Monday, October 07, 2019

Stopping Brexit is like fighting the Nazis.

Yip, you read that headline correctly.  But Mr David Charles, a Lib Dem prospective parliamentary candidate, has apologised for saying stopping Brexit is like fighting the Nazis when he said: “So we have to stop this - just as we stopped the Nazis in Germany and their sympathizers is this country at the time from destroying this country in the 1930s (sic).”.   

So hang on a minute, what did he apologise for?  Mr Chalmers apologised "for the use of any language that has caused offence".   

Notice that?  He didn’t actually apologise for what he said, only if had caused offence.  Welcome to the new world of the Lib Dems.  

Mind you a few years ago Sir Vince Cable did himself no favours with a remarkable Nazi jibe at then prime minster, Mrs May, as he accused her of using language that could have featured in Hitler's Mein Kampf.   

But what of the current leader of the Lib Dems, Jo Swinson.  She rightly told others to mind their language in an emotional speech in the Commons a few days ago.  Mind you, her target was the prime minster who, if you actually take the time to listen to the debate in which she made the comment, his use of the word “humbug” was deliberately taken out of context by the media.  And his use of “surrender bill” was entirely warranted as the Benn bill surrenders all UK power to the EU as to when we can and can’t leave the EU for good.  Parliament itself won’t have a say.  Go read it.   

So Lib Dems, follow your leaders advice.  Stop calling people names just because they believe in a different kind of democracy from you.

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