Nad and Jacob sittin in a tree, p.l.o.t.t.i.n.g.
For some balance, Barbara Cartland's younger brother Ronald was a Tory MP. His first speech in Parliament in 1936 saw him attack Baldwin's government for screwing over the poor, and he further blackened his card when he spent most of his time after that vehemently attacking the policy of appeasement publicly. Backing up his rhetoric he joined the TA in the late 1937, went to France when war was declared, led his unit in helping to protect the Dunkirk evacuation and was shot dead during the retreat. His brother had died fighting the day before. In his last major speech before war was declared he said this (when Chamberlain tried to adjourn the Commons in August 1939):
That was someone who met all seven principles. The current shower are unfit to even be mentioned in the same post as him.
Going to need to be dragged kicking and screaming isnt he?
I thought it was all a plot and he was definitely going to win an election!?
Hes finished mate. He has been for weeks.
How are they serving themselves by abandoning such a popular, accomplished PM? I can't figure it out
She’s way too much of a careerist to stick by Johnson with the writing on the wallWell I didn't see that coming. The witch queen turning on Boris. It has to be over.
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