“May suffers heaviest parliamentary defeat of a British PM in the democratic era”

Jan 16, 2019 | Brexit

Do callers on radio phone-ins or faces on TV ‘vox-pops’ represent to views of the GBP? You’d kind of hope not; however, the oft repeated view this week is that ‘those politicians are just out for themselves and don’t care what we think’. Well, hang on. If they were ‘just out for themselves’ they’d doing either what the PM wants to get or keep a job in government; or voting on Brexit as their constituents did to make sure they’re re-elected. Half of then did neither. So what does that tell us? God knows. I certainly don’t.

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