Strange how Kevin Maguire ended his Commons
Confidential piece with "The guy must be joking...right?", when that is exactly
what many readers will have been thinking when deciphering the paragraph about
Tory Charles Walker`s attempt to become Speaker (Skoda of conduct,22nd
April,2016). This would-be Bercow sneeringly dismisses "Cameron`s £19000 Panama
profits" as barely sufficient to purchase a Skoda Octavia, but Maguire`s "joke"
is thinking that he thereby lost the support of Labour MPs because a "surprising
number" of them own one.
Firstly, why is it a surprise that there are MPs
who wouldn`t dream of buying a flash car to look "cool", and who instead work
hard in their constituencies to earn respect? Many of them know that millions in
this country work hard and still fall well short of earning, even with the
"national living wage", in a year anything like Cameron`s "windfall". It would
be far more becoming of an associate editor (politics) of the Daily Mirror to
take maximum advantage of Walker`s arrogance to illustrate how the Tories, since
2010 especially, have taken the public for mugs with their northern powerhouse
nonsense and their utter contempt for unions and public sector
workers.
It may be an adept way to end a column, but less
so when the real "joke" is on the author!
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