Heseltine 'should Be Sanctioned' For Brexit Comments

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42493735

The Tories are still very windy about BREXIT I see !

[Jackdaw33]

Heseltine will be 85 in March. I can't see him doing much damage.

[kvalidir]

I doubt he's planning on going anywhere though just yet Jack and he's one of those vigorous older men who just get more sharply honed and deadly with age. I think anyone underestimating his wealth of Machiavellian experience will come a serious cropper :)

[-Talbot-]

The UK is an Island nation, and so has never has had a land border with the EU . That is why we have had a special unique place ,



Very profound EDDIE ... worth waiting for

[Jackdaw33]

Nothing deadly about Heseltine. However I must admit that he was more Brutus than Machiavelli.

[tonyav]

Peter Pedant remember Enoch Powell anyone ?

Yes, pp. He had a vision of the EU sometime back.

[tonyav]

Jackdaw33 Nothing deadly about Heseltine

I thought he was dead, hadn't heard anything about him for years.

[Spicerack]

Great man, Enoch.

[Jackdaw33]

If only he were still alive today! He would have relished this moment. He has been dead almost 20 years now but Nigel has taken up the baton.

[Jackdaw33]

I will say one thing in Heseltine's favour; he was a very witty speaker and knew how to capture an audience. Two examples spring to mind:
In 1976/7 Margaret Thatcher tabled a motion of no confidence in the minority Labour government of Jim Callaghan. They were saved because the tiny number of Liberals decided to back the PM. Heseltine remarked in the House, directing his scorn to the Liberals, "I have often heard of rats leaving sinking ships but this is the first time I have heard of mice joining one!"

Another was around the time of the 1997 election. Speaking to a rally he tore into the proposals of the then shadow chancellor, Gordon Brown. He ended up by saying, "This is not Brown, it's a load of Balls".

[tonyav]

Just to even things up ( Conservative v Labour ).

[Jackdaw33]

I remember that Barbara Castle was also strongly anti-EEC. In a broadcast she held up a shopping basket and compared the price of the items within with those of the EEC.

[tonyav]

That rings a bell, jd. I seem to remember that to.

[ichkeria]

Eddie is correct: there has been no solution as yet to the position of the UK within Europe. I believe the expression is something to do with cans being kicked along roads. As some point someone will have to pick up the can and carry it.
And of course jackdaw is correct: have we all forgotten how Heseltinevwss the darling of the Tory party conference with his rousing, witty speeches.

[Spicerack]

Eddie is correct?
Come of it, ichi. You can have no more understanding of that garbled 'stream of words' than Eddie has.
Peter Pedant is the only poster who could possibly 'crack the code'.
I've had a bash at the first part and I've got news for you, Eddie and all your socialist friends.
Most people, when they reach the maturity of say a four or five year old come to the realisation that we can't have everything we want, or something just because someone else has it.
I'm given to understand that Peter Crouch has a 'special relationship' with his wife but that doesn't entitle me to one, does it?

[Zacs-Master]

Talking of garbled streams of words......

[Spicerack]

Morning, mango man.
How are the indigenous Anglo-Saxons today?