they" say, from climate to coronavirus, is just "Project Fear".
- A Brexit party MEP still doesn't understand that his party rejects "the Norway option".The current EU ‘hard border’ between Sweden and Norway. So why will the Eire - NI border be any different?
- Funny how quick it can be when it's not about antisemitism.Former Downing Street communications director Alastair Campbell says he has been expelled from the Labour Party
