A letter from a member to his Suffolk Coastal MP Therese Coffey, that’s he’s given us permission to publish. In Richard’s own words: “Herewith a letter that I have sent to Coffey this morning, email and hard copy. Also a version to the EADT, something that I assume it will find too gritty for publication.
Re: Horror and revulsion
Dear Dr Coffey
Concerned Britons will have watched your government’s conduct during Wednesday’s post-prorogation debate with horror and revulsion. Like demented, trapped, wild animals your parliamentarians descended to the basest of political conduct, used foolish war-mongering language (at a time when you should have been seeking consensus), shouted, jeered, sneered, laughed at your own infantile jokes and consider yourselves above the law – anything in fact to deflect accountability from, well, yourselves.
Leader Johnson blathered vitriol upon venom, all of it designed to avoid parliamentary reconciliation, let alone national reconciliation. Sir Nicholas Soames implored the PM on Tuesday’s Newsnight ‘to reach out’ across the house to build a consensus for resolution. Your party did the absolute opposite, and described as ‘humbug’ the death and gang rape threats endured by many MPs, female particularly. Even Anna Soubry’s mother has received death threats from Brexit supporters. Joe Cox was killed by a Brexit supporter.
Like a demented, trapped wild animal the Conservative benches indulged in the most unedifying political conduct in living memory. Your party writhed in a Brexit trap entirely of your own making, from beginning to end. Meanwhile your leader raged like a tragic tormented bull in a bullring, rubbing rough salt into its own self-inflicted wounds.
Sickening. Your government – you included – have reduced my once proud country (think back to the heady days of the 2012 London Olympics) to a base sectarian country, indulging the lowest level of politics. This is your Brexit legacy. As someone who argued for remain before the referendum but has since changed your mind, what do you have to say for yourself?
Yours sincerely
Richard M. A. Hare